2023-05-01 5:13:18 ¶ ●

something so specific about how we are introduced to Lyctorhood as this thing of violent conquest: Naberius stabbed in the back with his own sword and his dead soul still fighting. and we are told (by Ianthe!) that this is just how it is.

and indeed, when Harrow is taking notes on people on the Mithraeum, one of her first assumptions about Augustine is “killed own sibling”. but that’s not true!! that didn’t happen. that didn’t happen to any of the other Lyctors. we might not know who all’s blade made the cut in each specific circumstance, but to my knowledge none of the original cavaliers died unwillingly. we learn that when there was violence and coercion, it was experienced by the necromancers, violence done unto them by the cavaliers that just keeps echoing. idk. i dont know where i’m going with this really i’m just thinking about it.

despite thinking she is following all the steps to the letter, Ianthe did in some way just go and invent her own version of Lyctorhood. for girlboss reasons.