Welcome to your Quicksilver recap! This blog post is meant to be used in tandem with the YouTube video below. The video below is a full Quicksilver recap in 40 minutes that you should watch before the Brimstone release on November 18th!
Part 1. Zilvaren
Our story starts following Saeris Fane, a 24 year old woman who lives as a peasant in Zilvaren. Zilvaren is a very harsh desert city with two suns, Balea and Min, also known as The Twins, so it is perpetually in day light and extremely oppressively hot.
The city is shaped like a wheel, divided by 50 meter tall walls: the wealthy live in the central Hub, while the outer wards crumble in poverty with little access to water. Evil Queen Madra has ruled for a thousand years, and her queens guard known as the Guardians, are extremely brutal law enforcers.
Anyone who lives in Zilvaren who possesses magic is hunted down and killed which makes this a very dangerous place to live for Saeris who is hiding her magical ability to control metal.
Saeris and her younger brother Hayden are orphans. Her father died when she was 2 years old and their mother was killed when she was 18 by the guardians for carrying weapons which is punishable by death in this city. Her life in Zilvaren consists of working for a glassblower named Elroy and trying to keep her and Hayden alive.
One day while Saeris is out and about doing her regular old thievery, she is caught by one of the Guardians for trying to steal a small piece of metal, which is also a crime punishable by death in Zilvaren. In order to get the Guardain to release her, Saeris says she’s from the 3rd ward which is notorious for being infected and quarantined. So the guard not only releases her, but also removes his gauntlet of golden armor that was touching her, throws it on the ground in disgust, and she takes this has her opportunity to steal it and make a run for it. She escapes by climbing over the wall and intends to take the gold to Elroy to have it melted down so she could sell the pieces of gold to get out of Zilvaren for good.
Elroy does not like this plan for a variety of reasons mostly because he knows the Guardians are not going to let this transgression slide and he doesn’t want to be killed by them like Saeris’ mother was. Elroy was in love with Saeris’ mother and has taken on a sort of father/mentor role to her and her brother since her passing.
Saeris slinks away in defeat and heads to the local pub where she finds Carrion, the cities most notorious gambler, cheater and smuggler in Zilvaren. He’s also a previous fling of Saeris. While they’re having a little chat, Seaeris gives the gauntlet to Hayden to bring it somewhere safe, but unfortunately he gets stopped by the guardians and a fight breaks out. In order to save Hayden she kills 2 guardians before being restrained by another, and is taken to the palace dungeons to be executed, of course.
Before she’s hanged she is brought to have an audience with queen Madra. Now Madra is supposedly human but somehow has been ruling for 1,000 years? Despite the fact that she’s 1,000+ years old she has fair and flawless skin, golden hair and bright, quick, intelligent blue eyes, and she’s more beautiful than anyone woman Saeris had ever seen.
She begins to interrogate Saeris about where she learned how to fight well enough to kill two of her guardians, convinced that the Fae had “come for her at last” and had found a way to train Saeris as a fighter. She apparently vanquished them 1,000 years ago and now thinks they’re back to kill her.
She decides to leave Heron to deal with Saeris but not before telling her that she is going to wipe out the entire third ward, all 100,000 citizens, for being a bunch of insidious rats. With that lovely comment she leaves her guard Heron to deal with Saeris. They get in a scuffle and he stabs her through the stomach which should have been a fatal wound, but Saeris notices a magnificent sword in arms reach! She pulls the sword out of the ground and strikes Heron in the shoulder. The ground where Saeris pulled the sword out starts melting into a pool of silver and a dark figure emerges looking like death himself.
The mysterious dark figure kills Heron then turns his attention back to Saeris. He places a silver chain around her neck, scoops her up and she blacks out right as she’s being taken away by the dark stranger.
Part 2. The Winter Palace
Saeris wakes up in luxury—no longer in Zilvaren but in Yvelia, home of the Fae. The fae realm is separated into the four major areas you see below: Yvelia, Sanasroth, Gilaria, and Lissa.
