Skulduggery Pleasant: Kingdom of the Wicked
Summary
Skulduggery and Valkyrie, the two main characters, talk to a woman who claims to know the man that the pair are searching for, Argeddion. She tells them that Argeddion used to be called Walden D'Essai, and that he discovered his true name, which was Argeddion. It is always dangerous when someone learns their true name, because they become incredibly powerful. Skulduggery and Valkyrie find out that the Sanctuary (the magical community's Parliament) sent a team after Argeddion, led by a man named Tyren Lament. They never came back. The trouble is, there are no records of them at all. Skulduggery deduces that this means that Lament succeeded, because if he hadn't, another team would have been sent. Now they need to find Lament and find out what happened to Argeddion, so they figure that the best people to ask about someone are his enemies. Therefore, they go to a gaol to find a man named Nadir, one of Lament's enemies. They stumble upon the fact that Nadir's powers are being used to stop prisoners from escaping. Skulduggery and Valkyrie wake Nadir up, much to the warden's distress, and ask him who Lament's associates were. After they do that, Skulduggery realizes that Lament is probably keeping Argeddion locked up somewhere. He finds out that the Dagan Logistics company has made dealings with lament, and so the pair go to speak with the son of the owner of the company, Hansard Dagan.
Passage
"She went outside, looked out over the dark stagnant lake to the wasteland beyond, to where dead
trees clawed at the sky like the land itself was screaming. Valkyrie wondered if the whole world would
end up looking like that when she was through with it" (Landy 68).
I like this passage because it had very vivid imagery, and alludes to a problem that Valkyrie has. She has a dark side that constantly threatens to break out, a part of her called Darquesse, which is her true name. It has been prophecised that Darquesse will destroy the world, so Valkyrie is terrified of what she might do. This passage perfectly illustrates her feelings about it.
Derek Landy
Fantasy
Summary
Skulduggery and Valkyrie, the two main characters, talk to a woman who claims to know the man that the pair are searching for, Argeddion. She tells them that Argeddion used to be called Walden D'Essai, and that he discovered his true name, which was Argeddion. It is always dangerous when someone learns their true name, because they become incredibly powerful. Skulduggery and Valkyrie find out that the Sanctuary (the magical community's Parliament) sent a team after Argeddion, led by a man named Tyren Lament. They never came back. The trouble is, there are no records of them at all. Skulduggery deduces that this means that Lament succeeded, because if he hadn't, another team would have been sent. Now they need to find Lament and find out what happened to Argeddion, so they figure that the best people to ask about someone are his enemies. Therefore, they go to a gaol to find a man named Nadir, one of Lament's enemies. They stumble upon the fact that Nadir's powers are being used to stop prisoners from escaping. Skulduggery and Valkyrie wake Nadir up, much to the warden's distress, and ask him who Lament's associates were. After they do that, Skulduggery realizes that Lament is probably keeping Argeddion locked up somewhere. He finds out that the Dagan Logistics company has made dealings with lament, and so the pair go to speak with the son of the owner of the company, Hansard Dagan.
Passage
"She went outside, looked out over the dark stagnant lake to the wasteland beyond, to where dead
trees clawed at the sky like the land itself was screaming. Valkyrie wondered if the whole world would
end up looking like that when she was through with it" (Landy 68).
I like this passage because it had very vivid imagery, and alludes to a problem that Valkyrie has. She has a dark side that constantly threatens to break out, a part of her called Darquesse, which is her true name. It has been prophecised that Darquesse will destroy the world, so Valkyrie is terrified of what she might do. This passage perfectly illustrates her feelings about it.
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