![]() ![]() After, Arpazia sees Klymeno no more but she sees her daughter displacing her, viewing her as someone who has stolen her youth. The only people Arpazia finds solace with are the pagans who worship the old gods in the wood, hoping to use the queen to influence their own purposes, they use the woodsman Klymeno (similar to Clymenus, another name for Hades) to seduce her.Īrpazia however has a fear of childbirth having giving birth to Draco's child Coira, known officially as Candacis, and immediately abandoned her, so when she falls pregnant with Klymeno's child she demands a way to be rid of it, Klymeno gives her a potion in exchange for her bringing Coira to the woods as a metaphorical sacrifice, from then on Coira starts to become drawn into the world of the woods, displaying her mother as the forest queen. Arpazia is an outsider from the start, Draco's people regard her as a witch, particularly unnerved by the mirror she keeps, a gift from Draco who took it from her father's palace. ![]() Full of vivid description, it gives a large amount of attention to the wicked queen Arpazia, portraying her as a victim driven mad by her ill life as a rape victim and reluctant wife to King Draco who conquered her land and took her as his prize. White as Snow is an adult gothic retelling of Snow White by Tanith Lee, drawing inspiration from the Greek myth of Persephone and Hades. ![]()
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