#nelan barrow

[ebbyrinaaa]

He was the most handsome middle-aged man in the novel. The author seemed to have put his soul into this character, as the novel took four lines to describe Shickler’s appearance.

Choi Jung Gun... you're too suspicious...

[cale-thames]

I feel like an idiot.

It's only today that I understood— the reason all of Cale's ancient power owners are connected isn't a coincidence. It was Nelan Barrow's doing.

Nelan Barrow wrote a detailed description about wood, vitality, wind and fire powers. He must have also written about rock and water powers after volume 5. He probably did it because he wanted the last trace of his family to end up in good hands and not in the hands of WS.

[justrandomfanficideas]

5-TOTCF

An Au were everyone believes that Cale died a year after Jour died but actually he was taken from the Henituse territory by Choi Junggun who unknown to most gods had not died but became a god.

Choi Junggun may have considered Azrael(God of Death) but he didn't agree with most of his plans especially as God of Time, he knew what his friend planned and didn't like it one bit.

So he decided to mess with Azrael's plans and took Cale with him so he wouldn't have to suffer for a family that never realized his sacrifice and preferred to be hurt then ask for comfort.

Junggun raised Cale has his own while the TBOAH story progressed with a young man named Rok taking Cale's place on the narrative much sooner and being known as the child of Zed Crossman's late sister(Azrael made the deal with a dying Kim Rok Soo were he got to meet his hyungs again in the TBOAH world and then had him reincarnate as the missing nephew of Zed Crossman).

As Junggun watched Rok and the others travels, he decided to send Cale to meet Rok as he felt that the two would be able to help each other especially as Cale would be the guide for Rok to meet his reincarnated hyungs, Naru Von Ellejan(Choi Jungsoo) & Sui Khan(Lee Soohyuk).

Rok and Cale became close friends and Rok trusted the red haired but never asked him who he was and his backstory so he didn't know Cale was the late son of Deruth with his first wife until the war on the Henituse territory where Cale appeared to balance Rok's ancient powers(Cale is training to be the heir of God of Balance and has already some minor powers).

How everything else would go like people's reactions to Cale being alive, what ships will be there, etc is up to the writer(and yes, technically by what I wrote above, Rok met Naru and Shui Khan earlier then canon...maybe Junggun made them Cale's protectors or had Cale meet them as a kid?).

[lcfbigbang]

Welcome to Lout of Count’s Family BigBang 2025‼

Hello everyone~! My name is Crystal Heart and I’m going to be your host for this eventful ride!

The LCF BigBang is finally getting started!

As this event commences, I would like to take this opportunity to thank @solace-in-the-deep for this year's wonderful banner. Thankyou!

And now, here’s some important information regarding this event:

Q. What is a Bang?

Simply put, a bang is a type of fan challenge in which writers and artists work together to produce new collaborative content for the fandom. In a reverse bang, the artist signs up first and creates a sketch, and the writer claims the person they want to write for based on the sketch and summary the artists provide. Just like last year, this year too, we'll have an optional theme which will be decided through voting.

Q. Who can participate?

This event accepts writers, graphics-makers, comic artists, traditional artists, and illustrators. Whether this is your first time participating in an event or you’re a fandom event veteran, it’s all fine as long as you’re interested in meeting new friends and providing new content for the fandom!

(If you want to provide something that’s not listed here, just send me an ask!)

Q. What are the responsibilities?

• Writers will create a fic of a minimum of 3,500 words. • Artists will create a minimum of 1 stylistically complete work or a flat coloured work, to the best of their ability.

Q. What is the schedule?

May 25-June 8: Theme Voting June 16-30: Artist sign-ups July 4-15: Writer sign-ups and claims July 20: Artist-Writer pairings confirmed August 12: First check-in -[Pinch-hit sign-ups open the next day, August 12]- September 5: Second check-in; final day to drop out without penalty October 2: All works due except confirmed pinch-hits and extensions October 3: Posting begins

For more information, please see the FAQ and Schedule pages (for a detailed schedule)! If you have any questions or concerns, shoot me an ask or send an email to [email protected]!

