#owl idk if this is what you asked for but uh I like endling | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

strawberry-seal77 · 1 year

Note

What’s Endling even about? *Hands you a ticket that says ‘Insert Rant (/pos) here*

OHOHO A RANT TICKET YOU SAY WELL

Fair warning, this is a 3 book series, so uh itll be long I'll split the books into different posts maybe

Also there's death. Like a good amount of it

Endling (as it starts) is about a Dairne named Byx!

Dairnes are like dogs, but are bipedal, have thumbs, and have glissaries (bits for gliding).

They're one of the 9 leading species, which are those that can both perform theurgy (magic) and speak common tongue.

Byx, like any other of her species, can tell truth from lies, in the same way you can hear when a note is off in a scale. If someone does not believe what they're saying, a dairne can tell.

And this makes Dairnes dangerous.

(rant continues below hehe)

The books start in a place called Neddara, bordering Dreyland as well as a large ocean

And the Murando, the ruler in an England sort of way, is trying to exterminate Dairnes. Lying is no good when a dog can call you out, yeah?

(this is introduced really well, by showing how Dairnes have changed from their traditional life of nesting in trees and living diurnally, so nocturnal and constantly moving in hiding.)

so anyways Byx is the runt of her litter, the weakest, always distracted. And she wanders off into a nearby forest. She's never seen the ocean before, just a quickkk peak!

She hears a classic dairne call, but catches a falseness in it. Continuing on, she sees the super cool view of the ocean! And also a band of hunters! Whoops!

So anyways theres just a WOBBYK in a TINY BOAT which is gonna SMASH INTO THE ROCKS OH NO

Byx, on one side hunters, on the other a hungry ocean, takes a leap of faith and grabs the wobbyk, using the force of her dive to just BARELY make it to another landing place. Sadly, the hunters saw.

(side note, wobbyks are these guys)

gonna move quicker soon I swear

ANYWAYS

Turns out the Wobbyk is named Tobble! Also the hunter's pathfinder sees them through a bush and does a little thing called not snitching.

They run back to Byx's pack but OOPS all dead! Murando soldiers, in uniform (obviously on the clock) murdered them!

Byx is obviously distraught, angry and devastated and guilty and a lot of other stuff! However no time for that! there's an arrow in her side! the hunting group's little pathfinder boy has caught 'er, and is taking Byx! Oh no!

Blah blah, tied up on a horse, cutting the arrow out (it was barbed 3:), going back to a cave. The dairne and human get aquainted.

Human's named Khara, weird name for a boy, right? THATS BECAUSE SHE ISNT :D. Classic crossdressing in medieval times to get a job.

Byx tries to escape with Tobble, gets captured by snakes, Khara saves them with the bargain that Byx needs to not try to escape again, and they're on their way!

hehe okay now we'll be a bit more zoomed out

So they get going to La Cora Di Schola (aka the heart of scholars, bc it's shaped like a human heart) And waddaya know, there's a eulogy! For dairnes! A 'mourning' (psscht, more like celebration) for the death of Dairnes. Which is a bit conflicted considering Byx is a dairns

So they go to meet this one scientist, but he's actually chaotic neutral so he tries to have Byx killed so she doesnt crash the Eulogy. She meets Gambler (Felivet, pretty much a panther) and they escape and crash the party. Also Khara and some apprentice pretend to be in love to escape guards.

Everyone's on the run, eventually they get to the Murando. they get put in prison btw, because the apprentice was a meanyhead and tattled to the Murando.

Byx does a thing called Lying to the authorities (good for her) and gets them a royal guard to go find more dairnes. Which is good bc there's a knight with living fire as a friend trying to kill them.

They get the fire knight and the other guys to fight, and run away. Back to adventure, yippee! btw they're looking for this one living island because it's where they think they can find more Dairnes. Anyways they get really really close to finding it

but then the fucking fire guy with his stupid fire magic is STILL following them, so they build a trap in record time and he falls into it because he's showy and burned down a vine wall before looking past it. he falls on spikes and dies :3

Tobble gets his tail braiding ceremony, a show of respect when a wobbyx performs an act of bravery. He's really happy!

Anyways that's as far as I for about 2 years, because my school library only had book 1. And then I got back into it recently, I'll explain more if you want :3

Also im making an entire other post for Khara because I want to >:3

#death tw #death #animal death #all the things im warning for are under the cut btw #katherine applegate endling #khara is getting her own post because shes just cool like that #owl idk if this is what you asked for but uh I like endling

3 notes · View notes