#the three doors

[lindalofbroome]

16 - Envy

i was feeling silly asldkfjhas

#roddacember 2023 #roddacember #lyn's roddacember prompts #postlyn #postlyn art #emily rodda #roddaverse #star of deltora #the three doors #rowan of rin #deltora quest #britta of del #rye of weld #lief of del #// #ALSO I FEEL SO BAD #I FEEL LIKE I DID BRITTA SO DIRTY FOR REDUCING HER STORY TO THAT #BUT IT WAS FOR THE JOKE OKAY #ALSO GOD LIEF IM SORRY #BUT ALSO IT'S KINDA FUNNY

[rye-the-grain]

#rye of weld #sonia of weld #tap for better quality #i hope T-T #the golden door #the three doors trilogy #the three doors #rye #sonia #roddaverse #emily rodda

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Another Interlude

The Shadow Lord's genetic profile is a lot less clear-cut than your standard megavillain (who is probably half-demon, at the very most).

Digging through his past in Dorne and the late three bonus stories from Tales of Deltora, we have enough info on his family members to construct a gosh damn pedigree.

His mother, Alenan, was pure Fellan.

His father, Peregrine, is more complicated. His mother was Rosalyn, a pure human, but his father was an unnamed man who was implied to be some hybrid of... half-Fellan and pure Fellan.

The most likely scenario from that, I believe, is that he was simply 75% Fellan, but it's possible that one Fellan ancestor was farther up the tree than one generation, that he was the product of some more complex chain of half-Fellan breeding, or even that he was an even 50% and simply meant by "more Fellan" that he was cooler and could talk to trees better. So... anywhere between 50 and 99%.

Under the most conservative estimate, that would make Malverlain, the Shadow Lord, 5/8ths Fellan. Under the 75/25 theory, he would be a neat and tidy 11/16ths Fellan.

Ah, but we're committed to accuracy here, in this treatise on the genetic information of fictional wizards. Past one generation, you aren't always getting an even 50/50 of your ancestors. And the Fellan and humans are, in a sense, different species, what with the innate magic and the colour-changing skin. We want to nail this just right.

When two parents produce offspring, one can imagine the process as each owning 100 marbles, and each randomly taking 50 to place in the pile for the child. Sometimes pieces of the marbles break off and make new marbles with the other marble pieces, but we're going to ignore that and keep this metaphor salvageable.

The most likely outcome is for about 25 of the marbles to come from each grandparent, but since the marbles are being picked randomly, that doesn't have to be the case. It's incredibly, incredibly unlikely, but it's even theoretically possible for all 50 marbles to be the exact ones contributed by just one grandparent.

That means we can stretch the realm of probability for the Shadow Lord's exact mixture eeeven further!

On the maximum human side, where Peregrine somehow managed to carefully select out only human alleles to give this particular son, he could be down to 50% Fellan, an even hybrid.

For the other end, depending on precisely how much Fellan genetic material Peregrine received, the Shadow Lord could wind up as up to a whopping 100% Fellan.

There's really no reason for those probability freak events to have happened, but they do create a range within which any percentage is entirely possible.

All that being said, the most likely outcome still works out to - just about 2/3rds Fellan.

2/3rds, on a heredity check! No wonder he's so messed up.

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As a bit of a bonus, the fact that we have info on everyone's hair colours means that we can make some rudimentary judgments about Fellans.

Peregrine's parents had black and Fellan red hair respectively, and his hair was black, so to our (simplified) understanding of hair colour heredity, he must be heterozygous, a carrier of the recessive red hair gene. Yet all three of the sons he produced with his red-haired wife also had red hair, something that should only happen 1 time in 8.

This is low enough to suggess that Fellan hair is not just red as a founder effect thing, but is actually some separate trait biologically distinct from human red hair, either genetic or magic-bullshit-induced.

#deltora quest #the three doors #roddacember #genetics

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Deltora phone cover sheet/デルトラのスマホカバー

The pattern is printed and laminated, and can be customised by inserting it into a transparent phone case. This time, I made four sheets for the Roddaverse.

