#rootcraft

[ackerbabezzz]

Would somebody be kind enough to explain to me the rankings of The Order from the Legendborn cycle I thought I was getting the hang of it but I’m back to square one 😭

[wizardteampod]

Do think Bree meet new rootcrafters and new cambions

Absolutely! A major part of this story is about Bree connecting with her ancestors and her community, and so I think it would only make sense for her to meet and ally with other Rootcrafters—especially considering her deal with them to defeat the Hunter in exchange for protection. It's pretty clear that other than her friends, Bree's primary concern is the Rootcraft community and protecting them from the Order and the Shadowborn. I'm really excited to see how they'll come into play, and how the ones we've already met will be expanded.

As for cambions, I think it only makes sense both because there are so many Merlins and with the Morgaines (finally) showing up...

[justbrainrot]

A thing I just noticed— gold seems to be the color of rootcraft, yeah?

The root flowing under the unsung founder’s memorial

Mary’s healing root in the bloodwalk

Faye’s root that wraps her bracelet & unlocks Bree’s fairground memory*

Valec’s root he forms into a weapon in the woods

All of those are described as gold/yellow.

But— since Bree’s branch of rootcraft is Mediumship, she doesn’t manipulate root (of any color) while channeling her people. If she’s manipulating aether at all she’s calling the blue/silver Arthur-aligned stuff or her body is generating the red bloodcrafted SK-aligned flames.

I feel like… there’s potential here. That’s all. 👀

*silver mage flame is also in the room when Bree opens up the velvet jewelry box but that’s for sure from Natasia since Faye was never Called by Arthur

[pinkwhite]

i hope in lb3 we get to see more of the black community at the university

[afrootcollective]

Ugandan Bark Cloth

Uganda is home to one of the largest populations of elephants in Africa. One of the primary sources of income for these majestic creatures is tourism, and Uganda’s beautiful landscapes are a draw for tourists looking to see these animals in the wild. In Uganda, these elephants have been domesticated by locals for generations, and many communities across the country rely on them as a source of income.

One method that locals use to earn money from their domesticated elephants is through the production and sale of Ugandan bark cloth. This fabric is made from rough fibers from the bark of trees such as muhanga trees or mahogany trees. The fibers are collected by local weavers, who then process them into a fabric that can be used in clothing or other products.

The production and sale of Ugandan bark cloth has helped many families in Uganda earn their livelihoods through this method. It has also provided a valuable source of income for people who keep domesticated elephants as part of their daily lives. Overall, this fabric provides an important economic outlet for people living in rural areas and contributes to the livelihoods of those involved in its production and sale.

[breematthewsmybeloved]

i failed to post about the oathbound cover when it dropped so i understand if you all shoot me BUTTT

thoughts

The gradual increase of purple as she becomes more comfortable mixing and matching her rootcraft with the arthurian magic EATS

Bree's not wearing the pendragon sigil??

not mixing in the red??? please be a sign that we're getting more insight into her rootcraft and Vera's line??

I feel like her eyes are actually glowing purple instead of reflecting the light?? thoughts?

[justbrainrot]

Okay well first of all this can’t be hiding in notes lol:

AHHH HEMMM! @thoughtfulbearpanda 😘

My first thought was that flowers + flame colors = Faye’s wildcrafting but that’s not new new. Like, we’ve heard about it but not seen it. So it must be something else?

Morgaine magic makes sense too but we’ve also seen a bit of their construct casting, so that’s not new new either.

So far we have humans who cast/manipulate aether/root & demons who need aether/root to survive on this plane. We haven’t seen any Fae/Fairy anything so who knows if that’s part of her magical worldbuilding in TLC but that’s my guess! There are a few people who I think could be connecting to fairies: Isaac (slight points to his ears are mentioned but never discussed again!) & Larkin (his tattoos are flower-like & his Da sounds both nicer & by his own statements more connected to “the old ways” than other Merlins we’ve seen.) Also we haven’t met Anna (Nick’s mom) yet! She could definitely be fae but that theory comes more from the source material than from the books themselves.

Can’t wait to hear others’ theories!

Ah Legendborn people we have some crumbs from Tracy’s latest story on instagram!

