reynevan

[reynevan]

"[I do have] a truly important mission, a truly sacred duty. What I'm doing, I'm doing for you. For us. My mission will change the nature of the world, improve the world, make it better and more beautiful. When it dawns, we will live, you and I, live and love to the end of our days in such a world, a truly Divine Kingdom. That is what I desire, Jutta. I dream of it."

A. Sapkowski, Warriors of God (Chapter Fifteen)

one of the most touching romantic scenes, but rereading this in context with the rest of the book and the end of the series just shows how fatal of a flaw reynevan's idealism became, manifested in these words, these unfulfilled promises to her... he wanted to have it all, and lost it all.

furthermore... stories about wrongfully-maligned characters have always provoked a strong emotional reaction within me. across the trilogy, reynevan is not only accused of so much wrongdoing, but his reputation falls very quickly from bad to worse—murderer, kidnapper, rapist, heretic, sorcerer...

and with two years separating him and jutta since the events on grochowa mountain, and with him in these two years living in prague and becoming a hussite with complete conviction, that he must have been a changed man. plus, that he brought her there with a love spell...

i can't help but think... as jutta was constantly reminded of reynevan's repuation for two years, and now compelled by magic to meet her hussite sorcerer lover amidst snowbanks... as we see their relations from reynevan's perspective, we get this line:

"His memory of her was different. (...) Her eyes had changed. Or perhaps they hadn't changed at all, perhaps what he saw in them now had always been there?"

reynevan senses that she has hidden depths that he has not yet discovered. jutta may have felt the same, looking into his eyes—but, instead of "[the] enigma waiting to be solved, [the] mystery waiting to be discovered" that reynevan sees in her, what does she see in his?

[reynevan]

Narrenturm (Tower of Fools), A. Sapkowski

i just finished the trilogy, and wanted to return to the first book from when they were all alright :')

bonus transparent:

[reynevan]

oh fuck

leaving achilles’ place, not gonna bring my anti-sepsis amulets ‘cause i don’t think i’ll really need them

[reynevan]

leaving achilles’ place, not gonna bring my anti-sepsis amulets ‘cause i don’t think i’ll really need them

[reynevan]

i have been excommunicated

[reynevan]

the stercza brothers are after me.

going to fuck around. hope i don’t find out

[reynevan]

going to fuck around. hope i don’t find out