#Sankta Vasilka
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https://at.tumblr.com/stromuprisahat/what-are-your-favorite-darkling-theories/emz8m8ymr9tx
What are your favorite grishaverse theories?
That Malyen wasn't truly the third amplifier- if it was made the way remaining two were, Baghra's sister- Vasilka (another theory- she's the firebird Saint)- would be "it" and immortal. Her descendants either simply possessed similar traits, or they weren't compatible with the original two to begin with, because Ilya didn't spend as much time on his daughter as he did on his previous work.
That either this, or the fact merzost seems to be affected by will, caused Alina's loss of power. And Ilya never intended to rob a Grisha of their essence.
This is more of a wish- Aleksander was the true third amplifier. If we're to pretend their properties don't change through generations, it would fit the story better. His and Alina's Bond works with it beautifully, she'd need to kill the person, who understands and accepts the worst in her, to gain enough power to erase his mistake, then I'd make her deal with the same responsibility he had for generations and try to handle it better. Plus the knowledge her "greed" for power made her kill her soulmate. Was it worth it?
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Death by a Thousand... Stars?
I've been going through my notes on Siege and Storm, and one particular detail stood out. It's an excerpt from the prologue:
[...] they stood together on deck, picking out constellations from the vast spill of stars: the Hunter, the Scholar, the Three Foolish Sons, the bright spokes of the Spinning Wheel, the Southern Palace with its six crooked spires.
The note says: Double-check the constellations! Alina's bedchamber has a star-speckled dressing screen! The Darkling's bedchamber has constellations on the ceiling!
And then I remembered my notes on Ruin and Rising. And guess what? The monastery of Sankt Demyan, otherwise known as the Spinning Wheel, was turned into an observatory 'a few hundred years ago'. Double-check the constellations!
[...] the bronze columns were constellations—the Hunter with his drawn bow, the Scholar bent in study, the Three Foolish Sons, huddled together, trying to share a single coat. The Bursar, the Bear, the Beggar. The Shorn Maiden wielding her bone needle. Twelve in all: the spokes of the Spinning Wheel.
It's been abandoned 'for over a century'. This version of the Darkling is approximately 120 years old. Coincidence? I think not. Sugar had been rationed in Ravka for the last hundred years, which can only mean that the current war had started around the same time he'd made himself known again.
But what about the monastery? I think that the Darkling was the one who'd turned it into an observatory. My only proof is a tale found in The Language of Thorns. It's a story about his half-sister Ulla, titled When Water Sang Fire. Our Youngling was the seer's apprentice in the lost city of Söndermane, a scholar cloistered in the Prophetic’s Tower. A stargazer!
At each level the apprentice named another subject: history, augury, geography, mathematics, alchemy. Ulla hoped they’d wind all the way to the top of the tower, where she knew they’d find the famous observatory.
However, stargazing wasn't his only preoccupation there. But we'll come back to that later. Double-check the constellations! Let's get back to the twelve spokes of the Spinning Wheel.
The Hunter with his drawn bow? That's Sankt Petyr, with his still-burning arrows. The Scholar bent in study must be Sankt Dimitri. The Bear is obviously Sankt Grigori. The Shorn Maiden wielding her bone needle is probably Sankta Vasilka, the first firebird.
What about the others? Thirteen Saints were shown on the massive triptych behind the altar in the original Lantsov chapel, where the first Ravkan kings were crowned. Thirteen Saints were featured in the original version of the Istorii Sankt’ya. But there are only twelve spokes, twelve constellations. Who's the odd one out?
Sankt Demyan is most certainly not, and here's why.
According to The Lives of Saints, the site of Sankt Demyan's death is the tallest mountain in the Elbjen. He was the nobleman who owned the land upon which a cemetery stood; and when the birches started to obscure the path, he had his servants cut a new one. When the rains came to disturb the cemetery, Demyan designed the aqueduct around the graveyard, diverting the water to irrigate the fields. But the people still complained.
He was desperate to please them. He asked the Saints to raise the cemetery up to the sun itself, so it would no longer be obscured by the shade of his previous creations.
He laid his hands upon the soil, and the earth began to shake. The ground rose higher and higher, until the highest mountain was made. The cemetery was intact, but his own family crypt was broken. The people accused Demyan of disrespecting his family name by using dark magic, and the angry mob stoned him to death. He became known as the patron saint of the newly dead.
Sankt Demyan's miracle was the creation of the highest mountain in the northern Sikurzoi.
But why is this important? Because the Sikurzoi mountains cover most of Ravka's eastern and southern border with Shu Han. And the Spinning Wheel is located in the Elbjen, which is the Fjerdan name for the northern range of Sikurzoi. More so, it's the place the first firebird came from. And that firebird is Ravka.
But what if I tell you that the first Taban queens also come from the highest mountains of the Sikurzoi range? The palace of the Taban dynasty has the Court of the Golden Wing. You know who else has golden wings? Sankta Vasilka, the first firebird.
