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[rebe-draws]

‘Queen of Swords’ || The wizard Steel, Sword of the Citadel Needed to get some Steel art off my chest. More Worlds Beyond Number fanart to come!

[chillinglikeashilling]

I do think the funniest part of the Coven of Heart subclass in the WBN Witch class is that they can replace spell components with things like the laughter or tears of a loved one because I know the wizards fucking hate that shit.

I had to do the equivalent of a magical thesis defense, and memorize a million spells, and keep track of a trillion different spell components; and yet those fucking Witches with their TWEE BULLSHIT get to make their friend laugh instead of growing mushrooms under the exact right conditions in a process that can take months at a time and is incredibly easy to fuck up?

At that point me and the entire metaphorical concept of magic itself have to scrap.

[enitsirk]

Queen of Swords

Spoilers for Episode 53 of @worldsbeyondpod

[hoarding-stories]

Brennan really went: "yeah our heroes are in a good spot, with things to move towards and allies slotting into place. *pulls back curtain to reveal a red string board with so much on it* Did y'all think I forgot about all this though?!?! We got so much shit going on!"

I was halfway expecting some terrible cliffhanger, instead we're standing on a path with full awareness of everything that's in the woods ahead.

[chthonic-hedgehog]

Enjoy these absolute scratchings of a sketch. I do think cuddling a massive elk who’s telling me everything’s gonna be okay WOULD heal me

[jesse-is-inarguably-purple]

tfw you’re arrested for treason and also awarded a huge promotion and your mom is so mad at and disappointed in you and screaming at you because you’re so spoiled how could you be so selfish and fuck up so tremendously and also at the same time she’s so proud of you and says you’re her handpicked successor because she loves you more than her loser biological children and she will ruin men’s lives to protect you and also do you believe in magic come let me show you the god factory

[leftoverrpgs]

Obsessed with the way Brennan has encapsulated “No cost too great” in the character of Steel. She would lay down her life to win a battle and for the chance to see her daughter again. She would sacrifice that same daughter to a coven of witches for the chance at intel. She would put a spell on her daughter that could kill her and would take the Citadel flagship across the sea during wartime to make sure no one else could.

She is building the new world for her daughter. She would execute her daughter to maintain her position. She is building the new world for the next generation of wizards. She would send them all into the meat grinder if it were needed. She is building the new world to bring peace for everyone. The lives of children are a detail that she cannot afford to attend to.

Her enemies showed her a vision of the future and she will pay any price for it. And I cannot wait to see what that vision entails.

[hellishfig]

i was writing a post about worlds beyond number ep. 53: the queen of swords, but it was turning into a retelling of the whole episode, so instead i'm going to talk about what i NEED to talk about: steel.

(spoilers below the cut)

steel is one of the most compelling villains i've ever encountered. the brilliance of everyone at the table is clear in this story, but this episode was the culmination of a dance that aabria and brennan have been performing since the very beginning of the children's adventure.

suvi and her mother. sky and steel. the fact that aabria introduced suvi's justification machine far earlier in the story, and now we finally fully see where she got that from and how deep it goes.

we were realizing this whole time. since bracken. and every moment since we have known that steel manipulates. we learn that she lies, keeps secrets, ties off loose ends neatly and with layers of subterfuge. the geas on silver confirms it. sworn's fear confirms it. steel will not hesitate to eliminate complications.

then, the final straws. now we know just how long steel has been planning this. the curse on ame was always from the citadel. furthermore, not only did steel have a hand in suvi's parents' deaths, she was attacked by suvi's mother. the spell of wounding requires touch, and leaves white scars in its wake. they fought close. it's very likely that steel killed her best friend.

and the worst part is that it's so easy to follow steel's logic. the acadator discovered that the league of whispers was not betraying the citadel, but was in fact the whole point of the citadel. soft and stone knew it was wrong, and therefore the citadel was wrong. steel knew that the citadel couldn't be wrong, so whatever it did had to be right. and that's how she's conducted herself since.

i wonder how she justified it to herself. if she felt like they betrayed her first by betraying the citadel. she was taken there as a child. she has nothing else. the citadel has given her everything, so she must give everything to the citadel. any who believe otherwise are threats.

steel had a promotion and new scars when she came to fetch suvi. she was rewarded for stopping traitors.

maybe taking suvi and trying to mold her into the perfect soldier of the citadel was one last fucked up act of love for her friends: trying to save their daughter from their fate. maybe it was spiteful and calculating, to undo soft and stone's attempts at protection and to keep the person who inherited their brilliance brainwashed and stuck. i wonder if we'll find out in two weeks.

i'm talking in circles. steel makes me feel so much. character of all time.