Everlayne is the first character we meet in the Fae realm and she is the daughter of Belikon De Barra, King of the Yvelian fae. She tells Saeris that it’s urgent that the dark stranger gets his necklace back because apparently he’d been without it for 10 days and it was affecting him greatly to not have it. A very large fae man named Renfis comes to collect it and leaves the ladies to it.
Saeris realizes that she has been unconscious for 10 days and at this point she kind of freaks out right? She’s like I need to go home my brother is there that crazy queen lady said she was gonna put the torch to my entire ward. I gotta go back. And Everlayne is like I’m sorry you’re too important my father is not going to let you go, and while we’re talking about my father, he requests an audience with you so we must go right now.
As they’re walking to meet the king Everlayne and Saeris discuss the Corcoran gods, which Madra has completely erased the history of. Everlayne tells her a story of twin sisters called Balmithin. Which she realizes is the origin story of the twin suns in Zilvaren, Balea and Min which is a clue that the fae world and Zilvaren are more connected than she thought.
When they reach the throne room there are hundreds of fae in attendance to watch this spectacle. The king tells Saeris she awakened the quicksilver and opened the portal between their worlds after a thousand years.
The next person to come in for an audience with the king is the man who brought Saeris to this world and he’s called a variety of names; living curse, bane of Gillethrye, black knight and finally his actual name, Kingfisher, and it seems to be a shock to all the people in the room that he’s alive and “returned”. Apparently he torched an entire city named Gillethrye and was exiled over 100 years ago.
The king is debating whether to execute or spare Kingfisher, but it’s pretty clear the king does not like Fisher and would rather see him die. General Renfis pops in to object by saying their army needs kingfisher on the front lines of a war in Cahlish that has been going on for 1500 years, but he thinks Kingfisher could really turn the tide of the war. The King agrees to let him leave in a weeks time once he has helped Saeris learn to wake the quicksilver again.
Connections Between the Fae Realm and Zilvaren
Everyone is dismissed, and Saeris and Everlyane head to the library. There, we learn that Saeris might be an alchemist, and that the sword she used to portal her way here—called Solace—is no ordinary weapon. No human could wield it without burning their hands, which means Saeris must have at least a drop of fae blood.
In our library time we also learn that Madra was responsible for stilling the Quicksilver and cutting off Belikon’s trade routes with other realms. There are also rumors that the heir to the Daianthus line—the family rightfully entitled to the Yvelian throne—is living in Zilvaren. Since Belikon wiped out the entire Daianthus bloodline in order to usurp the throne, he has formed plans to invade Zilvaren to eliminate this surviving heir, and to destroy Madra for cutting off the Quicksilver.
Everlane tells Saeris that she is in fact fishers younger sister, though they only share the same mother, Edina. Before marrying the king, Edina was wed to a southern lord named Finran, who was Fisher’s father. When Fisher was 10, King Belikon sent Finran on a mission to Zilvaren and he never returned, and that’s when the gateways were stilled with Finran’s sword, Solace. The king blamed Fisher’s father for this happening, hence why he hates Fisher. He still chose to marry Edina though—to prove she herself was not a traitor to the crown. Ultimately she ended up dying in “child birth“ with Layne. More on that later.
Quicksilver Properties
Quicksilver pools are pathways that connect different realms. The Quicksilver itself is volatile and elders believes it possesses a level of sentience. It’s very dangerous and will push any living creature beyond the boundaries of sanity.
To travel through Quicksilver safely, you need a relic—without it, you risk being overtaken, even possessed, by its power. This is why Fisher gave Saeris the necklace when he brought her from Zilvaren to Yvelia. When one pool of Quicksilver is activated, all Quicksilver everywhere is activated because it’s joined by a sort of ribbon of energy. On the other hand, all Quicksilver can be stilled by an Alchimeran sword such as Solace, because the magic essentially paralyzes the energy flow.
The chain that Fisher wears allows him to travel between other realms and be safe from the effects of the quicksilver. However, one time long ago, he was forced to travel a pathway without it, and the quicksilver took him just as it takes everyone else. A healer at the Winter Palace managed to draw most of it out, but traces remained—leaving a silver ring in his eye that occasionally stirs to life. The experience also left him slightly unhinged and he admits that wearing the necklace is the only thing keeping him sane, and without it, the line between what’s real and what isn’t blurs. He also wears a special relic ring that helps with maintaining his sanity.
