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Woot.

that's a big dragon !

https://d.furaffinity.net/art/rickg.....ight-chart.jpg

link to the first one?

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/924593
https://amazon.com/dp/1797600559

dang Well this will be quite a fun drama

LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOO

I might have to get these.

Went straight over and bought it.

Oh boy, I don't know what's going on but it does not look good..

I am pretty excited to see the next chapter in my ancestor's history!!

*slams the buy button*

I just finished reading and I have to say...you bastard. I expected the ending to go a completely different direction.

<3

Any Apple Book plans?

The smashwords edition should be available on Apple sometime soon

Just curious cause i can't find the ref sheet you once did for them, how tall are the Krakun?

https://www.furaffinity.net/view/22924176/

Thank you!

Bought the hard-copy on Amazon (I'm a sucker for old-school books) and finished it up last night: just as good a read as the first book, looking forward to the conclusion!

I did want to note that the formatting and/or font of this edition seems to be a little different from the first book (larger font, for one) and was oddly harder to read (physically) than the first book.

-Wolf

Sorry about that, I had to change the font from the first book and it's not quite as nice as that one. Also the lines are much more tightly packed. It was either that or shrink the font size and I didn't want to do that.

Are there any. Ice Krakun?

They don't actually have breath weapons. They're mostly really big, really strong, and really smart.

That was my phone autocorrect that I didn't catch.

What I meant to say was are there any nice Krakun?

Yeah, there's some in the anthology that are varying shades from bad-but-learning to decent people

I just got it. Can I say that Ashiok is absolutely adorable and I want to see more of him?

Character growth is my jam. I love it when peoples world views are challenged and they have to confront preconceived notions about how the world is or how it should be. Breaking the mold to find true happiness even in the most unlikely of places. Even when the world tries to tell you how and when and why you should be happy.

I'm a sap for happy-ish endings.

Apologies for the double post. But I have purchased both books for Whiteflower II and the anthology. I wish to share my thoughts.

The setting itself is so fascinating, as is the slave empire the Krakun built. Reading the few stories that focus on the Krakun, its almost immediately apparent how quickly the Krakun's own society is to victimize each other as much as they victimize their slaves.

Its a stratified hierarchy with an imperial cult at the top, where so long as you have someone to shit on from a great height you aren't considered a complete failure. Even the lowliest and most humble Krakun has slaves to stomp on.

And yet even then. As we see with the stories about Ashiok, Huk, and Quinto, none of that ultimately matters beyond enforcing the existing hierarchy. Their own superiors are just as quick to murder and maim their subordinates. Only with Krakun they have the privilege of requiring manufactured pretense first as opposed to being stomped out of hand.

Just as with any slaveowner they range from kind to apathetic to outright malicious. But each of them participates in a society built around the victimization of others. Each of them is victimized in turn just as they perpetuate the victimization of those who cannot fight back.

I noticed that only those who were willing to buck society, to go against the worldview they grew up in were able to find true happiness. Even if it was just as a lowly barrista in a coffee shop. He was able to have a true friend he could trust and confide in. As opposed to all of his colleagues who drifted away, self absorbed with their own participation in the rat race.

Or by being true to themselves and not simply keeping their head down and going with the flow as everyone else demanded, a reluctant naval officer was able to finally stand up for himself and become the person HE wanted to be rather than the person everyone around him demanded he become. Even if it almost cost him his life.

Even the commissioner was abandoned by his own superiors who couldn't care less if he choked on a chicken bone and fell over one day. He was just as disposable as anyone else, all they needed was pretext. Yet he defended his own crew (even if he was still hung up on the dichotomy that they belonged to him) with his own body. In exchange they saved his own life in turn even if they could have left him for dead.

In that last one I think it says alot about the kind of person he was. Even if it was a bit self serving, he still put his own life on the line for them. I like to assume he isnt a bad boss. For a krakun. I noticed no one really directed hostility towards him specifically as an individual. But rather he was simply the cog in the corporate machine that happened to be in the path of the geroo powered wrench.

Ashiok is so slice of life. Huk sounds like a slace opera waiting to happen. Both of those are my jam.

I assume even they aren't alone in their thoughts and opinions. Its probably not the first instance of Krakun being oppressed by the system and waking up to their own plight, one empathetic act at a time. It says a lot about their characters that they were even predisposed to this in the first place.

All three of them could be great I think. If it weren't for the system that keeps them from realizing their true potential.

Thanks so much for such in-depth thoughts! I shared it with the discord, it's very encouraging to hear stuff like this

Any plans for an audio book? I just listened to the first one on a 12 hour drive. Made for one of the most pleasant long drives of my life :p

It should be ready any day now! It's currently in review

Nice very much looking forward to it.

OwO

Heyo o/

Got introduced to this universe through the kanti cycle books and picked up both of these books just recently, currently just starting out with the second, have to say I'm a big fan of the setting and the writing, have had to marathon them since I can't put it down

I've been a little inspired to try my hand at writing a bit of fiction set in it, is that allowed? I've seen it described as an 'open universe' in a few places but I'm not sure if that's the official position. If so I'm wondering if there are any lore/content restrictions or a design document lurking anywhere

It is totally an open universe! We do have some design rules if you even have an inkling of desire for canonicity, and it's all on the discord. Send me a DM if you want a link