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Warning : Major spoilers for Leigh Bardugo ’s newfangled bookThe Familiar .
Summary
Leigh Bardugo ’s new book , The Familiar , has a spellbind ending full of karmic resolution that comes with one especial whirl . The Familiaris new territory for Leigh Bardugo , as much a historic fabrication novel as a magical fantasy , with a impenetrable back breaker of the writer ’s intense , slow - sunburn romance . WhileThe Familiaris certainly spicy in spots , the nidus is mostly on a different variety of desire : the desire to rise above one ’s station in life , to no longer be controlled , to need more out of what life sentence has volunteer so far .
Every character inThe Familiar ’s storywants in some mode , whether it ’s freedom , wealth , an soft life , more greed , or to see the world . Some of those wants are innocent and pure , while others are uncoerced to tread others to see their desire live up to . Desperate measures are taken in dread circumstance , and by the ending ofThe Familiar , every character ’s lifeis deeply changed by the events that have unfolded .
What Happens In The Familiar’s Ending
Luzia Pulls Off The Greatest Miracle She’s Ever Done
In the terminate ofThe Familiar , Santángel tries to keep Luzia in front of the Inquisitors board by taking the blame for " buy " her in society to take her position in the executing . But Luzia does not play along and claim Satan corrupted her and that she hump what she was doing , thereby condemning them both . They ’re both ordain to be cauterise at the stake , and after tell their goodbyes , both are stripped au naturel , tie to a stake , and set on fire . However , Luzia has a plan , one that she ca n’t even say Santángel if it ’s to work .
Luzia , it turns out , had squirreled off the story Santángel had enjoin her aboutold mystics and wise manpower who used to be able-bodied to teleport themselves sure distances . It ’s a dangerous , finicky magic , nearly unimaginable to pull out off , but Luzia does , waiting until the last possible moment , after the flaming have risen around them but not yet consumed them , to put to work the turn . She whisks her and her fan away , and though their bodies were not find subsequently in the ashes , it was assume by all that they ’d croak and burn to number in the holy flames .
How Santángel’s Curse Was Broken
The Truth: It Wasn’t Broken At All
In short , Luzia ’s spell was a fleck of deception : Santángel ’s whammy was never really broken . The existent trick Luzua commit off was that everyone now thinks they ’re utter and she and Santángel are free of Víctor de Paredes . This is particularly important to Santángel as he ’s been confine to the de Paredes kinfolk for half a millennium , ineffective to escape . Though Víctor is numb by the conclusion of the story , his wife bears a son before he dies , so , technically , Santángel is now jump to his Word but will never have to be in his servitude .
Just because he no longer has Víctor ’s ascendance hanging over his head , however , it does n’t think Santángel is free of the curse . The swearing still very much exists ; Santángel still burns up in the Sunday each solar day that he ’s away from the de Paredes land . The deviation is Luzia . With her magic unleashed , she ’s able to meander together old thaumaturgy and new in a powerfulrefrane , singing her fan back into beingness each morning after he drifts by . Luzia quite literally puts Santángel back together again bit by bit , just as she did the smashed goblets .
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In the remnant , Santángel is still immortal , but Luzia is , too . Thanks to her trick , she can not only put Santángel back together again every dawning , but herself , too . She will never bonk the ravages of time . Any wound , she can fix . Any bit of aging , she can undo . Any detriment or injury to Santángel his curse knits together , any hurt or harm to herself she can vacate . The two trapped souls formerly bound in a aliveness of servitude are detached to go wherever and do whatever they want , to be whomever they please , and to live on forever . It ’s a affecting reward for two the great unwashed who suffered so much .
The two snare soulfulness formerly bound in a life of servitude are free to go wherever and do whatever they want , to be whomever they please , and to live forever .
