Necromancy and You - An Introduction to the Locked Tomb World 

*read in Moira Quirke voice* "Nooooo, Magnussss, don't tell everyone about our loreeee"

*glares at the last bit of the exposition*

I will use this as an advertisement to convince my friends to read TLT.

I love this so much! I only have two notes that may help clarify for anyone reading: First, necromancy may be partially genetic. It's implied to run in families to some extent (otherwise, reigning families of necromancers wouldn't be an established practice) and while that may be more a matter of exposure to the energies than actual genetics, it's not stated anywhere that genetics play no part. Just that they aren't the only or most important part (which is being born in system on a necromantic world). Necromancers can have non-adept children, and vice versa, but there is likely some correlation otherwise you wouldn't have heriditary titles and family lines of necromancers. Second, the way this describes the "Necromantic Scion" thing is misleading. "Scion" just means child/descendant, and in this case the term means that they act as a representative for their house, not that they rule it. They aren't necessarily the official leaders of their planets, in fact from what the letter Harrow reads says they are explicitly NOT intended to be. As far as anyone (probably including the Emperor at that point) is concerned, she is the daughter of the rulers of the ninth house, not its leader. She probably is known to be the strongest necromancer, however, and definitely known to be the Reverend Daughter. So it's addressed to her parents, requesting her. Similarily, most of the other scions have titles but NOT titles which would indicate supreme leadership ("princess" instead of queen, duchess, Captain, etc.), and it would make logical sense that the honor of becoming a Lyctor and thus having to leave the system would be bestowed on the families of the rulers rather than rulers themselves for political and stability reasons, and on the best possible necromancers for practicality reasons. The sole exception to this that I can recall is Palamedes, who is the Master Warden which is implied to be a powerul title- but the sixth is also suggested to be an at least somewhat meritocratic society so this is probably the only situation where "best necromancer" and "ruling necromancer" would be indisputably the same. This would also explain why so many of the scions skew so young (late teens to mid twenties for many of them) because they're the children of/related to the people in power rather than holding complete power in their own right. And again, Lyctors have to leave the system, the Emperor wanted as many Lyctors as possible from the trials, and the trials themselves were dangerous. Intentionally removing the rulers from all eight of the Houses at once would be unwise for a number of reasons.

When the internet horrifyingly knowing all the things you do online results in a perfect recommendation! I love your Palamedes and his six-sided glasses.

I love love love that you made palamedes's glasses pentagons

The animations for the different necromantic specialties were so cool!

I am in the middle of Gideon the Ninth and this helped a ton to clarify the houses and what they do, thank you!

the nerdy palamades animations are everything to me

I'm now neck deep in Harrow the Ninth, but this is still great because one of the things that made it difficult for me to get into Gideon the Ninth was understanding the lore and how fast they throw you into the deep end

I'm one of the nerds who wants to figure stuff out by herself but I also know that I won't catch everything from my first reading of the book so I'm going to save this video for later. For now, the illustrations are so well-done and cute and the narration is interesting, thank you for this video!

Thanks Sex Pal and Cam! But fr, I love that it reads like Palamedes explaining to the audeince what the hell is happening because no one else has or will bother

Pal would 100% explain things to death. XD

The way I literally finished all three books but still haven't internalized most of the info about the houses and their specialties (aside from sixth and ninth and yes that's totally a coincidence!) Thanks so much for this, I appreciate all the work that went into making such a fantastic primer!

I didn't know you had a yt channel??? This is such a lovely surprise, your tumblr blog has been one of my favourites since you started drawing cr fanart! This is a fantastic introduction to tlt, i can only hope for more tlt content on here 🙏

I LOVE YOUR PROTISTELAUS DESIGN? woah woah woah I adore your designs for everyone so much I am insane about your Harrow

thaLergy - - > Life thaNergy - - > Necromancy

This is excellent to mine for use in Keith Baker's Karrnath, Khorvaire, Eberron TTRPG setting.

I wish I had seen this before starting the book! It would have made the reading process less confusing, but now that I have finished the book, I can see I was not too far off, pretty rewarding! Great job! I´m trying to explain the book to my boyfriend and I might just send him this video since it is better than anything I could come up with.

This was very educational :) made me want to get back on Tumblr for the fan art :( but thanks for fuelling my obsession, reading this trilogy is preserving my life force like Dulicinea rn

Absolutely delighted to find the creator of my favorite SU comic is out here making Gideon content

Something to note is that scion also means heir. All of the necromantic scions are also heirs to ruling their respective planets, though this isn't always hereditary.

3:40 ring poem, is that you? great video, this all sounds very promising. will be ordering the first book soon

Bless your bones for uploading this 🙌🙏

12:00 Me, just finished reading GtN: but.. wait, i thought gideon was.. Me, after finished reading HtN: oh.

I love seeing your art on tumblr and this is such a great introduction to the series! I hope you get to illustrate an official full length Locked Tomb graphic novel someday.

Thank you for this video! I tried to start the series multiple times but always found the amount of characters and info you get straight from the beginning kinda overwhelming. This definitely makes things more clear!

Just finished the first book yesterday 😂 wish I knew this guide existed before reading cuz I listened to the audiobook on 1.25 speed and uhh got confused about some of the characters like up to the finale lol. Thanks for making it so brief and understandable!

This is such a good break down!! It’s definitely useful for anyone just getting into the books!

about to shove this at all my friends' faces in an effort to convince them to read these books with me o: please my friends join us in the tlt soup. we got bones in there.

Amazing! This is such a fun watch.

This was fabulous. I've read the books several times and this explained some things I hadn't realized I'd even missed. Thank you!

Tysm for this, I've had the first book sitting on my "to-read" pile for months and now I feel more confident about diving in! I may love worldbuilding, but something of this depth I appreciate knowing before getting started.

This video is a godsend, and what I needed a year ago

I absolutely love this

This was sooooo good! Amazing job!!! Now I wish every book had an official introduction.

Absolutely love this ❤

Followed you elsewhere, did not know you had a youtube! This video is great

Im almost halfway thru the book and i love it! But i was confused about the types of necromancy, so thanks! Also the clips of you trying to pronounce the words at the end is so funny, there are definitely a few words i pronounce differently than you 😂

I'll be using this to make my friends start reading gtn. thanks!

Beautiful

Marta,Judith(cav)-2nd house Caronabeth,ianthe,naberius(cav)-3rd house isaak,jeannemarie(cav)-4th house Magnus(cav),Abigail-5th house Palamedies,Camilla(cav)-6th house Dulcinea,protesolauis(cav)-7th house Colum(cav),silas-8th houses harrowhark,gideon(cav)-9th houses

Bro this was really helpful! I learned new things, and this is coming from someone who's been raw dogging the books 'till Nona the Ninth lmao

También usaré el video para engatusar a mis amigos para que se lean los libros 😈 ¡gracias!

Maybe Neberius Tern should have spent more time collecting intelligence, nowhatImean? Great summary, thanks!

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Tee hee! The narrator of this RU-vid video called me The meatiest of jocks.. then used terminology like overclocking... I'm going to fit in here, aren't I?

Gideon is the Gen X of the House

im under the impression that only the ninth and the first can raise whole skeletons from fragments? or is this just due to harrows.... aptitude for being a great necro

Jajajja read all the books and there will be things you still don’t understand