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chaos-has-theories · 2 years ago

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Who takes jenna to ancient egypt????? Am I missing critical parts of fyre what

OKAY SO upon going back through the relevant passages of Fyre I realize that I somehow only remembered the conclusions I jumped to halfway through the chapter and not the actual reveal. Whoops. (In my defense, it's been close to a decade, and it was one of the first books I fully read in English. The details kind of bled together.)

So... Queens are from Venice, huh? AND the Alchemists? Funky.

Anyway for some reason I always assumed that the Queens and Hotep-Ra came from the same place, and Hotep-Ra is, hm, pretty heavily Egypt-coded. But fair enough: that explains their fashion choices, and those striped mooring posts outside of the palace.

So to edit that list:

Ancient Egypt (though possibly only some 700 EOWs ago)

14th (?) century Venice (though who knows what's going on there, why are the Queens no longer ghosts again?)

#i apologize for spreading misinformation #though I am amused that I forgot about those details. considering venice was my secondary obsession after Egypt #i think I got so excited at the mention of a barque and heat that I made up a whole thing in my head and then skimmed over everything else #but sooo.... Jenna's crossdressing era huh?#do we think she and 'Julia' ever kissed. because i do #but this is super interesting because it implies that the Alchemists were actually a royal tradition.#there's a reason why Marcellus picked it up it's like sending a younger child to join a monastery #more importantly there's a reason why the alchemists get to wear red and gold (and black)!#(this is important to me personally)#septimus heap #asks

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