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[silveroakleafdeer]

Ranger Gathering 2025 - 2. whisper

The quietest of the Skandians (Erak and Halt being their goofy selves in Book 4)

[incorrect-rangers-quotes]

arald: be concise: who is will treaty?

gilan: he’s a nerd.

horace: my right-hand man.

erak: the guy who "wouldn't tell me where halt hides his coffee stash under threat of death".

halt: one of the bravest men i know.

alyss, affectionately: a guy with a spine of steel, but that spine is actually the stick shoved up his ass.

gilan, again: a total fucking NERD.

george, scribbling things down: currently polling #3 on the list of sexiest rangers in the corps.

delia: my own personal hero whose name i might have tattooed on my arse once.

edwina, sighing: the guy whose name my daughter got tattooed on her arse once.

madelyn: my honorary dadm

crowley: my third-biggest headache.

gilan, still talking: a stupid idiot NERD.

jenny: the only reason i still have a boyfriend.

evanlyn: the only senior ranger in the group chat who didn’t take the piss out of me for drawing little hearts around horace's name on the battle strategies…

gilan, holding a struggling will in a headlock: my stupid little best friend second apprentice NERD

[ghostskies]

Doomed by the narrative to lust over (mostly) short men

[explodingmagnets]

Hal: Erak won't trace it back to us. Stig: Are you for real? He traces everything back to us. He traces things we haven't even done back to us.

[sverak-incorrect-quotes]

Hal: You know, not every problem can be solved with a sword

Erak: That's why I carry an axe

Svengal: An axe always works

[thelittlerandomrooster]

The real hero of Araluen is NOT Will Treaty. Yeah, you heard me right. Come at me, bro. It's not even Halt. HORRORS!

It's Daniel.

Because, almost none of it would have happened if it weren't for Daniel. Let's examine the horrors if we remove Daniel from the equation. As of right now, Daniel never existed. Poof!

Let's start at a very good place to start. THE BEGINNING! Everything would happen the same way--Halt being almost killed by Ferris multiple times, meeting Pritchard, running to Araluen, joining the rogue Rangers, defeating Morgarath at the Battle of Hackham Heath--up until those few days afterwards that they're chasing Morgarath's army back to the Mountains of Rain and Night. That's when everything falls apart. Halt rides to battle, and is struck down, surrounded. Since Daniel does not exist anymore, Halt is killed *cue funeral music and an unreasonable amount of bawling.* Since Daniel doesn't exist, his wife never has Will, so Will doesn't exist, Halt is dead and things go very badly.

Fifteen years later, Morgarath re-emerges. Since Halt is dead, he sends the Kalkara after Duncan instead and now Araluen is reeling from this vacuum of power. Neither Will nor Halt are there to help out Horace from the bullies, so he slowly turns to the dark side, is expelled from battle school, and roams around Araluen as a hired sword (instead of a hired gun) and falls into the employ of Morgarath and his henchmen.

Since Will doesn't exist, and Horace has become evil, Cassandra continues to roam around Celtica, and no one destroys the bridge. And Araluen is destroyed by Morgarath. Now Morgarath is king. The Rangers are dismantled and quite possibly killed if they don't escape again. But Morgarath will be on his toes this time, because he doesn't want at repeat of what happened last time.

Since Halt, Horace, and Will are out of the picture, and Halt isn't around to organize a strategy for the battle, the Skandians lose the war with the Temujai and now Hallasholm is a launching pad for the Temujai army. Dun dun dun! No Treaty is formed between Araluen and Skandia. Which also means that Erak never becomes Oberjarl and is never kidnapped, meaning the Araluens don't have cool friends like Selethen anymore.

What's more, Will would never have been sent to Norgate to investigate Malcom, Kerrin would be established as a Tyrant within Norgate, and the Scotti army would have invaded to raid Araluen.

Not to mention, the Outsiders would still be ravaging Hibernia, stealing all the wealth, gaining new followers, Ferris wouldn't have his tiny character arc and die. Nobody would be around to save the Nihan-jas from overthrow and dictatorship, and let's not forget Brotherband.

Brotherband would most likely have never happened. Or perhaps it would have happened a different way. Like Hal organizing a coup and revolting against the Temujai.

Since I haven't read much of the Royal Ranger, I can't go there, but I know at least that Maddie would most likely not exist, since Cassandra probably starved in Celtica and Horace is evil. Will doesn't exist, so he wouldn't have saved all the children. Perhaps Alyss would not have died, if she hadn't died earlier in the sequence.

Am I missing anything?

All that to say, Daniel is the GOAT. and should be recognized in Araluen as the MVP of all time.

(Speculation: Horace ends up overthrowing Morgarath and becomes the new King of Araluen after he gets tired of Morgarath's smugness all the time)

[thelastranger]

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u/skandiagal1000 MOD: this one is currently becoming pretty heated (sort by controversial for the other guy's side) stay civil or mods will be locking this thread and banning people

[findingcrow]

Why have I not seen LITERALLY ANYONE talk about how in Erak’s Ransom, when Will saves the group, Horace yells “Will!!” And holds up his tied hands AND WILL SHOOTS IT AND FREES HIM??? LIKE THAT WAS SO COOL WHY DO WE NEVER TALK ABOUT THAT????? The fact that, number one, Horace knew Will was skilled enough to do it, number two, Horace TRUSTED Will not to shoot his hand, number three, Will understood what Horace wanted him to do, and finally, the fact that WILL WAS ABLE TO DO IT IN THE FIRST PLACE?? Now obviously rangers are very trained and blah blah blah but THATS STILL BADASS????