Elriel Fan

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Heart Parallels

Well this may sound crazy to everyone but I don't think the 'true mate' thing is that impossible anymore.

We know that Elain was taken to House of Wind after she was transformed in the second book. After L*cien left the Spring Court with Feyre, he came with her to the House of Wind and took up residence there.

If you remember their first meeting, Elain said the following sentence to L*cien:

“When I sleep,” she murmured, “I can hear your heart beating through the stone.” She angled her head, as if the city view held some answer. “Can you hear mine?”

He wasn’t sure if she truly meant to address him, but he said, “No, lady. I cannot.”

What if the heartbeats Elain heard here were not his but someone else's?

Since we met Azriel, we know very little about his past and as far as we know, he has never had a mate.

Oddly enough, in Acosf, Cassian being so worried about Nesta, said this to him, as if he knew what this feeling meant:

“You’d know if she’d died,” Azriel said, pausing his work and looking up at Cassian. He tapped his brother’s chest with a scarred hand. “Right here—you’d know, Cass.”

This is really interesting.

And when we go a little further back, after Elain was kidnapped by the cauldron, he was the only person to ask about Elain. It was as if he sensed something was wrong with her. When he realized she had been kidnapped, he didn't let anyone come forward to save her. He was determined to save her even though he had no responsibility.

From the shadows near the entrance to the tent, Azriel said, as if in answer to some unspoken debate, “I’m getting her back.”

Nesta said, “Then you will die.”

Azriel only repeated, rage glazing his state, “I’m getting her back.”

He wanted to be the one to celebrate the first solstice, and he even surpassed his high lady for that.

I found Elain studying it, beautiful in her amethyst-colored gown. I made to move toward her, but someone beat me to it.

The shadowsinger was clad in a black jacket and pants similar to Rhysand’s—the fabric immaculately tailored and built to fit his wings.

He still wore his Siphons atop either hand, and shadows trailed his footsteps, curling like swirled embers, but there was little sign of the warrior otherwise. Especially as he gently said to my sister, “Happy Solstice.”

And we can give many more examples than that. I can definitely feel the 'true mate' thing going strong. If you ask me, they'd both make a great couple in every way, but I wouldn't like to ignore the possibilities. I can't wait for the next book.

[queenofterranova]

I also think that when Elain was taken, she was desperate and called down the bond to be found.  She was thinking (probably not hoping) that Lucien would come, but who showed up ? Azriel.  And that is the reason why she was so surprised and stated “You came for me.”  She called down the bond and Azriel showed up. Of course, the lady couldn’t do other thing that devour his sight. 

 In addition to that part of the book, I think that when Elain said to Lucien, “he would not see me now,”  she meant Azriel. She was foreshadowing some trouble between them. Maybe Rhys prohibiting Azriel to come close to her, or maybe some shady lady enchanting him with light . . . who knows. 

[queenofterranova]

HOSAB’s shout-out to Elriel’s True-Teller’s scene, and to all of us discussing Elriel as a yin and yang symbol.

[queenofterranova]

Azriel the Gardener

Hear me out: Azriel’s secret hobby is gardening. He has beautiful gardens at Rosehall that he has designed. The night he was listening to Elain’s plans to expand the garden (pass beyond 3:00 am), he was totally taking notes to steal Elain’s ideas for Rosehall. ;)  

[elainsroses]

• Debunking Elain Hate •

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"Elain let her family starve, she grew flowers not vegetables."

If you say this, it's just confirming you never read the books.

It was Feyre who bought the seeds, she willingly bought flower seeds over crop seeds. She wanted to give Elain a gift, since Elain had saved up and bought Feyre some paints.

Plus, as a gardener myself, it's so much harder to grow fruits and vegetables than it is to grow flowers. You need to assess weather patterns, soil condition and you need to take into account your overall skill level.

"I was content to listen to her talk about every bud and bloom, about her plans to start another garden by the greenhouse, perhaps a vegetable garden, if she could learn enough about it over the next few months." ~ Feyre

Elain literally doesn't know how to start a vegetable garden, but she's trying to learn.

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"Elain was never there for Nesta, only pushing her away and ignoring her struggles."

Incorrect.

In 'A Court of Frost and Starlight' and 'A Court of Silver Flames' Elain is seen trying to cheer Nesta up and acts as a support system.

However, Nesta snaps at her, blames her for their father's death, calls her a 'dog', insults her to her face and ignores her when she tries to help.

Nesta herself said she treated Elain and Feyre terribly, she openly admits that she pushed her sisters away and therefore closer to each other.

