- #ailredlore ailred's relationship to the patron goddess is that of a knight and groom. so much so that his ideas of manhood, masculinity, and the like were predicated on the idea that if he wished to serve, command, and oversee the law of his goddess he could not maintain a body similar to hers.Jan 31, 2026 00:18
- ailred's relationship to his own past, to masculinity, to women is often contradictory, traditional, and steeped ideas of chivalry : then molded by repression. his views of sexuality are at times exceedingly narrow, despite his own desires eschewing convention (see, inquisition, sadism as intimacy)
- he wears a locket bearing the sign of his house : the lysian lily, and inside, a painted portrait of aalis. but he does not hold onto the portrait like a picture of his past, or some grim vestige of the girl he was. he views aalis as a martyr who died to make a devoted man. and he venerates her.