It's said that the borders of Ravka were sketched by the firebird's flight. Its rivers run with the firebird's tears. And when one of her feathers fell to earth, the young warrior picked it up and carried it into battle. No one could defeat him, and so he became the first king of Ravka.
But where are the stars? The old Taban queen resides in the place called the Palace of Thousand Stars. Even before the first Taban queens have come to their rule, Sankta Neyar was already one of the Six Soldiers, the sacred protectors of the Shu Han.
Remember the constellations? The Southern Palace and its six crooked spires? The Spinning Wheel? It's all there, written in the stars.
And the Starless Saint knows that.
His bedchamber is built on a hexagonal plan, like the temples of Ahmrat Jen. His dark wood walls are carved into the illusion of a forest crowded with slender trees. The birch trees, like the ones growing around the cemetery. He almost died there, once.
Demon in the wood. Demyan in the wood.
The domed ceiling above his bed is spangled with chips of mother-of-pearl laid in constellations, to create the illusion of the Spinning Wheel. The ebony screen in Alina's bedchamber is speckled with mother-of-pearl stars, too. It was probably brought from his rooms, as only his chambers are furnished in ebony.
It's death by a thousand stars...
#shadow and bone#shadow and bone meta#grishaverse meta#shadow and bone worldbuilding#sankt demyan#sankt demyan of the rime#aleksander morozova#the darkling#the starless saint#grishaverse#the grisha trilogy#the lives of saints#leigh bardugo#parallels and references#a searing burst of thought
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I'm reading The Lives of Saints right now and it was pretty much confirmed in King of Scars and Rule of Wolves that most, if not all Saints of the Grishaverse were Grisha, so now I'll list them and tell you what order I think they were in. Also Spoilers for the Grishaverse
- Sankta Margaretha: Durast because she works with solid materials like metal and gem stones
- Sankta Anastasia: Healer because her blood healing people is pretty obvious
- Sankt Kho: Tailor because he works with solid materials like metal (which is a Durast thing) thing but also with flesh and bones (which is a Corporalki thing especially a Corpse witch thing) and Genya explains at some point in the first book that a Tailors powers are kind of in between those two
- Sankta Neyar: Durast because she is the Saint of the black smiths and made her own sword
- Sankt Juris: a confirmed Etherealnik, his animal is the dragon
- Sankta Vasilka: Fabrikator because she works with threads and colours (btw I'm convinced that Leigh chose this name cause it's got "silk" in it, you know like a pun), her animal is the firebird
- Sankt Nikolai: I acutally have no clue (maybe an Alkemi???) even though it seems like this little boy didn't do the wonder himself he deserves to be a Saint because he is so nice to everyone and wants to share with the people also I think his animal is definitely the reindeer
- Sankta Lizabeta: a confirmed Fabrikator, her animals are the bees (btw I'm disappointed that we didn't get a picture of her like the one described in the Grisha trilogy you know where that bitch is brutally quartered)
- Sankta Maradi: Etherealnik most likely a Squaller
- Sankt Demyan: Fabrikator most likely a Durast
- Sankta Marya: Durast because she manipulates solid materials (rocks)
- Sankt Emerens: no clue (maybe a Fabrikator???), his animals were most likely the rats. Damn he deserved better than drowning in grain because he wanted to do something good like that's such a cruel death and then they didn't even bury him in the cemetery
- Sankt Vladimir: Tidemaker because my boy is holding back the ocean all alone for a whole month
- Sankt Grigori: confirmed Corporalnik Healer, his animal is the bear
- Sankt Valentin: powers no clue, animal is a snake, the book doesn't tell how he became a Saint and I'm curious but it told us a wonder he did just like in the Juris chapter but there the "defeating the dragon made him a Saint" was at least mentioned
- Sankt Petyr: powers no clue, I don't think the demon could be his animal
- Sankta Yeryin: Fabrikator because maybe she used her powers to move millstones to make the flour
- Sankt Feliks: most likely a Materialnik like the monks in the end of RoW, animal is the falcon
- Sankt Lukin: I'd guess Corporalnik because he survives something he shouldn't and because making people sleep before they die is a very heartrender thing
- Sankta Magda: the birth help and the suddenly looks younger part sound Healer-like but the healing potions and elixars and whatever sound more like a Alchemi thing so it's gotta be one of those
- Sankt Egmond: Durast, he works with stone, metal, glass etc can it be more obvious?
- Sankt Ilya: he is Morozova, the Bone Smith, a Fabrikator who used Mezost, even though he created the 3 Amplifiers those never were his animals but Alinas
- Sankta Ursula: Etherealnik, Tidemaker the wave was pretty obvious
- Sankt Mattheus: no clue, he just tamed wolves, so I guess they'd be his animals
- Sankt Dimitri: no clue
- Sankt Gerasim: Fabrikator most likely an Alchemi, because he works with paint and powders
- Sankta Alina: confirmed Sun Summoner, her animals are the stag, the sea whip and Mal I guess
- Starless Saint: confirmed Shadow Summoner
#grishaverse#lives of saints#the lives of saints#sankt grigori#sankta lizabeta#sankt juris#sankta alina#shadow and bone#alina starkov#the starless saint#the darkling
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Grishaverse reference
Hi Grishaverse moots, idk if someone has already done this before and if they have, sorry, guess we've got two cakes now.
