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womeninfictionandirl · 2 months
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Arya Stark by shamilluo
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teecupofcement · 2 months
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Drew the lanky fuck with a brush I made :D
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oananovicov · 1 year
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A man without a face or A faceless man by me
" A man without a face , waiting on a bridge that swayed and swung. On his shoulder perched a drowned crow with seaweed hanging from his wings"
I like this quote because it's like a word play ..man without a face...faceless man...it implies but you are still having doubts. 😊It's fun...
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badalice23 · 1 year
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Vestigia VS Signare
In the process of editing my fic I stumbled upon a problem, which turned out to be kinda pivotal one. The concepts of Vestigium and Signare. The basic question (or at least a simple version of it): How do you separate the two? Because canonically they seem a bit interlinked. Interlinked to the point of confusion.
Vestigium
According to Follypedia (yes, I hit Follypedia instead of re-reading the books, so feel free to point out the mistakes), Vestigium…
“is the imprint magic leaves on physical objects or places. (…) Vestigia can be removed or transformed, as well as stored. (…) Vestigia can be created by magical events such as spells or the creation of magical objects/constructions, however all living things seem to create some amount of vestigia”.
And, which is more important in regard to the question I asked:
“Supernatural creatures, and people with magical abilities, seem to emit vestigia that reflect their age, personality, or powers”.
So as far as I understand (in lamen terms), Vestigia is this universe’s equivalent of Mana or some sort of radiation magic is leaking into the world. And since magic is the constant construct in the world of RoL so even muggles (if you pardon the term) possess some amount of vestigium, which their bodies release at the point of their death. That actually begs the question of how powerful are the background vestigia of a practitioner’s body?
But it gets a little tricky with practitioners, doesn't it? Because they’ve got a signare.
Signare
Again, according to Follypedia, Signare…
“could be classified as a type of vestigia associated with spell casting and practitioners. Its intensity is strongest when the spell is being cast and is unlikely to be noticed or recognized except by other practitioners”.
So… Basically, the first sentence tells us, that Signare is a signature of a practitioner’s technique. And can be sensed only in the process of casting a spell, not when the spell was already cast a long time ago and left a trace on the environment. The trace is a vestigium.
But then again a Signare is also a vestigium, because it has vestigia in its core. It’s magic, so it’s “Mana”, so it’s emitting vestigia.
And that’s when the confusion begins.
Vestigia VS Signare
In “The Further Station” Peter describes Nightingale’s… signare (?) as:
“(…) the smell of white willow and mown grass, as the sensation of rough wool and a young voice singing something choral – high and sweet. And behind it the impression that I stood amidst the precision gears of a vast clockwork orrery – smoothly and patiently reordering the cosmos to match its creator’s design”.
But later in the books the white willow, the rough wool and the singing voice were forgotten, they were never mentioned again. Nightingale’s signare was reduced to the precision of the clockwork (the tick-tock sound).
The Faceless Man’s signare was fully described as “high-pitched laughter, suet, and the strop of a straight razor”. But later only the strop of a straight razor was emphasized.
Of course, we can’t just ignore an economy of words as the reason for these reductions. Full descriptions take time and a battle is happening, so chop-chop. However, that’s only increasing the confusion.
Given that “people with magical abilities, seem to emit vestigia that reflect their age, personality, or powers”… The logical question arises: where does Signare end and Vestigium start?
Here’s…
My Theory
Signare is a signature of one’s technique, but more importantly it’s the way one’s brain works while making a formae. Nightingale’s tick-tock, his calmness and meticulousness. The Faceless’ razor strop, like “Hey-hey! I’m evil, badass, and going after you!”.
But! The willow, the voice and the wool are just the vestigia which surround the signare. The Vestigia which are the essence of Nightingale, his age and his personality. Something he could emit from his body not necessarily while casting a spell.
To avoid the confusion all of this could be easily described (in regard to the practitioners) as “the sense of one’s magic”. It could imply just a vestigium (if we’re talking about traces of a spell or background “radiation”) or the whole package. I’m not criticizing the terminology (per se), but I would very much appreciate a bit more clarity here (and following rules, not forgetting them, that too).