And to add insult to injury he was obviously exiled for 110 years completely alone, and now that he’s back he has no rooms nowhere to eat nowhere to sleep and no provisions because Belikon hates him, so poor Fisher honestly is not having a good time.
The winter palace is known for having the largest pool of quicksilver ever documented. Belikon had it created in the bowels of the palace to transport entire armies at once. One thing I also want to note is the difference between quicksilver and shadowgates. Shadow gates allow you to travel around within realms and quicksilver allows you to travel between realms.
Alchemy
Alchemy is now a lost art, but previously there had been three branches of alchemist:
- Fae who sought to discover the path immortality
- Fae, who sought to create and invent by transmuting various metals and ores
- Fae who sought to cure illness and disease
Alchemists were known to be able to manipulate one or more elements including light, dark, silver, steel, earth, air, fire, water, salt, Quicksilver and Brimstone muahahahh. The more elements they could control, the stronger they were.
Saeris seems to be the second type of alchemist, the transmuting kind, but unfortunately the process of transmutation has been lost over time. They’re hoping that if Saeris spends enough time in a Yvelian forge, she will be able to run sufficient tests to figure it out, but that plan does not go well.
So Saeris comes up with a different plan to steal Fishers relic ring and escape back to Zilvaren, which goes about as well as you would expect considering Fisher is 1,730 years old so he knows when he’s being played.
It turns out the ring isn’t actually a relic, it was just a gift from his mom, and Saeris was about to go through the Quicksilver without any sort of protection. Saeris tells him she would rather die or be tortured by King Belikon than stay here and help him which is insane but okay. So Fisher decides to take pity on this dumb creature and agrees to go to Zilvaren to bring her brother back to the Winter Palace. He says he will try to bring back her brother if he will allow her to go home if she agrees to do whatever he tells her, and help him create more relics. They make a blood oath and off he goes.
Faerie Oaths
Blood Oath
Blood Oaths are unbreakable. Anyone who makes the oath HAS TO do what they agreed to do. Obviously Faeries are known for little loop holes though, so when Fisher comes back with Carrion Swift, not Hayden, he says he kept his end of the bargain and TRIED to bring her brother back. Which means she now has to keep up her end and do what he tells her to do and make the relics. On the bright side Carrion tells her Hayden is safe and living in the seventh ward where he’s employed as a store clerk, AND Madra hasn’t attacked their people, Which is welcome news.
Oathbound Fae
When fae turn twenty-one, they kneel before the Firinn Stone and make a decision. Option 1 is Bleed on the stone and make a vow to always be truthful and bound by their word, no matter what it costs.
Lawless Fae
Option 2 is become a Lawless fae. A Lawless Fae may lie. They may cheat. They may steal. but it would cost them a price too high for some to pay. Their honor.
The Gift of Life
Fae can also give parts of their soul to save lives, although it’s an ancient rite that very few people know how to perform.
If the person who received the soul dies first, the piece of soul returns to its original owner and they become whole again with no problems. If the donor dies first, they’re condemned to wait for the recipient of their soul piece to die before they can move on. They become trapped in a non-corporeal state, unable to touch anything or anyone. Unable to be heard. That’s the sacrifice made when someone gives the gift of life. So it’s not to be used lightly.
Part 3. Cahlish
Cahlish is a fiefdom at the edge of Yvelia, and they’re heading here is because it has been warded heavily against Belikon and his supporters by fishers dad Finran. He knew Belikon was planning to usurp the Daianathus throne and would likely come after him as a supporter of their claim, so he created the wards which still stand to this day. This makes you wonder if you’re a fantasy reader, usually magic dies along with the person who casts the spells, so….could Fisher’s dad be alive…?
At Cahlish Saeris is desperately trying to turn important items from each member of fishers army into relics to travel through quicksilver. There are 15,000 people in his army though so it’s going to take some time.
