#tdp s6 poster

[beautifulterriblequeen]

TDP S6 poster!!!

let's see what we've got in this one! omgomgomg

this won't make a lot of sense, I'm just gushing

First impressions: there is a LOT of magic going on in this poster, and most of it seems to be Moon magic, which Aaravos is casting from his cool book.

There are moon moths everywhere!

Ethari's lotuses are everywhere too!

Some of them are breaking. Some of them have vivid colors coming from them. They could be from the differently colored crystals they all have.

There are also a large number of spirits in the picture!

There's also a red colored spirit, uh oh:

Is this one looking at the white one, do they see each other?

Aaravos has a full moon behind him, and his cube has a blazing moon rune on it. I'm not sure how many other moon themes this poster can hold, are we missing any?

Of interest, there's a thematic similarity to the key art we got of Rayla jumping into the Moon Nexus, where the lower left was dark and creepy with lost spirit arms and the upper right was lighter with the arms of her family reaching for her. In this art, those corners are again the darkest and lightest:

And then there's the man himself. His eyes are glowing bright with magic, he's got his bling on. And it's hard to be certain since we can't see his chest well but it's likely that his star is lit, as it gets when he casts magic.

Okay let's take a quick peek at what is actually happening in this poster. Aaravos is casting magic from the book. It's pouring out of the cool crescent-moon portal thingy there and swirling around.

eta: it's actually connecting the rune cube to the book, but I'm not sure which way the connection is flowing. But he seems to have plugged the cube in, and it is called the Key of Aaravos. Is this book the thing of great power that gets unlocked in Xadia?

And behind him, across the top of the art, you can see something else: a weaving of thick white strands.

What is he actually doing? Is he weaving them, or unweaving them? Is he just releasing three elves from their coins? This looks way more powerful - and destructive - than that. Is he releasing all the spirits ever? Why are there so many spirits in this picture?? Where are they from? Are they also trapped? Were they crossed over? Is he breaking the whole duality of life and death?

Aaravos wouldn't bother casting a measly little spell just to free three elves from coins just because Callum asks him to, not when he could flex stylishly and get something he also wants out of the deal.

Remember when he helped Viren get past Lux Aurea? He didn't have to kill Khessa and poison the Sunforge to help Viren reach Zym. But his method got the caterpillar a burst of primal magic so it could start growing, it stopped the Sunfire forces from retaliating, it gave him some form of payback on Aditi's bloodline, and it stopped the Sunfire elves from being able to use the Sunforge on anyone else corrupted with dark magic. Plus it netted him Pharos and made Viren trust him even more. It was indeed elegant and efficient.

So he's probably doing something on that level again here. Sure, Callum may have given him an opening to help Rayla's family out. But Aaravos will stop when Aaravos decides to stop, and not before. If Callum makes a deal to free three souls that he can't get out of their coins on his own, then Aaravos can definitely work with that.

But he thinks bigger. If Callum wants three souls freed, that's easy enough. But why stop at three? It's so inefficient. Maybe he attacks the Moon Nexus next, and makes it volcano out all the souls it's ever held and looses them on the world in some kind of spirit plague. Job still done, deal met, requirements satisfied. And while the mortals scramble to deal with his mess, he just does whatever he has planned next. All the better that he did something so big that no one can step away from cleaning it up to try to stop him!

Anyway. Art gives me thoughts. Very excited about this poster and its moontastic implications for S6!

[imminent-danger-came]

this shit is cracking me up

[fujosh1dreamer]

Yeah the Ocean poster is fire, this might be my favorite. I don't know I'll have to make a list.

So pretty.

[raayllum]

Sometimes helping others requires great feats of strength, Rayla. But you are right. Sometimes an act of caring is as simple as being there when it seems no one else is. Both are necessary.

Something I think about a lot is that when Rayla tries to do Moonshadow Form entirely Runaan's way, thinking about the people she loves and the reconciliation of life and death, it doesn't entirely work. Part of this may be because at this point in the story, she hasn't been able to really square with Runaan's viewpoint ("How can you forgive him for putting himself in so much danger? [...] I just don't get why you'd put yourself in so much danger when you have someone who means to much to you back at home?") because she hasn't seen the 'rewards' of it yet (saving Suroh and his family).

I think Runaan's stance here -- that you have to sacrifice to get something 'good' and worth it out of it -- is something Rayla has incorporated into her own worldview... just not as completely. As she says: "Who's to say you can't have both?" It makes me think of how when she also reflects on Ethari's advice, and her desire to protect people rather than her own loss, that's when she unlocks Moonshadow form.