What do you think is about?? My guess is it might be the Morgaines? Or something totally different!!

tagging some people to discuss it with// @justbrainrot @thoughtfulbearpanda @thepsychicaliennextdoor

[worth-this-and-more]

Can have new theories about sel

[spoilers for legendborn and bloodmarked, read at your own caution ;)]

*clears throat* *sips coffee and daintily puts the cup down* let's get down to business

im already doing a bit of research on other asks that I've gotten, but here are some theories i already have

this one is broadly a merlin theory but i am pretty sure the tattoos are connected to merlin's descent into demonia where the tattoos monitor how powerful the merlins are becoming and then slowly but gradually imbalance their control over their demonia making them "succumb to their blood". my theory is that as rootcraft is majorly used in healing and protection, and we already saw the effects of removing alice's mesmer gave her immunity from any future mesmers, so it is possible that this is how merlin's oaths will be cut off too, safely. faye probably used her powers to vanish natasia's oaths, which could explain why she was able to stop her descent and maybe after faye's death she is on the run and is not in contact with any rootcrafters so which is why she wasn't sure that she could help sel?? either way, rootcrafting is a major part for merlin's "succumbing to the blood" thingy

the "as a string of mysterious kidnappings escalates and Merlins are found dead" thing. it is never specified that merlins are kidnapped and killed. what's to say who's kidnapped, merlin's might be just killed and the one's they are guarding are kidnapped. so here i present to you my theory, natasia and sel, the mother son duo is on a rampage, a rather non-silent one, to find out where the fuck is bree and ofc selwyn knows that erebus is behind this. what better way to find out where is erebus than to just get the details from the other seneschals or regents or whatever tf they are called I'm not gonna bother to search up the names these don't deserve that much time and effort from me. and merlins are protecting them, so kidnap the peoples and kill off merlins. who knows the kidnappings could also be of legendborn because they are "hostages trapped with the mother-son duo" but we all know they're allies after all. this will be an excuse to get out of radar from the order because by the looks of it this whole thing is gonna end one way or the other. this will be the final camlann anyways.

and also while we're on the topic, selwyn and bree would be revealed to have met as children which will take us back in a flashback to that scene at davis's house where sel "several questions ash across his face before he decides on one" asks bree to explain why did she yell out when he touched her and do you feel something when i look at you?? and he remembers fleeting a forgotten memory of a girl with the same pretty hair and bold eyes that told him your eyes feel prickly, like sparks, but like good sparks and i just know this will happen in canon whether we get it in the books or not. i might write a fanfic about this lmaoo.

this went longer than expected but yeah there you go!! I'm yet to post a few more specific theories i just need to read the arthuriana

[massiveladycat]

i have a.. lot of problems with bloodmarked to be honest. im not going to be talking about the romance portion of the book because honestly i don't even care for it anymore 1. why is bree yelling at vera on the plantation where she was raped?? why is bree this close to cussing out her ancestor who sacrificed too much because she was carrying her baby and the magical KKK was after her?? it's funny because after she literally denounces her entire ancestry bree makes a deal with the same being. the exact same being wtf honestly dude. 2. why is bree the only black character we have gotten to KNOW-KNOW, other than valechaz, who is not only a demon but also honestly is a pedophile (why is he hitting on a 16 year old girl)?? why don't we have more black characters that she's friends with and join her on the journey and are constants in the story?? 3. tying in with point 1, i don't understand if this is supposed to be a book about celebrating your ancestry and finding your roots when bree is literally out here screaming at all of her ancestors because shit was way out of their control and they were trying to make the most out of it?? if bree finds out that all of her ancestors go through the same things she does mostly (rootcraft and losing their mothers at young ages), why does she not communicate with them in healthy ways? they quite literally spent generations trying to clear the path for her. 4. bree doesnt feel like herself anymore. at first, she was great! amazing. her stubbornness got her to where she had to be. she made mostly good decisions. here,, her stubbornness got people and herself in danger. i still love bree, jsut pointing that out. SMALL EDIT: this isn't meant in an hostile way at all. i love tracy deonn's form of writing, i like nick, i like sel, i like bree. but i need to call this out because there's very few attention paid to genuinely good criticism on bloodmarked (in which, check goodreads for such or even youtube), and some things in this book irritate me, and people acting like any criticism on bloodmarked/legendborn is invalid or RACIST pisses me off even more. you can love this book, and im very happy that you found joy in it!! but dont call people racist for not liking legendborn lmfao you look goofy if you do that.

[spacebuns24]

✨Star signs✨in Legendborn

Okay so Bree is a Scorpio, and the main story of the sign is about Orion or ‘The Hunter’ boast about how he could kill every animal on the earth, so Artemis and her mother Leto send a scorpion to kill him and Zeus sends both Orion and the Scorpion to the sky.

