Episode
The Ancient Magus' Bride: Better to ask the way than go astray.
Overview
Lindel finishes the staff that Chise had finished carving. As she finishes, she meets an old friend, who offers her some wise advice.
Details
- Series
- The Ancient Magus' Bride
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 12
- Air date
- 2017-12-24
- Runtime
- 24 min
Episode context
Better to ask the way than go astray. is Episode 12 in Season 1 of The Ancient Magus' Bride. It aired on 2017-12-24. The runtime is 24 min.
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Episode 11: Lovers ever run before the clock.
Elias, is an odd failure who pretends to be human -- but is it because of his master's words, or because of his distrust for humans, that he stopped communicating about himself? Lindel's alias, Echoes, refers to the to a song akin to the sound of snowmelt, traveling through the wind, causing the blooming of flowers and the dancing of fairies. The magic of the song turns into a mirror the surface of the water Chise peers into. What does she see beyond the mirror?
Episode 13: East, west, home's best.
Chise and Elias are in the middle of shearing Wooly Bugs, magical creatures who eat cold from the air and grow wool with magical properties. Chise becomes distracted and is attacked. As Chise recovers, she and Elias open themselves up to each other more.
More episodes from this season
Episode 10: We live and learn.
Chise and Selkie climb aboard a dragon's back to meet Lindel, to have her own mage's staff made. Frustrated by Chise's acceptance of her being kept as a pet by Elias, he describes the time he found Elias in the darkness. Meanwhile, Elias, who had stayed at home by himself, receives a letter from a sorcerer's college.
Episode 14: Looks breed love.
With Chise being transformed into a fox, she takes off running into the woods. Elias chases after her. Later, Chise is visited by the Leanan sídhe, who is attached to Joel, claiming that Joel will not wake up.
Episode 9: None so deaf as those who will not hear.
With the church's requests fulfilled, things were supposed to go back to normal. But Elias has been acting strange since the last request: he'd vanished on the first morning after Chise had spent a night in his room. Neither Angelica's kind words nor Ruth's pure words are enough to put Chise's mind to rest.
Episode 15: There is no place like home.
With King Oberon taking Chise into the Fairy realm for recovery, Silke becomes agitated waiting at home. Chise slowly recovers under Dr. Shanon's care, a fairy that was raised as a human.
Episode 8: Let sleeping dogs lie.
Alice sees Elias' changes and decides immediately that he could never be human. Sorcerer Cartaphilius, who is attempting to capture the black dog by manipulating Renfred and Alice, causes Elias to show a completely different side of himself when his "work" hurts Chise. Those who know Elias call him the Pilum Murialis.
Episode 16: God's mill grinds slow but sure.
Christmas is coming up. Alice invites Chise out to London, where they hang out together and go gift shopping for Renfred and Elias.
Episode 7: Talk of the devil, and he is sure to appear.
The dog, with its flowing, black hair and burning red eyes, called Chise by the name "Isabelle." The Church's final request is to investigate a black dog that emerged in a cemetetry, but the black dog ends up saving Chise from danger. Meanwhile, Renfred's apprentice, Alice, is also on the move, looking for the black dog.
Episode 17: Look before you leap.
Stella, a young girl Chise encountered while Christmas shopping, finds that her brother, Ethan, has gone missing and her parents have forgotten he exists.
Episode 6: The Faerie Queene
Chise is deep in thought as she watches the souls return to where they'd belonged all along. More than ten days have passed since the incident at Ulthar, but she is still in a deep sleep. Elias and Simon stand worriedly by her side, when they are met by two unexpected guests: Titania, Queen of Fairies, Lord of Tír na nÓg.
Episode 18: Forgive and forget.
Stella visits Chise with her payment of sweets. Elias, irritated by and jealous of Stella, runs away. Chise finds him hiding in a shadow but becomes worried as he restrains her and seems to want to eat her.