What I like best is the blue sheet, which is an assortment of all things Roddaverse. The seven-coloured patterned egg, yellow flowers, bee, butterfly, pig, kiwi (Nodnap), lantern, clock and cockatoo - all of which exist in her world of book. I also printed and made a sheet of the wonderful dragon illustrations that can be seen in Tales of Deltora, although I have not posted them due to copyright considerations. There is also a sheet with a red and yellow striped New Nerra pattern. Now I can always walk around showing off my Rodderverse😏

#emily rodda #deltora quest #roddaverse #teen power inc. #the three doors #his name was walter

[theoakleafpancake]

Alright, I’m doing it. I’m expanding beyond DQ and am heading into the other series

#idk where I’m starting #but I’ll find something #roddaverse #emily rodda #deltora quest #star of deltora #rowan of rin #the three doors

[opal-the-dreamer-archive]

big fan of how the three doors takes the very human need to collect things u find outdoors and makes it essential to the plot

#rodda says yes ur emotional attachment to that cool branch u found is valid <3 #a boy with a stick and a girl with a pocketfull of stones etc etc #the three doors #roddaverse #t3d

[toshitophchan]

Roddacember Day 1 | Awe

I went with two versions of Awe for this word map- the kind of awe that is full of wonder and beauty, and then the kind of awe that feels you with horror and terror

I read through the books I wanted to use for this and tried to pretend I was reading them for the first time, and then included every line that made me feel in awe

#roddacember #roddacember 2022 #emily rodda #deltora quest #the three doors #the rondo trilogy #rowan of rin #here we go guys! #happy roddacember!!!!!! #im so excited #toshi's roddacember prompts

[tarzan737]

Think I'm gonna make Magic Items based on the 7 Items that Rye has in the Three Doors series

I'm still reading up on homebrewing Items but I'll keep y'all posted

#dnd #dnd 5e #the three doors #emily rodda #roddaverse

[corffee]

We are so fucking back

#if anything bad happens to either of them I’ll be knockin on WildBrain’s door #sonic prime #sonic prime s3 #sonic prime season three #sonic the hedgehog #shadow the hedgehog #sonadow #sonic #sth

[utterdrip]

(act i) that’s what you want, isn’t it? to lose yourself in me?

(act iii) i’ll be free. truly, completely free. isn’t that what you want?

(ascendant) i love you. that’s what you’ve been waiting to hear, isn’t it? that’s what you want?

(ascendant) that’s what you want, isn’t it? to be mine? forever?

(spawn) is that what you want? is this what you want?

#frankie posts #bg3 spoilers #astarion #bg3 #astarion acunin #bg3: vid #hoo boy #i was cleaning up my camera roll and came across the spawn astarion ending #is that what you want? is this what you want? and i was like huh thats familiar #three edited videos later im like MOM HOLY FUCK kicks down door breaks windows OH MY GOD #astarion baldurs gate #baldurs gate 3 #baldurs gate astarion #baldur's gate 3 #baldur's gate iii #starry comp #i have a video thats almost exactly like this BUT without the spawn version bc i literally did not connect the dots until just now #olay goodnight friendos

[lindalofbroome]

Roddacember 2023!!

Roddacember runs during December to celebrate all of Emily Rodda’s books. With a new prompt every day, make a piece of fan content of your choice. You can draw some art, write fic, make a playlist, rant about something, or whatever you vibe with! Remember to tag it #Roddacember 2023 so we can check it out <3 I’ve also created an AO3 collection for those who would like to write fics!

Update

This is my attempt at taking the best of the past years and bringing something for everyone. What I've come up with are three levels of abstraction that (hopefully) serve as different levels of difficulty. The first week-ish draws more from 2019's style, and the last couple weeks are the more recent style, with the middle being a segue between them. (i kinda struggled to make questions, but you're welcome to use the prompts as keywords for your own!)

