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ARCHON THESIS: LAHABREA

Alright, I am going to do my best to make a Lahabrea analysis masterpost. In my opinion the devs have done some incredibly clever and subtle work with him as far back as A Realm Reborn, and while it’s possible they didn’t initially know all the details of his story—I’m actually inclined to think they either had a decent amount in-mind back then, or have managed to retroactively weave things together in a way that effectively creates the results I’ll describe. Either way, this is the picture that makes the most sense to me.

Warning, some spoilers for Endwalker trailers. Also warning this is huge and some of it just turned into info vomit.

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Art by Matthew Arnone

Preston Blake.

what a great time to replay shadowbringers...! or heavensward, since i am clearly not over it!

ysayle my beloved ❤

They have a lot of catching up to do

“Grief and rage - you need to contain that, to put a frame around it, where it can play itself out without you or your kin having to die. There is a theory that watching unbearable stories about other people lost in grief and rage is good for you - may cleanse you of your darkness.”

Anne Carson, Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides

“Give me blood and rage and / a heart for horror; teach me to be / tough enough to face this world / still standing. Make a Fury of me.”

Elizabeth Hewer, from “Finding Ariadne” in Wishing for Birds

“Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.”

Anne Carson, Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides

Mumford & Sons, “Lover’s Eyes”

“A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life. I have a mad impulse to smash something, a warehouse, perhaps, or a cathedral, or myself,”

Herman Hesse, Steppenwolf

“…is it better to throw yourself head first and laughing into the holy rage calling your name?”

Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“There is love in me the likes of which you’ve never seen. There is rage in me the likes of which should never escape.”

Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“We, hurt by ourselves, keen / to be hurters and keen / to be hurt back deep inside. / We, like weapons laid / beside anger asleep.”

Rainer Maria Rilke, The Poetry of Rilke; “Antistrophes” (tr. Edward Snow)

“…she did not allow herself tears. When she did cry, she would explain her tears in this way: ‘I am not weeping, I am bursting with rage.’”

Gabriella Fiori, from Simone Weil: An Intellectual Biography

“Isn’t all that rage so ugly? / And isn’t it mine, still? / Good god, isn’t it mine?”

Ashe Vernon, from “Buried,” Not a Girl

Ada Limón, from “The Good Fight”

“What are we made of but hunger and rage?”

Anne Carson, excerpt of To Compostela

“Then suddenly you’re left all alone with your body that can’t love you and your will that can’t save you.”

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Rainer Maria Rilke, excerpt of “To the Younger Brother [An den jungen Bruder]”, in The Book of Hours (trans. by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy)

Source—Und plötzlich bist du ganz allein gelassen mit deinen Händen, die dich hassen— und wenn dein Wille nicht ein Wunder tut:

𝐅𝐄𝐁𝐇𝐘𝐔𝐑𝐀𝐑𝐘   ► flower.  

Shadowbringers is all about the juxtaposition of Emet-Selch and Feo Ul.

Emet-Selch, a timeless immortal that lives for the past he lost, seeing you and feeling disgust, revulsion, and contempt all for your grand crime of being mortal, seeing you and those you love as not even being truly alive solely because you were not born into his definition of perfect.

Compare him to Feo Ul, a timeless immortal that lives only for happiness in the present, seeing you and instantly falling helplessly in love because you are mortal, full of fleeting passion and ambition that eclipses anything a fae like them could ever achieve all due to your transient ephemeral life; the courage, drive, and hope for the future that only someone with a finite lifespan could ever have.