#c4 e28

[bathycat]

I liked how Julien turned out so he has pretty boy privileges and gets to be in color as a treat

[fresh-bungle]

I have another wild theory

There’s a little piece of magic that Brennan hasn’t gone into detail about just yet from the first episode that keeps nagging at me.

Julien’s curse.

What we know about it: After Julien interacted with Thjazi’s body at the funeral by spitting on it, a shadow followed him out the door. Brennan describes Julien’s shadow now as especially dark, unnaturally so.

To my knowledge Julien hasn’t been pinged by a paladin divine sense or otherwise checked out by an arcane ability. He doesn’t even know that there’s something supernaturally wrong with him. He hasn’t shown any combat abilities or roll modifiers that would correspond to a curse or a new ability from this shadow, so what is it?

That flashback of the Soldiers combat keeps coming back to me, where Thjazi summoned shadows to fight. I had assumed the shadows were a feature of the Liar’s Blade- but if they are, then Hal hasn’t used that ability in combat yet.

Perhaps the shadows are a part of whatever Thjazi did to get his magic, since we know he isn’t a sorcerer. He tells young Occtis that there are many ways to get magic.

What if Thjazi’s shadow was a part of his soul or his post mortem consciousness and it attached to Julien at the funeral? What if Thjazi’s soul is hitching a ride in Julien’s shadow?

Out of the people who showed at the funeral, Julien is the one that absolutely nobody would be checking for any connection to Thjazi. He’s not an ally, but he is familiar enough to Thjazi and he was always in close quarters to Aranessa.

If I’m right about the timeline - Thjazi’s soul was in his body at the execution (obviously).

Then there is a stretch of time where his body is being watched by the funeral goers, and specifically Thaisha who would have noticed anything out of place physically or spiritually while she was preparing him and performing the Farramh.

Then he is in Hal’s care, until he is buried up on the hill. I’m assuming that after the burial is when Tachonis tried to mess with the body and put their scar on him, the mark on his body that Thaisha found just over a week after the burial.

We know that Tachonis didn’t get their hands on his soul, presumably because it wasn’t there. So where did it go between the execution and the Tachonis meddling attempt? Surely Thaisha would have noticed it missing when she was preparing him to walk the Path? So when did it disappear? Where did it go?

I think it’s very possible his soul could have walked right out of the funeral, following the man who was sworn to guard his wife.

[imreadingapplesauce]

Occtis noticing Murray bending the fabric of spacetime and being like wow Murray 👁️👁️ how’d you do that 👁️👁️ is exactly what I wanted to see, more of that please and thank you

[softness-and-shattering]

Ok cold open was a lil intense (im also just tired), after that, very funny.

Thaisha: Kattigan, youre an adult, do what you wany, but please look after him

Kat: sort of

Thaisha: wulfric will you look after them both?

And then Occtis nerding out about Murrays magic. Real admiration there. And everyone else going huh what are you talking about. Very fun.

And brennan giving vaelus another opportunity to fuck off out of dol makjar, interesting. Maybe to emphasise that Vaelus is making a choice rather than just staying for party intertia.

[criticaldresses]

Me at the end of the five (5) hour long episode: Wait, no don't end yet, I wanna see what happens next!

[bathycat]

Episode 28 live doodles pt 1

[bathycat]

Episode 28 live doodles pt 2

[bathycat]

Episode 28 live doodles pt 3