#Rassalon

[dearlioncourt]

Anharion's real name has been keeping me up at night

going to reread dark rise and dark heir to gather evidence for my crazy theory that Anharion and Rassalon are the same person

[karinonsan]

I was reading this post abt Rassalon and suddenly a thought came to me...

What if Anharion's smear campaign with the collar only came after Rassalon betrays the Light? Anharion was the light's top dog for fighting Sarcean. Outrage was had, I'm sure, when he defected. It was a regrettable decision, but human nature betrays... he was great but it was just the One guy.

But then Rassalon, a strong and loyal champion of the light, a True Lion, defects to Sarcean too??? Like, there must be some gen public who goes, hmm, is it just a coincidence or was there something more to this Light vs Dark business?? If I had a nickel for ever Light champion defecting to the Dark, I'd have two nickels but its weird it happened twice...

So the Light side either create or twist the Collar rumor into one that serves them... though it was done too late or they noticed too late that the Collar in Sarceans hand is different than what they know (my theory abt the Collar is its somewhat true to its purpose but the Sun King was the one who comissioned it).

IK there's still a lot of things that doesnt really fit, but it was my limited speculation and my two cents. What do you guys think??? Please reply if you have theories abt Rassalon or the Collar!!!

[smurny]

“He wanted her power for himself, and for his son. But as with Azar, something went wrong. He did not become a true Lion. So he brought you with him back to England. He seeks to learn what went wrong, and when he has the answer, he will serve you up to his son.’” - Mrs Duval

What went wrong? Why didn’t John Ballard become a true Lion when he killed Violet’s mother Gauhar? Why didn’t Azer become a true Lion when he killed Rassalon?

Both of them wanted power, but maybe it only works if you kill a Lion in self-defense or with a pure heart or something. If Violet ends up killing Tom it would only ever be in self-defense or to save her friends.

“ Why did Rassalon fight for the Dark?”

“What she felt from the shield wasn’t darkness; it was a steady warmth, a wise, noble presence that offered her its strength. The shield seemed to radiate goodness and power in equal measure.”

Rassalon sounds like a good guy. So is the dark not that bad or what :D

[beeneedssleep]

Just two lions with freakish and inhuman strength and their broken weaponry (one of which is much more useful than the other)

[du-hjarta-skulblaka]

Since Alfie doesn't have a tumblr (yet) I wanted to share my favourite photos they took of the auroraborealis on Friday night, it wasnt super clear with the naked eye but i was able to see some and I love their photography so much (I can see birds in the first two and a face in the second!)

[vintagevixyxol]

The old language: the alphabet and some patterns

from the books Dark Rise by C.S.Pacat

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The old world holds many attractions for the readers: its mysterious history, culture, characters and language. There are inscriptions and phrases in old language in the books. At first glance, they look scary and inexplicable. Nevertheless, at second glance, the language opens up. In this analysis, I hope to show that the old language is amazing and share the delight I had researching it.

First of all, disclaimer. I am not a true linguist and, moreover, not Kettering, but a person who loves to find out patterns and tries to explain them. This article is just my theory, hypothesis and my point of view. It can be different from the canon.

There were phrases in the old language and their translations in the first edition of the Dark Rise. They inspired me to reconstruct the old language alphabet and to start my research. The inscriptions in the Dark Heir, the second book, proved the alphabet to be correct.

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The alphabet

As I have already mentioned, the alphabet is based on the translations of the old language in the first edition. I will use one phrase as an example to explain a deciphering algorithm. As I have applied the same algorithm to all inscriptions, I will only mention other phrases in the old language to show the letters they contributes to the alphabet.

The phrases from the Dark Rise: Decoding the alphabet

Step 1: selecting similar letters

Here is the phrase “Rassalon the first lion”.

There are two S in “RaSSalon”; there is also S in “firSt”

Double S is between two A

The first word begins with R, and R is also present in“fiRst”

L — “Lion”

O —“liOn”

N — “lioN”

“...the First Lion”

T — in “The” and “firsT”

i — in “first” and “lion”

!(why “i” is small I am going to explain later)!

Step 2: non-repeating letters

New letters: H, e (!) and F.

Other phrases

He is coming (Dark Rise, chapter 11)

New letters: C, M, G

I cannot return when I am called to fight So I will have a child (Dark Rise, chapter 2)

New letters: U, W, D, V, I(!)

I and i are different. In my opinion, it might be because “I” is a pronoun.

