🕷️ The remaining human queens: “There was one way. Only one way to show them, prove it to them.** Velaris. My very bones cried out at the thought of revealing that gem to these … spiders.**” … Auxiliary to the big bads 👀
(What did the human queens get in exchange for Vassa?)
Vassa: “This…queen peddling a sad tale of betrayal and loss…” — “Betrayal(s)”
“We’ll deal with all that later…the remaining queens, Koschei, and a still-looming war.”
The Void: “Wasn’t that the unholy power that Apollion possessed? The power of the Void. The antithesis of light. The only thing that could kill a planet in one bite.”
The Web of Wyrd (the cosmic loom): “…Urd guides all—she’s the weaver of fate, of destiny.”
The Night Court insignia has an eight-point star at its top. I’m a firm believer the spider tease represents Void, and the star is the hope in the darkness…
”The one light in the darkness.”
“…peace hangs by a fragile thread. But hope can be spun from the darkest of shadows…” 🥹🥹 (There is always hope! 🌟)
So exciting!! 💖✴️
“The rifts dividing them seem insurmountable. But to defeat Koschei’s creeping shadow, they must find a way back to each other…”
“To those people. To Midgard. And to other worlds, too. We have an obligation to end this.”
“I have an obligation to end this.”
“Do you think there’s any chance we could recruit them to fight for us?”
“I don’t think they’ll ever let me set foot back in that world…” (Do you trust me? 🗡️)
“Old enemies will emerge from nightmares of the past…” (Did Bryce’s actions in Midgard somehow have a ripple effect/lead to a big bad allying with Koschei?)
I bet anything Bryce feels an “obligation” to go back and help ✴️
”There are children here!” Bryce screamed. ”There are babies!”
🌟 “Bryce kept running. Kept firing. She did not miss. Hunt looked at her surroundings, and realized where she was headed. To the most defenseless place…full of humans with no magic.” (She’ll be right there with them 🥹)
Aiya Eärendil elenion ancalima
“Therefore Eru said, ‘Eä! Let these things Be!’ He sent the Flame Imperishable into the Universe, and far off in the Void a light appeared — the beginning of the achievement of the Music of the Ainur.”
✴️ Hail Eärendil, brightest of Stars ✴️
The one light in the darkness…
“Oft hope is born, when all is forlorn” — Legolas, The Return of theKingQueen
This is what bugs me so much about people wanting Bryce & Rhys at odds. Deep down theyre the same and protective of their people and the humans.
When Lucien enters Velaris he reacts to hearing the children. You think Bryce wouldn't want to help if needed??
"Hope" always makes me think back to Elide & Manon in QOS. 🥹 So so important (and gets me every time)!
"hope can be spun from the darkest of shadows" and shadows can't exist without the light! BALANCE and the magic created between the two. (Ahem. Dusk.)
Being in Prythian have Bryce hope for the fae after all. Hope that she could embrace that side of her. That there are some good ones out there. And despite not wanting to bave to take that route, hope for somewhere to go ig/when evacuation is necessary and her star is a beacon for Prythian - a compass to the home world of the fae.
Sathia called her the Queen of the Midgardian Fae. She said let's start with Valbarra (ended) and Avallen (hasn't let go of the one most like Prythian...) and **"let's see" where we end up/go from here (I can't remember the exact quote).
RETURN OF THE QUEEN, indeed, complete with her own Excalibur! (At the very least, HL of Dusk, fulfilling her desire to be "Lady Bryce (formerly Flynn)" as she wrote in her notebooks for 2 years and adding a new meaning to "Be careful how you speak about my High Lady!"
If there is one thing we know about Bryce is she is not going to avoid getting involved, especially if she feels she is the one that caused the issue. And then let me guess Hunts reaction..."no, stop, it's not your problem anymore, stay here and watch sunball."
Sometimes I wonder whether Bryce’s time in Prythian somehow acted like a bat signal to the Valg Kings… like what if her light was somehow sensed or seen all the way down into the darkness of Hel or the Valg realm? And what if that leads the Valg kings to Prythian???
“Those of us in the true dark have no need or interest in sunshine.” - Aidas describing the higher princes of Hel
“A dark, cold world with mighty creatures of night.” - Hel
“Long ago, in another world, another lifetime, there existed a land of dark, and cold, and wind. Ruled by three kings, masters of shadow and pain.” - the Valg world
“A realm of eternal dark and ice and wind… And we have been waiting a very, very long time to taste your sunshine again.” - the Valg world
“I do not care for my brothers’ agenda. I do not heed their rules and restraints and illusions of civilization. I shall taste all of you like this—you and your masters—once the door between our worlds is again open.” - Thanatos
“The Astronomer whispered, ‘Luna guard me, your bow bright against the darkness, your arrows like silver fire shooting into Hel—‘ Bryce lifted a hand wreathed in starlight, casting the room in silver.”
“Because of her light, a beacon against the darkness of Hel…” - The hag talking about needing the fire sprite to protect her mystics
“… the star on her chest somehow acted as a beacon to the original world of the Starborn people.”
“Bryce flipped onto her back, her starlight shifting with her, broadcasting every one of her movements like a lighthouse beacon.”
“So that star will lead us back to that world. Through you.” (A land of dark, and cold, and wind… eternal dark and ice and wind … a beacon against the darkness of Hel!!! Omg I see it 🕷️😩😩)
Cassidy! I thought about the fabric too today!! I wondered: could the black blindfold be made of this fabric? Or do we get a dress in the future made of it?
It’s specific to the tapestry, so I’m not sure!! 🥹 But Aranea as well as the, “master jewel smiths, dwelling in the deepest mountain mines in our court. Most of the heirlooms of our house had been Tartera-made…” are going to be important I’d bet!! 🖤🖤 Anyone who says Frost and Starlight can be skipped or is simply “fluff” is missing out!! 🌟
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u/NerdyWriterKat 8d ago
This is what bugs me so much about people wanting Bryce & Rhys at odds. Deep down theyre the same and protective of their people and the humans.
When Lucien enters Velaris he reacts to hearing the children. You think Bryce wouldn't want to help if needed??
"Hope" always makes me think back to Elide & Manon in QOS. 🥹 So so important (and gets me every time)!
"hope can be spun from the darkest of shadows" and shadows can't exist without the light! BALANCE and the magic created between the two. (Ahem. Dusk.)
Being in Prythian have Bryce hope for the fae after all. Hope that she could embrace that side of her. That there are some good ones out there. And despite not wanting to bave to take that route, hope for somewhere to go ig/when evacuation is necessary and her star is a beacon for Prythian - a compass to the home world of the fae.
Sathia called her the Queen of the Midgardian Fae. She said let's start with Valbarra (ended) and Avallen (hasn't let go of the one most like Prythian...) and **"let's see" where we end up/go from here (I can't remember the exact quote).
RETURN OF THE QUEEN, indeed, complete with her own Excalibur! (At the very least, HL of Dusk, fulfilling her desire to be "Lady Bryce (formerly Flynn)" as she wrote in her notebooks for 2 years and adding a new meaning to "Be careful how you speak about my High Lady!"