Notes

A reminder that you don’t have to commit to every day. Take care of yourself. You can make it more manageable by skipping days. It’s also okay to alter the prompt slightly for grammatical purposes, if you so wish (e.g. growth –> growing) or to cut out irrelevant words (e.g. animal or monster -> animal). Feel free to interpret the prompts as metaphorically or as literally as you want! If there’s anything you are confused about, feel free to ask me in the notes or DMs or whatever. You can also check out what the fandom did previously at #Roddacember 2022, #Roddacember 2021, #Roddacember 2020 and #Roddacember 2019.

Prompts in text below:

Your Favourite

01. Character 02. Place 03. Animal or monster 04. Something you wish was real 05. Magic 06. People, culture, or tradition 07. Filli❔ 08. Relationship of any kind 09. Symbols or signs

Memorable Moments:

10. Epic 11. Courage 12. Deception 13. Power 14. Foreshadowing 15. Playful 16. Envy 17. Solution

Abstract:

18. Ripples 19. Design 20. Trade 21. Nurture 22. Technology 23. Intricacy 24. Mend 25. Twisted 26. Pathway 27. Watch 28. Growth 29. Time 30. Unity 31. Essence of Rodda

#roddacember 2023 prompts #roddacember 2023 #roddacember #roddacember prompts #postlyn #emily rodda #roddaverse #deltora quest #rowan of rin #star of deltora #the three doors #and all the other rodda books <3 #// #lads im so sorry i meant to post these earlier but life just hasnt been It lately :) #(sarcastic smiley face) #alas rejoice for prompts arrive #we got red left so at least one more roddacember and we have a colour set

[rye-the-grain]

Day 1 - Favourite Character

The need to save it drove everything else from Rye’s mind. He found an old washing basket among the ruins and put the goat gently inside it. Then, clutching his burden, he made for home.

The Golden Door // Ch 5 Fate

#roddacember 2023 #the three doors #the three doors trilogy #emily rodda #roddaverse #roddacember #rye of weld #rye #the golden door

[7cfc00]

home is where the heart is (and yours is gone)

#happy holidays #dndads #dndads fanart #dungeons and daddies #dndaddies #dndads s1 #glenn close dndads #dndads season 2 #dndads odyssey #dndads glenn close #im so sick and fever rn so forgive me for any mistakes in this drawing or in my following explanation #background is covered in crosses for the bad day book. the chains represent his time in meth bay prison #the three swords are a reference to the three of swords tarot card which means like heartbreak or smth #also can be taken literally because his heart exploded #the swords themselves are modelled after the sword of justice to bring in themes of justice and punishment as well as referencing the trial #i also drew the same sword in the blackjack thing. #bottom left is his funeral pyre (referencing his death) and nick jr (representing his son's “death”) #the door is the door to his apartment its number 48 because ep 48 is carry on my wayward son #christmas decor cus of course hed had them up all year round #the plant is a peace lily representing death and funeral s again #headstone is morgan's the crysanthemum represents her death. this is because its also featured in the “remember death” thing i drew once #also i just associate flowers w the close family because it very easily represents both mortality and love #anyway. fuckin. his heart (loved ones + literal heart) are gone and its like. can he ever return home #idk smth about not being able to go back to the way things were smth about having the comfort of a home anymore. leaving all that shit behi #d. i feel so tired #sorry for the long explanation i think i may have went a little too hard on the symbolism but i didn t know how else to #express the feelings of glenn's conversation w darryl in that one episode

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Roddacember Day 29: Time

Spoilers for The Three Doors!

The titular chamber of the three doors is probably the wildest piece of magic we've seen anywhere in the series.

As a narrative device, time travel only has a couple of options if it wants to bother being internally consistent, instead of just dramatically suitable.

I call the two major categories "fixed timeline" and "fluid timeline".

With a fixed timeline, paradoxes are simply physically impossible to have occur. If you try to go back and shoot your grandpa, the gun will jam, or you'll be crushed by a falling piano, and so on, in whatever coalescence of probability maintains the timeline.

A fluid timeline has more leniency, but potential for way more dangerous consequences. One way to do this is the "orphaned timeline" approach - if you go back and kill your grandpa, returning to the 'present' will put you in a new future in which he died and you were never born. You are an orphaned vestige of a timeline that has been prevented. Another way is the concept of paradoxes, where killing your grandpa in a way that prevents your birth will create an inconsistency that makes time itself do something drastic to fix it.

