Right! Character recap has been posted! Here are my notes of what has been said for each character, with time stamps for anyone who wants to check it out for themselves.
Some very interesting insights I think!
Halandil Fang (1:12)
- ‘handsome bard who runs the public theatre’
- ‘A successful entrepreneur of the arts, family man, and scion of the city of Dol-Makjar’
- ‘A man concerned with history and the future and finding the mortal identity in this godless world’
- ‘Real danger spot is his children. If someone really wanted to hurt Hal, it would be to go for his kids.’
-(‘I expect it. I’m waiting for it’)
- Hal & Thjazi ‘didn’t see eye to eye all the time’, ‘led very different lives as they got older, but you don’t shake off family’
- ('Responsibility')
- Thjazi was ‘trying to pass off some portion to his brother to figure out and pick up’
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Azune Nayar (2:24)
- ‘an Arcane Marshal and a keen-eyed veteran of the Falconer’s Rebellion, who was part of a failed secret plot to free Thjazi’
- ‘Azune is like clay. The people around him, and the world around him, are going to shape who he becomes.’
- ‘Not very well read’, ‘has had to learn how to read people as part of his survival’
- Focused on the ‘everyday people’
- ‘Admired Thjazi’, ‘father figure of sorts’, ‘part of Azune believes that he owed that man so much’
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Sir Julien Davinos (03:18)
- ‘Sir Julien Davinos is a person shaped by privilege, arrogance and bacchanalian embracing of his platform’
- ‘He has a lot of dangerous impulse-based in security, and insecurity, and it’s probably going to continue to get more and more dicey’
- ‘His loyalties lie really with Lady Aranessa’, one of the ‘few figures’ in his life that he can ‘really trust’
- ‘Thjazi’s path shaped a lot of his family and father’s path, let alone the path of the Sundered Houses’
-‘Heavily informed and shaped his life at a very informative age’
- He has 'somebody he has to blame’
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Wicander Halovar (04:15)
- ‘Scion of the light, true believer, fancy lad, and in way over his head’
- ‘The origins are not what he thought…was a shock’
- A 'shock' that his ‘family had actively and knowingly betrayed him for all his life’
- (Mostly 'scared and confused’)
- ‘How could so much goodness come from such a monstrous source?’
- ‘His name which he’s worn with pride…it’s not a crutch, but it is a weight’
- ‘Trying to show [Tyranny] the world and keep her safe’
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Tyranny (05:22)
- ‘party girl demon enjoying life in Araman to the fullest’
- ‘Tyranny is just a girl in the world trying her best, and she’s very led by impulse’
- 'The most unfiltered version of myself. Horny and sad.’
- ‘Araman is a feast for the senses, unlimited opportunities of things to experience, good and bad’
- ‘Tyranny does not know what it is inside of her’
-(‘It’s going to be one of those drives that is going to be pretty impossible to ignore’)
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Bolaire Lathalia 6:26
- ‘Being stuck to a body is awful and disgusting. It is aggravating and uncomfortable to have this thing on me at all times.’
- ‘What happens if you actually give a sentient weapon a bit of lead, to go off and discover themselves?’
- ‘He’s not used to being his own driving force. He’s much more comfortable being aimed at things.’
- ‘Revealing himself was a thing he had hoped to do…but not like that’
- ‘Trust is very broken. It’s a mess’
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Occtis Tachonis (07:12)
- ‘He is someone who has studied the dead, studied undeath and all of its forms…to find himself in the position of being one of them is incredibly fascinating. I’m sure there will be more and more experiments on himself coming in the future’
- ‘Pinn was his first experiment. It was his first time trying to make a thing out of dead pieces’
- 'Didn’t turn out exactly the way he wanted’
-(‘Still a few hiccoughs left in Pincushion')
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Thaisha Lloy (08:10)
- ‘Drawn to adventure and the righting the wrongs of the world with action’
- ‘Maternal, proud and cunty’
- 'Thaisha hopes she can heal lands that have been blasted in damage by the death of the Shapers, and in so doing, lead the world and the people who still miss the weight and heft of divinity, to realise that that’s always existed within the world and within themselves’
- ‘Every time she comes home…she’s constantly rocked by how much her family has changed without her’
- There's a ‘disconnect between her mission and the thing that she gave up to pursue it’
- Her and Hal were never married, but ‘family from the jump’
- Their relationship was 'about love and realising who you are, and what love opens your heart up to’
- ‘Thjazi was such a firebrand…she needed to be pushed, and he was there to do it’
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Teor Pridesire (09:26)
- ‘he arrives to find out that Cyd is part of the planning process, he is on the run, he is in danger. What is it that his younger brother was able to do, or maybe meant to Thjazi, in his time since the end of the Rebellion that Teor has not done?’
- 'What does that mean as a mirror against what he’s been doing this whole time?’
- ‘He’s been the shield for so many people for so many years, it’s second nature to him. What happens if there isn’t anyone else left to protect?’
- ‘It would take a lot to topple…someone like Thjazi’
-'Whatever machinations are unfolding, they have to be massive’
-'The only thing Teor is wondering is what is he going to be able to do in order to put a claw on the scales of justice’
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Kattigan Vale (10:34)
- ‘clean but wet dog. And maybe just. A little bit. Of man sweat’
- Wanted a 'canine companion', because they're 'man’s oldest bond, since the beginning of civilisation’
- ‘Survival and companionship…They are partners’
- ‘When things from your past, especially your rowdy past, come back into your life unexpectedly…one of two things. It can elevate you, so you can see what kind of man you’ve become, or it can drag you back down into that arrested development’
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Thimble (11:45)
- ‘Warrior pixie’, ‘badass who doesn’t take any shit’
- ‘To be whatever he would want her to be…he never looked at it like that…became her best friend…from day one’
- ‘Priority is…trying to make it right. Anybody that did this to him needs to suffer, because he is everything to her’
- ‘Maybe if I finish what Thjazi started, maybe then I’ll feel better’
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Murray Mag'Nesson: 12:48
- ‘That friend that everyone has, the first person to get sloppy at the bar, even though they are wearing designer clothes, and just as you think they’re about to hit the floor, they drop a deep philosophical quote, and you’re just like oh- I thought you were done’
- ‘The Penteveral was there for Murray when she needed a direction and drive in life’
- They believe, as she does, that 'this type of knowledge should be accessible to anyone who is willing to work hard enough for it’
Amazing news, I found the paper. An unabridged PDF of The Language of Homosexuality: an American Glossary is now mine, and as far as I have been able to tell, is out of copyright, so I can make it available to everyone on here by sharing the PDF so you nobody else has to go on a grand adventure to read it.
