Unfair Unknown

Gotta love a show scored by Bear McCreary.

Separated by twenty YEARS and I know there's like four more seasons/books? So it's a romance that picks up again when Claire is sixty? There's a lot of genre staples being subverted in the series, plus since it's from 2014 it's a glimpse into the genre over the past decade.

I've only cried like this three or four times.

So I'm ready to be hurt again, starting up the season four premiere.

That said, Inkpot Gods is off to a better than average start so far, and I'm all in on the Alchemical Journeys series.

Roger from the series remains one of my favorite book characters, across authors/genres.

Now it's not that I dislike it or that it's bad or whatever, but it does recall a very particular protestant upbringing and reading the Bible so many times, it's like a weird echo. And it's meant to be written somewhat that way, not quite a religious text as a history like Geoffrey of Monmouth, perhaps, but the prose is similar across all.

Anyway, I'm mostly skimming and I'll never remember all the names, but I've pulled a fair amount out to use in my analysis of Critical Role's Campaign 4, which is heavily inspired by the Silmarillion and the reason I'm returning to the text at this time at all.

Noting that the land of Araman exists here, this is one of the quotes I pulled: