#neridah

[deltoravivisection]

If I have the ability and patience, I kind of wanted to include some super basic minigames you can play to farm money like spin the bird and some other stuff in Rithmere, and I was like "hm Neridah has like nothing to do plot-wise maybe instead of dialogue she can host a minigame of some kind" but the first though I had when I was trying to think of what game it should be was. It was Pass the Pigs. So get ready for that I guess.

[sisterofthesouth]

i love that jasmine's anti-monarchy arc isn't resolved by somehow convincing her that Monarchy Is Good, Actually. no one in deltora, not even lief and barda, really believe that the king could save them. whatever faith they have is in the Belt, not the line of kings. the king's duty is first and foremost to his people, and when the kings of deltora stopped seeing themselves as protectors and servants of the people and started embracing their status as wealthy monarchs, the shadow lord started creeping in.

and for lief the quest is never about the king or the heir, it's about freeing the land and the people. the king, the heir, whoever they are, are just a means to an end. the heir is just a key that needs to be found to unlock the full power of the Belt. but if the quest does not succeed, even if the heir is dead or never found, the quest itself can never be considered a failure because it has already brought so much freedom and hope to western deltora. this is the first book where the trio is not able to free a people or location from the grip of the shadow lord, but seeing the situation in noradz lief finds compassion for them, even though they are strange and indoctrinated and unfriendly, he makes a promise to set them free when the belt has been restored.

and this is so key for lief. finding the gems is the goal, but the goal is only half the story. the other half is the process. along the way lief brings freedom to so many people who are different from him and carry all kinds of flaws: they're selfish, they're oathbreakers, they're liars, or brutes - but they are never not worth saving. we see this to the extreme in rithmere and in noradz and among the resistance, people like neridah, glock, jinks, and even doom are not particularly likeable, good, or moral people. but they are deltorans, and deltorans deserve to be free. a king will not save them. faith and unity will.

and so the only kind of king who could be a boon to the downtrodden, monarchy-sick deltorans is someone who has seen their suffering and partaken in it and alleviated it with his own hand. someone who has travelled far and wide and seen his whole country and knows the people and their cultures and their fears and their desires, someone who has brought unity and peace, whose heart is full of compassion and faith in the rich magic of the land. someone who never had any pride or grandiose dreams. someone like adin. someone who never knew he could be king. a blacksmith's boy.

[dafusedhamsters024]

No Jasmine, you can’t kill Neridah.

[animeacro]

Neridah from Deltora's Quest definitely qualifies.

Do you mean this scene: https://animeacro.tumblr.com/post/174701744249/thanls-to-the-anonimous-suggestion-below-heres or is there more to check?

[transhitman]

Glock, Steven, and Fardeep are the dream Deltora blunt rotation. Lindal, Tom, and Neridah are the nightmare one.

[kornblume814]

[obsessionsofrozh]

Day 8 - Cunning

Neridah. Before this, I really didn't give much thought about her; she was merely a deciteful woman who had brief roles in the story. But now that I had to think about her personality to see how I like to imagine her, it struck me hard to see how much I can understand her.

Neridah was not a villain, obviously; but nor was she a bad person. She had a mother and sister whom she had to provide for and in the mess that was the time of the shadows, it must've been really difficult for a younger Neridah to do so without using a trick or two. And this trait became her family's survival. Sure, on a personal level everyone's deeds are their own responsibilities. But when you see the bigger image, wrongdoings of citizens, on average, is solely the governments' fault since you can't expect everyone to be strong-willed against hardships. Although, ofcourse, in children's literature it's better to picture the majority of people keeping their decency even in hard times; however, in a more realistic world, Lief, Barda and Jasmine would've encountered more people like Neridah across Deltora who would live slyly and grab at every little chance to earn even the smallest of rewards; let alone planning to earn a great diamond. 

Neridah must've had a soft innocent heart; but the world made a cunning woman out of her. Now that I think about it, it's sad that she died the way she did. She deserved a second chance.

[fusionfanatic]

I created this blog to dump all my fandom brain rot and ask people way smarter than I am what they think about characters I like. So, like, get ready, I guess.

[maoist-mizer]

Girlies I made Thee connection!

So I decided to google Neridah’s name to find out it’s meaning, and apparently, it comes from the Greek word ‘nereids’ which were sea nymphs.

So that got me thinking, and it literally reminded me of Neridah’s death in the Valley of the Lost:

Neridah lay face up in the stream, the slow water drifting over her unseeing eyes, her hair billowing over the rock on which she had hit her head. In the open palm of her cold, cold hand lay a great diamond.

She literally died in the water, I— 👀

[incorrectdeltoraquotes]

Neridah: I’m Doom’s right-hand arm. Man. I’m Doom everything. I’m his confidant. His best friend... His silly rabbit.

Lief: His what?

Neridah: His silly rabbit.

Lief: His silly rabbit?

Neridah: Yes.

Lief: Is that what he calls you?

Neridah: No.

[bruhmemeequalsbreme]

i don't care about what anyone thinks, i don't think neridah deserved death nor the hate she got in the anime. she's only 16, and she did learn a lesson.

i headcanon her to have HPD too so that's comforting honestly

also sure she might've stolen the diamond but she looked damn good while doing it cus look at those insane skills

[deltoravivisection]

WHITE WOMAN JUMPSCARE

[princeliefofdel]

I feel like this is meme material.

