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hello today i am thinking about Alizayd in a cloak, just returned from the river, making his way to the palace and greeting his people as he goes, not letting the stares bother him, knowing that everything he’s done is for peace and justice and the good of all, no matter what it cost him.

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this gives me big zaynab vibes

Eldest daughters, arent you tired of de escalating? Dont you just wanna go ape shit?

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ngl this post aged very well 😌💅🏾

so i’m on like minute twenty of rereading this series and i already need to take a moment to scream. 

the first stirring of fantasy in this novel is mwah, *chef’s kiss,* perfection. so loaded. i’m at nahri’s confrontation with ‘baseema’ in the cemetery after the zar, and the ifrit inside her says a lot of stuff that the first time through just let’s us know there’s a lot going on that we don’t know about. but on reread raise many many questions that we still don’t have answers for.

two lines in particular are going to keep me up tonight. ‘about the right age… i see that witch in your features’ and ‘the marid must have warned you about us.’

now i personally don’t think nahri is manizheh’s. that’s a choice every girl has to make for herself, and i choose to believe that she is actually rustam’s daughter. the gulf of affection and concern that lies between manizheh’s feelings for jamshid and her feelings for nahri is, to my mind, insurmountable. and the best explanation i’ve been able to think of is that nahri is actually rustam’s shafit daughter. or maybe she isn’t really a shafit at all, and manizheh and ghassan both profit off of her thinking that she is. it certainly makes her more vulnerable to have to hide. very true to character for both of them. just awful.

but that being said, this ifrit (i forgot which one it is and i don’t think it’s important enough to this post for me to bother looking it up) already knows about manizheh’s daughter. which. isn’t the most surprising thing. as rereaders we know they’re in cahoots, although the timeline is kind of fuzzy. but that the ifrit know about her and the djinn do not gives nahri strategic value. and when manizheh and nahri eventually do meet, it’s clear that that’s how manizheh sees her - as strategically valuable.

and then. the audacity. to just casually drop in that the marid have had contact with nahri at some point, and as allies? very rude. how dare sac just leave that here like this. especially since we know from book two that the marid are not (at least currently) working with manizheh. this leaves us a number of options.

one - manizheh worked with the marid in the past and convinced them to hide and shelter her secret daughter. then they had some sort of falling out, or were ambushed, or there was a storm or a flood and nahri was lost. a marid betrayal is also an option, but i don’t think they’re invested enough to do this.

two - manizheh just told the ifrit the marid had her as some kind of misdirect. which is very crafty and i kind of like it.

three - she is rustam’s daughter and he made a deal with the marid for her protection (there’s a whole fic in there that i want to read. he fakes his own death and tries to run away with nahri and her mother). manizheh claims her now because it’s in her best interest to do so. she knows that nahri has never known family, and she’s surely been aching for a mother. an aunt is simply not as big of a get, and gives her less influence. and who could contradict her? if we know anything about manizheh it’s that she’s all fucking in on this takeover plan. it seems very reasonable to me that she’d lie about this. it’s the best way she has to control nahri.

*sigh* this is too long and i’m very sorry. welcome to daevabad.

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Alizayd and the Great Marid Family Reunion.

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Finished the amazing final instalment in the Daevabad Trilogy today. Empire of Gold was an incredible experience from start to finish, and though it was not the easiest ride at times I am so satisfied by how it all wrapped up in the end.

Hats off to S.A Chakraborty for creating this immersive world with truly believable characters. I’m avoiding spoilers with my art for now since the book is still so fresh, so I decided to make a tribute piece with my favorite pair instead, Nahri and Alizayd. I love these two with all my heart ❤️

Hope you like this quick art piece I made to celebrate the end of the series!

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Real talk though, seeing Alizayd be the moral, justice minded, heart of the trilogy and the HERO in a book that's not a "black" book is so uplifting. Sometimes I want black people to be the hero and it's not a book about our trauma. Like I wish Shannon hadn't given him the long-suffering negro trope and that's gonna be another post, but Ali is really the embodiment of what we want to see in good men and the fact people call him boring and other nasty stuff is just a byproduct of antiblackness.

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(AN: if u don’t know who Nahri e-Nahid is, get da hell out of here!) 

