#tdp s6 poster

[beautifulterriblequeen]

TDP S6 poster!!!

let's see what we've got in this one! omgomgomg

this won't make a lot of sense, I'm just gushing

First impressions: there is a LOT of magic going on in this poster, and most of it seems to be Moon magic, which Aaravos is casting from his cool book.

There are moon moths everywhere!

Ethari's lotuses are everywhere too!

Some of them are breaking. Some of them have vivid colors coming from them. They could be from the differently colored crystals they all have.

There are also a large number of spirits in the picture!

There's also a red colored spirit, uh oh:

Is this one looking at the white one, do they see each other?

Aaravos has a full moon behind him, and his cube has a blazing moon rune on it. I'm not sure how many other moon themes this poster can hold, are we missing any?

Of interest, there's a thematic similarity to the key art we got of Rayla jumping into the Moon Nexus, where the lower left was dark and creepy with lost spirit arms and the upper right was lighter with the arms of her family reaching for her. In this art, those corners are again the darkest and lightest:

And then there's the man himself. His eyes are glowing bright with magic, he's got his bling on. And it's hard to be certain since we can't see his chest well but it's likely that his star is lit, as it gets when he casts magic.

Okay let's take a quick peek at what is actually happening in this poster. Aaravos is casting magic from the book. It's pouring out of the cool crescent-moon portal thingy there and swirling around.

eta: it's actually connecting the rune cube to the book, but I'm not sure which way the connection is flowing. But he seems to have plugged the cube in, and it is called the Key of Aaravos. Is this book the thing of great power that gets unlocked in Xadia?

And behind him, across the top of the art, you can see something else: a weaving of thick white strands.

What is he actually doing? Is he weaving them, or unweaving them? Is he just releasing three elves from their coins? This looks way more powerful - and destructive - than that. Is he releasing all the spirits ever? Why are there so many spirits in this picture?? Where are they from? Are they also trapped? Were they crossed over? Is he breaking the whole duality of life and death?

Aaravos wouldn't bother casting a measly little spell just to free three elves from coins just because Callum asks him to, not when he could flex stylishly and get something he also wants out of the deal.

Remember when he helped Viren get past Lux Aurea? He didn't have to kill Khessa and poison the Sunforge to help Viren reach Zym. But his method got the caterpillar a burst of primal magic so it could start growing, it stopped the Sunfire forces from retaliating, it gave him some form of payback on Aditi's bloodline, and it stopped the Sunfire elves from being able to use the Sunforge on anyone else corrupted with dark magic. Plus it netted him Pharos and made Viren trust him even more. It was indeed elegant and efficient.

So he's probably doing something on that level again here. Sure, Callum may have given him an opening to help Rayla's family out. But Aaravos will stop when Aaravos decides to stop, and not before. If Callum makes a deal to free three souls that he can't get out of their coins on his own, then Aaravos can definitely work with that.

But he thinks bigger. If Callum wants three souls freed, that's easy enough. But why stop at three? It's so inefficient. Maybe he attacks the Moon Nexus next, and makes it volcano out all the souls it's ever held and looses them on the world in some kind of spirit plague. Job still done, deal met, requirements satisfied. And while the mortals scramble to deal with his mess, he just does whatever he has planned next. All the better that he did something so big that no one can step away from cleaning it up to try to stop him!

Anyway. Art gives me thoughts. Very excited about this poster and its moontastic implications for S6!

[gncbozo]

IT'S LEOLA !!!

IT WAS LEOLA'S STAR ALL ALONG

[imminent-danger-came]

this shit is cracking me up

[raylasgf]

so the new poster hahah you know what it looks like??? yeah you guys remember. in 109. when they were hatching zym in the eye of the storm,,,, and they look like they’re in the eye of the storm now as well,,,, and to hatch zym callum broke his primal stone,,, which just so happens to look exactly like the prison,,,, that he is holding in the poster,,,, anyway im scared

[a-very-sparkly-nerd]

[featherstorm2004]

hmmm the amount of Viren and star symbolic art is starting to look real sus now.