I recently finished reading lb's written version of Lives of the Saints and I have many thoughts. The following are my guesses on nation of origin and grisha power for the saints mentioned in the book, based on the stories provided. There isn't a ton of information, but these are my best guesses, feel free to put these interpretations in your fics!
Also lb's grasp on Russian is tenuous at best, so keep in mind that this list is written letter for letter the way the chapters were titled, not the way these names would be properly spelled.
Sankta Margaretha - Kerch, likely Durast
Sanka Anastasia - Ravkan, likely Healer or Alkemi
Sankt Kho - Shu, Durast
Sankta Neyar - Shu, Durast
Sankt Juris of the Sword - presumably Ravkan but he dates back to before Ravka was a country, his story references one of his miracles not his actual story of sainthood so his Grisha designation is unknown, we do know that he's a two-souled Grisha bonded with the Dragon
Sankta Vasilka - probably Ravkan due to her being described as the first firebird, likely a two-souled Grisha with a firebird, maybe a Durast or Squaller
Sankt Nikolai - unclear nationality due to his being on a ship from an unknown port, potentially Ravkan, Squaller, maybe an Alkemi too
Sankta Lizabeth of the Roses - Ravkan, maybe a Durast, maybe a two-souled Grisha with bees, maybe an Alkemi with plants
Sankta Maradi - Zemeni, Tidemaker or Squaller
Sankt Demyan of the Rime - Fjerdan, Durast
Sankta Marya of the Rock - Suli, Durast
Sankt Emerens - Kerch, maybe Alkemi or Heartrender
Sankt Vladimir the Foolish - Ravkan, Tidemaker
Sankt Grigori of the Wood - Ravkan, Healer, potential Durast, two-souled Grisha with a bear
Sankt Valentin - unknown nationality, potential Squaller or Heartrender, potential two-souled Grisha with a snake
Sankt Petyr - Ravkan, potential Inferni or Heartrender
Sankta Yeryin of the Mill - Shu, likely Durast or Alkemi
Sankt Feliks Among the Boughs - Ravkan, likely Alkemi, the Thornwood grew where he died, two-souled Grisha with a hawk
Sankt Lukin the Logical - unknown, potential merzost-using Healer or Heartrender
Sankta Magda - Ravkan, Healer or Alkemi, maybe secondary Squaller gift, saved Grisha children from pyres
Sankt Egmond - Fjerdan, Durast, forced to create the Ice Court
Sankt Ilya in Chains - Ravkan, merzost-using Durast, potential Healer/Heartrender too
Sankta Ursula of the Waves - from an area in Fjerda where she is called a princess but we known her mother is Baghra and her father a sildroher, making her half-sildroher half Ravkan, Tidemaker
Sankt Mattheus - unknown nationality, Alkemi or Heartrender, turned wolves into dogs, possible merzost using Heartrender or two-souled Grisha with a wolf
Sankt Dimitri - unknown nationality, likely a merzost-using Healer or Heartrender (or a Squaller playing a joke due to his? skeleton being found in a room still praying and also talking)
Sankt Gerashim the Misunderstood - likely Ravkan, potential Durast, his vow of silence makes me think it's more likely that he was attacked and made mute because it says he stopped talking at 15 and didn’t say a word in his defense before he died
Sankta Alina of the Fold - Ravkan, Sun Summoner, obviously
The Starless Saint - Ravkan, Shadow Summoner, obviously
Extra thoughts I had reading the book:
“Half of novokribirsk was lost” - this is how the Darkling moving the Fold was described so I guess we have a better grasp on where the Fold moved to and how many people died
The story with Alina isn't about her own sainthood but about people praying to her, specifically Grisha children who are being sold to Kerch slaver, what a surprise that Alina didn't fix everything governing Ravka (I am bitter as hell and this is sarcastic)
Ulla being described as a princess is odd because what is she the princess of?
We know that dragons and sildrohers exist in the grishaverse but nebulous "demons" are also mentioned as taking over people's bodies. It's unclear how real these might be or whether they were trauma responses or mental health issues.
A ton of these people are hermits, likely because it helped hide their powers.
Lots of saints being accused of conspiring with the “demons,” lots of the saints are described as “witches.”
The prose feels like I’m reading propaganda written by the Apparat. ex: All the saints are described as pious and this is what their actions are attributed to despite clearly being the result of Grisha powers.
It's interesting to me personally lb even included Aleksander or allowed a story to exist that showed how his expansion of the Fold benefitted a Ravkan citizen.
Most Saints are described as weak and sickly, wonder why that is (wasting sickness from hiding their powers).