Hi my name is Darayavahoush e Afshin and I have luscious curly hair that goes to my shoulders and emerald green eyes that glow like gems. Some people say I look like I'm related to the Nahids but I'm not, I wish I was cause they're major fucking hotties. I wear a fancy whip called a scourge and an impractical bow and arrow. The Geziri glare at me. I flip my middle finger at them then murder all of them and their families.

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i feel like this is of very niche interest, but does anyone else think alizayd is an infp?

hear me out. he’s an Fi dom for sure. for surreeeee. his biggest mistakes are a direct result of not being willing to act on anything other than what he sees as the morally correct option. i’m not suggesting that infps have any kind of upperhand on goodness. but if ali’s decision making function is ‘introverted feeling,’ doing what feels like the right thing according to his own moral code, with disregard for consequences or what those around you think is right is a possible outcome. i’d even say it is Peak immature infp behavior

he has a tactical mind, but i’d argue that’s inferior Te that’s been well developed by a military education, rather than the way he instinctually decides things

and he’s clearly an introvert. i don’t think there’s... any? compelling argument reason to think otherwise, but hmu if you disagree

i could see maybe infj. he does seem more systematic than the p would imply. but infjs are NiFe and i just can’t condone the idea that he’s not through the roof on Fi. he does kinda fit the infj savior narrative. i just think an infj would be more attuned to the group mood than ali usually is

and i don’t think isfp fits. he’s too much of an ascetic. i really feel in my heart that an isfp would have better fashion sense

oo, another infp thing: he’s quiet and congenial/maybe a little rude until someone starts talking about something he has an opinion about and then he will never shut up

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So over the course of the time jump between CoB and KoC, Nahri starts to identify much more strongly as a Daeva. For a number of reasons–her longing for a home and family, her isolation, Nisreen’s influence. But I also think a potential factor is Ghassan, and how he manipulates the court in general and Nahri in particular. I think he may actively encourage Nahri to think like this to more easily control her as a potential political threat.

Ghassan’s motto is that Daevabad comes first. What he means by that is stability comes first, order comes first, preventing chaos is more important than anything else and is worth whatever atrocities it takes. His goal, more than anything else, is to maintain the status quo. As a result, his lofty rhetoric about uniting the tribes is, at best, a side project. And in reality, he’s more than willing to exploit tribal tensions to maintain power. He may not be actively sowing discord among the tribes, as Kaveh does, but he uses the Daeva’s fear of the shafit to control them, and the djinn tribes’ resentment of Daeva prosperity and fear of Daeva nationalism to keep the other tribes in line. (And the other five tribes’ resentment of Ayaanle meddling, and probably other tensions that don’t come up in the books.) The illusion that Ghassan is a relatively neutral party, maybe less than ideal but better than any tribes’ personal enemies being in power, is what keeps him on the throne.

Then Nahri arrives, possibly the biggest threat to the status quo Ghassan’s ever faced, and he has to decide what to do about her.

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none of the Qahtani siblings are straight sorry i don’t make the rules

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Alizayd Al Qatani. That’s it’s that’s the message

he does stand for a hell of a lot

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just got wanted to say I LOVE YOUR BLOG and thank you for all of this content 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 i’ve done a couple of illustrations for the series and i’m a fellow Ali stan!!

oh gosh, thanks 😅

also, 😍😍😍! thank you for making fanart you are truly doing the lord’s work

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LOVE manizheh trying to Dramatically Reveal that nahri and jamshid aren’t siblings and them going “NO TAKE BACKS”

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every time ali and nahri hold hands i get such a thrill. it’s like getting hot with energy that is definitely either adding or taking years from my life, but i don’t even care which it is i just want more

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[Manizheh voice]: if you love something, throw it in the Nile.  if it comes back, torture its friends

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oh my goddddd. i was not prepared for this no one warned me. nahri and ali in a tiny boat on the nile, ali spilling every secret he’s ever had??? he’s so soft! my heart! he’s so in love with her i’m gonna DIE y’all. if they don’t end up ruling daevabad together i am absolutely gonna riot there’s simply no alternative.

and the water! nahri manages to jumpstart his water powers with a barb, the same way he initially helps her to conjure flame!

i can’t i’m officially dead. someone let me know how this book ends because i frickin’ died before i could finish reading it