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Ah! Time’s Rift!

It always bothered me that the apostrophe never got used.

Did you know Theia has two common spellings? The other is Thea, so just missing the “i.” Like how the Under-King confirmed at the end of HOFAS that Urd and Wyrd are the same but spelled differently based on the world/time it’s used in.

Ah! Time’s Rift!

I Am the First.

But if we use the apostrophe…

I’m Thea First

…wtf

Also— Theia vs Thea and Wyrd vs Urd= kind of like how Elena, Helena, and Oleanna are the same name, just different variants of Helen (as in, Helen of Troy). Only, Vesperus never mentioned High Priestess Oleanna (or Helena), and when asked if she was related to Hesperus, replied with “I am the Evening Star.” And a reminder, Dorian has Elena’s raw magic, and he’s a shifter. Meaning, Elena herself was likely also a shifter... The Queen with Many Faces.

Once again, I must make a PSA that Silene has nothing to do with the moon. Instead of “Selene,” daughter of the Goddess Theia, “Silene“ is the feminine form of Silenus, who raised the Greek god of wine, Dionysus. Alluding to the sloshing of wine, the name often refers to the sticky or slimy secretion from insects-like that of a spider. Dionysus is also the god of theater and ritual madness, with a link to masks.

“Silene“ is probably a Kharankui.

Bonus: Feyre describes ad nauseam Rhysand and the Inner Circle’s wearing and removal of masks. Daemati have the ability to drive people insane.

You know how SJM has said she was surprised by who is going to be the next POV? She also said when she first announced the next ACOTAR books way back whenever that there might be one set before the events of ACOTAR. I’ve also read somewhere, but can’t confirm, that she’s always wanted to write an LGBTQ love story in-depth. To move the plot forward and wrap-up some much needed unanswered questions from the past, we need the POV of someone who  had simultaneous involvement with both the Autumn and Spring courts to narrate what went down with Mor and Eris, Tamlin and Rhysand’s families, Lucien and Jesminda, and Tamlin taking him in. It’s also very clear that she’s set Lucien and Eris up to be major players, but neither of them would be particularly surprising POV’s.

Remember during the flashback of ACOFAS, Mor heard that other anonymous voice talking to Eris, wanting to help her, when they found her left at the Autumn Court border? Clearly Eris did have someone in his life at that point who was a decent person, one comfortable enough with him to speak up and protest Eris’s direct orders to not touch Mor. But Lucien wasn’t born yet, and it’s doubtful that was the voice of one of the other Vanserra bros. 

You know how Eris said he anonymously got word to Tamlin to get to his border to save Lucien, and how he seemed to know Tamlin would take Lucien in? 

When Eris left Mor that day, it cost him something— and most people think this something was actually a someone. Maybe the cost was that Beron would no longer give him room to be able to sneak off  to see his lover, possibly of another court, or, maybe, his lover had to flee to another court.  

A lot of people suspect that Eris is not straight. Personally, I agree, and have always considered Eris to be the Aedion of ACOTAR (Cassian is literally Chaol— which I’m only mentioning here because many compare him to Aedion, but I don‘t see it, and that’s also not the point of this post). That got me thinking about the Wolf of the North connection and Eris, and then I had a horrible thought. 

Many have also speculated that, like Lucien, Eris had a lover that was killed, likely by Beron, but what if it was done by someone else? 

I’ve noticed that, so far, Eris has had a VERY different attitude towards Feyre than Elain and Nesta. While even Feyre acknowledged that Eris was going easy on her and Lucien when he and the two other Vanserra brothers were chasing them in ACOWAR, when Eris slapped her and pulled her hair, that lowkey felt personal. It also felt similar to the same attitude she received from Lucien when arriving at the Spring Court. Lucien was, rightly so, very upset with Feyre for having killed Andras. They were clearly close. But maybe they had a connection before Lucien’s arrival in Spring. Maybe Andras was assigned to look out for him, anonymously, on someone’s behalf? 

Sarah has said before that Lucien and Dorian would be friends, and left many hints throughout the books that they are mirrors of each other, especially with how Jesminda and Sorscha were killed. 

You know who was also in the room when Sorscha was killed, besides Chaol? 

Aedion— the Wolf of the North. 

Does anyone remember The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner? What if SJM decided to take a cue from Stephenie Meyer?

What if the person who delivered Eris’s message to Tamlin to get to his border in time to save Lucien after Jesminda was killed was someone we were introduced to in Chapter 1, book 1 of ACOTAR? 

What if the ACOTAR 6 POV is Andras? And he and Eris were lovers…