_ceri_price_costume on Instagram recently shared details of Jade's Bone Reaver costume:
What's really cool to me is the Ouroboros (snake eating its tail) shoulder clasps, a detail I hadn't previously noticed. The Ouroboros, according to Britannica, "expresses the unity of all things, material and spiritual, which never disappear but perpetually change form in an eternal cycle of destruction and re-creation." So, this is the natural cycle of life, death, rebirth.
In contrast, the temple of the Wyrm in the Immemorial City contains a broken/cut Ouroboros, as seen below (thank you to @tomthefanboy for the image and the translation).
The Wyrm/Ouroboros symbol in the circle is cut where the vermiscous/Wyrm juice flows out, representing an interruption to the natural cycle, where rebirth is not possible. This then is an eternal death sought by the Wyrm.
I love this contrast between Jade life and devotion to good and the Wyrm's evil/fatal purposes.
The Pnakotic quote on the floor, "The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown" is a quote by H. P. Lovecraft, in keeping with the show's many references to Cthulhu mythos. This put me in mind of Lili/the Crone's entreat to Airk: "You think you know what is real and what isn't. What is light, what is dark. Now forget all you know. Come with me." And also, Willow tells the party that their quest will take them "beyond the edge of our world into the unknown." The Wyrm is enthralling people into a fearful place of unknowing, and also our questers must venture into that unknown place in order to fight the servants of the Wyrm.
So much detail and thought went into this show!
