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Hey all!

I promise I'm doing my best to relax and recharge. It's going well, I'm feeling like the batteries are getting there, and I'll be able to continue the usual pace you're all used to soon!

Anyway, this came in from my cover artist, and I figured I'd share it with you all! Book 10's cover!

There's an easter egg in the sigil, go find it :)

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Elaine

good art

Silverwolf

There are symbols from different cultures

Cormac

What is going on with the red-eyed shadow?

matt

Is it the same easter egg as before?

Mike G.

Looks great, but maybe a few of the other greek letters should be used? The 4 letter repeat is a bit jarring. Unless "SOLPS" means something I'm missing? If it's too late for changes (or I'm the only one this looks odd to), that's fine - it's a great looking cover.

Adurna

Is that array by any chance related to electricity?

Blayne Allsen

Is Elaine becoming the next Doctor Strange?

Nate El

Psi Sigma Lambda Omega, hmm is this a math or programming pun to Go along with the Java and Python pun?

Nate El

Is the evil voice Elaine heard in her head way back when making a come back?

enderman

Elaine stop focusing on mangoes. You put an M in you spell because you miss it too much.

luda305

It's a mango.

Trihards

My assumptions for possible easter eggs: The Eye of Horus - Represents well-being, healing, and protection The Beetle - Symbol for Khepri, which can represent the rising or morning sun (Dawn) Ankh - Represents Life Middle Symbol is a sceptre, which typically represents Night or Darkness. And we all know a big part of the next book is going to be searching for Night. I didn't find much meaning to the Greek letters, but who knows :)

TungstenIII

Thanks for the cover! Now, go relax harder!

Guilherme Paschoaletto

The scarab is the symbol of resurrection, the ankh is the key of life, and the eye of horus is a symbol for healing and protection.... Is Elaine trying to snatch someone from the Black Crow's claws?

Rory

Right, so the best i can think of is that: The Ankh represents Life The Scarab represents Khepri, God of the Morning Sun, Creation and Renewal of Life The Eye is the Eye of Horus, God of the Sky and Kingship Sigma represents Summation Omega represents Absolute Infinity Lambda (small) represents the Wavelength of Light Psi i'm not sure about but could represent the Mind or Manipulation Combined together, its probably a healing spell that utilises sunlight to carry it to all the Sun sees

Glowy3

Glad to hear the batteries are charging correctly! Nice Art !

Simplist

I just saw the scarab and thought "he, firebug"

Fervent Fiend

Well, at least the magic circle isn’t in English, proving the Brits didn’t colonize, just the Greeks and Egyptians.

Judah xx

M looks like the Gmail sign.

Kennyevilmonkey

If she's standing in front of the Ranger's memorial wall, the shadow might be Night.

Rootbeerguy

A Resurrection skill would be kinda neat.

小贝 小贝

Haven't really paid attention but is this the first none moon inclusive cover art? And the glow is honestly super awesome.

adr

I think some people have got it. The central glyph looks like "Night" to me. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_(hieroglyph) edit: some other statistical things (referenced from Elaine's perspective)... - The central glyph is oriented to be viewed from Elaine's perspective. - 3/7 of the greek sequences on the outer ring are forward (such that they are readable by Elaine in the correct orientation if the circle was rotated to have them at the top). 4/7 are reflected (readable from our perspective). - 2/7 (4 & 8 o'clock) of the egyptian sequences on the outer ring are forward, based on the eye of horus' orientation. The forward sequence is 𓂀𓆣𓋹. 5/7 are reflected. - If the inner ring were not masked by the "major node" circles, there would be 9 instances of the greek+egyptian sequences. All of the greek symbols are forward and all of the egyptian ones are reflected. - The triangles are consistent with their ordering and orientation. 𓋹 through Σ and between Ω and 𓂀 are forward, the rest are reflected. - PsiΨ, OmegaΩ, and SigmaΣ are all in their uppercase forms. Lambdaλ uses the lowercase form (Λ is uppercase). Probably because most readers will recognize lambda as the lowercase version but not the upper. - The "major node" for Eye of Horus𓂀 is reflected (readable from our side of the mandela). - The "major node" for SigmaΣ is reflected or upside-down, assuming the "down" direction should be toward the center (as it is, it's in an forward-upright orientation if down is out of the ring). The typeface used has a thicker base line and upper arm.