#orima

[greatpistachiopie]

where the wave has grazed the reach of green

and the wood by gentle sea

we count the coming of the tide

by a love as old as time

[fantasmalresplendent]

inspired by today's fireside chat, the ideal couple: chill husband x bulldog wife

[notabeanie]

I love that we got to see Orima's glamour and Indry's castle back to back in the same episode. It's such a lovely statement about power in this world.

Like Indry is obviously super impressive, and imposing in a kind of way. Like she's obviously taking great pains to be charming and desirable, but she's also like 7 feet tall and has statues of frozen people in her enormous castle. Everything feels very calculated to be like, impressive and awe inspiring and make you feel small. Clearly there's an extent to which she is just actually very powerful, she has this enormous castle and all the miles of grounds around it, she's got at least dozens if not possibly hundreds of ice spirits working for her, she's got spirits of the aurora borealis itself. But also you can see that there are limits to her power.

Indry's trying very hard to be polite with Ame, and even with Suvi. Brennan even mentioned it in the talkbacks, Indry gets thrown a little bit by the Fox not having a name. It seems like she feels like she can't afford to give an honest response and risk offense. She's bending over backwards to not let there be any breaches of conduct or cause for conflict. So she's powerful but it seems like not *so* powerful that she can afford to make her guests into enemies. There's an element of the elaborate manners and the huge castle and her whole demeanor that kind of seems to indicate that she really relies on appearances and performances of power.

Compare that to Orima and her glamour. Like Eursulon meets Orima in the woods, no impressive castle, no pretense. She's 5'1. He's massive. And he's so scared of her. She could destroy him with a blink of an eye. We know from Eursulon looking like Suvi and Calliah (sp?) looking like Eursulon that spirits have, maybe not so much a conscious choice in their glamour, but do have some choice in as much as it reflects something about what they want or what they value or who they want to be. Orima isn't 5'1 by accident. She's 5'1 because she wanted to be.

Like, Indry is 7 feet tall because she needs to be. But Orima doesn't need to be 7 feet tall. She can be 5'1 by choice because she knows she doesn't need to impress you when she can simply destroy you. It's the next level to what Brennan was saying in the talkbacks after they visited Orima's shrine. Orima can afford to lose her cool and get angry and still not lose any of her power. Powerful people can afford to keep their cool, but really powerful people can also afford not to as well. And we saw that side of Orima and now we're seeing this other small and gentle side and it really hammers home how much like, she is beholden to no one. She can be violent, she can be demure, she can be whatever she feels like and she loses nothing and she risks nothing.

Seeing that next to Indry really paints a picture for the audience of like, what's actually going on with Indry. Like yes Indry is intimidating. Yes the party probably don't want her on their bad side if they can avoid it. But she can't be THAT much of a threat. Her power can't be all THAT limitless. Because she still needs to impress you.

[detriterate]

Naram, Orima, and a gift of Salmon

At first, Orima and Naram seemed like an odd couple to me. Not because of their different personalities, but because their different domains. Naram is a great spirit of the ocean and Orima is a great spirit of the deep forest. Their domains don't seem to overlap much, right?

There is vital connection between the oceans and many forests in our world that may be meaningful to the world of Umora: Salmon.

Most species of salmon spend their lives in the ocean, but migrate back to the freshwater streams they were born in to reproduce. This is a one way trip. Even the salmon that are not eaten by predators along the way naturally perish soon after spawning. In doing so, the salmon bring nutrients from the ocean into the forests. Studies have found that salmon are an important source of nitrogen for the forests they spawn in.

In a flashback, we see Naram "driving" the salmon upstream towards The Great Bear, who gladly eats them. This seemed like a kindness for The Great Bear (and it certainly was), but it may have also be a gesture of love by Naram for Orima. Those salmon will help fertilize her forests.

And in return, the salmon get a (comparatively) safe place to begin their lives before migrating to the oceans where they are an important link in the food chain.

You can almost picture it as a metaphorical dance between the ocean and the forest 😊

[soubidou]

Istg Brennan has to stop giving us beautiful dangerous powerful step-on-me-please women witches goddesses I will not survive them

[brainrockets]

I love that Orima in her glamour is like a tiny lil bitty person. Just so accurate to the terrifying power of a short person.

[primordialsneeze]

Orima scares the shit out of me and I am also so terribly in love with her.

[jcsflo]

Orima’s glamour.

Orima of the Reaching Green from Worlds Beyond Number’s “The Wizard, The Witch and the Wild One” campaign.

[girlboss-malewife-gauntlet-melee]

ROUND 1 MATCH 21: SUKI/SOKKA VS. ORIMA OF THE REACHING GREEN/NARAM OF THE GENTLE SEA

(As in the case of Rolling with Difficulty, at least one of the members of the podcast is on tumblr, @quiddie aka Aabria Iyengar)

Suki/Sokka Propaganda: none

Orima of the Reaching Green/Naram of the Gentle Sea Propaganda: "'The fish has a wife?' 'Fucking RUN!' They're amazing they're perfect, she'll choke you to death with kudzu and he will cheer her on from the ocean. They are in love and they are forces of nature and they are both incomprehensibly powerful; she uses that power to strike fear into the hearts of mortals and he uses it to rescue lost cubs and bring good fortune to fishermen."

[severalrodentsdrinkingtea]

“If you will not aid my strike, then remove yourself from my line of sight!”

-The Wizard, the Witch, and the Wild One, ep 10

[aasgardsreia]

I'm Orima height! Fuck yeah!

[improbable-warden]

my wife has poisoned me many times, my darling.

Shut the fuck up Brennan.

[yeehawpim]

Orima my beloved choke me to death

[embraceweird]

AHHHH

Ame is a beast!!

EARNING THE RESPECT OF ORIMA!!!!!!

[juha-art]

"every person he's ever met has been familiar to him or, like, comfortable. Or, every person that he's ever met has kind of fit into two categories; big, scary, but never close, and like family."

[girlwithsword]

so let’s get this straight; Steel’s orders were 1) stay put, 2) shut down any shenanigans, and she’ll be there in THREE days

Suvi immediately leaves the city, once again going off-grid, and it’s already been a day and a half - and no one knows where she, or ANY of her companions are; and OH GOD IT LOOKS LIKE SOMEONE BROKE INTO HER ROOM and shenanigans are very much afoot

so, even if the trio fuckin survives this encounter, and even if Orima isn’t released to wreak havoc on Port Talon, it’ll take at least another day and a half to make it back..... by which time Steel will have arrived to find 1) no Suvi and 2) very MUCH shenanigans!!!!

oooooohhhhhhhhhooohhhhhhhhhhhohhhhhhh