It was Nesta doing this to herself.

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"Elain has done nothing for the story or plot, she's useless."

Who warned Nesta and Feyre about the 'twin ravens' who came to attack them? Elain.

Who told The Inner Circle about Vassa? Elain.

Who killed The King of Hybern? Elain.

Who singlehandedly ended a war, saved the Humans and Fae, brought one of the strongest Queens back, saved their sister and brought Koschei into the plot? Elain.

Nesta, Cassian, Rhys, Feyre, Helion, Lucien, Vassa and everyone in Prythian and The Mortal Lands would be dead if it wasn't for Elain Archeron.

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"Cassian said Elain doesn't look good in black, which means she doesn't belong in The Night Court."

"She had come alive here, and her joy was infectious."

'When Feyre had offered to let her remain home, Elain had squared her shoulders and declared that she was a part of this court - and would do whatever was needed.'

Elain is also described as smelling of 'Jasmine' which is the official flower of The Night Court.

If not wearing/looking good in black means you 'don't belong' in The Night Court, then Amren and Mor don't belong there either.

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"Elain doesn't have a backbone."

"I went into the Cauldron, too, you know. And it captured me. And yet all you think of is what my trauma did to you." ~ Elain snapping at Nesta after being insulted.

"Why? Shall I tend to my little garden forever? You can't have it both ways. You cannot resent my decision to lead a small, quiet life while also refusing to let me do anything greater." ~ Elain calling out Nesta.

I also feel like that last quote is a callout to the fandom.

You can't despise Elain for being soft and kind, but then say she 'can't' do anything else or it'll be 'out of character.'

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You want to know the real reason why people hate Elain?

It's because she's competition for their ship.

They know that Azriel has canon feelings for Elain and not Gwyn. They know Azriel and Elain are going to be endgame, they know that they're not gonna be the ones walking away with a book about their ship.

This Elain hate only started after the release of 'A Court of Silver Flames' the four years before that? No hate at all.

You hate Elain because you can't self-insert as her, because she's the kind of woman Azriel wants... and you aren't.

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[queenofterranova]

Well said!

[queenofterranova]

Rowan and Aelin and Azriel and Elain.

Is SJM pulling a Maeve with Azriel’s mate? or is SJM just a formulaic writer? What do you think?

[queenofterranova]

Elriels, what if the only person that can properly train Elain’s seer powers is at Rosehall? Wouldn’t that be awesome? 

[queenofterranova]

Lucien and the Mating Bond.

Much has been discussed about the mating bond and how that is going to affect the next book.  Much of the discussion has been centered in how it is going to affect Az and Elain’s story (well, as an Elriel fan that has been my focus). But what if the mating bond was written down to actually advance Lucien’s story rather than Elain’s. Particularly, when Rhys clarified that the bond is specially difficult to break for males. 

If as it has been speculated, SJM is planning to do some kind of retelling of the Firebird Ballet and the Swan Lake, maybe the bond is there to prompt Lucien to reject Vassa (mostly based on the idea of tradition and his obligation to comply with the bond, not necessarily because he is in love with Elain) and then realize that he made a big mistake and push him to do everything in his power (including discovering all his powers and parentage) to help rescuing Vassa. I think it would be great for both Lucien and Elain, if in the process he ends up breaking the bond. Just an idea. 

[elrielsecrets-deactivated202204]

Elain is the most useless character of ACOTAR:

Now im sure many of us are familiar with this statement but I highly disagree. This post will be to compare Elain to some of the other characters .

*Reminder I will be using Canon texts that you would find in ACOMAF, ACOWAR, ACOFAS and ACOSF.

There will not be any negativity of any character.

This is not about SHIPS. Its a post to undermine the theory that elain is absolutely useless and all she does is leach of feyres money.

Feyre MC:

Hunted for her family for 10+ yrs

Killed a fae wolf

Completed 3 trials UTM

Saved all 7 courts and the fae

Killed Amarantha

Completes a test to get rhy his family ring

Trains her powers and trains physically

Conducts a meeting with the human queens

Becomes high lady of the Night court

Destroys the spring court

Attends and takes part in the high Lords meeting

Book of breathing she took from the summer court

Visits bone carver, trial with the mirror

Helps the fish fae? Forgot what they were called

Turns the couldron neutral

Helped save her sister elain from Hybern

If I have forgotten anything feel free to add more points but this is all I can remember her doing in ACOTAR ACOMAF ACOWAR ACOFAS. Besides from being a genuinely good person.