Even if you can’t participate, I would be really grateful if you could help spread the word! More participants means more fun! ^^

Thankyou @thebigbangblogproject

[halloween-neko96]

Holy hell- I just got a realization!

Choi Jung Gun- Nelan Barrow- He hates the Hunter and wants to end them. I always wonder about the reason, have thought it was something personal after he became a Wanderer.

But I got blindsided.

One of the reasons has always been there, hasn't it?

The Ancient White Star and the current White Star ‘Cale Barrow’.

The Hunters are the ones behind both of them.

The Ancient White Star is the cause of all of his friends' deaths. I think that CJG has grown to love the Nameless 1 World a lot after he got dropped there. And the Ancient White Star and the Hunters were ruining it.

The current White Star, his supposed descedant, broke an Oath that he made with his friend, Sheritt because of the Hunters's plotting. He took away the eggs of her kids whom CJG might have a chance to call his ‘nephews’.

Choi Jung Gun must hate both of them so much and as a result, also hate the Hunters.

Of course, the Hunters also are just very awful in general. And there might be more to his desire to end them.

[blueteller]

The birth of a hero was originally written for choi jung soo right? It was passed to roksoo coz jungsoo " died " right?

We are not actually 100% sure! Everything regarding TBOAH series is speculation coming from Cale. We know that "Nelan Barrow" is Choi Jung Gun's pseudonym, and Cale saw CJG write a book in the Sloth Test, aka. the illusion of his own past when he was 17. So we know for a fact that this book series was written by CJG, and it was given to KRS on purpose so he would have knowledge about the world he was about to transmigrate into... But that's pretty much it. Everything else is speculation. There are so many unaswered questions about TBOAH. Such as:

Why did CJG originally write the books? Did someone order him to, requested it of him, made a comission for some reason? And HOW did CJG write this series? Where did he get information from, how could he know the future before time regression happened? Did someone else give him the information? Was it TBOAH!Choi Han? Who was responsible for the time regression, was it God of Death? Or did he have help? How many people know that time regression of Nameless 1 happened? Do any of the Hunters know about it? Can time regression happen a second time? If it can't, why? How was it possible in the first place?

And how would CJG plan on makeing KRS read TBOAH anyway, did he sneak the books into the library himself? How was KRS manipulated into grabbing those exact books? How did he know KRS would pick that series on that day specifically? Did he know KRS's preferences and made the book in a specific way to appeal to him, or was it just a lucky shot?

Why did CJG write all those side-character details? HOW did he find out those details? There's no way TBOAH!Choi Han ever found out about stuff like Harol's parents' backstory, or the fact that Mueller even existed and died. Why did CJG simp so much over King Shickler, did he ever meet him in person? And why does he compare the elves to the squids or bash their dragon-worshipping tendecies, does he have a grudge against them or something?

And did CJG ever find out about KRS becoming a transmigrator instead of Choi Jung Soo, anway? We assume that we knew, but do we actually know that for sure? For all we know CJS could have been the one who sneaked the TBOAH series into that library where KRS found it. How much CJG was involved in the whole process aside from writing the books in the first place? Did he even know that there were meant for CJS originally? Did he know who he needed to write them for?

...My point is, we know almost nothing about Choi Jung Gun, or the books he wrote, aside from context clues and what Cale speculates about it. My original assumption is just like your own; that CJG wrote it for CJS, then CJS died, and the books went to KRS. But did it actually happen like that? I guess time will tell!

...If Choi Jung Gun doesn't have the audacity of dying on us before he can answer any questions, that is. -_-

[zharaely]

The Birth of a Hero was weird...

Putting aside the fact that it was actually written to be a guidebook for Kim Rok Soo, it was so obvious how weird The Birth of a Hero was as a 'novel' looking back, especially when you re-read the early chapters of TCF. It was weirdly detailed and descriptive about what should've been minor or unnecessary information if it was actually a novel.