I feel like there’s some obvious connections at first glance with the scorpion symbolizing Bree and Orion symbolizing the Shadow King but the other characters are a bit harder to figure out. For example, all the animals on earth could represent Rootcrafters, just humans in general or maybe even Merlin’s. Artemis feels a bit like Faye as she is the goddess of nature, the wilderness, etc. and Faye could grow plants so it just feels like, as well as the whole creating the scorpion thing. Leto could be Vera and/or all of Bree’s ancestors.

So that just leaves Zeus which I have no clue who he could represent. But in general this kind of just reinforces what we all ready know about Bree being the tip of the sword and all that jazz.

This does kinda confirm that the Shadow King will most likely be the main villain of the story and that he is or will be a bit scared of Bree in the long run ( in the myth Orion runs every time he sees the scorpion thus him hunting in the winter and fleeing in the summer ) which is funny to think about.

All in all I think this is Tracy’s way of saying that all the characters star signs do align with their story’s and the plot. Which leaves a lot of fun things to think about when you look into Sels star sign, and also gets me excited about Nicks since we don’t know his yet .

[wizardteampod]

It's #WizardTeam Wednesday and Bree finally embraces her ancestors, learns from her mother, and learns her Rootcraft ability!

Listen now wherever you get your podcasts.

[crissaeatscake]

What’s your favorite thing about Legendborn and Bloodmarked!

(idk why it won’t let me send from my side blog but this is megnificent-reads :))

hey my natasia loving soul sister

my favourite thing is prolly the magic system. it's soooo interesting and we still don't know sm about it. especially merlins. those demons kids fascinate me I'm no better than William. and rootcraft has sm potential, the memory walks are one of my fav aspects. plus there's an infinite world of magic that is implied to exist that the characters yet don't know about. the lines, the morgaines, the lore, EVERYTHING IS SO JUICY

[incorrect-legendborn-quotes]

Patricia: Please note: The Rootcrafter comunity does not condone violence. Patricia: Or at least not murder. Patricia: And usualy not violnece. Mariah: The Rootcrafter comunity condones sending a message.

[enjoyerofstories]

What I hope we get from book 3 of Legendborn:

More Nick and Breenick content: From the main cast of characters Nick is the one we know the least about so I really hope that there is going to be some insight into his character. Also, Bree and Nick had so little scenes in Bloodmarked😭

I really liked the balcony chapter when Sel and Nick talked in Welsh to each other, so I hope we get more scenes with them talking in Welsh. Tbh I just want more moments in which two or more characters hold conversations in Welsh. (I'm a language freak and currently obssesed with Welsh, so yeah)

More Lark and him and William becoming boyfriends: Lark is an absolute sweetheart and he seems to be quite underappreciated by the fandom.

Nick and Alice friendship: I think they would get along really well. If there are actually going to be Nick pov chapters, I hope him, Alice, Lark and Will become a friend group (similar to what we got in Bloodmaked with Bree, Alice, Will and Sel).

I hope we (and also Bree) actually get to know the other scions and that Bree reunites the Round Table. Also, I want to know what the scion of Kay's abilities are.

What actually happened in Arthur's and the knights' time.

More information about Rootcraft.

And, of course, more information about the Morgaines. Also, I remember I've seen an interesting theory about Nick and the Morgaines and if it turns out to be true... well that would be really cool.

[justbrainrot]

TLC Headcanon regarding Bree’s nearest ancestors in Vera’s line:

(AKA a theory I’ve had kicking around for awhile but have been fleshing out lately as I continue to work on SWMF.)

We’ve heard from Patricia that there are rootcraft Prophets & since we know Ms. Tracy never just puts details in for no reason at all, I think we’ve “met” one already in the books— Bree’s grandmother Leanne Charles.

I’ll explain: Leanne’s mother Jessie was the one who moved around a lot. In bloodwalks Bree sees her encounter the Hunter in Lafayette, LA, New York, & then somehow her daughter ends up in Texas (I think it’s most probable that Jessie moved them there to try to outrun the Hunter, but there’s no textual evidence of this.)

We know that Leanne was a hairstylist, died of cancer when Faye was 18, & had a different last name than her daughter’s birth surname. So from these facts I have inferred:

1. Like Bree, her rootcraft power of foresight was tied to the bloodcraft because her life’s work within the line of Vera was to get her daughter to UNC. She didn’t need to ask the ancestors to gain knowledge about someone’s future; it just came to her, usually while she had her hands in someone’s hair at work. She basically lived with her body partially in the ancestral streams, which is likely why she is the “signpost” ancestor who Bree encounters first when she taps into her Mediumship in LB.

