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Elise Kova
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December 21, 2022 - March 28, 2023
He tilted his head slightly. When he did so, the bottom of his hair nearly touched his shoulder.
Taavin character description
tacit
Yet the vision that possessed her was different from all the others. It was clearer, sharper.
Shes mastering her powers!!
serpentine, winged monster, wide talons dipping to tear off pieces of the world below. Red lightning cracked around its body, as if charged by the ripping of reality itself.
Description of Ras- evil god
They had spoken of an apocalypse, of a reckoning where all souls would be summoned to the Father’s realms—a day where the sky itself would shatter and the world as they all knew it would come to an end.
Prophetic / biblical
inundated
“This dark god you speak of—Raspian—and his followers… the White Death… they’re all linked, aren’t they?”
Important plot point - the puzzle is being solved
but nineteen years ago, that seal was broken.
Must be linked to Vi... Who is also 19 y/o-- actually I don't think she's 19. We find out later that it was most likely linked to the Crystal Caverns collapsing. So I think Vi is 18
“So we need to find future apexes, and make sure we shift fate there.”
Important Plot point - next steps
Distinctly red eyes set on ghostly pale skin were narrowed directly at her. He had a similar jaw line to Taavin’s, a narrow bridge to his nose, and Vi knew if she peeled back the man’s hood she’d see pointed ears.
Character description - Raspian??
the elfin'ra.
“The champion’s blood for Lord Raspian.”
Well now we know who tried to kill her at the noru races
The night rushed around her. She’d known the sky trees were tall, but Vi had never really heeded Jax’s warnings when it came to how tall. It seemed she would fall forever. Every second seemed longer than a hundred years and yet she knew it would be over all too soon. Vi reached upward on instinct, flailing through the air, looking for a branch or walkway. But she couldn’t find a hold. Surely, there was a window she could grab onto? Somewhere? Her nails ripped back, the pads of her fingers scraped off against rough bark. There was a flash of red light—the elfin’ra was performing some kind of
...more
Falling scene. Might need to reread
Just having you here helps, Vi thought, and the words sounded as though they had passed through her lips. His ethereal presence shifted, slightly, as though his chest rose and fell with a sigh. “Will you ever free me from this torture?” he lamented softly. Vi felt it as though he’d whispered it right into her ear.
Cute.sad.romantic
“Andru?” Vi wheezed, barely moving her lips. “He was out, he saw you fall. The man nearly fell out of the window himself catching you. Popped both his shoulders pretty badly, too,”
Prediction come true? Andru saving her ?
subterfuge.”
In a different world, the touch would be her father’s. But in this world, Jax was the closest thing she had.
“Did he ever write anything else about me?”
Romulin+Andru= <3
“What happened to your face?” “Is it that bad?” She smiled tiredly. Ginger had removed the majority of the bandages that morning. “I haven’t had the strength to look in a mirror yet.” “You’re still beautiful, if that’s what you’re asking,” he whispered.
clandestine
sequestered…
“Someone tried to kill me. An elfin’ra tried to kill me,” Vi hastily clarified before he could get a word in. Taavin went very still. When he spoke, a protective edge limned his voice that Vi hadn’t heard before. “Tell me.”
“Ashes, from the flame if it is snuffed. The blood of the voice… or the champion.” His eyes fell heavily on her. Vi swallowed hard. It was as if his words alone reignited pain in her ailing body. “That’s why, in my vision… the body on the altar in the bag…” It was one of them. One of them had been gutted, bagged, and laid across an altar to resurrect an ancient evil.
Important plot point
“Teach me how to protect myself,” Vi demanded. “Teach me beyond anchoring the glyphs and basic principles. I want to use Lightspinning to fight.” For a brief second, she was afraid he would reject her. “I shall do my best to make myself available at every moment to be your tutor.”
“No… The only scrap of hatred I can find in me now is for the elfin’ra who harmed you.”
“Does Jayme know the Le’Dan family?”
JAYME IS SUS - prediction
For the first time, it was as if she had a real magic tutor who knew what to do with her.
On top, she wore a golden shirt fitted to her torso with a tall, wide neck. The shirt split at her hips into a front and back piece that draped down to below her knees, reminiscent of the tabbards the Northern warriors wore. A tightly fitted white undershirt had long sleeves that reached a point over her hands, hooked to her middle fingers with small rings. Her legs were covered with a patchwork of lynx leather, tucked into knee-high boots. Underneath it all, the watch was warm against her skin.
Character description - Vi's winter solstice fashion
“I have not had many reasons—until lately—to feel merry, Vi.”
“Perhaps I can teach you some time?” The tiniest of smiles crossed his mouth. His eyes were soft, tender almost. A welcome change from the hard-as-gemstones man she’d first met. “I’d like that.”
“I’ll summon you tonight. It’s quiet after the festivities. We can go over mysst,” she whispered hastily. “I’ll be waiting.”
Her father’s sickness… Friends made on the road… Her ambition to become a guard… It suddenly struck Vi just how little she actually knew about her friend.
Sehra and her wife, Za,
WHAT - could've seen that coming. Air awakens mention
“Isn’t that part of the enjoyment, though? Getting lost in something that seems as if it should be impossible?”
A commoner rising to marry the Crown Prince as Empress Vhalla did is not something we can come to expect often.”
There had been the assassination of her grandfather, the uprising of the Mad King, the final war of the Crystal Caverns before the caverns went dormant—.
“Home is a funny thing…” she said, finally. “I don’t really know where home is or what it will look like. I have dreams, ideas, but nothing concrete.”
“You’re right, family is important,” Jayme said. There was something almost wistful in her tone. “Perhaps the only thing that’s important.”
She's so sus
“I need to speak with you, Vi.” He cleared his throat, forcing out the words.
DONT KILL OFF JAX!!!!
“Your father is dead.”
ALDRIK NOOooOoOOOOOOOooooooo
“Emperor Aldrik Solaris has perished at sea.”
“They have yet to recover his body… The search efforts will continue, however. At least for a time.”
HES STILL ALIVE
The world she’d always been promised was no more, before she could even step foot in it. Everything she had lived for and waited for was suddenly pulled out from under her feet.
succinctly.
My family is the one thing I’ve wanted, the one thing I’ve been working toward. I can’t give up on it now.”
At the end of it all, they didn’t need to believe her. She merely had to save her father.
“Looking out for your family with such fervor when you don’t even know them.”
“I’m in love with your brother… and he’s in love with me.”
I KNEW IT
But this is a sacred place. It was made by Dia herself and said to give us all life-sustaining, fresh water. It’s more of a place of pilgrimage than of residence or industry.”
I love the sacredness of the world this story holds
She felt small pulses emitting from underneath Ellene’s feet with every step. The girl’s eyes closed from time to time, but she never ran into a single tree or bush. Even with her eyes closed, her magic mapped the forest for her into a sight beyond sight.
This is a magic i would like to have
