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Heya, bonjour, think of Bastille! This post will serve as the main plotting and Q&A hub for our recent event and test drive meme (TDM).

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Yes, Lily would regrettably be on the receiving end of a lot of sorcery accusations! Though if she is seen handling fire, she will sooner be accused of being a witch of the Bessis.

How many letter pieces is she looking to get? I will give you summaries of their translations.

Nope no fire, but probably a few transfigured cups of tea, and the like.

Let's say two!

Sure. The letters will show excerpts in two different writing. The first will be signed by Hatisse:

The first: Hatisse thanks the gods each and every day for her fortune, to have been assigned her court learnings among the noble Sukhl and learned their ways, and crossed her path with Arha.

The second: a paragraph extolling Hatisse's many virtues of beauty, and calls for her to keep safe, while the Attaryl and Bessis carry out their hostilities. It is known that the Attaryl have had to retreat from their sorcerer rivals and hide like rats in the citadel, will the conclave of Taravast not intercede? If they do not, the Sukhl will to stop this madness.

Mingyu has a few more excerpts, if you guys want to do some IC info sharing (maybe network-wise? helps other folks see them too). Enjoy!

Follow up question: would Lily and Wei Wuxian be able to locate Izahad's tomb inside the temple during their group excursion?

His tomb is definitely there, but it wouldn't be marked in an especially visual manner. The poor don't get sculptures. If Lily learns how to recognise the writing of Izahad's name from Mazyar or the boy himself, she will be able to find his sarcophagus, if she searches most of the plain tombs.

Alternatively, she can bring the ghost in to point it out.

But.

I like the foreboding sound of that but. Okay, if it's cool to say that during Izahad and Lily's conversations the language difference has come up I'd like to pursue that but. Lily's thinking is that if Izahad knows he's dead and wants to rest maybe that he's willing will make helping him somewhat easier, because she's young and dumb. Wei Wuxian is obviously the right candidate to pester about this.

So, you'd like to have Izahad come see his own tomb, once it's discovered?

Maybe just getting him to write his name down and trying to seek the tomb out would be the less drastic choice. If that's possible I think the low-impact option might be best, anything to note

Edited (hit enter) 2021-07-19 02:26 (UTC)

You may find (most of) his bones within the tomb. Sadly, some are missing, having been taken and weaponised or used as cores by harpies previously. You are welcome to any of his effects: scraps of uniforms, a ragged flute.

Right so, because she promised she would find a way to help him find peace - when Lily and Wei Wuxian find Izahad's tomb, what happens when Wei Wuxian cleanses his bones?

Sorry, just for my understanding, what do you mean by "cleanse his bones"? As in, water and lye?

I had to get clarification from Wei Wuxian's writer but he would cleanse the bones of any lingering energies and settle them properly.

Edited 2021-07-20 02:24 (UTC)

Ah! I understand. In that case, I'm afraid Wei Wuxian will be able to sense a great deal of anguish, betrayal and resigned ache drenching the bones, although this energy will not fight his ministrations.

As he works his cleansing, the spirit of Izahad will manifest, and he will look down upon his remains in silent, horrified wonder, before asking Lily and Wei Wuxian if these are indeed his bones. Their answer is largely inconsequential: it is plain Izahad knows, and that seeing the burned edges of his once-uniform unsettles him.

"We were for Taravast, to steal the Lord's lady from her Attaryl witch sisters, when them who was quarreling with the Bessis. And she was for opening the gates, so we'd slip in, with her two lily hands, she said she would, said she would. She called us to come, and so she'd put the gates right. But we came, and the gates were closed. And from them walls, Attaryl and Bessis witches together, raining down fire, raining down thick tar, raining down arrows and the great burn. Saw her on the wall, our Lady. Knew her even in the dark. Saw her and met'er eye, and it's long hurt, burning, but she watched me through it. And now I'm here, and I'm watching, and I can't look away either."

He will murmur that he had never imagined his first march with an army would also be his last. He will ask Lily and Wei Wuxian to take his rusty flute and torn drum with them, as they are meant to go with a convoy, and his march has ended.

And then, his bones cleansed, he will dissolve away.

Now, Lily, I don't suppose I need to tell you to consider sharing that with the class during some later part of the month :(

Consider it done! Thank you for this delicious plot nugget

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