#and riz just being unable to meet her there for his own reasons

[princessdarth-vader]

genuinely forgive me for spiralling abt this thing i just made up but the concept of rolling on the relationship track potentially giving people a stress token is making me want to see riz snap all the more. i think it would be so appropriate to the whole like "the moment he slows down he will break" thing for him to finish these huge challenges and successfully pass all of his classes for the year with flying colours and have a chance to take a breath and use that to try and, for the first time in months, reach out to his mother.

and then it just all comes crashing down and he takes a rage token and fights with sklonda and logically he knows that this rage isn't helping but he's so angry at this system that forces him to work himself to death and sklonda is just. there in the moment; a face for him to yell at. and even if it's not fair he can't control his anger. in the moment he suddenly feels much closer to kipperlilly than he ever has. who sees what she considers an unfair system, and is pissed at the people who enforce it and benefit from it.

idk obviously there are larger plans for the rage tokens as a whole (tying into ankarna, probably pushing them closer to like, being this corrupted being) but it would make so much sense for riz, after everything else has fizzled down, to just crash into a wall and break.

[kurel-andiel]

A Current State

“I can handle it or we can handle it.”

That decision was a hard one to carry with the weight of everything else that had transpired. Kurel’s reaction to Celestine’s death had been a calm one. Whatever emotion he felt towards her passing was buried beneath the consideration of threats that one of her own had made with demands and an ultimatum if he refused to cooperate, but the thing was he hadn’t cooperated at all. Velerodra had wanted to meet with Phlare of her own volition. That was her choice before he had even a chance to deliver the shadowmancer’s message.

His stoicism to the loss was simply natural. People died. It happened. You moved on. It was just that simple to the Tanari born elf. But maybe there was some resentment, some anger and frustration beneath that facade. Talk was that she would be brought back, had been brought back many times before now, but this time. This death of her’s had caused a significant problem. It brought the attention of Silvermoon and of the Magistrate directly into Sunspire.

People were fleeing in drones as the small relations in which Phlare had mocked swarmed to guard the bay, the streets and the sky above. Despite these forces and the imposing magical dome that dampened the use of magic within, there was still rumor and sightings of known vessels that terrorized the sea to be heading their way. New small relations to be forged to better bolster their defenses and strengthen their commerce. 

 ‘You can never have too many friends on the sea.’

Fleet Ring Exchange closed down early that night. The old goblin couple who ran The White Strider had quickly run out of rooms to rent and drink to serve. A Sloop had been dispatched to Dead Sun Harbor to retrieve a haul of the Taldrassil Whiskey from The Empress, but it would be two days before they returned. 

All that remained was a report to be written and filed. With sheets of paper laid out across a cluttered table, Kurel laid his enchanted quill upon it and instructed it to write.

Date: April 26th. Year 635 of the King’s Calendar

Formal Report of Trade Lord Kur’elnth An’Diel

The series of events began when Miss Velerodra of Crimson Wings approached me. She declared to have in her possession a vial of General Celestine Winters’ blood which was given to her by the General herself and confessed that a recent evening at The Broken Chain, the General served her a drink spiked with that same blood. Miss Velerodra confessed prior to having been told that the General’s blood ‘tastes like bliss’, but was given no further information in regards to what that meant exactly. Upon sampling her drink, she described the after effects as being addictive and feeling herself easily persuadable by the General.

These effects wore off after sometime, but Miss Velerodra found concern in both light of the situation and even for the fact that she, herself was mildly eager to receive more. It was at this time that I began to speculate the strong possibility that General Celestine Winters may have been a San’layn. 

Following my discussions with Velerodra, I sought the advice of Lord Lledwyn Lomeriel of Scions of Antiquity. I inquired of his sister’s abilities, Ilyea Lomeriel, to alchemically study blood and the chance she could decode a sample inorder to understand what it was that made those who ingested so suggestive to the whims of General Winters. His assurance was strong at which time I divulged what I had connection to and my concerns of a San’layn with the ability to distribute this property through her tavern and potentially infect the denizens of Sunspire Port, in order to sway their favor to her for any given reason or purpose. 