[vajbtalija]

So like i edit Deltora Quest

I mean like I made the account over a year ago and have been posting on it for that much yk,,, but like im one of the 2 instagram editors of deltora actually alive in the fandom lmfao anywAYS check me out for my love or like don’t

https://www.instagram.com/dcltora/

also hi dm me on instagram and talk to me about deltora i need you in my life

[mask131]

Deltora Quest review: The Valley of the Lost (Series 1-7)

Here it is. The seventh book. Book of the Diamond, book of the Guardian and his pets. The Valley of the Lost.

SPOILERS AHEAD! SPOILERS AHEAD! SPOILERS AHEAD! 

 This one is another book I really like in the series. 

It is strangely, a very peaceful book, in a way. Note that it’s the first book that doesn’t contain any kind of fighting or physical confrontation, and where a lot of stuff happened in the past or “off-screen”. 

I mean, you have the huge violence of the rain and storm in the beginning of the book (It’s actually the first time I actually realized that it rained in Deltora. I mean, when it rained in the Dread Mountains I didn’t bore much attention to it, it was a thunderstorm and anyway it was close to the Shadow Lands territory, but it’s true that it hasn’t rained in any other books expect those two). But outside of that, there’s no real violence.

The confrontation with the pirates? They’re just fleeing from them, and we don’t even see said pirates. The Ols waiting on the bridge? They just try to find another way. Their arrival in Tora? There’s nobody there. Their fight with the Guardian? It’s a fight of wit and intellect, nothing of violence. And of course, they can’t even use violence to get the Diamond since it would curse them. I actually like this rule - this idea that the stone can’t be taken by evil means, which on one side is the origin of the curse of the Guardian, but also a limit to our heroes’ actions. 

I really like the Valley of the Lost as a setting. Rodda has a real talent at creating creepy landscapes. 

The “Endon” trick, with the Guardian? Nice work, Shadow Lord. Really nice. And I don’t blame Doom for falling in the trap. Seriously, well played. 

There is so much foreshadowing in this book! And it’s funny that there is a double foreshadowing. Let’s take the fact that Dain actually gets physically sick in the city of Tora. First foreshadowing: the foreshadowing of what Lief thinks is the truth. That Dain is heartbroken, soulbroken, by the Toran’s betrayal at the King. And the second foreshadowing is simple: Dain suddenly gets sick and nearly dies in the city. And a few chapters later it’s explained that all evil is sucked out by the people entering Tora. Lief? You see something there? You get something there? YOU HAVE A BOY NEARLY DYING AFTER ENTERING AN EVIL-REMOVING MAGIC CITY AND YOU STILL HAVE NO DOUBT ABOUT HIM? 

It’s really nice how it reflects into the Shadow Lord’s final trick. At first, Lief and his teammates assume that the Guardian is indeed Endon, because they only see the obvious. But then, we discover that it was just a trick of the Shadow Lord and that he isn’t at all. 

Another “mirror” here is in the notion of games to win the treasure here. The games of wit and intellect of the Guardian mirror the games of Rithmere, that were all about strenght and physical abilities. The comparison becmes obvious when it’s revealed who actually the Guardian is. 

Everything here is about twin it seems. Twins and duality. The two hermits on the picture. The double identity of the Guardian. The Guardian vs his pets. Tora and the Valley of the Lost. Neridah treachery, the repeated links between Del and Tora, the two major cities of Deltora, who are even opposed: one filfthy, dark, ugly and overpopulated, the other splendid, clean, beautiful but completely empty… This book is all about duality.

Pets named after the human vices? I dig in!

Ever since the first book opened I wondered why the sign of the Shadow Lord felt so familiar. And now I just realized it: it’s because it’s everywhere here. Or at least a variation of it. In France we have this symbol to say do not touch it, or do not trespass. It’s a black hand in a red circle, with a big red slash on top of it (sometimes there isn’t even a slash, just the hand and the circle). I grew up with the Shadow Lord’s sign a bit everywhere around me :P

And the “stone analysis” segment… The Diamond is the stone of innocence, purity and strenght. Its all symbolism of purity and innocence is actually part of the stone’s powers, making its presence painfully obvious: you can’t take the stone with ill intent or by wicked means, else you will be cursed and met an horrible end. You have to win the stone fairly and be pure of heart to be worth of its powers. It also reflects on how the Guardian has to wear his own vices and sins around him as his monstruous pets and guardians. This book also reminds us that true evil and corruption can be found inside the heart of human beings rather than in monsters: the Guardian used to be a simple hermit, the pirates and bandits are still roaming and destroying Deltora, and even in the Resistance some members like Neridah are rotten. 

Tora is also a good reflection of the Diamond. A beautiful, perfect and pure city sucking up everything evil. But here, this purity is twisted, because it ended up casting its own inhabitants, and became empty and cold. The Torans lived in this perfection and purity for so long they became selfish, self-centered, prideful and arrogant. They lost their empathy and disdained the rest of the world, and thus their own magic reduced them to merely shadows, undeads, tortured spirits, enchanted victims. And of course, the Valley of the Lost is the complete opposite of everything pure and innocent. It is just a rotten place full of death and lies, that kills and tortures and tricks people. 

As for the strenght, the other symbol of the Stone, it is completely absent from this book. The heroes can’t use violence, they can only flee or obey, the Torans are now shadows without substance or strenght, and even the palace of the Guardian is made of fragile glass. Here, the strenght is not a physical one, but a mental one. You have to decipher the games and enigmas of the Guardian. You have to resist to his mind control over your body. You have to be strong even after discovering the Toran’s betrayal. It’s all a question of strenght of mind, of strenght of heart - of the strenght of the soul. 

[sisterofthesouth]

neridah: i am in love with doom and i cannot bear it!!1!!

jasmine: