Because I’m really an obsessive fan girl at heart.
I think I briefly reviewed The Mortal Instruments trilogy by Cassandra Clare on this blog somewhere. Well, I had this small palm branch that I could never figure out what sort of athame to make out of it…so instead, I decided to make a stele. A stele, for all of you that haven’t read the books, is a writing instrument that Shadowhunters use to draw angel runes on themselves. It is made of special glass, is somewhat bigger than a pen and smaller than a wand.
Obviously mine is not made of glass, since working with glass is not (yet *cough*) among my list of artsy skills. Mine is also more intricate than the canon Shadowhunter version (which, as far as I remember, is just basically a glass wand).
Yay for iridescent white paint. The swirly design is blue twine that I super-glued to the body of the stele. (Yes, that took a while).
The blue twine up close.
The flower is supposed to be an amaranth. Also not canon, but since I intend on hanging on to this thing (unlike some of the Mortal Instruments characters), why not make it personal?
The design on the end is the rune for angelic power. Appropriate for a stele. No, I did not create the rune…someone online did.
The stele in action. (Or rather, cleverly photoshopped to appear so). The rune being drawn is a healing rune, borrowed from the same online source.
Anyway, this project was such fun that I’m not in the process of making a seraph blade from the same book series. If I ever get the opportunity to go to some Cassandra Clare fan gathering, I’ll be prepared.