Selwyn Kane and Mythology
( Hold on cause this gets super crazy towards the end )
Ok so I’ve been meaning to post this for a while, but this is basically my findings from all of my research on the references of mythology in Legendborn, and how it relates to Sel.
Firstly, star signs. I already went over Bree’s star sign a while ago and found a lot of connections to her story so far, but Sels requires a bit more theorizing. Sel is a Gemini, whose myth begins with describing how Zeus seduced Leda by turning into a swan ( while she was pregnant ), causing her to have twins. The immortal son of Zues, Pollux, and her mortal son Castor.
When Castor is eventually killed in battle ( which probably has NOTHING to do with what’s going to happen to Sel 😃 ), Pollux begs Zeus to share some of his immortality with him, allowing them to spend half their time in the heavens, and half there time on earth.
Secondly, in Greek mythology, Nyx ( the nickname given to Natasia ) and Erebus, are married and have lots of kids, but their “main” two are Aether ( 👀 ) and Hemera, the God of light ( and the first Primordial god ) and the goddess of daylight. Now truth be told Aether and Hemera are usually depicted as either twins/siblings or husband and wife ( that’s Greek mythology for you 😭 ) but I’m pretty sure my point still stands that they’re definitely connected to Selwyn in some way.
These both hint to a few similar points but one I want to point out is that they both include twins and/or siblings, which is a bit weird considering Sel doesn’t have any siblings ( that we know of, I sincerely hope that Sel and Valec are brothers ) so I think that it represents Sels “demon” as Tracy makes of point of describing it as an actual identity for the description of what Sel is going to do during Oathbound ( like maybe it’s a double meaning of him facing his past and the actual demon trying to take over his mind ).
This could actually mean a few things, one, I feel like both of these story’s are heavily hinting at the fact that the shadow king is Sel’s dad ( I mean we know that the shadow king can shapeshift so I don’t think it’s a coincidence that Zeus shapeshifted to trick Leda into having kids with him ). But this got me thinking, why would the Shadow king go through all this trouble of killing the og Erebus, seducing Natasia, and staying in the order decades after the fact. Like it’s true that the Shadow King could’ve just loved her but I don’t feel like that’s the whole reason. Now hear me out me out cause this is a little bit crazy, but we hear how Morgraine describes that the shadow crown and the shadow king is similar to the relationship of Excalibur and Arthur and how they both are aether weapons. So what if the shadow king lost his connection to the crown once he was defeated by Arthur, and now is trying to find it again. How does this relate to Selwyn? Well what if the shadow crown gets passed down from generation to generation kinda like how each new generation of Arthur descendants have a chance to be called and wield Excalibur. But in the order the other knights descendants have to be called first, so maybe the shadow court has to come together in order for the crown to be “activated” and allow the Shadow King to find it, and maybe he thought that Natasia had a good enough chance of conceiving a child who was strong enough to potentially be the next wielder of the shadow crown or a member of the shadow court. Or maybe Natasia was such a baddie that the SK just wanted to bang 😭.
