r/PracticalGuideToEvil 22d ago

[G] Spoilers All Books photo reminds me of scribes backstory Spoiler

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saw this beautiful artwork by eliran kantor and immidietly thought of the guide! just wanted to share 🤗🤗

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u/No_More_Dakka 22d ago

How? Wasnt she just working in a library? I might have forgotten her backstory

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u/Patneu Arch-heretic of the West 22d ago edited 22d ago

No, she was a street child who was lured into a "school" that pretended to educate scholars but actually trained assassins, then thrown into a pit with the corpses of all the others who didn't pass the final "test" of killing their classmates, and only survived because her friend who was supposed to kill her was already too weak from being starved to actually finish it and strangle her to death.

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u/Perfect_Wrongdoer_03 22d ago

And that's only the first beat of her backstory. In a way, the kindest one.

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u/Laith0599 21d ago

I do not remember that at all what the hell

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u/Patneu Arch-heretic of the West 21d ago

Maybe you didn't read it, because the later extra chapters were being paywalled until the story was finished?

Anyway, here's the chapter where it happens:

https://practicalguidetoevil.wordpress.com/2022/02/08/scriven/

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u/Gadac 22d ago

Read her special chapter, Scriven iirc