#burchard of stone mountain

[dr-dendritic-trees]

I think the thing that makes Joren so unnerving, is how little there is of him.

Wyldon and Duke Tirrsmount are obviously sexist, but they don't turn into villains and in fact, are able to support Kel in the end, because they have other values as well. For instance.

Pierce is a nuanced writer, including her villains, so most of the serious misbehaviour has something underneath it.

Its not always a good something. Yolane and Roger are Like That because they want the crown. Even Blayce gets real practical benefits from serving the Maggur making killing devices (in addition to being a total and complete creep). Ozorne's a whole kettle of fish but even if I restrict myself to information available before 1997 he's three years into a famine when Wild Mage starts. He isn't just having fun evil time.

Even when Burchard of Stone Mountain is in Kel's room screaming at her, his grief and distress are clearly real, even if what he's doing about them is disgusting.

Joren... there's nothing. There's not a scene he's in, other than very incidentally, where he isn't either bullying someone or scheming to ruin Kel's life (and eventually to kill her, because I don't think the Chamber would have killed him if he hadn't meant that seriously). And he get's nothing from that. There isn't a single tangible benefit to him if Kel doesn't get her shield.

[goodgrammaritan]

Is there anything more iconic than Buriram Tourakom, commander of the Queen's Riders, referring to Burchard of Stone Mountain (Joren's father) as "Lord Fartface"?

[quietflorilegium]

"In her time as a squire she had seen more of [the realm] than most people knew existed, from the damp and mossy streets of Pearlmouth to Northwatch Fortress. She had hunted pirates in the west, built up dams against floods in the east. Mountains, green valleys, desert -- she had ridden or walked in them all, measuring them with blisters and grit. Was this what was meant by 'the realm'? Or was it other things: a little girl with a muddy doll, Burchard of Stone Mountain livid with grief and rage, a king who admitted a law was wrong, Lalasa in her bustling shop with pins in her mouth. If they were the realm, then so were griffins, sparrows, dogs ugly and beautiful, Stormwings, foul- and sweet-tempered horses, spidrens. If she owed duty to the realm, then it was not the dry, withered thing it sounded in people's mouths. Duty was what was owed, good parts and bad, to keep the realm growing, to keep it as fair as life could be kept. Duty was an old man, snug in his fur-lined robe, snoring lightly somewhere behind her."

Tamora Pierce, “Squire”

[forestangelwrites]

Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Tortall - Tamora Pierce, PIERCE Tamora - Works
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Original Female Character(s), Joren of Stone Mountain, Burchard of Stone Mountain, Harailt of Aili, Maura of Dunlath, Keladry of Mindelan, Thayet jian Wilima, Ilane of Mindelan
Additional Tags: Self-Insert, Worldbuilding, Headcanon
Series: Part 1 of The Wishbone Collection
Summary: Twenty Truths about Althea of Stone Mountain OR A modern girl’s guide to surviving Tortall as a noble lady from a Conservative fief.

[ao3feed-tamorapierce]

One Equal Temper

read it on the AO3 at http://ift.tt/2gk2D1t

by Verasque

Stories of Tortall and its controversial monarchs, Jonathan IV and Alanna the Lioness.

Words: 560, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Fandoms: Tortall - Tamora Pierce

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: F/M, Gen, Multi, Other

Characters: Alanna of Pirate's Swoop and Olau, Jonathan of Conté, Veralidaine Sarrasri, Raoul of Goldenlake and Malorie's Peak, Onua Chamtong, Gimlyn of Naxen, Keladry of Mindelan, Nealan of Queenscove, Wyldon of Cavall, Padraig haMinch, Burchard of Stone Mountain, Thayet jian Wilima, Gary of Naxen

Relationships: Alanna of Pirate's Swoop and Olau/Jonathan of Conté

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence

read it on the AO3 at http://ift.tt/2gk2D1t

[xueyangapologist]

absolutely the best moment in keladry's whole series is when burchard of stone mountain bursts through kel's door to attack her and raoul smashes into her room in his underwear carrying his sword, simultaneously revealing that he's been banging buri and showing extreme anger for literally the only time in kel's whole series, in kel's defence. not to mention that kel does not have any reaction to him and buri, at all. and then he casually hints at a past drinking problem, tells kel she's changing the world, and goes back to bed with buri. fucking legendary.

[ao3feed-tamorapierce]

Ain't About How Fast I Get There (It’s the Climb)

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by ForestAngel

Twenty Truths about Althea of Stone Mountain OR A modern girl's guide to surviving Tortall as a noble lady from a Conservative fief.

Words: 4978, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 1 of The Wishbone Collection

Fandoms: Tortall - Tamora Pierce, PIERCE Tamora - Works

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: Gen

Characters: Original Female Character(s), Joren of Stone Mountain, Burchard of Stone Mountain, Harailt of Aili, Maura of Dunlath, Keladry of Mindelan, Thayet jian Wilima, Ilane of Mindelan

Additional Tags: Self-Insert, Worldbuilding, Headcanon

read it on the AO3 at http://ift.tt/2xIfNti