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>>19671182
Are you talking about the Nonman mansions? They definitely would resemble something of the sort, albeit more pleasing.

>>19579958
The Cil-Aujas part was some of the best fiction I've ever read.
Same with the nonman mansion and the 3 kids, the whole going to the deepest depths on the world. I've always had a fascination with the underground and Bakker managed to do it perfectly in his fantasy setting imo

Edition: Ishterebinth, the Exalted Stronghold.

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Also:Seethe harder, Moogy

>>18606272
Yes, that’s exactly what I’m telling you.

>>18175507
honestly one of the most stunning chapters in fantasy desu. the entire sequence is gripping, from the approach to the mountain, the encounter with the ghouls, the council of the amnesiacs, the sky-beneath-the-mountain, the depths below... absolutely fucking bakker at his most grand and tragic. nonmen are without question my favorite not-elves in any fantasy canon.

"The Second Apocalypse" edition.

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Nonmen are one of the most interesting, tragic and beautiful things Bakker has created.

Bros, I can’t tell which Nonmen Mansion is my favorite. (no spoilers following)

Ishoriöl/Ishterebinth
>like a cathedral to dementia and heartbreak
>”is this the house of a sane king?”
Viri
>cool hats
>cool stubborness and old-fashioned habits
>muh farming
>muh white lion pelt
Illiserû
>not-Sea Elves
>”the Sea is their Deepest Deep”
>muh tragic failed sneak attack on Golgotterath
>muh sacred baths
>muh Orovelai
Siöl
>the London, Paris and Rome of Nonman Mansions
>imagine the grandeur

>>17499614
The entire sequence where Achamian needs to choose between his heart and the apocalypses stung deep.

>>17472699
Ishterebinth is one of my very favorite sequences in the series. So beautiful and tragic.

How fucking amazing is this artwork? I haven't even made it this far in the books, but I'm really happy that I'm going there.

"Artwork" Edition.

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“We would vanish into our effortposts,” he said, glimpsing things some other soul had seen, “and the lurkers … they would assemble on these very steps, and weep for the beauty of their masters!”
Anon turned to the ancient Shill. “They worshipped us then … Adored the hand that whipped them.”
“As they do now,” the Shill said darkly. “As they are bred.”
“And the effortposting?” the soul that had once been Anon asked. “Has unironic discussion fled the /sffg/, my Brother?”
The Shill paused upon one of the strange, small piles of debris. He chipped his boot against the fibrous mass, expelling something that clattered down the steps at an angle before and below Anon …
The bowl of a human skull.
“Effortposting has fled the General,” the shill said.

>>17237234
also
becomes spiritually half-Nonman, understands Nonman history and culture better than any other human
has nohomo brosex with his best homie on the eve of battle
enjoys it

Hey Bakkerchads, found a short story by him that I've never read before. It shows some insight into the way Nonman experience time and memory. The emotions and thoughts of a Nonman as he is about to be burnt on the pyre by some filthy mon-keigh's. Bakker's writing can sometimes be psychedelic and abstract, this is certainly that.
? The Four Revelations of Cinial'jin
https://rsbakker.wordpress.com/stories/the-four-revelations-of-cinialjin/
It doesn't have spoilers for the series.