#which could mean that either the word doesn’t yet exist in adofn or wulf just doesn’t know it

[tragedykery]

[ID: text from a day of fallen night, reading, “‘Farfetched as it sounds, yes. [start highlight.] He was seen in the haithwood, performing a ritual, dressed as if to mock a sanctarian. [end highlight.] His followers, who fled before they could”. the text cuts off there. /end ID]

I know this is such a trivial detail but it’s genuinely been haunting me since I read this part. the clothing of a follower of the original religion of inysca, seeming to mimic that of a sanctarian of the six virtues? “mocking,” through a secret ritual that is not meant to be seen, especially not by those that are supposedly being mocked?

I think it’s the other way around. that the sanctarian robes are based on “heathen” ones. I don’t know if was deliberate or not, whether galian chose it because it was familiar to his people, to ease the (forced) conversion, or just because it was familiar to him. but most likely, the sanctarian robes are a remnant of the original religion of inysca, still visible in the six virtues, and it probably isn’t the only one. how ironic, then, that heathens are persecuted in the name of virtudom, even as their religion lives on the other. that what they now deem “heresy” stands at the very foundations of their own religion.

#a day of fallen night #roots of chaos #the priory of the orange tree #adofn #much in the same way they worship cleolind as their damsel yet scorn her for being a heretic #just. how incredibly ironic the entirety of the six virtues is #their founding legend just being. incorrect. how they worship a long-dead man for his lie. kalyba’s involvement and how ‘the deceiver had #himself been deceived.’ how they scorn and persecute other religions yet wouldn’t exist without them. etc #analysis #<- ish #elli rambles #adofn spoilers #r #a #roc #also it’s obviously logical that wulf thinks he’s mocking sanctarians because that is where he recognises those robes from #because he follows the six virtues (or at least does at that point lol) #also a fun little detail is that while ead calls it a herigaut in priory wulf just describes it as a sanctarian’s robe #which could mean that either the word doesn’t yet exist in adofn or wulf just doesn’t know it #the latter of which would make sense tbh considering that while wulf follows the six virtues he is just a regular practitioner and not #particularly knowledgeable about it #meanwhile ead had to study the faith quite well for her conversion #so it makes sense she knows the term #anyway. conclusion: six virtues syncretism & irony <3