#chronicles of the imaginarium geographica

[scaehime]

Here there be dragons, book 1 of the Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica by James A Owen. The dragons are good, some of my favorite authors are main characters, taking care of a book (the titular Geographica) is a career in and of itself, and the Archipelago of Dreams contains all the fictional lands of our world. Yes, I would teleport there in a heartbeat as long as I could bring my loved ones with me and/or they could visit my new home.

[alopiassupersillyosus]

So I have ADHD to the point it's gotten hard to read physical novels. My friend and I have been listening to the audiobook versions of Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica, and there isn't one for Dragons of Winter. As a result, we're going to record a chapter each, alternating as we go, and send the audio to each other. I bought the hardcover online and:

IT'S ARRIVING ON CARETAKER DAY Y'ALL

I'm excited. 10/10 good job Simon and Schuster

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Dragonkeeper Chronicles by Donita K. Paul (2004-2008)

When Kale, a slave girl, finds a dragon egg, she is given the unexpected opportunity to become a servant to Paladin. But on her way to The Hall, where she was to be trained, Kale runs into danger. Rescued by a small band of Paladin's servants, Kale is turned from her destination. 

Feeling afraid and unprepared, Kale embarks on a perilous quest to find the meech dragon egg stolen by the foul Wizard Risto. But their journey is threatened when a key member of the party is captured, leaving the remaining companions to find the Wizard Fenworth, attempt an impossible rescue, and recover the egg--whose true value they have not begun to suspect.

Clocktaur War by T. Kingfisher (2017-2018)

A paladin, an assassin, a forger, and a scholar ride out of town. It's not the start of a joke, but rather an espionage mission with deadly serious stakes. T. Kingfisher's new novel begins the tale of a murderous band of criminals (and a scholar), thrown together in an attempt to unravel the secret of the Clockwork Boys, mechanical soldiers from a neighboring kingdom that promise ruin to the Dowager's city.

If they succeed, rewards and pardons await, but that requires a long journey through enemy territory, directly into the capital. It also requires them to refrain from killing each other along the way At turns darkly comic and touching, Clockwork Boys puts together a broken group of people trying to make the most of the rest of their lives as they drive forward on their suicide mission.

The Deed of Paksenarrion by Elizabeth Moon (1988-1989)

Paksenarrion — Paks for short — is somebody special. She knows it, even if nobody else does yet. No way will she follow her father's orders to marry the pig farmer down the road. She's off to join the army, even if it means she can never see her family again.

And so her adventure begins... the adventure that transforms her into a hero remembered in songs, chosen by the gods to restore a lost ruler to his throne.

Here is her tale as she lived it.

Paks is trained as a mercenary, blooded, and introduced to the life of a soldier . . . and to the followers of Gird, the soldier's god.

Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica by James A. Owen (2006-2016)

An unusual murder brings together three strangers, John, Jack, and Charles, on a rainy night in London during the first World War. An eccentric little man called Bert tells them that they are now the caretakers of the Imaginarium Geographica -- an atlas of all the lands that have ever existed in myth and legend, fable and fairy tale. These lands, Bert claims, can be traveled to in his ship the Indigo Dragon, one of only seven vessels that is able to cross the Frontier between worlds into the Archipelago of Dreams.

Pursued by strange and terrifying creatures, the companions flee London aboard the Dragonship. Traveling to the very realm of the imagination itself, they must learn to overcome their fears and trust in one another if they are to defeat the dark forces that threaten the destiny of two worlds. And in the process, they will share a great adventure filled with clues that lead readers to the surprise revelation of the legendary storytellers these men will one day become.

Dragon Jousters by Mercedes Lackey (2003-2006)

The first book in this thrilling new series introduces us to a young slave who dreams of becoming a jouster-one of the few warriors who can actually ride a flying dragon. And so, in secret, he begins to raise his own dragon...

Frontier Magic by Patricia C. Wrede (2009-2012)

Eff was born a thirteenth child. Her twin brother, Lan, is the seventh son of a seventh son. This means he's supposed to possess amazing talent -- and she's supposed to bring only bad things to her family and her town. Undeterred, her family moves to the frontier, where her father will be a professor of magic at a school perilously close to the magical divide that separates settlers from the beasts of the wild.

