Oct 28, 2026 · 46 min · 11 segments
A Court of Splintered Harmony is officially here, we've inhaled every page, and our brains may never recover. SPOILER WARNING: We're discussing the entire book, so finish reading before you hit play!…
Immediately, do you feel like this did exactly what we said from the standpoint of We were like, it's really gonna open so many questions and not answer.
Yes.
Yes, it absolutely did.
Um, it's like fed me and left me starved at the same time.
It's like it, it explored everything and explored nothing.
yeah it just opened up the doors and kind of told me oh we're going to be this might happen this might happen this might happen this is probably going to happen but nothing actually well one or two things happened but nothing major happened one thing i was super surprised about was the timeline like i had obviously predicted that the timeline was going to be overlapping with crescent city um but we're not we are post crescent city we are like i was
aftermath because that's been my theory for a long time is that that was going to be a crossover and so i will like come
And I'm surprised, like I'm truly surprised that it's
all in retrospect.
yes well because that also means that really for anyone that picks up akatar and just reads straight through they're gonna go oh bryce quinlan who's bryce quinlan why did she land what happened here they're gonna have to now go back and read that book there's no like kind of crossover where it's like oh you read you can read it through akatar's perspective and then you can go and read it through currency's perspective like you were gonna you obviously get enough to know or someone landed and something happened but to get the real context you're gonna have to go and read crescent city now this is not a book that like they're they're separate entities like you're gonna have to go and read them well and let's be
honest like the the ghost of bryce quinlan is through this entire book like i feel like somebody would have I don't know why you would not go read Crescent City after this because the impact Girlfriend has left on Prithian is
strong.
The impact she has left on Nesta and Asriel? I know.
um Asriel is spiraling like Asriel is I know I'm a price Ariel I know my brain is in this place but I will have a theory for you guys in a minute I won't say it right yet but he's spiraling like he is like he is not touching his dagger he is angry and an inanimate object yes he loved it yes it was under his but a dagger it's not alive and he's so angry and he refused to touch it he's like may as well call it butcher's blade like i oh
it's so he's
i'm
he's yeah he's
not coping
he's not coping and it's it's so interesting to me because the way that he is treating truth teller i don't know it's just I had a lot of feelings.
I had a lot of feelings and a lot of thoughts about it.
A lot
of feelings.
there's a lot of layers to it i feel like it means a lot more than just a dagger to me it resembles his heart his soul absolutely his bond um and he is feeling very torn up right now and i think i've got a whole lot of theories about that but maybe let's go into that a tiny bit later because there's going to be a lot to break down it's probably going to need entire episodes but i will just say lightly that as a bryce ariel i have not come out of this book feeling like our ship has crashed and burned by a long shot i feel like There is some seriously strong evidence there that Bryce left a very significant impact on Asriel and he has not he's not coping terribly well since.
I think a lot of people have started to feel that same way.
that people that were maybe not bryce and as fans before have become brycerial curious because the subreddit has grown by like the hundreds recently
Immediately, do you feel like this did exactly what we said from the standpoint of We were like, it's really gonna open so many questions and not answer.
Yes.
Yes, it absolutely did.
Um, it's like fed me and left me starved at the same time.
It's like it, it explored everything and explored nothing.
yeah it just opened up the doors and kind of told me oh we're going to be this might happen this might happen this might happen this is probably going to happen but nothing actually well one or two things happened but nothing major happened one thing i was super surprised about was the timeline like i had obviously predicted that the timeline was going to be overlapping with crescent city um but we're not we are post crescent city we are like i was
aftermath because that's been my theory for a long time is that that was going to be a crossover and so i will like come
And I'm surprised, like I'm truly surprised that it's
all in retrospect.
yes well because that also means that really for anyone that picks up akatar and just reads straight through they're gonna go oh bryce quinlan who's bryce quinlan why did she land what happened here they're gonna have to now go back and read that book there's no like kind of crossover where it's like oh you read you can read it through akatar's perspective and then you can go and read it through currency's perspective like you were gonna you obviously get enough to know or someone landed and something happened but to get the real context you're gonna have to go and read crescent city now this is not a book that like they're they're separate entities like you're gonna have to go and read them well and let's be
honest like the the ghost of bryce quinlan is through this entire book like i feel like somebody would have I don't know why you would not go read Crescent City after this because the impact Girlfriend has left on Prithian is
strong.
The impact she has left on Nesta and Asriel? I know.
um Asriel is spiraling like Asriel is I know I'm a price Ariel I know my brain is in this place but I will have a theory for you guys in a minute I won't say it right yet but he's spiraling like he is like he is not touching his dagger he is angry and an inanimate object yes he loved it yes it was under his but a dagger it's not alive and he's so angry and he refused to touch it he's like may as well call it butcher's blade like i oh
it's so he's
i'm
he's yeah he's
not coping
he's not coping and it's it's so interesting to me because the way that he is treating truth teller i don't know it's just I had a lot of feelings.
I had a lot of feelings and a lot of thoughts about it.
A lot
of feelings.
there's a lot of layers to it i feel like it means a lot more than just a dagger to me it resembles his heart his soul absolutely his bond um and he is feeling very torn up right now and i think i've got a whole lot of theories about that but maybe let's go into that a tiny bit later because there's going to be a lot to break down it's probably going to need entire episodes but i will just say lightly that as a bryce ariel i have not come out of this book feeling like our ship has crashed and burned by a long shot i feel like There is some seriously strong evidence there that Bryce left a very significant impact on Asriel and he has not he's not coping terribly well since.
I think a lot of people have started to feel that same way.
that people that were maybe not bryce and as fans before have become brycerial curious because the subreddit has grown by like the hundreds recently
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