So far they are at the centre of Ruby’s story-line.
THE CINDERS ON VENUS DESTINY SERIES
This is why the eyes Ruby inherited from Summer are so pivotal not only in the series itself, but in Ruby’s personal arc too. To Ruby Summer is both hope and despair, creation and destruction since she gave life to Ruby, but is also the girl’s first experience with death and loss. It is a powerful juxtaposition that fits Ruby’s character and her complicated feelings over Summer: Ruby embodies purity also because of her young age that lets her be hopeful. I was like that as a girl, but time and… a lot of other things, took their toll on me.
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They are associated to life in how they are linked to a young life blooming:īlake: I know you don’t always know what to do, but that’s never stopped you from doing something. Similarly, red roses are symbols of both life and death in the story. In her struggle to move forward Ruby might spread herself too thin and her petals might get lost. Maria: You know, you don’t give yourself enough credit. On one hand Ruby scatters because she is flexible, has an original approach to things and can’t be restrained by gravity or any kind of obstacle. Both imageries are linked to contradictive ideas. They are clearly conveyed in Ruby’s Petal Burst, which appears as a rose scattering. Not only that, but as gatheringkeepsakes notices in this post, the moon itself is like a “scattering rose”:īoth scattering and roses are two recurring motifs in Ruby’s design. What is more, both the Silver Eyes and Crescent Rose are linked to the moon. Once again, we have the dychotomy Soul (the eyes) = Creation and Body (the weapon) = Destruction. Still, her weapon is a scythe, which is symbolically linked to death aka Destruction: Preservation is an extension of creation, or, at the very least, an enemy of destruction. Maria: Precisely! It is the desire to preserve life which fuels the light inside you. Ruby’s design is interesting because it combines elements of both Creation and Destruction.Īfter all, her silver eyes are linked to Creation: It's the image of one hundred billion worlds barely filling two hands.Here are some of my favourite designs in no particular order! The message is the minuscule nature of the box's cargo. One of them offers a simple explanation: "The box is a message. The box holds renderings of every habitable world in the galaxy. There is one Earth and one Mars and a Venus too. Each sphere represents a planet, and some of these tiny globes match known worlds. One hundred billion bits of near-nothing reside inside the copper box, all of them tiny and nearly spherical, all etched with the outlines of continents and islands and icecaps. The powder is weighed by the grain, and studied close, and remembered. The greatest minds in creation make quick work of the material. Inside waits a small quantity of the finest, driest powder, more brown than gray, more blue than green. The red lid is dented, one hinge shattered. We must claim the Collective's ruins for our own - and hope they will warn us what other threats now rise from Venus' acid seas and ancient stone. The situation is degrading into a race against time.
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The House of Winter's presence includes constant Skiff overflights in support of ground teams and hints of an improvised command post or staging area in the volcanic Cinders. The Fallen House of Winter has hurled its assets into pillaging the ruins, hunting for some advantage - whether from the Golden Age, or forgotten times beyond. We aren't the only ones interested in the Collective.
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But the ancient ruins that brought the Collective to the Sink have awakened again. Guardians come hunting the ruins of the legendary Ishtar Collective, a sprawling Golden Age scientific project. The Ishtar Sink region looms large in our surviving knowledge of Venus. You wonder: will this world's second birth be its finest?
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A new ocean emerges, thick and salty and hot, from springs and geysers that drench the dead ground. The fierceness chills and thins and runs sweet. You see the ruin ready to claim its birthright. You see history hidden between the barren rocks and within the high acid clouds.