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Catalyst stones are still used by witches and wizards in the modern era, though they are vanishingly rare. The few that remain are closely guarded, often in the hands of ancient, powerful magical families that can trace their lineages back to before the fall of the Old Kingdom.
These valuable artifacts are passed down through bloodlines, like the gift of magic itself. Every magic-user that wields one is certain to have received it from their parent, who received it from their parent before them, and so on.
While embedding a catalyst stone in one’s body can increase its potency, much of the knowledge of how to do so was lost with the Old Kingdom. Mingling such powerful, raw magic with one’s own flesh has dire risks. No modern wizard in his right mind would dare attempt it.
Of course, not all wizards are in their right minds.
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(Something I originally drew to accompany this ask partially about Theo giving hugs… but I spent too much time on it, so here it is by itself.)
Theo and his mother, Jocosa, the only person he’s ever really felt at peace around. They had each other’s backs no matter what… though that’s not entirely a good thing, considering she was an amoral power-hungry witch and he’s a bad-tempered little creep with violent impulses.
But they did love each other in spite of all that!
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“My neck and my bosom is white and well shaped. My figure is quite good and fairly well proportioned and my stature straight (…). My hands are awful as I didn’t want to wear gloves as a child, but they are small and fairly well shaped. My legs are straight and, as my feet, nicely shaped, yes I can claim it’s the best part of me” (from the diary of Hedvig Elisabeth Charlotta, quoted in the book “Underkläder: en kulturhistoria” from 2008)
Portrait:Hedvig Elisabeth Charlotta of Holstein-Gottorp, later Queen of Sweden and Norway, painted in 1775 by Alexander Roslin. Nationalmuseum Stockholm ( X).
Attire:The portrait was painted one year after her wedding to prince Charles in July 1774, and it’s said to depict her in her wedding dress. How do we know? Because that very same wedding dress has survived and can today be seen in the collection of Livrustkammaren in Stockholm.
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Ermine Trimmed Court Ensemble, 1916
Worn by Crown Prince Otto von Habsburg to his parents Charles I and IV and Zita of Bourbon-Parma‘s coronation as King and Queen of Hungary held in Budapest on December 30, 1916.
viaPaper City
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Heavenly Animals