Cahlish is in the midst of an ongoing war with Sanasroth. Sanasroth is an enemy territory across the frozen Darn River, occupied by a very evil vampire named Malcom and his horde of vampires and feeders. Fae magic does not work on Sanasrothian soil.
Vampires and Feeders
There was a time Millenia ago when the the Fae realm teamed with humans, until the Fae were cursed and corrupted with long canines and a thirst for human blood. They fed like vampires, slaughtering millions before the blood curse was finally lifted. Malcolm was the first to be afflicted, but unlike everyone else, he embraced the curse. When a cure was finally found, he decided not to take it because he liked the dark magic it afforded him. Unlike his Lords, who can only create soulless, mindless feeders, Malcolm can turn other fae into Vampires without killing them. Most of his vast army is made up of these former humans, now known as feeders.
Part 4. Irrín
Since Saeris is having no success creating relics, Fisher decides to take her to the war camp at Irrín between Cahlish and the Sansrothian border.
At the war camp, a fight erupts between Fisher and his generals—the Lupo Protea—after Danya accuses him of treachery for abandoning them. The Lupo Protea, an elite unit led by Kingfisher, includes Renfis, Lorreth, Danya, and others. When Danya proceeds to attack Fisher, Saeris panics and shatters her blade into a thousand pieces which horrifies everyone since the weapon was an Alchimeran God Sword.
Forged with magic and Quicksilver by Alchimerian masters, these swords were once gifts from the gods. When the gods left Yvelia, all became dormant except Nimerelle. Although the blade is blackened and tarnished the magic inside of it remains. I’m going to link a bonus chapter from Fishers POV about how he was bestowed Nimerelle in the description if you’re interested in reading it.
Before anyone can really register what it means that Saeris, a human, was able to destroy a god sword, the alarms sound. The sanasrothian horde is trying to cross the river and they need to break the ice so they can’t cross.
Fisher is able to drown the horde and they return to the tent to try to repair the sword. Saeris realizes there was quicksilver in the blade and that every metal that has called to her so far has had trace amounts of quicksilver in it. Back when there were plenty of alchemists and the pools were open to other worlds, quicksilver was imbued with other metals to make weapons more powerful and turns out this is why metal is so hard to come by in Zilvaren, because Madra took it all to keep quicksilver away from the people.
Historically most alchemists could only command objects that were at least 5% quicksilver and even then they could only turn it from liquid to solid. There are no records of anyone being able to fragment something the way Saeris did which makes her the most powerful alchemist in history. Wow!
While most people are excited that this could turn the tide of the war, Danya is perpetually pissed and thinks that this is too good to be true. But according to Ren, they only have one year left of the fight until Malcom wins the war so Saeris is their last hope. Saeris convinces the shards of Danyas blade to come back together by talking to the quicksilver in it. It wants music as a form of payment for being re-forged and it will require Danyas blood to decide if she’s worthy of its gifts.
Once it’s successfully re-forged by Saeris, Lorreth is so entranced that he reaches out to touch it. The blade cuts him, and as his blood drips onto the metal, the sword recognizes him as its rightful bearer. So, it’s Lorreth's sword now and Danya is about as pleased as you could imagine a perpetually pissed person would be. When she tries to take the sword back, the hand she grabs it with is disintegrated because you can’t touch a god sword that isn’t yours.
Now bound to Lorreth, the sword becomes known as Aviseth, imbued with the power of Angel’s Breath: a blinding light capable of destroying vampires, I think….though the full nature of angel’s breath is still kind of a mystery to me. If anyone has any more info about it let us know in the comments!
They go back to camp for a short period of time before Malcom’s horde comes knocking again.
This time as they’re battling the vampires Everlayne cries out for kingfisher because she’s on the other side of the river, in enemy territory. Turns out Malcom bit her 12 hours ago and in order to save her, he requests Fisher and Saeris' presence in Gillethrye in 3 days time. If they don’t save her in 3 days as you’ll remember, she’s going to become one of Malcom’s vampire lords, or she’s going to die and become a vampire feeder.
