Rian Nup

Here are some real world pariah blades:

African Hair Braiding — Maps of escape repurposed into culture and art

The Blues — Songs that came when all there was to sing about was the conditions of hardship and labor repurposed into a musical form that shaped rock, soul, R&B, and modern pop

The N-Word — A slur meant to dehumanize repurposed in some contexts within Black communities as a sign of familiarity and identity

HBCUs — Segregation-era exclusion repurposed into institutions of excellence and leadership

Soul Food — Scarcity and forced rationing repurposed into a culinary tradition rich in flavour and history that has spread globally

“Do you want me to destroy you?”

1. I thought that Zerxus thought that the Lord of the Hells used to be Evandrin. Let me explain. Xerxis ask LoH ‘do you know what u were before this?’ I thought he was implying that his husband turned into this demon thing and that’s what Laerynn accidentally did.

2. I didn’t know Asmodeus was a God I thought it was just a really bad dude.

3. I thought the Matron was Patia’s mom. When the group found out that it was the Matron that taught Patia how do a spell preascention. Marisha said ‘I learnt it from you mom’, I thought this meant Patia’s mother was a Godess

4. anything with the primordials,

5. what the heck a vasselheim was and why LoH wanted to go there so bad,

6. who the heck LoH siblings were,

7. why we cared about Vespin so much,

8. what a vestige was,

9. what the word magister meant and many other words that came before.

The seventh will know to ring the bell.

‘Hal (Orpheus) was a poor boy,​

But he had a gift to give.​

He could make you see how the world could be:

In spite of the way that it is

And Thaisha (Eurydice) was a young girl,​

But she'd seen how the world was.​

When she fell, she fell in spite of herself,​