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[juh-artist]

Fainne, Child of the Prophecy 🔥

I think I can start by saying that the Brazilian title, A Filha da Profecia (“The Daughter of the Prophecy”), gives away quite the spoiler for those paying attention. Since I wasn’t at first, I still got completely surprised 🤭

Fainne became dear to me as soon as I read about the circumstances of her birth and upbringing. She’s very different from Sorcha and Liadan. Even her name is a hint at what she truly is — an enchanted being, thanks to her paternal grandmother. Something not entirely human.

We get lost in her self-deprecating thoughts, in her huge desire to be a good woman for the world and for the ones she loves. And I’ll admit, at times I thought that maybe her bloodline had already doomed her to chaos and darkness. But as someone told her at a certain point, “a child has two grandmothers.” That line completely broke me — I cried remembering brave, strong Sorcha. How could that fragile girl have given life to someone as powerful, beautiful, and fierce as Fainne?

And this girl made mistakes — she did, trying to be loved and accepted. But she also grew and did the right thing for the very same reasons. Until one day, when she finally realized she was the child of the prophecy, she gave up everything to live in seclusion and protect the Goddess’s secrets from the Christian advance.

Sevenwaters is such a beautiful allegory for the fall and resilience of the Old People of Ireland, and also for the reason why, even today, the Goddess can still speak to those who truly listen: there was once a sacrifice made out of devotion and love for one’s own blood. Without Fainne, the Old Faith would have been completely erased. The island shrouded in mist keeps alive the memory of the faith in the Earth and in everything that lives beneath Her.

I still get emotional when I think of how this story filled my days with so much feeling — tenderness, joy, sadness — but above all, hope. Hope that, even in times like ours, the Great Mother still watches over us and continues to whisper to those willing to hear Her mysteries 💜

I’m deeply grateful for having found this story and for everything it’s taught me 💜

[juh-artist]

Liadan, The Heart of the House 🌱

I have to admit, when I first started reading Son of the Shadows, the beginning didn’t really grab me. It was tough—I dragged it out for almost a month before picking it up again. But then, at a certain point, something completely caught my attention: realizing that the extraordinary isn’t always in grand acts.

I once even wrote that Son of the Shadows felt subtle, smaller compared to Daughter of the Forest. With what seemed like a simple “love at first sight” kind of plot. But I couldn’t have been more wrong.

What you learn in Western witchcraft is that things will happen. Regardless of your will, no matter what you try to do to stop them—they’ll happen anyway.

It was in this book that I understood Sevenwaters as the story of a prophecy already set in motion. Every tiny event builds toward that grand, bittersweet ending. And in a dense, almost desperate way, we often find ourselves stuck in one of humanity’s oldest dilemmas: does free will really exist?

Liadan is only the heroine of her own story—she did what she wanted, and in the end, she reaped the strange fruits of her journey.

Today, I love her like an old friend, even if I’ve wanted to yell at her a few times 🤭🤭🤭

[juh-artist]

Sorcha, Daughter of the Forest 🌙

Sevenwaters was strongly recommended to me right after I became completely obsessed with Wildwood Dancing. People said so many wonderful things about it that my expectations were sky-high.

But they were so far beyond exceeded that I can hardly believe it. After The Mists of Avalon, I thought I’d never find something as beautiful, grand, and spiritually rich. I couldn’t have been more wrong—thank goodness!

Daughter of the Forest, the first book in the series, completely captured me. I was so fascinated that I couldn’t put it down until I finished. Sorcha’s story and her brothers’ curse made me cry in public—from joy, despair, and heartbreak. The emotions it stirred in me were so unique that I can safely say it’s now my favorite book 💜

I’ll be making the next two heroines, and after that, a series of special illustrations ✨️ But for now, I hope you enjoy 💜

[rainsincaladan]

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The Oblivion Remaster is out and I don't have the money to buy a whole new console, so I won't play it anytime soon BUT this was the game I played the most as a teenager and all the vids of people playing it has me feeling nostalgic so I want to talk about the biggest scandal of my life in 2006.

As a kid I was convinced Armand Christophe (the thief that brings you into the thieves guild) was the Grey Fox.

When it was revealed some other bloke had the gig, I was so disappointed that I just refused to accept it.

Every time I played the Thieves Guild and the Grey Fox showed up, I called him a fake. Armand, I knew, was the real deal.

Mostly, this was because of the dialogue around who humiliated Hieronymus Lex (the over zealous guard and main antagonist of the thieves' guild) years ago.

People around town, when you ask about Lex, say it was the Grey Fox who humiliated him. Armand was there, but crucially he wasn't the one who did the humiliating. Here's the line of dialogue:

[Who is Hieronymus Lex?] "He is captain of the Imperial Watch. He is pursuing a personal vendetta against the Thieves Guild and the Gray Fox. I heard the Gray Fox personally humiliated Lex years ago when he tried to arrest Armand Christophe for theft. Lex has never forgotten it."

But when you ask Armand, he says it was him:

[Who is Hieronymus Lex?] "He's a Captain of the Imperial Watch. He is pursuing a personal vendetta against the Thieves Guild and the Gray Fox. Two years ago I made a fool out of him when he tried to arrest me. Lex has never forgotten it."

YOU HEAR IT?! Roll back the tape and play it again.

Everyone in the city:

...the Gray Fox personally humiliated Lex...

Armand fucking Christophe:

...I made a fool out of him...

The quotes are copy pasted from this site but I remember as a kid being convinced that this was an early clue to the identity of the Grey Fox.

Also, it made so much sense. The Grey Fox is the Robin Hood of this world. He's charming, he helps the poor, is BFF with the beggars, makes a fool of Hieronymus Lex, who's pretty much like the Sheriff of Nottingham in this world.

That's Armand Christophe to a T. That's his whole vibe. He's charming, he helps the poor, is friends with the beggars, confessed to being the one who humiliated Hieronymus Lex, and cares deeply and is deeply involved with the thieves guild, the poor at the waterfront, the Imperial City, etc.

But then the 'actual' Grey Fox shows up and....

...okay. He doesn't look much like the poster but maybe he's someone cool underneath...

...it's a random weirdo. It's just this poncy, frilly, fop with a cursed hood who hangs out on the other side at the map, doesn't actually care about the thieves, beggars, or the poor, is actually just being a creep to his ex.

No.

I refused to accept it.

I still refuse.

Armand is or was the Grey Fox. He had the hood at some point. Or perhaps he made his own hood and impersonated the fox when the fox turned out to be such a loser.

Even in the end when you're the Grey Fox and he does his 'Grey Fox, it's an honour' line, I'm just like... is it? Is it really, sir? Or have I taken something that was always meant to be yours? Or perhaps this is part of your plan. Get the rookie into the mask, make the rookie a hero, fade quietly and silently into retirement all while the rookie thinks that bewitched noble miles away was somehow the fox.

Clever ploy, Armand.

So devious.

You almost got away with it.

But, in the end, I am not fooled.

In the new remaster they've given Armand a beard to try and hide it and yet he looks even more like the poster than before.

It's you, sir. It's you. You're playing the longest of cons.

Youse were the Grey Fox then and you're still the Grey Fox now. I don't care what anyone says.

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