Now obviously since the trilogy follows Feyre we have seen more of her

Rhysand:

UTM rhys

Protected the rainbow and Velaris

Gave feyre a much needed safe place

Helped feyre run from her wedding

Taught feyre how to read and write

Helped train her

The whole summer Court fiasco

Conducted a meeting with the human queens

Managed to get the book of breathings

Brought all the high Lords together for a meeting

Fought in the war, almost died

Once again if I am missing anything feel free to add that on

Point to remember was that Rhys was also a main character meaning we did see more of him albeit not much from his POV

Amren and Mor:

Became feyres friends and security

Mor helped to convince the queen's

Mor goes to other continents to convince them of peace

Amren almost betrayed everyone.

Genuinely can't think of anything else. They are side characters

Azriel and Cassian:

Cassian created a friendly environment for feyre

Cass and Az both went to the human world to talk to the sisters

Cass taught feyre how to fight physically

Azriel taught feyre how to fly

Both attended the high Lords meeting

Regular visits to the human world to check in on the quuens

Both fought in a war

Azriel helped save Elain from Hybern

Azriel comforted elain and put her at ease

Azriel gave elain TT to defend her self

Both gave feyre b day or solstice gifts

Saves feyre from Eris

Trained the valkrys

Nesta:

Reluctantly allowed the IC into her home

Would chop Woods for the cottage

Verbally abused feyre

Got captured and thrown into the couldron. Survived but took from it.

Tries to help rebuild the wall, she fails

Scrys for the IC

Trains? Kinda with Amren

Is able to lift the mist put upon her mind

Encourages feyre to go after Tamlin

Goes into the forest alone to look for feyre

Trains with the valkrys.

Unmakes Brialllym

Is able to successfully locate the dread Trove item and use it

The mask

Completes in the Blood duel

Gives back her powers to the couldron to save feyre

Saves her friends and helps them to win

Got SA by her lover, Thomas.

Point to add is that over half of these things were in her own book.

Gwyn:

Becomes Nestas first friend

Helps out with the libary

Her singing is able to help Nesta locate the harp

Trains as a valkry

Competed in blood duel

Sleep over scene

First to cut the ribbon

Looks out for the beast

Emery:

Becomes Nestas seconds friend

Trains as a valkry

Comforts nesta

Sleepover scene

Competes In the blood duel and helps to bring gwyn to the top

Lucien:

Helps feyre once or visits her UTM

Sides with bybern in acomaf

Was mind controled by hybern

Took part in capturing Nesta and elain

Runs away from spring Court with feyre

Tries to help Elain

Sets of to find vassa and papa archeron

Gets elain gloves and earrings

Becomes an emissiory for the night court

Elain:

Does nothing (that we know of) to help feyre hunt or provide for the family

Did the bare minimum by being nice to feyre

Brought feyre paints

Kept the peace between Nesta and Feyre

Had an engagement to Graysen that benefitted Nesta and even feyre

Allowed the IC into their home

Showed no hostility

Admitted that she had failed feyre

Allowed them to use their house for the meeting with the human queens

She was still under the mist at this point btw

When she was under the mist she was led to believe that Feyre was caring for an aunt on the continent. Yet Elain still wrote feyre letters after letters asking about her

When feyre first came back elain arranged a ball for her sister

Then elain got a horse and a sack of food ready for feyres journey back to tamlin

Elain then got captured by the couldron

Was the first to go in

Came out as a seer

A random male tells her she is his mate

Gets laughed at by Men

For 3 whole months whilst feyre was with tamlin elain was in a murky crazy state of mind.

Her visions about the prison and the fae

Her vision about the ravens made of flames, helped save both Nestas and Feyres life and anyone else's who was at the libary

Gets captured

When a beast attacks Azriels wing or leg she kicks it off WITH HER BARE FOOT

helps save briar from hyberns camp even though it put her in danger

Killed hybern, she dealt the deathly blow

Her engagement gets broken off cause she is mated to someone else

When feyre desperately needed the suriel elain found it for her

She gave the vision about vassa. Which turned out to be the advantage they needed to win the war

She bakes feyre a birthday gift that represents the drawers. Tells feyre that she is the foundation of their family

Gets feyre a gift of paint brushes with the NC symbol

When NO ONE else accept from (cass) gets Nesta a gift elain did. Even if at that point Nesta pushed her away.