Why Fortún Donadei Loses His Power
The Emerald Was The Key
Despite betraying Luzia and condemning her to last , Fortún Donadei , in the end , is the one to unwittingly help her and Santángel lam . Not only did Luzia remember the story Santángel told her about the teleporting holy men , but also about the hefty sorcerous stones they used to pull off such big magic . She also smartly picture out that the giant emerald in the cross Fortún always weary and had a anxious habit of touching was one such stone ; it was that stone ’s power she drew on while performing the spell to teleport her and Santángel out of the flames .
unluckily for Fortún , there ’s another part of the story Santángel imparted that flat impact him : with magic that big and powerful , the stone can only be used one metre , cracking afterward . It was that stone that was hyperbolize Fortún ’s lifelike but very minor magical abilities . Without it , he is n’t able-bodied to bring up up the unbelievable manifestation he had before , his deception now small and mundane , less even than the tinymilagrosLuzia was performing at the beginning ofThe Familiar .
The ending ofThe Familiarhints things may yet get even forged for Fortún , too . Before he die , Víctor tell his new , short impotentmilagrerothat he sleep with of a wise piece in a nation far away , a wise man who could restore Fortún ’s deception . This , of class , is the wise human being who to begin with cursed Santángel with immortality and a life of bound servitude . Víctor also has the mapping and direction that have been pass on down among generation of his family for 500 geezerhood . Now that he planted that semen in Fortún ’s psyche , it ’s almost certain the ambitious , despairing young military man will try out that miracle , not knowing it ’s a curse until it ’s too belated .
Why Víctor De Paredes Was Afraid To Leave The House
He Found Out What Kind Of Man He Was Without Santángel
It may seem strange on the Earth’s surface that Víctor allow himself to waste off and die when he might have taken Fortún on that tripper and bound himself to a new familiar , but his care and paranoia bound him to being a shut - in . It ’s not wholly clear why Víctor ’s luck runs out with Santángel still being alive , but there are a few explanation . One is that his luck had n’t in reality run out - he just thought it had , and the concern was enough to at last bring about his own downfall : locked away in his base , Víctor lost his vigor , his confidence , and his ruthlessness . If that ’s the casing , he may very well have unintentionally been the designer of his own death .
Another account is that Víctor ’s luck had n’t actually run out , but the present moment his Logos was born , Santángel ’s luck transferred from Víctor to his boy . It was never made vindicated whether Santángel ’s luck reverberate him to just one de Paredes phratry penis at a timeand that destiny lapse from father to son , or if the fortune was spread over the whole de Paredes category in an umbrella . With de Paredes wife , Maria , being so kind and loving , if Santángel ’s luck did remove to Víctor ’s Word , it ’s potential his son grows up to be a far better and more compassionate man than his father .
Luzia ’s words to Víctor were sure enough prescient : " How you must hate him , " she said . " He ’s steal any chance for you to sleep together what kind of human being you might be without him . "
The third option is that the fortune part of Santángel ’s curse snap the first sunup after the execution when Santángel cauterize up in the sun . It was the first time he ’d ever been brave enough to allow himself to burn up and croak , so it ’s not have it off what happens when he does . Either way , without Santángel , Víctor is toothless . Luzia ’s words to Víctor were certainly prescient : " How you must detest him , " she said . " He ’s steal any hazard for you to hump what kind of gentleman’s gentleman you might be without him . " In the remnant , that man was disclose : cowardly , paranoid , afraid of everything , a man who decease alone and unloved .
Why Teoda Still Looks Like A Child
A Rare Genetic Disease Is The Likeliest Explanation
InThe Familiar , one of the belittled but more surprising reveals is that Teoda is not a little female child , but a 38 - year - old grown woman in a child ’s eubstance . Like many matter in the al-Qur’an , it ’s not exactly explained why this is . It ’s potential that , similar to Luzia , Teoda ’s magical abilities extend her life , though trap her in a child ’s body does n’t exactly seem reasonable . More likely , she has a rare genetic condition .
Progeria , for exercise , is a genetic disease in which a human ages but their body never grows beyond that of a child ; Syndrome X is another . Those disease , however , leave notable forcible modification : often an excessively turgid promontory and wizened feature for progeria and austere cognitive and developmental way out with Syndrome X.There is an extremely rare genetical disease known as Highlander Syndrome , though , that merely slows the body ’s growth and occlusive puberty , making the person appear like a child even when they ’re a full adult , without causing any notable physical or cognitive egress . It ’s likely that Teoda , with her sharp head and her child ’s body , had some unknown genetic disease like this inThe Familiar .
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