#Lyctor Ianthe

[glassesanddisasters]

Ianthe Tridentarius, just sitting there... menacingly.

[thelockedchoom]

Harrow the Ninth remains my favorite book in the series like

Two girls under 25 do enemies to just deeply intimate enemies. One of those girls gets a lobotomy (from the other girl!) to try and forget her ex, setting off a cascade of events which include holding ghosts hostage to play house and the eventual resurrection of what may well be the embodied spirit of a dead planet.

All while two 10,000 year old toxic coworkers try to kill god.

[chimchiri]

Ianthe woundfucking Kiriona's chussy with teeth please there's no time

I am very sorry this was initially supposed to be a serious fill and then it ended up way too silly lmao...

[sheepydraws]

I know no one cares about Naberius Tern but that is exactly the problem.

Every single lyctor we have seen so far is undone by killing their caviller. Mercymorn makes it very, very clear that she has been carrying the grief of killing Cristabel for ten thousand years. Palamedes doesn't say he would rather die than kill Cam to become a lyctor because he is busy dying rather than killing Cam to become a lyctor. The unspoken rule is that lyctorhood can only be obtained by killing the person most important to you.

Unless you are Ianthe.

Ianthe is the only lyctor who isn't in a constant state of mourning. She has achieved immortality and cosmic power without losing the person closest to her.

Incidentally the person Ianthe loves the most is Corona, who also doesn't care what happened to Babs. Ianthe chats with Corona while wearing Babs discarded corpse and they banter about it.

Ianthe essentially made her Faustian bargain with counterfeit money and I think eventually she is going to have to pay up

[tio-trile]

Harrow the Ninth sketches/WIP that I started forever ago and don’t know when/if I’ll finish uwaaaaaa

(Harrow drawing has been posted by itself here)

[midnightcrows]

Tlt sketches

[applejuicewerewolf]

"I haven't had human meat for 10,000 years" weak ass mindset. We're talking about people with perfect mastery over their bodies, bone flesh and spirit. If anything, the Lyctors SHOULD hold regular cooking competitions where they use their own body parts. And then they debate over who tastes best. Get creative with it!

"Yeah, so this roast is made of a mix of cells from my calf and my lungs, served with a broth of rips" - "Hmm, interesting flavour profile, but the consistency is kinda gross."

It would provide ample enrichment.

[bb-enablefreebuild]

I know Wake is descended from people who lived in NZ or at least chose NZ as the country to honor from Earth, but this woman’s Irish energy is off the charts no its not about the hair I’ll kill you if you think it’s that do you understand what I mean. She is running the Space IRA against the Imperial House of Dominicus (“United” Kingdom) Also Catholicism references. Blood of Eden.

Conclusion: Wake is Irish

[nopalitosx]

it's actually so funny that out of the og lyctors, there was only one pair where a woman was the necromancer and a man was the cavalier, and john fucking killed him and shut the whole thing down

[margo-mania]

The rest of the sillies I think this is also my first time drawing palamedes

[lizardinkart]

Y’all mind if I Jodypost on main 👀

I just read “As Yet Unsent” in the middle of my Nona reread and uh… I was deeply obsessed with Judith as a character before but I fear I am going to be insufferable now! Yippee! Get this girl a break! And kick open her emotional repression box!!!

[majorgammage]

I’M SORRY, were we just gonna GLOSS OVER the fact Ianthe knows SO MUCH MORE than she ever lets on in htn and ntn?? My brain completely glossed over this part and holy—

[derseprinceoftbd]

It now occurs to me John just ran out of old friends at the end of Harrow and decided "fuck it. Not using 'Lyctor' anymore. You two are... Tower Princes. Yeah. Sure." Wonder if he would have done the same if, like, Cytherea and Cyrus were still around; Ianthe's a perfectly functional Lyctor, and would love to be "Sole Lyctor Of The New Resurrection" or whatever, so I have to assume he just associates the title with his old "friends" and wanted a new name for the people he currently owns-er, "cares for".

[nona-gay-simus]

"If he hears that yet another one of his duplicitous sluts betrayed him, he's never going to come back from it. He's so fragile right now."

- Ianthe Tridentarius, Nona the Ninth Officially, 'duplicitous slut' is the funniest way to refer to the OG lyctors :D

[katakaluptastrophy]

Thinking about Ianthe's arm:

"He says it’s hideous and he’ll gild it for me—” (“Tacky,” you said.)"

Gold isn't something you can manipulate with necromantic ability. But here's Augustine casually offering to gild the bones of an entire skeleton arm, which sounds like it would be quite laborious manually.

But of course, what is the Mithraeum filled with?

Things like this:

"a skeletal arm wrapped in gold foil, amethysts studded like so many eyes between the knucklebones"

and this:

"gilded and bejewelled skeletons of Third and Seventh heroes dressed in gold and green robes of necromantic office, with amethysts and topazes and emeralds for eyes"

You have to assume that the Lyctors in general, or Augustine in particular, have been DIYing the bejeweled House hero relics for the last myriad, so adding some gold to an arm that's attached to someone isn't all that much of a stretch.

This is also riffing on an actual thing in Catholicism, so if you're trying to imagine the Mithraeum, I promise you that you are not visualising something as weird and tacky as reality...

[chillyweirdoinacoffin]

This is just Harryanthe

Images Via Robert Wun Couture