Wizard Knight Perspective



review of The Wizard Knight by Gene Wolfe

originally in blog posts from April to June 2025

Pls get a copy and read along

First post begins a few chapters in, after Able needs a new pair of clothes



1

Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii. i love this book, it's freaking great.

I don't even really want to continue telling you about it, I'd rather you(You) just read it and I don't want to spoil too much.

I'm going to keep doing it anyway though because I wanna talk about it, but maybe I'll . give less details or something idk... I'll obscure stuff and be vague lol

Uhhhh-- guy's been OFFICIALLY knighted by the-- I called her a Dryad, which she is, it's synonymous here, but she's an Elf too. An Aelf. An Aelf queen. And even though he's just a dumb weak man and she statutory(fake) raped him with her horrifying POWER DYNAMICS, she at least says she loves him and I have no reason to doubt her, and she's like a smug anime girl teasing him, and it's very charming. Men only want one thing and it's disgusting.

So what's next... he's probably found himself a squire, the little brother of the girl who made his clothes. Didn't I say it? DO NOT LAUGH AT MYSTERIOUS LARGE NAKED MEN, THEY WILL TAKE EVERYTHING. And now he's taken his SON too lmao

He found a woman he was supposed to find prior to meeting the Dryad-- wife of some schmuck who was helping outlaws, and they've gone back to Bold Berthold's cabin.

Able is now "much larger" than Bold Berthold, who if you remember, I described the other day as like, a beast mountain man himself who managed to kill a few giants with spears and axes.

No wonder Laughing Man's daughter was throwing herself at him, Able's beyond a gigachad now.

Anyway, they've been staying with Berthold for weeks because she's too weak to travel and uh, frankly not in a rush to return to her soy-rage husband who'd beaten her when she was pregnant(she's got her newborn with her) when she's in the company of 2 men who are better in every way. So they've basically just started living as husband(s) and wife. Berthold and Able kill stuff, she maintains the home and cooks what they bring back. As God intended, mostly. Very comfy, they're all content. But Able REMAINS FAITHFUL to his Dryad Waifu, and Berthold? Well idk, maybe Berthold will end up taking her when Able leaves, that'd be nice. There's no way she's returning to her cuck husband, right? [Edit: husband found her and killed her and burned down Berthold's cabin. RIP. Able will avenge her. Berthold's missing but Able at least found and saved the baby and is traveling with him]

Able hears her talking to Berthold one night and she believes that Able isn't really a knight, but a powerful wizard. She has her reasons, which are probably right, and I won't mention them.

Oh and uhhhh... Able'd gonna be searching for a certain mythical sword to impress his waifu. She Takagi-san teased him into it. Eterne, the Mother of Swords, that's what he'll be searching for. I think a dragon has it. Good luck, Able! Do your best!



2

Uhhhh… bro's on a ship now. I'm going to leave out a lot, because I want you to read it. A lot of cool stuff happened in the last few chapters: some fights, some new allies met, but now, bro's off to meet the Duke and offer his service.

He REFUSES TO GET A SWORD until he has the one his waifu wanted him to get for her. And it's pretty funny because his new follower, a sailor, was groaning about it when they were at an armorer. Because knights are supposed to have swords! "Pls get a sword you're freakin embarrassing me" Bro's like "I WON'T! What about a battle-ax or something?". But it's just not the same!

Imagine serving a knight and he doesn't have a sword. Sailorbro's right, it's SHAMEFUL. It's like you're not a knight's follower at all, you're the follower of some random big guy. You might as well hang a wooden sign around your neck that says "FREE USE WHORE–CREAMPIE OK!"

So they settle on this strange foreign mace that goes in a sheath like a sword–it *appears* to be a sword when it hasn't been drawn, so it'll get him the same respect. And when it *has* been drawn, the old smithbro said it clobbered a great helm he'd tested it on. So pretty awesome. I imagine it kinda looks like Severian's executioner's sword in BOTNS, but not sharp on its edges. You know, just like a rectangle like this []=[]========

Right? Something like that.

Anyway that's all, very neato.



Oh–wait, more WIZARD KNIGHT–idk if Able avenged the mother who'd been killed by her husband, but he at least gave her baby to some elves to raise him because he figured he'd be safer with them in case he couldn't kill his father. He did kill a lot of outlaws, I guess he might have been among them but uh–well, it doesn't matter. He thinks Berthold is dead and he just couldn't find his body, because he knows Berthold wouldn't have run away when they attacked the cabin. There's something to that, but idk, if he's not able to find the body, then what happened to–OH MY GOSH I FORGOT TO MENTION

ABLE SAW ONE OF THEM, THE ANGRBORN, THE GIANTS. It scared the shit out of him. Thankfully it didn't notice him. How tall was it… lemme think… he said something like a tall man on a horse would barely reach its waist, so… what, maybe something like 25 feet? He'd only ever imagined them as around 8 feet. I thought that was a nice detail, the UNDERESTIMATION that people tend to make about, really anything big. Imagine Attack on Titan without the vertical-maneuvering equipment. Imagine having to fight Andre the Giant, and then multiply that by 3.

Really good description of it too, they're *not* human, at all. He said something like… a crocodile is not less human than them. They might *resemble* extremely-ugly people (with giant eyes and ears and tusks and bodies covered in hair), but they don't have any other sort of human quality to them, they don't love, they aren't loved, they're lower than animals.

And that said, they do rape human women and then half-giants are born. I think that was the fate of Berthold's fiancee. But theylmao …well, I'm just going to say that the half-giants do at least look human, just taller. So they're basically ethnically cleansing themselves. A small silver lining, but it'd be better to just… kill them first.





3

Uhh, there was a fight. There's these insane subhuman cannibals called Osterlings who uh, attacked the ship bro was on, and he killed a ton of them but got stabbed so now he'ssss being healed. Under the ocean. Some kelpie girls took him down.

