#cr4e02

Occtis is a Wizard... And now his Dad is kicking out his headmaster to set up a stooge.

Why do I think he fucking HATES that his son wasn't born with inherited magic...?

Aranessa mentioned that it was so that Thjazi shared in the Fey Protection that her family, that they already felt the protection of.

Thimble just got here at that moment, so she looks young...

...but if their Fey are allegedly there their whole life...

- Thimble was a wedding gift. THIMBLE was a WEDDING GIFT. THIMBLE WAS A WEDDING GIFT! THI-

- Is Julien Fey and is he Aranessa's Fey Guardian? Her Family seemingly has Fey... "servants", but we don't know from what age.

- Speaking of Julien, it's kinda funny how Matt played Trafalgar Law in "One Piece" and then made his character Doflamingo...

- Did Wick's grandma fuck the Angel before or AFTER he went feral? 👀

Cause she seems old enough to remember pre-Godless Araman...

- WTF is up with Thjazi getting relics connected to the different afterlives? Was he trying to bridge the gap so that everyone could get what they wanted?

- By the mention of "effortless magic" we can assume Primus Tachonis is a Sorcerer... And now I'm thinking how he must feel about his son being a Wizard and NOT having been born with magic... Are the whole family Sorcerers? Do they ALL hate him? No wonder he went to help Thjazi!

-I love that we seem to get a Thjazi cold open every episode, likely to keep the guy haunting the narrative even MORE present in our minds.

-Good Lord, Travis/Teor played Sam/Wick like a FIDDLE!

- I must protect Agony. She's a little demon BEAN! GET HER A HELMET!

- Enmity is super abrasive, Cruelty feels like a Mean Girl™ and Agony constantly gets hurt... IS SHE NAMED "TYRANNY" BECAUSE SHE WAS SUPPOSED TO PUPPET WICK BEHIND THE SCENES WHEN HE FINALLY ROSE TO POWER?!

- Speaking of Wick, we all thought Sam would be the one faking it, but I turns out that he was the only one believing. It's somehow WORSE than "the whole family of Cleics just didn't tell him he wasn't a Cleric"... NO WONDER he was surprised by Teor! "What do you MEAN there's people that can use The Light™ without even knowing what it is?"

He was so indoctrinated that he didn't know Divine Magic existed outside the Halovars...

- Every Family has something going on: Halovars have the whole "Sorcs in Cleric's clothing" thing, Tachonis are Necromancers, the Einfasen's are replacing the structures of power with their own people politically, the Royce's were the guardians of the Fairy Gate and thus got Fey slaves (Thimble seemed surprised at being Thjazi's friend and equal) for each family member... Whatever that last Sundered House does CAN'T be good...

- I was fully ready to ship Tyranny and Occtis, but here's Aabria trying to get him into the family! XD

- Kattigan, brother SAY SOMETHING, MAN! YOU SOUND SO COOL BUT SAY SO LITTLE!!!

- The Halovars and the Thaconises are close allies... The Necromancers and the Fake Religion. Somehow the LITERAL DEMONS seem to be the least scheme-y ones!

- We still don't know Cas and Cyd, but from the cold open we know that Cas saved Thjazi, so he can't really be that bad, unless there was a TERRIFIC falling out... So so far, Cyd is the prime suspect for getting bought out by the Thaconis...

- Even Julien's family liked Thjazi. So much so that they ACTIVELY ORDERED Julien not to go after him. This tells me 3 things: 1) Julien was a THREAT as a boy and they didn't want him to succeed. 2) He doesn't brag about taking Thjazi in... He DEFINITELY turned himself in and made it seem like Julien won. 3) I FULLY believe that Thjazi ONLY let himself be captured because he was so sure he'd escape. He probably did it just to see Aranessa again...

Which begs the question: Did Julien sabotage the plan...? Maybe he knew Cas from the Rebellion or came across Cyd after he was disciplined and struck a deal with one of them...

Either way, he would have been FUMING if Thjazi lived... What if he was grinning at the execution because his plan WORKED?