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“What are you thinking about?”

IM THINKING ABOUT HOW ALL THE PROTAGONISTS IN A DAY OF FALLEN NIGHT GOT TO MEET EXCEPT FOR GLORIAN, SHOWING HOW SHES NOT TRULY FREE AND THEN HOW IN THE PRIORY OF THE ORANGE TREE SABRAN MEETS ALL THE PROTAGONISTS BECAUSE SHE IS FREE AND BROKE THE CHAIN THAT BINDS ALL THE BERETHNET QUEENS. THAT IS WHAT IM THINKING ABOUT.

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priory of the orange tree:

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I think something interesting about ADOFN is the fact that the book as a whole is about people staying in toxic systems and the reasons they do. This makes sense because it is a prequel, and you can’t have people rebel too much before TPOTOT in order for the timeline to make sense.

Like for instance, Glorian stays with Virtudom because she knows no other way and the only people who tried to introduce ways outside Virtudom to her were very untrustworthy. She feels terrible for subjecting her daughter to the same fate, but because she genuinely believes her line will keep back the Nameless One, she can’t do anything about it.

The Priory characters have this too. Tunuva is somewhat aware that the Priory is very flawed and partially responsible for the grief she experiences. But her sense of duty when it comes to keeping people safe from wyrms and her love for Esbar keep her rooted there and somewhat content. Siyu, on the other hand, is not content at all, but eventually chooses to stay with the Priory despite how terribly they treated her because she went through the trauma of seeing Anyso’s family killed by wyrms and wants to protect other people from that. She also likely wants to keep her daughter in a place where she’ll be protected, even if she does feel like it’s a cage.

Even Wulf cannot stay in the Priory because as a man, it has no role he would be content with within a matriarchal system, despite his love for Tunuva. He goes back to Virtudom, a system he knows is false, not only because of this, but also so that he can be closer to his daughter and the boy he loves.

Dumai arguably is the one who rebels against the system till the end, and she is rewarded with her demise (?) and existing in an ambiguous state (at least until Wild Winter comes out). Nikeya does change the system, but really she creates a new status quo that lasts until the present timeline.

I find it interesting because a lot of TPOTOT is about rebelling against systems for the purpose of achieving a greater goal, and many of its characters are descended from ADOFN characters who stayed in systems because of their duty.

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UGH every time I reread priory I am so so sad and heartbroken for truyde and sulyard. They wanted to change the world for the better!! They were young and in love and believed in a better world and they both met such awful ends so far away from eachother and died before they could see their task through!! And the world did become better because of them but they never got to see it!! Because though both of them were catalysts in other stories their own stories were cut short UGH

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Sometimes a family is you, your gay boyfriend, your lesbian mother, your gay dads, and the asexual woman you have a child with

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esbar and tunuva feeding each other an orange under the orange tree 🍊

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ID: digital art of tunuva melim and esbar uq-nāra lying underneath the orange tree, feeding each other an orange slice while looking intently at each other. juice dribbles down their hands. /end ID

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man i love prequels that make me want to eat glass when i reread the other books

(glorian shieldheart, so revered as the greatest berethnet queen, she who banished fyredel and won the grief of ages, and she was a child. igrain brings her up as reason for sabran to marry a 70 year old man the same way robert pressed glorian to marry guma. both igrain and robert were pushing them into marriages for their own gain. glorian only married him for the fortune he brought.

her daughter sabran XI, technically a bastard the same way sabran the magnificent is. her daughter, who glorian never wanted but still loved with all her heart, who wed a lady of her bedchamber when she abdicated.

the first warlord of seiiki, so mysterious, so strong, so brave, a grieving woman who lost every family member close to her and the woman she loved. a grieving woman who was determined to avenge everyone she lost. a grieving woman who rose from the ashes of her father determined to be better.

marosa, who wanted to get out so badly, only to have her wings clipped. only for the man she loved to be killed before she could even tell him that he was right, and she never betrayed him.)