Oh, I made a mistake–his dryad waifu didn't age him up *to* take advantage of him, she aged him up *by* taking advantage of him. With a bunch of her sisters.

I realized my error when I went back and read it over, because he's like, all SCARED and ANXIOUS about everything, because he's mostly a kid on the inside. It's an important distinction for the story, because sleeping with a woman is often considered the "ascent to manhood". As he's telling other men "I was a boy, then after a night with her I was man, and I wish I could go back to how I was before", they're all like "Yeah, I know that feel bro" but they DON'T know that feel–but no, they DO, they're being totally honest. So the same way we ask "What makes a knight?" we have to ask "What makes a man?"

So it's a cool uh, detail that I'm glad I didn't miss for too long.

Anyway, he's going to get a lot stronger down there. It's been TEASED that later, "Giants ran from me then and the ones that did not died."

So he's gonna go like, Tolkien 2nd Age Elfmode. Very cool, looking forward to it.

I think I'm getting better at leaving out details and not spoiling too much. That said, obviously still read it pls!





4

Bro's perhaps become the strongest knight in the world now after learning from a… Water Aelf who may actually be a dragon. We don't know yet, his strength is untested. And I think he's gonna have to fight someone very very big and very very strong soon. Some entity deeper down who almost destroyed 2 entire races of people who'd gathered to face her–she seems to be female(unlike Bowblax)–and only didn't because they gave up and ran away from her.

He's acquired two(2) cute fire elf slavegirls. Pretty great, huh? They're shapeshifters that were attacking him as kinda.. Giant bats, as he ran up a stair that… the top goes to Mythgarthr, the world he was already in, but remember, he'd been taken doooown into the ocean for his wound to be healed and uhhhh… it was in Aelfrice. Anyway he buckbroke the bats, they turned back into naked thin nubile girls, and they've dedicated themselves to him.

Oh. I was wrong about dryad waifu, she didn't group-traumatize him with a bunch of her sisters, she'd just shapeshifted into a bunch of different girls for him. That's IMPORTANT, because it speaks a bit to her intent and commitment to him. We know that he's had lovers in the past who've died or forsaken her, but seems to be dedicated to him now. Hopefully, because he's freaking crazy for her.

Oh, also she worships him. They all do, all the Aelves. That's a–this is really interesting. The people of one world worship the people in the world higher than theirs. So the way the men look at the Overcyns of Skye, apparently the Aelves look at men that way.

Bro's like "SHE DOESN'T WORSHIP ME, I WORSHIP HER."

And dragonbro's like "Would she agree with you?"

And it makes ya think. We don't even see this girl, like ever. She's shown up a few times, loved him, teased him, and left. What's she doing all the rest of the time? You get the *impression*, just from a total lack of information, that she's like just indifferent, her feelings are non-existent, but who's to say she isn't exactly as head-over-heels for him as he is for her? Even if she's not THAT much, it'ssssss something to think about, it's very neato. It  reminds me of the way Zeus would lose his cool and jump down from Mount Olympus to mount a mortal woman because she was just TOO beautiful: followers actually having some kind of power over the gods they worship.

There's still something higher, though. Someone higher than the Overcyns of Skye: there's two more worlds above it, and a One God has been referenced.

Down here, we're already seeing creatures larger than planes. And again, there's someone deep in the ocean who almost destroyed two entire races at once.

In The Book of the New Sun, there were "gods" the size of mountains that moved around unda da sea–Abaia and Erebus. We never got to see those big bois, we only felt their influence.

Is Knightbro going to have to fight something like them now?

And just as Abaia and Erebus, who shook the planet with their movements, were POWERLESS against even greater forces, is something greater still waiting in the worlds above Mythgarthr and Aelfrice?

It was already awesome, and it's getting more awesome.





5

What's happened?

Well, knightbro Able has faced the ENTITY IN THE BOTTOM OF THE OCEAN

Before swimming down to her, he saw a statue of a woman that was SO sexy that he immediately got a boner and had to jump into a cold fountain so dragonbro wouldn't see it.

Oh yeah, he's naked, he's been naked since going into the ocean to be healed, the uh… kelpies stole his clothes.

Now, really think about that though: the image of a woman so beautiful, you see her and just BAM, no more blood in your head. Immediately. That's very important. He remarks that this statue made the Fire aelf–

[Note: I believe I've incorrectly been using "Aelves", when it's just "Aelf", idr]

those slender, supple, lithe, flawless, breedable, girls who he was having trouble *not* looking at–it made them "look like boys" to him.

(In the future he still claims that Dryadwaifu is the most beautiful woman he's ever seen. Idk how this could POSSIBLY be true, but I believe him. If she's not *objectively* more attractive, he at least loves her that much and I think that's very sweet.)

BUT WHY IS THIS STATUE IMPORTANT THOUGH?

Well, it's a statue of the one at the bottom of the ocean. She ruled Aelfrice before the Aelf. She created the Aelf, fashioned after the men of Mythgarthr, to protect trees and plants.

And they chased her into the water, and then they chased her down into the deep.

When Able asked her about how she'd almost exterminated all of the Fire and Water Aelf, she said it was because she just had no-where else to flee to.

Oh, also she's giant now. Dat deep-sea gigantism. He thought she could have worn the statue of her around her neck on a chain.

Uhh…

It's just. Awesomelmao. So she reveals herself to Able, and he's like "Ah, ok I gotta go, I don't think I can kill you yet, I don't even have a sword. Can I go?"

And she's like "k. I hope you don't come back for a long time."

He doesn't *want* to kill her, but he feels he has to try, because he promised Dragonbro and the Fire aelf girls. And even the Kelpie iirc, idr. Point being, the Aelf HATE HER. And he asks her why, and she tells him to ask them. She loves them, and only fears them because they fear her and want to kill her.

Tfw your creation hates you.

So that's where we're at. Just awesome.

