Craft Sequence Essays
Welcome to our archive of articles and essays about the Craft Sequence. Scroll for all of our articles, or go wherever suits you:
Relatively spoiler free essays if you’re new to the series / partway through and don’t want to spoil yourself
Spoilerific essays if you’ve read the series and want to delve deeper
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Who is Eberhardt Jax, and what does he want?
Billionaire. Nightmare artist. Philanthropist. Eberhardt Jax wants to make his mark on the world. It’s clear he’s integral to the overarching plot of the Craft Wars quartet, linked to the skazzerai, the gray men, and the end of the world.
But who exactly is he? And what does he really want?
What are the Gray Men, and how are they connected to the skazzerai?
Throughout Wicked Problems, we meet strange bland men, shells for brutal metal weapons. But what exactly are they, and who controls them?
The Grimwalds, the Skazzerai, and the last end of the world
How are the Grimwalds involved with the skazzerai - and what do they know about the end of the world? This is everything you need to know after Wicked Problems.
Masterpost: Everything we know about the skazzerai
Masterpost of all articles in the Skazzerai / Space Spiders series.
The Body, the Others, and what Denovo did in the desert | Space Spiders
Third in the skazzerai series. Tara has learnt a lot about the demonic space spiders en route to the Craft world, but it isn’t until the end of Dead Country that she finds out their connection to her old nemesis Alexander Denovo - and what he did in the desert.
Who is Alexander Denovo and what does he want?
Alexander Denovo looms large over the Craft Sequence despite his early death. As his influence comes back in the Craft Wars trilogy, we ask: who is he, and what does he want?
Visions in the Edge Storm | Space Spiders
A magical storm showing every possible future now only shows one: the end of the world. What did Tara and Dawn see in the edge storm? What does that mean for the rest of the Craft Wars trilogy?
What has Tara learnt about the skazzerai since Alikand? | Space Spiders
The end of the world is coming. Tara and her allies are gearing up to fight the skazzerai, spider-like creatures from deepest space - but how much do they (and we) know about this great enemy? Here’s everything we find out in the first half of Dead Country.
What's the deal with the space spiders?
In Quechal mythology, the skazzerai are demonic spiders at the end of the universe spinning webs between the stars. We have evidence they’ve visited the world of Craft before ‘to eat’ - and it looks like they’re going to play a part in the CRAFT WARS endgame. So, what’s the deal with the space spiders?
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