In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan (2017)

The Borderlands aren’t like anywhere else. Don’t try to smuggle a phone or any other piece of technology over the wall that marks the Border ― unless you enjoy a fireworks display in your backpack. (Ballpoint pens are okay.) There are elves, harpies, and ― best of all as far as Elliot is concerned ― mermaids.  "Serene," said Serene. "My full name is Serene-Heart-in-the-Chaos-of-Battle." Elliot? Who’s Elliot? Elliot is thirteen years old. He’s smart and just a tiny bit obnoxious. Sometimes more than a tiny bit. When his class goes on a field trip and he can see a wall that no one else can see, he is given the chance to go to school in the Borderlands. It turns out that on the other side of the wall, classes involve a lot more weaponry and fitness training and fewer mermaids than he expected. On the other hand, there’s Serene-Heart-in-the-Chaos-of-Battle, an elven warrior who is more beautiful than anyone Elliot has ever seen, and then there’s her human friend Luke: sunny, blond, and annoyingly likeable. There are lots of interesting books. There’s even the chance Elliot might be able to change the world. In Other Lands is the exhilarating new book from beloved and bestselling author Sarah Rees Brennan. It’s a novel about surviving four years in the most unusual of schools, about friendship, falling in love, diplomacy, and finding your own place in the world ― even if it means giving up your phone.

Iron Butterfly by Chanda Hahn (2012-2014)

Imprisoned, starved and left with no memories, Thalia awakens to find herself at the mercy of an evil cult known as the Septori. Their leader has chosen Thalia as the test subject for a torture device of untold power, designed to change and twist her into something that is neither human nor Denai.

Escaping, Thalia finds an unwilling warrior to protect her and an unlikely Denai to befriend her. After finding a home at the Citadel as a servant, Thalia’s worst nightmare comes to life and she begins to show signs of power. Scared and unable to control her gifts, she tries to hide her past to fit in among the Denai. But the Septori want their latest test subject back and will stop at nothing to retrieve her, dead or alive.

Old Magic by Marianna Curley (2000)

Jarrod Thornton is mesmerizing, but Kate Warren doesn’t know why.

Jarrod is the clumsy new boy at school that Kate can’t take her eyes off, and it’s not just because he has amazing eyes, but because she senses something different about him, and when he inadvertently blows up the classroom, she knows exactly what it is. He has powers like her, except he doesn’t know it and Kate sets out to show him. On their journey of discovery Kate learns Jarrod has an ancient curse on his family that will keep hurting his little brother and parents if they don’t do something to remove it.

Faerie Tale by Raymond E. Feist (1988)

Successful screenwriter Phil Hastings decides to move his family from sunny California to a ramshackle farmhouse in New York State. The idea is to take some time out, relax and pick up the threads of his career as a novelist. Good plan, bad choice. The place they choose is surrounded by ancient woodland. The house they choose is the centrepoint of a centuries-old evil intent on making its presence felt to intruders.

[teabooksandsweets]

According to a poll, very many people on tumblr do not know who Tummeler is.

Mr. B. Tummeler is the father of Uncas and the grandfather of Fred, and he lives on Paralon. He is a renowned foodie, playwright and publisher. He also compiled the Library of Alexandria into one volume.

He looks like this:

[sublimegentlemanalpaca]

Midnight Burger on the Nameless Isles

So like…What if Midnight Burger ended up on the Nameless Isle where Tamerlane House is? Like…Midnight Burger characters interacting with the Caretaker Emeritus. Caspar and Poe bonding over both being sad old men. Gloria and the Badgers swapping recipes.

Jack and Charles and everyone being absolutely amazed with Zebulon and Effie’s radio. Getting into an argument with…Twain maybe? Ava and Archimedes arguing over science things. Caspar getting into an argument with at least one of the Prophecy Scowler trio.

Wait! Kepler is there…..Lief and Kepler could discuss the city on the moon. Hm…need to relisten to all of Midnight Burger see who else among the Caretaker’s Emeritus has been dropped.Oh! Depending on when MB arrives would be interesting if Ava got into an argument with all the Sci Fi authors. Especially Bradbury given the Butterfly effect bit in the first episode Lief and co introducing Rose to a Monte Cristo Sandwich. Hm…Better yet, Introduce Dumas Pere to it. Huh….how old is the Monte Cristo as a Sandwich? Could this be a reverse of Shakespeare inspiring the Pyramids? Poe of course asking the Midnight Burger gang about Pistachios. Caretakers, and also Houdini and Doyle trying to puzzle out how the hell the Dinner Works. Some comparison to the Midnight Abbey/House on the Borderland. At least one of the Midnight Burger Gang has to have read Charles’ stuff. I’m thinking…Ava cause it wouldn’t be in character, but it would be funny. Oh! Ransom has probably been to Midnight Burger before, and they’ve likely served a Charles at some point. Verne at some point in the past (CotIG Verne I mean) ending up there.