While I could see the moon fam both potentially getting out in S6 and it being delayed to S7, I do think either way Rayla is going to confront and ultimately reject the worst of her parents' ideologies, and instead keep only the good. The woman they're going to meet upon getting out is going to be radically different than the young girl or driven teen they remember, and it makes me think back again to previous hopes about Rayla's development not being contingent of repairing things with her family, but that she grows to the point that she's able to guide them through the path she's just walked into a better world and healthier worldview.

[ok12857]

WAIT WAIT

GUYS WHAT IF RAYLA GETS COLD NEAR THE STAR SCRAPER AND CALLUM SUMMONS HIS WINGS AND WE GET A RAYLLUM RAPPED UP IN CALLUMS WINGS

that would be fantastic

don’t mind the caps I’m tired my brain is making up random shit

[a-very-sparkly-nerd]

YO?!?!

[liridusart]

No more. Never again.

ID: Claudia from The Dragon Prince, emerging from the water, turning back to look in the direction of the viewer. Her face is blank with tears running down her face, her eyes glowing; her hair is wet and loose, clinging to her face. Traces of blood are seen in the water. END ID

[no-cinnamon-for-synonym]

S6 E8 Title Puzzle: Wilting Flower Meta Post

This wilting flower + the ring around the rosy song is puzzle we got for the 6.08 title. Now, it's late, so this might not be very coherent.

TDP Official once used a wilting flower in a tweet

This was in response to when we received the assassins' names.

We see wilting flowers in the recent poster

Supposedly, this is happening at the Moon Nexus, and supposedly Aaravos is there. We also see spirits in the background.

I'm curious if the worlds between life and death are colliding? And the Moon Nexus is probably being destroyed ("ashes, ashes, we all fall down"). So perhaps the lotus flowers are wilting... because the barrier between life and death is gone, they are now one and the same, therefore the flowers wilting is basically an "Error! Cannot compute!" message.

So perhaps that's how Aaravos is broken free? If there are no barriers between the different dimensions, then he is free.

....... Callum, Claudia, what have you done?

[sthormiiii]

~ introduction! ~

hi!! im amy, a 19 italian girl who draws and sometimes writes. my main interests are cartoons and musicals, currently hyperfixated with the dragon prince and aaravos. a lesbian who thirsts over fictional men 😔

some other things i like: mlp, infinity train, toh, kipo, tts, good omens, she ra, wtnv, tadc, tsp...and i cant think of more rn

always open to ramble about tdp !!

@sthormiiii on instagram, i post more drawings on there ~

this is my attempt at making my blog organized:

my drawings

aaravos angst

aaravos and the merciful one pt.1

aaravos and the merciful one pt.2

orphan queen

flowershop au

kim'dael x oc pt2

random aaravos drawings

aaravos and claudia

jailer fanart

aaravos x self insert...

aaravos and kim'dael

startouch oc

christmas aaravos

more aaravos! who's surprised?

fem!aaravos

my tdp ocs!!

leola

orphan queen going stab stab

apple.

s6 poster

orphan queen being a queen :3

sketches

teenage aaravos

italian viren

twitter meme

aara and children

animatics

ziardavos

aaravos angst

elarion

my headcanons

aaravos

aaravos again

why i like aaravos

i have no clue how tumblr works btw

[raylasrightbraid]

TDP S5 PREDICTIONS / hcs kinda

made by me lolz

- we’ll see possessed callum again in some way

- rayla 2 year journey flashback?? or at least a mention of something she did or saw

- some sort of conflict in katolis while ezran being away

- opeli getting screen time pls

- sorvus?? 👀👀

- callum vs pirates (my bets on callum)

- this is rlly specific but soren talking to rayla about the coins and how sorry he is for viren imprisoning them in the first place (this should be a fanfic fr)

- zubia and domina big archdragon argument

- zym saying his first words?? literally like mama or something

- nyx constantly annoying and embarrassing rayllum (and in some way will probably help them yk? in her own way ofc)

- captain villads comeback?? we see his same boat from s5 posters

- nyx stopped stealing for good because she was inspired by rayla after she saved her in s3 (but rayla isnt so convinced)

- claudia and viren will argue

- claudia teaches terry some spells

- sir sparkle puff will hug viren or claudia or terry (he needs some love :))

- epic showdown claudia vs callum 🗣️🗣️

- again super specific but one of the pirates will insult rayla (call her a bloody-thirsty monster for ex since yk callum knows she hates that) and callum will just snap and boom fight sequence (i just want a callum fight tbh)

