one of my most strongly held Vibes for nona the ninth is that we will see samael. mostly due to vibes but also due to perhaps an emerging pattern of ancient ninth cavaliers:

mattias nonius was brought up so much in GtN, then come HtN we not only get ortus’ poem about him, we get to see his ghost come back and fight

samael novenary comes up SO much in HtN. arguably more than anastasia does. i want to see him…. i want to see him fight….. (also i just think his led weighted pelvis chain offhand is just. so fucking cool)