By: aj

Currently convinced that if the antler queen is real, it’s Lottie, but that she’s more of a figurehead than any real power. Like with the hunting challenge against Nat, where it seemed like Mari and the others believed in her mystical connection to the wilderness more than she herself did.

I also think that if that scene is real, it’s functioning more as a witch trial type thing than a hunt for food: the pit girl is running for her life, and if she’s innocent and the wilderness wills it, she’ll be safe (like javi?).

And when she falls in the pit, it’s like how the suspected witch drowning or burning or whatever is “proof” of witchcraft. And then they ritually feast to complete things.

So the antler queen/others in furs are the upper hierarchy, whether or not Lottie is all in as leader.