I NEED This Interaction In An Actual Fantasy Book

I NEED this interaction in an actual fantasy book

It would make my day

I don't think fantasy writers play enough with the concept of the different fantasy races having distinct ethnicities. Like imagine a group of mixed peoples, where the dwarves are all roasting each other like dwarves do, and one of them remarks that when he first saw one of the other dwarves in the group, he mistook her for a man. The other dwarves in the group blink in surprise - the closest that dwarves will go to an audible gasp of shock - and she pulls out a knife and tries to stab him.

Once the dwarves have been separated from each other and the situation has calmed, one of the humans asks another dwarf what that incident was about. Naturally a human woman would have been insulted too, but dwarves are so jovial about insulting each other, why was this matter different?

And the dwarf who was asked explains that there are things you can brutally insult another dwarf about, and there are things you simply do not touch. The dwarf-woman in question is from a completely different region of The Great Underground as the others, and her people have different norms about what kind of patterns men and women braid into their beards. The dwarf insulting her wasn't only insulting her appearance, he was being racist.

The human is surprised to learn that dwarves have different peoples, and the dwarf looks at them like at an idiot. Of course they do, they even look completely different from each other. And the human listens as the dwarf lists off various distinguishing clothing details too nuanced for a human to notice, and then how dwarves coming from different corners of the world have different physical traits, according to what kind of conditions their local stone types dictate.

The human spots a connection and goes oh! We have that too, though ours are not about rock types and tunnel air, but the weather aboveground. Humans' facial features vary by how hot, cold, arid or windy their ancestors' homelands were, and our skin tone varies by how much the sun shines in their native region.

The dwarf frowns at the last part, going "I thought you people just paint your skin and dye your hair for fun", and the human admits that yeah, we do that too, but not all the time, and not the whole skin. The dwarf asks, what of that tall woman the colour of dravite, her palms and the soles of her feet were lighter than the rest of her. Does that mean she paints herself dark to be more beautiful?

The human says no, that just happens naturally. Maybe it's because one's palms and feet aren't exposed to the sun as much, so they are paler.

The dwarf nods, still unsure whether this is actually legit or just the human habit of lying for fun, and proceeds to ask about the wild northman of their party. He is as pale as an olm, but the palms of his hands and the soles of his feet are dark. Are they painted, or naturally that way?

No, the human answers. That guy just doesn't bathe.

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1 month ago

And I say amen to that

The Holy Trinity
The Holy Trinity
The Holy Trinity

the holy trinity

1 month ago

Shoutout to Jean dropping “stupid, beautiful Kevin” on us because he ate with that. That’s exactly what Kevin is, both stupid and beautiful. Amazing, descriptive, heartbreaking, straight to the point. I haven’t stopped thinking about it. Stupid, beautiful Kevin indeed

1 month ago

Neil would be like: bitch, I had to feel it in my skin (and under it), now yall have to at least see it

Not getting traumatized alone right here

You ever think that in the AFTG universe there would definitely be a horror movie villain that is based off of Nathan and all the fucked up shit he did as 'The Butcher of Baltimore'.

Like the Foxes find out one is getting made and are doing everything in their power to stop Neil from finding out about it because shit with his dad is just super traumatic right?

Until one day a reporter asks him how he feels about the upcoming movie that is just so obviously based on what shit his dad used to get up to and he's just like "I mean I gave that guy the movie rights because he's right Nathan should get to traumatize everyone. It's not fair that I was keeping it all for myself." before he walks off.

1 month ago

Just yes, absolutely just yes

This Quote Was Too Agathario To Pass Up 🩸
This Quote Was Too Agathario To Pass Up 🩸

This quote was too Agathario to pass up 🩸

1 month ago

MY GOD! YOU JUST TRANSLATED INTO WORDS WHAT I FEEL EVERYTIME SOMEONE ASKS ME WHAT I WANT!!

Like, I dont want to make another person not eat something the REALLY want bc of something I mildly want

I hate when people ask me about my preference but I don’t understand their preference level. Like yes I kinda want Chinese food 10% more than I want a sandwich but if you want a sandwich like 40% more than Chinese food then I would say it’s totally reasonable we get sandwiches.

1 month ago

This physically hurted me😭

I don't think we talk enough about:

“She prayed for a dragon to save her.”

“Not a prince?”

“A dragon could tear our house apart to free her and carry her far away.”

This line made me feel physical pain

1 month ago

Kay, so obviously we’re never getting an AFTG tv show, but can you imagine the comedic gold of some of it being shot in the mockumentary style as “The Office”

Like, obviously not the more traumatic or gory scenes, but, like the first tv interview with Kathy? The “you know I get it” speech? Getting everyone’s first thoughts on Neil joining the team? Watching Wymack realize that Andriel is a thing? Do you see the vision

1 month ago

And thats why he is my fave, dude is a literal menace

Also, Aaron absolutely not reacting to Neil throwing sh*t at him is so funny. Unbothered king

my favorite scene in all of literature is when Neil Josten wakes up in Columbia after being drugged, hurls an alarm clock at Aaron, dumps his water on the floor and throws the cup at Aaron, stuff his clothes down the toilet and squeezes out through the window, has the foresight to call Matt from a pay phone to protect his shit, hitch hikes back to campus, eyes back to brown?? shows up on Wymack’s door like 😜 and reveals he could speak German the whole time?? CHARACTER OF ALL TIME, that is a protagonist who knows how MOVE THE MFING PLOT ALONG

1 month ago

Neil’s eyes, the color of the sky. Jean’s, the moon that dwells there. A forever partner, forever misplaced. These two make me sick

1 month ago

Like, how did they think that the same Kevin that got white as a ghost when he saw Riko at Kathy's program would serve this amount of cunt to Riko???

My poor boy took almost two years to be brave enough to cover that pathetic face tattoo, he definitely wouldnt be running around recruiting runaway backliners just to provoke Riko

I think that this mostly serves as a way to show how egocentric Riko was, and how this mentality would also contaminate others around him. Riko knew Kevin was f-ing scared of him, and he clearly had a lot of fun on the Kathy's show and banquets making Kevin feel afraid. But he just couldnt accept Kevin was his own person and would do things bc he wanted/believed they were right. So if he recruited Nathaniel off course it was on porpuose only to taunt him, bc off course he is the center of the world and all Kevin's actions must be related to him

Actually hilarious to me that Riko & co. thought that Kevin went out and recruited Neil Josten aka Nathaniel Wesninski aka The Butcher's son ON PURPOSE

They really thought my guy went "you took my hand? Well I'm taking your runaway backliner who's been missing for the past eight years." And that he went and did it BY HIMSELF in FOUR MONTHS

I know Kevin is and has always been That Bitch™, but he could never dream to serve the amount of cunt Riko thought him capable of when he first got the lab results back from Kathy's show. No wonder they were so mad lol

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