Enter only those who can (Dark Rise, chapter 15)

New lettres: Y, E

E and e are different. Perhaps, it is because “E” is in the beginning of the word “Enter”.

The horn all seek and never find (Dark Rise, chapter 15)

The new letter: K

Note: The letter design in the figures is a little different from the original design due to qualities issues.

The phrases from the Dark Heir: Proving the alphabet relevance

There are also inscriptions in the Dark Heir. If I use the same strategy here, it does, here are the proofs.

The first proof

One of the inscriptions is the name Undahar. Names are not translated. All letters in Undahar match the letters of my alphabet except U. It turns out to be V in the previous inscriptions, so I will write two variants U/V because I am not sure which one is correct.

The Eclipse/Finem Solis (Dark Heir, chapter 26)

The second proof

Here is the phrase: “He is coming.”

(Dark Heir, chapter 2)

Although there is one unknown letter, we can identify it by using the similar phrase:

He is fighting — Ar ventas

He is coming — *r uentas/ventas

The new letter is A. I think this A is different from the regular A because it is the first letter of a pronoun. Pronouns start with capital letters to avoid confusion with other words that include “ar”.

The result: alphabet

Of course, I admit the possibility that not all letters comply with the original alphabet as it is in the U/V case.

Issues in deciphering

The same phrases in the old language are written differently in the Dark Rise and the Dark Heir. I do not know whether it is due to errors in the first two editions or it means something else.

He is coming, Dark Rise (chapter 11), edition 2021

He is coming, Dark Rise (chapter 11) edition 2022

He is coming, Dark Heir (chapter 2)

The past cries out, but the present cannot hear, Dark Heir (chapter 2)

Only a Steward may enter, Dark Heir (chapter 37)

Dark Rise (chapters 2, 10, 11, 15), edition 2021

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The structure of the language

There is more to the old language than the inscriptions. Here are my thoughts on the other aspects of the old language. The old language is likely to be the parent language to all languages in the books, the language from which modern languages have derived. The old language has similarities to Latin and Sanskrit, borrowings from Sindarin, Quenya and some unidentified languages.

Vocabulary

Analyzing new information, I have found patterns that helped me to identify word classes. The word classes of the old language are shown in the table below.

Data summary sheets

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Nouns and names

Most nouns end with “ar”, but there are two nouns that end with “or/er”. The pattern is pretty apparent, so I am going to discuss only the nouns that do not fit the pattern.

Aladharet and adharet

My suggestions about meanings and forms of the word “adharet” are based on this dialog:

‘He said, ‘I am not aladharet.’ <...>  ‘I cannot do magic,’ he said. ‘I have never trained with the’ – there was no other word for it – ‘adharet.’ <...> ‘I only know what I have seen, watching the adharet cast spells as I fought to protect them.’ (Dark heir, chapter 38).

There are two variants of the word: aladharet is singular and adharet is plural. Perhaps, “al” is the marker of a singular form, I would no more touch on single/plural forms because we do not have enough information.

The closest meaning from the context is a wizard /enchanter. This noun is interesting because “ar” is in the middle of the word. I think it is a verbal noun (a noun derived from a verb), such as spell – speller, enchant – enchanter.

Kishtar

According to the book, “Vara kishtar” is a shadow hound. “Kishtar” is highly likely to mean a hound or hounds. (Chapter 21)

The root “Kisht” means field, sown-field, tillage, cultivation, (at chess) check in Sanskrit. Of course, the meaning of the word in the old language is different, but it is still quite an interesting coincidence.

Similarities to Latin

There are some Latin names in the books like “Finem Solis”. Besides, some words in the old language are very similar to Latin (see the examples below).

“Callax Reigor” (The Cup of Kings) (Chapter 46)

“Callax” reminds Latin “Calix” (the Cup).

Reigor (Kings)

The root “reig” resembles the Latin root “reg” in “regio,-are”, “regium” (to rule/ royal).

Valdithar

English translation is “dauntless”, it is the name of Sancean`s horse. It has the ending “ar”, probably, because this adjective plays a role of a noun as abstract adjectives can be nouns in English. Synonyms of the “dauntless” are valorous, valiant. They derived from the Latin word “valens” – strong, powerful. This meaning of “val” seems to be suitable for Valdithar as well.

