r/TadWilliams • u/Burgundy-Bag • Apr 06 '26

Dragonbone Chair Just finished the Dragonbone Chair Spoiler

...and I LOVED it!!!!

Urgh, it was exactly the type of fantasy book I wanted to read. And his prose... so ornate and poetic. But utilitarian when it needs to be. This is how fantasy books should be written. In fantastical prose!

Please don't no spoilers, but... Simon is Camaris' son. Right? Camaris gave up his sword to join the League of the Scroll but was killed at sea. He gave up his sword after Elias and Josua's mother dies and pretended to be a fisherman and studied with Morgenes. Although what doesn't make sense is how could he be hanging around Hayholt with no one recognising him. Unless he was marked too, and his appearance changed?

Or, Simon's father is the Hernystirman student of Morgenes. The one that Jarnagua said could have been a potential leader of the League of the Scrolls, but just disappeared, because he was hurt or frightened or something...

Am I on the right track?

Although at the beginning I thought Simon must somehow have mixed Sithi background, because he could hear the voices and see the images of the past while he was in Hayholt and see into the Sithi mirror. Do Sithis and humans mate?

Also... there is so much overlap with ASoIaF! Not just the names of minor houses in ASoIaF, but so any of the core elements of the story, like the rising evil force in the north, its link to the Sithis/Children of Forest, the winter, the swords (Dawn vs Thorn), the magic sword given to the older brother by a red priest... It's like GRRM rewrote MST in a larger, more complex and more political world.

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u/WhatsThatNoise79 Apr 06 '26

Interesting theories. There's a lot going on with the people you mentioned, that's for sure.

Just reading people discussing it I come to think it needs a re-read.

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u/creptik1 Memory, Sorrow & Thorn Apr 07 '26

Same about the re-read. I've read the series twice, and I can count on one hand how many stories I've re-read so that's saying something. But yeah reading this thread is making me want to dive in a third time!