Rhysand’s Sister
I really wanted her to be in the story, especially with Feyre.
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another day another doodle, this time valkyries edition
all hail gwyn and emerie, i know your backs must hurt from carrying the entire book
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Gwyn and Gwydion
Remeber how we got the information that Fionn was the first high king, and that he used a powerful sword named Gwydion, who no one knows what it was made of?
Well, both Gwydion and Fionn are celtic names, just like Gwyn. Gwydion is the name of a famous character from welsh mythology, who was magician, trickster, and warrior/god from the kingdom of Gwynedd. There's even a taliesin poem that refers to Gwynedd as "the land of Gwydion". Gwyneth, however, is a name that was directly derived from Gwynedd, and plural of the word Gwyn is also Gwynion.
Now, Fionn is literally the irish version of the name/word Gwyn. Both names are cognates/equivalents. They come from the same origin, and carry some of the same meanings: white/fair/bright/blessed.
Then, we have the fact that the sword was made by a high priestess, when Gwyn is what? A priestess. She forged the sword and diped her into the cauldron, while Gwyn lived most of her life in a temple where the foot of the cauldron was hidden, and ended up being one of the only survivors of Hybern's attack.
Not to mention, Gwyn, Emerie and Nesta started training with swords in acosf, and Nesta asked for Gwyn's help with the trove. When Cassian asked Nesta how she would name a sword, Gwyn was the who answered it.
In the scene where Gwyn sings, people like to say her voice triggered Nesta's vision because she is a lightsinger, however, Nesta didn't have a vision regarding Gwyn's appeareance, which is the only thing lightsingers can do canonically: appear like friendly faces, but from the place where the harp, a trove, was.
The harp is an object that opens portals to different realities/places, maybe even different worlds. Gwyneth is/was assisting Merril in her research about different dimensions/realms.
While holding the magical swords Nesta made, who were the only ones after Gwydion, Azriel, Cassian and Rhysand watch one of them glow and emit light, like moonlight layed in the metal. It's sparks are pure, crackling magic.
When Nesta meets Gwyn for the first time, the priestess is surrounded by a crackling sort of energy, which Nesta's power, that she got from the cauldron, and that made it possible for her to create the swords, answers to.
Cassian, Rhysand, Amren and Azriel are talking about narben and Gwydion, and Amren says it was a water-nymph that told her what Amarantha did to it. Cassian later thinks that Narben's powers weren't the holy, saviour's light of Gwydion. Not only we find out Gwydion was related to light, but that it was holy, saviour's light, while one of the meanings of the name Gwyneth/Gwyn is holy. The name Fionn has some of the same meanings of Gwyn, but Gwyn is the one who's related to sacredness.
Gwyn glows while she sings, and her skin radiates beckoning light. Her voice holds a note that is both piercing and summoning like a ray of pure light. Her own name is associated with someone who is radiant with inner divine light.
Her glowing might not represent her being a lightsinger, since it makes no sense considering her heritage, but her connection to Gwydion and the troves. Especially given how both fionn/gwyn come from the same origin: light/shining.
The same words who are related to Gwyn, are used to describe the swords and their magic/powers: pure, crackling, holy.
Sarah is known for searching the meanings of her character's names, and acotar is full of names who come from mythological welsh origin. The only one I could find that relates to the kingdom of Gwynedd is in fact Gwydion, and we know she searched about the meaning of Gwyn's name, because she made the connection between the character and color white + emitting light. Again, Fionn and Gwyn carry some of the same meanings (white/fair/bright/blessed) and the same origin, so much that even characters from celtic mythology with their names are associated with each other. There's no way she wouldn't pick up on that at any given point, especially because she also connected the sword with light.
It makes no sense that she would choose names associated to Gwyneth/Gwyn to the sword and the man who carried her, connect her character to light, and make the sword be made by a literal high priestess, if that wasn't supposed to mean anything, or the sword was supposed to belong to someone else.
So, Gwyn might be 100% related to Gwydion and the troves.
Ps: An example the words fionn/gwyn are heavily connected is that the word penguin actually comes from penn gwyn in welsh, which is translated to ceann fionn in gaelic.
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