Reading the Craft Sequence makes me wish silver tattoo ink existed.
@starkatt Aaaah which book are you on.
@indi Four Roads Cross :)
@starkatt Nice. :) I've only read the first two (by pub date) Probably gonna read Full Fathom Five really soon now.
I wouldn't go for the silver tattoo ink myself though; I'm... almost certainly more Team Theists than Team Craftsmen. c.c;
@starkatt Though more to the point I desperately want to hear more about Caleb's efforts; the end of Two Serpents Rise gave me big time happy feelings.
@indi 2SR: "Is magical capitalism an acceptable alternative to institutional ritual human sacrifice? The answer might surprise you!"
@indi ...sorry I just find it super entertaining that I can condense that book into a clickbait title :D
@starkatt No, yeah, that's pretty great. As I said to Elanna while reading it: "These are hitting me so hard because they take all the subtext of my spirituality and basically make it into text" ;)
@indi It's interesting for me in part because I do feel pretty drawn towards the ideal of Craftswoman, and find the metaphor space there really attractive. One of the interesting tensions through the series is the interplay between their more human and more inhuman sides.
@indi Drawing power from starlight, using knives made of lighting, etc. There's a part of me that those all really appeal to.
@starkatt I do also want to hear more about how priests worked with gods, because I hardly ever see things that try to directly face up to 'gods do horrible things but people still want to preserve them, why/how?'. Whether you take that directly, or use 'gods' as a stand in for 'nature/the Earth', it still feels like something that modern paganism/environmentalism doesn't always focus on much.
@indi @starkatt Sliding into this late, but good to see other folks enjoying this series!
I read the first one a while back, then mainlined the next three, and read the fifth one not too long after that, so they all got woven together into a really neat tapestry.
Indi: As far as the priesthood stuff, you get a lot of that in the fifth book, which features Caleb's father.
@starkatt Yeah, it's Kai-viewpoint, and in an Iskari-occupied city: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31433704-the-ruin-of-angels
@indi I really like the author's choice to subtly lean on how unsettlingly *casual* their use of nearly-boundless power is. A way to emphasize the freakish modernity of Craft.
@starkatt Oh, yeah, I totally get that and I'm interested in reading more about them too!