They all return to Cahlish swiftly in hopes of finding a way to save Everlayne. Meanwhile, Saeris starts crafting relics for the soldiers, now knowing she can bargain with the quicksilver. This time, her method of bribing the quicksilver and sealing each relic with her blood succeeds — and relics are made.
Te Lena who is the resident healer at Cahlish, visits to see if anyone needs healing. Saeris notices the same tattoos on Te Lena’s hands that had appeared on her own hands after her and Fisher slept together and she has questions.
Te Lena shares that mates get tattoos as part of a fae custom that mimics what it used to be like when true mating bonds existed. Unions between mates were blessed with marks from the Fates, but when the gods left Yvelia certain elements of their magic died over time like the god swords and mating bonds.
She also tells Saeris about God Binding, a rare phenomenon that occurred between the most significant couples in Yvelia. It happened when the gods themselves blessed a pair, marking them with divine writing that wound around their wrists. It sounds beautiful and fated — but unfortunately every couple who was God Bound shared a tragic fate, and in every story, one of them always died.
Te Lena is like oh not to worry dear it’s just a fairy tale, god bindings don’t exist anymore. But when Saeris and Fisher slept together, god bindings sure did appear.
So Saeris goes to find Fisher for some answers. This is when he tells her he’s known she’s was going to be coming for centuries because his mother was an Oracle. He also tells her he’s been calling her Oshellith after magnificent butterflies that only hatch once in any fae's lifetime. They hatch where dragons used to live and they mate, lay their eggs then die all in the same day. But the day it happens they sing a special healing song and Oshellith means “most sacred” in old fae.
Fisher’s mother knew what fate would befall him with the quicksilver so she made special relics for him imbued with powerful spells from witches to help slow the progression of the quicksilver driving him mad. The team decides to send Ren and Danya out to find the Balquhidder witches as they might be the only ones powerful enough to break the blood magic that is binding Everlayne to Malcolm.
They find the witches, who mostly are not happy to help them because Danya was rude to them obviously, but one witch named Isaebail decides to help. She is granddaughter of the Balquhidder high witch and she’s going to be on call for when their Everlayne rescue mission.
That night, Fisher accepts their mating bond, even though Saeris hasn’t decided. In the morning, she wakes to find him gone with a note left behind: he’s going to Gillethrye alone, unarmed, to trade himself for Everlayne. He leaves Nimerelle behind, knowing that if Malcom claimed a God Sword, there would be no hope for anyone, so in reality this essentially is, a suicide mission.
Saeris returns to the rest of the group with the message, and they hatch a plan for how they’re going to save Fisher. Carrion decides he needs a good sword in order to help out properly, so Saeris makes him a sword which he decides to call Simon. TBD on if Simon has any special powers.
While they’re about to have a laugh about the swords stupid name, a shadow gate opens from the ceiling and Everlayne falls right though it. While the gate is open, Carrion, Lorreth, and Saeris manage to jump through it to get to Gillethyre to save Fisher.
Part 5. Gillethrye
When they reach their destination they come upon an amphitheater that seats hundreds of thousands of people all chanting Annorath Mor which means “Release us”.
At the center of the amphitheater is a labyrinth so this appears to be some sort of gladiatorial games situation. The first person they encounter is Herron — Queen Madra’s guard! He didn’t die at the palace in Zilvaren after all; he’s here, in Gillethrye. And it only gets stranger — at the end of the labyrinth, standing atop a dais, are Malcom, King Belikon, and Queen Madra themselves. And to make bad news worse, Gillethyre is a giant graveyard. The land is dead and no one can use their magic here.
Malcom, Belikon, and Madra make up a triumvirate which Belikon describes as “three crowns sharing one source. to kill one of them you have to kill them all” Also, the war, it turns out, was a feeding ground to sustain Malcom’s horde, and Belikon actually put the silver embargo in place to help save Malcoms army since silver can kill feeders. So he has been screwing his own people over for Millenia.
Thanks to Belikon’s villain monologue we finally find out where Fisher was for over 100 years, because turns out he was here! In the Labyrinth!
