Hello Earthlings

Rainy day

"Would you like to help us wrap rice dumplings? Qiqi will teach you... First, fold a corner, and then— And then... What was it again..."

"Like this."

First Chapter of The Priory:

First Chapter of ADOFN:

spoilers

got to the part with the first wyrm attack and I love the fact that sabran counts on her saint to save her while ead is the one who actually does

also, I had to

LMAO yeah sabran is just, "the saint has saved me I am truly blessed!" meanwhile ead is just sweating her ass off behind a pillar questioning why the hell she's been assigned to protect a woman who runs in front of a dragon like that 😭

Ead: It was me...

We know the Trees are a way for Siden to channel out of the womb of fire, like magical chimneys. If a Tree is destroyed, the Siden/fire is stuck down there and twists until it's not just life-giving, but only a destroying all-consuming force.

The Mulberry Tree is destroyed: the nameless one is born

The Hawthorn Tree is destroyed: the high westerns are born

And there is that tantalizing tidbit from ADOFN about a place beyond the Horthi ice desert, way way up north, where it's warm??? and my brain went there's... there's another Tree. there's got to be another Tree right?

characters like ead, tunuva and esbar (at least in the beginning and sometimes even at the end) as well as some readers view virtudom as bad and the rest of the world as good, and the priory as the best place to live in, but it's more complex than that

the problem of being forced to marry and have children that we see with both sabran ix and glorian can also be seen with dumai, who is not from virtudom but rather from seiiki. everything that the berethnets are forced to go through also happens to every royal in the world, no matter what country they're from. to quote glorian in chapter 95: "She saw the cruel truth of it now. The relentless, violent circle of monarchy."

yes, virtudom is bad, but it's not the only place that has these issues

and the priory is far from perfect. in tpotot they kidnap and drug loth, refusing to ever have him leave just because he found out about them

and in adofn siyu's treatment by the priory is horrendous, and she never received so much as an apology for all that she was forced to endure as a teenager. i've made several posts about that already, which you can find in my siyu tag, and i will forever be angry about how she was treated

(also, sidenote, the priory prides itself in knowing the truth about galian while virtudom believes a lie but even they don't know the whole truth about him, cleolind, neporo and kalyba)