#tlt anastasia

[harrowsphiltrum]

the tomb-keeper

#i NEED more anastasia lore PLEASEEEEE #give me herrrr #gideon the ninth #the locked tomb #tlt #harrow the ninth #gtn #htn #tlt fanart #ntn #nona the ninth #the locked tomb fanart #anastasia #anastasia tlt #tlt anastasia

[rosenkranz-does-things]

She had said, There are almost no beautiful things left. Where is Anastasia? Let me talk to Anastasia.

#the locked tomb #nona the ninth #alecto the first #anastasia the first #tlt anastasia #artists on tumblr #captioned

[ghostsessioned]

the priestess crushed beneath the new - laid rock.

#artfart #the locked tomb #tlt #the locked tomb trilogy #gideon the ninth #harrow the ninth #nona the ninth #alecto the ninth #anastasia the first #anastasia the ninth #htn spoilers #ntn spoilers #tentatively places her down #been working on her for a handful of days while my wife goes absolutely bonkers over her design in private #LMAO #anyway. my take on anastasia ! wanted to give her a face akin to harrow's but less scrunched #henneyways #enjoy you anastasia enjoyers #tlt anastasia

[domibomz]

MORE ANASTASIA! The design belongs to my wife @ghostsessioned ! Did you know she finds skulls to be the least interesting bone in the human body ?

#tlt #the locked tomb #tlt anastasia #do i need to trigger warning bones #tw bones #just in case #but if you have a bone trigger i have bad news for you i am about to dive headfirst into a TLT kick #which means i also have to confront the fact that i do not know how to draw bones #anastasia the ninth #my art

[dabblingreturns]

Thinking about how the ninth house doesn't have cats....

It seams like the kind of place that would have cats....

And I have two theories

The thanargy poison that is killing the ninth house also effects other animals. Cats used to be in the ninth and died out. But the ninth wasn't willing to ask anyone for more cats....

Anastasia was super allergic

#the locked tomb #alectopause #tlt #nona the ninth #gideon the ninth #harrow the ninth #the ninth house #tlt Anastasia #cats #tlt theories #gideon would do so well with a cat

[we-are-the-graves]

Honestly a little obsessed with making the Gideon the Ninth Hat pattern someone on ravelry designed, but I keep modifying it.

How many hats until I stop.

~not until I have one for every house~

Pattern is free on Ravelry for any other knitters!!

If anybody wants charts for the skulls that I modified, shoot me a dm!

All of the round buttons besides the big Nona button are from FanFlairShop on Etsy! She's in a tlt facebook group I'm in, and is super great. She has a TON of tlt buttons, and some mugs! (I also have her "HERE IS THE GRAVEYARD AND WE ARE THE GRAVES" mug and lemme say, it's 10/10)

The two enamel pins and the Nona button were pre-order/promotional items from the publisher.

#i have too many buttons for my gideon skull hat but it doesnt look too bad once it's on your head #tlt #the locked tomb #gideon the ninth #harrow the ninth #nona the ninth #alecto the ninth #gideon nav #harrowhark nonagesimus #palamedes sextus #camilla hect #tlt anastasia #cassiopeia the first #tamsyn muir #knit hat #knitting #handknit #john gaius

[inkdragon1900]

Guys what if Anastasia and John had like a more paternal bond hence why he trusted her with the tomb, also why he or Alecto killed Samual when the Lyctorhood process went wrong. Could also explain why he got attached to Harrowhark so fast and viewed her like a daughter cause she reminded him of Anastasia.

#the locked tomb #tlt #the locked tomb series #tlt anastasia #john gaius #harrow the ninth #the locked tomb theory #tlt theories

[homeofwyrm]

I'm giving Anastasia a try, on the fence

#art #the locked tomb #tlt #anastasia the first #Anastasia the ninth? #She is literally so important to the plot of these books and we get like three sentences of secondhand lore about her

[ashiistired]

Without paint

Anastasia concept

This is a very messy sketch but oh well

#anastasia the first #anastasia the ninth #tlt #the locked tomb #gideon the ninth #harrow the ninth #nona the ninth #haunting the narrative requires a nice outfit #tlt fanart

[lastflowerofyourhouse]

some points. some things. some ideas. none of which are connected, i'm sure.