During this time Purveyor Blaque was absent from his post. He was unreachable and untraceable, thus the entirety of Sunspire’s safety fell wholly to me. 

I confronted General Winters during a private meeting regarding a number of things I found concerning and potentially threatening to the well being of the Port and its people. A Scry of this meeting has been provided for clarity. It was during this discussion that The General confessed to having met with and secured an alliance with Lord Feloirus Firavel, whom the Captains Council had unanimously agreed was a threat to the future of Sunspire and should therefor have his trade of goods which he intended to supply for his livelihood be disrupted. General Winters attended this meeting and too was in agreement. 

When directly asked if she were San’layn, she quoted “I am not San’layn, but I am not entirely Sin’dorei.” To which she followed up with challenging me by stating that ‘someday I would figure it out’. Impling that someday I would uncover what ‘other than Sin’dorei’ she was.

It was at this time that I instructed Miss Velerodra to hand the vial of blood over to Miss Ilyea Lomeriel for testing. The results were curious, but inconclusive and Miss Lomeriel required more samples inorder to continue her research. The acquisition of this I charged to Miss Velerodra, who felt confident she could accomplish the task. Security measures were put into place, in the event something or she was compromised and too did I begin to establish fail safes in an effort to assure that all blame and attention would fall to me. This, however, was not the case.

I was advised by both Lomeriel’s to withdraw Miss Velerodra from her task citing danger. However, the risks were known and Miss Velerodra felt confident of her abilities and I too felt confident in her to complete this task on behalf of Sunspire Port and myself. Regrettably, she was compromised. How, remains unknown.

Little more than a week ago from the date of this report, General Celestine Winters put a gun to Miss Velerodra’s head and took her hostage while on Erudition property. She threatened to execute the Crimson Wings Director if demands were not made. She was talked out of this hostility and released Miss Velerodra without harm, before being escorted off Erudition Property. At that time, I instructed Rig-Master Riz to take Miss Velerodra and Miss Leona to a fallback for safety. Meanwhile, Miss Ilyea Lomeriel went into hiding by order of Magistrix Demytrya Wintersong and her brother, Lord Lledwyn Lomeriel.

A day later, General Winters’ loyalist known by the moniker as ‘Phantom’ contacted me through the snowflake comm and requested a meeting. A Scry of this encounter has been provided with this report. During that meeting he made veiled threats towards the life of Sunspire Benefactor, Magistrix Demytrya Wintersong and direct threats towards Sunspire Port and its people. He demanded I make Miss Velerodra meet with him, as he had been unable to locate her to do so himself. His extortion was, if I failed to make this happen he would destroy the Port by means of an unknown number of explosives planted around the bay and would instruct Lord Firavel and his forces to invade Sunspire on false claims of terrorism.

General Celestine Winters was reportedly killed days following this encounter at her Sunspire establishment, The Broken Chain. 

Claim is that the tampering of her blood lead an unknown individual into finding her and committing the murder. 

My involvement of the investigation into the slaying remains obtuse. General Celestine Winters was an ally, if even a questionable one at her end. My actions taken from the information brought to me by Miss Velerodra to the middle of having the vial of blood investigated to the decision through reconnaissance to acquire a secondary sample for further investigation, were done as no malice towards General Celestine Winters or her organization. But were instead done so to protect the denizens and the commerce of Sunspire Port. 

Sunspire Port Trade Lord Kur’elnth An’Diel. 

Kurel plucked the quill from the air to cease its scripture and laid it flat beside the many pages of the report. A wax seal of a scarab was boldly pressed beside his name and he sat back into his chair to reflect on the entire thing.

“There is no place in the deser’ for the weak.” He muttered and from outside his cabin on Sunspire hill he could hear the morning song of the gulls as they circled the fishing boats preparing to set out for their daily catching.

