Day 8 - Twilight of the Gods ⚔️
Inspired by images from Sarah J. Maas’ old “Twilight of the Gods” Pinterest board. ✨
Art by @jae.sketch on IG 💖 thank you so much for bringing this idea to life!
Commissioned by u/imagine_youre_a_deer and myself💖
Twilight of the Gods ⚔️ 🌅 by @sophia.angelique.art on Instagram
Bryce vs Apollion “The Star Eater”
Commissioned by u/bellire , u/imagine_youre_a_deer , u/expelledwinter and myself (u/lousiferrr)
First of all, a HUGE thank you to Sophia for bringing this Gandalf vs the Balrog-inspired piece to life. We are obsessed with her art style and can’t get over all the details 😍 it’s incredibly beautiful and epic and deserves all the praise. She perfectly encapsulated the demonic/ominous vibes we envisioned for Apollion as well as the ethereal, badass vibes for Bryce! 💖
“The Prince of the Pit wants a worthy opponent this time. One who will not break so easily, as Prince Pelias did so long ago. He insists on facing you, Starborn, at your full power.”
Everyone’s excited to (potentially) see ToG characters again!!
Ruhn (potentially) meeting Rhysand!!
Aelin and Manon (potentially) interacting with Nesta and Bryce 🥳
It seems to me like people don’t want Bryce in Prythian solely for shipping reasons…because a confirmed multiverse/continued crossover = Bryceriel potential
Does that mean it will happen in ACOTAR 6?? No!! There are a lot of threads and ground to cover between Spring, Beron, Koschei, Vallahan, Cretea, etc. But I do believe SJM is style gearing up to write a full crossover/multiverse style series (and this is what it sounds like 💖)
There may be anti-crossover people who also just don’t want to read everything — but Dusk was (and likely will be) a multiverse court. I think we’ve always been leading to something much bigger!! 💗🌄
Twilight of the Gods Tuesdays! (Or anytime 🤣)
The potential multiverse series [Feel free to search here for more! We’ve accumulated quite a few TOTG posts now]
Is this officially confirmed? No! (Hence the theory flair 🤭) — however, a new series IS confirmed and looking through SJM’s old Pinterest images, knowing the very obvious parallels with Midgard, it’s (in my opinion) clear where this is all heading…
Bryce: “‘I feel like I have no idea who I am. I know that’s so fucking cliché, but…I thought I knew who I was then. And now…’ She lifted her hands, letting them fill with starlight. ‘What’s the end goal in this?’ Somehow, someway, overthrowing the Asteri? What then? Rebuilding a government, an entire world? What if it triggers another war?’” (The story is far from over baddies 💅)
A Court of Silver Flames: “But Nesta smoothed [Cassian’s] bunched brow, as if she could see those worries there. ‘Later,’ she promised. ‘We’ll deal with all that later.’ Including the remaining queens, Koschei, and a still-looming war.”
“Az, of course, had been fascinated. Rhys had built the model himself centuries ago. It could not only track the sun, but also tell time, and it somehow allowed Rhys to ponder the existence of life beyond their own world…”
Aelin: “She could see them still. Even walking in silence under the trees, the darkness yielding toward grayish light before dawn, she could see each and every one of those worlds she’d broken through. Perhaps she’d never stop seeing them. Perhaps she alone in this world and all others knew what lay beyond the invisible walls separating them. How much life dwelled and thrived…So many worlds…Would her dreams forever be haunted by them? To have glimpsed them, but been unable to explore—would that longing take root?”
HOFAS was a prequel: The Maasverse has only just begun 🌈
Chaol** **when Aelin returns from Mistward: “You…you look different…Your face. The way you stand. You…”
“Older, as if the stillness and power she radiated had honed not just her soul but also the very shape of her.”
Hunt when Bryce returns from Prythian: “She was Bryce and yet she was…not.”
“But there was something different about her posture, in the way the light seemed to shimmer from her. She was older, somehow. Not in any line or wrinkle, but in her eyes.”
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🎨 Art by @Magicnaanavi (they share their entire 3D/digital painting process on IG — it’s not AI 😊) 🌠✨✨
“…before the firstlight power grid failed and chaos reigned.” (Remember how Sailor Moon becomes Sailor Cosmos and fights Chaos: the source that evil that controls all villains? Here we go!)
From SJM’s elusive Pinterest Board, have we always been preparing for this? A third movement, an unfinished game, three worlds fight side by side against the battle no one ever could fathom.
This week has been so much fun!! Thank you everyone for the support and the comments. I’m planning on standing up a store soon, more information to come later.
Best Baddies around!
“Gwydion in hand, Theia left the tent. With Fae grace and surety, she leapt onto the back of a magnificent winged horse and was airborne in seconds, soaring into the battle-filled night.”
“That sword belongs to Theia’s female heir.”
“Cupping her hands before her chest, she drew out the blazing, beautiful star. It illuminated the mists, set the snow at their feet sparkling…What Bryce had taken from her chest that day during the attack last spring was a fraction of the star she now held between her palms.”
“…they seem to be the sort of thing that might belong to a Super Magical Fancy Starborn Princess …” 🦄
“Ruhn’s head spun as he narrowed his eyes at her, blinking at the halo of starlight that danced around her head, at her feet…The sword glimmered with starlight, too. He could have sworn the damn thing was singing.”
“The person who could somehow, against all odds, unite the pieces of Theia’s power—“
Bryce and JJ brought to life!! 💖
🌄 “She understood it now, how the darkness shaped the light.” 🌄
So happy to see the things us Bryceriels have been theorizing about for years possibly on the horizon 😭
Images from SJM’s now-deleted Twilight of the Gods Pinterest board.
The Valkyries are pretty self explanatory. Love that Bryce’s inspiration (Sailor Moon 😍) is pinned so many times as well. Can’t wait to see what story unfolds in these new books. Will we be seeing Sailor Venus (Nesta) assembling the rest of the Sailor Scouts for our Magical Starborn Princess???
“It had been waiting all this time—“ 💫
What would it look like if you took SJM’s Twilight of the Gods Pinterest board, and turned it into a movie trailer? Here’s my attempt!