i think in all the discussion about thaisha calling to occtis in the underworld and whether or not that was the right decision, in seeing thaisha solely as this matriarchal figure trying to preserve an ancient culture, we're losing something really interesting about her character
like don't forget the person in her family she always had the most in common with was thjazi
and like, yes, she and hal are the oldest of the pcs who exist on a normal human scale, but compared to a lot of the people thaisha has to measure herself against, she's also so young ("aren't we all kids to you?")
she's a double legacy, her family before she was born both made the shaper's war possible, and she has at least one direct ancestor who was a druid of the old path centuries if not millenia ago, and is still alive today. literally the planet's entire history and hope for salvation is held within her family. everywhere she's been and everything she's done in her life has been held to this standard set by those who came long before her. so much to live up to
but the thing is she's not trying to. not directly at least
because like her brother in law she is the pioneer, the firebrand, she's said twice now that while she is dedicated to preserving the old path, her fellow druids are going about it wrong. they're reaching for a memory and trying to recreate it, but that no longer fits the world they live in. and she has the utmost respect and sympathy for what they've gone through, but someone needs to push forward. to find a new way to bring something that existed before the gods into an era after them
(and from the little we've seen, i think thjazi understood that. i don't know if anyone else in her life truly does)
so while she may be conflicted about it, in terms of whether or not it makes her a hypocrite, to say definitively that saving occtis was the wrong decision is to stay beholden to those rules incongruent with this changing world
she may be a circle of ancients druid trying to preserve the old path, but the path that she herself is walking through this world is and has always been new. and like saving occtis already proved, everyone who sees her as just another druid, everyone who's trying to return to the power they held in a bygone era, is going to underestimate her
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