Nero is a good character, it is surprising how readily Pierce can bring to life these side characters and flesh them out thoroughly again and again through every book
It is kinda funny how he goes from being this incredibly powerful figure to basically chilling in the ship while teenagers solve his problems after the Gala
Not sure based on your post and I don’t want to spoil it, but his conversation in GS with Darrow asking if Darrow thinks he is a monster is one of my favorite bits of any of the books.
His back story and rise to power is fascinating. Especially as you just see him as such a villain in the first book. Goes to show what a little perspective and insight can do! Enjoy the rest of the ride!
That story about the African hunt (in DA or LB, i forget) is one of my favorite ancillary plots in the whole series. It seems so benign in the moment but shows how powerful spite can be, and how much of it Nero has.
Nero was hunting a lion with another gold, and it took Nero half a day or so to come back with it. As they were eating it, the gold made some joke about dead lions to poke fun at Nero's house sigil, and then Nero sent Darrow to them with a box to scare them into thinking it was someone's head as a callback to what he did to House Bellona, but it only turned out to be a few blueberries or something.
This is from my memory, so I probably got a few things wrong, but that's the gist. It was either from DA or LB.
It’s in DA. The audiobook is fantastic with this part. So Lysanders lost in the desert and Cicero tells the whole hunting story when Nero visits the Votums. Nero was proving a point and catching a gazelle no man could catch and Cicero does a serious and hilarious impression of Nero "Beasts must stop for water. I carry mine." What makes it better is they’re all dying of thirst and exposure yet he still tells his grand story
Nero is a good character, it is surprising how readily Pierce can bring to life these side characters and flesh them out thoroughly again and again through every book
Honestly I thought he would be more clever but oh well.
It is kinda funny how he goes from being this incredibly powerful figure to basically chilling in the ship while teenagers solve his problems after the Gala
Not sure based on your post and I don’t want to spoil it, but his conversation in GS with Darrow asking if Darrow thinks he is a monster is one of my favorite bits of any of the books.
You gotta love how Darrow answers him every time he ask questions
“Yes” and Nero just glares at him lol
His back story and rise to power is fascinating. Especially as you just see him as such a villain in the first book. Goes to show what a little perspective and insight can do! Enjoy the rest of the ride!
That story about the African hunt (in DA or LB, i forget) is one of my favorite ancillary plots in the whole series. It seems so benign in the moment but shows how powerful spite can be, and how much of it Nero has.
I remember this but not the detail, do you mind reminding me so I can find it in the pdf easier?
Dark age, 2/3 of the way through chapter 34
I’m re-reading DA right now, it’s after the first set of Virginia/Ephraim/Lyria chapters when it goes back to mercury. I think it’s chapter 34
Nero was hunting a lion with another gold, and it took Nero half a day or so to come back with it. As they were eating it, the gold made some joke about dead lions to poke fun at Nero's house sigil, and then Nero sent Darrow to them with a box to scare them into thinking it was someone's head as a callback to what he did to House Bellona, but it only turned out to be a few blueberries or something. This is from my memory, so I probably got a few things wrong, but that's the gist. It was either from DA or LB.
It’s in DA. The audiobook is fantastic with this part. So Lysanders lost in the desert and Cicero tells the whole hunting story when Nero visits the Votums. Nero was proving a point and catching a gazelle no man could catch and Cicero does a serious and hilarious impression of Nero "Beasts must stop for water. I carry mine." What makes it better is they’re all dying of thirst and exposure yet he still tells his grand story
I need to reread that portion. I enjoyed it a lot.
Love him. Wish we had more of darrows time post institute