Idk, what do you think? She's obviously humanlike, and she existed before the Aelf, so was SHE human? Hard to say.

It's IMPORTANT to note that there are also giant women in the water in Book of the New Sun. Well, I'm *saying* that it's important because I want to talk about it. I think Gene Wolfe just likes using certain ideas and themes over and over, I'm not saying "LOOK, THEY'RE THE SAME GIANT OCEAN WOMEN!🤓" I'm not saying they're not related at all either, I JUST WANNA WRITE ABOUT EM

They uh… well in BOTNS, they served either Erebus, Abaia, or both, idr. And they kinda wanted Severian to come down with them, which to me recalls Christ being tempted by Satan.

"Severian come serve Abaia, you can like, rule a bunch of stuff :3 " Also… the guy… whose name I can't remember… Typhon also offered Severian power in exchange for worshiping him, that's probably a *much more* direct comparison. Maybe the water women just wanted to fuck him, idr. They probably weren't as bad as Typhon. I think they even saved Severian at least once–but still overall, they represent the *world*, and it's a dying world. If Typhon represents the temptation of the devil, they're just uh, random thots. And Severian wast too autistic to fall prey to them.

You have to RESIST THE GIANT NAKED WOMEN IN THE WATER.

But what about *this* one, Knightbro's one? She's got a totally different story, she seems totally innocent! So why do they want her dead?

I think Dragonbro once fought her, but she won. Not necessarily 1v1, I think he was with the fire and water Aelf– at that time, he had armories that contained all the weaponry of the world: so much that it could be plundered for thousands of years and hardly be missing much.

They really want this bitch dead.

I like her though. So does Able. I can't wait to read more.





6

Where am I…

Able just got clobbered by a knight in a friendly sparring match lol

He met back up with his MAN, sailerbro– he was gone for 3 years! He's lost Dragonbro though, and more importantly, his 2 fire aelf girls. The demure, long-legged, thin, sub-100lb, breedable naked fire aelf girls who called themselves his slaves. HE LOST THEM AND IT'S LIKE HE DOESN'T EVEN CARE HE'S JUST OFF ON ANOTHER ADVENTURE WITH A MAN.

He's like freakin Severian in BOTNS when he lost Dorcas and just wandered around with Jonas(ANOTHER SAILOR! KINDA!) for a while. Well, no he's not, I guess he doesn't love the fire aelfgirls, I'm just hornyposting on his behalf. Sry. Anyway he's challenged to a uh, fight for a bet of 1 dollarydoo and a favor.

He's bigger & stronger, but the guy was an experienced knight. And Able was armed with a big serving spoon and pot lid because he refuses to even wield a blunt practice sword -_-

Equipped like Link at the beginning of Breath of the Wild. Except still a gigachad, not a femboy with childbearing hips.

Remember that Able has killed perhaps *dozens* of men by now. A couple bandits, and tons of cannibal pirates. Did I write about the cannibal pirates last time?

So Able lost the bet and now has to help out the local lord with something. Idk what it is yet. He wants to go up to a nearby volcano so he can uh… check it out? Idk. It's said that it goes down into Muspel, the world below Aelfrice. So two world down.

Interestingly, Dryadwaifu once said that there are dragons in… the 2nd world, the one above Skye– uh… …forget it, I can't remember.BUT THE THING IS, there are dragons ALSO down in Muspel, too. So they're down in the 6th world *and* above in the 2nd world? Really? Why? Idk. But I'll find out if it's true! And I'll let you know.



7

Knightbro was cold and badly hurt one night, after getting into a fight over honor with a bunch of knights and getting KO'd after beating a few of them so badly that they're going to die now(lol)–and he had a dream that serpents were coiling around him and warming him up. So he woke up to find that the fire aelfgirls were all over him jumping his bones.

They finally found him! They'd never given up on searching for him!

Imagine the comfort though. Normal women are already like heaters, the fire aelf can actually make themselves *hot*, like uh… heating pads lol.

In his half-asleep state one of them pretty easily seduced him into biting her and kissing some of her blood, which does 2 things. Heals him up very well, and I guess makes her a part of him forever. She was very pleased with herself and smug about it because after that, Able was awake enough for the other one to not be able to get him to bite her.

I think that's a really good touch. A lot of writers would be tempted to uh… for the 2 girls to just be grouped in and share all of the same *everything*. So only ONE of them getting a bite, even though they're *both* serving Able equally, that's pretty interesting, it almost feels INCOMPLETE or something, it's like you *want* him to have both. It's UNFAIR to the other girl.

She shouldn't have been so busy sucking his dick! Too bad! He ended up swatting her off because it felt too good, he's still DEDICATED to Dryadwaifu. He'll let them cuddle up against him though.

When he woke up they were gone because they don't like the Sun.

Later he pledges himself to the Duke that he wanted to, and while he was kneeling and making his oath, he could hear one of the girls nearby watching and giggling at him

THEY'RE CUTE

The way that women will totally-not respect the things we take seriously and still love us anyway is pretty charming. It's probably even more charming when they're skinny dark elfgirls who will cross the ocean to jump you in bed.

Anyway, Duke's like "I'm gonna set you on my enemies you know. You sure you want this life? -_-"

And SIR Able's like "Uh yeah, that's all I want, I'm a knight." This is the Duke who was the lord of the first knight Able met, it's IMPORTANT.

So now he's gonna go guard a bridge for a few months and challenge everyone who crosses it to rack up Honor. Really cool knightly tradition, Wolfe does a great job at explaining *everything* about the knights, not just their swords and armors, but really the culture and traditions too. It's easy to just say "knights are cool guys in armor", and that's very true, but there's more to it.

Neato stuff.



8

Lemme see… Knightbro just won his first 1v1 lol some knight tried killing him because he wouldn't let an innkeeper rip him off so the innkeeper scurried away and said Able was a bandit.