She got Nesta a set of books from her favourite author

Gets Azriel head ache powder. A gift he needed. This makes Azriel so happy

Gets Nesta a birthday gift when no one else does even cass

Approaches Nesta when she sees her, however Nesta avoids her

Talks lovingly about Nesta to the IC

Openly accepts Nesta during Solstice even when everyone around her Is wary.

Creates gardens for the fae of velaris

Gets the twins birthday gifts

But yh she is absolutely useless, barely does anything.... those who claim this are the ones who clearly read the series with a filtered lens.

If you can't forgive her for not sticking up for not helping feyre during the cottage times that's fine but I hope you despise Nesta for the same thing.

If you claim that elain leaches of the IC but in the same breath justify Nesta spending the IC's money on drinks and bar. Your views and opinions are clearly biased. Elain has every right to spend the IC money on whatever she wants just as Nesta did.

If you claim elain is a manipulative horrible person please show me where you got that from when both her sisters have always praised how she has an optimistic view. Nesta in acofas was emotionally blackmailing Feyre if im right yet we never see elain blackmailing anyone.

If your going to make such claims at least have Canon proof.

Elain isn't perfect she isnt a Saint she is allowed to make mistakes yet she is quite literally one of the least problematic characters but somehow the most hated?

This post once again -since some particular ships are very sensitive to non harmful posts- is about elain. Not elriel. Not elucien but about her as a character.

I'm not saying you have to absolutely love her. No

But the hate is unnecessary.

You can say you dislike her but have an open mind about her. Her book is going to slap soo hard.

Once again if I forgot one of the things the characters did feel free to add on to it. Positivity only.

Have a wonderful day.

[queenofterranova]

Well said. I would add that people that claim she is weak don’t give her enough credit from recovering in three months from all that happened. The rest of characters dealt worst with their trauma, and even if you think about Gwynn she decided to stay in the library for way longer than Elain stayed in her room. And yes, I am comparing those two because I hate people saying that Azriel needs  Gwynn because he deserves a strong women.  If not for Nesta, Gwynn would have never left the library. Instead Elain got herself our of her bad situation, when the IC and Nesta did nothing else that taken her to her room and offering her tea. 

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Love @azriel_elain on IG

[queenofterranova]

Was SJM already planning Lucien and Vassa’s story in Heir of Fire? Interesting.

[daisybrekker]

“Can I set you up in the garden? The herbs you planted are coming in nicely.” -Azriel

Friendly reminder that Azriel has been checking on Elain's garden for her🥲🤌

[queenofterranova]

The little details :). I love domestic Elriel

[queenofterranova]

Elain, Az, and Gwyn = Arwen, Aragorn, and Eowyn.

I see Az’s relationship with Elain and Gwyn developing very similar to the almost love triangle between Arwen, Aragorn, and Eowyn in Lord of the Rings.  

In Lord of the Rings, Aragorn and Arwen are clearly in love, but as things develop Arwen must leave Middle Earth and leave Aragorn behind in order to survive.  Aragorn meets Eowyn and she grows fond of him, and he does of her. She is a nice character, a fighter, and all the fans I believe liked her.  Aragorn admires her courage.  The fans are lead to believe that something can grow up between these two because Arwen is beyond Aragorn’s reach now.  However, Arwen cannot stay away from Aragorn, and she returns despite knowing that she could die. Aragorn learns she returned and reunites with her as soon as possible. He then sees Eowyn again. She states that she loves him. He tells her that he can’t give her what she wants.  He tells her: "It is but a shadow and a thought that you love. I cannot give you what you seek."  He not only rejects her because he loves Arwen, but because he realized Eowyn is young and is in love just with the idea of him.   Eventually, Aragorn marries Arwen, and Eowyn meets Faramir. 

Similarly, Az will admire Gwyn and develop certain love for her, she will grow found of him, but just because he saved her and because she is looking to experience new things. At the end of the day, however, Az is in love with Elain and they will end up together.

May I add that in the movies Arwen gives Aragorn a necklace as a reminder of their love. The neckless is actually very important and is name the “Evenstar”, which actually how people know her.  In the novel, Aragorn and Arwen give a similar necklace to Frodo as a farewell gift before he leaves Minas Tirith.

Also Arwen was described to be the most beautiful of the last generation of High Elves in Middle-earth. She unlike Éowyn does not ride into battle, but her inner power is present through the whole book, in a way that in occasions reminds me of a seer. 

