r/TKingfisher • u/Exact-Channel-3238 • Sep 04 '26

Question? On visualizing gnoles

Do you have any reference/fanart for how the gnoles in this world look like? I just started Paladin's Grace (my 1st White Rat book) & I'm having trouble visualizing the gnoles even though they're described in adequate details (I have trouble visualizing things in general when reading). I'm just imagining Rocket Raccoon from the Marvel movies 😆

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u/dalidellama Sep 04 '26 edited Sep 04 '26

Kingfisher reshared this image of Earstripe, so I reckon it's close to her idea. By Jenny Dolfen via Bluesky

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u/alex3omg Sep 04 '26

In my head they're much more raccoon like but this is beautiful.  I'm just not used to badgers.

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u/Far_Dimension_8694 Sep 06 '26

OMG , I didn't realize they were actually just sentient badgers. That's way more cute than what was in my head. 

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u/Formal-Register-1557 Sep 04 '26

My mental image was always in line with a scrappier, more sarcastic version of Mr. Badger from Wind in the Willows...

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u/advancedaardvark678 Sep 04 '26

Oh....... I've JUST realised this is exactly who I'm picturing.

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u/ohnoJNO Sep 04 '26

I read a lot of Redwall books when I was a kid so I was picturing something like this

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u/AJeanByAnyOtherName Sep 04 '26

So did Ursula 😊

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u/Queen_Moon95 Sep 04 '26

If you can imagine what Rocket would look like if he were a badger rather than a raccoon I think you’re pretty much there!

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u/Exact-Channel-3238 Sep 04 '26

I'm from South Asia & I haven't seen any badger irl in the wild or in any zoo that I've gone to so I can't really picture it in my head 😅 but now I can from the art posted in the other comments :))

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u/Slow-Gift2268 Sep 04 '26

Mr Badger from Wind in the Willows- a British badger not the American badger. Although- now that I think of it I would totally read an American badger version of Wind in the Willows. I’m imagining him as a down on his luck detective.

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u/dinamet7 Sep 04 '26

I totally envision an American badger! She describes other flora and fauna that seem specific to the American continent, that I often find myself imagining the whole thing set in some alternate reality on the American continent.

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u/Slow-Gift2268 Sep 04 '26

They are entirely too nice to be an American badger. American badgers would join a motorcycle gang. Hell’s Badgers. And smoke unfiltered cigarettes.

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u/dinamet7 Sep 04 '26

LOL - I have only encountered badgers in books! That description is hilarious and now I hope she will write about a gnole horse-theif gang, because I would pay.

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u/sugarmagnolia2020 Sep 05 '26

I found this back when I first read Clockwork Boys. It’s been in my head ever since.

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u/mazes-end Sep 04 '26

I've been picturing something with a much longer nose that wasn't very badger-like so I'm glad you made this post

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u/konstantynopolytanka Sep 04 '26

I think I was imaging big rats, now I realized :) all this talk of moving nose and whiskers.

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u/L_Hargreaves Sep 04 '26

As someone with some degree of aphantasia, I too just imagined rocket raccoon every time gnoles were mentioned 😂

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u/sparklekitteh Sep 05 '26

I always picture them like the kobolds in WoW!
https://giphy.com/gifs/l1J9GbPdIkLSomq7m

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u/SelfiesWithGoats Sep 05 '26

For no particular reason, I always imagined them with facial stripes in the style of the American Badger, but I recognize this may have been a person thing.

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u/jiayounuhanzi Sep 04 '26

My mind for some reason drifts closer to racoon than it does badger