The knight was a sneaky scumbag and almost killed him even after surrendering! But Able bonked him in the face with his sword-shaped mace, Sword Breaker. And he took most of his stuff as victor.

He's getting some of it uhhhh… resized, getting the shield repainted, etc.

One of the fire aelf girls glomps him again.

It's cool that they're uh… pretty much always following him or at least watching him from Aelfrice, even though he usually can't see them. But he'll hear them, sometimes they talk to him, it'ssssssssssssss it's very cool.

Anyway he heroically manages to not be seduced by her, despite her best efforts. And instead he sends her off to go watch a family that A GHOST OGRE IS HAUNTING?

Idk what he's up to.

The ghost broke a young man's arms. I think Able thinks it's not a ghost, and may just be an actual ogre? We'll see.

His dog is back. Did I ever mention his dog? Idr. He's kinda scared of it because while it's normally just a big brown dog it can become a nightmarish wolf-thing the size of a horse. He once saw the decapitated body of a man even larger than himself. Doggo did it obviously.

Able's also learned where knights came from–they were the men who once killed the frost giants or dragons or other monsters. Now there's less monsters, but still more knights, so it seems to me that they're not all as heroic as they should be. Able's met a lot of awesome knights, but maybe just as many losers. Like the guy he just clobbered and looted.



9

Anything new?

Lol. Uhhhh… yeah, knightbro battled an ogre. Ogres are uh, super strong though. Consider Sir Able's body: guy's a head taller than most men, sooo let's just say he's just shy of 7 feet. His arms are "bigger than most men's legs". How much does he weigh? Probably what… 300lb of muscle or just under it? Heavyweight UFC fighters are 260, around 6'4. Let's say Sir Able is 300lb.

The ogre just picked him up and tossed him like nothing.

The ogre's shoulders are described as something like this

 (]-------------(o_o)-------------[)

(   )   ( .                      .)    (    )

And there's a little bit of arms and chest too.

Right? Making his head seem tiny. So uh, he just throws Able through the air. When Able comes to, doggo has transformed into his beast form and is shaking him like a rat. And the fire aelf girls are transformed into a two-headed serpent and striking at his eyes. They really care!

Anyway, Able calls them off, and ogre bends the knee. He wants to be Able's follower too!

So Able now has a pet ogre.

Later Able gets into a fight with a torturer and humiliates him. When the torturer goes back into the dungeons to cope and seethe–where Able had put the ogre to live–ogrebro kills and eats him.

At least he doesn't have to live with the humiliation of getting his ass kicked by a newbie knight, I guess.



10

Knightbro met someone very interesting. So interesting I don't even want to spoil it – so I won't *AT ALL*, REDAAAAACTED!!!

I'll say that he met someone from 2 worlds up.

He teaches Able a few things about how the worlds work, and demonstrates the dominion people have over those of the worlds below theirs in a very cool way.

It recalls the way that in Book of the New Sun, the characters who thought(and we did too) that they were the final boss, didn't even know what game they were in.

Aaaaaaand that's all I'll say. It was an awesome character to suddenly meet. And we know him IRL.

Also Able has a pet cat now. He got it from a witch. She was dead. It was coolcreepy.

Someone's taken one look at Able now and called him a Witch-Knight and is like trying to get able to tell him "Come on man, are you a witch, wizard, or warlock? I know you're something magic, TELL MEEEEEEEE"

Aaaaaand he and some frens get ambushed by half-giants, so Able kills a few, and doggo goes #beastmode and freaking– just kills dozens and dozens of them. Again, not just humans. Dozens and dozens of huge men over 7 feet.

What a good dog!

I really love this dog lol. Have you ever seen a horse irl? Imagine a wolf that size, strong enough to shake someone larger than the largest man you've ever met around "like a rat" in his teeth.

What a good dog!

Anyway Able is uhhh… he's gonna go with some lord to meet a king of the giants. That'll be something. The giants really suck. Those dozens and dozens of half-giants were all bastards from the rape of human women. The giants have gotten away with it for too long.

I hope Able either utterly subjugates them or genocides them 🙁 Do your best, Able!

#TGD





11

Sir Able meets a girl whose father is going to give her up to a king of giants to be his queen.

I feel bad for her. So does Able. But he can't–at least he says he's not going to save her.

It's just like Save Me From My Destiny from Genius a Rock Opera ;_; with the doll who was going to be used for a child's dream, destroying her.

I'm so sorry my friend But no we can't change your fate

Except this is probably worse, isn't it? There's a nonzero chance that she's going to be destroyed giving birth to a half-giant.

I wonder if Able will do anything about it, or just cope since it'll hopefully save more women in the future from raids.

The worst he's felt in his life is her telling him about it, crying. He'd already figured it out, but she confronts him, hoping that he'll save her, and he makes her return to her father as he continues scouting ahead.

What a bummer.

She's cute. She made up a story for him and herself; that they'd be captured and trapped together for 10 years, Able would marry her, and they'll have 33 kids, and–

It's just so sad man.

Idk, maybe he'll do something.

You know strangely enough, I get the feeling that SEVERIAN would just save her, solely because he'd want her. How about that?

Severian would save her, literally just up and leave with her, escape to the next town with her, cum inside her every night for a month, and then leave once he makes sure she has people she can stay with.

But because Able cares about DUTY, it may prevent him from saving her. Obviously he'd save her in the *wild*, but how can he interfere with a lord's diplomatic mission? One that would save countless people in the future?

But we don't have to face those hypothetical people. We have to face the girl crying NOW, tears and snot running down her miserable face, trying to grab hold of your horse and not let go because she wants you to save HER, and YOU want to save her.

Sucks, man. Able do something! ANGRBORN GENOCIDE NOW! SAVE THE PRINCESS, YOU'RE A KNIGHT ;_;





12

I finished The Knight. Isn't that neat? Next up is The Wizard.