"anastasia" means "resurrection" or "one who will be reborn."

she is the only one of the original lyctors explicitly stated to have sired her house's line of succession.

this is vitally important (important enough to have been actively preserved against all odds for 10000 years), but nobody seem to quite understand why, including the reverend family.

alecto says "you are the blood of anastasia," as if this is relevant to her. she then kisses harrow and draws blood.

it's only after getting verbal confirmation and (presumably) tasting her blood that she pledges her sword to harrow.

she says "i am sorry about samael," as if that would mean something to harrow, as if she expects harrow to have the same grief over anastasia's cavalier that anastasia did.

the ninth house is "the house of the sewn tongue," which is a ritual for the keeping of secrets. it also sounds oddly flesh magic-ey for the ninth, which means they probably didn't originate the practice.

this would imply that it's relevant to their history somehow.

the ninth's skull is jawless, which we know from the ianthe situation is the way to undo the effects of the sewn tongue.

when people talk portentously of the ninth, they talk about its "secrets" and its "mysteries," always in the plural.

which implies that there are more secrets than just the tomb. i doubt they added the plural after the creche flu, can you imagine? the ninth has other, very old secrets.

harrow loved alecto from sight.

alecto recognized her immediately.

like i said, this is a series of random, unconnected facts. there are no conclusions whatsoever to be drawn from this.

#the locked tomb #tlt #tlt meta #anastasia the first #my post

[shayberri789]

My theory on the NtN ending:

Cassiopeia wasn't the only one to betray Jod thousands of years ago. She wasn't the only one to see that what Jod was doing was wrong and put plans in place to deal with it.

Anastasia the first almost had perfect lyctorhood and watched her God kill her cavalier in front of her so she couldn't do it. Maybe she really would have died. Maybe she would have gone the paul route. Maybe she would have survived and Samael would still be around. But he was killed in front of her and she had no say in it.

Alecto was odd, and a little dangerous, but she's the soul of the earth and if Jod could kill the most important person to Anastasia of course he could kill the thing who loved humanity so much she gave them power over life and death.

And when the Lyctors were convincing him to kill his pet revenent beast, the pin point of his greatest sin and a being in constant pain and hurt, maybe Anastasia, the one left behind, the one maybe magicked to silence through a sewn tongue, cursed jaw, felt sympathy and kinship with Alecto. Maybe she knew Jod would never truly kill Alecto. Maybe she was the first person in hundreds if not thousands and millions of years to look at Alecto with compassion and actually say "I will help you if only you tell me how". Maybe she made a promise to protect Alecto, maybe she made a promise to look after her while she sleeps. Maybe she made a promise that one day she'd come and wake Alecto up and they'd solve things together. Maybe one day they can undo what John did and maybe Alecto can have peace, finally, one day. And maybe Alecto swore that for the debt of waking her again she would do anything for Anastasia, any one thing, if Anastasia woke her up in a time when things could change.

But by the time Anastasia, frail with her necromancer build and squirreled away at the edge of the solar system, started reaching old age she realized it was too soon to wake her up. Too soon to send her into the lyctor viper pit again, not while Anastasia was so weak. So she tasks her daughter with guarding the tomb. "This door must stay shut until the day comes when the emperor must die" she says, and her daughter repeats this to her son, and so on and so forth until the body in the locked tomb becomes Armageddon. Not locked away for her own protection, not awaiting the day for the tomb keeper to wake her up and try again, not awaiting the day when the nine houses get to restart. No, she's the greatest enemy of god, she must be locked away lest she start Armageddon, locked away for the protection of the emperor and their duties to her tomb an icon for devotion.

But the bloodwards hold for 10000 years and one day the curse of silence will be lifted from the jaw of the ninth house tomb keeper, and the oath to Alecto is preserved in the Anastasian bloodline. And the daughter of the tomb keeper has awakened the monster once again

#this is me attempting to put a storyteller spin on a hc thats been buzzing around in my skull since i finished ntn #shay posts #tlt #the locked tomb #alecto the ninth #alecto the first #alecto theories #harrowhark nonagesimus #harrow the ninth #gideon the ninth #anastasia the ninth #anastasia the first #nona the ninth #alecto #griddlehark

[ghostsessioned]

the anastasian.

#artfart #the locked tomb #tlt #the locked tomb trilogy #gideon the ninth #harrow the ninth #nona the ninth #anastasia the first #anastasia the ninth #tlt anastasia #hi i love her bye

[domibomz]

OG sad but also scary tomb lady is playing with her bones again She's royally pissed off

#tlt #the locked tomb #tlt anastasia #i did this RIGHT before i had to go to work so the skeletons and bones are #a bit lacklusted to say the least but you get the idea #this anastasia design belongs to my wife @ghostsessioned #she is my partner in crime and very talented please go check out her stuff she is also about to start spamming a bunch of TLT #anastasia the ninth #my art

[dabblingreturns]

I was thinking about the locked tomb today( as usual) and i was thinking about a beautiful peice of fan art I can no longer find of Wake with a Ta Moko tatto.

It gorgeous, I love it. And I will add it to this post when I find it....but I also think it's wrong....

