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The next page is here: faile35.deviantart.com/art/Boo… . For more information on the entire series, read the "'Demon's Due' Defined" journal entry here faile35.deviantart.com/journal… or the "'Demon's Due' Plus" journal entry here faile35.deviantart.com/journal… .
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On the frontispiece of the last volume is an illustration done in a style very similar to the clear, expressive drawings Elina is familiar with in many of her books of mystical and arcane lore. The artist and author of those, Theronaskos the Great Sage, was a fountain of knowledge that to this day is considered dangerous and forbidden. But the Scholar doesn't need her spectacles to recognize that what she is looking at is only a mimicry of Theronaskos' illustrative style, the same way that the words and voice of the writer of the volume are only a mimicry of Anjerome Villios.
The drawing shows a sage and scribe, unmistakably similar to Chief Scribe Theonius, pictured in an instructive stance with quill raised high, while receiving the instruction is an almost comical representation of a large rat, poised receptively at the worktable with quill grasped in its small paw. Gazing upon it, the Scholar recognizes the similarity to an illustrated book of children's fables, but rather than smiling, she feels worry pulling at her brow. There is no humorous delivery of a simple moral here, unlike in a children's fable. What the picture represents is a culmination and graduation of sorts into a new stage of awareness made by the writer and artist.
The final pieces of the puzzle begin falling into place in the back of Elina's mind. Harnessed by the powerful sorcery of her uncle's Bookbinding, the psychic fragment of the Demon that had held congress with Anjerome Villios had followed its own, mystical nature down a new course, the course of learning. And in so doing, it had sought out the greatest source of knowledge available from which to acquire more erudition and skill, Theonius, the Chief Scribe of the Magistrate's Court. From Theonius, the possessed jackrat had learned the symbolic power of writing, rune creation, and sorcery itself, the tastes for which it had acquired from Anjerome, driven onward by the Bookbinding's constraint. Its course laid out before it, the jackrat had taken the name "Jervil" as a young child is prone to oversimplify and misrepresent the label of an intimate, and had then proceeded to pursue knowledge and power and the culmination of Maladyne's plot all at the same time.
And Theonius Naskos had helped it. Willingly.
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That's it. The beans are spilled. The cat is out of the bag. There are still some surprises, of course, and Elina has to learn a few more things, but the bulk of the storyline and what's been going on should now be apparent to anyone who has bothered to read these long-winded comments of mine. We will now get some pages that recap what has gone on in the first seven chapters of the story (and a bit before) as seen from Jervil's point of view and recorded in this last volume by the jackrat-ratman-Anjeromesque Demon. We will see some sides to the Valerin-Avora-Deirdre-Zirena-Callista-Annalae-Drea story that we haven't seen before. It ought to be fun for us, and pretty disturbing for poor Elina...
Elina was drawn using the wonderful references provided by Emily at Feathered-pics . As always, thank you, Emily.
Enjoy!
Note: Bookbinding and Demon's Due are a work of fantasy and fiction. The artist/creator in no way condones real mistreatment of this kind toward any woman or man, by living person, gremlin, plant, assassin, ratman, viscous fluid, programmed device, animated home furnishings, or otherworldly spiritual beings. Furthermore, the artist opposes the marginalizing and restriction of women in general by any institution, political and/or religious, including those which have individual women amongst their membership touting/promoting their own happiness within that institution as evidence that ALL women should feel the same way. This includes the religion I was raised in and which I have utterly discarded from my life over this and other issues.
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On the frontispiece of the last volume is an illustration done in a style very similar to the clear, expressive drawings Elina is familiar with in many of her books of mystical and arcane lore. The artist and author of those, Theronaskos the Great Sage, was a fountain of knowledge that to this day is considered dangerous and forbidden. But the Scholar doesn't need her spectacles to recognize that what she is looking at is only a mimicry of Theronaskos' illustrative style, the same way that the words and voice of the writer of the volume are only a mimicry of Anjerome Villios.
The drawing shows a sage and scribe, unmistakably similar to Chief Scribe Theonius, pictured in an instructive stance with quill raised high, while receiving the instruction is an almost comical representation of a large rat, poised receptively at the worktable with quill grasped in its small paw. Gazing upon it, the Scholar recognizes the similarity to an illustrated book of children's fables, but rather than smiling, she feels worry pulling at her brow. There is no humorous delivery of a simple moral here, unlike in a children's fable. What the picture represents is a culmination and graduation of sorts into a new stage of awareness made by the writer and artist.
The final pieces of the puzzle begin falling into place in the back of Elina's mind. Harnessed by the powerful sorcery of her uncle's Bookbinding, the psychic fragment of the Demon that had held congress with Anjerome Villios had followed its own, mystical nature down a new course, the course of learning. And in so doing, it had sought out the greatest source of knowledge available from which to acquire more erudition and skill, Theonius, the Chief Scribe of the Magistrate's Court. From Theonius, the possessed jackrat had learned the symbolic power of writing, rune creation, and sorcery itself, the tastes for which it had acquired from Anjerome, driven onward by the Bookbinding's constraint. Its course laid out before it, the jackrat had taken the name "Jervil" as a young child is prone to oversimplify and misrepresent the label of an intimate, and had then proceeded to pursue knowledge and power and the culmination of Maladyne's plot all at the same time.
And Theonius Naskos had helped it. Willingly.
***********************************************
That's it. The beans are spilled. The cat is out of the bag. There are still some surprises, of course, and Elina has to learn a few more things, but the bulk of the storyline and what's been going on should now be apparent to anyone who has bothered to read these long-winded comments of mine. We will now get some pages that recap what has gone on in the first seven chapters of the story (and a bit before) as seen from Jervil's point of view and recorded in this last volume by the jackrat-ratman-Anjeromesque Demon. We will see some sides to the Valerin-Avora-Deirdre-Zirena-Callista-Annalae-Drea story that we haven't seen before. It ought to be fun for us, and pretty disturbing for poor Elina...
Elina was drawn using the wonderful references provided by Emily at Feathered-pics . As always, thank you, Emily.
Enjoy!
Note: Bookbinding and Demon's Due are a work of fantasy and fiction. The artist/creator in no way condones real mistreatment of this kind toward any woman or man, by living person, gremlin, plant, assassin, ratman, viscous fluid, programmed device, animated home furnishings, or otherworldly spiritual beings. Furthermore, the artist opposes the marginalizing and restriction of women in general by any institution, political and/or religious, including those which have individual women amongst their membership touting/promoting their own happiness within that institution as evidence that ALL women should feel the same way. This includes the religion I was raised in and which I have utterly discarded from my life over this and other issues.
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Fantastic series!
