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the edit itself

this edit is getting taken down from tiktok every time someone reuploads it, its straight up censorship at this point

Im not even american but im having a great time with this

DONT LET THIS DIE

credit to miraculousgastropod for the original

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Suvi sensing it's the end of the current arc which means Ame and Eursulon are about to be kicking off some lethal Looney Tunes shennigans:

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decided my fetal kwamis deserved a little lore

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Is that what “in each of those twelve, a mask of the King of Night”???? that he is all of those??? is he too the moon patron ame’s warlock patron is sworn to??? the moon being an element of the night. is this how ame & co find out??? but since mirara already shared this to ame and the coven, is this perhaps something ame will take advantage of???

Wait wait wait

If the Man in Black pretends to be different patrons to the warlocks of Rhuv... does he just do drag for one of them???

Is he.. you know... a queer performer

Drag King, Drag Regent, or Drag Queen? All Three and More?

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One of the things that’s interesting to me about The Man in Black from The Wizard The Witch and The Wild One is how - compared to the rest of the spirits depicted - all of his imagery has to do with human civilization.

Obviously roads in Brennan’s description are made intentionally - different than a path, different than a trail, connecting lives in a more intentional way. The man in black is always shown to be humanoid. His ancient sword is described by him as “sharper than a spinster’s tongue and harder than a misers heart” a spinster and a miser are only concepts that make sense within the context of capital - a human creation.

In a show that is so specific with the dichotomy of the human realm and the spirit realm - it’s interesting to me that this supposedly ancient being kinda doesn’t fit into this wild one/human split.

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The Stranger’s face is never seen. My gasp when it is revealed that its Eioghorain’s face because he is the vessel of the MIB

Okay, big spoilers for WBN: WWWO : Ep 33 : The Witness ahead. Only click past the cut if you want spoilers and wild theorizing

There were a lot of big bombshells dropped this episode but I think one of the biggest is that the Stranger is the defacto ruler of Rhuv.

All of the Chalices are sworn to him, through his various guises

The monarchy is “negotiable” according to his lover talking to Ame, at very least implying that it existed only as long as it served him

That same lover stated the mission was “to bring humanity to heel” not just the Citadel or the Empire

Three of the Witches of the Elder Coven have sworn to serve him, we’ll see if that lasts only until the Citadel is uprooted

Wren has long stood in the way of the coven serving The Stranger.

these are all facts from the episode.

Now for some historical facts:

• Eioghorain was at least part of the leadership for a revolution in Gaothmai

• Both Grandmother Wren and Soft and Stone took measures against MiB specifically

• Soft and Stone hunted the League of Whispers

• Stone was loyal to “magic itself”

• Soft freed wrongly imprisoned spirits

• No one has memory of the attack on Suvi’s parents, except maybe Eioghorain

• The Stranger has been “moving upon the world” since the 1650s

• the summer of 1656 was when Suvi’s parents died

• Eioghorain is half spirit

• The curse on Ame smelled of Eioghorain

• The curse on Wren came about from an attack by the Stranger

Now for Wild Speculation™️

Eioghorain has been forcefully possessed by the Stranger since he, along with Soft and Stone, were ambushed in a trap with the purpose of guaranteeing the necessity of destroying the Citadel through war and uniting the world under The Stranger

why do I think that?

Wren has long been the holdout, the thorn in the side of unanimity for the Elder Coven swearing allegiance to the Stranger, believing that a peaceful solution was possible. Soft and Stone were her best chance at having this come to pass. Powerful/loved leaders that respected spirits and magic itself.

Civil war is inconvenient for outside wars. The leadership of Gaothmai wanted Eioghorain out of the way.

The League of Whispers were supposedly working to destroy the Citadel. It is just as likely that they served The Stranger, considering the sad state of the Antivolists as described by Tefmet

My theory is that Eioghorain’s half spirit nature made him the ideal vessel for The Stranger to walk the world (which started in a window of time that covered that summer) and that Rhuv offered to help the Gaothmai leadership remove the largest internal threat to them, and allowed so many factions to take out the two biggest obstacles to a peaceful resolution (or revolution) for the Citadel

That’s why the curse smelled of Eioghorain. His body cast it, if not his will.

Soft and Stone, dead. Maybe at his hands, maybe not (i’ve got a different essay about geas and modify memory and Steel) But the blame on him. Drives another wedge between the Citadel and the world. Gives Steel a reason to never stop the war. And gives the Stranger a body to work his will on the world.

And maybe, to take it over

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Episode 33 bingo... was a no go... 🤣👏

Feel free to play along while you relisten...

