#The Black Witch

[kelbunny]

Worry not, dear hero.

You'll be remembered forever.

[theboywiththepurplesocks]

Tierney Calix: "I want three boyfriends, and I want the boyfriends to be boyfriends, and I want the boyfriends to take me out on little boyfriend dates!"

[books-to-add-to-your-tbr]

Title: The Black Witch Chronicles

Author: Laurie Forest

Series or standalone: series

Publication year: 2017

Genres: fiction, fantasy, romance

Blurb: Elloren Gardner is the granddaughter of the last prophesied Black Witch, Carnissa Gardner, who drove back the enemy forces and saved the Gardnerian people during the Realm War...but while she is the absolute spitting image of her famous grandmother, Elloren is utterly devoid of power in a society that prizes magical ability above all else. When she is granted the opportunity to pursue her lifelong dream of becoming an apothecary, Elloren joins her brothers at the prestigious Verpax University to embrace a destiny of her own, free from the shadow of her grandmother’s legacy...but she soon realises that the university, which admits all manner of people - including the fire-wielding, winged Icarals, the sworn enemies of all Gardnerians - is a treacherous place for the granddaughter of the Black Witch. As evil looms on the horizon and the pressure to live up to her heritage builds, everything Elloren thought she knew will be challenged and torn away. Her best hope of survival may be among the most unlikely band of rebels...if only she can find the courage to trust those she’s been taught to fear.

[hellisntreal]

Black Witch Chronicles continues to have 8 million characters and I continue to draw All Of Them. As the sole fan of this bestselling book series... someone's gotta do it!

For real, I just love designing fantasy characters. Here's my cast for Demon Tide! (CONTAINS SPOILERS)

Diana, Jarod, and Bleddyn (I love the twins so much) (Bleddyn queen)

Fyon, Mora'lee, Ra'ven (Snake people... I love u)

Oilily, Effrey, Nym’ellia (War torn kids...)

Heelyn and Or’myr (Did you know the latter is canon faceclaim Cumberbatch...?)

Trystan (that makeover is very 2010s emo), Riv'yrel (is he, y'know...?) and Wrenfir (my goth uncle or guncle)

Thierran and Sparrow (I love this Sparrow look)

Tierney, Valasca, Ariel (unbury your gay, turn into a dragon)

Viger Maul and Vothe (much needed updated art)

Lukas, Elloren, Yvan (Elloren has TWO hands guys)

[wintersettled]

Lukas Grey isnt evil hes just high camp 🤞😄

[pepsiwriteswords]

"Don't worry, I got you." - Fictober 2023 Original Fic: The Black Witch Rating: T Warnings: non-graphic child abuse, thoughts of self-harm, panic attack

Something about this place makes her hands itch. Makes her want to take her gloves off and scratch, and pick, and peel her skin off. Something, anything, to justify the not-quite-pain in her palms and across the backs of her hands.

It takes Blair taking one of her hands and holding it between both of her own for Quinn to realize she's been tracing the shapes of her scars over her glove.

Across the back of her left hand, where it's the worst.

She makes herself laugh a little, wiggling the fingers of her captured hand and stretching and curling the fingers of her free one. "Sorry. I'm okay. Not sure what that was."

Blair's expression doesn't change, really. Her eyes maybe soften a bit, in concern, perhaps. She doesn't let go of Quinn's hand. "They thought we'd have the same kind of magic. That you were just slow." Her voice isn't strained, exactly, but it has a very distinct sort of 'holding back' tone to it. "This is where they tried to force you to make a spark, or flame, or a goddamn wildfire."

And suddenly, the hands holding hers are too much, the proximity is too much, eye contact is too--

She tears her hand free, holds it close to her chest protectively, gingerly, as--

Pain.

It's all she can think about. All she can feel.

Gasping, hunching her shoulders and shrinking away from the presence in front of her, even as something inside her shrieked that that was the wrong move wrong reaction don't let them see how much it hurts how scared you are--

A voice. Not quite soft, but not harsh, not angry. It takes ... a while ... for the sound of speech to register as words.

"Hey, hey. Quinn."

Shushing noises. She sees hands in front of her, not touching, not grabbing. Just ... present.

"With me now?"

She traces the hands with her eyes, keeps her own hands to herself, cradled in front of her. Follows the hands to wrists, to arms, to shoulders and torso. Finally manages to look up, meet blue eyes with her own.

Blair smiles, and this is soft, gentle. "Don't worry, I got you. They're never gonna touch you again."

[kelbunny]

Why do Blorbos? I've got ocs for that >:D

New Meme Alignment Chart came to me in a fit of Mania this morning. Have fun kids!

[mollybeenoel]

Source: poeticalphotos

[rt0no]

[120daysofsodomm]

[kelbunny]

Feeling stressed? Draw cheeb evil witch man hehe.

[theboywiththepurplesocks]

Can you please spoil the dryad storm for me? I loved the first two books, hated the rest of the them (they were so bad and made me very angry) but I am very curious how it ends. Do her and Yvan live HEA or does she unalive herself fighting the true icaral Vogal?

Oh boy, this was a doozy. Sorry this took me 2 weeks to finish. Laurie doesn't know how to tighten up her books and I was only listening while I was at work.

So yes, short answer, Ellorene does get her HEA with Yvan and Vogal is the Icaral of the prophecy.

Long answer (!!!SPOILERS AHEAD!!!!), a good 45 percent of the book is spent on Teireney's love triangle which resolves itself by having two of her potential mates just straight up vanish from the story with little to no explanation.

When the final conflict does take place, Ellorene one shots Falen Bane and Luka's ghost appears to Ellorene to tell her that the power she needs to defeat Vogal is inside of her, to which the answer to what that means turns out to be her and Yvan's unborn child which they had conceived literally that very same day.

They take down Vogal in mid-tier battle and then spend the last 25 percent of the book trying to restore the natural world that has been desiccated by Vogal while they all sat around in the Forest for a month.

The last chapter is spent running through the entire life experiences of the next generation through the POV a wholey new character, in an effort to show that real progress has taken place. Hinting that Tiereny's daughter whom she has with Ellorene's cousin, Oremiere, is the next Black Witch because she has Ellorene's and her Grandmother's face.

Ellorene and Yvan move to a forest where the trees grow by exposure to heat, which they have magically bonded to as Feykin, and raise their daughter. Ellorene becomes an apothecary and Yvan a physician. Oh and they adopt a little Icaral boy and name him Lukas.

Sorry for the misspelled names. I do audiobooks only so I only have guesses as to the spelling.

[daily-spooky]

I think I wasn't supposed to see this

[celesse]

Back to school 🐈‍⬛📚✨

[2000s-angell]

Cc: to the owner

[floriumm]

My current read! The Black Witch by Laurie Forest .

It has held my attention all the way through and I can’t wait to read the next one which is currently sitting in my mailbox (I need to go grab it).

It’s been sad seeing how mean everyone is towards each other in this book but interesting to watch the characters grow and learn. I’m curious to see if the romance part grows because in Wandfasting, the first prequel, it was the main focus. We’ll see I guess!

I will say I hope we see more of the magic system in the next book.