Similarities to Tolkien`s languages: Sindarin and Quenya

As some readers know, C.S.Pacat is a big fan of the J.R.Tolkien, so I decided to compare Tolkien`s languages with the old language and found out some borrowings from them. Several names look like Elvish words in which some letters are altered.

The ending “ion” is typical to Elvish.

Anharion

He is the Light’s greatest fighter who served the Sun King. That name consists of two parts: “Anar” is the Sun and “ion” is a son in Elvish. The sound “h” is pronounced with exhalation, so it might be omitted. Anharion means the son of the Sun in this case. In addition, the name was given to him by the Light side (the Sun King) and it is not his true name.

Ekthalion/thalion

Ekthalion is the Sword of the Champion.

Although “Fermaran, katara thalion” (Dark Heir, chapter 29) does not have a translation, “thalion” is a hero/a dauntless man in Sindarin. In my opinion, the coincidence is not an accident. “Thalion” is the part of the Sword`s name and the meaning seems relevant in context of the books.

Moreover, Ecthelion`s fate in the Silmarillion is quite similar to the fate of the Sword. Ecthelion slayed Gothmog, Lord of Balrogs, at the cost his life. The Sword`s fate is described in the book as follows:

…As a weapon to kill the Dark King. It’s said that a great Champion of the Light rode out with it to fight him <…> but could do no more than draw a single drop of the Dark King’s blood. That’s all it took to corrupt the Blade… (Dark Rise, chapter 13).

The name Ecthelion had its own evolution: its Qenya cognate was Ektelion.

Another thing

Veredun

One of the characters mentioned this name in the following dialog:

‘This isn’t my first time at sea.’ Visander <…>. ‘Atlantic? Pacific?’ ‘The Veredun,’ said Visander. He looked out at the night expanse of black water. This did not feel like the Veredun, or like any sea he had known (Dark Heir, chapter 34).

Names are not translated, but I wanted to know more about this old world sea/ocean. There is no word which is exactly the same in any language relevant to my research, but there are analogs to its parts.

Vere/verus is “truth” in Latin

Dun is “dark/deep/gray/gloomy” in English

Dun is “West” in Sindarin

My translation is “The deep truth” or “The dark truth” or “The West truth”, but I do not pretend to know the truth.

Verbs

All verbs that we know end with “as”.

Aragas

Aragas means “open” in the old language. I have not found any Latin roots. However, separate parts of this word exist in Sindarin: “ara” is “royal” and “gas” means a hole/gap/opening. Aragas is used for opening gates that connected the Kingdoms, for opening the oubliette under the Sun King`s throne and in the metaphor of opening the door of the Dark King`s magic­. All these cases are associated with something “royal” and “opening”. I might have gone a bit too far here and read too much into it.

Ar ventas

Ar ventas – He is fighting (The translation from the text, Dark Heir, chapters 27, 29)

Ar uentas/ventas – He is coming (The translation of the inscription, Dark Heir, chapter 2)

There is a possibility that these verbs are borrowed from Latin. The root of the word “uent” is the same as in the Latin verb “uenio/venio” (to come). Thus the ending “as” indicates a tense and a person (is coming). My guess is that V and U are interchangeable in Latin. Therefore, “ventas” means “is coming” and “is fighting” at the same time. I think “uentas” is right, because U turns into V.

Vala!

One of the characters used this word in the following dialog:

With a tug of her horse’s mane, she [Visander] said something that sounded like Vala!, and they burst out of the stable doors (Dark Heir, chapter 21).

I think it is the command “walk/run” for a horse and the verb could be in the imperative mood. In my opinion, there is a parallel to Latin. Singular imperatives are formed by removing the ending “re” from verb roots, for example, monstra̅re (to show) – monstra (show). Nevertheless, “Vala!” could be another command, e.g. “gallop/forward/ahead”.

Adjectives

I think the ending “ra” indicates adjectives. Valdithar looks like an exception, but I think it is not an exception because it is a noun (see the section about nouns).

Vara

The translation of “Vara kishtar” given in the books is “a shadow hound” (Dark Heir, chapter 21).

It also means “soiled” and “dirty” in Quenya. As far as we know, “Vara kishtar” is a creature of the Dark side, and all shadow creatures could be “soiled” in the Light side`s opinion. By the way, there is the Sanskrit word “vara” that means “the best, excellent, the eldest”. The meaning is opposite to the meaning in the old language, but the Dark side could use the word differently.

Katara

“Fermaran, katara thalion”(Dark Heir, chapter 29).

