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vulpinesaint · 12 hours ago

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kind of unfortunate that so many fantasy epics are also war novels because i will be honest i just do not like war novels that much... the grand clashing of forces is compelling obviously but it requires characters to talk about so much practical battle strategy and while i can get my brain to comprehend all these fantasy maps and kingdoms and borders and battalions and front lines and army movements it takes up. so much space in the book. feels like i'm fighting a war of my own trying to get through it sometimes

#this is about the witcher books rn but also about book four of the inheritance cycle #roran is hot and i like seeing him with his hammer and his dedication and love for his wife!#also i am here for dragons and it is kind of a major tonal shift watching this man try to navigate becoming a military general!#like i'll learn all the names of the witcher kings and queens and learn where their provinces are and which towns are in which kingdom #and who borders what and where and how all those political machinations work. it's important to the plot.#damn it's a lot of names though #meve is the queen of lyria and rivia is in lyria. this much i know. because she is the only queen.#completely irrelevant information most of the time.#cintra is north of nilfgaard. nilfgaard is south of fucking everything.#cintra is like? middle of the map i think? there are other southern territories that got conquered by nilfgaard before cintra fell #other southern places. um. toussaint. i know this because this location is often referenced in fanfictions about aiden thewitcher #my favorite character that does not actually appear anywhere in canon aiden thewitcher #man i'm thinking about him again... fucking miss him... (<— guy who never met that guy to begin with)#anyway. what other witcher politics do i know. i can keep the wizard politics pretty clear in my mind.#total fucking lie i just realized i've been picturing stregobor instead of vilgefortz all through the last half of blood of elves #whateverrrrrrr i'll figure it out... this is why i can't pick things up this much later. i'm not restarting this reread though #other kings. suddenly all their names are gone. demawend? he is not very important rn i don't think.#vizimir. of. redania? perchance?#yes. because i think he's who dijkstra works for. and phillipa eilhart. i think that's the redania crew.#there's the king who is caught up in. incest. foltest. that's that guy's name. fuck if i know what kingdom. triss worked with him i think #oxenfurt is an independent city-state in my mind i don't think that's actually true though #just reread the story where geralt is delivering a message for the kings that border brokilon but could not tell you for the life of me #which kings and kingdoms those actually are. nor who ciri was supposed to marry there #anyway point is. man. War Novel #lord of the rings counts for this too btw. if i have to calculate the numbers for the armies it is a war novel to me #valentine notes #witcher reread

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