[queenofterranova]

Gwynn and Tarquin

Thinking about possible couples in ACOTAR, I remembered that in the Summer Court lesser fairies are considered like second class citizens. Wouldn’t be nice if Tarquin falls in love with Gwynn (a lesser fairy) and after fighting prejudice and all that stuff, she becomes the high lady of the Summer Court. I think that could be a good story line for both of them.  Also for those saying that the couples in ACOTAR are equals, shouldn’t it be more fitting for Gwynn to end up with somebody that shares her water heritage (I am not sure how to better put that).   

[the-laughing-bubble]

🤔Koschei abducts/lures Azriel, and Elain hands herself over to do Koschei's bidding as his Seer to set Azriel free...? End Book 5

Elain(pretending to become Koschei's other half) and Vassa(watching Elain in the trees) would then find themselves in a position to work towards defeating Koschei in the second half(first half is Vassien's situation) of Book 6 maybe? 😬🤔

I'm just spit balling here but just imagine it...

[queenofterranova]

I love your theory. Just complementing it, I think Azriel will be lured by Gwynn who unknowingly is being used by Merrill, who in turn is working for Koschei. Koschei has something to do with Azriel’s shadows, so he would have some type of control over Azriel (cue to Azriel’s background story, including his shadows).  Elain being in love with Azriel will try to save him. She will make some pact or deal with Koschei, so she would need to work with Beron finding the fourth trove (fourth trove would be something Koschei needs to be released from the lake), so the IC would think she became evil.  Lucian will be trying to save Vassa and now Elain, while dealing with Beron. Lucian has to develop his powers to do this, so he learns about his real father etc (maybe Tamlin helps him and they solved their problems, and cue to Helions’ s pegasus). Vassa and Elain will work together (love this idea by the way), or Vassa will be the only one who knows that Elain is doing everything she is doing to save Azriel (cue to Six Swamis fairytale theory), but because Vassa is a bird of fire full time now, she can’t communicate. Once Vassa is released by Lucian of her bird form, she will explain the situation and the whole IC will help Elain and Azriel to get rid of Koschei.  At the end, Elain and Azriel end up together, Lucian and Vassa end up together, and Gwynn after realizing that she was used by Merrill end up with a story that will be developed in the next book with some cool new love interest we don’t know yet. 

Drop the mic. 

[acourtofshadowsandroses]

"It had never gone this far. They’d exchanged looks, the occasional brush of their fingers, but never this. Never blatant, unrestricted touching.

Wrong.. it was wrong

He didn't care "

Art by @/ellyness5 on Twitter

Commissioned by @/ ElisaVicAcotar on Twitter

[queenofterranova]

Reblogging because this is one of my favorite Elrie’s art, but also because the first thing that came to my mind with this was the song “Dangerous Night” by Thirty Seconds to Mars. Doesn’t it work perfectly with Az POV? 

I, I am a man on fire You, a violent desireWhat a dangerous night to fall in love Don't know why we still hide what we've become (oh, oh)

Do you wanna cross the line? We're runnin' out of time A dangerous night to fall in love

Started a stranger, a love endangered The edge of a night The face of an angel, the heart of a ghost Was it a dream?I, I am a man on fire You, a violent desire

What a dangerous night to fall in love Don't know why we still hide what we've become (oh, oh)

Do you wanna cross the line? We're runnin' out of time A dangerous night to fall in love (oh, oh)Oh, oh Oh oh, oh oh oh oh Oh, oh Oh oh, oh oh oh ohI, I am a man on fire (Fire, fire, fire, fire) You, a violent desire

A dangerous night to fall in love A dangerous night to fall in love

Do you wanna cross the line? We're runnin' out of time A dangerous night to fall in love (oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh) A dangerous night to fall in love (oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh) A dangerous night to fall in love (oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh)

[mrspettyferr]

Elain sat silently at one of the wrought-iron tables, a cup of tea before her. 

Azriel was sprawled on the chaise lounge across the gray stones, sunning his wings and reading what looked to be a stack of reports—likely information on the Autumn Court that he planned to present to Rhys once he’d sorted through it all. Already dressed for the Hewn City—the brutal, beautiful armor so at odds with the lovely garden. And my sister sitting within it. - ACOWAR

We can all debate how this romance is going to go but listen, THIS right here is some domestic shit. Azriel reading reports while Elain is sipping her tea? In a garden?? Can you just picture it, like visually??

[queenofterranova]

Reposting this just to say that the thing that I like the most about Elriel is that their relationship is so domestic, so human! So perfect for both of them. 

[nikethestatue]

Azriel and Elain and the necklace at Solstice

Via shirayukicat on DeviantArt