Tag: the witch of lurago

Here’s where I confess Brynmohr was and is one of my favorite characters of the entire series. Because he was wrong. Did wrong. Knew he was wrong to do wrong. But much of what he did stemmed from being unprepared to step into his brother’s role. He was still...

Rhad am Rhynni Free Rhynn The quietly spoken Aurelic declaration goes all the way back to book one. Then it gave voice to the difficult choice they had to make between war and peace, between freedom and survival. King Walter and the Rhiem of Rhynn chose survival. They lived...

The trio of spirit animals become increasingly significant characters in the Rootstock Saga. Yonah, the White Wolf Fia, the small White Dragon (or sometimes Cat) The White Lion, as yet unnamed The trio first appear to Mouse when she’s a young girl. Only she can see them. Why? Because...

How many times did you want to grab Nigel by the shoulders and shake him because he hadn’t killed off Deighton yet? Nigel, you’re the Dawnguard’s top agent. You’re sleeping with its greatest assassin. You have a network of shady associates who do your bidding. Why Nigel? Why is...

Rootstock Saga weaves a great, big, sprawling tapestry of cultures. Patriarchal and matriarchal. Monogamous and polygamous. Colonialists and isolationists. Monarchies and confederacies. One god, the Father. One god, the Mother. And old gods aplenty. But not one of the cultures depicted can lay claim to being the Utopia of...

Nigel and Deighton are both Firstborn nenes in disguise. Their reasons for leaving Twelvestones and blending into man’s society are the same… survival of their race. But their tactics could not be more different. Prince Nihyllen o’Berwyn walked away from his inheritance and joined the Dawnguard when Rotharia convinced...

Sensitivity and inclusiveness in writing has been a trending topic for authors and publishers for a while now, and rightly so. With the viral debate over novels such as American Dirt and The Continent, being mindful of how we write characters different from ourselves is at the forefront of...

Malatchee leads Tobias on an arduous trek to an eagle-shaped effigy mound in The Witch of Lurago. The story he tells of the thunder birds is the same as Tybetha told Nigel in Path of the Spirit Runner. Malatchee and Tobias speculate on whether they might be the brothers the...

Several characters have referenced the Barrens and never in a good way. So where and what are the Barrens? As you know by now, Rootstock Saga is set on a future earth. Land masses and oceans have shifted from their present day geographical coordinates, shoreline shapes, and elevation. But...

In Path of the Spirit Runner, Esfir has her eureka moment and comes to understand the nature of the Patterns, the second mindgift unique to the Firstborn. “The Firstborn, Fedor. They sense it.” “They sense what?” “Probability,” she said as if that explained it all. “The patterns they keep...