Katara ought to be an adjective because it ends with “ra” and because of its position in the sentence (before a noun). The text does not give a translation, so I decided to consult dictionaries.

Latin and both Elvish languages did not help, but Sanskrit has the adjective “katara”. It has several meanings:

Which (of the two)

Mean, poor, miserable

Timid, shy/cowardly, cowardly/fearful

I have never mentioned Greek before, but it also contains “katara”, but as a noun: κατάρα is a curse or a calamity/disaster.

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Other observations

I noticed other patterns as well, but I need more examples to confirm them.

Structure of sentences

Like in English, a subject goes before a predicate:

Ar ventas – He is fighting

Ar uentas – He is coming

An adjective precedes a noun:

Vara kishtar – a shadow hound

Katara thalion – a shy hero (?)

My own hypothesis

Old language adjectives agree with nouns in gender, case and number.

There is evidence that verbs conjugate and have different tenses. So far I managed to identify only one verb form (continuous, third person, singular). I suppose that the inscriptions contain other verbs as English translations provide other verb forms including modal verbs, various tenses and person.

The reconstructed translation

Only one phrase from the Dark Heir has no translation: “Fermaran, katara thalion” (Dark Heir, chapter 29). We know the hypothetical meanings of the words from the analysis, so the translation might be reconstructed.

Fermaran

Ar ventas fermaran (Chapter 27)

Ar ventas, fermaran (Chapter 29)

In this case, “fermaran" is not used to address someone because there is a variant without a comma. Catalan has the verb “fermar”. It means “to stop”. The form “fermaran” is “they will stop” in indicative future, plural, third.

The reconstructed phrase goes as: “They will stop, mean/timid/poor hero”. It can fit in the context but it is still pretty questionable.

Inscriptions

Unfortunately, I have not achieved my goal to identify words in the inscriptions from the Dark Heir. As I mentioned there is not enough data. For example, the words we know from the translations such as the adverb “only”, the negation “cannot”, the modal verb “may” and the English phrase verb “cries out” remain unidentified. These inscriptions are still the Phaistos disc:

The past cries out, but the present cannot hear (Dark heir, chapter 2)

Only a Steward may enter (Dark heir, chapter 37)

Dark Rise paper editions 2021-2022

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The conclusion

Roots of the old language lie in Latin, Sanscrit, Sindarin/Quenya and, perhaps, something else. Four Kingdoms, four language families: Latin for the Sun/Undahar, Sanskrit for the Serpent or the home of the Lions, Elvish or unknown one for the Tower or the Rose.

I hope the third book will provide new data that will allow me to decode all inscriptions and get more profound understanding of the old language. Meanwhile, I am going to entertain myself with guesses, theories and attempts to decode the inscriptions.

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Acknowledgements

I would like to express my thanks to my aunt for being my editor, for all help and discussions about the old language, to my sister for all figures and to my friends from Undahar for the support and help! Thank you all very much!

All information is from the Dark Rise, the Dark Heir and dictionaries: Latin, Sanskrit, Sindarin and Quenya.

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The article also was written for the C.S.Pacat fanbook "Undahar" made by people from the discord server Undahar.

Please, ask about permission and credit me if you want to share the analysis.

[sappholovell]

Thing that I noticed that may or may not turn into a theory:

So everyone has an object, right? And these objects all symbolize the person who holds them.

Violet is a protector. She wants to side with good people and she wants to be a good person, even if she ends up helping the Dark King. It's still confusing, whether or not she's on the right side of the war. She carries the Sheild of Rassalon, and it's broken, the price of saving those she loved.

James has the collar, and he knows (just like everyone else) that he will be controlled by it one day. It symbolizes losing a part of himself, but it also symbolizes inevitability and truth. It goes around his neck and suddenly he remembers everything, and that's enough to convince him to go with Will.

Cyprian is a self-sacrificing person. He was raised to be that way from birth. Defeating the dark is more important than anything, including his own life. He lost everything to the dark. So he gets the cup, in hopes that filling himself with something strong will make his death worth it.

Will has had a lot of things, but they've all gone to someone else in the end. The Lady's Medallion around Will's neck was deceptive and acted as a shield to hide behind, but also a source of guilt, just like his words. Sarcean's sword was explosive and destructive, just like his powers. The Brand was his solution to many things, but also fragile, like the trust he was breaking. I wonder if Will is going to get something of his own once he truly figures out who he is in Dark Rise 3.

