Silver’s Ring (pt1)

While helping Lilia pack up his dorm room in Book 7 Silver discovers a ring inside a candy tin (with an acorn bracelet) that immediately makes him sleepy.

Lilia says that the ring belongs to Silver: he was wearing it on a necklace as an infant when Lilia discovered him.

Lilia says he had been waiting to give the ring to him when he grew up.

The rules of the ring are still vague: when Silver loses his fight against Malleus in Sebek’s dream and Malleus tries to send him to sleep “in a deeper, darker place,” Silver is aware of darkness, coldness and sadness, and then the ring begins to glow.

He calls upon his father to give him strength, enabling him to escape.

The ring glows again when he is battling back darkness to save Sebek, with Grim saying that it causes the darkness to shrink away, while Silver says he can feel power emanating from it.

He calls upon its light to banish the dark and it does so, saving Sebek.

The ring glows again when Silver sees the Dawn Knight for the first time and Sebek, too, says that he can feel a strange power emanating from it. 

The same light effect that the ring creates appears multiple times to Sebek after he follows Silver into the darkness, showing him memories from his own childhood. The light also enables Grim and Sebek to locate Silver in the dark.

Silver is mistaken for someone else by various enemies throughout Lilia’s dream, and we see the Dawn Knight is revealed to have an identical ring that glows when he calls upon guardian faeries.

When the Dawn Knight’s mask breaks he is revealed to have an identical face to Silver (they also share a voice actor).

The Dawn Knight explains that he was gifted his ring by “guardian faeries” when he was a child and it should be one of a kind, asking who Silver is.

Silver concludes that the Dawn Knight of the Silver Owls must be his biological father, which is news he does not take very well.

(The Dawn Knight using the ring to call upon Guardian Faeries and Silver using it to call upon Lilia is a fascinating parallel: Silver received it from his bio-father, who is not who he has in mind when he calls out for his “father” when using the ring, while the person he actually means—Lilia—is very much a guardian fairy to Silver.)