#(Thane // Lore)

[moeblob]

Impulsively shoving a guy's hand in your mouth after having the thought "oh just like when my little sister used to prick herself on a rose thorn" and then immediately being treated like a pet who ate something they shouldn't have? Wonderful. Thank you, Thane.

(also not pictured is Thane apparently trying to scrape your tongue with his hand BEFORE pouring the holy water down your throat because NO. BAD.)

[babyblueetbaemonster]

I love Farkas so much I marry him twice >:3

I didn't know I'll let my OCs all exist at the same universe when I played the game. I let them all play the same quest, join the same faction and marry the same guy. Hhhhmmmmmm.

Can- uh- can I do that? I don't understand enough lore to know how Dragon Break works. Can I yell "Dragon Break!" at every plot hole different decisions I made? Can I go on a double date with double Farkas?

[astorythatwritesitself]

Kicking down the door. Any ship with #20

OK so this may get like - expanded? reworked? Something later idk anyway I WANTED this to be part of that other scar kiss/exploration thing I've had simmering for a few weeks but uhh Someone Had Opinions.

He flinches, but doesn't pull away, when Irikah traces a finger along the band of sickly yellow scales around his wrist. What happened here?  Thane knows she's spoken. But he draws back, draws his hands to his chest and held so the scar is hidden; held the same way he's always done since he was a child, the same way he always does when he makes a mistake - She doesn't need this, he tells himself.  Tells her, it's nothing.  But his voice trembles, just the slightest bit, and it's all he can do to not step back as she draws closer. She doesn't speak - just looks at him. There's no anger there, and somehow that hurts more than if there were, than the phantom pains in his arm. No anger - but disappointment? Thane, she says, reaching out, and he allows the touch, if only because it takes some moments to process her tone as not one of disappointment. Not condemnation of any sort, even when he flinches as her fingertips brush the back of his hand.  He knows it doesn't hurt, but it should. Contact is synonymous with pain - correction for poor behavior, for failing an exercise, is consequence of poor planning or a botched job that turns into a physical brawl - The words flow before he can stop himself. The blade is heavy in my hands; the exercise has carried longer than those I have experienced before. Master speaks, both light and sound, but I do not wholly hear its words. I am tired, growing hungry, I have only to make the final target and then we will be done, yes? I raise my hand -  “This one regrets that it has not made itself understood.” The knife falls to the ground.

I am older and wiser - More disciplined. I am tired and hungry, yes, but I focus on that one's words as it lists my targets for this exercise. I fire the rifle - three times, I hit true. But my hands falter - one slips. The shot pulls to the side. Euangelion says nothing, and kindly guides my aim. I cannot feel my hand - but the fifth shot lands, nonetheless.  I -

Feel the faintest brush against his wrist.

Irikah draws back, and for the first time in the months he's known her, she looks - she seems hesitant. Doesn't meet his eyes, and her grip on his hand loosens, she seems ready to pull away. For the first time, Thane draws her close.

[prerodinu]

Meet the Tesár Family

Rowan Tesár - The Father / Oldest Brother (To Exyr and Rogue)

Rowan was a vampire for a very long time. He wanted children but wasn't able to find the right woman (or man really) to create a family. So when he came to the States he decided to build an empire. A brand for himself. He opened a pub and a gentlemen's club right next to each other. His home turf. He takes meetings for his supply business (which is black market supplier) Which is how he got inside the pack business. In doing so Caleb helped him find vampire fledglings that haven't made the change so he could help them and help make the change.

Calix Tesár - The Eldest Son

Calix was actually born from a woman that Rowan knew. Rowan found him wondering the streets before his transition hit him in the middle of the alley. He was being beaten to death by some street kids. When Rowan stepped in and helped him with the change. Calix was always a strange kid, someone who fought first and asked question later. Calix took up hockey to help make sure he didn't take his anger out on anyone. He still does once in a while but he tends to shove someone into the side and beat them up on the rink.

Zephyr Tesár - The Middle Son

Zephyr didn't have a bad childhood. Well, he didn't have the best but he wasn't an angry child. His mother slept with a vampire and created him, a half-breed. His father, not the real one, but the one his mother was with, killed her and attempted to kill him but he was able to get away. Zephyr came to Caleb and then Caleb pushed him into Rowan. He tends to be very happy-go-lucky and always offers a smile to others. Some find him ditzy or stupid. His preferred sport is Football and he's good at it. He tends to be a go-getter on the field and always makes sure if someone is going after his team he is going after them.