[peachdoxie]

I'm gonna lose it. The end of Dark Heir doesn't give a conclusion to Violet learning who Will is. She reacts in horror and says she swore she wouldn't follow him and that she wouldn't be like Rassalon. But earlier, the line: "Later, she’d remember that Will had been the only one talking about stopping the army, while the rest of them were caught up in old feuds."

Cyprian decided to fight against Will, but Violent hasn't. Biting chewing scratching etc.

[the-master-of-space-and-time]

Darling I have had more doctorates than I had regenerations, and if you get to show off, so do I. And in fact, I was a democratically elected leader, unlike you.

Why do I keep these humans around?

[tomatette]

Violet Ballard ~ Dark Rise - CS Pacat

Breath heaving, she planted her foot on the stone and stood up. In your blood run the brave lions of England and the bright lions of India. You are the strongest fighter the Light has left. Rassalon’s shield on her on her blood-soaked arm, she faced the Shadow King, staring it down among the broken white columns of the ruined hall. Around her lay all the signs of her fallen comrades. The Stewards who had fought and died to push back against the dark. Their weapons littered the floor; their blood drenched the stone. She stood in the centre of it all, and attacked with the shield. more 'Dark Rise' character edits more

[silverstoryteller]

Theory time. I don't think Violet is Rassalon reborn, cause if I recall correctly, she can't automatically read the old world language, when the other Reborn characters can. I do think Tom might be him, though, and I won't be surprised if he's one of the first of Sinclair's people to join Will once he realizes who Will is.

I also suspect there was some truth to his claim that Violet didn't have the full story. Obviously his father and the others were still keeping some things from him, but I do think there are important aspects of the history of the war that the main characters are not privy to because they haven't heard the Dark side's version of the full story.

[ao3feed-darkrise]

The rising of the Dark King

https://ift.tt/2gv8LZG by Lucielhive A series of small scenes of Sarcean's life. From his childhood to his rise and fall. ‘Even in the darkest night, there is a star,’ ‘And in the loneliest night, this star will stay by your side,’ Words: 1263, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English Fandoms: Dark Rise Series - C. S. Pacat Rating: Explicit Warnings: Major Character Death Categories: M/M, Multi Characters: Sarcean (Dark Rise Series), Anharion (Dark Rise Series), Visander, The Lady, Rassalon Relationships: Anharion/Sarcean (Dark Rise Series), Sarcean/Visander, Sarcean/The Lady Additional Tags: Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Not Beta Read, Sarcean had exlovers, canon compliant (sort of), Past Lives, Visander is just a pup, we are here to suffer, smut in later chapters

[plantainsame]

Did you know that the great old ones the guardians? The celestial's toy maker they all come from the universe before this one Is where they were it equivalence to the time lords

One of these was called The red guardian.

Now in This universe he took on a new form and name probably due to boredom

the other you probably know him Gave rassalon The cheat codes" helped Patience have thirteen children, Probably went by the timeless Child In their youth

And you might also Be aware Of the fact that the other would jump into a loom and be reborn as A child known as thata sigma of the house of lungbearow Hopefully I don't need to tell you that kid growz up to be

But basically my point here is that the red guardian is literally from the same place as all the great old ones Is literally the same species as them

So the Is the actual incarnation who was dr nyaelathotep

And eventually the doctor will become The red Guardian again I wonder which of his future incarnations we've seen could be a celestel Creature

Let's go ask that nice old man who runs the art Gallery and regularly mysteriously changes his appearance seemingly without regeneration

[ingdamnit]

Basically the population of Gallifry is Rassalon, Romana, like maybe 2000 other folk who mostly work in government and 4 billion versions of The Timeless Child/ The Doctor

My stupid Doctor Who fan theory is yes the Doctor is the Timeless child but he ain't special because most time lords are... the doubling regeneration we saw for 14 is just a normal way for them to reproduce, so most time lords split off of parents that all track back to timeless.