I'm going to try a lot harder to not spoil anything important or too-specific for when our Wizardbro starts reading it.

But I still have to tell you about stuff because it's so cool!

Lemme see…

Well, there was a fight wi–actually lemme say this instead

The fire aelf girls are the best characters. They're so freaking great.

Able literally sends them out on side quests, and they just do them because they want to be his slaves.

They're so freaking reliable lmao it's AAAAAAAAA IT'S INSANE, THEY'RE SO COOL

Really just imagine having 2 tall, thin smug naked dark elfgirls stealthily following you around most of the time, and they'll just do whatever chores you tell them to. They'll go shopping for you. They'll hunt stuff for you, they'll help you against overwhelming odds by tripping up enemies and tricking them.

They had to track someone down, and they did so, and he was being held captive, so they WENT BACK TO THEIR HOME TO GET THEIR TOOLS, and then WENT BACK and broke his chains. ISN'T THAT JUST CUTE? I LOVE THEM. THAT'S SO CUTE. THEY WENT BACK HOME TO GET SOMETHING THEY NEEDED TO DO THEIR JOB THEY'RE AMAZING 😭

They're JUST GREAT. They're useful, they're charming, they're funny, they crack jokes, they like to TEASE you. They do want to have sex with you but they're also not going to give you grief for not letting them because you love another woman.

You really just should make them feel appreciated though.

Able's a little mean to them, but he lets them know he values them. He's TOUGH on them, not cruel.

Is this a good topic? Let's see.

What is the ideal wife? Is she a fire aelf?

As I type this I can come up with exactly 0 negative traits for the aelf girls. And they're not just chore-robots, they'd be *very good company* if Able let them be. He doesn't because he's faithful to his Dryadwaifu.

He's such a good guy :')

I guess their "teasing" could be interpreted as "tormenting" to some people(I guess that because it's explicitly stated), but all you have to do is realize it's because they like you, and then it won't even bother you! LET THEM BULLY YOU, THEY DESERVE IT

So uhhh… yeah, I guess they are perfect and I have nothing to add to this. What am I supposed to say? "The perfect wife… is attractive and helpful." Mind-blowing.

I will say that the story is not pro-human x aelf racemixing though lol. It's– how do I even say this… think about how Gimli loves Galadriel, right? But in his wildest dreams, he couldn't have her. He wouldn't even want to if he could, because it just wouldn't be appropriate, it's like suggesting cats and dogs mate, EVEN IF it were possible, it'd be just as absurd. It's kiiiiiiinda like that, but not as explicit, because the aelfs are v– wait ffs if I'm going to use Tolkien's work as an example why don't I use it more appropriately? IT'S LIKE MEN AND ELVES in LOTR, THAT'S closer than fucking Dwarves and Elves lmfao– you understand? So even though Aragorn and Arwen were good together, it's *rare* for a relationship between men and elves to be *good*, and it seems to be the case here as well for maybe the same reasons, and at least one more that I won't mention.

And it might even not be good for Able and Dryadwaifu! There's hints that it's NOT, but he's going for it anyway

Lemme talk more about the fire aelfgirls. They're so cool.

They're not like CHEAP, though, you know? They can't just do ANYTHING, and they're not ALWAYS around to help, so it doesn't feel like Able's ever really cheating at life lol. He can't and wouldn't just order them "Go kill all of my enemies!" He's a knight, that's not what knights do! They're very well written as Able's followers, like the rest of his followers. People are drawn to him. If Sir Able of the High Heart beat you up, you'd have to have no soul to not want to dedicate yourself to him!





13

FIRE AELFGIRLS DESERVE LOVE

Some humans on a diplomatic mission have entered the Frost Giant city of Jotunland.

Sir Able sent a teenage boy he's taken under his wing to the city to rescue a few people while the diplomatic misssssion goes on.

Able sent him to give him a chance to GIT GUD and GIT GLORY

One of the fire aelfgirls is also serving lil bro now too, and

AND SHE ALMOST FELL OFF A HIGH WALL, AND HE GRABBED HER NAKED RED ASS AND SAVED HER

She's very thankful and likes him a lot

And unlike Able, who only has eyes for Dryadwaifu, lil bro's like ZAMN 😍 she's 1200?

Hopefully it'll go well for them, the fire aelfgirls have gone unbred long enough

Uhhh, the giants are scary. I don't think they're as big as I originally thought, but they're still freaking big. Lemme think…

Sir Able is probably shy of 7 feet. Maybe 6'5ish.

The half-giants, called "Mice" are– hard to say, how tall was Andre the Giant?... 7'4. Maybe the Mice around that or 8 feet, maaaybe 9.

And the Frost Giants then are probably–like pshhhhh… well iirc men reach about their knees, so idk let's just call them 15 feet.

But the KING of the Frost Giants was said to make the ones around him seem "like children" ;_;

We learn how the human slave girls are treated, and it's basically hentai. It's bad, but it could be so much fucking worse thatlmao it could be SO MUCH WORSE when I think about it. Like if a real sick fuck had written this, the women would probably be goosh goosh'd and have their backs literally torn asunder. Here, a few of them are like "it's not so bad". And they're obviously coping, but they also do literally live better than a lot of poor free women.

And of course the men just have their eyes burned out, we don't matter at all.

Anyway, here's to diplomacy!





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Regergegr i have to CRANK out this writing, freakin Ethan Van Sciver just started a stream, it's 3:30am 🫩

TAKE YOUR MEDICINE!!! That's what I have to say to FROST GIANTS who start getting a little too big for their giant britches.

The diplomatic mission may or may not have been a failure. It's really a matter of perspective.

Something I will partially-spoil is that the girl who was to be given to the giant king has BEEN SAVED. How? I won't tell.

But I WILL tell you that 2 giants fought 2 knights–an old man and a rookie, and the knights basically fucking stomped. The giants cheated by crowd interference and still didn't win.

