Words Steven Erikson uses waaaayyyyy too much
Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 11:05 am
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Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 12:58 pm
I would say crepuscular, but I like the word too much.
Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 2:30 am
Hey, I like patina. I just don't expect to see it three times on the same page! 
Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 2:55 am
hahahahaMurrin wrote:I would say crepuscular, but I like the word too much.
meee tooooo! thanks Marv for this thread!! (dabnabbit why didn't i think of that)
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Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 3:41 am
"must needs" and "none the less" Probably not quite what you had in mind, but the first things that came to my mind...
"crepuscular" is an awesome word (Though how often do you get to use it?)
"crepuscular" is an awesome word
(Though how often do you get to use it?)Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 9:28 am
"scowl". As I said in another thread, this is literally on every page.
Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 7:21 pm
I'm reading G of the Moon now, and he seems to use "glacier" and "glacial" a lot, but not in normal situations.
Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 2:00 pm
Detritus...I mean, come on. Shake it up a little; try debris, garbage, trash, junk.....
Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2007 9:53 pm
Ok, I'm about halfway through D-Gates now, and found a good example of glacial (p. 386):
I also caught the bugger using percipience (p. 404). Did he steal it from SRD, or the other way around?He screamed, pain lancing through him with glacial fire.
She does! Such percipience in the lass as to sense my every thought-as if she could hear them aloud.
Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 1:55 pm
"Skittering"
Most fantasy authors need a Thesaurus.
Most fantasy authors need a Thesaurus.
Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 6:06 pm
Hood.
Or Hood's Breath.
Is that the Only curse people have?
Or Hood's Breath.
Is that the Only curse people have?
Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 10:07 pm
Hood's Balls is better. And he really does have balls, by the way.
Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 5:39 am
As far as Hood-related curses, I would put money down that
Spoiler
we'll be hearing about "Hood's Tusks" eventually.
Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 1:37 pm
There's actually a pretty long chapter about curses in RG.
Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 10:37 pm
Reading through MoI today and read another one : Togg's Tongue.
Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 12:23 am
How many times do we hear someone say, "Jesus Christ!" in rl?
Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 11:59 pm
Beru fend seems to be quite popular.
Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2008 7:13 am
Honestly I remember people saying "Togg's Teats" more than this one. W/e though.Syl wrote:Reading through MoI today and read another one : Togg's Tongue.
Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 9:59 pm
Potsherds (In DG anyways)
Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2008 4:01 am
Grimaced. Or alternately, "bared his teeth".
Here's some stuff about curses from RG. It's a discussion between Redmask and Toc Anaster:
Here's some stuff about curses from RG. It's a discussion between Redmask and Toc Anaster:
"Togg's teats, Redmask, that's a long speech coming from you."
"I hold words in contempt, Anaster Toc. What do you mean when you say 'Togg's teats'?"
"Togg's a god."
"Not a goddess?"
"No."
"Then its teats are--"
"Useless. Precisely."
"What of the others? 'Hood's Breath'?"
"Hood is the Lord of Death."
"Thus...no breath."
"Correct."
"Beru's mercy?"
"She has no mercy."
"Mowri fend?"
"The Lady of the Poor fends off nothing."
Redmask regarded the foreigner. "Your people have a strange relationship with your gods."
"I suppose we do. Some decry it as cynical and they may have a point. It's all to do with power, Redmask, and what it does to those who possess it. Gods not excepted."
"If they are so unhelpful, why do you worship them?"
"Imagine how much more unhelpful they'd be if we didn't." At whatever Anaster Toc saw in Redmask's eyes, he then laughed.