#theophanie

[thescriberider]

Theophanie: Why are we bothering to attack the Kingdoms again? They're doing a good enough job destroying themselves on their own.

Sage: You call this destroying each other?

Theophanie: Basgiath is crippled after much of it left, Tyrrendor is a position to secede and lose again, Navarre is in a position where Melgren could get destroyed by the youngest Sorrengail...

Sage: High praise to her.

Theophanie: She would find a way around Melgren's Signet. Poromiel is refusing to give Aretia the means to create the weapons to kill us and it's pissing them off.

Sage: ... I see your point... Why are we doing this?

[nerdyfangirlmel]

You know what annoys the hell out of me? (Spoilers for onyx storm)

That Bodhi’s signet didn’t work against theophanie. Like what’s the point of the magic giving him that signet if it’s not going to work on the venin???

[akira-15689]

Violet Sorrengail

when she fights and Theophanie looks at her

the base I used

[ann7av]

Anyone remember how many theories we made about Lilith causing the storm while Violet was crossing parapet? And how Violet has a line in IF that her mother wouldn’t stop the storm to make it easier for her but wouldn’t create one either?

Yeah, so who’s the other storm wielder we’ve seen getting in and out of the wards and who had a decades long rivalry with Lilith…. hmm something something venin can still wield inside the wards but not as strongly and the storm not being enough to push Violet off the parapet

[alliehew]

It’s so cute how Theophanie leaves little love letters for Violet just like Xaden did 🥰 Thinking of you, babe!

[wingedshadowfan]

everything points to bodhi being the new venin brother at the end of onyx storm (xaden saying whoever turned has been watching him struggle for the past 5 months, bodhi being one of the riders missing, xaden marrying violet so she gets the throne and not the next in line) but i wanna know what people think about bodhi's character. bcuz here's the impression i got from it all:

of course, it makes sense xaden and bodhi's dynamic changed a lot in onyx storm because of xaden becoming venin. he started preparing bodhi to become the heir to riorson house, take over his spot on the assembly and his role as leader of the revolution. this seems to have caused tension between them bcuz while bodhi (along with imogen and garrick) was aware xaden was beginning to lose it, he also rebelled against xaden preparing him to take over for him - like he didn't want to accept xaden might die or lose himself completely. xaden becoming the duke of tyrrendor only made it worse bcuz now he had to prepare bodhi to take over the entire province.

up until that book, bodhi never gave me the vibe of someone who would turn venin, of someone who was jealous of xaden and felt like he deserves more than he was given - in fact, he seemed content to stay "in the shadows". he'd seen the weight xaden had to carry firsthand. he'd accepted his supporting role with pride and dignity. he didn't want the throne, he didn't want to replace xaden, he didn't want what xaden had (nor did he want violet which i've heard ppl say) and he didn't want xaden to die. he promises xaden he'd be back and even tells him

i don't want your fucking province.

and when theophanie tried to manipulate him, he literally tells her

we don't have a crown. you don't know me well enough to try and fuck with my head. i'm doing exactly what i've always wanted - protecting my cousin, my province.

and yes, the fact that he couldn't counter theophanie's signet right after and his dragon had to take him away against his will did something to him, because he thought his signet was the balance, but i still don't think he would've reached.

(there's also the fact that in xaden's pov, his new brother has already turned by the time xaden reaches and his shadows blot out the sky, but in imogen's pov, bodhi is on the ground throwing up when the sky darkens. this could just be the storm though. or maybe garrick, who was pushing burnout, turned - but that would make even less sense.)

unless bodhi went mad.

he'd told violet he has only one signet, and if he'd had a second, he would've used it by now. had his dragon also bonded a direct relative?

[amanita-muscaria-things]

The connection between a theophany being a manifestation of a diety and Theophanie being a former priestess to Dunne isn't lost on me

[the-local-scribe]

I feel like someone else mighta said something similar, but I love the way weather is utilized in Onyx storm, right down to the title. Violets mom was a storm wielder, and we never saw a lot of dramatic storms when she was alive. But now that she’s dead there are a lot more, Tairn gets struck down in one, there’s a big one in the end I think. And not only because she’s gone but because Theophonie is the main storm wielder we know now. But back to the name of the book, Onyx storm. Onyx (a dark shade of greenish black, and black being associated with riders and dark wielders being venin) Storm (what Lilith and Theophonie wield) showing those two are alike, and that storms which used to be very controlled and confined by Lilith, are now a danger in Theophonies hands