The Impossible Secret Of Lillian Velvet - Tumblr Posts
book title abbreviations
I think the abbreviations are funny. Also kind of useful?
EIABM or tEIAoBM- The Extremely Inconvenient Adventures of Bronte Mettlestone
SAWW or tSAtotWW (American title is tWW) - The Slightly Alarming Tale of the Whispering Wars
SPC or tSPoC- The Stolen Prince of Cloudburst
ACOE or tACoOfE - The Astonishing Chronicles of Oscar from Elsewhere
ISLV or tISoLV (American title is tSoLV or SLV) - The Impossible Secret of Lillian Velvet
It’s pretty cool that magic works without the threads now. Kinda like how money used to have actual worth when it was gold coins but now we trust paper to certify wealth or whatever money is?
Bronte says that mages somehow learned how to do the spells without the actual thread—though they can see the thread in their minds!
I also think the thread itself only has powers if a mage with matching speciality uses it. Like a True Mage could never use Shadow Thread to do any kind of magic, because shadow thread can only do shadow magic and only if a Shadow Mage is using it.
So. I have this fancy family tree software and I thought I might as well use it, but it was having technical difficulties (or maybe I was the problem?) so here is this super low-quality Mettlestone family tree. Since it's impossible to read, (I just wanted to have a picture in a post for once, lol) I guess just rely on the image description! rip
Basically, I have figured out as best as I can the order of the Mettlestone siblings so I put them in, added their spouses, and added their kids. Oscar isn't in there but like he's an adopted grandkid so that is a bit of an inaccuracy; I'm not sure where he would go though? It was very fun researching the books to find all the ages, though ultimately there was a mostly-in-age-order list in SLV that filled in all the gaps. Before I found that list, I had known that Isabelle, Carrie, and Franny were the three oldest, that Emma and Patrick were at the end, and that Sophy was also a younger child.
kinda crazy they had 12 kids. that's a lot. In case you are wondering, the reason Bronte only had 10 gifts to give but 11 aunts is because Maya & Lisbeth shared a gift!
Also it's really cute that Jacob and Ildi combined their last names to make Mettlestone. Very wholesome.