Which type is the chamber of the doors?

I immediately see the most similarities with the orphaned timeline approach. There's something strange about it, though.

When Rye and Sonia go to the past and change it, Sholto is in the future. And what happens to him is, it changes around him. He has vague recollections of being in the Fellan forest, but that melting away in favor of the Shadow-ruled wasteland.

This is weird, because - he was in the future. Why does "now" matter when the change that caused this future happened hundreds of years ago? Why does Sholto remain in spite of it?

This is because there's something important about Weld, present day. This point in space, and this point in time. And the people who have been boxed in there for centuries.

I think the chamber of the doors couldn't have worked anyplace else in the world. Weld is an anchor point. It's so secluded that changes to the past can be made without touching the people from inside at all, and so Rye doesn't replace himself with slightly different Ryes every time he talks to someone in the past.

When they tear down the wall, it wasn't necessary to fill in the chamber to prevent its use again. The Schrodinger's box was already broken by being exposed to the outside.

#roddacember 2023 #roddacember #the three doors #roddaverse #time travel

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Roddacember Day1:Character

I find the female characters created by Emily Rodda particularly fascinating

.All of them are lively, individual and independent.

The same goes for Jasmine, who grew up in the wild, Tirra, who beats up the city leader with a frying pan, Marilen, who runs from Tora to Del even though she is heavily pregnant, Lindal, the warrior, Penn, who keeps the history books, Zebak-born Zeel and the strong Bronden.

I would like to write about some of the women in Emily Rodda that I find a little unusual.

I like Richel the best of the six in Teen Power.

I read Teen Power when I was just 14 years old.

I was getting tired of the fantasy I had started reading because of Deltora Quest, so Teen Power was the catalyst for me to start reading teenage paperbacks too.Rodda saved my life as a reader twice lol

Although Richel is beautiful and pretty as Snow White, she may not be a serious, hard-working honours student.

Furthermore, the majority of her judgement of people is based on looks or fashion, and she doesn't value things that don't interest her.

On top of that, like many of the more privileged teenagers in the world, she thinks she is the centre of the world.

However, her obsession with looks and fashion is a talent, just like Nick and Elmo's intelligence, Sunny's athleticism, Tom's drawing and Liz's kindness.

She just thinks a little differently from others, but she always sees and hears what's important.

Surprisingly, there are not many stories for teenagers in which the protagonist is a girl who, like her, already knows she is beautiful.

Such a beautiful girl is usually a supporting character to make the main girl attractive or, if the main character is a boy, an attractive girl who makes the story fun or a romantic partner.

I think it is less common for a girl like Ritchel to be the protagonist than for a girl like Sunny, who has outstanding abilities and something to devote herself to.

Probably because girls like Richel are more interested in being active than reading as teenagers, though.

But Richel is just as brave as the other heroes and heroines in Rodda's book, and she has a conscience to save others.The other members of Teen Power know that, and she knows that the others do too.

I said at the beginning that the female characters created by Rodda were lively, individual and independent, but there are some girls for whom these do not necessarily apply.

The first is Faena from The Three Doors.When I first read The Silver Door, I was surprised that she didn't go on an adventure with Dirk, Rye and Sonia.

I had assumed that she would.

But I felt that not only strong women who can fight, but also princess who stay in a safe castle and wait for the heroes to come for them, should never be denied.

Because there are all kinds of people in the world.

When it came to Sparrow in His Name is Walter, she was never free to leave her home, let alone fight.But a great imagination was the greatest weapon she had.　

#roddacember #emily rodda #roddaverse #teen power inc. #the three doors #his name was walter #roddacember 2023 #shion’s roddacember 2023

[melanovia]

#polls #poll #the cure #robert smith #goth #new wave #gothic rock #80s #90s #just like heaven #friday i'm in love #boys don't cry #close to me #lovesong #70s #three imaginary boys #the head on the door #kiss me kiss me kiss me #disintegration #wish #pop culture #britpop