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Cassian: hey Az- why are you naked?

Az: ....... Actually I have no clothes.

Cassian (going through Az's closet): here you have pants, jacket, shirts, hi Elain, socks-

Cassian: wait a damn minute!

Az (sweating): Yeah.....

Cassian: where are the silk red briefs that I gifted you?!

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Cassian: ...... Guys I think Elain and Az love each other

Amren: congratulations, you're officially the last to know

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Elriel (sketch)

Art: dudledudlesss

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Happy Valentine’s Day! 🌹🌸💕

🎨 Art by: @_loris_art

✨ commissioned by: @jasmineandshadows @thecw-unicorn @leiaamidala @duskcowboy and myself (find the IG link here)

🩷 please do not repost

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"Azriel's book is next, not Elain's. Hers will be after his."

Babe, it's gonna be the same book lol

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Dancing in the Court of Nightmare ✨🌙

Disclamer: I know Elain in a black dress is something debatable in the fandom, please understand that I drew this as a HC without trying to make anyone mad, every opinion is welcome but keep it polite , thank you !🌷

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No matter who your favorite ACOTAR character is, they're alive because Elain Archeron saved everyone's asses in that series.

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The Truth-Teller/Hofas Spoilers

It seems like people are hung up on Enalius possessing the TT in order to serve the Illyrian plot for Azriel, but in fact, that's selective reading. Let's see what is written in the books.

My sword blazed with light. That dagger shone with darkness. Both of them are crafted of the same black metal. Iridium, right?" She jerked her chin to Azriel, to the dagger at his side. "Ore from a fallen meteorite?" Azriel's silence was confirmation enough.

=Both blades are made from the same material of a fallen meteorite.

My father had never shown himself to be giving-long had he kept Gwydion and never once offered it to my mother. The dagger that had belonged to his dear friend, slain during the war, hung at his side, unused. But not for long.

Theia extended her hands toward the water, the offered blades. And on phantom wings, sword and dagger soared for her. Sum- moned to her hands. Starlight flared from Theia as she snatched the sword and knife out of the air, the blades glowing with their own starlight.

My mother returned that day with only Pelias and my father's blades. As she had helped Make them, they answered to the call in her blood. To her very power.

Conclusion: The Starsword and the Truth-Teller were both created in the same manner, crafted by Fionn and Theia. Fionn likely gifted the Truth-Teller to his best friend Enalius during the great war when Illyrians fought against the daglan to prevent them from reaching the Cauldron atop Ramiel. After Enalius's death, Fionn simply took his blade back.

_Azriel's secret lineage:

My mother eventually trusted only Helena and myself to seek the truth. She knew we could be of great use to her, because we bore the shadows as well as starlight.

=The blades simply represent both powers of the Dusk Court people: light and shadows.

We spent a month hidden in the enemy's stronghold, no more than shadows ourselves.

Doesn't that remind you of this :

ACOMAF:

“Like the daemati,” Rhys said to me, “shadowsingers are rare—coveted by courts and territories across the world for their stealth and predisposition to hear and feel things others can’t.”

=Daemati (mind reading) and Shadowsinger abilities are simply the powers of the Dusk Court/Avallen people, which is why they are rare, especially in Prythian.

_Foreshadowing from HOFAS :

Azriel, without Rhysand to translate, watched in silence. Bryce could have sworn shadows wreathed him, like Ruhn's, yet... wilder. The way Cormac's had been.

The male now held the Starsword at the ready, Truth-Teller gripped in his other hand.He must have had some sort of Starborn blood in him, then-a distant ancestor, maybe. Or maybe his possession of the knife somehow allowed him to also bear the Starsword.

That's a very obvious foreshadowing. It would explain why Azriel is so different from other Illyrians, why he can winnow, why Illyrians couldn't understand the origin of his Shadowsinger gift, and why it was merely assumed that he learned the language of shadows during his imprisonment.

_Az confirming that his shadows are magical:

His brows rose.... The shadows are made of magic, just very condensed.

_Where did Azriel find the Truth-Teller:

No one knows what became of Theia and General Pelias," I told countless generations. "They betrayed King Fionn, and Gwydion was for- ever lost, his dagger with it." I lied with every breath.

Silene made people believe that the dagger was also lost.

I made sure he knew that the buried weapon he'd need against the Asteri was down here.

While she told her son that the dagger is buried in the prison, therefore, Azriel found the Truth-Teller in the prison.

ACOMAF:

Azriel :"I'll go. The Prison sentries know me-what I am." 👀

So, tell me, what is more interesting: learning about Azriel's obvious Illyrian side, given that his father is an Illyrian, or discovering his secret lineage? Keep in mind that we know nothing about his mother. How did he manage to find the Truth-Teller? Why was he extremely possessive of it, yet decided to give it to Elain? This includes the famous scene that antis spent years trying to downplay, the scene in the coloring book, and on the ACOWAR cover.

