#selethen

Massacre in the desert (feat. Gilan and Selethen).

Ranger Gathering 2024 - 8. puzzle

[Image ID: Two pictures, the first one being a close up of Seley el'then, the first character in the boxes; and the second one being the six fanarts template from earlier. The first box has a gradient background from red to yellow. Selethen has his arms crossed and a smile on his black-bearded face, his dark brown eyes matching the calm smile. He has a big nose that bumbs out at the top and points downward slightly at the end. He has metal-studded leather armor over top of a thin white long-sleeve shirt. A belt is seen around his waist; nothing is shown below that. Chain-mail hangs loosely around his face, making a curved V shape; on top of that is a white cloth wrapped around his head, the excess of it flowing like long hair. On top of the cloth is an "acorn shaped" helmet. /End ID]

Thanks for the recommendation @permettez-moi :3. I've never drawn Selethen before, as you might know, so this took more time than I thought it would (coming up with a design and all that—I might edit his design still but we'll see). But it was fun! I started reading Erak's Ransom again to get a barring of his personality and the clothing that Flanny describes him in. I forgot how much I liked his character.

“Oh yeah, I know I’m like, your most trusted advisor and stuff, Cassandra, and like, this is the best possible headquarters as commandment, but there’s this girl in Redmont.. and even though realistically our relationship won’t work, I should really move the-.”

“ARE YOU A FUCKING IDIOT?! NO!”

“But-“

“GO TO YOUR ROOM!”

In Arrida there are three different kinds of cultures

You have Umar who leads a group of the Bedullin. They travel around and have a yellow checkered colour and are united by that

There is Selethen and the normal Arridi, they just have a yellow colour and live in towns except for Selethen himself of course, but hey he's also just an Arridi

And you have the Tualagi, lead by Yusal. They raid travelers and live in the desert between the rocks. As the only one Yusal covers his face, mostly to stay mysterious towards other people, but also to hide his not tanned face ;)

All in all, they all have very different cultures even though they live in the same country

Selethen is really good at chess

Foldar can't sing for his life. This is a very sore point so do not bring it up

- Svengal straight up crashing Halt and Pauline’s wedding

- this hard ass quote from Baron Arald (paraphrase): “if you only value my opinion when you agree with it, then you don’t value my opinion at all” BARS

- the fact that the Wolfwind kept Cassandra’s pennant this entire time

- Halt making fun of Svengal for being unable to sit a horse. Svengal making fun of halt for his seasickness and offering him a meal

- Halt getting back at Svengal by chugging his favorite, very rare, very expensive mead

- Evanlyn seeing straight through Selethen’s bluff of having someone else pretend to be the Wakir. (the hero of this book was Evanlyn and you cannot tell me otherwise)

- [Gilan talking to Halt about Will] "would you trust him with your life?” “without question.” “then trust him with his own.”

- Arrow being killed by a desert lion and in turn saving Will’s life by attracting the attention of the bedouin

- Will killing a sand cobra with an arrow and saving Umal’s grandchild

- the Tug vs. Sandstorm race

- not an underrated scene, per se, but in my opinion Yusal’s absolute cruelty (leaving two water skins for forty men in the desert) makes him one of the evilest villains of the Flanagan universe

- slightly related, Aloom’s entire character is underrated for keeping forty men alive on said water

- Halt refusing to give up hope after being captured by the Tualaghi because Will’s still out there somewhere

- Evanlyn standing unflinching as the executioner swings his sword at her, and the crowd calling for her release

- Will shooting the executioner a split second before the downstroke begins

- Horace holding up his bound hands and shouting for Will, and Will splits the rope by shooting an arrow between his wrists

- Erak killing Toshak in battle and returning his sword to him so his spirit won’t wander

- Evanlyn hitting Yusal with his sling and ending all effective resistance from the Tualaghi

- Evanlyn ripping Selethen to shreds in subsequent ransom negotiations by pointing out that Erak isn’t his hostage, he was Yusal’s; Halt subsequently saying “my god, I’ve created a monster”