I've watched it several times and still have no clue. All I can think of, is that it's either someone the Queen trusted enough that she didn't need her guards in the room with her, or a guardian who was able to get past the other guardians without alerting someone. I can't help thinking that it's not who everyone has suggested. But then again it could so obvious that we would have overlooked it b/c it was too obvious. Blah idk. I think I'm going to have to reread SB before LS comes out.

How often are teasers supposed to come out?

for sb, i think we got one teaser a week or something like that...

reading the comments on facebook (about the video)

they see things hiding in the fire, like letters, a mohila mark, etc. I tried to copy paste the image to zoom it with no luck.. i cant find how to do it in my mac (i used to have a normal microsoft computer)..what do you think? have anyone see this CLUES in the fire???

also one person says the statue is very similar to the statue that represents justice: http://www.cotswolds.info/images/Bath/sculptures/scales_of_justice_statue_bath.jpg

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well... after the word OUTSIDER comes the fire picture
and then MURDERER... so they are saying the murderer is an outsider related to fire use or an outsider related to what the fire represents: like conflict, war!!

Wilda/Tasha, for SB it was once every 3 days. The First quote teaser is supposed to come out tomorrow (Thursday in Aust.) and apparently there are 6 quotes being released. I don't know when the new character videos are coming out though...they were a bit of a surprise.

Pivia, I read things about a fire image too, but I don't think there's something in it. It flashes by too quickly for there to be a soild image inside and Richelle said she could see the clue instantly. I know she already knows the answer, but she probably wasn't glued to the screen searching for a clue so I doubt she spotted an image in the fire.

There's a still of the fire. I've zoomed it and looked at it but it gets blurry the more you zoom. One time I thought I saw part of a stake, but I have no idea. None of it makes sense to me. And if you can see it instantly, i doubt it would be in the fire but liek Kim said Richelle knows who did it so she would know instantly while the rest of us really have no idea what to look for. But the rest of it doesnt look like a clue. The only other image is of the statue everything else is words. LOYAL OUTSIDER MURDERER? WHO KILLED THE QUEEN? LAST SACRIFICE TUESDAY 7 DECEMBER 2010

Here is the still of the statue



sorry if the pics are too big. Let me know if I need to resize them.

I'm going around reading others comments about the video and here is what one person says that I find kind of interesting

"Richelle said that teaser has clues. Did you notice that fire picture looks like that there are two sources of fire clashing? One resembles a T and the other a C. I think it means Tasha killed the queen and Christian will have to choose which side he will be. In the end, I think he will have to fight Tasha. No way Christian killed the queen. He is not even good at compulsion so he couldn't get past the guards without help"

"Christian's teaser trailer said "Loyal. Outsider. Murderer?" and there's a quote surrounding the series that says "Love and loyalty run deeper than blood." Which makes me think Tasha is the murderer, but Christian turns her in because of his love for Lissa and his loyalty to Rose as a friend. Just a thought I'm tinkering around with, but that trailer automatically made me think it was Tasha who killed the Queen."

" He would be the one person who is tied to love and loyalty to them, but has blood with Tasha. I never read it that way.I can't think of anyone else who fits it. I also think it says something that Christian is the first one to have a trailer. I have always said Tasha. I think she was working with someone. Either Victor who has the same feelings about all of that stuff as Tasha. He said anyone could be bought off. Or Daniella. They both have reasons to get at Rose. Or Adrian. Tasha for Dimitri and Adrian for Rose. Robert said Adrian was getting to where he couldn't tell reality from fantasy and he had a "rueful" smile when Rose got back to her room. He can use compulsion and at the begining of the book he told Tashe they were two mids with the same thought. Hint? He also said in SK that Rose needed to slow down, only one Royal assasin at a time. I don't remember the whole convo around that. But I believe it was when they were at court. Guess we shall see. Everyone that is a suspect has reason to frame Rose. Which I think was on purpose."

"On the very beginning of SB, page 32, Christian is talking to Rose about his future after graduation and he mentions that Tasha wanted him in court to have a 'talk' about his future. I didn't think much about it the first time that I read it, but now I see more meaning to it. Also, Tasha mentioned to Rose that she had to help Christian and Lissa get back together otherwise it would be too late. Rose thought it was weird the way Tasha was phrasing it. Just food for thought..."

this next one confused the heck out of me

"If you look at the fire part of the teaser, there is a part over to the right that looks just like LS. On the left side of the L, there is someone in red standing in a corner. There looks to be a picture inside of the D. Also, coming down off of the D looks like a hand with blood. Under the hand is the white streaks that could be silver jewelry. Rose made it a good point to mention Tasha never wears jewelry. What if she was wearing it and realized too late that the queen had pulled it off. Then when that comes up, Rose will know instantly b/c she will remember that Tasha never wears it. The very bottom right corner. What is that? There are also a lot of faces in there and what looks to be like a car. But RM didn't say there was a clue to the killer. Just that there was a clue to the book. On Twitter she said there was a message. So i think we are looking for something that isn't there. Or looking past the obvious."


anyways, what do you guys think about them thinking it's Tasha and that the Love and Loyalty quote surrounding Christian??

Soooo sorry about the multiple posts but it seems that this is all I can think about at the moment. I've looekd closer at the fire pic and think I have found some of the things mentioned. I've circle them so take a look and tell em what you think.

