I’m gonna do minimal explaining because its midnight and I am tired and I feel crazy
Okay SO. In this theory Thristas is a healer witch of old who fell so deeply in love with someone who had a silverwood parasite that they accidentally cursed (is it cursed??) a whole forest trying to heal / bring them back to life. Their love was so famous at one point as to inspire several differing legends. (Reminder the forest of thristas is where lil qifrey was found). I think the body Thristas is holding in the ominous image is likely the body of the silverwood maiden.. (also why does thristas have so many eyes???? Is it related to qifrey missing his eye???))
Note that in both the silverwood/maiden story and in this explanation of witches they are called “messengers from the heavens”
Maybe thrista’s family is the one Deanreldy descends from? I think if my theory that Thristas was a healer witch is true it could be likely? idk could be interesting
More reason to believe that dean’s family is connected to or descended from thristas: Restys and Ininia are the reason Custas was taken over by the silverwood parasite (they both likely have it as well), AND they have (supposedly silverwood) seeds to give to Dean????? So the point of giving the silverwood seeds to human hosts likely has something to do with healing (we’ve seen it with custas’s legs, but also Dean specializes in healing) (he’s keeping beldaruit captive so maybe bel is the intended recipient of this seed????????? Oh no?????????????!!!!) (maybe the brim hats were using qifrey in their experiment because he was entirely blind and they wanted to see if he could regain vision?)
