Tané, and the star that was inside her.

Tané 🐉

Sabran & Ead

Priory of the orange tree

just finished day of fallen night and it resparked my hyper fixation so here’s this

Tané: gods always speak in mysterious riddles

Nayimathun: I just said, “you are enough”

Tané: I may never know what they mean

Some Priory and Adofn sketches of Eadaz, Sabran IX, Tané and Glorian Shieldheart :)

I’ve been sketching a bit to get their faces right, so I can draw more elaborate pieces. On another note I reread both books in the span of a week bc summer break so the brainrot is fresh and here to stay lmao

When history fails to shed light on the truth, myth creates its own.

Eadaz "Ead" du Zala uq-Nāra, Sabran Berethnet and Miduchi Tané from The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon.

i had the wonderful opportunity to visit @sshannonauthor at kinokuniya sydney on the 19th, and it was such a lovely and inspiring time to hear exactly how the world of priory was created and why things existed in it!

to anyone looking for a queer feminist retelling (of st. george and the dragon) with IMMENSELY engaging worldbuilding and characters, i do highly recommend priory!

A mock cover design for fun and to fill up the ol’ portfolio

[ID: a cover design illustration for the priory of the orange tree by samantha shannon. ead and tané are standing back to back, eyes closed and holding a sword in one hand and their respective jewels in the other. a blue dragon encircles them. behind them stands sabran, resting on the sword ascalon. in the lower corners are two ships, appearing to be sailing on dark water. the background behind sabran is yellow and brown, sunlight against dark clouds. in the upper left corner is a castle, and a dark shape in the upper right corner is reminiscent of a wyrm. in the first version of the image the title and author’s name are in the middle of the drawing. the second version is without title or author. /end ID]

no you don’t get it. tané is literally so brave and strong and proud and loyal and hard-working, all to her own detriment. her and susa’s relationship was born from and ended in tragedy. she loves so deeply and she always ends up getting hurt because of it. she’s an outcast who fought her way to the top. she fulfilled her ambitions, got everything she had ever dreamt of, only to end up losing everything. she was both destined for greatness and chose and shaped her own destiny. she’s so strong and good and flawed and so, so human and I am so, so, so normal about her

She’s just like me fr

Niclays @ Tane: You smuggled a person to hide the fact you broke seclusion!! You put your own ambition over the law!

Me: Wow, god forbid women do anything

I can’t stop thinking about the celestial jewels, specifically the one in the east. In ADOFN, Dumai finds the jewel on Brazhat guarded by Tonra. She takes the jewel, then gives it to Nikeya, who finally gives it to the Grand Empress. Then, in Priory, we learn that Neporo had the rising jewel when she ruled Komoridu, and then it passed to her descendants to guard and protect. Tané is one of Neporo’s descendants and finds the jewel sewn into her side.

If Tonra is actually Neporo, which I believe she is, then it would make a lot of sense for her to have the jewel. But then how does the jewel go from being with the grand empress at the end of ADOFN, back to a descendant of Neporo, Tané? I’m sure we’ll learn more about this as Samantha Shannon puts out more Roots of Chaos books, but I just can’t stop thinking about it!

Also, the jewel never answered to Dumai, and I think it’s because the person it was bonded to was still alive, and I think that was Tonra/Neporo. She would have needed to die before Priory of the Orange Tree in order for Tané to be able to use the stone as she does. Just my theory!

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Theory: the butterfly at the end of The Priory of the Orange Tree is Kwiriki.

Kwiriki was known to take the form of a butterfly, and at the same time as Tané  notices the butterfly, we find that the stitches in her side have opened, and she’s bleeding.

Previously in the book, Tané recalled climbing a mountain and getting the overwhelming sense that Kwirki was both ‘with her’ and ‘within her’

We know that when Tané was a child, her parents put the jewel in her side to keep it safe. I think that when that happened, Kwiriki took the form of a butterfly and slipped inside too, perhaps to keep the jewel safe, or to keep Tané safe, or both.

Then at the end of Priory, the jewel has been removed from Tané’s body, the Nameless One is defeated, and Kwiriki no longer needs to be so close to Tané to protect her, so he slips out again. When Tané thought of Kwiriki as being ‘within her’ he was literally within her; in her side, along with the jewel.

Tané from The Priory of the Orange Tree is aromantic asexual!

It's been a real slow couple days at work, and I just finished reading The Priory of the Orange Tree, so I've been sitting at my desk doodling my girl Tané

WHY are most fanarts of Tané I've seen portraiting her as light-skinned when she is described as having brown skin