since you're open to requests about the locked tomb data collection...
a spreadsheet on how many times the book points out someone eye color would be so cool since they are so important to the plot!
i'm rereading GtN and "dulcie" got her eye color named so very often compared to other characters. the fourth interestingly got their eyes described right before dying and gideon's eyes i think so far got only named by dulcie...
anyway don't worry if it's too much work i just thought i'd ask since you said you like tasks!
griddlehark at the beach!!!! harrow wrapped in 30 towels exiled from the sand bc she kept complaining about it getting on her making her itchy and then her facepaint smudges from the spf gideon forced on her meanwhile gideon is like me??? bronze goddess??? i don’t need it! of course she gets the worst sunburn of all time but she’s psyched about it bc it looks like she’s wearing a muscle tank when she’s naked which is “the best of both worlds harrow tits AND tanks” and harrow doesn’t want to laugh she really doesn’t but. lobster arm gideon is so earnest and kind of right. SCREAM
some points. some things. some ideas. none of which are connected, i’m sure.
“anastasia” means “resurrection” or “one who will be reborn.”
she is the only one of the original lyctors explicitly stated to have sired her house’s line of succession.
this is vitally important (important enough to have been actively preserved against all odds for 10000 years), but nobody seem to quite understand why, including the reverend family.
alecto says “you are the blood of anastasia,” as if this is relevant to her. she then kisses harrow and draws blood.
it’s only after getting verbal confirmation and (presumably) tasting her blood that she pledges her sword to harrow.
she says “i am sorry about samael,” as if that would mean something to harrow, as if she expects harrow to have the same grief over anastasia’s cavalier that anastasia did.
the ninth house is “the house of the sewn tongue,” which is a ritual for the keeping of secrets. it also sounds oddly flesh magic-ey for the ninth, which means they probably didn’t originate the practice.
this would imply that it’s relevant to their history somehow.
the ninth’s skull is jawless, which we know from the ianthe situation is the way to undo the effects of the sewn tongue.
when people talk portentously of the ninth, they talk about its “secrets” and its “mysteries,” always in the plural.
which implies that there are more secrets than just the tomb. i doubt they added the plural after the creche flu, can you imagine? the ninth has other, very old secrets.
harrow loved alecto from sight.
alecto recognized her immediately.
like i said, this is a series of random, unconnected facts. there are no conclusions whatsoever to be drawn from this.
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