The Doctor and Master are siblings bc they both split from the same parent, either at same time in a rare trippling event or at different regenerations

[clotpolesonly]

CHAPTER 9

- Will’s ptsd tho, his panic at being bound and knowing he can’t run or fight or protect himself, exposed and trapped and vulnerable 😭

- i cannot stop myself from picturing the Hall as Pierrefonds cuz i’m still Merthur trash at heart

- Valdithar refusing to leave until Will calms him down and reassures him that it’s okay makes me very 🥺

- Cyprian honestly pulls the “my father will hear about this” card alkdfgjh

- “that is the way of the Dark, is it not? they work their way in, taking the guise of a friend.”   i have so many questions about this now that i know about James. James, his son, who he found out was the Betrayer Reborn. is this what he’s referring to? does he feel like the darkness planted James there, had him born him into the Hall deliberately, as a form of infiltration? that his son was a trick? or was there someone else, an actual friend whom they found out was working against them?

- Eleanor really had to have undertaken this whole child-swap plan completely on her own, for not even the Elder Steward or High Janissary to know about it. nobody on either side of the conflict knew what she had done or who Will, Katherine, and Elizabeth really were. she truly kept her secrets too well.

- any of the little snippets of flashback dialogue, Will remembering his mother’s death, is paaaaaiiiiinful now with clearer hindsight understanding.

- “whatever he is, he is just a boy.”   this is the heart of it, isn’t it? for him and for James both, though i wonder what she said of James when she knew, before he was turned out. whatever Will was in a past life, whatever power he contains, in this life he is only a boy. he hasn’t become yet what he’s going to become, and there are still forks in the road and choices to be made. his future isn’t set in stone. the kindnesses shown to him now will be remembered. aren’t they always?

- his dream of the black flame consuming him. foreshadowing, obviously, of what’s to come in this timeline, but i wonder about the past too. if Sarcean made all his choices in sound mind, or if he too was overcome with some kind of external force, or if he had once been a good man who was then consumed and corrupted by the lure of power.

CHAPTER 10

- “‘i don’t usually wear skirts.’ ‘me neither.’” 😂

- lemme tell you how much i want to live in the Hall, like PLS sign me up!!!

- (the vows of celibacy the Stewards take is prime fodder for UST and pining fics, i’m just saying, start writing now).

- i wonder if the four symbols on the thrones in the Hall are going to be relevant later on in the series. the lost fourth king undoubtedly will, right? “his line lost to time.” a new character, maybe, who descends from the fourth king, or finding out that one of the established characters is of that line and didn’t know.

- they make a distinction between people of the old world and Humans™. does that mean that the Stewards/janissaries are not technically human? they don’t seem any different, beyond being prettier and more noble in their bearing lol. i wonder if there are any actual differences.

- they say that Rassalon fought for the Dark King. but Justice also says that much of the knowledge of the old world is lost. were they wrong? the shield was broken here, yes, but it was also wielded by Violet to fight against the shadows. mightn’t it have been used by Rassalon the same way, and the knowledge has simply been forgotten?

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CHAPTER 11

- i wonder if Elizabeth felt the same aversion to the chamber with the dead tree stone, or if it’s just Will. is it an aversion to the wrongness of the ossified tree, or is it an aversion to the tree itself and the light it represents?

- “he didn’t want to remember.”   not the immediate past, when his mother tried to kill him, and definitely not the distant past. he’s looking for light inside him and he doesn’t find it, but he doesn’t like what he knows on some level he will find instead.

- i believed so deeply that this was gonna be that typical arc where he can’t reach his true power until he grows as a person and learns some lesson and suddenly the power breaks through at just the right moment to save them all. that’s the story that always gets told. i was wholeheartedly on board that train, like a FOOL.

- did James kill his mother??? or was his mother killed because of him somehow??? also what happened to Cyprian and Marcus’s father?? i need answers, or else i’m gonna start filling in the blanks myself in fic that will inevitably be jossed, i just gotta knOW

- god HERE, on page 130 out of 451, is where Will understands who he is. ALREADY. he just doesn’t want to accept it. he’s so strongly in denial that it takes another 321 pages for him to acknowledge it enough for us as the readers to be told. his mother was meant to kill the Dark King, and the last thing she did was try to kill him. those pieces aren’t hard to put together, but they sure as fuck hurt. goddamn it.

- “he had known that his mother had been -- Afraid. He had just never known what it was she had been afraid of.”   HIM. HIMMMMMM. *pterodactyl shrieking*

- the message on the medallion wasn’t meant as an explanation to her descendants, telling them of their duty. it was a threat and a promise to the one they would fight, telling him that they would come for him.

- i think they all really expected the Dark King to be resurrected, rather than reincarnated. they’ve been thinking of him as someone who will be released upon them, fully formed and ready to destroy them all. instead of thinking of him as someone who will be born and grow like James did. it doesn’t seem to occur to them that the Dark King could ever simply be...a child.

