#passed through fire

[loudestlibrarianongodsgreenearth]

Percy’s message to Pike in his letter versus Pike’s invocation at Percy’s wedding

[renatogpadilla]

SO SOMEONE CALLED STYXE ( "@ The Styxe" on Twitter) TRANSLATED THE BOOK SCANLAN IS READING IN HIS DREAM SEQUENCE.

IT'S KERREK'S LETTER TO KEYLETH. The doodle at the bottom is her "Passed Through Fire" Ring!

[andi-o-geyser]

We must protect her at all costs

[revvlovv]

„There are some living things that need to pass through fire before they flourish — I am Keyleth, an Air Ashari like my mother before me. I was made to pass through fire.”

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[ravendruid]

KERREK'S LETTER GOT ME SOBBING

[ravenclawdreamer]

I loved getting to see more of Keyleth coming into her power with the recent Legend of Vox Machina episodes but I’ve had an itch in the back of my mind about the different context of passing through fire so here’s some rambling.

In episode 5, we see Keyleth’s mom telling her she’s made to pass through fire as an Air Ashari and how Keyleth taps into that at the fire plane and becomes a fire elemental. It seemed odd to me that it was in reference to something she was born as, some innate thing. So I went back and read the letter Keyleth received from Ker with the ring that says I have passed through fire.

In the letter Ker talks about how governing and rebuilding is harder than being a soldier and how he was having to be a gardener in contrast to Keyleth being the hammer now perhaps against her nature. He talks about how some seeds need fire sprout and iron is reformed by fire. To me this seemed more about how people can survive and be shaped by something painful.

I think both messages are beautiful about not letting the painful things hurt us and knowing ourselves so we can pass through and letting ourselves thrive from the fire but they do seem different and there was definitely something that resonated to me in Ker’s letter about sometimes breaking is making and I hope we still get to see more of that struggle of Keyleth’s later especially around her anger and Raishan and about being reshaped by fire not just it not hurting.

[annemarieyeretzian]

“there is a comfort in iron, knowing that a fresh start is always possible. but a city is not a sword. it is a living thing, and living things defy simple fixing. roots cannot be reforged. they scar, and broken branches must be cut and sealed with tar, and this makes me angry, as it always has, and my anger has no place to go. it was easier when I was young. I could use my anger like a hammer against the world. I was so sure of myself and my friends and my rightness. I would hammer at the world, and breaking felt like making to me, and I was good at it. and while I was not wrong, neither was I entirely right.

nothing is simple. I do not work in wood. I am not brave enough for that. there is a comfort in iron, a promise of safety, a second chance if mistakes are made. but a city is more a forest than a sword. no, it needs more tending than that. perhaps a city is like a garden, then.

so these days, it seems I have become a gardener. I dig foundations in the earth. I sow rows of houses. I plan and plant. I watch the skies for rain and ruin. I cannot help but think that you would be better at this, but circumstance has put both of us in our own odd place. you are forced to be a hammer in the world, and my ungentle hands are learning how to tend a plot of land. we must do what we can do.

did you know that there are some seeds that cannot sprout unless they are first burned? …I wear your gift, and I think of you, and I think it is interesting that there are some living things that need to pass through fire before they flourish.

I ramble. you have the heart of a gardener, and because of this, you think of consequence, and your current path pains you. I am not wise, and I do not give advice, but I have come to know a few things: sometimes breaking is making, even iron can start again, and there are many things that move through fire and find themselves much better for it afterward.”

[merricatsgarden]

I’m still very emotional about that episode.