@velerodra @shaded-hawke @wolf-queen @roewyn @thebuildingcacophony @sunspireport @lledwynlomeriel

[bharatiyamedia-blog]

Netflix's frighteningly self-aware dystopian sequence holds a mirror to Indian society- Leisure Information, Firstpost

http://tinyurl.com/y2w4y59k Within the pilot episode of Netflix’s dystopian drama sequence, two ladies are preventing whereas in line to wash locally toilet on the Shram Kendra (a “purity camp” for ladies who dare to insurgent towards the Council — a gaggle of highly effective, elite politicians who make the principles of this dystopian setting). One ladies is spewing a prepare of abuses (consider the filthiest ones attainable) however the gasps and jaw-drops occur when the opposite ladies says, “bloody doosh.” As a viewer, I don’t know what this phrase means. Is it douche? Whether it is, why is everyone so offended? Later within the second episode, I discover out “doosh” is definitely an insult reserved for the oppressed lessons/castes. This scene not solely held a mirror to my cocooned interpretation of Leila, as a reasonably privileged upper-caste lady, however it additionally bolstered the concept that oppression can germinate wherever (and in all places.) Arif Zakaria performs Dr Iyer, incharge of the Purity Camp, in Leila. Screengrab from Youtube. Within the intricately fictionalised world of Leila, the traces between make-believe and horrifying actuality are sometimes blurred. It’s what makes the viewing expertise so visceral. Primarily based on the eponymous novel by Prayaag Akbar, Leila is a dystopian drama sequence helmed by three administrators: Deepa Mehta, Shanker Raman, Pawan Kumar. At its core, Leila is a narrative of a mom’s seek for her lacking daughter. The sequence begins in 2047 (within the “close to future” — attention-grabbing selection of phrases, sigh). Shalini (Qureshi) has married her faculty sweetheart Riz (Rahul Khanna) and so they have a daughter collectively, Leila. The household lives secretly, and in peril, as inter-religious marriages are frowned upon by the Council. The town (might be any trendy Indian one) has been ghetto-ised into segregated communities — the Tamil Brahmin Sector, Leuva Patel Residency, Bohra Muslim Zone, Catholic Commons, Syrian Christian Co-op, and so forth — and the misfits (aka oppressed lessons and castes) have been cordoned off past the Purity Wall, to the Slums and the Towers, the place filth and rubbish pile up into sky excessive mountains, with pockets of fireplace including to the smog that overpowers the skyline. The warfare for water is on the centre of battle on this universe, as even the rain is black in color. The elite members contained in the Purity Wall are shielded from the toxicity, with hole, lined roads that ferry them out and in. Bhanu (Siddharth) within the foreground, and the poisonous skyline as seen from the Slums, past the Purity Wall. Youtube screengrab Nothing is pure, and but everyone seems to be striving for purity. The segregation is inspired by rampant patriarchy and wide-spread, excessive inequality. As I kind this, I am making a psychological notice of how a lot of this may be attributed to present day India. Cue goosebumps. Riz and Shalini dwell in East Finish, the final sector to have blended {couples} and people who dare to insurgent towards the State. Minutes into the pilot episode, a bunch of saffron-gamcha sporting goons, referred to as the Repeaters (state-appointed thugs who implement “purity”), forcibly enter their residence, kill Riz and kidnap Leila. They take Shalini to the Sharm Kendra, the place she is handled like an ostracised widow. The primary half of the episode is spent in exploring the setting. It performs out like The Handmaid’s Story meets the jail scenes from Sriram Raghavan’s Ek Hasina Thi. Shalini and the opposite ladies are given medicine to suppress their feelings, and any type of riot is met with excessive punishment (in a single scene, a lady is married off to a canine for refusing to adjust to officers.) Huma Qureshi and Siddharth in a scene from the sequence. Youtube screengrab. Reduce to 2 years later, Shalini is distributed to work for the elite as home assist contained in the Purity Wall. Bhanu (Siddharth) is given the duty to move her from the Kendra contained in the Wall, however Shalini escapes to try to discover her daughter. Within the unwinding and cluttered streets of the slum, Shalini meets Roop, a younger vagabond lady who helps her cross to the freeway. The scenes between Shalini and Roop are heart-warming (a uncommon