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So! At the end of arc 3 and the coven of elders we have:

Gaslight Gatekeep Girlboss getting prepped for war

Ice queen angry at one theft and about to be even madder once she sees the rest of it

Suvi back on her ship, complete in her mission, heading post haste to help Silver and his troops, laboring with her justification machine turned off to figure out what exactly is going on, all while sitting pretty with two levels of exhaustion

Ame and Eursulon, setting precedent with their loud exit from the north pole, headed to Toma, having gained two door knobs of unknown power, a roc friend (?), a way to meet the Antivalists, and an unconscious witch's apprentice

Silver actively fighting for his life after sending a very nice message to Suvi, here's hoping he pulls through

Nif, currently unconscious but probably about to experience a quality of life increase

The Man in Black menacing innocent townsfolk in the middle of the night for probably complex reasons

The Fox with several keys in his stomach, flying on a giant bird-thing, and overall chilling

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I can't read, but if I could, that sign would say "there's no snakes in this river"

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"Kintsugi (Japanese: 金継ぎ, lit. 'golden joinery'), also known as kintsukuroi (金繕い, "golden repair"), is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with urushi lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum.

"As a philosophy, it treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, rather than something to disguise."

—Kintsugi- Wikipedia

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The identify spell (cast without the reflexive indicative.)

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WBN - Spoilers(?) + notes

I think Indri screaming “thief” and not referring to either Ame or Eursulon, might be referring to Suvi “copying” Indri’s library. Based on the ice knives thudding down on the Meridian, and the mention of witch’s wrath and “outstretched hand of storm and cloud” and even Suvi recognizing the relation between the storm and the cargo the Meridian is carrying, it’s Indri trying to get back at Suvi. Also, with all the focus on Suvi leaving, what stays in my mind is that Indri still has Suvi’s ring. The same ring which has something to do with her casting. And you know what that means? Consequences. Indri might not join the war together with the other three, she will make moves to undermine the Citadel in retaliation and punish Suvi.

What comes to mind as well is the Ame taking back those door knobs. Something was given — was a gift — to another witch. The taking back of that gift has to mean something under magical law.

Suddenly the nuggets such as the research on the Battle of Starling Ford and mentions of necromancy makes sense now. The MIB arriving at the Castle of Hollyhill where Sir Curran is interred just confirms it. With the shield with the hawthorn tree — Sir Curran’s crest. He wants to bring him back. And I my guess, he wants Sir Curran to be his champion.

Also interesting that the MIB has a falcon. Similar to Gramore, whose familiar is a hawk and whose domain relates to violence.

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Ame's questions to the Coven were very important even though the vote didn't go the way she wanted

Indri phrased the vote simply as do we join the man in black in his war

But Ame's questions resulted in Grimoire starting beforehand her understanding that the war was against the Citadel and not all of humanity

They also tipped Hakeya off that there might be a motivation or attempt to push beyond that, so she specified that her vote related to the Tower

Magical law seems to have a power of itself in this world, so if someone tries to argue that the vote was to join with the man in black including actions outside the Citadel, then the context and conversations surrounding the vote can be used to interpret it - Grimoire and Hakeya, a majority of the vote, understood it to be an agreement to assist with the war against the Citadel only, not some effort to bring humanity to heel, so magical law shouldn't compel them to act beyond that

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Hoi Shan Fung (Chinese,b. 1993)

And you say I am ugly, 2020

Ink and colour on silk

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Here it is! the whole clown car, and I labelled them in this one for the people who were asking for it :) sorry they aren't in the order they're in in-game but i have a vision

I love clown

Individual posts: [ int | psyche | phys | mot ]

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"You are under the effects of a Modify Memory spell"

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WBN lore drop - spoilers!

“… However mighty he is, he commands the house of Tekal and wears the stone of Castvi. To his banner have sworn fealty the King of Storms and Orima of the Reaching Green. In Rhuv, are there twelve spirits that the warlocks of that land have sworn their fealty and each of those twelve, a mask of the King of Night…”

— Mirara, Witch of the Waning Moon, “The Witness”

So i know from previous episodes:

The King of Storms = father of Naram, Wave Lord

Orima = Naram’s wife

Warlocks of Rhuv = magic users in Rhuv. Ame’s ancestor is an immortal Rhuvian warlock

Yet so many questions.

Who are the “12 spirits of Rhuv”? Is the “moon spirit” to whom Ame’s immortal ancestor indebted to one of those spirits?

When did the KoS and OoRG became allies to MIB? When Naram was captured? After Naram was freed? I have a hunch but, why isn’t Naram sworn to MIB?

The “house of Tekal(?)”??? The “stone of Castvi(?)”??? Those are new to me. Have they been mentioned in past episodes before? This is what I get for not taking notes. If they have been, please tell me. Thanks.