{"id":1388,"date":"2017-10-29T21:21:46","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T04:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/?p=1388"},"modified":"2017-10-29T21:21:46","modified_gmt":"2017-10-30T04:21:46","slug":"aza-guilla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/?p=1388","title":{"rendered":"Aza Guilla"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Aza Guilla\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/58189808@N03\/37773168682\/in\/datetaken-public\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4476\/37773168682_f89f9e4539_z.jpg\" alt=\"Aza Guilla\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Working on my Halloween costume for this year. This year I decided to be the Lady of the Long Silence, Aza Guilla (from Scott Lynch\u2019s Gentleman Bastard series).<\/p>\n<p>Since she is a goddess, and probably not real, we\u2019re not really told what she looks like. The world in the books is based on late medieval \/ early Renaissance Italian city-states, so hence that influence of fashion. She is said to wear a veil, hence the medieval European silk veil. And her priests wear featureless silver masks called \u201cthe sorrowful visage,\u201d so I decided that this could be in reflection of Aza Guilla\u2019s own aspect. And it works as a metaphor; the goddess of death&#8217;s face is a mirror.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Aza Guilla\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/58189808@N03\/37773172992\/in\/datetaken-public\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4478\/37773172992_28510e9dd2_z.jpg\" alt=\"Aza Guilla\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And I thought silver gloves to match the mask would just be fun \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I might need to get a wimple, though, to complete the illusion of the skin being a mirror. Hmmm!<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Aza Guilla\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/58189808@N03\/37756757936\/in\/datetaken-public\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4445\/37756757936_fbbea93f6d_z.jpg\" alt=\"Aza Guilla\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Working on my Halloween costume for this year. This year I decided to be the Lady of the Long Silence, Aza Guilla (from Scott Lynch\u2019s Gentleman Bastard series). Since she is a goddess, and probably not real, we\u2019re not really told what she looks like. The world in the books is based on late medieval &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/?p=1388\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Aza Guilla&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19],"tags":[431,433,432,434],"class_list":["post-1388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-personal","tag-aza-guilla","tag-gentleman-bastards","tag-scott-lynch","tag-the-lies-of-locke-lamora"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1389,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388\/revisions\/1389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}