The Mage : The Warrior
"In history, nothing happens that has not happened before." - Thomas Mann
The purpose of life is to get really into stories that drive you so crazy you sometimes feel the need to throw up from how much you love them
There is no ethical killing a magma titan under late stage capitalism
ALTThis quote is my Roman Empire btw
no really though, this is fucking HUGE okay
In the final version of this scene, Leola's human friend stacks her rocks by hand while Leola stacks them magically. When the rock the human girl places on her stack falls off, Leola lifts and replaces it for her with magic.
In the color script image, they're both using magic. The human girl is less certain with it—her stack is smaller, and the rock she's currently lifting is wobbly—but she is doing the same magic as Leola, from Leola's example. This is insane, because what we see in the show winds up being very ambiguous about whether Leola taught/gave humans any magic at all, at any point.
I could theorize on why they decided on the scene's final form as it is (I think it probably has to do with the emotional impact of the trial scene) but it's extremely unlikely that they changed the story from "Leola gave humans magic" to "Leola didn't give humans magic" at this stage of development.
Also, that sure doesn't look like primal rune magic, so jot that down in the "predictions achieved" column.
Ezran and Runaan were a mere few feet apart at the end of the final battle. We can assume the team spent some time among the ruins of Lux Aurea, processing what had happened and collecting themselves, and taking a few moments to grieve.
Runaan was right there.
A mere few steps from Ezran.
And Ezran let him go.
Runaan would have willingly gone with Ezran if the king had demanded it, despite them not being on Katolis soil, despite Ezran not even having guards. Runaan would've accepted justice, given himself up to Ezran's mercy.
Ezran chose love in the end.
He looked his anger--literally--in the eye, reconciled with it, and chose to move forward.
the best kind of ships are the ones that have something aromantic going on
They boasted their strength, their blades unhidden on their hips. These were people who rejected secrets, who did not lie.
Fools. They might as well have held their own hearts, beating and bloody, in the palms of their hands. Kim’dael knew that if she showed them her heart—or something convincingly like it—the Sunfire elves would do exactly what she wanted them to do.
“Thank you, merciful queen. Thank you.” Mercy would be the queen’s death someday, she thought—but that, of course, was none of her concern.
“A token of my protection,” Aditi told her. “As I promised.”
“A false promise. How…unbecoming. I thought it beneath the Sunfire elves to lie.”
“I did not lie. That collar claims you as mine, and as I told you, the dragons know better than to risk my wrath.” Aditi gestured to the thing around Kim’dael’s neck. “Forgiveness shall not come easily to one so stained with blood as you, Kim’dael. Not without a price.
Been thinking about the why for my Claudia-as-dragon au and I think it would be quite fun if it tied directly into the s7 finale, in that he praised her for her strength “the most powerful Dark Mage in all of Xadia” but she still wasn’t able to protect him, still wasn’t able to keep him alive. In the seven years she will wait for him, that will gnaw at her. Even though it seems incredibly likely that the whole thing was deliberately set up so he’d die, and use the nova of his death to take out as many of his enemies as possible, this won’t sit with Claudia’s dogged loyalty. She didn’t want to leave him to die, cried “I can help you!” even as he told her to go. She won’t lose him again to the protagonist’s efforts. She’ll do whatever she has to do, however dangerous, however vile. So, if being the most powerful Dark Mage wasn’t enough, where might she turn for the power she’d need when he returns, that she can support him better, protect him better? What would she need to make herself strong enough to face off with a possibly fully grown Azymondias, the Last Archdragon? What if she could harness the dragons own power and strength for her own, in a more reliable way than zombified-Avizandum? What if this time, she could stop her father from leaving her?
Something something Viren sacrificing his heart was a natural consequence / action he took in order to sacrifice himself, with his heart and his body and himself being one understandable entity, versus almost a season later with Rayla and Callum being so codependent that rather than her (metaphorical) heart and his (literal) body/life being separate sacrifices, they become one in the same like Rayla-and-Callum are one entity / one person
Rayla gives birth
3x03 / 3x05 / 3x06 / 3x09 / 7x02 / 7x03 / 7x06 / 7x08 / 7x09
N'than is Mormon Ellis