Probably a fair amount of flirting. A decent amount. At least with Shakespeare, Wilde, and Byron out and about.

Leif somehow getting his hands on an Anabasis Machine. Or getting Watches for everybody. Hm…wonder if Adepts like Rose or Edmund with his Chronography could…mess with or help the Dinner at all…hmm

Ah wait…possible the Master of Tamerlane House and co would offer food. Feast Beasts providing an excellent spread. WAIT! The dinner ended up inside a mall…It could easily fit somewhere inside Tamerlane House itself…although…given the relative sentience of each building…maybe the Dinner would initially land within Tamerlane House then get…shunted just outside it…or maybe into the Boat House. Or one of the other islands. The one with the Nightmare Abbey/House on the Borderland? Or the one where the backup Hotel D’Auliers is? Hm…what if it ended up in the Basement with the Redbull…and who knows how many people who got Cask of Amontilladod…Amontilladoed?

Laura Glue and Gloria hanging out would be cool.

Oh! What havoc could Zebulon and Effie wreak in Tamerlane House! What if they get stuck in DaVinci’s Treadmill! Will this make sense to anyone but me? Probably not. Do go read the Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica (first book Here there be Dragons) and listen the Podcast Midnight Burger.

Make of this What you Will.

Al, the Chronographing Cottager and Prince of Naming. A Scowler and a Gentlebeing

[souperluminal]

Long time no Caretaker Day, here's a Samaranth for the occasion!

[sleepyowlsleeps]

"Greetings," the white-mustached shopkeeper said, apparently unruffled to be waiting on a purple man, a badger in a waistcoat and jacket, and a knight with all the fashion sense of a novelist. "What can I do for you today?"

What, do all novelists have questionable fashion? I'd take offense but the author is also poking fun at himself.

[indra-istari]

tragic time travel/time fucker characters are so interesting bc you have:

the happy ones with the capacity for great angst

the ones who lost everything except spite

and the ones who lost their mind

[randomx123]

INTRO POST

Hey everyone! Finally making the Intro Post...

Real Name: Debaditya

Nicknames: Random, DB, Blu

Age: 19

Birthday: 19/09/2005 (Yeah, today)

Hobbies: Drawing, Reading, coming up with story ideas I never do anything with

Favourites

Anime/Cartoons:

Pokemon

Digimon

Doraemon (DADDYMON)

Shin Chan

Kiteretsu

Hagemaru

Tokyo Beat Cop

Dinosaur King

Idaten Jump

Fairy Tail

Kindaichi Case Files

Neon Genesis Evangelion

Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash

Little Busters

Monsuno

Steven Universe

The Amazing World of Gumball

Adventure Time

Chowder

Scooby-Doo

SpongeBob SquarePants

Movies:

How to Train Your Dragon

Rise of the Guardians

Kung-fu Panda

Despicable Me

Ice Age

Books:

Harry Potter

Geronimo Stilton

Wings of Fire (Series)

Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica

Dragon Rider

Webcomics: (I literally have a series or two set for each day)

Castle Swimmer

Realta

Jackson's Diary

Erma

Nerd and Jock

Marionetta

Nomads

Lalin's Curse

Dreamwalker

Urban Animal

Jungle Juice

The God of Highschool

My S-Class Hunters

Children of Mirraa

The Last Dimension

Spellward Bound

Branching Out

Code Helix

Portal Fantasy

How to Become a Dragon

Blacksmith

The Blind Prince

1HP Club

Lumine

Shingi

Other Interests

Cats

Dragons

Blue stuff (duh), and green too

Dark and creepy stuff (Especially spooky stories)

Mythologies (Especially Hinduism)

Epic Battle Fantasy

Kirby

Cursedblr (No I won't explain...)

Extra stuff about me

Desi (Ghoti Bangali)

Introvert IRL (Mostly. Can get pretty violent tho. Not in recent years).

