Dark Age

Yes

... or was it last week when I was saying that there aren't really many memorable moments from Dark Age? This is one of them.

This is-

This is one of them

...

Dark Age.

Oh, God.

Iron Gold.

Well, thank you.

And I looked, and it's the Severo one from Dark Age.

That was around the time I started my Instagram account, and it dropped May 4th, and I was like, oh, that's why? Trust me, I would own as much art as I could, but I have this problem where I like to buy the prints of people, so many different prints, and my wife's like, you're running out of space.

Yeah.

I love that quote, too.

It's only because I grabbed this paper that's been hidden under my desk.

It's from Dark Age.

It sounds like Ephraim.

It plays...

It, it rings true because we see that in Dark Age when Mustang...

when he's out there tracking down the syndicate, syndicate and, and just kind of laying waste to them to no real purpose, just violence, and then Mustang kinda calls him back into the fold, and it does feel like...

I think she even says In her inner monologue, like he doesn't want to be doing this.

You're 100% right.

That is exactly...

Particularly that scene in Dark Age where Mustang and him-

With Lysander or even...

Finds a way back in.

It, it definitely like actually happens through Dark Age, but we just wanted it to end shortly after he died.

I was thinking, you know how like if we don't wanna mention a name, you could say redacted.

I think we just need to be like re- Retactus or something.

by saying this.

I don't know if all of the hype about the second era of Red Rising is about this book or if it's about Lightbringer and Dark Age.

I hear a lot about Lightbringer.

I do too.

I also hear a lot about Dark Age.

I don't hear a ton about Iron Gold.

Yeah, I don't either.

You remember how I felt like that? That's exactly how I feel right now.

We would not

get any of Dark Age or Lifebringer.

Yeah, and there's just so much, like, just the control that he has over himself, his mind, like, it is intriguing.

I do think they should have killed him, but.

Victress a little bit.

We're working on it.

Like, especially towards Dark Age, Victor gets great character development.

Um,

But when I finally picked it up, I was like, what's going on here? So I read all as much as I could.

And then when I had my first kid, that's when Dark Age came out, just like right around that time.

Perfect time.

And so I was reading Dark Age while trying to stay awake in the nights with the baby, which is, you know, the perfect time to be reading a book with a baby in your arms.

And then the second one came out with my second kid, or sorry, Lightbringer came out just after my second kid too.

So especially the last two books really hold a special place for me just because they like, I remember them so clearly and they really got me through that time.

I'm re-listening, so I'm cycling through.

I'm halfway through the graphic audio of Dark Age right now.

There are two characters that have done this to great effect.

It is Kavix and then it's Diomedes' grandmother, who have feigned kind of senility.

Dark

days.

Dark age, if you will.

We are now living in.

So out of the three of us, I'm the only one who's read Iron Gold.

I need to move on to Dark Age, but I'm putting it off.

I'm scared.

And I'm so excited that one of you is finally working your way through Iron Gold because that book was