Ookay so I may have taken on a huge WFS fan creation task and need some help…thus my question:
What do you guys thing Castle Rysen looks like when they go to it in book 4? I can’t really picture what it looks like all destroyed..Also I don’t really think the books did a great job describing just how destroyed it was, like we know that the Fane of Fire was fine and in the epilogue they have a basement like place. But is it like half built? Or is it just burned?
I do however have a pretty good idea of what it looked like before the attack ( which I made a cool Lego project on that that I’ll share later!)
So what do you guys think?
After a bit of research in the book, here's what I've found:
"The Castle Rysen looked like the skeleton of a giant beast, its rib cage open to the gray heavens. The roof had burned away long ago, and all but a few of the stone arches had collapsed. Heaps of rubble, the charred remains of rafters and timbers, broken glass, and blackened furniture were strewn in every direction. Leeli saw what used to be a courtyard, littered with sodden splinters of chairs or tables [...] Shards of pottery and tarnished silver cups lay half-exposed in the mud. The castle had burned, been rained upon, and had burned again."
"...Gnag chuckled and turned to face an iron door..."
Description of the Fane of Fire looks like it's quite clean, no rubble, etc. It's even painted still!
(above quotes/desc.s were from p.376-379)
"...clearing away the rubble to arrange a comfortable place to sleep." (449)
So, to summarize:
there was rubble in the cellar room. Of what kind, it does not say.
there was not rubble within the Fane room
it does not mention if the cellar room was burned. However, it is intact enough to 1) still be a cellar, 2) be a temporary shelter for the Wingfeathers and O'Sallys, and 3) be a shelter for the Wingfeathers and Sara (as evidenced by the 3 places that the cellar is mentioned).
If you want more, look for details around the sections where the Castle Rysen is described (376-9, 449, epilogue, etc.).
Hope this helps :)
I imagined rubble everywhere, with some broken pieces of wall still sticking up, and the basementish area kind of open to the air
Maybe it looked like a destroyed castle.
More destroyed than Dale from The Hobbit.