110 Years Ago...
Malcom’s horde of 20 thousand vampires had gathered at the gates of Gillethrye, a city of 200,000 high fae and lesser fae. Fishers army had been drawn into a decoy battle to the south and they found out too late that the real battle was at Gillethrye.
By the time they arrived, the horde was already inside the city. All the Fae were gathered in the streets, celebrating the Festival of the First Song. The horde swept through the city like locusts, feeding on anything they came across, either draining their victims or consigning them to an agonizing death.
Fisher decided to go off on his own to find Malcom to try and kill him himself, but he didn’t find Malcom, he found Belikon. When Malcolm arrived at the head of his host Fisher realized he and Belikon weren’t adversaries at all. They were allies and had been working together since before the blood curse. He wanted to bargain for the few citizens of Gillethrye who were still alive, so Belikon proposed a deal. They would flip a coin, one found only in Gillethrye.
Part 6. The Coin Toss
The rules of the coin toss were as follows:
If the coin hit the ground and landed leaf-side up, Malcom would call off his horde and leave the city without hurting anyone else. If the coin hit the ground and landed fish-side up, he would take the city as his own and destroy it. Fisher would have to leave those still alive to their deaths and meet Malcom on the field of battle at a later date.
Fisher wasn’t allowed to touch the coin or influence the way it fell. While the coin toss was being decided, he wasn’t allowed to harm Malcom or Belikon, speak of this deal or of the fact that Malcolm and Belikon were brothers.
Fisher agreed to these terms by making a blood oath to Belikon, the coin is tossed, and Malcom catches it. In other words, it never hit the ground.
Thats when Fisher torched the city. At this point Malcolm’s horde had either bitten or killed everyone. They were already transitioning and if Malcoms horde gained another 200,000 people, they would have swallowed the entire realm. Fisher barricaded the city and trapped everyone inside.
Thats when Malcom created the most diabolical labyrinth he could conjure. He hid Belikon’s coin at its center, built the colosseum around it and filled the stands with the perpetually burning bodies of all the citizens. All Fisher had to do to end their suffering was find the coin and make it fall to the ground. Obviously, it would be too late to save the Fae from death, but at least it would end their suffering. And then, he would be free to seek his vengeance by calling Malcom out onto the battlefield.
It took him 102 years to get to the center of the Labyrinth and another eight years trying to find the coin in the center. Malcom’s powers allowed Fisher to not need sleep or food while he was in the labyrinth which is how he survived.
One day while Taladaius, Malcoms son, was checking on Kingfisher, the ground shook so violently that the stone cracked beneath his feet, and a hole appeared. Lo and behold: There was a quicksilver pool below the labyrinth. And it had been awakened!
Fisher says “I went into the quicksilver because I felt my father’s sword calling to me. And I knew I’d need it for this.”
Fisher grabs Solace to stabs Belikon, all hell breaks loose, and the gang runs to the labyrinth to hide. The first trial they run into is a giant spider demon named Morthill which they are able to successfully kill. The next issue they run into is Malcom moving the walls of the labyrinth as they are running through it, to trap them inside. They manage to get to the center of the labryrinth much faster than Fisher was able to and they come upon a tower of coins.
Just as they’re wondering how they could possible find the real coin amongst this tower, Malcom shows up and is like ha ha losers they are all fake! Fisher tells Saeris through their mind connection that she should be able to find the real coin because it contains traces of quicksilver. As they are hatching a plan to buy Saeris some time, Malcom bites Carrion!
And we’re all like oh no not Carrion, but suddenly stops he stumbles back, stunned. His blood has revealed a secret! Carrion Swift is actually Carrion Daianthus. Carrion’s father’s blood was used to create the curse that turned Malcolm into a vampire. No vampire can drink from the living descendants of the bloodline that created them, nor can they enthrall them.
The blood of that lineage should also kill any vampire who drinks it—but Malcolm was so powerful that it only made his flesh fall off of his body but he didn’t die, cute. Carrion as it turns out was brought to Zilvaren by fishers father when he was young to save him from Belikon. He glamoured his ears and canines so he’d look human. Finran told him to learn about the fae and bide his time, but then the gates closed and he got stuck there.