_Can Azriel get access to the Truth-Teller's magic :

Can your dagger kill the unkillable, too?" "It's called Truth-Teller," he said in that soft voice, like shadows given sound. "And no, it cannot."Bryce arched a brow. "So does it tell the truth?" A hint of a smile, more chilling than the frigid air around them. "It gets people to do so."

This shows that he probably doesn't know the full potential of the dagger and that he used it for torturing people.

Vesperus took another step, steadier now, and smiled past Bryce. At Azriel, at Truth-Teller. "You don't know how to use it,do you?" Azriel pointed the dagger toward the advancing Asteri. "Pretty sure this end's the one that'll go through your gut." Vesperus chuckled, her dark hair swaying with each inching step closer. "Typical of your kind. You want to play with our weap- ons, but have no concept of their true abilities."

I think that Azriel is like Ruhn; he can wield the Starsword and the Truth-Teller. However, he cannot get access to their full power.

_Bryce using the Starsword and the Truth-Teller to kill Vesperus :

Bryce threw her power into the Starsword, light ripping through the black blade, willing it to tear this fucking monster apart- She willed it into Truth-Teller, and shadows flowed.

Elain :

Elain stepped out of a shadow behind him, and rammed Truth-Teller to the hilt through the back of the king’s neck as she snarled in his ear, “Don’t you touch my sister.”

=The shadows were the Truth-Teller's magic; it had answered to Elain's will and magic, killing the King of Hybern. Y'all Keep in mind that Elain is the first female to wield and use the Truth-Teller since Silene.

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_If there is someone who would be a descendant of Enalius, it's Cassian, and it's already foreshadowed:

ACOWAR :

Nesta listened to the low-level Illyrian soldiers whispering about how Cassian had thrown that spear, how he’d cut down soldiers like stalks of wheat, how he’d fought like Enalius—their most ancient warrior-god and the first of the Illyrians. It had been a while, it seemed, since they had seen Cassian in open battle. Since they’d realized that he’d been young in the War, and now … the looks they gave Cassian as he passed … they were the same as those the High Lords had given Rhys upon seeing his power. Like them, and yet Other.

ACOSF:

At twenty-one, he’d still been drinking and brawling and fucking, unconcerned with anything and anybody except his ambition to be the most skilled of Illyrian warriors since Enalius himself.

Enalius being the Illyrians leader and Fionn's bestie / Cassian is the Illyrians general and Rhys's bestie. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Acotar series has been canceled by Hulu. Honestly, hearing that helped calm my headaches a bit. Gone are the story lines to be changed, stupid lines and added scenes. We can all breathe a sigh of relief.

#thank god #acotar #sjmaas #They would make our children look different than they are #elriel

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Nessian, Feysand and Elriel - A Court of Thorns and Roses

Artist: @brunojlopez for @asirenspins

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Cutest Elriel commission I’ve seen in a while! 😭 Look at him playing with her hair!!!

Commissioned by: rizzo.reads88

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Nessian, Elriel and Feysand - A Court of Thorns and Roses

Artist: @snowarox / @devnw

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Nesta was willing to die with Cassian in ACOWAR.

Azriel was willing to die to save Elain in ACOWAR.

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Can’t stop thinking about how no Fae Male has actively questioned and fought against a mating bond except Azriel.

Like, think about it.

Sure, Feyre questioned the mating bond between Elain and Lucien, and even questioned the cauldron. But she was human first. She didn’t grow up knowing about bonds and how they are rarely, if ever really, rejected/fought against.

But Azriel does. He’s hundreds of years old. He knows how permanent and basically unbreakable mating bonds are. And yet he’s questioning and going against it anyway?

Even Tamlin didn’t do that. Once he 100% knew about the mating bond between Rhysand and Feyre, he didn’t try to break it. He may have still wanted Feyre, but he never actively tried to get it to break or tell them that the Cauldron was wrong. And Tamlin was going to MARRY Feyre at one point; they were together and he loved her. But he still didn’t truly or bluntly go up against the mating bond.

Yet Azriel has tried. He’s the only male in this series that we have seen actually try. Even if others have liked Feyre or Nesta, once their mating bonds were revealed anyone else interested BACKED OFF.

Elain and Lucien’s bond has been revealed, but Azriel still has feelings for Elain. He’s questioning and fighting it. Something we’ve never seen with any of the male.

We’re suppose to believe that means nothing? That that isn’t going to be prevalent in the upcoming book? And that SJM will simply say “Oh Az fighting it was just random nonsense and now Elain and Lulu will live happily ever after!”

Be so for real.

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Elriel 💙

Art: eclipvze_art

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Elain and Azriel - A Court of Thorns and Roses

Artist: @leilov.illustrations