The Tula valley was desolate before the Fold because Feliks died there and many crops rotted after his death.
A lot of these stories have townspeople and noblemen turning on the saints, also lots of stories of people fighting for royalty then being betrayed by the same royalty (what a sucky trend for Grisha).
Many saints are said to be monks and scholars, this might be Apparat propaganda but it also might be an extension of them being in hiding about their powers.
Lot of saints are Durasts and Alkemi, likely because Materialki powers are the easiest to hide. Possible Etherealki Saints probably didn't survive long enough to be remembered.
A surprising amount of saints were Squallers. This may be because wind is harder to predict than other natural forces and is more likely to be dismissed as nature rather than Grisha power.
Only one saint is a potential Inferni. Probably because it's arguably the most difficult power to hide.
Some of these legends definitely seem older than others because they reference each other and lb does not make it clear where in the historical timeline they fall in relation to each other.
Some of the saints are only described with their miracles not their stories of sainthood, this is a curious choice and I wonder why it was made.
Some of the saints' deaths are written as fade to black while others are described in excruciating detail. Another weird choice.
#ref#grishaverse#grishaverse ref#fic ref#shadow and bone#sab#s&b#aleksander morozova#alina starkov#ilya morozova
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you know which muse i also miss? vasi, my precious sankta vasilka. soft soft saint wishing the darkling would stop coming to her home to try & convince her to join him.
#vasi @ ilya: I want to ask why your kin is like this but ... he's your kin so i know where he gets it from#not me onw to dust off her blog#* probably panicking about something ( ooc )
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I made this post for myself for reference, so it’s really just things about the saints that I think would be handy for writing inej & it’s a wreck bc my note taking hasn’t improved since high school, but anyone who doesn’t want to buy/read the lives of saints, here’s some tidbits?????
Every year, lanterns are lit along the canal and prayers are said to Margaretha, the patron saint of thieves and lost children - ketterdam
A servant had observed the whole endeavor, and word soon spread of the healing properties of Anastasia’s blood. Sankta Anastasia is known as the patron saint of the sick and is celebrated every year with tiny dishes of red wine. - tsemna
Every year on his Saint’s day, the people honor Juris by placing bunches of red amaranth over their doorways and welcoming soldiers and veterans into their houses.
But all the time the sorcerer had been talking, he had not bothered to understand just what Vasilka had been weaving—a grand pair of wings. All he could do was stare as she slipped them onto her arms and leapt from the tower. She soared away on golden feathers that caught the light in their glowing threads and seemed to set the last scraps of afternoon sun ablaze. She is said to have become the first firebird and is the patron saint of unwed women.
Nikolai is known as the patron saint of sailors and lost causes, and it is traditional to set a place for him at the table on the darkest night of the year.
So the general gave the order, as generals do, and Lizabeta’s body was torn apart, and the bees hummed lazily in their hives. It’s said her blood watered the roses of the field and turned the blossoms red. It’s said the blooms planted on her grave never perished and smelled sweet the whole year round, even when the winter snows came. But the bees have long since left those hives and want no business with those flowers.If you can find that meadow, you may stand and breathe in the perfume of its blossoms, speak your prayers, and let the wind carry them west to the sea.The roses remember, even if wise men choose to forget. Lizabeta is known as the patron saint of gardeners.
Sankta Maradi is known as the patron saint of impossible love.
at the base of the Sikurzoi, the Suli have always been able to find shelter in the caves that Marya left behind. She is known as the patron saint of those who are far from home.
Vladimir’s body drifted to shore on the tide, and the people of Os Kervo gathered him up and placed him upon a bier covered in lilies. For another thirty days and thirty nights, they came to pay their respects, and to the astonishment of all, Vladimir’s corpse did not rot. On the thirty-first day, his body dissolved into sea-foam, leaving behind nothing but a small heap of sea salt among the lilies.He is known as the patron saint of the drowned and of unlikely achievement.
It is customary for the mothers of brides to offer prayers to Sankt Valentin, and seeing a snake on your wedding day is known to be good luck.
Petyr would not let go. He died that day, but so did the demon. Sankt Petyr is known as the patron saint of archers.
Yeryin is the patron saint of hospitality.
Feliks told them there was no magic, only nature. He refused to confess to any crime and only asked to be turned on the spit so as to cook more evenly. His bones were scattered over the ground, and without his care, the orchards froze and faltered. Ever after, the only tree that would grow in that soil was the thorn wood, its branches thick with fruit that never ripened. The people of the Tula Valley starved along with everyone else and had their equal share of misery. Sankt Feliks is celebrated in the spring with feasts of quince and apple and is known as the patron saint of horticulture.
Lukin’s head was placed upon a golden platter, and from it, he dispensed advice to the new king for the entirety of his rule, which was long, just, and miserable. Sankt Lukin is the patron saint of politicians.
The village continued to starve no matter how many girls they put to death. But the girls who prayed to Magda would often find themselves swept up and carried into the heart of the forest, and so she is known as the patron saint of abandoned women, as well as bakers.