I'm sorry, I don't see ANYTHING in the fire or the statue. Maybe, we're too close to it? U know? We desperately want to see something, and are trying to see things that aren't really there or seeing things that are just not there. Its driving me crazy though, i want to figure this out. I think as soon as the hubby comes home, imma attack to look at the picture, maybe an outsider would have a clearer look at things.

It took me a while to notice what little I did see. I keep going back to it but don't see half of what others say is there. Like I said I see the car and the LS with the person in red to the left of the L but it took forever to see those.

ok so I just got Brandon to look at the picture. At first he didn't see anything except the fire. Then he studied it closer and saw the LS and the person in red I pointed out and then when I showed him the car he was like Holy F*** He was amazed at how those things are hidden in there. Oh and he also pointed out the hand with blood to me when I showed him the D. If you look at the D, you can see 2 fingers up like they are giving the peace sign and they are coated in red which I guess is blood. I haven't noticed the other stuff people have been saying though. But my guess is the car has to do with Rose escaping, the LS is Last Sacrifice, the D is for Dragomir, and the person is either Rose, the killer, Lissa's sibling, or the person who gives the Last Sacrifice...Those are just my guesses. I'm going to get my house cleaned up and get what I need done so I can start rereading SB and see if it reveals things I overlooked the first time and maybe find some clues for LS.

I was playing with iPhoto to find clues in the fire picture .. at the end I can tell there are 2 pictures in one, like the fire is over some pictures..

I still don't think the fire is hiding anything. Yeah, I realise there are pictures in there, but anyone could try and find a picture in the fire and it could be of anything. "LS" only stands out because everyone's thinking of Last Sacrifice...but if that was the clue then the person who killed Tatiana isn't anyone we know because no-one stands out as having those initials....they'd be nobody. And while I'm sure someone we don't know could have killed the queen, it seems unlikely since they framed Rose. There'd have to be a rason for it.
As for the car, I think that was just a conincidence. I think it's the fire as a whole that's important. Like I said before, it's not particularly obvious these images in the fire, and I doubt anyone picked up on them at a first glance, and certainly not without pausing the clip and studying the fire intently...it just doesn't seem likely that the clue is that.

What I think it'll be is that all the images relate to each other...not that they're so specific that you can ignore one and focus on another alone.

"Loyal" probably represents someone we trust or think we can trust.
The Statue: Maybe they're strong? Spend time outside? Are good at hiding emotions (because statues don't have emotions...they're stoic...aka. Guardian?)
"Outsider": someone not part of the court?
Fire: Could mean they were working with someone who specialised with fire. Maybe they threatened the Queen with fire or maybe they're a Moroi and can wield fire...


I don't think the video is specifically pin-pointing Christian or Christian's releations...there are going to be other videos with other characters...I think the main point is to get us thinking outside the box and questioning everyone. While Tasha isn't my favourite character in the series and I probably wouldn't be too upset if anything happened to her, I just can't help thinking she was good enough to raise Christian well, so she probably wouldn't murder someone.

Ok. First teaser quote trailer! It's more than just a quote, another picture (although moving picture) clue: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I_CN9PPR5M

Apparently the next teaser will be released on the 14th and it's going to be a Lissa video (like the Christian one)

Here's what Richelle Mead said about the two teasers out now:

“There are two teasers out right now, one about a character and one with a quote. The first character one is for Christian, and before you freak out too much, make sure you notice that there are question marks in there.
The second teaser is of a quote, one I like quite a bit…but maybe that’s conceited of me, since I wrote it.Penguin Australia will release a teaser every few days until release day… Enjoy!”

I think that everyone is looking into the videos too hard! Originally, before i saw the video i thought 2 things:

1. The queen killed herself, therefore it's not murder. I think that the queen is also shadowkissed and that Priscilla Voda is who she was connected too. The note and the something that went wrong is that she was starting to go crazy, or

2. That the queen isn't really dead. How do we know the hole thing isn't staged. I mean if the queen did know that someone was after her what better way to get out of it than to stage her own death. We all know that she isn't that close to Rose and she'll probally have an "the ends justify's the means" attitude about it. Plus if the letter is any indication, the queen knows that Rose will find the last Dragomir.

I can't make anything of that quote. It could be anyone Rose, Lissa, Dimitri, Adrian, etc.

As for the Christian video, I do think it's about him-He's Loyal and an outsider. I think these character videos are to get us wondering fi that particular person is the one who killed the queen. I think they want to keep us guessing and wondering. I've thought about it a lot and to be honest I don't really want to know who killed the queen before I read the book. That would be a major spoiler for me. That'd be like flipping through the book to find out before reading it. So I'm done looking for those clues. If I happen to see something then great but I'm not going to go looking for them anymore.

We still have 3.5 weeks to go



EDIT: ok so if Penguin AU keeps up with the every 3 days thing here is the possible release schedules

Nov. 8 character video-Christian
11 quote video
14 character video-Lissa
17 quote video
20 character video
23 quote video
26 character video
29 quote video
Dec. 2 character video
5 quote video
7-LS is released

Richelle should be posting the first chapter the week of Nov. 22 (Thanksgiving week in the US) My guess is Nov. 23 which is 2 weeks before the release.

Who does everyone think the other character vids will be about? I'm thinking Dimitri, Adrian, and Rose-asking who framed her. If not Rose then the only other person I could think of is Tasha but she's not as big as the other characters are.