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A book about Ophelia would be really intriguing. She's very pragmatism & results first, and I kinda love that. El (and her mom) are very much her opposite. But alas sometimes I find villain books disappointing - probably because I'm into villains being really competent and good at their villain-ing, but their solo books usually try to humanize or give conflict, justify their actions, and that makes it less fun.
Yeah, I'm not particularly interested in a story *just* about Ophelia--I almost prefer her as an enigma, because I think it would be hard to understand why she did what she did. But a book where she's trying her very best to stop El from her life's mission would be interesting to me.

I'm wondering if instead at some point when El isn't hunting maw-mouths she can come back and raise a golden enclave for the Scholomance that doesn't require Orion to hold it? There are limitations to size but the Scholomance isn't skyscrapers in the void, it's just one building which also has the advantage of many, many wizards having memory of it which should help its stability.
I like to think that she'd be able to--the golden enclaves are smaller, but maybe as she shares the spells and people work together, they can figure out ways to build outwards to make them bigger? And yeah the Scholomance has a lot of Belief holding it into place. (I really loved everything about how perception and belief work with magic, like how it always tries to do stuff when you glance away because it takes less mana if it doesn't have to convince you something showed up out of thin air or whatever.)

(Orion can probably be killed by El when he decides he's ready to pass on - which is a kind of terrifying last act of mercy. OK maybe I want to read THAT fic).
OKAY YEAH I WANT THAT FIC TOO NOW