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by
L.J. Andrews
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January 9 - January 16, 2025
the darkness is only defeated if the final truth is found.”
“Golden King?” “That’s what I’m calling your chatty lover now.
love that
keep thinking about a falcon.”
“We should laugh our way through gore and violence, or we shouldn’t face them at all.”
I love this advice
There, tattooed in the center, was the same rune crest as Saga’s.
RIOT
“To the beginning of your story, Ari. To the beginning of all our stories.”
Riot knows aris name??
“A falcon’s game for which he plays brightens deep your heart of pain.”
“Makers of shadows and mountains, come them all. Patience you need when darkness feeds, lest all thrones fall.” Danna hummed. “A king will rise, but only to his heart’s cries.” “A caution follows with this tale, should the first bond break, you will fail.”
Kase and valen. Wait until kase and valen arrive. Davorin is the darkness. Ari will awaken when saga cries for him. If elise and valen are torn apart the war will be lost
“Strike the flesh. Dim the foe. When the moment is right, you will know.”
“Is this the part where she sends word to night to reach the sun?”
Word to Valen to reach sol??
don’t need to have a place in the tale.
Sounds like all the other fmc's in this series in a good way
A feeling almost like a presence was watching our every move. It wasn’t as dangerous as Davorin, there wasn’t the same twist in the stomach or rush of blood from fear.
Many fates align as history repeats. A foe threatens the present with the vengeance he seeks.
Davorin
A foe poisons with vengeance he seeks. Misery awaits within defeat.
Two littles. Confirmed by Lynx four weeks
She, the raven fair, grows cold till North winds rise. He, the peasant king, wakes her from the endless night. Hand in hand, band by band, they join a fated fight.
Saga was cold until she saw Ari fighting in the north. Ari was the stand in king in the north. Interesting Riot sensed that Davorin and Saga were not a fated pair
“There is much for you to learn if you wish your wife to have the best chance at survival.
“She challenges you for she is safe with you. The Raven Queen knows she can fall, and you will catch her. She knows she can fight, and you will sharpen her blade. She knows she can speak, and you will give her the room. Again, use these strengths to your benefit.”
Use sagas strengths and davorins weaknesses to win
“The raven’s mark burns across a golden king who hails from folk of the night,”
Ariiiiii
Gorm marked the lot of us with Riot’s royal rune with a needle heated in a flame. Bjorn thought the High King’s mark was the true symbol of the isles, and Gorm was never one to argue with logic he determined as sound. The blood cantrip in the rune kept us free to leave the blood court and return without trouble. It was also a connection to each other. Should we find ourselves in trouble, others would be signaled to come to our aid.
Smart
A loyal heart lost in the dark, misspoken words bring the start.
Eyes closed, safe and sound. Eyes open—found.
“Hidden deep, a blade of old lies in wait for the king to hold.”
The king = Ari
“He takes their magic.”
Oh so we're Fucked
“Watch closely Ari, find what you must learn from a tale. For if you ever are free of this, it might be what saves you.”
“Walk among the stars to sing the song of the king of scars.”
If i am tiring of not having answers i can only imagine what they are feeling
The history of every artifact ran through my head. Malin’s ring passed down through lines of queens. Valen’s axes that made him the Blood Wraith. My vows that broke a curse over a lost queen.
a broken piece of land in the northern part of the Fate’s Ocean. “This realm, or land, would be unique since if it came to rest in this portion of the sea, there could be two climates. There would need to be mountainous ridges to protect the valleys from harsher frost seasons and cooler air. I’m confident the land would produce crops, with Night Folk influence, of course.”
1
Descriptions of pleasant, warmer air, dense forests, and damp swamps. Descriptions of the isles of the South as I knew them.
2
“And the western seas have nothing?” “Yes,” Daj said. “As you stated was the case in your dream.”
3
“Petter Sekundär held a powerful gift, not a simple talent with cartography. Fury took his knowledge deeper until he knew the exact fractures to make, the width of rivers, the temperament of landscapes. All the details a fate worker would require to have seidr build a grand twist of destiny. To create something new.”
The cutting edges were hidden, but the gold and silver hilt in the shape of entwined raven wings was masterfully built.
The blade he has to find!
“The fury blade will pull from the iron of the blood into the iron of the blade, weakening whatever power flows in the veins of a foe. It is quite brutal, Your Highness.”
And that is why
My folk, my parents, they’d met my wife. Truth be told, they both looked rather murderous.
“Hear this: whatever you face someday, I hope you will always stand for your people. Raise any future children to stand for their folk. Do so, and you will leave a legacy that will play a mighty role in the fate of our kingdom.”
It was the final song of love the king would sing.
wonder, if nothing had ever happened to divide us, if we would’ve met.” A pain twisted in my chest. “I suppose it’s possible, but I never would’ve been able to love you.”
Oh saga yes you would have because you and ari were destined. Also you knew his parents or rather your brother did.
“Within a snake’s mouth lies a key to the past. Beyond the gates of stars resides the final task.”
“To be here as one, every thread of fate he has hunted during this long tale is present,” she whispered. “He is too strong, and we are too weak. There are pieces the Raven Queen and her Golden King must find, steps they must take, before every fate can face their shared enemy.”
“When there seems to be no way out, it is in those moments we must dig inside and find the courage to choose for ourselves how we take the next step.
“You are my every sunrise,”
Goals
our odd little storyteller is the descendent of House Ode.”
How fun. Explains why saga felt protective of calista right away
Like I’m connected to that first storyteller somehow. It’s unnerving.”
Maybe you ARE the first story teller??