The palace Egmond built was unlike any seen before it. A stone serpent guarded its high towers, its bridge of glass and moat of floating frost, its silver clock tower, and the sacred ash at its heart. Ever since, the Ice Court has stood, its walls unbreached by any army. Sankt Egmond is the patron saint of architects.
The child Ilya had dragged back from the next world wandered the village, asking for his mother and father, begging for a place to sleep. Every door was closed to him, and so he was left to the woods, where he can still be heard crying. Sankt Ilya is the patron saint of unlikely cures.
A chapel was built into the rock on her island, where sailors’ wives still come to pray to Ursula, patron saint of those lost at sea. They leave offerings of bread baked into the shape of fish, and wish for their lovers’ swift return. When they leave, some find bones or sea pearls in their pockets, though no one is sure if these are ill or good omens.(fjyerden)
The good people of the village set the hem of the wolfhunter’s fine velvet coat alight and chased Dag Ivar down the road and out of town. Mattheus continued to visit with the pups until they were grown wolves themselves. They came when he called, lay at his feet, thumped their tails when he told them stories. Their pups were tame in the very same way, and took to guarding the doorways and hearths of the village their grandmother had once terrorized.These were the first dogs, and this is why Sankt Mattheus is the patron saint of those who love and care for animals. (fjyerden)
Dimitri was the son of a king but wished he had been born otherwise. From his early days, he wanted only to contemplate the works of the Saints and study scripture rather than statecraft. When the time came for him to assume his responsibilities as a future ruler and to find a bride, he begged his parents’ pardon and informed them that he had no intention of marrying or of ever assuming the throne. He would give his life over to piety and prayer. At their wits’ end, the king and queen ordered their only son locked in a tower, vowing that he would be denied food until he agreed to wed and become the prince he was meant to be. At last the queen demanded that the tower be opened so that she could see her son. When the guards broke through the door, they found a skeleton sitting at Dimitri’s desk. It cheerfully waved to the queen and invited her to pray with him. The queen ran screaming from the tower, and the king and all their servants followed. Sankt Dimitri, patron saint of scholars, may be praying there still.
Gerasim is known as the patron saint of artists.
#STUDY — & i’m still a believer but i don’t know why *☾#reference.#like these notes are so messy it's funny#the little headcanons I've put together about how inej celebrates their saint days tho
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The Lives of Saints, part 1
SANKTA MARGARETHA
I’m surprised that this is the saint we start with. Her miraculous work was very modest, all things considered: only a piece of jewellery that nobody else could lift, and she wasn’t martyred at the end of her story.
The demon is clearly not a real demon, but considering the “time of saints” had dragons it could be something sufficiently monstrous that calling it a demon doesn’t actually change the story much.
I do find her being the patron saint of thieves somewhat funny. She didn’t even steal that much.
SANKTA ANASTASIA
Anastasia’s much more what I was expecting from these stories. She’s martyred, and her “miracles” are something that could conceivably be Grisha work, especially if it was done before the arts were standardized. I can imagine a healer being able to make antibodies, but only in her own body and at the same time not being capable of keeping her own body alive under the stress.
SANKT KHO AND SANKTA NEYAR
Neyar fights single handedly for three days and three nights and ends up being the patron saint of blacksmiths? … okay.
And second and third of the saints who could be just Grisha.
SANKT JURIS OF THE SWORD
Interesting that we don’t get a story of how Juris originally became a saint, only the most famous of the miracles that he did after he became a saint. But we did hear a lot about his life in the series proper, so it might be for Doylist reasons.
Obviously the whole thing could be and most likely is just a coincidence.
SANKTA VASILKA
I think what the author is trying to gesture here is that the same way Juris was connected to his dragon amplifier, Vasilika was had a firebird amplifier, and she escaped in the guise of a firebird.
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I’m surprised that only one out of the six saints we have here were actually martyred. The first books made their stories sound way more bloody, overall.
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So far I think I like the stories about Sankta Margaretha and Sankta Vasilka the most.
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so it’s believed that the lantsov line is descended from the firebird ( aka vasilka )
but i’m here to tell y’all that’s not exactly true, vasilka has just been blessing some lantsov monarchs here and there and that started rumours that they were descended from her.
that said, she’d 100% come out of her hiding spot to bless nikolai & later zoya as monarchs
#will waltz in with some firebird feathers like 'hello it is sankta vasilka here is your backup plan in case of life threatening emergencies'#give em like a chest of diamond tears as well for the treasury. for fixing up the land and stuff.#and then twirl around and disappear again to who knows where#ooc tbt.
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I love both my children equally... Vasilka, *looks at smudged writing on hand* BGHRARGH!