I understand the reason why signare was introduced (in book three), they needed an identification tool. However, if we’re assuming that vestigium really reflects one’s personality… Personality can change (for instance, under the stress of trauma, yes I’m talking about poor Thomas here). So, logically, can vestigia (or even a signare). Martin Chorley (I hope) wasn’t always an evil bastard. So, probably (imo) his maniac high-pitched laughter and razor strop sound wouldn’t have suited a curious Oxford student. Although, he might’ve been a shitty person even in his childhood and that’s indeed his personality. However, I can’t help but notice that Nightingale’s “signare” is a bit too lovely for a broken soldier (but yet, still a nice glimmer of a former Thomas).
It’s already a giant post, so…
What do you think? How did you comprehend the concepts? And… Does my theory hold water?
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evilinspirationart · 2 years
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Frames from Faceless Man
You can read here: https://www.webcomicsapp.com/comic/Faceless-Man/5e9e98618c252b652350e663
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aesthetic--mood · 2 years
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Arya Stark Aesthetic
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silverflameataraxia · 2 years
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It irks me to no end when I see Sansa stans comparing the traumas Sansa and Arya went through as an effort to undermine Arya's traumas and show that Sansa, somehow, is more worthy of stanning.
This is a messed up and disturbing argument, even for Sansa stans. If you can't see the trauma Arya has gone through then you're blind. And if the reason people should stan Sansa is because she's been through trauma... sorry, but that's not a good enough reason for me. This is ASOIAF. Every character, especially the women, have been through way too much.
But don't say Sansa's been through worse than Arya. Sansa couldn't have survived a day in Arya's shoes.
Could you imagine Sansa not having a servant/handmaid to do everything for her? Starving, not knowing where her next meal was coming from and being forced to hunt in order to survive? Not knowing where she was going to sleep each night, trying to make friends so she would be offered a bed, but like every other night, she ends up sleeping on the ground? Constantly being robbed of what few possessions she has and getting pushed around? Having to disguise herself as a boy so she isn't raped? Having to kill people to stay alive? More than once watching people she cares about being murdered before her eyes? Having to watch, day in and day out, as people are being tortured? Serving as a slave to Tywin Lannister, wondering every day if she might be found out, tortured, or killed? Constantly being captured by new people, never knowing how they may treat her? Being blinded and beat to a bloody pulp each and every day in an effort to train to be a Faceless Man? Having a Faceless Man assassin sent to kill her because she showed kindness and humanity?
Sansa went through her own traumas, but she could have never survived what Arya survived.
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Arya Stark in Braavos
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Swans are used to show her longing for a sense of safety that is out of reach
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Cats are used in regards to secrets (being revealed)in her story.
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№237 Arya Stark Or write your name to the image If you like it, subscribe to my new updates
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haunt3d-d3vil · 14 days
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📚: Lights Out by Navessa Allen
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clipartcabaret · 5 months
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"faceless man using cordless phone backwards" clip art
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rhymeswithfart · 5 months
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Where the fuck do I watch who is Mr Tom where do I find it
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wiltedplants · 11 months
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“I spent a day by the river It was quiet and the wind stood still I spent some time with nature To remind me of all that's real It's funny how silence speaks sometimes when you're alone And remember that you feel”
Creed, Faceless Man
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badalice23 · 1 year
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We need to talk about Skygarden…
So the big ball of wibbly-wobbly stuff reservoir of vestigia, that has been accumulating the stuff for ages, went boom…
And here's the question: Where did all of that power go to?
Did it get dispersed in the ether?
Than why didn't we have an infestation of "new-born" Genii locorum? Why the intensity of magic didn't change? It's been a large amount of vestigia it should've changed the balance (at least locally)?
Or… It got absorbed by two bodies that happened to be at the epicenter?
In the Follyverse there is a concept of the Old Soldier. My handy-dandy go-to source — aka Follypedia — explains it like this:
An Old Soldier is a person who has been present at a place where a lot of people have been killed. The "life force" from all these dying people has to go somewhere. Once in a hundred thousand cases, this force enters a human, and changes him/her. The person becomes stronger, tougher, and more long-lived.
So… "a hundred thousand cases" aside… what's the difference between "life force" of the dying people and "life force" of the living ones? Especially if the latter has been accumulated for ages?
Yes, I know, "a hundred thousand cases", fine. I even understand why it could've been a bit redundant to make Peter "long-lived"… Although… It would've definitely scared the hell out of Nightingale and Beverley (just saying).
The main question is still here: Why there weren't any environmental consequences of the fall of Skygarden? Because logically there should've been.
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