WERWULF SIGIL PENDANT

LIMITED EDITION • THE MARK OF THE WULF • In partnership with Robert Eggers’ Werwulf and Focus Features, Heretic presents a sigil talisman made in extremely limited quantities. Developed through historical research and vetted by the Oxford scholar of pagan studies who worked on the film with Eggers, its symbols explore transformation, containment and the uncertain boundary between man and beast. Rendered in sterling silver recovered by From The Silver Screen from the processing of the actual film used to create WERWULF.

Robert Eggers’ Werwulf is only in theaters Christmas.

THIS ITEM IS EXPECTED TO LAUNCH IN DECEMBER. JOIN THE WAITLIST TO BE NOTIFIED.

HERETIC X FROM THE SILVER SCREEN

There is a reason we call it the silver screen. Traditional motion picture film contains microscopic crystals of silver within its emulsion. Light strikes the film and an image is born, captured through chemistry, matter and silver.

For WERWULF, that silver has been given another life.

Heretic partnered with British jewellery house From The Silver Screen, who recover silver from the processing of motion picture film that would otherwise disappear. Their laboratories work with this reclaimed material through meticulous process of recovery and refinement, and transform it into sterling silver jewelry. For this limited edition pendant, they’ve rendered silver recovered from the processing of the actual film used to create Robert Eggers’ WERWULF. 

You are wearing a piece of the film.
It is not simply a material chosen for the collection. It is a physical trace of the film itself.
Light becomes image.
Image becomes memory.
Silver becomes relic.

THE MARK OF THE WULF SIGIL

Throughout history, symbols were understood to possess a potency beyond their appearance. Marks were carved into stone, scratched into metal, drawn onto parchment and carried against the body. Sigils have been created to protect, invoke and bind. But occasionally, their purpose was not entirely clear. A symbol intended to protect its bearer from a force might contain the very signs associated with that force. Was the thing being kept out? Or invited in? That ambiguity lies at the heart of the WERWULF Sigil.

Created by Heretic for Robert Eggers’ WERWULF, the WERWULF Sigil was developed through historical research and vetted by the Oxford scholar of pagan studies who worked with Eggers on the film. Its symbols explore transformation, containment and the uncertain boundary between man and beast.

At its center is a vertical axis. It may be read as a body. A tree. A cross. A line between the earthly and the unseen. Across it, opposing forms appear to bind the central figure while simultaneously dividing it. Around this structure is the circle, one of the oldest and most persistent forms in ritual imagery. A circle can define sacred space. It can contain. It can protect. lt can separate one world from another. Surrounding the central device are irregular characters whose meaning resists simple translation. They are deliberately imperfect, their purpose not to provide an answer, but to suggest the remains of a private language.

Taken together, the mark speaks to the central question of WERWULF. Where does the man end and the beast begin? Perhaps the circle protects the man from the Wulf. Perhaps it binds the Wulf within the man. Or perhaps it does something more dangerous still.

Perhaps it calls the Wulf forward.

Robert Eggers’ Werwulf is only in theaters Christmas.

WERWULF EXPERIENCE

There are, within this collection, three witnesses: The forest. The beast. The blood. Each preserving the scent of what transpired beneath the changing moon. Click the link below to step into the darkness of the woods and experience the transformation from man to wolf, learning more about each fragrance as you go.

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