emotion to come back by within the sequence), and brings in obligatory respite. Bhanu is an attention-grabbing character on each ends of the morality spectrum; he works for the State and furthers inequality however every scene uncovers his character, and we all know there’s some goodness hiding in there. It additionally helps that Siddharth is a implausible actor able to complicated scenes. He makes emoting appear so easy, and that is in a present that spends most of its display screen time on close-ups of Huma Qureshi’s face. Additionally on Firstpost:  How Leila, Netflix’s upcoming dystopian drama series, was conceptualised and executed The supporting characters within the present add a lot worth — be it Arif Zakaria, Seema Biswas or Rahul Khanna. However it’s Huma Qureshi who actually holds her personal. Within the three episodes I had entry to (it is a six-part sequence), she needed to do a lot of the heavy lifting. With such a dense idea to work with, it’s spectacular that my consideration was on her and never breaking down the world that the present inhabits. Extra Bollywood actors must put their egos apart and embrace the online area, as a result of it has a lot potential for characterisation and sustained efficiency. Huma exhibits them the best way, in Leila. Within the e-book, the character of Shalini is outlined by being a spouse and a mom. Even her flashbacks establish her foundation simply these two roles. However within the sequence, Huma gives her character a sense of individuality and gutso. She just isn’t a sufferer, and will not resign to her destiny. She’s going to combat. Closeups on Huma Qureshi’s face assist with characterisation. Youtube screengrab. By the third episode, we get some perception into the politics at work within the State. We be taught of undercover rebels, working to usurp the present totalitarian regime. We’re advised extra particulars of the way it reached to some extent of ‘Jai Aryavarta’ — a ‘Hail-Hitler’ kind slogan to “commemorate” Aryavarta, now a Hindutva nation (and identification). It’s on this title that the entire inequality and “purity workout routines” are meted out. Will probably be attention-grabbing to see how they additional the plot within the subsequent three episodes. A lot to painting, so little time. Leila, the sequence, is crisper than the e-book, placing elaborate adjectives apart in favour of tempo. The visuals are stark within the sequence, underneath the path of the ever-talented Shanker Raman. The manufacturing design is detailed and meticulous, and inform a narrative of their very own (we see some graffiti within the background of the Slums, as Shalini searches for her daughter; one that basically caught with me, learn, “whose progress, whose nation”.) Shalini and Roop stroll by a graffiti-filled wall within the Slums. Youtube screengrab. You may must revisit the episode to search for flaws — and that may be good and unhealthy. Good as a result of the narrative of Leila distracts you from it from a essential viewpoint; you get so absorbed into the story, it’s onerous to set up what you do not like. Unhealthy, as a result of when you return and watch the episodes once more, the failings pop proper up. For one, there appears to be loads of weightage given to shock worth (gore, filth and expletives abound) and generally the horrors are too pronounced. This works in some scenes when establishing themes are obligatory, however I am unable to assist however marvel if the sequence might do with some subtlety (this will also be stated concerning the dramatic background rating each time maternal love is explored.) Extra comparisons with the India of at the moment would make the horrors extra palpable versus shock-value scenes. That stated, the timing of Leila couldn’t be extra apt. When the trailer of the sequence launched, many on Twitter started a boycott movement as they felt the show portrayed “Hinduphobia.” You understand what they are saying: those that are responsible consider every bit of fiction is about them. Prayaag Akhbar’s e-book holds a mirror to present day Indian society, providing a critique of Liberal complacency, political disdain and normalisation of oppressive constructions. Netflix’s Leila takes it one step additional — it is a extremely participating present with memorable moments and spectacular performances. Too many individuals are calling Leila a futuristic show set in an imaginary world. However is it, actually? Leila streams on Netflix from 14 June. 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