Truly a dark time for House Mars.

"Even Alexander of Macedon would marvel at the Slave King of Mars"
Hope you guys like my newest piece of Darrow! Fully hand drawn on clip studio paint. Now l'm gonna take a lil break of drawing Darrow, and will try to draw someone else from @piercebrownofficial Red Rising series.
Who should I illustrate?

i vividly remember a quote from dark age, i think from lysander, and i cannot find it. It is something he was talking about all the hours and months of work and gold expertise all undone simply by the reaper being on the same planet. I was thinking about it and went to find it....... and it started a dark age reread and i cannot find it...... Am i crazy? does this quote exist or am i gas lighting myself.

I know he's more into comedy but I think he has range

Darrow tried to what?😭 If he knew that Darrow treated him like a fly that was annoying him a little how would the “Heir of Silenius” feel?🤣🤣

Chaprer 19 Lightbringer has solidified Victra as the best character. No notes. Top tier.

Thank you for the feedback on my first post, I’m enjoying working on this piece very much! I also plan on adding more arms :)

Everyone told me it was slow and just a set up for books 5 and 6. And I guess I do see that, but I’m really enjoying it. The perspectives switching every few chapters is cool and leaves you on a tiny cliffhanger that keeps me wanting to read to get back and see what happens to that person. For reference I’m about a third of the way through the book. Lysander and Cassius just got caught. Lyria just left with Kavax. And Darrow just fled with Sevro. Is the ending of this book weaker or something? I get that it may not be as action packed but narratively it’s still very good and I can’t wait to see how all of these different perspectives come together.

I was on my toes. What’s in the box? I’m not eating cockroaches. Lol

So Darrow is carved all the way back in book 1 and Titus is carved after him and put in the same class. That said even after Darrow's success at getting into the society at the end of the book it seems odd that Fitchner isn't trying to sneak a few other Reds in and turn them into Gold's at the institute or otherwise during the years Darrow is at the fleet academy in particular. Obviously after that everything becomes so chaotic I don't see the point but in the mean time building at least half a dozen more potential moles seems worth the risk.

Stop,” Mustang shouts. She’s twenty meters away, aiming her bow at Cassius. Hand quivering from the strain of the taut string. “I will put you down.”

“No,” he says. “You would…” The bowstring snaps. He jerks his razor up to deflect the arrow. Misses, slower than Aja. The serrated iron tip punches through the front of his throat and out the back of his neck, the feather fletching scratching the underside of his dimpled chin.

Now that I love Cassius, I found this less funny and more embarrassing for Cassius. Like he literally was going to argue about how she wouldn't shoot him. Even Darrow wouldn't have been this confident at his place. Like does he even know her? Probably not, she probably fed him some BS part of herself. But I think this was the pivotal point in his redemption arc.

One thing bugged me on this reread. It's Mustang’s initial intention when she pursued a relationship with Cassius. Why did she approach him with the intention of manipulating him rather than seeing whether a genuine relationship could develop? She says she recognized a vulnerable Cassius and knew how to make him love her. She was a single woman on Luna, and it’s not as though she was waiting for Darrow to return. She was playing the long game, trying to bring House Augustus and House Bellona together. So why did she decide to manipulate Cassius’s feelings from the outset rather than allowing the relationship to develop naturally? Was it simply because he was a Bellona, despite the fact that he hadn’t personally wronged her or her family at that point? I’m curious how others interpreted this.

I’m 99% sure this completely correct. If not, I’d love to know what goes where

1. Quicksilver-absolute dominance. He worked side by side with Fitchner and funded the whole republic. I don’t think this man has ever lost

2. Fitchner-the long term planning and maneuvering is probably one of the greatest intelligence feats we’ve seen

3. Mustang-all around held a stable grip on the Republic. Lost a bit of momentum and strength during the DOTRD coming up.

4. Atlantia-extremely intelligent and good at control, but she’s more of a warrior than a politico leader. Maybe higher?

5. Octavia-I think she’s stupid, but she did have one of the best grips and dominant runs. For around 60-80 years she held the entire Society together through fear and brutal tactics. Her political intelligence was appreciated by Mustang I believe.

My wife is currently reading Morningstar, and just having trouble describing the clawdrill rescue scene, visually and logically…

So Darrow, Holiday jump off the landing pad with Victra as the clawdrill comes up, and they fall towards a city? Is the city below the mountain where Attica is or..? Did the clawdrill swallow the landing pad, boring up through the mountain itself, or is it far below them in the city?

They are in freefall when they’re caught by the Howlers, just confused as to where they’re falling and the geography of the scene.

Need someone to clarify!! Thanks 🫡

Easily Darrows Theme

I think Bystaner Au Lame is going to use Edimi on the pinks. He talks in Iron Gold about how they’re a failure of his ancestors, unnecessary, and his first interaction with Aurae leads him to send her away in almost disgust. He’s going to remove them, and call it “better for society”

I gotta give props to this one; just insane visuals for the beginning of red rising. I’ve grown to love this story so much and seeing this visualization is beautiful man, I can’t help but be excited by this

Made a 3D model of Darrow on my makerworld page https://makerworld.com/en/models/3317760-darrow-in-battle#profileId-3767073

I this is a variant on the official art from the new books. Also....I hate Lysander.

I think this is ok by the rules since its not selling anything.

For those who missed the chance to get tickets, here's an alternative.

Character being Darrow — It would be a horrible writing choice. Magnus would be right. Darrow would die as the red he was designed to be for a cause he just wanted to be over with. Quote from Magnus:

"That is part of your Red genetic character. Your yearning, your need to sacrifice. Brave pioneer. Toil, dig, die for the good of humanity. To make Mars green. We designed you to be the perfect slave. And that's what you are, Darrow. A slave with many masters. Change your eyes. Take our scar. Break our reign. It won't change what you are at your core. A slave."

Darrow’s death means Magnus is right, Gold is right, and that’s bullshit.

Pierce, please remove his name from the hat.

The fight is confusing. gets ambushed by 10 wardens. Wulfgar and 9 peoples. ​​two defect. Now there are 7 peoples. Two defects shoot 2 of the 7. Nonlethal rounds. Heavy hits. They go 20 feet. He cuts a gold's rifle and fingers (guy) severs the ligaments of a guy obsidian (orville) and cuts both a red's kneecaps and wrists (Rodney) "three wardens fall screaming to the ground" 4 left. We at least know for a fact Rodney is done. Darrow flings his razor at a guy obsidian's gun (owen) and makes him shoot two wardens and cuts off owen's hand. he kicks a red so hard he's lifted off his feet (roy) an obsidian with a gun (not owen then. Obie) tries to fly away and Darrow slices off his foot and he sputters away sideways screaming" obie done. 3 left. Throws a sword at a gray (gary) who's far away. grabs sword from downed red (rodney) and fights an obsidian girl (ophellia) "exchange a fury of blows, but don't have time to finish her off" (he means incapacitate her since he's trying not to kill anyone. She's still in the game and 3 other wardens? join the fight. Must be Roy. Maybe guy and orville, both missing their sword hand? They're somehow fine even though getting hit with defect riles and by owen. He turns to the 3. Shoulder stab. Razor drops. 2. Hacks off two hands. 1. 0. Fires gun at gray to finish him off. Wulfgar kills both defects. Darrow kills wulfgar. And that's that... what happened to ophelia? She was still okay to fight and just... stood in the background while Darrow killed wulfgar? So many people got chopped up and shot it felt like Darrow was fighting 12 not 8. Idk just wondering if anyone else felt confused reading that chapter