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**All our episodes may contain SPOILERS for all three Maasverse series so please only listen if you've read ALL the books!**

In this episode, we finally get ALLL the LORE. It’s THAT chapter, with Alis where we finally hear the full story and the curse and everything that’s happened in the past 50 years. Warning–if you’re a Tamlin defender, this will not be a fav ep lol! We do a LOT of wondering what was in his head for 50 whole years and also discuss logistics of the curse, Amarantha’s own thought process and how she got and maintained her hold over them, we also have some really interesting discussion about Jurian since we’re getting his backstory (is Clythia…still alive?? lol). We realize also that we read these books maybe…harder than we should or than they were meant to be read because we have a LOT of questions that aren’t well answered. Let us know what you think!

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Intro/Closing Music Credit: Indie-Pop by Ivan Luzan

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Episode Overview: 

00:00–Cold open, intro song, episode intro and summary

1:06–Feyre can actually track

1:48–Sam’s theory is that there was no fight and the wreckage was actually just a “Tamtrum” (Tamlin lovers beware lol)

5:06–Alis sniffin Feyre out

7:01–Alis trying to pull her mask off when she sees Feyre? (does she have hope when she sees Feyre?)

7:48–Alis coming off a bit strong here (she’s had a REAL bad time tbf)

9:06–We cannot keep it straight who has been under the mountain and for how long lolll

13:27–Why Feyre shouldn’t be queen + Amarantha witch discussion

15:50–Jurian tangent–what is up with him and Clythia and…crucifixion?? (did he help Clythia fake her death?)

23:38–Amarantha’s timeline of powergrabbing (HOW MANY BALLS…?!)

37:41–Does Amarantha have Lucien’s eye hidden away somewhere..? Is he gonna be in a ring someday!?

41:59–Could Tamlin have spared them by not being “mean”? Lol

42:50–Why tf did she build in a way for herself to be defeated…? And also–what was the plan once he got his powers but the other  high lords were still powerless?

49:09–Lucien CHOSE to portray himself as a fox

54:22–Why doesn’t he transform his people into something easier to be killed by a human girl..? Also how does the hatred work here? (Maybe plothole for the symbolism honestly)

58:12 –People did try and rebel–but why use the Children of the Blessed? And..were they asking for help from….Terrasen??

1:01:47–Did Amarantha kill all mates? Plus Alis backstory discussion

1:03:40–What Tamlin tried to do during the 50 years 

1:07:11–Alis is super hard on Feyre?

1:08:15–Too evil for the Night Court?

1:13:59–Maybe this is why she needed 50 years?

1:14:48–Rhys and Tamlin both thought they’d fight her off slowly? Resigned to fate? WHAT was their plan??

1:16:22 –Maybe we read a bit too hard

1:19:24–What is with Alis in this chapter?

1:23:14–Next week, closing & outro song