Viren star arcanum when?

(Viren is always the closest to the stars in official art)

[raayllum]

Sometimes helping others requires great feats of strength, Rayla. But you are right. Sometimes an act of caring is as simple as being there when it seems no one else is. Both are necessary.

Something I think about a lot is that when Rayla tries to do Moonshadow Form entirely Runaan's way, thinking about the people she loves and the reconciliation of life and death, it doesn't entirely work. Part of this may be because at this point in the story, she hasn't been able to really square with Runaan's viewpoint ("How can you forgive him for putting himself in so much danger? [...] I just don't get why you'd put yourself in so much danger when you have someone who means to much to you back at home?") because she hasn't seen the 'rewards' of it yet (saving Suroh and his family).

I think Runaan's stance here -- that you have to sacrifice to get something 'good' and worth it out of it -- is something Rayla has incorporated into her own worldview... just not as completely. As she says: "Who's to say you can't have both?" It makes me think of how when she also reflects on Ethari's advice, and her desire to protect people rather than her own loss, that's when she unlocks Moonshadow form.

While I could see the moon fam both potentially getting out in S6 and it being delayed to S7, I do think either way Rayla is going to confront and ultimately reject the worst of her parents' ideologies, and instead keep only the good. The woman they're going to meet upon getting out is going to be radically different than the young girl or driven teen they remember, and it makes me think back again to previous hopes about Rayla's development not being contingent of repairing things with her family, but that she grows to the point that she's able to guide them through the path she's just walked into a better world and healthier worldview.

[fujosh1dreamer]

Yeah the Ocean poster is fire, this might be my favorite. I don't know I'll have to make a list.

So pretty.

[kilfeur]

Nouveau poster pour la saison 6 et on peut voir que ça fait référence aux différents titres d'épisodes. Par exemple on voit la tour céleste devant Callum montrant qu'il va passer quelque chose d'important pour lui dans cette tour. Le bateau à côté d'Ezran qui est justement l'épisode qui sera pas mal centré sur le Rayllum. La perle d'Aaravos qui semble refléter quelque chose mais j'avoue que j'ai du mal à voir. Peut être Lux Aurea ou quelque chose d'autre ? Enfin tout en haut on voit l'étoile, perso ça ne fait que renforcer l'idée qu'ils vont se rendre dans le royaume des elfes des étoiles. Mais aussi la manière dont s'est présenté, on dirait un oeil. Comme pour dire que les elfes des étoiles les observent même si les humains ne les voient pas. Et vu que Cosmo a justement des yeux étranges, peut être que les elfes des étoiles se servent de ceux qui sont dans la tour pour observer et veiller sur la lame de nova et la couronne du paradis.

New poster for season 6 and we can see that it refers to the different episode titles. For example, the starscraper in front of Callum shows that something important is about to happen to him in this tower. The boat next to Ezran, which is the episode that will focus on the Rayllum. The Aaravos pearl, which seems to reflect something, but I admit I'm having trouble seeing it. Maybe Lux Aurea or something else? Finally, at the very top we see the star, which only reinforces the idea that they're going to the realm of the startouch elves. But also the way it's presented, it looks like an eye. As if to say that the star elves are watching them even if humans can't see them. And given Cosmo's strange eyes, maybe the startouch elves are using the ones in the tower to watch over the nova blade and the Corona of Heavens.

[ok12857]

WAIT WAIT

GUYS WHAT IF RAYLA GETS COLD NEAR THE STAR SCRAPER AND CALLUM SUMMONS HIS WINGS AND WE GET A RAYLLUM RAPPED UP IN CALLUMS WINGS

that would be fantastic

don’t mind the caps I’m tired my brain is making up random shit

[beautifulterriblequeen]

the star is falling

The Star in the back is like an eye, watching everything below. A master strategist moving his pieces across the board, whether they will or no.

It's also growing bigger and sinking further downward in each poster we've gotten so far. As if it's falling to Xadia all over again.

No one is silhouetted in the first poster. The Star is high over everyone's heads, and they have to crank their necks to see it. It's distant, not yet truly in connection with them, for good or ill. But they definitely notice it.