2. She didn’t tell Faye she was sick because she knew how important it was for her daughter to go to & stay at UNC. She also didn’t seek treatment for her cancer because she knew that Faye would need access to the red root to fight with at some point very soon, & she didn’t want to be the reason her own daughter couldn’t protect herself against the Shadowborn. 😭

3. Faye’s father either died when she was young or Leanne never married him. She married her husband (Mr. Charles) when Faye was ten or so. Faye liked him okay, but he was kind of absent even when they lived in the same house & he faded into the distance after her mom’s death. Her mom really was her only support system in Texas despite Leanne having lots of friends from church & the salon. Many of these people reach out to Faye and try to be there for her after her mom’s death but she doesn’t accept help as her trauma response.

(I’m sorry that these hc are sad but I’m not sure how they could not be lol.)

Anyway let me know what you think or if you have a different idea about who Leanne was in life!

[medium-bloodcrafter-scion]

The Legendborn Cycle Theory Time!

So Tracy Deonn finally dropped us a delectable little breadcrumb for LB3 (6/6/23) via an Instagram post and I am now going to proceed to overanalyse the shit out of it because I cannot help myself.

So Ms Deonn is introducing a new magic system (exciting!) and she posted flowers 🌷🌷🌷🌷- fiery-looking tulips in the foreground. She also mentioned that the scene where Bree is introduced to this new system will involve some kind of emotional payoff. So, my theories:

Disclaimer: I just spitball when I make my theories, they are like 50% thinking and 50% intuition. In other words, I may or may not have a logical reason behind them, I'm just here to have fun.

1. Initially I thought it could be Morgaine magic, but Morgaines also use aether, just a different style of it, and I can't see the emotional ties there. May have to think more about it.

2. Fae magic was my second/related thought, but I cannot see the emotional link at this point. Also Fae haven't been (officially?) introduced in this series, though they are present in Arthuriana so it would make sense to have them.

3. Given how Sel mockingly suggests Bree's mom used magic to 'grow prettier flowers,' back in LB, I'm wondering whether this is a magic system that Faye created with Natasia (Sel's mommy). We've seen them blend magic together already for Bree's sake, so maybe out of love for their children and the realisation that they would be separated from them, they ended up devising something entirely new. Maybe the new magic is how Natasia was healed of demonia? We're definitely getting a Natasia story, where we'll probably learn more about Bree's mom via Nat's pov as she explains to Bree. Bree meeting her, learning more about Faye's secret life as a Rootcrafter/Bloodcrafter who befriended a Merlin will definitely be quite touching.

4. Back to a semi-theory /idea I made in a comment on someone's post... Could be possible we see the Shadowking follow through on his promise and drain Bree of his power, almost killing her in the process. Maybe more HC than theory, I can imagine Bree reconciling with Vera and all her mothers in the ancestral plane as she almost dies, and in the process learning from them that there is magic that is borne out of love, and not pain or bloodshed the way bloodcraft is. This 'higher' magic wouldn't come at the cost bargaining your life away or from theft.

Imagines the ancestral plane transformed into a field of tulips, Bree and her mothers all clothed in pretty white dresses... At very least I may turn this into a fic because 😭

5. Linking back to the previous point, tulips represent forgiveness and pure love, suggesting those elements could be at play in this new magic system. It hearkens back to Bree's ancestor - Jesse I think - who drew on her power by thinking about the love she had for her mom (? Can't remember specifics). Maybe she had the right idea, but wrong magic (bloodcrafted root).

6. There was an article where some of Tracy's favourite books were listed, and it was fun to refer to that list to find out where she may draw some of her inspiration. Of note was the Dark is Rising (DiR) sequence, a series of children's stories that is fantasy based in Arthurian legend. I skimmed through the Wiki for that series and noted lots of themes and ideas overlapping with Legendborn. Notably, the magic system of DiR features three types of magic - Old Magic, Wild Magic, and High Magic. Old Magic is elemental and reminds me of Aether as used by the Order in LBC (Sel explains how magic is physics and aether is an element), Wild Magic is drawn from nature and would be similar to Rootcraft in LBC, and then the third type in DiR is High Magic, - cosmic in origin, and more powerful than the other two. ALL THIS TO SAY I think the new system we'll be introduced to will be incredibly powerful, moreso than what we've seen, and possibly tied into higher principles like love, sacrificial love, forgiveness, truth, etc.

Anyways that's enough rambling for now. I'm actually most excited about seeing how Tracy uses the new system as part of Bree's healing journey. Honestly this series is just so impactful and I know that third book will make me cry (in a good way).