I went feral over How To Prevent Magic In It’s Earliest Stages with my Amell, it’s such a fascinating bit of worldbuilding.
Given Revka’s public grief over her first child being taken, worry for her subsequent children, and finally disappearance I like to headcanon that my Amell is her youngest, conceived after the oldest went to the circle, and that banned or not she tried to follow the book to the letter while spiraling out of fear until her husband caught her trying to leech the magic out of the baby
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man. i also think abt how malcolm so much hoped his children wouldnt be mages. like not to the extent of All That but i feel like there definitely was dried embrium under the pillow and such little superstitions

















