![]() ![]() When a piece is taken (as it would be in chess) the human piece must suffer a ‘default’. Two War Masters are assigned 40 people each and they move around in the stadium to the Master’s orders. Held in a Coliseum-like stadium, the poor that have been let into the stadium are used as human chess pieces. Whilst waiting for his chairs to be made, Locke’s attention turns to the Amusement War, the reason so many rich come to this place and also the reason so many poor come here too. Locke asks how long the chairs will take and is told 6-7 weeks initially, Locke offers him some more money (50 solari in total now!) and they get the time down to a single week. Locke pays the carpenter far more than is required for the chairs: 6 solari and then some. Then Locke hands Baumondain some further plans with features he wants added to the chairs: some-kind of mechanism that Locke says he would like added due to his master fearing that he may get locked in his study should it set on fire. Once they have agreed on the style, Baumondain tells Locke that he can never try to pass these off as originals because an expert would be able to tell the difference quite easily. The carpenter warns Locke that this soft wood won’t hold up for very long and Locke says that that is OK. The design that Locke gives to Master Baumondain for the chair is in the style of the last few years of the Therin Throne, he needs four of them with leather backs, real gold insets and made of a delicate wood called shear-crescent. The carpenter suggests that there are more than a few strange things going on in the area and although Locke doesn’t know what he is referring to, he makes a mental note to investigate. The gentled cat is strange, because there seems no reason that a cat should be gentled… it isn’t a working animal. Whilst sharing coffee with Baumondain, Locke meets the fifty-year-old’s daughter and a gentled cat. Locke meets with a Master Baumondain, a maker of high quality furniture and devices – Locke wants him to make some very special chairs for him. The people who come here to holiday and settle are very well-off and to have got there many of them have invented and produced the finest inventions. ![]() He isn’t here to rob these people, though, he is here to make use of their privileged existence. He considers that a lot of people here are able to waste more money drawing attention to themselves at breakfast than he – as Master Fehrwight – would spend on food in a month. Upon arrive, Locke heads to the miniature city and finds himself surrounded by expensive shops and men and women dressed in finer clothing and wearing more gold than even he thought possible. Locke has come here to secure the final piece he needs for his Sinspire scheme. Note: A year has passed since Locke & Jean arrived in Tal Verrar and Locke and Jean have managed to build a fortune worth over 1000 solari by cheating at various games. ![]() This little paradise is obviously expensive to holiday at and retire to, so most of the people who come here are wealthy individuals, but Locke notices a steady flow of ragged peasants coming to the strange private city too. Solan Corbeau lies within a cleft in the black seaside rocks and is in the shadow of Mount Azar (an old volcano). Six days north from Tal Verrar, Locke has just arrived – disguised as a merchant named Mordavi Fehrwight – in the demi-city of Salon Corbeau. Anyhow, without further rambling from me: That’s because the two Reminiscences were really long and when I came to the end of Chapter 7, the fact we then moved onto ‘Part 2’ and are over half way through the book, meant it felt like a natural stopping point. What a week it has been for us visiting Tal Verrar! Last week we were getting ready to rob a Casino, this week we find ourselves involved in a plan of epic scale and are getting ready to sail the high-seas to track down some cut-throat pirates.Īstute readers will notice we’ve only actually covered Chapters 5, 6 and 7 this week. Welcome to the Second Week of our Red Seas Under Red Skies Read-Along. ![]() If you missed last week’s read along you can catch up by clicking here. The brilliant Marc from Fantasy Faction, returns to the Gollancz Blog with a insightful and in-depth look at the opening chapters of Red Seas Under Red Skies. We couldn’t resist posting a photo of the book and our Locke Lamora bookmarks. The Republic of Thieveshas been spotted around Gollancz Towers. Welcome back to our Read Along series as we get ready for the publication of The Republic of Thieves on the 10th October 2013. ![]()
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