#Sebastien De Castell

[schweizercomics]

Hey, there, friends! I'm going to be releasing a collection of one hundred sword drawings from my recent visits to museums in NYC, Leeds, London, and Paris. I hope you'll visit the kickstarter preview here and click the "Notify Me" button - I'll be launching soon!

[fluoxetinegf]

Apparently I have a thing for books that have a small fandom (and a mmc called Kel) 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🫠

[mizeliza]

I've started reading the greatcoats books and I'm obsessed with how the country, constantly derided and referred to as corrupted and degenerate, is named tristia. the land of sadness.

[leafandlore]

Finished reading Play of Shadows by Sebastien de Castell and I desperately need for there to be a Greatcoats fandom on here. But alas, I am but one of few who even seem to know these books exist. 😔

[emrysofstorybrooke]

I'm rereading Spellslinger after reading the first two Argosi books and I just... I loved Ferius before. She's basically one of my favorite characters in any book I've ever read. But I just somehow have way more respect for than I even did before. I mean, this woman has so many reasons to hate the Jan'Tep (though, let's be real, they're the worst anyway), and assuming the massive hints in the Argosi books aren't super misleading, Kellen's family in particular. But literally the first thing she does when she shows up is save Kellen's life, and then even when she knows who he is, she KEEPS HELPING HIM. Like. Talk about overcoming adversity and being the bigger person.

Ferius Parfax may not be a lady, but she is a queen among women.

[unorthodoxiguana]

Kellen spent the the first half of his life having complete faith in Jan'tep propaganda whilst living a privileged lifestyle.

Kellen spent the second half of his life on the run, juggling his survival with the expectations of those around him.

Kellen is usually surrounded by people who are functioning adults that know who they are, what they want (unlike Kellen who doesn't), and often demand something of him, regardless of which half of his life you are talking about.

People constantly criticise Kellen's immaturity.

What the fuck.

[squeeze-the-lemon]

The best part about rereading the Spellslinger series is that you realise what a whiny child Kellen was in the first book and you can see how much he grew from that into the man he became by Crownbreaker

Now that's character development

[ace7librarian]

Just finished fall of the argosi. I need to scream. I need this series to have a bigger fandom. I need so much fanfics.

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SENTENCE MEME ⟶ SAINTS BLOOD by SEBASTIEN DE CASTELL / ch10 - ch18 always feel free to tweak the sentence to fit your muse.

'three against thirteen is terrible odds.'

'i wouldn't know. i've never had that much money.'

'you'll try to kill me, of course.'

'then you'll be dead /and/ embarrassed.'

'i know it isn't your usual approach, but i'd suggest you consider surrender.'

'the last time i surrendered to someone they tortured me until there was almost nothing left of me.'

'there's always luck. and red, bloody rage.'

'you're killing her.'

'i'm not sure if you've noticed but the bad men here are pointing weapons at us.'

'i really need to find a new job. one that doesn't involve swords.'

'you don't reason with mobs for the same reason you don't reason with hordes of fire ants: they're too stupid to understand what you're saying and eventually they'll just swarm over you.'

'try not to get torn to pieces.'

'this is what you do, you know.'

'you throw yourself into fights you have no real chance of winning.'

'it's the only thing i know how to do that ever works.'

'it's a /staff/, not a stick.'

'say there, friend, why exactly have you chosen to tie that nice fellow to a post?'

'you would attack an unarmed man?'

'that was a remarkably foolish gamble.'

'something you need to see, going to make your day a whole lot worse.'

'so how long have you been riding around with a corpse strapped to your horse?'

'help me get the ropes off, will you? my hands are still too numb; i was tied up for hours.'

'i just didn't have any faith any more.'

'he was, in fact, a son of a bitch.'

'he's a little slow sometimes, but he usually gets there in the end.'

'would someone /please/ tell me what we're talking about so i can decide if i care?'

'she wants to speak with you and that is the only gift left that either of us can give her now.'

'we pray in the shadows that we may summon the light.'

'well, i'd sort of had my heart set on an extended discussion of just how terrible you look, but if you insist, we can move straight on to how bad you smell.'

'now i remember why i liked you.'

'see, when you put it that way i don't sound very clever.'

'his desires cannot abide mercy. he will destroy it unless you stop him.'

'i suspect he despises a great many things.'

'the only thing the gods ever call any of us is fools.

'are you too busy sleeping with men for money to bring me some tea?'

'there are still things worth saving.'

'i would have spared you this if i could.'

'do not touch me with those hands, those hands of violence — hands meant only for holding swords and shedding blood.'

'you know i could kiss you right now, don't you?'

'oh well. i've been cursed plenty of times in my life and nothing too bad's happened yet, right?'

'"arsehole" is a terrible name for any beast.'

'your nervous griping is taking all the fun out of this trip.'

'maybe if we found you a proper weapon you wouldn't feel quite so scared all the time.'

'of course you'd rather sleep out in the cold.'

'i hear the call of music, a soft bed, women and, most importantly, beer.'

'you can /hear/ the beer?'

'and here i thought you were on a mission to get drunk and bed the local schoolteacher.'

'i can do more than one thing at a time. i'm ambidextrous.'

'how about, instead of pining here in your little room, you go down there and be a fucking man for a change?'

'go ahead and tell me what's wrong with me.'

'of course some of it's real. i mean, it's a giant pain in the arse, so it has to be real.'

'walk in like a man, mind you, not some shade of the long dead.'

'if you're both so fucking cursed then i'm sure lightning will strike you down.'

'dancing. well there's a tactic that never occurred to me.'

[oneletternames]

i feel like ferius would wear platforms boots everywhere and with anything. like wear a really pretty dress, a hideous stupidly fluffy cardigan and platform boots. probably with some funky socks poking out of the top.

[bookcoversonly]

Title: Fate of the Argosi | Author: Sebastien de Castell | Publisher: Hot Key Books (2023)

[schweizercomics]

Hey, friends!

One thing I'm very, very excited about with A DREAM OF SWORDS (in its last week on Kickstarter!) is that one of my favorite contemporary authors, Sebastien de Castell, has written its introduction, an essay about the outsized impact that swords have on the popular imagination.

If you haven't read his GREATCOATS series, I really love it. It's a great high adventure swashbuckling fantasy, and it's got some stellar audiobook narrations by Joe Jameson. There's a very good chance that your library has them, and if not, they're on Audible or you can find links to the retailer of your choice through his website. There's heavy, gritty subject matter, and sometimes ain't for the squeamish, but unlike some darker fantasy stuff there's an undercurrent of hope and idealism that permeates the whole thing. I'm a sucker for idealism in fiction and I can think of few folks in modern times that have done it better than has Sebastien (another top contender is Avatar: The Last Airbender).

(the above is my attempt to capture the lead of the book, Falcio, and his two best friends/brothers-in-arms).

I wrote at length about the books here, if you're inclined to read.

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I really need more people reading the spellslinger books because they’re AMAZING

[mizeliza]

following up on this post, tristia in the greatcoats series is so broken, so jaded, and yet falcio has such faith that it can get better, and that it will, and that he must do whatever he can to make it better, even if it means his own certain death, and everyone around him is simultaneously "wtf" and inspired and given hope despite themselves, and that's valour

[corviine]

kest drawing for @algifs feat. her faceclaim choice! anyway i adore him.

[emrysofstorybrooke]

It's kinda crazy how the thing Kellen wanted more than anything in Spellslinger feels like a slap in the face when he gets it in Queenslayer.