October 8th, 2025
8 Oct 2025 · page 1263 of 1306
Cast: Gren, Harriet Barber, Heinrich Wolfe, Sidney Malik
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Gren blep! :)
Of course it’s not magical. Magic isn’t stable. Artifacts of Stability™ become such by the process of surviving over centuries unchanged.
It’s only magical when the true Queen is wearing it.
“Your next mission, should you accept it, …”
Uh-oh. Did someone swap out the crown for a fake at some point in this process?
Or before?
It could be something to do with the Sea Witch…
I almost forgot that was an ongoing plot point.
The twins are a couple of buggerups, and buggered it up.
Or it never was magical, and the “magic” it has comes from being a symbol of the monarchy.
More important than the fake crown speculations: Harry referring to Mal as “your witch”. She knows he and Wolfe come as a set. 🥰
Well, we can only hope the Queen …and the likely intermediaries before being able to meet such a being, will agree :D
also, hi Greg :D
I have a bad feeling about this… 😰
Kinda loses some of its magic up close and personal, don’t it?
So many things do!
Some magic is just in the perception thereof. Other magic is just a trick - but if it’s a good enough trick, that doesn’t matter. (Just ask Mombi in the marvelous land of Oz.)
Is this where we start to find out that Heinrich’s actual name begins with ‘A’?
Depending on how far Widdershins’ history departs from real world history, the coronation crown used by Victoria is actually the brand new Imperial State Crown, made to replace the Crown of St Edward because it was deemed too chonky for a young lady (and, indeed, has not been used by anyone else since she set the precedent of not toting around 5lbs of metal, velvet and rock on your noggin,) so who knows what, if any, magic it has.
Also thats the second St Edwards Crown, the first was destroyed during The Wars Of The Three Kingdoms, after Cromwell dissolved (English) Parliament
… there’s a genuine surprise coming up, isn’t there?
Should I point out that the ‘Real Crown’ that is on exhibition at the Tower is NOT complete. There are a few of the major gems which are actually owned by major Noble families and have to be ‘lent’ to the Crown and fitted for each coronation, then when the Coronation is over, the gems are swapped out and the copies re-installed. When something gets old enough all sorts of things get involved - bequests, inheritances and old feudal stuff.
[imagines all the nobles who converged for the coronation getting caught by a rogue magic attack forcing them to openly admit that “we’re only here to keep an eye on our part of the jewellery pool”]
Still not quite yet.
Showing up a month late to say I love all the faces on this page :D