#Crimson Reign

[darthlexapro]

"Very few people know the true nature of the galaxy. That it is a prison, and all its inhabitants are prisoners and the reason for that—the reason is one word. It is the name of our fear. It is the name of our chains. That word is Sith." - Qi'ra

[jewishcissiekj]

ugh one of the most tragic things about Order 66 and the Jedi Purge is the erasure of all that history by the Empire and by time. More than just history, it's the erasure of culture, the purposeful cleansing of the Jedi ways and people from the Galaxy. All these stories and people were lost, not to time, but by the intentional extinction of everything they ever were. In Crimson Reign #3, The Archivist (written by Charles Soule) puts it in a way that genuinely struck me when I was reading it.

You don't have to read all that, but I feel like it drives the point across wonderfully. The Jedi Order not only died because of Order 66 and the Purge, but the very idea of it was also made into a death sentence. Each Jedi's life, before the Empire, was preserved through the seemingly eternal memory of the Order, the Jedi Archives, or their lineage, and those who took their path. The Empire erased any trace of that memory, collapsing the tradition of millennia. As a Jedi, you are almost ensured to be remembered, and your actions are certain to have echoes throughout the ages. The Empire, and more specifically Palpatine I should probably say, did everything to take it away. What's left of The High Republic? What's left of the heroics of generations of Jedi? What's left of their life stories? Their meditation or lightsaber techniques? It's the tragedy of the Jedi order, and it goes so much deeper than the awful loss of about 10,000 Jedi during Order 66 and the purge (not that that should be underestimated).

[sudden-stops-kill]

crimson reign

[copalcetic]

My new favorite Star Wars character. Your honor, I love her.

[bluntblade]

The whole Crimson Reign/Hidden Empire is one of those things that wildly changes the way I view pre-existing parts of the canon, in a way that makes me cackle (complimentary). Like, Maul was trying to recruit Ezra to shape him into a weapon against Palpatine in a tragic echo of what Palpatine did to him... but also Maul spent nearly two decades building a criminal Empire in order to strike at the man who enslaved him, only to jack it all in for KENOBIIIII and leave his lieutenants with no idea where he'd gone for good measure

[lowcountry-gothic]

Star Wars: Crimson Reign #1 Warriors of Dawn Variant by Valerio Giangiordano and Arif Prianto.

[sparrowsabre7]

Man , "Crimson Reign" is pretty well written and characterised some smaller Disney-era characters nicely but gosh-dang if it isn't literally five issues of set up for the real payoff of "Hidden Empire".

[kylosbreedingkink]

@aptenodykes reminded me of this cool cover from Crimson Reign last year. Just in case people would want to see the original after seeing the Frenchified version lmao

[roguerebels]

Darth Vader: Crimson Reign Favorite Moments!

Double and triple crossing! Assassins and Revengers! Order and chaos! Check out Sal's favorite moments of the Darth Vader: Crimson Dawn comics! #StarWarsComics #CrimsonReign

Darth Vader is on a mission to destroy Crimson Dawn. But finding and eliminating them embedded throughout the Empire won’t be easy. Double and triple crossing! Assassins and Revengers! Order and chaos! Greg Pak brings us Vader with a mission to bring peace, freedom, justice, and security to his new empire! Along the way we’ll pick up new allies and maybe reconnect with a few old ones! Here are…

[bookcoversonly]

Title: Crimson Reign | Author: Amélie Wen Zhao | Publisher: Delacorte Press (2022)

[loverslibraries]

Okay im a stupid idiot and forgot i ended that reading thread. lets do our first post on crimson reign yall 😭

Can I just say how insane it is for me to do my first update for this book 61% of the way through and 14 days into me starting it????? In my defense, I thought I had a reading thread going for it.

For the first 40% of this book, I found the authors writing style incredibly annoying and repetitive. It got so bad at one point I almost put this book on pause so I could read Shadowhunters. As a forewarning, the next few images are excerpts from the book and may contain spoilers. However, nothing else beyond the photos will contain spoilers <3

(these photos can also be found on my pinterest)

It's almost as if Amelie forgot that she can write sorta kinda well until 45% of the way through and then once we got the big battle sequence, she forgot how to write again.

Except for one character. Ko Linnet is written especially well across all the novels while most of the other characters annoy me. Most of the other characters are too wishy washy, their evil arc too corny, their redemption arc too soon. Not my sweet Linn. I love her.

That's all for now. I'll try and update again tomorrow, if I read. xx

was going to do a reading thread update for crimson reign but i cant find any of my other reading threads except for a little life and thunderbird ??????

[laismoura-art]

Another theory to whose that random hand on Noob's belt belongs to:

Sareena!

She gifted it to Bi-Han so he can hold it whenever he needs moral support!😌❤️

Sometimes, she will tap his thigh to let him know she wants to hold hands! He obliges every time!🤭🖤

[aftergloom]

The "left in a hurry" vibes of the old village following the Nightsister genocide makes the whole place into a graveyard. Not to say that Dathomir, baseline, isn't a thriving microcosm of decay, but the prevalence of the Dark Side in the place makes the rot take a little quicker. The world's a little hungrier than most. A little more determined to take what remains of the ships and skiffs and structures picked clean by Nightbrother hands to salvage and conserve those few things that still serve a purpose.

They don't take much. Too many memories attached to the world that was before Maul arrived -- before construction began up the Peak. The prevailing notion that so much of those artifacts are cursed or haunted keeps them from over-reliance on the old ways.

Maul encourages the shifting paradigm:

A red dawn rises over Dathomir these days, and everything left draped in shadow, he insists, is better off buried anyway.

[sunthyme]

🌹GOD IS REAL!!!🌹

Guys, I'm doing so many flips rn ong.

I was, not kidding, at ten pity for the lightcone. I hadn't pulled since Boothill's. I'm crying.

Also, sneaking in an oc of mine I've been working on as of late. Here's Tejumola, the protagonist of a work I call 'When Crimson Reigns'.

Lmk if y'all are interested in hearing about my whatnot :3

[jewishcissiekj]

look at my Hanleia exes Venn Diagram boi

ran out of ideas very quickly so it isn't much but if any of you has ideas then. tell me. please. also the middle is mostly headcanons lmao (everything else is canon tho) AND I AM NOT SAYING ALL OF THEM DATED HAN AND LEIA. I AM SAYING THEY DATED HAN OR LEIA. JUST FOR CLARIFICATION

(bottom right guy is Beilert Valance from the old Star Wars comics and from the 2020 Star Wars comics and from Han Solo: Imperial Cadet who knew Han during his time as a TIE fighter)

[lowcountry-gothic]

Star Wars: Crimson Reign #1, by Leinil Francis Yu.