18. Hit It With Your Sword

It’s been a minute, but we’re diving back into GIDEON THE NINTH! In this episode, we pick up our reread with Chapters 32 and 33, in which Gideon, Harrow, Pal, and Cam team up to explore a new room, Second House tragedies occur, and we find the last key inside Abigail’s corpse. We rated some hilarious descriptions of The Locked Tomb series from Tumblr users who’ve never read the books, and then it was time to talk keys and trials: What are the different trials in Canaan House and which lyctors created them? Which characters in Gideon the Ninth have which keys at which point in the book? And at what point does Harrow learn each step of the lyctoral process? We tried to puzzle it out!

 * SPOILER ALERT * We reference events from all three books in this podcast, as it’s intended for readers who are caught up with the series.

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References:

• eerna: “Followers who haven’t read The Locked Tomb, what can you tell me about it based on your dash?” (answers referenced by tourist-of-the-stars, luxiiien, laraloopy, haroldosaur, achromic-red-dreams-doze-angrily, deepseawave, abessive-art, and tinx-methinks)

• marzipanandminutiae: Bonus post (Sapphia Dodecarius)

• abigail-pent: Lyctorhood steps

• Tamsyn Muir's Reddit AMA

• darkveracity: Locked Tomb Timeline

• Reddit discussion of lyctorhood process

• boneempress: Key colours

Intro/Segment Music: "Turismo" by Spaceinvader (Icons8 Music)

Outro Music: "Warm Vacuum Tube" by Admiral Bob (2019 - Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (3.0))