In Sarah J. Maas’s wildly popular A Court of Thorns and Roses series, the third book, A Court of Wings and Ruin, features a striking biblical allusion through the character, Amren.
Amren — revealed to be a powerful being from another world, inspired by an Old Testament-style angel (think a fiery, destructive messenger like the Angel of Death) –goes hunting through the city of Velaris for enemy spies.
To distinguish friend from foe and appease her lethal instincts, some residents paint their door thresholds with lamb’s blood or leave cups of it as offerings, ensuring she passes over their homes.
This cleverly inverts the famous Passover story from the Bible (Exodus 12), where the Israelites marked their doors with lamb’s blood so the Angel of Death would pass over and spare them during the final plague on Egypt.”
This biblical inversion in Amren’s scene finds a striking modern parallel in Hazbin Hotel’s Lute, a lieutenant of Heavens’ Armies – Amren would represent a pale-skinned immortal with alabaster white skin, and blood-red lips.
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