the council saying “all of us, young, old, and ancient, are going to be participating in skill training” in lodestar implies that they somehow managed to drag fallon vacker out of his house and forced him to train in his skills
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the council saying “all of us, young, old, and ancient, are going to be participating in skill training” in lodestar implies that they somehow managed to drag fallon vacker out of his house and forced him to train in his skills
The Vacker Legacy
thinking about fintallon
@ancientsweek day 1: childhood
silly little doodle of my child designs for (most of) the ancients we know of (from left to right: fintan, bronte, fallon, luzia, vespera)
not gonna be participating in every day of this week since i’ve been focusing more on artfight recently but i’ve got a few more things planned 🙂↕️
hands down my favorite interaction between the council and anyone else besides sophie is when grady made them all slap themselves in the face at the same time (truly iconic, luv u king)
but
every time i think about that part during alvar’s tribunal when fallon walked in, halted the entire proceedings literally just by his mere presence, and like the first thing he did was look at alina and make that little comment about hearing wedding bells? jaw. dropped.
and then alina immediately comes back with that bit about “well it worked out for the best” or whatever and gestured to her councillor throne? the pettiness. hilarious.
no cuz i know if i was sophie i would not have been able to keep it together. i would have been laughing so hard. it makes me cackle every time i think about it. the pettiness is truly unmatched. i love it.
Hlo Do you have any theories on the origin of elves? I've seen someone explain that elves are genetic mutations in humans that eventually turned into full blown elf characteristics. Starting from blue eyes and then so on. But since the elves are said to have saved the dinosaurs from going extinct, and humans definitely did not exist during that period of time, they definitely could not have been genetic mutations?
I personally prefer to stay the heck away from origin stories/evolution and all that because 1) I suck at biology and 2) I have little interest in theories that Shannon probably won't confirm or deny (she says in her FAQ that if a worldbuilding detail is not expanded on in the series, then she leaves it to the readers' imagination. I don't like that when it comes to big worldbuilding bits which intend to fix plot holes).
I do have one (1) theory that may or most likely may not be confirmed in Elysian, and it's that the elves used to have much, much shorter lifespans. I'm talking 20-30 years old, which is why they don't seem to age past that. And it's not because of a lack of hygiene or healthy food or an abundance of predators or anything (in fact, their short lives is what drove them to specialise in cutting-edge medicine for millenia), but because they were just... hard-wired like that.
So, based on my theory that Elysian is Death (as in, the embodiment of the elves' ability to die from old age) or at least the Keeper of Death, someone (Fallon Fallon Fallon) pulled a Sisyphus (or perhaps Orpheus) on her and locked her up for thousands of years.
And that's how the elves are able to live for so long... yet there doesn't seem to be an elf older than Fallon (who is 6,000+), even though you would need to go back MILLIONS of years ago to even meet a dinosaur.
Because the elves used to die young.
Keeptober Day 8! Family!
"Gimme a sec, Luzia, I gotta tuck the kids into bed"
They're kind of a dysfunctional family, huh
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