The vibrant and cultured giants jumped in when their boys were getting beat. And we learn why the giants blind the male slaves. They are afraid of men.

Because WE are built different. THEY👏AINT👏LIKE👏US👏

They're slow and retarded. We're fast. And galaxybrains.

Uhhhhh… so the giants can basically kill you with one punch. And also they have giant weapons, too. BUT our boys were just chop chop choppin away at them, yellin "I'M TOO FAST FOR YA" like Alexander Volkanovski. and they weren't even allowed to use bows or ride mounts either. Bows are like lmao: Able mentions it earlier, it's like comically easy to shoot the giants because they're so big. He snipes one in the middle of the freaking night just because he can see its big white teeth smiling. I made the teeth part up, but he does get one at night. Ok? So, a well-train–excuse me, a decent ROOKIE knight is almost a match on his own for a giant, even without a bow or mount.

So after this HUMILIATION RITUAL, which was supposed to be a humiliation ritual against the humans, I am now convinced that the humans, even without Sir Able, would DO WHATEVER THEY WANT to the giants. Able's not even HERE yet. Able should pull out an Uno Reverse card, and literally just *invade* Jotunland and enslave all of the giants. Every male giant gets blinded. And every last knight gets a–well, I actually don't know what the Frost Giant women look like yet. Probably not good. You know what? We'll take them anyway 🙂

Able's met a half-giant girl who looks good, but thankfully she basically *instantly* fell in love with Able's yuge brother knight. Bro's bigger than Able, maybe juuuust under 7 feet, or right there. It's very lucky because now Able won't have to feed her. He can barely feed himself half the time.

Able just collects followers like Pokemon.

Anyway. I hate Frost Giants and I'm glad I don't have to read humans kneeling to kiss giant boots and chanting "Frost Lives Matter" for them anymore. I'm glad that girl got saved, too and won't have to get a stomach_bulge tag on her name.

I can't really express how miserable this "diplomacy" was. It's so well-written, and it was driving me insaaaaaane, the way these giant retards were abusing and humiliating the humans, just CLOOOWNING them, when you're reading this, you get MAD. It was like something much worse than tard-wrangling or even [racist language redacted] it was like… a hostage negotiation, but *you're* the hostage and you basically cannot do *anything* but try to use charm. You just have *no* hand, no negotiating power at all. Do you know what I mean? Really just imagine trying to "negotiate" with a hundred giant violent morons who want to kill you.

The humans just had to EAT SHIT the entire time and accept unrelenting disrespect against themselves, their bodies, their dignity, their spirits, their gods, their existence, all the while offering up heaps of the most opulent and lavish gifts of jewelry and fabrics and animals–and at least 1 noble woman.

Uhhhh… the giants are very well written. They're clever enough, exceeeeedingly prideful, uh literally genocidal racists. "Frost Giants are the REAL racists!" Not like, "That mom called a kid a slur when he stole from her toddler!" This is *actual* stakes. Humans are riding the subway here. Frost Giants commit 99% of interracial violent crime in Mythgarthr, despite making up just 1% of the population. They're ugly, violent, they have low impulse control, they don't have souls.

Btw I really hope you're not being racist right now. I'm literally just talking about Frost Giants.

And I know you think I'm being funny "oh ho hee hee ha ha he's saying he's just talking about Frost Giant 😉" NO I AM, you and I are ALREADY agonizingly aware of what real life is like, we don't have to talk about it ALL THE TIME. Lemme just talk at you about Frost Giants OK? PLEASE? PLEASE!!!!! HAHAHAHAHAAAAAA



15

I was so smug, wasn't I? "Oh hoo hoo, those giants are FUCKED lmao"

Maybe not quite. When Able asks the half-giant girl (or, Mouse girl, like Chiara from Mil-Sim Story) how many Frost Giants there are in the world, she responded by pointing up at some geese in the sky and asking how many geese are there in the world. So what if a knight can defeat a giant? Are all humans knights, or are knights *very rare* among humans?

Blackpilled again!

No, only a little bit. Human archers are still an awesome threat to giants, and it's much easier to produce archers than full knights. It's just that, apparently there's so many more giants than anyone thought, and they remain something that can kill a man with one blow.

Throw armor on them, and now what do we do? (though I suspect armor might be too hot for them) We need Able, we need the people of Skai.

And then, worst of all, the rug was pulled from under me: the girl is still in danger of being given to the giants. Her father's HELL BENT on it.

Guy really wants to be the father of a queen. Because he had some shit familial luck and is no-longer royalty.

His daughter said something like "It's like he swallowed a rat and it gnaws at his heart."

What do you think? Imagine being so close to royalty, and *not* being it. But also imagine having a daughter. Offering her to subhuman monsters, so you can have a bit more status? Is that something you'd do?

It might do a lot of good for the world. But really, was it truly necessary? It's not like the giant king asked for a human woman. Sure, "gratefully accepted!" but he didn't ask. I don't doubt that he'd prefer her above all of the other gifts they brought, but. Still.

I hate this. I was so happy for her, thinking she was out. She's not out, not yet. There's still hope, more hope than ever, but it's still not guaranteed.

Also the fire aelfgirls are acting against each other now. Even though they both serve Able, one of them has not renounced the false-god she worships from the world below Aelfrice. I hope she does!

I wonder if Able will go to Jotunland. He's been collecting knights who try to pass the bridge he's holding–which he's only doing because he promised his Duke he would as punishment for uh, his pet Ogre eating that torturer lmao.

The king of the giants wants Able to work for him. 0% chance of that happening, Able's more likely to kill him on the spot, but idk what Able's even planning. He just wants Dryadwaifu, who is–

Oh, Dryadwaifu's with a demon king, I'll tell you about that later.



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I forgot where I last left off. But uh… well any–oh oh no

The freaking girl is being such a good, dutiful wife to the giant king, it's DEPRESSING.