B. Tech. Student (Electrical Engineering)

ISTJ personality type

Virgo (Meen Rashi, Meen Lagna)

AroAce (Aego)

Fav song is 'Fireflies' by Owl City

I've moved places a bunch of times (4 times so far)

My family has Durga Puja at our ancestral home every year (and Lakshmi Puja too, cuz dem's the rules)

Learnt how to sing with the Harmonium for about 2 years or so

Red Belt in Kung-fu

Side-blogs

@divine-mess-ember

@one-tusked-claymation

@cosmic-fireball

@pippo-ho-ho

@bluboi-ocs

[sleepyowlwrites]

get to know only extremely unimportant things about me (honestly i should do a series of these)

the first one to properly say I had to do this, @cwritesfiction wins at getting me to answer my own tag questions.

what does your bed comforter look like?

my bed comforter is purple on one side and white with purple flowers on the other. I use the flower side in the summer and the purple side in the winter. although in the winter you can't see it because I'll have fuzzy blankets on top. I have a mushroom one, a winnie the pooh one, and an owl one, of course.

do you have cough drops in your house?

yeah. I have my own stash, even. I should've taken some of them to work for the locker room pharmacy, but I just got more instead.

on a scale of 1-18, how likely are you to accidentally park father away from the grocery store than you meant to?

17 definitely. I always think I've done better this time, but when I'm walking back out to my car I'm like no, no I didn't. and it's literally because I like not having to be aware of cars next to me when I'm back out even though I'm perfectly capable.

when it comes to outerwear, is practicality or style more important?

it's been practically for years, but just a few days ago I bought myself a new winter coat that is a pretty icy blue, so now I can be warm and pretty. it looks huge on me because I have no shoulders but whatever.

do you collect medicine in your room when you're sick and then just, like, never put it away?

I collect medicine in my room that is mine, for me to use, and it gets put away in the drawer of my bedside table. or in my pill basket because yeah I have one of those.

have you ever seen some berries of some sort out in the wild and decided that you needed to photo them so they looked like blood?

as established by the insistence of Genre, of course I do this, because it's fun. scroll down and find the post with the picture.

did you check the same book out of the library/read the same book over and over despite your dad or somebody being like "other books exist you know"?

also yes. and I still reread the same books over and over now. the chronicles of the imaginarium geographica stay just as good every time!

is there an environment in which everyone there has a different nickname for you?

not here. I'm just Sleepy, and sometimes Owl and sometimes Mom/Mother. y'all could get more creative and funky. or address me as Empress, like my coworker. at work I do have a bunch of nicknames.

my store manager calls me melopoly and pips, my beloved andrew calls me megatron, I'm empress and goddess and queen and sometimes my fake boyfriend calls me dear or honey.

what animal did you fear would spontaneously manifest in your bedroom and eat you? actual belief in said fear not required.

a lion. had dreams about it, even. it always made me mad because I knew 100% that there was no way a lion could spontaneously appear but also I 100% could not stop my brain from being terrified anyway.

was there a thing that you were unfortunately really good at as a kid that set you up to go into hard "gifted kid" burnout while still being a kid?

like Sea said, I was - and am - a really good reader. I also just memorized stuff really fast and remembered it forever, so the roadblock of long division that definitely revealed my then unknown dyscalculia was a real letdown. and by letdown I mean that it took me three years to get through algebra one and two years to get through algebra two. and to this day any mathematical explanations give me anxiety.

you know you have to eat some fruit some time, so what do you buy the next time you drag yourself to walmart or wherever?

I usually go for grapes, the big black ones, because mom usually picks up apples and pears are pretty hit or miss. I have to go to walmart because that's where the big black grapes are located. and it has to be them because I ain't allergic.

are you maybe a teensy bit obsessed with code names?

yep.

what's your favorite word to refer to a personage who is capable of using magic?

it's usually mage, but I am also fond of enchanter/enchantress.

gloves or mittens or glittens?

I had this pair of rainbow glittens that came to college with me. wore those things to death. but when I used to ski I always used gloves.

are you a sibling or are you an only child who happens to have siblings or are you an only child who has liminal space siblings?

an only child who happens to have siblings. at least it was that way for a while. the youngest and I bond more these days. and if I wasn't sister to the middle one, I wouldn't have nieces! so I'm glad to have siblings. sisters.

does your edgelord have a name or are you not on speaking terms?

we're on speaking nonsense terms because it mostly manifests as incomplete sentences that my brain still makes me try to say these days.

do you actually wear your favorite piece of clothing?

yeah. which is why I finally got rid of so much stuff I never wear.

bookends. a cool accessory or something that is preventing more books from fitting on your shelves?

I need all the room I can get for my heaps of books.

please rate this tag as if it were a super duper indie flick on imdb.

I made this.