Ilya Morozova naming his daughters "Empress" and whatever's Baghra supposed to mean has the same energy as Simba's grandparents in The Lion King, naming one of their sons "King" and the other "Garbage"
#Grishaverse#grishanalyticritical#What if/AU/...#Ilya Morozova#Baghra Morozova#Baghra's sister#Sankta Vasilka#meme#The Lion King#V#Yeah#Baghra's sister being Vasilka is canon now.#I DO make the rules.
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Okay but the story of sankt lukin is uh... Pretty objectively hilarious please send help I can't stop laughing... Maybe it's the fact that I'm a poli sci major but like 😭
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The Appearances of the Saints
Here are the descriptions of the physical appearances of the Saints of the Grishaverse.
Sources: The Lives of Saints; King of Scars; The Language of Thorns
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Sankta Margaretha
In her image in The Lives of Saints she has black hair. She was originally from Kerch.
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Sankta Anastasia
Known as a great beauty, she had red hair bright as a field of new poppies and green eyes that shone like polished glass.
She was Ravkan, more precisely from the village of Tsemna.
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Sankt Kho
There is no description or image of Sankt Kho. He was Shu, so it can be assumed he had black hair and yellow-gold eyes.
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Sankta Neyar
In her image from The Lives of Saints she has black hair. She was Shu, so it can be assumed she had yellow-gold eyes.
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Sankt Juris of the Sword
Juris looked to be a man of about forty. He was as big as Tolya, maybe larger, and Zoya could imagine he must have cut a daunting figure with a broadsword in his hand. She could see a tracery of scales over his shaven scalp, as if his dragon features had crept into his human body. [King of Scars; Chapter 17]
In his image he has dark hair and light eyes. He is Kaelish, so it can be assumed he has pale skin given that the people of the Wandering Isle are said to tipically be redheaded and pale-skinned.
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Sankta Vasilka
In her image from The Lives of Saints she has black hair.
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Sankt Nikolai
The captain and the crew were shocked to see the little figure with the golden hair tramping toward them across the ice. They’d thought he must be dead, for who could survive the night in such a wilderness? As he drew nearer, they expected to find him hollow-eyed and ragged with hunger and cold. Instead his cheeks were pink, his stride even, his eyes bright.
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Sankta Lizabeta of the Roses
“Juris, stop this,” said a woman, emerging from between the rows of soldiers. She wore a dress of blooming roses that blossomed and died in curling vines around her body. Her golden hair was a buzzing mass of bees that swarmed and clustered around her radiant face. [King of Scars; Chapter 17]
She was originally from Ravka, more precisely a village called Gorubun.
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Sankta Maradi
When people left the old woman gifts [...].
In her image in The Lives of Saints she has black hair. She was Zemini.
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Sankt Demyan of the Rime
There is no description or image of Sankt Demyan. He was originally from Fjerda.
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Sankta Marya of the Rock
In her image in The Lives of Saints she has black hair. She was Suli, so it can be assumed she had bronze or brown skin and dark eyes.
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Sankt Emerens
In his image in The Lives of Saints he has orange hair and pale skin. He was originally from Kerch.
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Sankt Vladimir the Foolish
In his image in The Lives of Saints he has brow hair. He was Ravkan, more precisely from Os Kervo.
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Sankt Grigori of the Wood
In his image in The Lives of Saints he has dark brown hair and dark eyes.
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Sankt Valentin
In his image in The Lives of Saints he has brown hair.
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Sankt Petyr
In his image in The Lives of Saints he has brown hair. He was originally from the Ravkan village of Brevno.
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Sankta Yeryin
In her image from The Lives of Saints she has black hair. She was Shu, so it can be assumed she had yellow-gold eyes.
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Sankt Feliks among the Boughs
In his image in The Lives of Saints he has brown hair and blue eyes.
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Sankt Lukin the Logical
In his image in The Lives of Saints he appears as an old man with white hair.
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Sankta Magda
In her image in The Lives of Saints she has grey hair. For further notions see also "The Witch of Duva" in The Language of Thorns.
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Sankt Egmond
In his image in The Lives of Saints he has blond hair. He was Fjerdan.
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Sankt Ilya in Chains
In his image in The Lives of Saints he has brown hair and blue eyes.
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Sankta Ursula of the Waves
And of course Signy knew Ulla with her black hair and her gray-tinged skin.
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Away from the blue depths of the sea, the sallow gray-green tinge of her skin was gone and she glowed burnished bronze as if she had tucked sunlight beneath her tongue. Her hair was black as it had always been, but here in the bright light of the human world, it shone like polished glass. Her eyes were still dark and strange, but dark like a midnight path that might lead somewhere wonderful...
[The Langauge of Thorns; When Water sang Fire]
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Sankt Mattheus
There is no description or image of Sankt Mattheus.
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Sankt Dimitri
There is no description or image of Sankt Dimitri.
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Sankt Gersami the Misunderstood
In his image in The Lives of Saints he appears as an ald man with white hair and beard.
