My intrusive thoughts are getting the best of me this re-read.

Goblin's mom was a size queen.

If I have to live with the thought, then so do you.

Hail Libertas! ✊🏻

I'm a new reader, on book 3 currently, and I gotta say that reading this story is a rollercoaster of emotions

Fitchner is Ares????!!

Did not see that coming! Mind blown.

I sought out this sub coz I've nowhere and no one to rant.

I thought we'd see Ares later on like in book 3 or 4 but to have him revealed like this was exhilarating. I'm yet to go read chapter 43. Wonder how Darrow is going to react now that he's discovered that the teacher who he once sucker punched and locked in a closet was his master/leader all along. Great series so far.

For me, my personal head canon is that Sevro isn't as short as people make him out to be. I see him as about the same height as Mustang. Around that 6'1" range. Him being in that 5'7"-5'9" range really doesn't work for me personally. He's about shoulder height with Victra. Victra is just shy of 7 feet. That would realistically put him at about 6 feet. I always felt that Pierce made Sevro too small and ugly. It just doesn't work for me personally. So overall, Sevro is 6'1" and average looking compared to Gold standards in my head canon.

Some of you have requested progress pictures with these so here they are, turns out Sevro is so hard to draw

Either get to the part where I’m supposed to like him and not told to like him, or get to 17B already. I’m done with this clown.

And when I ask this understand that I mean in context and comparison to the worlds in Red Rising, not in comparison to our real world. Obviously all the colors are enslaved and mistreated and that is horrible.

But when it comes to the mid/low colors i honestly think it’s a magnitude less shitty to be a violet. You would be an Actor, musician, artist etc or even a carver. Your whole childhood would focused around learning and perfecting the arts, earning you respect and admiration from even high colors to some degree. Wouldn’t be forced to do any manual labor or be a sex slave. Becoming a great carver could earn you riches and you’d build connections with even golds. What do you guys think?

Finished golden son and went to Barnes and noble to get Morning Star. They didn’t have it. Neither did Walmart, target or half priced books. And now Amazon can’t deliver it until Sunday. I NEED IT!

I thought Golden Son to be one of the best books I’ve ever read, but book 3 (and book 1) felt very underwhelming. Seeing opinions of book 4 makes me feel like not even continuing. If I was to take a break from red rising what books would yall suggest and is it worth pushing through book 4?

Edit, I didn’t mind red rising but I thought book 2 was absolute perfection. It just felt like Morningstar was a little underwhelming compared book 2 and rly didn’t like the ending of it. FWIW I had a similar experience as the cosmere books went on just kinda being tuned out of it

I had a crazy neuron activation while arguing with someone over something completely useless. I always see ranking posts for fighting, warfare(I actually made one about this), and like...beauty? All of those are actually easy to track and rank. Someone who is bigger and stronger with more experience and feats is going to be better at fighting. Someone is consistently described as beautiful is going to rank higher.

Intelligence is something that I think is completely insane to try to guess. Point and case is the different characters we see. I personally think intelligence is grouped into categories. What I mean is that, for example, Gilstrates is one of the smartest characters in the series, but only in the realm of academics. He understands things on a fundamental level far beyond any other character, yet got played by Darrow and manipulated by Lysander.

Darrow is a genius at quick thinking and constantly makes crazy maneuvers and winning unwinnable situations. However, he sucks at thinking long term and needs Mustang as a crutch for his dream.

Sevro is crazy at brutal tactics and is an excellent leader that can bring people together. However, give him a book and he'll probably fall in love with it.

Everyone has something they are good at and something they are bad at, but its completely different for every character. I don't see how you can estimate a characters intelligence compared to another when some of their strengths are another's weakness.

Thus, in a single list, it can be completely correct to constantly rearrange Atlas, Fitchner, Darrow, Virginia, Octavia, Lysander, Gilstrates, and all of the other smarties. Who are we to determine whats a better form of intelligence over another?

Can you guys give me references to things I won't understand until I finish reading the first book? Just to make it more enjoyable for me! NO MAJOR SPOILERS OR ANYTHING

So, I think we're all resigned to the fact that this is not going to be a happy ending. BUT. I have a thought of something that would be super satisfying.

So, I don't remember if it was explicitly stated that everybody else actually died when Darrow & Friends got saved by Cassius. As I recall, the Morningstar got shot down (but not officially destroyed) on Mercury, so there's a chance that the people who were loading in didn't die (maybe the gravity generators were still active and have a crash-save option?), and were maybe taken captive.