[foreststarflaime]

top 6 books/films/shows? (whichever you prefer)

Ooo good one! This ended up being half and half because you got me thinking for both categories lol, in no particular order other than Tolkien being first

1. For convenience I will condense all Tolkien literature into one spot otherwise it would take up all of these lol, but for the record the Hobbit and the Silmarillion are tied for my fav books! I am a massive nerd for middle earth lore

2. Percy Jackson and the Olympians! Or really all the Riordanverse stuff, I adore Magnus Chase and the Kane Chronicles too. I am a classics major after all

3. Imaginarium Geographica—a very obscure fantasy series I’m not actually sure is even in print anymore, the twist of which (revealed at the end of the first book) I will put under a cut in case anyone doesn’t want to see that spoiler

4. Pirates of the Caribbean. Those damn pirates and their banter and crazy sword fights have imprinted themselves on my psyche. I have gender envied Will Turner since long before I knew what that was. Davy Jones and your organ and cool ship you will always be special to me

5. Mission Impossible! I love my found family spies and their crazy stunts sm

6. Ocean’s 11! And 12 and 13 of course. I love heist stories and this is The heist movie, the pinnacle of them all, the platonic ideal of the genre

Honorable mention for RWBY which brought me my 3 best friends on the planet <3

For Imaginarium Geographica twist—the main characters are Tolkien, CS Lewis, and Charles Williams and the plot is basically them finding their fantasy worlds mirrored in a sort of hodgepodge story alternate world they can get to on dragonships. It is amazing

[jurakan]

I’m not familiar with the sites you references but a place with your book recommendations sounds cool!

So! For reference:

L-Space is a database that was dedicated to annotations of all the Discworld books. It's a bit... outdated, mostly because from Going Postal onward it has no annotations, and some of the things noted are, well, pop history things from like forty years ago, so I give it a slide. Overall, it's pretty darn good, I just wish it had been updated in the last twenty years.

The 13th Depository is a blog dedicated to Wheel of Time. It has been updated since the early 2000's (seriously; earlier this year I put a comment and got a reply within a day). To me, the most valuable contribution is that it chronicles all the references and allusions in the major characters in the series. Which is a lot. Michael Livingstone gave the blog a shoutout in his recent reference book about the series.

In high school, I did annotations for myself for The Chronicles of Imaginarium Geographica by James A. Owen, which are also pretty reference-heavy books. I have long wanted to do similar things with Percy Jackson & the Olympians (which are not as obscure reference-heavy, though there's still a lot there!), and I started re-reading The Lost Years of Merlin and thought that might be fun, too.

I don't know how I'd format that--it'd probably be a blog, either on Tumblr or Blogger, because I don't know much about building websites.

I am happy that someone thought it was an interesting idea!

[justnerdystuffs]

my unconscious got my 3rd eye wide open so I came to share (hehehe)

there's this trilogy called The Age of Dragons (by James A. Owen, previously called The Chronicles of Imaginarium Geographica) where the protagonists are Tolkien, C.S. Lewis and Charles Williams (apparently a famous poet?) and I just realized!!!!! they remind me of Neil Gaiman what with all the jokey stuff here on tumblr and all. I don't know how to handle this information, I just know he too would probably gladly be swept in a world where all imaginary characters live

Okay so THANK YOU for sharing this with me, my mind definitively needed a reset after the celebration I just came from and this is it. You're saying he would happily be isekai'd? I can see that xD

That trilogy sounds really interesting!! 😊

[sublimegentlemanalpaca]

Have begun reading Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell. At 20 pages I already loved it. Currently at 200 and the love remains. Favorite so far is Mal, she’s great and I love her coat. But all the characters thus far introduced are great. Real curious about like…what’s going on and such. Very curious. Seeing as it takes place in a magical Archipelago, my mind is already wandering to pondering crossovers between this and Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica.

Here’s hoping I love the rest of the book as I do now. It’s not quite a favorite akin to CotIG, Pratchett’s Discworld, or Valente’s Fairyland. But man I am enjoying it. I can’t wait until they reach the sphinxes. And I even more so can’t wait for more dragons as I can only guess we’ll see another….

In a word…this book is fun. Super fast paced. Super duper fast paced even…but fun regardless.

Make of this what you will

Al, the Chronographing Cottager and Prince of Naming

[onedragontorulethemall]

The Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica!

not allowed to say Harry Potter, but what was your book series obsession as a teen

mine was definitely Eragon

[tinkerbelldetective]

I finally got somebody to read Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica!!!