The queen of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner

In my own name

for once, relius was speechless

i don’t know if this is what i actually think teleus and relius look like, but i do think it’d be okay if it was

King of Attolia incorrect quote

Gen: fight me Teleus, standing behind him, shaking his head, mouthing: do not

The good thing about being home sick is that I had some time to draw. Bad thing is that I couldn't decide on which scene from Gen's Attolian trial (never called that in the books but that's essentially what it is, right?) to illustrate, so I kind of did all of them. Except Damon, because I forgot about him. Oh well. And then I couldn't bother to paint them. \_(ツ)_/¯ In contrast, Gen after the Eddisian trial...

Today’s drabble is based on the lyric “that’s a fine looking high horse.” Teleus wants Gen to travel by horseback. Gen does not.

Please don’t leave post-King of Attolia spoilers in the reblogs, tags, or comments, thanks!

relius and teleus for blorbo bingo!

I color coded them with the color of their capes :) (Relius is red, Teleus is blue)

Attolian Skies

Fandom: The Queen's Thief - Megan Whalen Turner Rated: T Warnings: No archive warnings apply Word count: 5,342 - Relationships: Irene/Eugenides, Helen/Sophos, implied Costis/Eugenides, background Costis/Kamet Characters: Eugenides, Attolia | Irene, Eddis | Helen, Costis Ormentiedes, Teleus, Relius - “Stop! Thief!” a voice called out from somewhere higher up the palace wall. Attolis and Eddis take the twins on an adventure while long-suffering Costis accompanies them.

This was a round-robin fic written by 11 members of The Geninsula QT fan Discord, including myself. We took turns, and did not know where the story was going until we got there.

This fic was posted in 2020. I'm sharing it now because I want my Tumblr to have a nicely organized link to each of my fics. Some I've shared with such inconsistent tags I can't find the links myself, and many I've never blogged about at all! Probably some of my co-authors have, but a new post is an easy way for me to get organized.

You know what it is about costis is its the former gifted child vibes

gay people? in my queen’s thief novels?!

Teleus is the other half of this drawing. He gay.

Teleus is the captain of the guard and he takes his job way too seriously. He is also viciously loyal, to his queen his country and reluctantly, eventually, to the king. I completely disregared time period for his clothing, and i put him in a fustanella, which doesnt become a military symbol til about 300 years later against the ottoman empire.

The child in the bottom center is named pheris and he is not gay. But the private aspects of the relationship between relius and teleus are seen through his childish viewpoint of gross adults. Its cute.

Subtle implications in Queen’s Thief that I lowkey obsess about, #2:

Relius explained how the barons’ agreement had been broken when one of them had engaged his heir to marry the princess Irene; how the other families had been angry, but outmaneuvered; and how they’d been outmaneuvered again when the queen poisoned her first bridegroom and took the throne for herself. He did not go into details on his own contributions.

He did show me my own family’s part. “This chart shows the queen’s family, and here, the Erondites. It’s a distant connection, but many of those with closer connections were killed during the civil strife that came about after she took power.”

Attolia had survived that strife by ruthlessly eliminating contenders for her throne, sparing Erondites only because he was a useful ally at the time. (Return of the Thief, part I, chapter 8)

I always think about how Irene has no family at all, not even cousins (she is the anti-Helen even in this)

We know she had a certain baron Maleveras tortured and executed for talking “half of her barons into deserting her, while pretending to be an ally“ (Queen of Attolia, chapter 11) but there’s no indication that they were family... The only connections we know of is Erondites, in the above passage called a “distant connection”, and her titular heir mentioned in Queen’s Thief, chapter 17. So the above passage always makes me think she probably had all her closer kin executed?? I think if they were exiled we might have heard more about them... Or maybe they did die as a result of strife, but not by her direct action? Much to think about...

I also wonder a lot what happened to her assassinated groom’s family. She lived with them for a year and didn’t make a single friend :/// And her future father-in-law was a much a teacher to her as Relius was, but we have no idea what happened to him 👀 We know the barons disliked him for outmaneuvering them when he engaged his son to Irene, but... No idea what became of him.

(ALSO, fun that Relius calls it ‘civil strife’, but in her own POV Irene’s choice of words is a little stronger:

...In the first year of her reign, when she was a young queen with nothing to guide her  but her wits and civil war on her hands, her guards had found Relius spying on her... (King of Attolia, ch 5)

finished the return of the thief and have Feelings

drawing queens thief fanart suddenly having a realization that huh MWT is really into height difference