#Alectopause

[thanergetic-hyperlinks]

@fuzzysandwitch points out:

And I'm gonna point out two quotes from the text, one from GtN:

Corona looked like a grief-stricken king

and, from As Yet Unsent:

I said I was just an administrator; she was a princess. A king. She said there was no king but the Emperor. I said her problem was a lack of job opportunities. She laughed a little and said, Too right.

This is surely foreshadowing. It's interesting that her mother was presumably Queen of Ida, but she's referred to as a King more than once. And, well, her BoE name is Crown Him with Many Crowns - Thy Full Gallant Legions - He Found It in Him to Forgive, which for all I know could be an act-by-act summary of Alecto.

We might find ourselves in Alecto with some bizarre situation in which Crown has ascended to top leadership in BoE and Ianthe has meanwhile become Emperor.

ya kno i still havent figured out exactly why ianthe doesn’t say the prayer and it has bothered me for like five months. i have a couple, like, ideas but nothing feels concrete and im honestly puzzled by it. here’s the prayer for reference:

“Let the King Undying, ransomer of death, scourge of death, vindicator of death, look upon the Nine Houses and hear their thanks. Let the whole of everywhere entrust themselves to him. Let those across the river pledge beyond the tomb to the adept divine, the first among necromancers. Thanks be to the Ninefold Resurrection. Thanks be to the Lyctor divinely ordained. He is Emperor and he became God: he is God, and he became Emperor.”

is there something i missed in here? or somewhere else in the book? anybody have any theories they’d care to share? am i reading too much into it???

[zombie-bait]

Some very late Huevember of Harrow's second favourite corpse <3 I've drawn Harrow like 5 times so I figured it's Gideon's turn

[colwbear]

griddlehark <3

tamsyn why must they suffer

[claudiatherelentless]

Unreliable Narrator: Not Paying Attention

Unreliable Narrator: Actively Hallucinating

Unreliable Narrator: Six month old Infant

Coming soon in the Unreliable narrator series! Ancient Rage Barbie!

[athunderstryke]

them as this:

[foxy-alien]

Alecto the terror and the sublime

[psyche-reads]

The first act of Alecto is Harrow descending into hell. There are nine circles of hell in Dante’s Inferno. There are nine dead lyctoral cavaliers. There are nine resurrection beasts. Nona the Ninth implies the cavaliers are fighting the resurrection beasts Somewhere. Theory: in Alecto, Harrow will encounter each dead cav/corresponding RB one by one, liberating their souls a la the biblical harrowing of hell, culminating in her reuniting with the fragment of Gideon’s soul she consumed in a manner not unlike Dante’s Beatrice. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk

[beguilingcorpse]

i understand the urge to want to wait until all of the locked tomb books are out to read them but like. alectopause is so fun. i promise there is no badness here. we are definitely not all slowly going insane. join us. join us. join us join us joij us join us join us join us join s joun us join us joun us join us join us joun us joun us jouns ys sjoun usgs joujs uusv joiun usgs sjiujbsusys

[inkdragon1900]

Based on what Tamsyn Muir said about Alecto “hopefully” being the last book. I wish I could tell her directly “Do it. If the story needs to be longer do it. Hell make an entire book about the Harrow Nova au cause it ties into some later arc. Take up space. Dominate the genre.So many male writers make 5-8 books about some fantasy/Sci-fi world cause they feel like they have the audience’s attention to do so. And to be completely honest Tamsyn Muir has my attention like no other. Like yes girl make me read 3 more books consisting of 500-600 pages. I am sat.

[wifegideonnav]

sealing a tomb with wards that only respond to the emperors dna call that a johnlock

[kafkaesquetwink]

something i really appreciate about the locked tomb is that there are so many little details that make it clear tamsyn muir wanted you to have even more fun every time you re-read it. like throwaway lines or descriptions that become tragic or funny or foreboding only after you’ve read them before.

[unreachedgalaxy]

some anastasia the first for your tl today. i have always thought anastasia's was the first tongue to be sewn and her jaw-only facepaint is why the ninth house skull is jawless. anyway can't wait for alecto the ninth to release and prove me wildly incorrect

[addamii]

Me day one of Alectopause: oh gee I can’t wait for the next book!

Me now, rocking back and forth covered in sweat and blood probably: I think we’re all sleeping on the fact that Honesty’s name could be Frank

[butchgrantcurly]

bro we’re literally in the end times rn i wouldnt even be surprised if i open the news and hear about some guy in new zealand starting a cult because his cryo project funding got cut atp 🙄

[foxy-alien]

There are almost no beautiful things left

[crtki]

guess who started reading the locked tomb