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"...although there'd been rumblings of displeasure against the Empress and the usual talk of elven rebellion in Halamshiral..." >The usual elven rebellion Oh, it's just zee U S U A L. You know. Zee E L V E S. Wanting F R E E D O M or zometing
Either one @thesecondsealwrites is baaaaad juju. I don't know what kind of hair-brained idea that was on his part. Neither is remotely functional and both are inherently toxic. But @october-rosehip brings something else to the table. It's super interesting and I didn't know that. Maybe he just meant that the Orlesians smoke hookah and just got super confused about what those kohl containers were? He might've pulled a Gaider (which is totes a term now, I'm coining it). He wanted the characters to do a thing (in this case, smoke hookah) and wanted it to sound super Cool and Edgy ("smoke kohl pipes") without fully understanding what everything was (the Very Unsmokable kohl was actually stored in a glass container that only LOOKED like hookah).
Tbqh the only lore I want outta this book is How Cole Got His Amazing Hat.
@october-rosehip I found it! And Orlesians don't smoke kohl, they are smoking kohl PIPES, whatever the fuck THAT'S supposed to mean. Hey, Mr. Gaider, I've been smoking pipes for like 3 years now and I ain't never heard of whatever a "kohl pipe" is. "Kohl" to my knowledge, is a type of black makeup, which is basically eyeliner, used prominently by the Egyptians. It's made by grinding up a mineral called, Galena, and mixing that dust with plant oils to make a paste. Anyone who knows rocks will already see issues with this. Now...galena...is super fucking heavy, it's got a very high density, so carving a pipe out of galena and trying to smoke out of it will make your hand muy tired. Also! It is a LEAD sulfate. Constant use/ingestion (such as always putting your mouth on it to smoke) would cause lead poisoning. In short, "kohl pipes" are not a thing nor should they ever be a thing; that's an awful idea. Please do your research!
Leliana is here! Hell yes!
I really want to like this book because it's about Cole. But as I stare at my copy, realizing it's 500 pages thick, I can't help but already feel discouraged.
Okay, so I'm bored and tired and my sickness has escalated because nothing is better, but now my ears hurt. Smh. So I'm gonna play the same game with Asunder as I did The Calling. :) If anyone would like to blacklist it, my tag will be #Fiend attacks Asunder . I picked Asunder because it's by the David Definitely-Not-A-Novelist Gaider, while The Masked Empire is by Patrick Weekes. Here goes, if you would like to tune in. Haha.
Well, i think I'm gonna settle in and read for now. Maybe write later. But just to remind y'all, if you don't want to see me ripping Gaider a new one, you want to blacklist: Fiend attacks Asunder