Thane Tesár - The Youngest Son

Thane is the youngest man and the tallest of the bunch. He tends to be crafty but aloof just like Zephyr. He tends to not be forth coming about his past but he does enjoy telling people different stories. The only one who knows the real story is Rowan and him. So Rowan got him into basketball and he enjoy's doing it. He likes to run back and forth and playing on a team, he tried hockey but he's too tall for it so he just roots his brother on on the sidelines.

Eryx Tesár - The Crazy One / Middle Brother (To Rowan and Rogue)

Eryx is Rowan's middle brother. The crazy one acts as a bodyguard not only for the kids but for Rowan as well. Eryx has a particularly fondness for ripping people apart and showering himself in blood. So he tends to go overboard and thus needs someone to back him up and relax at least a little bit. Eryx loves both his brothers and his nephews but he also won't let anyone harm his family. So if you get on his bad side you are in a world of hurt.

Rogue Tesár - The Sane One / Youngest Brother (To Rowan and Eryx)

Rogue is the fun uncle. He tends to spend time doing a bodyguard duty for the kids because he's easily able to blend into the world of College than he is in the world of business. Rogue tends to make jokes about his name calling himself red or even Rogish man. Either way Rogue will protect his family with his life. He can be a little crazy but he calms himself with a sucker most of the time the sugar helps him for some reason.

These muses are tied in with @tragedicn's college muses

[rukicchisanarts]

Valen gives such Thaden’s love child vibes 💕

Just looking at him and reading about his personality ( and some lore) makes me think of them especially Silent Blade! Baden and Thane!

I hope Baden and Thane are in Afk Journey or at least get some cameos/mentions 🥹!

[molags-balls]

Bethesda assumed people would be happy with the generic quests in Starfield, but they don’t understand what makes Skyrim’s generic quests appealing.

I did a fetch quest in the Reach. The quest was “get an ore sample from Shor’s Stone”. The most generic fetch quest imaginable. Firstly, you learn some lore. You learn that alchemists are involved in mining operations. They don’t just make potions, they analyse ores for miners for whatever reason.

So I get the ore from Shor’s Stone and the guy complains that he’s been waiting. Then I find out why he’s in a bad mood anyway. The mine is overrun with spiders and the guards aren’t doing anything about it. So I kill the spiders and get paid. Not only that, but I’ve made a friend, and also a marriage candidate. Further, the world has physically changed. The miners have gone back to work instead of sitting around all day.

I take the ore back to Riften and the old woman thanks me and gives me some potions. But now she’s my friend and greets me differently. As she is my friend, she counts towards becoming thane, as well as being a potential sacrifice for the Ebony Blade.

That’s one boring fetch quest and I’ve made two friends, become closer to becoming thane, changed the world physically, got a potential husband, and got money and potions. Skyrim’s fetch quests lead you to other quests and other hand-crafted locations. Or at the very least they give you some lore - such as the Hag’s Cure quest in Markarth which is a simple delivery but confirms that viagra exists in Skyrim.

Compare that to a Starfield fetch quest. You come across a generic, unnamed settlement and talk to a generic, unnamed NPC. He also wants me to collect ore, so I do. He pays me, and that’s it. He doesn’t even have a name. There’s no reason to do the quest since i’d get more money from selling 3 guns looted from Spacers. Nothing has changed. No friends or connections made. No lore learnt. The whole quest was a waste of time. Bethesda assumed people would be happy with their generic quests but those quests provide nothing. They’re useless filler that nobody would gain any enjoyment from.

[thepringlesofblood]

i am SCREAMING!!!!! YESSSSSYESSSSSSSSSSSSSS ACOC is one of my FAVORITE SERIES ALL TIIIIIME!!!!!!!!

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I’m going in-depth on the names we have thus far. Calorum is the setting that has some of the cleverest wordplay ever, period, and I want to know EVERYTHING about our new guys!!!!!

let’s get this one out of the way

Colin Provlone (Zac Oyama) - Provolone is a kind of cheese. Colin is a name of Irish/Scottish origin. It’s nice to have one simple one.

Bishop Raphaniel Charlock (Brennan Lee Mulligan) - hmmmm are we going to get an actually Bulbian cleric/warlock this season????

Anyway, the scientific name for wild radish is Raphanus raphanistrum, so that’s probably where Raphaniel came from.

wild radish has two other names - “jointed charlock” and “white charlock”. So there we go.