Like I have to believe she's really just *doing her duty*, but you'd have no idea because she's playing the part so well.

No, he hasn't consummated the marriage yet though. Able's fren who likes her has SWORN that he will kill the king before it happens. Will he?

Able's friendly witch follower like mind-fucked the guy and showed him what it'd be like for the girl, and it left him a sobbing mess on the floor. I think she uh, did it to stir him to action. He's gonna save her!

Meanwhile, Able's running around freeing people from Jotunland, it's cool, he's kinda a Gandalf-tier character for the rest of them now.

Also his hairline is receding lmfao he's been away for a while. But Dryadwaifu spent some time with him again ;_; she likes his receding hair!

But something's definitely wrong, there's something keeping them apart. Nvm I'm not gonna tell you about the demon king after all, and that's probably not even it. Able will either kill him or decide not to, no demon king is The Guy who'll stop Able.

Uhhhhhh… ohlol the young guy who wants to save the girl from the giant king actually saved ANOTHER girl too, a random street slaveloli who was about to become random emergency food for Able's pet ogre who's proteccing him. When bro asks her how old she is, she says "old enough" 😭 and he's now stuck with her. He carries her home to ask her mother if he can get her some food and better clothes.

Her giant master attacks them when they try leaving, and Ogrebro wrestles him, and lil bro stabs the giant in the eye, killing his first giant. May there be many more! So now the girl and her family can be purchased so that's nice. And she INSISTS he's going to marry her and is now sleeping in his bed back at the castle. Also a fireaelf girl found a sword he lost and brought it back to him after giving him SUCH a kiss when they were hiding from some giants that the local talking cat is like "Don't start, females are always loud even if you're not 🐈"

It's a fun uh… I can't think of the freaking word rn, but you know what I mean: while Able is completely obsessed with Dryadwaifu and ONLY Dryadwaifu, this young guy's just girl-crazy and is surrounded on all sides by girls he wants to save and/or be with, it's very–what? Charming. The power of youth.

Hopefully he kills the king before he– ;_; it's like 3 feet long SAVE HER PLEASE DO SOMETHING





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I can't believe how much this book surprises me. Every freaking chapter body-slams my understanding through a glass table, and it's always great.

And most of the chapters are like 10 pages or less, so it's just constantly satisfying.

There's really never a dull moment in this book.

How do I minimally-spoil some more stuff…

Well, the giant-wife girl's safe, and lil bro didn't have to kill the giant king after all. How about that?

Also she tried breaking up a riot, and a giant called her a "hot slut", and I think Able shot his brain out with an arrow. It's not explicit, but that's probably what happened. Something about an arrow making so much noise it seemed like the city was screaming. That's gotta hurt

>>=============>

What else… Able went to the Room of Lost Love looking for Dryadwaifu, but because he didn't really LOSE her, she wasn't there. Nice try, Able.

The mother of Lil bro's–I will start calling him Squirebro– the mother of Squirebro's rescued slaveloli went in the room with Able and she saw all the people from her parents' estate that had been killed by the giants who attacked and took her.

It was saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad, man. Like she was probably… around 18 or younger when she was taken, because she's still beautiful enough now for Able to say she'd have no trouble finding a husband, and presumably she had slaveloli who's probably 12 or 13 now with another slave shortly after arriving in Jotunland. So she was at home, living a happy noble life with her parents and sisters, and their servants, and ALONG COME THE GIANTS to KILL EVERYONE SHE LOVES and steal her away.

But she'll be okay. The Room helped heal her heart, and Squirebro's going to take them with him back to human society! It's all set up for a happy ending, r-right?

Am I expecting anything bad to happen… hmm… nah.

Also the local talking cat snuck into the Room too. He doesn't want to talk about it though. Which is a little weird because he normally never shuts up.

What kind of amazing pussy could he possibly have been missing? 😿

Also Squirebro killed a few giants SOLO. Mostly. He had a horse. How about that? I think the humans have used up all their luck though, and it might be time for the party of under 50 fighting humans to make a tactical retreat from the city with hundreds or thousands of giants. Although around 100 might be coming with the 3 knights Able collected; a jaguar knight, a gold knight who is probably fucking the half-giant girl, and a black knight

Am I remembering correctly that one of them actually helped EXTERMINATE the cannibal pirates? I really don't remember, but it was cool.

I can't remember the cool thing that I read that made me want to write a blog post -_- it's just that uh, cool stuff is happening at all times.

This freaking book is so good.





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Some(2) knights fought a dragon. They did good, but it's a dragon actually.

One of them died, and the other was saved by slaveloli riding on her dad's shoulders and, because he's blind, helping him find where he needs to go to crush the dragon's neck like an exploding tree with a–well, something that was basically thousands of hands closing on the dragon's neck. And when I say "basically" I mean "literally", because it was thousands of hands closing on the dragon's neck. No I will not elaborate further. So yeah, she rode her dad into battle, screaming LOLI TIME! LOLI TIME! And he crushed the dragon's neck.

It was pretty cool. Uhh… Squirebro has ptsd though from all his battles and doesn't want to fight anymore. But other than that he's okay, and has seemed to accept that he WILL marry slaveloli, so the two of them are going to live happily ever after and Squirebro will take care of her parents.

The knight who died, thankfully, was the one a… noblewoman…  didn't love, but loved her. So he gets to enjoy being dead instead of having to cope with the other knight marrying her. And really ENJOY being dead because a qt valkyrie took him away.

He was a good knight. A vet who killed tons of giants!

Something neato is that Able isn't a glory hog. He even basically forces other people to do cool stuff against their will lmao BUT! They're also just great on their own too, like even though he lost to Able, the Jaguar Knight is a gigachad who was largely responsible for saving the humans from the giants as they fled the city. He lost his sword and was just fighting giants with his shield.

