thedemondeity: Emperor Belos. One of the first things I thought when Luz finally used her magic and

thedemondeity:

Emperor Belos.

One of the first things I thought when Luz finally used her magic and we saw that the spell consumes whatever the glyph is drawn on is what would happen if someone used their own skin. With all the theories that Belos is a human and/or a lich it makes me think that’s how the emperor’s magic works. That would explain why he was so weak before he drank from the palisman, his magic consumes his own life force making him dependent on magic from the staffs and other witches to keep him self alive.

It would be an interesting contrast between him and Luz, both characters draw power from the titan but while Luz draws power and learns from nature, Belos draws power from artificial means.

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