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| Berkthgar |
Posted - 16 Aug 2014 : 20:52:02
Have you ever come across a passage that has actually made you cry or made you emotional?
The two that come to mind is the story of how guen came to be. Truly sad
The other is when zaknafeins ghost appears at the end of passage to dawn.
Too sad to describe
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| Berkthgar |
Posted - 20 Aug 2014 : 06:22:49
The realms books, especially the early ones like the crystal shard makes me yearn for a setting such as that.
I wish Bethesda studios made a forgotten realms game.
Alas, I will bide my time with reading |
| Seravin |
Posted - 20 Aug 2014 : 02:14:55
Flint's death got to me in Dragonlance. But I was pretty young at the time and may have been overtired from staying up all night reading....
Sadly (pun), none of the Realms books have affected me like this, even though I very much enjoy them. I think I'd just get mad if a character I liked died, not sad. |
| BEAST |
Posted - 19 Aug 2014 : 21:03:57
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
That said, those books are just emotionally brutal to get thru, and I had to take a few months' break after reading the first three. I was very saddened to read about Ned Stark's death[...].
I still haven't read them. I only watched the show. But I actually wasn't all that upset with Ned's death. Sure, I could tell he was supposed to be the hero that first season/book.
But you don't kill sweet, cuddly doggies. You just don't.
I still can't stand Sansa, though, even though I pity her pup. |
| Wooly Rupert |
Posted - 19 Aug 2014 : 18:00:27
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Originally posted by Krafus
If we're including all fantasy novels, then the Red Wedding in George R.R. Martin's A Storm of Swords. After reading it, I had to put down the book for a minute or two to gather my wits. Then I reread the whole chapter, hoping that somehow the terrible words would change. Sadly, it didn't happen.
If we're only including FR novels... not really. There's a couple of passages in various novels that have made me happy or sad, sure, but none that caused a deep emotional reaction like the one I had to the Red Wedding.
The Red Wedding was upsetting, but it wasn't anywhere near the deaths of Sturm or Flint, for me... That said, those books are just emotionally brutal to get thru, and I had to take a few months' break after reading the first three. I was very saddened to read about Ned Stark's death, and it upset me when it appeared that Theon had killed Bran and Rickard. I'm actually still unsure which is worse -- what he did, or what we initially thought he did.
Reading those books is emotionally wearying for me, because there are just so many bad things happening, often to decent folk. Because reading those books is rough, they are going to be an exception to one of my normal practices. Usually, with an ongoing series, I like to reread the prior books when a new one comes out. I can't put myself thru that, with the Song of Ice and Fire, though... I figure that Martin will finish the series around the time my now 3 year old is ready to read them, and some time after that, I'll subject myself to reading the whole series at once. |
| charger_ss24 |
Posted - 19 Aug 2014 : 17:24:30
There aren't many, but a couple that stirred my emotions have already been listed. One that hasn't been yet mentioned was when Drizzt found Nojheim hanging from the cross-pole after returning from Silverymoon for legal advice about the slavery of the goblin in "The Dark Mirror". |
| Krafus |
Posted - 19 Aug 2014 : 15:13:36
If we're including all fantasy novels, then the Red Wedding in George R.R. Martin's A Storm of Swords. After reading it, I had to put down the book for a minute or two to gather my wits. Then I reread the whole chapter, hoping that somehow the terrible words would change. Sadly, it didn't happen.
If we're only including FR novels... not really. There's a couple of passages in various novels that have made me happy or sad, sure, but none that caused a deep emotional reaction like the one I had to the Red Wedding. |
| BEAST |
Posted - 18 Aug 2014 : 18:25:35
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Originally posted by Irennan
I think that Eilistraee is more likely to do that. I mean, it's part of what she's about...
Somehow, I don't think ol' boy Zak would mind too terribly much seeing him some nekkid dancin' elf girls... |
| Irennan |
Posted - 18 Aug 2014 : 15:43:02
I think that Eilistraee is more likely to do that. I mean, it's part of what she's about... |
| Eilserus |
Posted - 18 Aug 2014 : 14:23:59
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Originally posted by CorellonsDevout
quote:
Originally posted by Berkthgar
Have you ever come across a passage that has actually made you cry or made you emotional?
The two that come to mind is the story of how guen came to be. Truly sad
The other is when zaknafeins ghost appears at the end of passage to dawn.
Too sad to describe
I still want to know the where the "good place" Zak's spirit is that he mentioned to Drizzt.
On topic...well, I'm pretty sensitive, so any time a character I love dies, I get mad/sad, and I even lose sleep. Kind of pathetic, I know 
I had always assumed he would be in Arvandor. If he's "at peace" there's no way he's in Lolth's realm or the Wall of the Faithless. I always pictured Corellon plucking up those ultra-rare drow souls like his. |
| Berkthgar |
Posted - 18 Aug 2014 : 07:44:08
Is zak protected by meiliki? Why doesn't Zak make contact drizzt in the later books? |
| Entromancer |
Posted - 18 Aug 2014 : 04:39:32
The Companions by Salvatore. Some of his best Realms work since Road of the Patriarch.
Reaper's Gale by Steven Erikson.
Beak. The more we learned about Beak, the more I started to feel for him. Proving his worth to his friends was really heart-wrenching.
Toll the Hounds by Steven Erikson.