For example, The Indestructible Shield, which was an ancient power that wasn't owned or found by anyone in the novel but just so happens to be in the Henituse Territory. It wasn't related at all to the main characters, but TBOAH went into detail about the ancient power's history, its original owner, its location, how to obtain it, and the response to expect once you feed the man-eating tree. I wonder whether Kim Rok Soo ever questioned why Nelan Barrow would write so much about something 'not important' while reading TBOAH, if whether or not the author just decided to ramble about world lore he made up but couldn't tie into the main story. Kim Rok Soo is better than me because I would've gotten really bored.

Also, TBOAH didn't just get into detail about the Ancient Powers either, since it also had a LOT to say about the Original Cale Henituse, his family, and the territory in general. From the very beginning, when Kim Rok Soo wakes up in the body of Cale Henituse, he goes to the bathroom to find the full body mirror the Original Cale Henituse had that was mentioned in the novel. That is INCREDIBLY random information to mention about a minor villain whose sole purpose was to get beaten up by the protagonist. But it doesn't happen just once. When Cale asks Deruth for an allowance, he recalls that the Original Cale also received a large allowance but the exact amount was never mentioned in the novel. Later on, when Ron serves Cale lemonade instead of cold water, he recalls again how the Original Cale hated sour things just like himself.

If he really was inside of the novel, he knew that there should be a large mirror inside.

As expected, the full body mirror was inside the bathroom. Cale Henituse, who had a lot of interest in his appearance and physique, had this mirror set up in here. Nobody else in the household had such a mirror.

The novel did mention that Cale received a large allowance, but it did not mention the exact amount. However, he could realistically understand how large it was based on the amount listed on the cheque.

He really is an insidious man. He knows that, just like Kim Rok Soo, the original Cale hates sour things. But he still chose to bring lemonade, which would take more work to prepare than cold water. [...]

It's pretty obvious by now that TBOAH went deeper into the Original Cale Henituse's character than a normal novel should have in just the first volume, like how he despised gangsters and scammers or how he had horrible aim when drunk, and his relationships with Ron and his family. Kim Rok Soo would recall reading about flashbacks to Cale being woken up by a servant that wasn't Ron which led to a ton of swearing, Cale breaking everything at his spot in the bar once, and Cale getting a scar on his side while drinking the night before meeting Choi Han. The novel also mentioned things that no one else but the Original Cale Henituse knew about, such as how he had high alcohol tolerance but just flushed easily which made people assume he was lightweight. if I were the one reading TBOAH, I would've started to wonder whether the author was planning to make Cale Henituse an important character later on (and maybe he was, but there were only 5 volumes).

The Henituse Family wasn't mentioned as much as Cale was, except for how people pushed the 15-year-old Basen to be the head of the family and how Basen started acting as the family's successor since 2 years ago, but it's odd enough that Nelan Barrow decided to describe characters that Choi Han never even meets (if we assume he only encounters Cale and Deruth and no one else in the family). There were even descriptions of the slums in the Henituse Territory and the Henituse Family business, like???

All of it further cements the fact that The Birth of a Hero was very much a guidebook written for Kim Rok Soo, who was going to swap bodies with Cale Henituse, and to help him adjust to his new life and plan for the future. The novel was fucking suspicious from the start!!!

[fallen6253]

OOhhhhhh....

I think I just realized why The Birth of a Hero has so many plot holes.

The guy literally could not mention the main antagonist.

Any time that came up, it had to be described as ambiguously as possible.

Because balance has rules for that kind of thing.

So, the censorship was the only way to get that guidebook to the would-be transmigrator without the God of Balance setting them all on fire. Like probability clauses in Star Stream censoring spoilers in ORV.

Does this sound plausible? It explains why they're never directly mentioned, and why there would be so many misleading lines and plot holes. Because if he had to avoid revealing too much, that would mean rewriting a lot of the truth into a somewhat unreliable narrative.

Was this mentioned in the later chapters yet? I haven't read those.