- blood banther will injure either amaya or rayla

- callum discovers how to get raylas parents + runaan back but knows neither he or rayla will like it (aka dark magic)

- ezran and rayla will not see eye to eye for some time due to the whole mess about runaan and king harrow now that rayla has the coins

- soren will fill in on nyx about the whole rayllum situation

- queen aanya comeback?? i RLLY wanna see her timeskip design

- idk if i count this as a prediction but more as a need that i just wanna see ellis and her silly little wolf ava again ☹️

- and lastly aaravos will be freed by the end of the season (i mean why else would s6 be called “star” its his season fr)

thats all i have for rn but PLEASE lmk what predictions you might have as we sail the hype boat!!

[timetravellingkitty]

getting new arcane poster and tdp s6 release date...I think god does exist

[raayllum]

i'm gonna break down the poster later but for now I wanna talk about the poem

As others have noticed the first letter of each line, read bottom to top, spell out "The Red Wedding" which is likely the episode title, so I'm not going to speculate too much on that.

Like we know at this point hardly anything is accidental in TDP especially when there's blatant opportunities to hide clues, so with that in mind, I want to look at stanza by stanza to the best of my ability.

Gnash your teeth, O Dragon Fierce! Night’s not far away

"Gnash" is an aggressive reference to teeth, which makes me think of "ivory draconic" for the Nova Blade, but also of scenes yet explained (the arc 1 intro of human warriors gathered on one side of the border, and Thunder's display of power). However, I think it's likely that what the poem is referring to is even farther back in history, given that "night" might refer to a time period (i.e. the stars leaving) happening soon.

In the sky that watchful eye Does weep and stare and pierce

"White as the star's heart it pierced" and we see eyes in reference to dragons' ire against Elarion. That said, this "watchful eye" could belong to a long ago Startouch elf (Aaravos, Laurelion, Leola?) who cared about what was happening, hence being 'watchful.' Pierce has a less peaceful connotation, but this section of the poem definitely reads as "in the past to me" (I say, preparing to eat my words in the future)

Dance away, O Golden Queen! Eternal fiery flame While shadows jeer into your ear Don’t forge a blade from shame

This, meanwhile, feels like a pretty straightforward reference to Janai in present day. She is both queen and the Golden Knight of Lux Aurea. Dancing is a part of Sunfire proposals, she has fire powers, and she's planning a wedding. "Shadows" could be references to her nightmares from Aaravos and the shadow monster creatures Karim's army is probably going to accidentally turn into thanks to Pharos' lingering corruption. She wields a Sunforge blade, of course, and has doubt/shame surrounding her choices and status as queen as it moves back and forth... so maybe "don't make a harsh choice out of shame/fear of unworthiness?" But we shall have to see.

Now onto what's probably my favourite stanza:

Eight in a line, O Chosen Mine! Ready for a war Endlessly burning Hopefully yearning That love will triumph once more!

"Eight in a line" makes me lose my mind because there's 8 pieces across the board in chess (2 rooks, 2 knights, 2 bishops make 6, + 1 king and queen make 8; as well as 8 pawns, of course). "O Chosen Mine" also makes it sound like Aaravos is the speaker of the poem, which given that he's someone poetry has been written about up until now, is deliciously meta.

"Ready for a war" might apply most straightforwardly to the Sunfire elves, but I don't think we even have eight named Sunfire characters in show, so it must encompass more main players. Perhaps unrest in the Pentarchy, and of course, the Dragang taking steps to try to go to war against and defeat Aaravos.

"Endlessly burning" has a couple different meanings, given that 1) fire cannot burn forever, 2) it seems humans were gifted sun magic first way back when, and 3) fire/burning has a more positive association with light. "Hopefully yearning" has a positive connotation, even if people on both sides can have hope for various reasons ("There is one weird hope" from Claudia in 4x01 vs Ezran's "There is a hope" in 3x03, etc). To yearn for something is to have "a strong feeling of wishing for something, especially something that you cannot have or get easily" and we know that wishes and wants are something that can go from good to bad in TDP's world, especially when it comes to Aaravos.

The characters are hoping/working/wishing that "Love will triumph once more," the way it did for them in 3x09. This reflects back into love > control, narrative of love > narrative of power, etc. It also caps off this stanza of "eight in the line" having the game motif, and then triumphing also indicates winning the game.

But, of course, they can't. Not in S6, anyway.  😈