While everyone is distracted by this revelation, Saeris runs off with Solace to find the quicksilver coin. The quicksilver says it will show her the way to the coin in exchange for a small favor and she agrees. She follows the quicksilver pull directly to Morthill because the coin is indeed inside his dead corpse. She bravely retrieves it and turns around to find Malcolm standing there waiting and “he’s like you better give me that coin.”
They get in a fight but Saeris manages to distract him enough that the coin falls to the ground and all of the souls are finally swept away to eternal rest. Saeris uses Solace to cut off Malcom’s head and that’s the way you kill a vampire baby.
Fisher arrives to save her—alongside Taladius, who, surprisingly, turns out to be Fisher’s ally. Taladius reveals that he was second only to his father in power and he warns Fisher that they need to act fast because the only way to save Saeris from the mortal wounds Malcolm inflicted is to turn her into a vampire before it’s too late. Very Bella Swan of her.
As Saeris is dying from the turning process the quicksilver calls in the favor it wants from her. It wants an audience with her, urgently. Barely conscious, Saeris agrees and is instantly swept away into a pool of quicksilver.
Part 7. The Fates
She’s greeted by two “girls” who turn out to be Bal and Mithin and their father is none other than Zareth, the god of chaos. Zareth is sitting at the base of a tree that represents all different universes. His family are responsible for tending to the timelines of fate, and they are compelled to destroy any universes that need to be pruned. There is a rot spreading through his domain and the infected realms must be destroyed to save the rest. So he waves his hand and 3 rotting leaves are removed from the tree, each leaf representing billions of people. Yikes.
He also tells Saeris that he altered her fate. She was supposed to be born fae in fisher’s realm, but as he continued to watch, he realized no matter how the tree of fate was manipulated, the two of them would always end up together.
He says “threads like you and Kingfisher that are drawn together and cross on an axis create a well of power. The energy the two of you draw together, attracts an equal and opposite counterweight. every possible future where the two of you are together ends with the vast majority of this tree dying, aka nearly the entire universe dying. None of us can foresee any other way.” Yikes, again.
He says that while they’re not exactly “responsible” for the end of the world, their meeting and mating is a spark that is going to start a chain reaction that could end the world.
So what did Zareth do about this? He brought Fisher to him when Fisher was a young boy, 10 years old right after his mother had just been killed by Belikon. That’s right, Edina didn’t die in child birth she was killed by evil Belikon.
Fisher apparently made an enemy of Zareth’s family so he sent him away and kept a watchful eye on him. He spent a great deal of time studying the various outcomes and paths of this universe once Kingfisher and Saeris met, and while he never found a balance that meant good prevailed, there were pathways that led to uncertainty.
He notes that in all the veiled futures there is one common factor. She and Fisher fought by each others side and were god bound. Their god binding tattoos mark them as the wards of Zareth and protect them from the wrath of the other gods. Her bargain if she should accept fisher as her mate, is that she must agree for the thread of her life to be tethered from the tapestry of the universe. If she does this, none of the gods will be able to see her or affect her future.
How is Zareth going to do this you may ask? He’s going to transform her into something that has never been seen before. Because the universe cannot focus on that which it does not recognize. She agrees to this god bargain and Zareth sends her back through the quicksilver.
Part 8. The Sanasrothian Queen
She wakes up in Taladius’ room and she’s now half vampire half fae, something no one has seen before! But she’s not just half vampire half fae.
In fae courts the crown is typically passed to a Regents heir, but if the regent is murdered, the crown is claimed by the person who killed them. Malcom never named an heir because he thought he would live forever and since Saeris killed him, she’s now the vampire queen and in 2 days time she will officially become the queen of Sanasroth.
As for our other characters:
Everlayne is alive and should be waking up soon, Renfis is definitely in love with her.
Belikon and Madra both fled Gillethrye so those losers will be back for book 2.
And Isaebail the witch has been able to slowly tease the quicksilver out of Fisher so he’s not gonna lose his mind yay! The end!
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