
"I lied," Haplo snarled, grabbing hold of the first mensch that came within his grasp. "I'm not a mysteriarch!"
Blue and red sigla from the Patryn's arm flared, enveloped the human's body in dancing runes. The sigla flashed around the terrified man like a whirlwind and, with the speed of lightning, arced from him to the elf he was battling. The jolt sizzled from that elf to the human fighting behind him. Faster than any of them could let go an indrawn breath, the runes jolted through the bodies of every elf and human inside the cable room, sped from there throughout the ship.
There was a sudden, frozen silence.
"I'm a god," Haplo announced grimly.
-The Hand of Chaos, pg 397
There are a lot of really memorable moments in the Death Gate Cycle, but this moment when Haplo absolutely loses his shit after four books of trying to hide or play down his actual power is definitely one of my favorites. I really adore him as a character, but there's next to no canon representations of him; this is my best guess based on a combination of written description, the one actual canon drawing, and various fanarts.
It's been nice to finally draw something for Death Gate, now that I finally feel like I'm starting to get to a place where I can actually draw scenes with the attention to detail that they deserve. It's a super underappreciated series, and one that's definitely influenced my approach to writing and worldbuilding a lot.
Blue and red sigla from the Patryn's arm flared, enveloped the human's body in dancing runes. The sigla flashed around the terrified man like a whirlwind and, with the speed of lightning, arced from him to the elf he was battling. The jolt sizzled from that elf to the human fighting behind him. Faster than any of them could let go an indrawn breath, the runes jolted through the bodies of every elf and human inside the cable room, sped from there throughout the ship.
There was a sudden, frozen silence.
"I'm a god," Haplo announced grimly.
-The Hand of Chaos, pg 397
There are a lot of really memorable moments in the Death Gate Cycle, but this moment when Haplo absolutely loses his shit after four books of trying to hide or play down his actual power is definitely one of my favorites. I really adore him as a character, but there's next to no canon representations of him; this is my best guess based on a combination of written description, the one actual canon drawing, and various fanarts.
It's been nice to finally draw something for Death Gate, now that I finally feel like I'm starting to get to a place where I can actually draw scenes with the attention to detail that they deserve. It's a super underappreciated series, and one that's definitely influenced my approach to writing and worldbuilding a lot.
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Holy shit, really? I don't think I've ever found anyone that I already know who's read them--there's a small fandom of like, five people total on tumblr, and I'm currently using them to reel in a classmate--but that's awesome! I would definitely recommend giving them another read, I first found them in... god, I think it was eighth grade, and I still thoroughly enjoy them every time I decide to do another read through. That's so cool that you know the series!
I was one of those kids who spent most of my lunches in the school library. The one school had an excellent library, with a very well stocked SF and fantasy section. I don't really remember most of the books I read, but that was my introduction to the Discworld, and to the Death Gate cycle, probably in eighth or ninth grade.
I'll certainly try to take a look again.
I'll certainly try to take a look again.
Ahhh, that's the best, I was in a pretty similar situation! I think my copy of the first Death Gate book actually IS from my school library, they were ordering a new copy because it was getting way too beat up to keep in circulation and I managed to snag it. High five for well-equipped schools, I miss having as much time to read as I did back then XD
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