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but i’m also thinking about grishaverse astoria and thinking a lot about the degree of isolation she can experience upon reaching ravka? she’s fjerdan, through and through — she’ll joke mostly about the climate being different, or about the differences in accent and language, but she’s fjerdan.
and i think it would impact her in really interesting ways — for instance, astoria is, at her core, proud and bold and demanding, and that’s not something fjerdan women are allowed to be very often. but, growing up without a father, she and her mother are ostracized to some degree; veronika is unmarried, her child is a bastard, and astoria’s not likely to end up married either. she wears the braid and the unremarkable clothes, and she chafes under this, because she’s only ever known a woman as a breadwinner and a protector and a caretaker, and it clashes pretty strongly with the ideals she’s meant to hold regarding gender. so there’s a lot of internal conflict there, and it’s one of the first things she wants to abandon when she reaches ravka: she takes her hair out of the braid and refuses to braid it again, preferring instead to twist it in a knot if she’s training or she’s on the volkvolny. the kefta covers a fair amount, if she’s in the second army, but she prefers hers form-fitting, and she’s thrilled by the bold colors and how they look against her hair. wherever she ends up, she’s very quick to start up a series of short little romances, and it’s not the first time she has sex but it’s the first time she’s able to be a little louder while having sex, and it’s just this immensely freeing experience for her, when she realizes that reaching ravka means that she can abandon a lot of the shame she’s carried, about her power, about her body, about her gender, about her history.
on the flip side — it makes her reckless. not being permitted to do anything potentially risky in good fjerdan company means that astoria ends up something of a daredevil in ravka. she’s not physically strong, even if she has a fair amount of power, and her power is pretty raw and undisciplined. she doesn’t know how to style her hair to wear it down, and i imagine she and genya spend some time together at first so she can learn. the first time she has a good night’s sleep because she’s been doing something physical, whether labor or training, she nearly weeps with joy, but she also has a hard time moving the next day. she forgets too often that her body has limits, and she has a strong tendency to way overdo things.
and funny enough, she’s desperately homesick. she’s a fairly devout believer, and it’s hard being so separate from her faith. nobody talks about djel, and everyone looks at her a little strangely if she does. she does start sort of patching together a hybrid system, folding the ravkan saints in, and the number of grisha saints gives her pause. she’s especially comforted by the number of fjerdan saints, and sees them as carrying out djel’s will. she keeps icons in her bedroom, if she’s at the little palace — sënje ulla, sankta vasilka, sankt mattheus, sankt demyan, with sankta marya at the center. she sleeps with her window open when it’s cold. she daydreams about going back to fjerda someday, even though she knows she never could, and it hurts, to know that this place that was her home for twenty years is unreachable to her now, and always will be. she has a hard time explaining why it hurts so badly, because fjerda is not safe for her and fjerda is full of people who would love to see her dead and fjerda, as she reminds herself very often, is awash in grisha blood. but it’s still her fjerda, her beautiful fjerda, and she’s always going to hope she can be buried in the fjerdan earth when she dies, even if it’s only just past the border.
#v. life is sly and unscrupulous. in service to itself it will commit any offense. ( grishaverse | second army )#v. but if you must be clever‚ then be clever. be brave. sleep with fists closed and shoot straight. ( grishaverse | volkvolny )#i. you never hear of anyone storming a castle on a wednesday. ( character development )#(not to sound like a hozier song but she wants so badly to decompose in the land that gave her life and like)#(the knowledge that this may never be possible is desperately painful to her)#(i need... astoria hanging out with other fjerdans)
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Ziva carrying a little icon of Sankta Vasilka in her pocket.
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but i’m also thinking about grishaverse astoria and thinking a lot about the degree of isolation she can experience upon reaching ravka and kerch? she’s fjerdan, through and through.
and i think it would impact her in really interesting ways — for instance, astoria is, at her core, proud and bold and demanding, and that’s not something fjerdan women are allowed to be very often. but, growing up without a father, she and her mother are ostracized to some degree; veronika is unmarried, her child is a bastard, and astoria’s not likely to end up married either. she wears the braid and the unremarkable clothes, and she chafes under this, because she’s only ever known a woman as a breadwinner and a protector and a caretaker, and it clashes pretty strongly with the ideals she’s meant to hold regarding gender. so there’s a lot of internal conflict there, and it’s one of the first things she wants to abandon when she reaches ravka: she takes her hair out of the braid and refuses to braid it again, preferring instead to twist it in a knot if she’s training or she’s on the volkvolny. the kefta covers a fair amount, if she’s in the second army, but she prefers hers form-fitting, and she’s thrilled by the bold colors and how they look against her hair. wherever she ends up, she’s very quick to start up a series of short little romances, and it’s not the first time she has sex but it’s the first time she’s able to be a little louder while having sex. she goes hard into all her most hedonistic urges in ketterdam before settling in as a sort of gentlewoman thief, and she curses and drinks and fucks and wears the latest fashions. and it’s just this immensely freeing experience for her, when she realizes that reaching ravka or kerch means that she can abandon a lot of the shame she’s carried, about her power, about her body, about her gender, about her history.
