#mount saison

[tangledbea]

Sorry if someone has asked you this before, but what do you think the background of mount saison is?

We know it's super ancient, and I think it has always been a place intended to be tied to Zhan Tiri. I mean, compare these two trees!

ZT has a thing for dead trees (the the point that I literally thought she was going to have something to do with plants, especially once we saw the whole Demanitus Scroll).

And check out this pre-existing altar.

These bitches be ancient, and already bear ZT's mark.

So I think this place was used not only to worship ZT, I think it was also used as a place to attempt to locate the Sundrop flower. (This nudges up against my theory/headcanon that ZT sent the blizzard not to destroy Corona, but the flower itself.) I also think this is where the Disciples of Demanitus officially swore their fealty to Zhan Tiri (and in some cases, got turned into demons/spirits). Think of it as a catch-all place for her evil bidding.

[avitha]

Mount Saison

Rapunzel, Arianna, Willow, and Luciana

[tangledbea]

Did Mount Saison change at all between season 1 and season 3? It always looks a little different in ROTK compared to Way of the Willow

Hi, yes, sorry, I haven't been ignoring you, I swear. I've been having a very busy, very stressed out time lately.

ANYWAY!

I had to think about things (and do some visual research) in order to answer your question, and yeah, it looks redesigned to me. However, it also looks like there's a (vague) reason for that? In S1, it's a wooded area. We never get a clear, overhead shot of the entire landscape, but there's trees in every scene, and the guys were camping out there.

As opposed to the open grassland that Eugene and Edmund were traveling on the way to find the "stolen" stuff.

We can see that there still are trees heading up that way, but they're not so thickly populated. However, there's something else on Mount Saison in S3 that might be able to account for that.

A set-up for logging. Perhaps there were loggers/lumberjacks who spent a good part of S2 chopping the trees on Mount Saison down?

Then again, maybe it's just the other side of the mountain that's heavily forested.

[tangledbea]

Btw, figured you would know- is it actually spelled Mount Saisson? (like I just saw somewhere) Or is it Cézanne, after the painter?

Saison. No double-s.