- it’s just now occurring to me that that mark, the S, is Will’s mark. will he gain the ability to see through the eyes of Simon’s men? control them? influence them? they’ve pledged themselves to him and they don’t even know it.

- Will pledges, here and now, to fight against his destiny!!! he’ll stop it, if he can, and prove to his mother that she was wrong to condemn him!!! even as he denies what he knows, he resolves to defy it!!! he wants to be and do good!!! “what do i have to do?” he asks!!! he can’t make himself not Sarcean’s reincarnation, but he can try to fight the rising tide, he can fight Simon, he can delay the inevitable if not stop it!!!

- “one who will seek to turn your mind to darkness, to sway you to his cause.”   and isn’t this still the case? the only difference is that the influence comes from inside, rather than out. and Will already knows it.

[vintagevixyxol]

An alphabet of old language in the “Dark rise” by C.S.Pacat

Or something like this…

Disclaimer: I am new in this fandom, so I will be really sorry if the same work already exists. I did not want to duplicate someone`s work. Also, please, correct me if I miss something or make mistakes!

And remember: it`s just a theory.

"There is no sense in strange inscriptions", I thought, when I saw it in books for the first time. However, last evening I decided to compare translations with pictures in the book and found out that this language was not as hard for reading as I considered. I`d like to share my ideas about this topic and, if it would be interesting, to discuss some moments, which I can`t explain right now.

Some rules:

The main axiom is that one letter in English is one letter in this language.

“Tails” of vowels are pointing upward in every case.

“Tails” of consonants are pointing downward in most situations. (not always)

All letters add up in a line. (Part of the ship, part of the crew).

A dash line helps with selecting letters and words, but not always.

Full analysis will be only about the first example.

The key: “Rassalon the First Lion”. (Chapter 10)

This phrase is the best start for a work, because there are a plenty of repeating letters in words. Аll what I need is to find similar elements and to highlight them different colors.

Step 1 — selecting similar letters

"Rassalon..." and other words

We have double S in “RaSSalon”, so it is easy to notice similar details in the beginning. S also in the “FirSt”.

Double S are between two A, so they might stand in the edges.

R is left alone in the beginning, but it will be in “FiRst”.

L — "Lion"

O—"LiOn"

N — “LioN”

"...the First Lion"

T — in “The” and “FirsT”

i — in “First” and “Lion”

!(why “i” is small I will explain later)!

Step 2 — non-repeating letters

New letters: H, e (!!) and F.

An analysis of other phrases

“He is coming” (Chapter 11)

New letters: C, M and G.

And "e", but I will tell about it later.

“I cannot return when I am called to fight So I will have a child” (Chapter 2)

New letters: U, W, D, V and I(!)

I and i are different. Why? In my opinion, it might be because “I” is a pronoun in this case.

“Enter only those who can” (Chapter 15)

New letters: Y, E, e.

E and e are different. Perhaps, it is because “E” in the beginning?

“The horn all seek and never find” (Chapter 15)

New letter: K.

The conclusion

the illustration of the alphabet

I`m very grateful to my sister, who painted all illustrations for my article.

The investigation amused me a lot even if the alphabet is incomplete. Information isn`t enough at this moment, so I hope the second part of book will give new letters and new rules of old language. This is the new reason why I am exited of waiting for the “Dark heir”. I hope, dear reader, you share my delight of this discover.

For enthusiasts I`ll leave examples, which I created myself, below.

For others — thanks a lot for your attention!

My examples for translations :)

The first example for practice

The second example for practice

The third example for practice

One hilarious fact, before I end

English is not my native language, so I read “Dark rise” in the first time in my language. And I have two different paper editions 2021 and 2022 years.

I decided to compare pictures in books and…

There are SAME ILLUSTRATIONS every time, when there must be inscriptions in old language. If there is a short phrase, they cut THIS ILLUSTRATION and left only the begining of it. In other words, it is one illustration throughout two books.

I could understand if they did it only in the edition by 2021 year, but they did not! As well it doesn`t fit in my theory, because most of letters are different than previous ones.

Now I have some questions for other fans:

Was this illustration in the first edition?

Do you meet it in other translations? (or is it the joke of my translation?)

What is the key, if somebody know?

I tried to translate it as I did it before, but it was the mess. Therefore, I am open to new ideas.

(it is a scan from my paper book)

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