Viren faces the Star in the second poster and is partly silhouetted. Some of the light seems to be bypassing him and landing on Claudia, perhaps despite his efforts to the contrary. He definitely notices the Star, while Claudia doesn't.

Sol Regem is also looking away from the Star, and he's mostly in silhouette from its vast glow, facing an army bearing his banner. The vibes here tell me that this is a bigger threat than Claudia. A Xadian army, armed with magic and fueled by a bitter dragon's rage against humans?

(How interesting, then, that this level of martial force is exactly what Viren claimed was happening, when it was not - and now that Karim has actually gathered an army, Viren's in a completely different mindset.)

I wonder if we'll get a fourth poster, with the Star crashing down.

[liridusart]

No more. Never again.

ID: Claudia from The Dragon Prince, emerging from the water, turning back to look in the direction of the viewer. Her face is blank with tears running down her face, her eyes glowing; her hair is wet and loose, clinging to her face. Traces of blood are seen in the water. END ID

[amber-in-the-rough]

I keep thinking about the s6 poem and this line:

<Eight in a line, o chosen mine>

What if those eight have something to do with the opening? If you count the falling stars here, you'll see there are exactly 8 of them. Well, technically, nine -- if we also count the one that falls into the letter O.

I initially thought that I can match these stars with some key characters. I remembered there was a s4 poster with Aaravos in the center and other characters in shards of a mirror around him ("Fractures").

The same characters also have each their own separate s4 poster (plus Karim). The poster above features 10 characters (11 with Aaravos). Technically, we could cross off Viren- if he's dead. And we could also take Janai and Amaya as one character -- though I admit it, it is a big stretch. But this would leave us with the desired number eight (let's pretend I didn't mention Karim). I dont't have much to support this theory with. Well, that star next to the letter S is somewhat like Claudia in that it's getting too close to Aaravos and falls deeper down than the others.

<Ready for a war Endlessly burning-- Hopelessly yearning--! That love will triumph once more!>

We don't know if the love mentioned here is related to Rayllum, Clauderry, Jamaya or Aaravos and his loved one. Depends on who is the Chosen one. But the war part- we know for sure that there will be a war in s6 -- a civil war between the Sunfire elves. Such a thing has not happened in their empire ever since the War of Blood and Ash and here it comes again.

******* Number eight is very hard to come by in the series. We have plenty of six's: the six primal sources, the six nexuses (erm... is this the plural?..) the six assassins in a team, the six horns, the six star-shaped freckles on Aaravos's face... The only eight-things combo I can think of is the six primal sources + dark magic + deep magic. That would be cool :) ******* Where am I going with all this? Idk. Just thought that the number of stars in the opening and in the poem was probably more than a coincidence. After all, they didn't have to make it eight. On the other hand, they probably didn't think the fans are as crazy as to be willing to count stars.

[a-very-sparkly-nerd]

YO?!?!

[beautifulterriblequeen]

is this a giant squid creature attacking a tall ship, or are Shelley and Sea Legs only one sort of self-locomotor ships? 👀

The next poster is here!

[no-cinnamon-for-synonym]

S6 E8 Title Puzzle: Wilting Flower Meta Post

This wilting flower + the ring around the rosy song is puzzle we got for the 6.08 title. Now, it's late, so this might not be very coherent.

TDP Official once used a wilting flower in a tweet

This was in response to when we received the assassins' names.

We see wilting flowers in the recent poster

Supposedly, this is happening at the Moon Nexus, and supposedly Aaravos is there. We also see spirits in the background.

I'm curious if the worlds between life and death are colliding? And the Moon Nexus is probably being destroyed ("ashes, ashes, we all fall down"). So perhaps the lotus flowers are wilting... because the barrier between life and death is gone, they are now one and the same, therefore the flowers wilting is basically an "Error! Cannot compute!" message.

So perhaps that's how Aaravos is broken free? If there are no barriers between the different dimensions, then he is free.

....... Callum, Claudia, what have you done?