Continued from yesterday: wood elfdom has an unspoken conspiracy of silence about homosexuality. The consequences of that can manifest in unpredictable ways. That silence infects other Arkerran cultures too, for that matter: Harky is arguably the single most powerful individual […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
hoo boy “Gristle, flex-muscle.” Interesting that Syr learned her earliest diplomatic tricks not from books but from her own father. His hatred for humans tends to obscure it, but he does have some political instinct; he wouldn’t be rising through […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’m not sure when I realized that we should at least toy with the “Rachel=Wolf” theory, given that the Wolf God and Rachel are both Frigg’s cheerleaders, both willing to fight her, and both connected to her power, and both […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Rachel’s endgame wasn’t simply to get Frigg to show her power where someone else could see it, but to get her to understand– physically, which is how Frigg understands things– the nature of this power, feel it flowing through her […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
At this point, Rachel finally pulls out her biggest guns, verbally. And there may be a part of her, a tiny doubter given voice by weeks of frustration, who means just what she says, at the moment that she says […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