on the flip side — it makes her reckless. not being permitted to do anything potentially risky in good fjerdan company means that astoria ends up something of a daredevil once she leaves. she’s not physically strong, even if she has a fair amount of power, and her power is pretty raw and undisciplined. the first time she has a good night’s sleep because she’s been doing something physical, whether labor or training, she nearly weeps with joy, but she also has a hard time moving the next day. she forgets too often that her body has limits, and she has a strong tendency to way overdo things. she also celebrates every injury: it means she can move, it means she can protect herself, it means she can fight and still have somewhere safe to come to and call home.
funny enough, despite all this she’s desperately homesick. she’s a fairly devout believer, and it’s hard being so separate from her faith. nobody talks about djel, and everyone looks at her a little strangely if she does. she does start sort of patching together a hybrid system, folding the ravkan saints in, and the number of grisha saints gives her pause. she’s especially comforted by the number of fjerdan saints, and sees them as carrying out djel’s will. she keeps icons in her bedroom, if she’s at the little palace or the slat — sënje ulla, sankta vasilka, sënj mattheus, sënj demyan, with sankta marya (a gift from inej) at the center. she sleeps with her window open when it’s cold. she daydreams about going back to fjerda someday, even though she knows she never could, and it hurts, to know that this place that was her home for nineteen years is unreachable to her now, and always will be. she has a hard time explaining why it hurts so badly, because fjerda is not safe for her and fjerda is full of people who would love to see her dead and fjerda, as she reminds herself very often, is awash in grisha blood. but it’s still her fjerda, her beautiful fjerda, and she’s always going to hope she can be buried in the fjerdan earth when she dies, even if it’s only just past the border.
when i emphasize that astoria growing up without a father in the picture was a source of a lot of sorrow, it’s not because i think she needs a father to make her interesting. and i swear it’s all connected but:
asta grows up without a father, through no fault of her father’s or hers. her father doesn’t know she exists at all, and he could very well be in the wandering isle; likewise, he could be right around the corner in djerholm. she has no way of ever knowing. she carries her father in her face more than her mother: his jaw, his nose, his smile, his hair. she carries her father in her personality as well: his temper, his pride, his strength. and a lot of this is because that’s how veronika raises her: veronika is the sole financial provider, the protector, entirely independent. asta does not need a father to be safe. she is very aware that she can function, and even thrive, as a woman on her own, and that while the people around her might not be thrilled about it, that doesn’t mean she can’t be happy, or successful, or fulfilled.
coming to ravka means leaving a lot behind. she keeps her mother’s surname, but she blends the names her mother chose for her — asta viktoria into astoria. (it’s a nickname her mother used; she only learns, much later, that her mother favored astoria as a nickname as a nod to astoria’s father — asta was named for her father’s sister, and this is a little way for veronika to honor him. when he can’t be in her life.) she leaves behind a lot of the physical markers that indicate she’s a fjerdan woman, like the clothing and the hairstyle, and she embraces the potential of her new life very quickly and very intensely. but she also leaves behind the chance that she could find her father — she can’t reach her mother to ask questions. she has a first name and little else. she doesn’t know what country he’s in. and she’s been told over and over again that the lack of a father ( and, later, the lack of a husband ), by choice rather than circumstance, is a significant emptiness in a woman’s life.
so when she reaches ravka she inadvertently ends up allied to one of two very powerful men — either sturmhond or the darkling — and i think it would be very easy for this to be ‘astoria seeks out a father figure to replace the father figure that was gone from her life,’ but it’s not !! it’s not !! it’s astoria seeking out a man to whom she has no ties — familial, marital — and whose existence and actions are a threat to the fjerdan status quo. sturmhond (and nikolai) represent a political and economic threat to fjerda; both operate for ravka’s benefit, often at fjerda’s detriment, and both require an alliance to a different nation. the darkling is, in many ways, a grisha king: he’s everything fjerda would fear, a political entity who’s empowered by his being grisha. both are an inversion of what an appropriate male head of household or family or state would be. both are a direct rejection of fjerda. both are a destruction of the fjerdan father, the fjerdan husband. and she wouldn’t be so drawn to that if she wasn’t so deeply fjerdan, and if she didn’t see fjerda’s violence against grisha as such a gaping wound in a country she deeply loves.
and as a result, one of her constant drives is to prove her worth, her skill, her value — to prove to the anti-fjerda that all the things that made her weaker or lesser in fjerdan society (her power, her gender, her history) make her invaluable in ravka.
it also occurs to me now that in a ketterdam verse, while per haskell is the man in a position of authority whose validation astoria seeks, she doesn’t feel as though she’s done right by herself until she gets validation from kaz, whose focus on profit and willingness to tear up the ash tree by the roots, is about as much an antithesis to fjerdan values as anything could be. kaz becomes the anti-fjerda to astoria and it’s his validation she really wants, which is why she’s very willing, given time, to shift her loyalties completely, even though per haskell’s the one who helped her in the first place.
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