Don't Worry About the Plague

A blog dedicated to rambling about the Silvereye & Burningblade series by Django Wexler.

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Hello all! I'll keep this short.

This blog will be dedicated to all things Silvereye & Burningblade. Aesthetic, lots of ramblings about the series, headcanons, and also my own fan-fiction if I ever get around to writing them.

I'll tag for the appropriate book(s) if spoilers are inbound, but I'm not the kind to wear kid gloves about my content, so read at your peril if you haven't read the books before.

To the half-dozen of other fans of this series on the internet, I salute you!

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Hi, I drew Gyre as I see him :)

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Thinking about Blood of the Chosen and SPOILERS below this line in case you haven't read:

The Va'aht vs. Gyre story-line felt incredibly trope-y and forced, in my opinion. We never learn much about Va'aht's character besides the fact that he's the epitome of Centarch supremacy fuckassery, and that he's a sadist? Fill-in-the-blank antagonist with very little driving force and someone who isn't really all that threatening to the protagonists - his biggest 'victory' was over a literal child, so-

In the 3 meetings across both BotC and EoR, Gyre gets the upper-hand on Va'aht after exchanging some pretty cheesy barbs at each other before he ends up dying to fulfill Gyre's "revenge arc" that is hardly stated in the novels?

Not to mention, he basically volunteers to become a host for one of Ashok's dhakim-parasites? Because... superior race power BS etc?? Yet, keeps his own personality unlike every other individual who has been under Ashok's control in the story??

He feels like an empty antagonist when he didn't really have to be. Despite being directly involved in the genesis of the story's conflict, him and Maya have essentially no resolution to the fact that he kidnapped her from her family, and his connection with Gyre is basically to be a punching bag.

If Va'aht had risen to the rank of Kyriliarch to replace the seat vacated with the death of Nicomidi, I feel like he instantly has more plot relevance, working in concert with Basel to manipulate the return of Ashok. But instead, he's just a well-tenured, mid-ranking centarch with a brutal streak who's only contribution to the story post-chapter 1 is to do what 2 or 3 other characters in the story are already doing, but better.

He is not my only gripe with books 2 and 3, but Va'aht stands out as a character who SHOULD have been much better, given the setup of the story.

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A little while ago, I attempted to translate some protagonist appearances' in Heroforge for the main books. I guess this could be considered my head-canon for their appearances, and it seemed only natural to post them!

Of course, the website does have some limitations in terms of costumes, so I did what i could with the available tools.

Here they are below:

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"What are you mixing?" "Dunno." "What's it going to do?" "Not sure." "Is it safe?" "We'll find out!" - Django Wexler: 'Ashes of the Sun'

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On a side note, while I find the romance in the books fairly surface level and a bit unexplored, have some suggestions for ship names! Every fandom needs ‘em!

Canon

Gyre and Kit - Silver Seeker

Maya and Beq - Beqya

Elariel and Sarah - Phantom Limb

Gyre and Apphia - Lightning Thieves

Non-Canon

Maya and Tanax - Tanya

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To-Do List

-> character analyses (Gyre, Maya, The Corruptor, Kit and Tanax being the first to look into)

-> discussing the Centarch political system (and why it literally doesn’t matter)

-> what happened to Nevin (seriously can somebody tell me about what Nevin’s existence in the story was for?)

-> the complicated reality of Vulpi

-> lots and lots of headcanons

-> why the ending of EoR felt unsatisfactory to me

amongst other things