#ketterdam

i really like the fact that the kerch government is explicitly an oligarchy. that form of government is so interesting and lowkey rare and i love how it was done in the worldbuilding of kerch it's just gah 🙏🏻

can we give six of crows a big thank you for allowing the two female main characters to actually enjoy each other’s company instead of being at each other’s throats

Just a reminder: the Van Eck house is a mansion, and explicitly described as such multiple times. In the UK and the US the modern size expectation of a mansion is a minimum 8000 square feet or 740 square metres in the countryside, though if in a city potentially a minimum of 5000 square feet or 460 square metres. Even if the Van Eck mansion is only 5000 square feet, though honestly considering the worldbuilding of Ketterdam as a city and the descriptions on the house (details like “the first floor dining room” that imply there are multiple dining rooms) it could easily be bigger, that probably means the house has four or five bedrooms (the internet said six but I’ve subtracted one for Van Eck’s office). Taking into account the servant’s quarters on the fourth floor, let’s assume there’s still space for three or four bedrooms in the family’s living quarters (I’m assuming the servants’ rooms to be much smaller than the others). With a couple in the primary bedroom and one bedroom occupied by a child, that house should have at absolute minimum had at least one spare room. But Jan Van Eck still chose to gut Wylan’s bedroom and replace it with a nursery awaiting his new child.