A new type of magic, the Silverwood trees greatest risk and greatest potential.
Still thinking about how the silverwood tree inside Qifrey began to grow the closer he got to Custas, and how even Custas felt his tree grow in return. Qifrey questioned if the tree was trying to stop him from getting closer because it was too dangerous, which raises question of just how little about the Silverwood tree the pointed hat witches actually know, especially now that the Brim Hats are experimenting with it. Before, it was only known the tree would travel through beasts and grow when its host felt hopeful and safe, and for awhile we thought it was the same for humans now that the trees seeds were being implanted in them by the brim hats, but at the end of the Silver eve arc, we discover things are becoming far more complicated for hosts like Qifrey and Custas.
The end of the Silver eve arc was the first time we discovered the silverwood tree inside a human host can respond to the presence of another silverwood tree from another human host. If the silverwood tree can not only respond to the security of their own host, but also respond to the emotional security of other hosts, then would this mean all the silverwood trees are connected? We know groves of silverwood trees exist, but we always wondered how it was possible, this may be how. The only one who didn't seem affected in that moment Custas was sprouting was Ininia, but then again, her emotional state is on a completely different level, her deep rooted hatred for the pointed caps seems to have allowed her to develop a sense of control over the silverwood tree inside her, it still seems to cause her pain when she allows it to grow, but she is none the less able to retract it back into her body, something Qifrey and Custas can't do given they have people like Coco and Olruggio on the pointed hats side to remind them there is still good and kindness in the pointed hats belief that magic is meant to bring happiness.
Should one tree grow, other trees can sense the comfort radiating from one host and attempt to take root now that a secure place has been found, and yet there is something unnatural about the way the tree inside a human grows.
The silverwood tree is no ordinary tree, in many ways it is very much alive, but something Beladruit and Riliphin once said in chapter 38 has left many theorists and I wondering just how aware the tree actually is. Beladruit and Riliphin said the tree can grow anywhere, but in the end it chooses where it wants to live just like a human would. Above all it likes to grow in places that calm the soul, but what would happen if the silverwood tree was stressed? The horrific experiments the brim hats put Qifrey through as a child, experiments where he would have his memories repeatedly erased to reverse the tree inside him, left Qifrey with a great deal of trauma that still lingers even after his memory was erased, and it may not be just for him, but for the silverwood tree inside him as well.
All plants, trees included, may not hold fear or a nervous system to experience pain, but they do experience and respond to stress, and when they do, it's not uncommon for plants to grow unnaturally and in poor health, especially if its competing with other plants for space and resources. If the silverwood inside Qifrey was truly resisting his attempts to get closer to Custas, then perhaps it was simply trying to avoid the danger of growing too close to Custas's tree, because if it did, it would hinder its own growth.
When the tree inside Custas grew, people noticed it had no interest in hurting people, it just continued to grow...but the way it grew, destroying everything in its path to finally stretch its roots, blocking every entrance to the point of leaving only enough room for a child like Coco to squeeze through, was wild and crazy, it was nothing like the tree Tartah had in his town or the tree in the Great Hall, trees that grew in such a way to allow even a house or an entire civilization to build around it and make it their home, but the tree that grew from Custas...it was as if the tree itself was desperate to finally grow.
And yet something still feels off. In chp.87, the brim hat said the way the tree sprouted in Custas after he experienced just a moment of security meant the spell was unfortunate and needed revision...but what does this mean? Unless...Do the brim hats not want the tree to grow?
Despite the tree's miraculous ability to spread its roots into parts of the host’s body that have been damaged or missing, such a miraculous ability quickly turns into a painful curse. In order to ensure the tree does not take over the human host, the host themselves needs to be in a constant state of fear and anxiety to combat it, but even then the silverwood tree continues to grow its roots inside them, their hair and eye color turning white as snow, as if draining their host. So then why put them inside humans to begin with? Trying to harness the tree's ability to strengthen or replace the weaker or missing parts of the human body is one thing, but there must be something else to it. The only true value in the silverwood tree is...well... the magic ink that can be harvested from it.
The magic ink is just as important to the brim hats as it is to the pointed hats, the only difference is the brims add their own blood to the ink to make it more powerful. All witches need only two things to cast magic, a pen and ink, and yet despite anyone being capable of owning these things, not everyone can perform magic as easily as any witch could, not just because the secret of how magic is done is kept hidden, but because not everyone is free to draw, the human body has its physical limitations. Tartah for instance, was considered unfit to draw magic because of his inability to see colors, Qifrey's only functioning eye left many speculating he would be doomed to strain his eye to the point of no longer being able to see his drawings to cast magic, and then there are people like Ininia who have no hands to begin with or Beldaruit whose weak and frail body continues to deteriorate. Without ink, and without the means to physically draw proper glyphs, a witch is powerless....so what if the Brim Hats are trying to remove those limitation?
What am I trying to say? well...what if maybe...just maybe...the new type of magic the brim hats are experimenting with on people like Qifrey, Custas and Ininia... is meant to find a new way to perform magic, one where no one would need a pen or ink to draw magic, a type of magic anyone could be free to use no matter their limitations ...because the ink needed to cast magic would no longer need to be held in hand with a pen, it would already be present in every human body to summon at will, the only problem is the tree itself. If the brim hats want the trees magical properties to remain within the body of a any person without the risk of turning them into a tree, then this alone must be making the silverwood tree grow so violently inside a human host, its being suppressed from doing what comes naturally to it and as a result, its trying to adapt.
Qifrey said so himself in chapter 93, its rare for silverwood trees to sprout in humans because unlike animals, humans carry too much anxiety, but for Qifrey, the brim hats took his eye the moment it became the first successful part of the human body to sprout the tree. The brims succeeded at least in creating a new type of silverwood capable of growing inside people, problem is its growth is unstable, it responds to quickly to the slightest bit of security its human host feels, and if Qifreys suspicions about his silverwood tree being connected to Custas is true, and if the silverwood trees are as truly connected to one another as we believe, then Qifreys eye is the brim hats only means of continuing their experiment by harvesting the seeds of Qifreys tree to give to other people like Custas.
The brims took Custas away at the end of the Silver eve arc and Ininia remains strictly loyal to the brims with little emotional empathy towards who they hurt, but by the end of the day, despite being apprentices to the brims, they are still nothing more than experimental subjects in their plans, children who were vulnerable enough to give into their words and accept the silverwood seed in desperation, and if brims were quick to abandon Qifrey in his childhood after taking what they needed from him, then Custas and Ininia are just as expendable. The brim hats are pretty good at trying to entice others into using forbidden magic and if they succeed in their experiment, then it will be all the more easy to push the pointed hats to use forbidden magic.
Iguin of the brim hats said the pointed hats would be pushed into using forbidden magic, and if what we theorized is true about them trying to create a new form of magic that would allow a human body to perform magic using the silverwood tree inside them and no longer be reliant on drawing spells, then how would someone like Beldaruit and other witches, whose bodies are dangerously close to being unable to perform magic through drawings, react to the news of such a new form of magic, would they still reject it simply because it is forbidden, or will it be enough of a temptation to convince the pointed hats to cross the line they set so as to not allow the brim hats to be the only ones who hold onto such a power?...Anyway, for now, its all just a theory.
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