THAISHA FIRST, HALAIRE SECOND, AZUNE THIRD

I am now remembering that her PC Decima from when she guest starred on Bards of New York also had various magical metal prosthetics (that heated up!), and that Aabria mentioned in the Study Hall interview that she irl had multiple sports related injuries including a disc to the back that was the final end of her sports career.

Was that a part of the ritual to help slow her aging?

Was it the result of a Circle of Ancients mission gone very wrong?

Is this the fantasy scoliosis representation I've always looked for??

Termina is broken in a box (but she shares some kind of headspace with Bolaire)

Azune casts mending on Bolaire and "the spell energy goes into something"

we never find out where the spell energy went

it certainly is never mentioned what/ if it has an effect on Bolaire

Termina jumps out of her box all kintsugied

I got some time to do some more watercolor, here’s Hal and Bolaire because this episode of c4 was An Ordeal (TM)

This was supposed to be a little fun doodle before bed. I was supposed to go to sleep 4 hours ago. I LEARNED DAVINCI RESOLVE FOR THIS!!!!

(I fear Thaisha is a fucking badass and this scene has me in a chokehold. Aabria knocked it out of the park with this one.)

I might do some edits at some point but I am simply ✨too tired✨ to care. I hope this sparks joy in some of the Critters and may the Light shine on you☀️

Bonus of the individual frames:

"Above table, this is not a good look." is the only thing that makes me thing this wasn't necessarily the intention but we can go into that once I've explained the rest but this is overexplaining everything indigenous coded time not deciding if this was personally significant to Kattigan time

"He's on the outskirts of the party wandering around the perimeter of the group meeting just dancing quietly to himself. Sort of step-touching around, but watching and what you think you're seeing is a fool and maybe a part of him is. But he's listening to them all and listening to where they have to go and that foolishness starts to fade away and instead of being on the outside of the group, he slowly folds himself back into the circle."

What's going on amongst the larger party here is what white people might appropriatively call a pow wow. This make what Kattigan is doing that much more reminiscent of pow wow dances. If you look up "Pow wow southern straight dance" you can find what I immediately imagined him to be doing, sans regalia and song.

Pow wows and the dances and competitions at them are largely newer phenomenon that started as a way to hold onto outlawed traditions like war dances. Straight dance specifically is associated with stories of hunting and war parties searching for enemies. In my area we have a specific dance called Round Dance where those not in the band nor indigenous at all are invited to join a similar step-touch-y dance in a circle. Some hold hands some don't but the Round dance is symbolic of friendship and mutual support.

So maybe it's a bad look, but he's getting ready to go hunting with his friends and he's doing a hunting dance around them in a circle? And he's indigenous? That's indigenous coding.

If you want to see a bunch of Pow wow videos with all the different dances, the Gathering of Nations Pow Wow will have a lot of variety and plenty of videos up of the 2026 one are on YouTube already

Additionally, once he's done his little pre hunt dance around the circle and theyre done their talk, he goes to the fire. As I've made fairly clear, I don't have a lot of personal experience with pow wows, but in my family the men have always been either been fire tenders or drummers, and the women have always been dancers. This isn't entirely specifically because of a gender divide in the tribe just our family tended to do it because fire tending for our band is a man's job and drummers would sit nearest the fire tenders. So the straight dance like dancing being nearly immediately followed by fire watching felt extra intentional to me.