The dragon being dead is very convenient because it was basically the Devil for the Aelfs. Not REALLY, but kinda. But it's like a gigantic task off Able's To-Do list. And one of his fireaelf girls will finally worshipping the Devil now, because he's DEAD. So it's time to come to heel. Even though she's been a perfectly good and loyal slave for Able, it's time to be EVEN MORE PERFECTLY GOOD AND LOYAL, you just watched Able's apprentice's girlfriend's dad kill your false god. Come home, aelfgirl.

Able really doesn't have much more to do now but get his Dryadwaifu, right? Everything's gonna be GREAT, for EVERYONE 🐱





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Able's home from Jotunland, he's now what I'll never be– a LANDCHAD.

Very cool, he's got a full house! Imagine having a mansion with servants, maids, and a group of men-at-arms to protecc you and your farmers(you have farms too)

Squirebro's going home with Slaveloli, who I'm going to stop calling Slaveloli because she's neither anymore… Squiregirl? I'll call her Squiregirl. Her mansion is very close to Able's!

Able's probably not going to stay there though, so idk who he'll lea–ZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzz

Here's something I'll spoil for you, because it's not a spoiler. Just an aelfgirl TEASING.

"I have!"

Exclamation marks are so underrated. I've come to appreciate them a lot.

Before "I knew she was lying" I was actually upset because I thought she was serious lol

Baki is IMPORTANT!

AS important as Dryadwaifu, who's finally ready to MARRY Able?! BUT HE WON'T!

Because she GROOMED him in more ways that one: he has a message he must deliver to the king that she imprinted in him, and he can't be satisfied until he does it! She no-longer wants him to, though! WHAT COULD THE MESSAGE BE?!



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Back to stuff I care about.

Respect aelfgirls!

The book's almost over.

Fire aelfgirls are still best girls. Dryadwaifu just can't compete.

They stole a new sword for Able after he lost his old one. He didn't even ask for it!

I thought I'd spotted an ERROR in the book, where Wolfe got the two aelfgirls mixed up. Naming one as the retriever of the sword, when he meant the other. An easy mistake to make! They both serve Able, they both want him to plap them, they're both flirty, they like teasing him, they're always doing errands for him, they're both basically perfect and the differences between them aren't usually an issue. So of COURSE he mixed them up, right?

What really happened though was this:

Specifically

He wrote my "problem" in a way that at the start, he slipped in a minor detail I paid no attention to–because it wasn't important at the time. Aelfgirl #1 said that she heard about the sword from a friend and so she stole it because Able needed a new sword!

Then at the end when I believe I'd found a mistake: Aelfgirl #2 being named as the girl who found Able's new sword;

When I went back and looked, I discovered that the itty-bitty detail that hadn't clicked with me the first time was the answer. Aelfgirl #2 was "the friend" who FOUND the sword, and then Aelfgirl #1 STOLE it: she hadn't wanted to tell Able that it was the other girl, because he was mad at her at that moment, so she just called her "my friend".

And because Able says this, it means HE KNEW IT THE ENTIRE TIME or at least  figured it out later and didn't bring it up: neither to the aelfgirls, NOR to US. It's so freaking GOOD, man. IT'S SO GOOD. Because it's not really that big of a deal anyway, as interesting as it is, Able's just focused on telling the story as quickly as he can.

Gene Wolfe just DOES THAT SOMETIMES, USING IMPLICATION TO STORE EXTRA INFORMATION without needing to write it out, and it's SOOOOOOOOOOOO GOOD. And I know what you're thinking, "Ask, you're just retarded." NO, HE DOES STUFF LIKE THIS ON PURPOSE. That's why someone made the meme, it's true!

Anyway, there's a disgusting old Italian horror movie called "Cannibal Holocaust" and it's what's about to happen in the book, because the Osterlings have *ravaged* the countryside in revenge after the chad golden knight had helped attacc their home.

Don't worry, it's not a "preemptive strike, because the Osterlings were 2 weeks away from a nuclear weapon", the Osterlings are a real problem, arguably a bigger problem than the giants, constantly raiding the people of Able's nation. You tell me if you'd rather be taken as a slave and blinded by giants or killed and eaten by cannibals. There's something about being eaten that's so obnoxious to me. I don't *think* they eat humans alive, so at least that's something.

A lot of the giants' slaves get giant-mandated wives to breed with though. How about that? What is there to see, anyway? If you're blind, your wife is as hot as you want her to be and there's no way of disproving it.



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I finished reading The Wizard Knight the other day.

Last night I had a nightmare that there was *more* to the story and the PERFECT ENDING actually wasn't the ending and instead there was a cliffhanger, and now Gene Wolfe is dead so he'll never finish it.

But no, it was just a nightmare. The Wizard Knight has one of the most satisfying endings I've read in… idk. Years? I'm so happy with it that it might–idk if I can say it's better than Book of the New Sun, I'm being INFLUENCED by how happy the ending was. Something about Book of the New Sun is that every time you read it, it's almost like it's your first time just because it's a constant barrage of awesome weird shit that you'll never be able to remember.

The Wizard Knight's just more wholesome, though. More heartwarming. A lot of the time, Able's just as autistic as Severian, but he's also… we see him caring a lot more about others. Severian did care, but we didn't get to *see* it as much and it was mixed in with a lot of selfish behavior. Or–idk, I feel like I'm being unkind to Severian. He did heroic stuff ALL THE TIME, he LOVED his friend Jonas, he LOVED Dorcas, he LOVED whatsherface Thecla, he LOVED his brother torturers, he LOVED his doggo. He was a… pretty normal guy, when he wasn't doing his job.

But … Able's around friends much more often than Severian was. And girls too. Constantly trying to get in his pants! Of course that'll keep him cheerful, even if he's REJECTING them all, because he's LOYAL. Sooooooooo that's all. The book's very comfy.

I'm not going to spoil anything in detail, but I will say that Dryadwaifu finally manages to be bestgril.