A young boy, maybe 12 years old, name of Snell, despised his adopted brother Harllo. Harllo went to get some dung for his adopted parents' hearth and was ambushed by his stepbrother Snell. Snell hit him with a sack full of coins and sold him to an iron monger. Later Snell thinks about how he can't wait until he's the adult and his parents are the drooling, shitting, frail babies dependent on his mercies. Snell gets a kick out of thinking about how he'll antagonize his elderly parents. Later Snell's wheelchair bound father gets knocked out of his wheelchair while going to a temple for a blessing from the Crippled God's priesthood. His mother kneels to help him and gets her hip broken by commoners hungry for the Crippled God's blessing. His father gets his esophagus crushed underfoot. His mom lays there bleating until one of those hungry for a blessing crushes her head underfoot.
Reading about Harllo's mother coming to terms with him being sold into slavery and dealing with the trauma of his conception while a P.O.W. of the Pannion Domin was pretty much a tear-jerker, too.
Various characters introduced as the Phoenix Inn Regulars in the first book suddenly have to deal with age catching up to them. Their old, risqué lifestyles are suddenly far too dangerous. Some pay dearly for it. Them dealing with the grief is worse: anger, drunkenness, suicide by slit wrist in one's case. Veterans that experienced the horrors of the Pannion Domin War are targeted by an assassins' guild and likewise begin showing their age. |
| The Sage |
Posted - 18 Aug 2014 : 02:46:51
I should probably be moving this scroll to a more appropriate shelf, I think.
*Casts Shift Scroll* |
| CorellonsDevout |
Posted - 18 Aug 2014 : 02:41:23
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Originally posted by BEAST
quote:
Originally posted by CorellonsDevout
I still want to know the where the "good place" Zak's spirit is that he mentioned to Drizzt.
Oh, that's easy: he went to Kwik-E-Mart!
"I'm Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club man. I hope I will enjoy...my show!"
"T'ank you for chopping Kwik-E-Mart. My name is Apu. Please...come again."
Lol, sorry, BEAST, I don't get it ^^; |
| CorellonsDevout |
Posted - 18 Aug 2014 : 02:39:17
For example, when Xxorsh, the sea elf in Starlight and Shadows died, I teared up. I loved him. |
| BEAST |
Posted - 18 Aug 2014 : 02:38:38
quote:
Originally posted by CorellonsDevout
I still want to know the where the "good place" Zak's spirit is that he mentioned to Drizzt.
Oh, that's easy: he went to Kwik-E-Mart!
"I'm Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club man. I hope I will enjoy...my show!"
"T'ank you for chopping Kwik-E-Mart. My name is Apu. Please...come again." |
| CorellonsDevout |
Posted - 18 Aug 2014 : 01:50:28
quote:
Originally posted by Berkthgar
Have you ever come across a passage that has actually made you cry or made you emotional?
The two that come to mind is the story of how guen came to be. Truly sad
The other is when zaknafeins ghost appears at the end of passage to dawn.
Too sad to describe
I still want to know the where the "good place" Zak's spirit is that he mentioned to Drizzt.
On topic...well, I'm pretty sensitive, so any time a character I love dies, I get mad/sad, and I even lose sleep. Kind of pathetic, I know |
| Eilserus |
Posted - 18 Aug 2014 : 01:19:44
Ah yes, the Kender Mourning Song. Loved that poem. |
| Wooly Rupert |
Posted - 18 Aug 2014 : 01:15:22
I've felt bad for some FR characters, but the one that always gets me is from Dragonlance -- Tasslehoff holding Flint's helm and crying.
I've wanted to throw a couple of FR books across the room, but that's not a positive thing. |
| Berkthgar |
Posted - 17 Aug 2014 : 23:59:49
The reason I was so attached was because I listened to the books on tape. Human voice adds a different dimension |
| sleyvas |
Posted - 17 Aug 2014 : 23:01:07
When Kitiara killed Sturm in the Dragonlance Chronicles. |
| silverwolfer |
Posted - 17 Aug 2014 : 22:49:41
Nah, none of faerun's books have gripped me enough to turn a emotional responce besides wanting to know what happens next. |
| BEAST |
Posted - 17 Aug 2014 : 21:24:56
(Spoilers for The Ghost King & Gauntlgrym:)
Cat's departure in TGK, and Bruenor's in Gaunt.. Hers made me tear up in sadness (just bitter), while his made me tear up and pump my fist at the same time (bittersweet).
(/spoiler) |
| Farlaak |
Posted - 17 Aug 2014 : 18:32:46
It would have to be Besnell's death in Siege of Darkness. R.A Salvatore made me care about a character i'd never met before. then yanked the rug out once when i started to care
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| Hellbane |
Posted - 17 Aug 2014 : 18:06:54
Kemp really makes you feel a close emotional connection to his characters. A lot of the Riven stuff interacting and loving his girls and how he really cared for Jak in the end made my heart clench up. |
| Delwa |
Posted - 17 Aug 2014 : 16:37:50
Obvious spoiler alert.
When Jak died in the Erevis Cale stories. Every time I read LotR's final chapter. There have been a few others, but that's all I recall right off hand. |
| Lord Kjeran |
Posted - 17 Aug 2014 : 05:21:03
Yes. Varra's death in the opening chapter of Godborn. |
