Inevera Entries
Posted by Karen
Hey everyone! Thanks so much to everyone who entered the Core ARC Contest. The Diorama Facebook Album is now officially complete, but there are still a bunch of submissions to show off. We’ll be posting the last of them today and tomorrow while Peat makes the hard decides about the winners.
For this one, we’re paying tribute to one of the most controversial (and one of my personal favorite) characters in the Demon Cycle– Inevera.
Raine Cz used American Girl dolls to create a scene of Jadir and Inevera in the pillows.
I chose to use my grandchildrens American Girl dolls. I hope you enjoy. I tried to pull off a pillow dance I put Jadir in a bido and Inevera in her sheer costume.
I never thought about this scene being played out by American Girl dolls, but somehow Raine made it work! I especially love how pretty Inevera’s outfit is. Very well done!
This next one was sent in by Yelie:
This scene is of Inevera as a 9 year old girl at her *Hannu Pash*. Qeva, a *dama’ting*, rolls the dice to determine Inevera’s future. This is the turning point in Inevera’s life because to everyone’s shock, the *alagai hora* show that she may become the Damaji’ting.
There are so many cool things about this– the outfits, the dice, the wards. The lighting really give the pictures a totally different vibe. My favorite is that last one, with the alagai hora and that gorgeous pale-blue glow.
Karen McMichael sent in this one along with one of the most creative descriptions in the entire contest:
I developed an unexpected fondness for Inevera while reading about her childhood in “The Daylight War”. So my diorama entry shows the forbidden moment in the Chamber of Shadows when she had completed her dice, and instead of ringing the silver chimes, cast them for herself and set herself on the path that would dictate the rest of her life (and much of the plot of the novels!)
I have a notion that the Chamber would be furnished with beautiful rugs and tapestries (like the inner sanctums of most holy places), but Inevera would never have seen them because she worked in darkness. And I also get the sense that while stone-hewn worktables and chairs would have been available, the basket-weaver’s daughter would have been more comfortable carving cross-legged on the floor, so the furniture would have been pushed aside? in favour of a space cleared on a rug that she would never have known the colours of until that first throw.
I’m so in love, both with the entry itself and with the story that came with it. Honestly, Karen puts it so well here, what else is there to say? An incredible entry.
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