#staryk

[svandendragon]

❄️The Staryk King ❄️ from the Spinning Silver story. He's the Winter Lord. Haughty, cold, often annoyed. But quite fairplay.

A new character board from the book, you can search my other wips and drawings posts about it with the tag #spinning silver⭐

[reputayswift]

SPINNING SILVER ❆ NAOMI NOVIK

❝ THERE ARE MEN WHO ARE WOLVES INSIDE, and want to eat up other people to fill their bellies. That is what was in your house with you, all your life. But here you are with your brothers, and you are not eaten up, and there is not a wolf inside you. You have fed each other, and you kept the wolf away. That is all we can do for each other in the world, to keep the wolf away. ❞

[lordgrimwing]

If you're warm, they're warm.

Leave your staryk outside this winter.

[ekbelsher]

I finally painted the Mireym + Staryk king icy glare contest. Did Naomi Novik know, when she designed a character with white hair, white skin and an all-white outfit, what that would mean in terms of aesthetics? I tried my best to make him mysterious and sexy, but he still ended up looking like a fae version of Mr Clean

[nighttimepatrons]

Some Staryk mounts. These ones are based on mule deer.

Since deer don't have upper front teeth I choose to believe the fangs come from the lower jaw

[andreai04]

I was colder inside than out.

“That's not nothing, to be able to hold your head up."

I wanted to ease the moment past. The temptation was familiar: to go along, to make myself small enough to slip past a looming danger.

But it was all the same choice, every time. The choice between the one death and all the little ones.

I couldn’t buy my life in the last moment, with hands around my throat. I could only buy it by giving in sooner, giving in all the time, like Scheherazade, humbling asking my murderous husband to go on sparing me night after night.

“My father could avenge my murder, but he couldn’t keep me from my husband.”

[rosieelfgirl]

The Lord of The White Forest

Did a lil painting of how I picture the Staryk King from one of my favourite books, Spinning Silver by the amazing Naomi Novik

[mythosblogging]

Manuscript vs Myth: Spinning Silver

We take a look at the fairy tale influences behind Naomi Novik’s enchanting, Rumpelstiltskin-inspired novel, Spinning Silver.

Inspired by her own family’s history as Lithuanian and Polish immigrants to America, Naomi Novik’s ‘Spinning Silver’ reimagines the fairy tale of ‘Rumpelstiltskin’ (amongst others) to create a vibrant and mysterious Polish-inspired fantasy world. In this world, only a silver-spinning Jew named Miryem, a Tsarina named Irina, and a debtor named Wanda can save the fictitious kingdom of Lithvas from falling to either fire or ice.

Miryem is the daughter of a moneylender – and a poor one. Her father’s generosity and unwillingness to actually claim back the money he lends has left their family destitute. With a harsh winter and her mother growing ill, Miryem takes up her father’s duty and his books, collecting the money her family is owed.

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