- Survivors of a demon attack had a way of dying soon after
- Selia Barren?
- It's pleasing to know what Graig thinks of me after all these years
- Thought.. he's dead
- Letters are all we have of them
- We cannot tell the rain when to come, nor the wind, nor the cold
- Free cities don't give their women much voice
- Jongleur's job is to entertain the kids while parents clean up coreling destruction - interesting concept shows Peter V Brett's understanding of parenting
- Also interesting concept of Messengers trained to deal with corelings on the road and fear
- I called Selia Barren to her face this morning. That's twice. Rusco Hog
- Rusco making a tidy profit, giving everyone the option to trade everyday
- Good Marsh rice
- Hog cheats kids of gold pieces and trades for a carved wood game. Laughed heartily when miller thanked him
- No death price for Messenger dying at home
- My guild brothers and I have sworn that she won't become a beggar
- Laktonians are safe from non water demons
- Great wards are lost.. Men want to fight
- Ignorance of Arlen and a great big world with 5 kingdoms
- Cobie ent a rock demon
- Scared to die, scared to live. Should have died fighting
- Age of science
- After 3000 years no one believed they existed - we forgot magic and were unprepared
- Arlen knew his father was ashamed. Arlen could find no sympathy. His mother had paid the price for his father's cowardice.
- We's promised now. Renna
- You've already got someone to take care of your thingie! At least, until she gets killed too, because you're too scared to help her
- Arlen, I'm sorry...!
- Succor
- Howled with delight
- Arlen is braver
- I think Arlen is going to draw wards on his body like tattoos and it'll be a secret from the Age of ignorance
- I just realised what the main character will do in the future from the book's cover and it's pretty cool now that I realise what it's about
- The crone lives because of her you idiot
- She wished her father would stand up to her (Elona) for once
- Erny hung his head
- Besides they'd probably give her back
- Science as much as magic
- Choose a book. Any book. I'll show you what else the world can offer
- The hag's ears are still sharp
- Keep your manhood slack for of year
- Being village healer is more than brewing Potions
- Bruna
- Elona hypocrite
- We are what we choose to be girl. Let others determine your worth, and you've already lost, because no one wants people worth more than themselves.
- Leesha
- Enjoy the fruits of your lie because I'll give myself to the night before I let you make it a reality
- I never could sunlight. I'll always love you as well.
- Her father the only friend she had left in the world
- Even holy men are men
- Secrets of science
- Did you take Leesha's flower? Speak up!
- And I hope one day to make you proud of me, as well
- Backstories and seeing each of their worldview break, which causes them to turn into their main character trope, are pretty cool
- Clear main character roles vs sprawling Wheel of Time mystery where bunch of characters are thrown into chaos and it's not clear who is who
- A central theme in the warded (painted) man is that evil reigns when men are silent or weak but in the literal sense of males
- Arrick the coward and Piter the negligent warder
- His mother could have been cured by a weed he regularly pulled from Jeph's field? It was just too much
- Quick to laugh, held no grudges, but he demanded respect and let you know where you stood
- Graig died a Messenger, the guild's ruling be damned
- Of course not! An offended duke can make a man's life difficult but not half so much as an offended wife!
- Euchor only cares about gold coal lost combat wards
- The boy's wards cut the arm off a rock demon
- But it's clear she wants the job. Would it be so bad to let her have it?
- He admitted to himself if no one else he was beginning to like Lady Elissa fussing over him
- Arlen confronts Keerin
- If this is what I want, I have to work harder.
- "For he shall be marked upon his bare flesh and the demons will not abide the sight" - that must be Arlen
- Erny refused to see his daughter live in squalor, sent carpenters
- We don't do things so quickly in the hollow but you may carry my basket
- Hurting with herbs is easy, it's healing with them that's hard
- Swapping apprentices
- Pack your things and say your goodbyes. You'll bring that advice to Jizell personally.
- Bruna's eyes were wet. You've mastered all I can teach you, girl, so let these years be my last gift to you. Go, see and learn as much as you can.
- They can be stupid and wilful, but there's good in them, when the night is dark
- The entire town and Erny was waiting for her
- Cob isn't young and loves you like a son. Would it be such a curse to take over his shop and marry that pretty girl I've seen you with?
- We have nothing more to say
- I think he's trying to desperately feel alive
- The moments I had with him were worth all the ones apart.
- I think the risk of losing his life made him appreciate how precious it is, and sparked an instinct in him that would never allow him to die
- I'm sorry I could not be what everyone wanted.
- I don't care! I have to try!
- All she wanted now was to find him before he left and tell him that she loved him and that she found continue loving him no matter what he chose to do.
- Creator, Arlen. Of course I understand
- Then he wept
- One day I wish to see the land that makes noble men like the son of Jeph
- By night my enemy becomes my brother
- Krasia part too closely aligned with Arabia?
- I was meant to die a long time ago, and everyone that tries to save me ends up dead
- I'll take my chances. We survivors need to look out for one another
- Rojer and Leesha random
- There's no need for sexual content
- She wanted to throw down the spear and wrap him in her arms
- Leesha wanted to scream
- It's coincidence then that you showed up in our hour of need?
- It is not you that should fear them, Benn the glass blower! It is they that should fear you!
- All of you are Deliverers.
- Wards tapped into the demons magic using the corelings own power against them
- Loved this book but wish Leesha had been left alone and not ravished. Also think it was a bit sudden how Arlen Leesha and Rojer collided into each other's paths
- 4.8-4.9/5
This used to be a site dedicated to Board, Card and Party Game reviews but, in the end, I realised that there are plenty of other things to talk about =)
Sunday, 1 November 2026
The Warded Man (Demon Cycle #1, Peter V Brett)
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