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Gates of the Wyrd and into Hell
Witch Kingdom.
she’d turned out to be both cruel and bloodthirsty, she was still just a human. And had still bled like one.
a lovely girl gazing at the stars, and the stars who gazed back.
“You’d see something like this before the Gates of Wyrd—not in a garden. How old is it?” “The king had it built around Dorian’s birth.”
It was a circle with a vertical line through the middle that extended beyond the circumference. Both ends of the line were hooked, one directing downward, the other up. “What is this mark on the path here?” He walked around until he stood beside her. “I have no idea.” Celaena examined the gargoyle again. “He’s pointing at it. What does the symbol mean?”
a second library lies deep beneath, in catacombs and tunnels.”
Though part of her savored the hope that those Master Scholars had smuggled many of the priceless books to safety—
The library Bryce’s boss had?
Murderer. He should be hanging from the gallows. He had killed many more than she—people undeserving and defenseless. He’d destroyed cultures, destroyed invaluable knowledge, destroyed so much of what had once been bright and good.
But where was that writhing darkness? Why didn’t it show itself so he could just throw her into the dungeon and call off this ridiculous competition? There was something great and deadly concealed within her, and he didn’t like it.
“He said Chastain’s body was in ribbons.”
CC link?
It was just a triangle inside of a circle.
It was a vertical line with an inverted peak stretching upward from its middle.
It was a strange shape: a small diamond with two inverted points protruding from either side. The top and bottom peaks of the diamond were elongated into a straight line, and it seemed to be symmetrically perfect.
Whispers lay beneath the breeze, speaking to her in forgotten languages.
Why was the woman’s face bathed in moonlight and the man’s in darkness?
A diamond, two arrows piercing its side, then a vertical line through its middle …
It was covered in stars—raised carvings that mirrored the night sky.
And the ceiling depicted the earth.
swirls and whorls,
Used to describe Feyre and Rhys’ tattoos
Ah! Time’s Rift!
CC rift?
Then this man was Gavin, the first King of Adarlan. And this was Elena, the first princess of Terrasen, Brannon’s daughter, and Gavin’s wife and queen.
“Damaris,”
“The eight guardians; you know of whom I speak.”
Astari?
before a portal is ripped open so wide that there can be no undoing it.”
Ruhnn
Some books claim the Wyrd is the force that holds together and governs Erilea—and not just Erilea! Countless other worlds, too.”
some theories suggest the Mother Goddess is just a spirit from one of these other worlds, and that she strayed through something called a Wyrdgate and found Erilea in need of form and life.”
“There’s an idea that before the Goddess arrived, there was life—an ancient civilization, but somehow, they disappeared. Perhaps through that Wyrdgate thing. Ruins exist—ruins too old to be of Fae making.”
They opened into other realms, some of them good, some of them bad. Things could come through from the other side and slither into Erilea.
a shade that clouded his eyes.
Though Elena looked fully formed, the edges of her body gleamed as though made from starlight.
a Queen of the Underworld—
Today is the day on which the Great Goddess gave birth to her firstborn, Lumas, Lord of the Gods. With his birth, love was brought into Erilea, and it banished the chaos that arose from the Gates of the Wyrd.”
Her dress was made of stars plucked from the sky,
There was a darkness in his eyes that felt cold and foreign, like the gaps between the stars.
a cauldron that the king had journeyed to stir.
Shadows
seemed to leak from him, flowing onto the stones and the windows and the walls like spilled ink.
the whisper of wings filled the air.
second one had wings.
a crown of stars glittering atop Elena’s head,
“You could rattle the stars,”
“Blood ties can’t be broken,”
