#telemakos

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OK I found another one. This I believe is the frontispiece illustration to a friend's copy of The Sunbird.

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art by @tooboredforthis (of course), @cryptidlark, and myself (@thecrenellations)

more Lion Hunters memes 🥰⚔️📚

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Baby Lleu, older Lleu and Telemakos

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Theboys

baby Tele...need to touch his soft hair...

[thecrenellations]

a little family portrait, about halfway through The Lion Hunter

(a redraw of one I made in about 2009)

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[tooboredforthis]

ok I just realized I never completed the series. Here's the frontispiece from my grandmother's copy of The Empty Kingdom.

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Loose feathers of a bird thought:

A Coalition of Lions begins with Goewin comparing herself to a prey animal fleeing her aunt. She arrives in Aksum and soon fears the ways she may be similar to Morgause, especially in relation to Telemakos (her future sunbird). And he sees what she’s doing, too - “You can keep a thing without tying it up. You know.”

and there’s Priamos’s traumatic history of being chained with his brother as punishment, his current effective imprisonment, THE MONKEY SCENE, there’s all the roles and agreements and situations that confine Goewin, there’s the way Medraut sees Debra Damo as a place to escape and there’s the grief that binds him, there’s Turunesh’s doves and parrots, there’s Wazeb’s promise not to chain his lions…

but caged birds are, above all, something that belongs to Morgause. So to end with the freedom of the migrating swifts, which are also a promise of love and connection (a tie! a bond!) between Goewin and Priamos, is just beautiful. The birds are free, now. And some of them are so far from home, but they’re free.