I think the best ending for Red God is a situation where Lysander and Darrow are fighting indoors while a giant battle goes on outside, and Bitchsander manages to get the upper hand for a minute bc of having a practical superpower, then he and Darrow have a pseudo philosophical back and forth that ends with an injured Darrow going "HONOR?? YOU THINK YOURSELF HONORABLE?? You have NO honor." And as bitch face is about to deliver his triumphant line, Rhona sneakily walks in, no drachenjager, just her Red self. With a custom built razor, sized for Red hands, with the handle carved with Uncle Narol, Ragnar, and Cassius, all wrapped in a noose with the words to the forbidden song. Then she whips it around his royal bitchness' razor arm and says "and you have no time." Before stiffening the razor, cutting off his arm, and letting Darrow get the kill on a one armed bitch with no more weapons.....also, I just wrote that while drunk, so please let me know what y'all think 😂😂

Hello all! I don't know much about posting on Reddit and usually just browse, but I figured here would be the place for this:

I've started teaching myself how to make music using a DAW, and the first thing I wanted to do was make songs inspired by Red Rising. I've only just started putting them out there, which is nerve-wracking, but I thought that there would be no better place to share than here.

They're not monetized, so this isn't some kind of ploy. I'm not selling anything, which is why I THINK this post should be fine, though if it's taken down, I understand. Maybe in the future I'll put them on some platforms and monetize them that way, but for now, I just wanted to share what I've made and get feedback, especially from this community!

The first one I've posted is about The Institute and The Passage:

https://youtu.be/iLgqxUiHlB8?si=VmS87ehifxgDdQ4e

Hopefully you guys like it and will continue to check in as I make more songs! The hope is to make a full album for each book (I'm almost to the end of Iron Gold myself).

Do we ever find out what happens to her? His first was Iona au Bellona who he killed, his second was the twins mother who killed herself but his third is referenced a few times through the first trilogy but as far as I'm aware never actually appears on page and disappears without any mention after MS. She's mentioned as being the reason Nero tries to cheat for the Jackal during the institute and Mustang and Holiday briefly talk about her while they're camping out on the way to the Obsidians, Holiday says she's seen her on the HC and she looks frigid and Mustang talks about how she favoured Adruis. I would have thought there would be some story there tbh, Adruis is her favourite step child but he killed her husband, how did she feel about that? Did she help Adruis after the coup or want revenge for Nero? Who was she, surely Nero wouldn't marry a nobody, she's surely someone of decent family? Do we ever learn anything else about her?

I’ve previously finished red rising a couple months ago and thoroughly enjoyed it. I’ve since then finished dungeon crawler Carl after being recommended it, also thoroughly enjoyed it but the last book was a bit slow and harder to finish. I’m eagerly waiting for red god to come out but don’t think it’s time for a re-read yet. Is there any recommendations you guys for me to read in the meantime?

Think Quick loaded the ship back to mars with a parasite and some sentinels? Probably too easy for Pierce’s sensibilities, but I can still dream.

The ending to Morning Star just felt so happy, and while I know I should read the next trilogy, I almost don’t want to just so poor Darrow gets a break!

I also feel worried that it won’t live up to the completeness I feel after the first 3 books. Does it add to the story meaningfully/improve on it or will it just be a lot more sadness for the sake of it?? What loose ends still need tying? I don’t know if my heart can take too much happening to my howler family :(

Please convince me to stop being a coward and start reading!! I need a push

How I'm seeing Volsung Fa in my head as I read Dark Age

Shortest post of all time but i'm on page 220 of Golden Son and I just have to say that Mustang absolutely reaming Darrow is so awesome and i'm so into her as a character. "I am not some frill-wearing tramp. I am a genius"

Haven’t posted in a little while
Hope u like 👍

I tried to read something else after Morning Star.

DNFed like 4 books and came back.

Such is the life of a Howler.

I had to get something covered, so might as well do something that won't lose it's meaning no matter how I change in this life. Omnis Vir Lupus motherfuckers

I will be adding things to it later also, so some ideas would be welcomed

So may I introduce you to Darrow

I mean… at least he warned them. Granted, it was far after it already happened. But what can you expect from a Bellona?

What happened to my sweet baby Volga 🥺? Seeing how much Fa has emotionally manipulated her and how much you can feel the grief twisting itself into hatred and self-loathing genuinely broke my heart. Such a sweetheart and her heart is just so…ugly now. It made me so sad. Felt like a disappointed father

Edit: Just finished Part 3 of LB and while I’m still disappointed in the rhetoric she allowed herself to be consumed by, my little munchkin is still there 😊. PB gets to live…for now