I don't think the ta moko tradition would have survived in Blood of Eden... one or two of the original billionairs might have had Te Moko tattoos on thier faces, but Blood of Eden came from the global elite so that tradition wouldn't have enough traction....also Blood of Eden hid out among other population and super cool face tattoos would have been too much of a give away that they were other.

But I do think that the Ta Moko tradition did survive, ( though changed) in the nine houses. I fact, I think it's one of the first things we see in gideon the ninth....I think the ninth's skull masks were directly inspired by Te moko tattoos....

Here is my batshit theory*: Anastasia was in the second generation after resurection, and was Maori according to Taz muir. She probably didn't have Ta moko tattos....but her parents might have gotten them, pre-resurectio. So little Anastasia could have grown up with an odd love of bones and a very natural love of people who had elaborate face design. The context of those designs would have been lost, but the ink would remain. So when creating her own house, Anastasia might have pulled from the idea of ta moko to create the first skull makeup. This way, she took something beautiful but this no meaning that she loved, and she gave it meaning. And that tradition stayed because the ninth is isolated. And they kepted a peice of pre resurection culture alive

*Disclamer: I am a white American who can never fully understand the culture significance of these traditions....and the only reason I feel comfortable making this speculation is that im talking about a sci fi novel set 1000 years after everyone simultaneously lost thier historical context.

*edit. I originally spelled this "Te moko" because i am very dislexic, but a kind person pointed out that I spelled it wrong. Im sorry for any feeling that my have caused (i do care very much, but sometimes i mess up) I have edited the post to a more correct spelling. Wikipedia spells it "Tā moko" but I don't know how to get the special - on top of the a"

#awake remembrance of these valiant dead #the locked tomb #nona the ninth #gideon the ninth #harrow the ninth #tlt #nona the ninth spoilers #john gaius #ntn spoilers #comander wake #tlt wake #awake Remembrance of these valent dead #tlt Anastasia #tlt analysis #te moko #the locked tomb spoilers #ta moko #tamoko #spelling edits #gideon nav #harrowhark nonagesimus #tlt thoughts #maori culture #skull face paint #self reblog #spelling updates

[we-are-the-graves]

It's me again!

My ADHD would not let me focus at work today, so running with my Iliad parallels, here are the Greek Gods each of the OG Lyctors correspond to, in my very humble opinion.

Jod - Zeus, obvs. King Boy, the Big Man. Known for having random children with mortals, making them Half God. Was tricked into sex in the OG Dios Apate.

Augustine - Poseidon. Master of the River, "brother" of King Boy.

Mercymorn - Hera. I had trouble with this one, but this comes down mostly to her associations with pregnancy and childbirth, both pre- and post-Resurrection, and the involvement in Dios Apate.

Gideon - Ares. This was another obvious one, with the Second House being the military, and being located on Mars. The skull on the Second House Lyctoral door in Canaan House might also be a ram skull, ram for Zodiac Aries.

Cassiopeia - Athena. Wisdom, knowledge, the color grey. Etc.

Ulysses - Dionysus. We know almost nothing about him, except he loved to throw sexy parties. Case closed.

Cyrus - Apollo. Again, we know close to nothing about Cyrus, but we know he was a painter and apparently had an appreciation for art (even if it was only nudes of himself and his bestie).

Cytherea - Aphrodite. Not only does the Seventh House have a preoccupation with beauty, Cytherea is a real Greek island that has associated itself with Aphrodite.

Anastasia - Hades. Hades was not an Olympian, and Anastasia is not a Lyctor. Both were banished, essentially, to manage the dead, only revered by those in their realms. The Ninth House is on Pluto, and of course Roman Pluto corresponds to Greek Hades.

I have not yet decided on any for Ianthe and Harrow, or if this is a more "senior Lyctors only" theory, but I love the thought that Ianthe and her apples might make her an Eris with her apple of discord, which I would *love* to see with an equivalent Athena/Hera/Aphrodite, Cassy/Mercy/Cyth.

#tlt #the locked tomb #ntn spoilers #htn spoilers #gtn spoilers #gideon the ninth #harrow the ninth #nona the ninth #alecto the ninth #john gaius #augustine the first #mercymorn the first #gideon the first #cassiopeia the first #ulysses the first #cyrus the first #cytherea the first #tlt anastasia #greek myth #greek gods #zeus #hera #athena #apollo #ares #dionysus #poseidon #hades #aphrodite

[mossytrashcan]

colored some of the sketches!! yeah ik ana’s dress sucks don’t @ me it was mostly improv

#really wanted to make my own unique anastasia design that wasn’t just copying other people’s lol #tlt #the locked tomb #alecto the ninth #anastasia the ninth #sage’s doodle tag