Your typical red radish (as Brennan described his character to look like) is a subspecies of Raphanus raphanistrum called sativus.

but!!! even MORE interesting!!!! you know what order and family radishes are in? the order BRASSICALES in the family BRASSICACEAE!!!!! Like a certain pontifex we know of??

This could be 100% unintentional, there’s a Lot of vegetables in the family Brassicaceae, but I remain optimistic.

Lady Amangeaux Epiceé du Peche (Anjali Bhimani) - so, Fructera has always been French, natch.

She is a mango! French for mango = la mangue

Amangeaux = almonds (according to google translate, I couldn’t find this word anywhere else online, it’s extremely possible that it’s just the most French-sounding way of saying “a mango”)

Epiceé  = spicy (can be used as slang for y’know. spICY)

du Peche = of peach. maybe she is of house Peach?

Karna Solara (Aabria Iyengar) - this one has me kind of stumped.

there’s the obvious karn->carn->meat connection, but she’s a chili pepper. lmk if there’s some secret vegetable lore I’m missing with ‘karna’

there’s also solar -> sun, which makes sense since the crest of Brightgarden is a big sun, and we see the DM screen this season has a big sun on it.

pLUS when I looked up scientific name for chili pepper, they come from the order Solanales in the family Solanaceae.

Thane Delissandro Katzon (Lou Wilson) -

Katzon

immediately made me think of katsudon- an egg rice bowl w pork cutlet on top.

thank you @blueaerin for your post about how this is most likely a reference to Katz’s Delicatessan, a famous deli in NYC! I never would’ve know that.

Also “katson” = Finnish for “I look” - from the verb “katsoa” meaning “to look at” or “to watch over” - probably nothing.

Delissandro - deli - deli meat

Delicatessen - the double s inspired by this?

while I was looking at Finnish stuff i found out “delissa” means “at the deli” in Finnish

Thane - y’all who read Macbeth know this one.

In Anglo-Saxon culture, It’s a title of a landowner, specifically someone who was gifted land by a king.

In Scotland, it’s a feudal lord.

There’s a connotation of military use in all of the descriptions I’ve found, so judging by the armor he’s wearing, it might be being used as a term for “commander”

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Roar of a Wolfborn completed 46/46

After losing her family, Sifkni finds herself almost executed. After fleeing, she travels to Whiterun where she encounters the Companions. She knows their secret, as she is also a werewolf. Despite feeling that someone else is better suited for the role, she is soon thrust into the position of Dragonborn. She must learn to believe in her skills and heal from her past to fulfill her destiny. Farkas x LDB {F Werewolf Nord} | Skjor x OC {M Skaal}

Chapter 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | EPILOGUE |

Hunt of the Blood Moons

After defeating Alduin, Last Dragonborn Sifkni is called to Falkreath for a werewolf problem. She helps solve the mystery, only to have a Great Hunt called on her by Hircine. Sequel to Roar of a Wolfborn Farkas x LDB {F Werewolf Nord}

Chapter PROLOGUE | 1 | WIP

Sivaas

After her pack is killed, Estinan wanders around Skyrim. With no home to call her own, she makes do with hunting or selling her sword arm. She ends up in Riften on a fateful day. With her pockets emptied by a handsome thief, she tracks him through the sewers and begins her strange quest with the Thieves Guild. Brynjolf x OC {F Werewolf Bosmer}

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Fury of a Tundra Wolf

Former Harbinger of the Companions, Thea Icehammer, joins the Stormcloak army. She fights alongside the army to bring Ulfric his victory and to free Skyrim from Thalmor and Empire's clutches. Galmar x OC {F Werewolf Nord}

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What are Friends for?

Ciara Finley, an aspiring alchemist and healer, finds herself in Helgen. Her childhood friend, Ralof, sits in front of her on the carriage and her fiance, Hadvar, is holding the list for the execution. After a catastrophic breakup, Ciara joins Ralof on his way to Windhelm to join the Stormcloaks. OC x OC  ; Eventual Ralof x OC {F Breton Alchemist/Healer}

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Toe the Line

'Toe the line means to follow the rules or act in the way people expect you to' A phrase and act Dyrvina was familiar with, growing up as Jarl Skald's granddaughter. Dyrvina is now sent to Windhelm as a Political message to Jarl Ulfric. Arranged to marry the Jarl of Eastmarch, Dyrvina despises her grandfather and Jarl Ulfric. Ulfric x OC {F Nord} Slowburn

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Mother of Hunters

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Finnki is the Thane of Whiterun. She takes frequent bounties to keep her life and mind busy. She comes across the scene of an ambush. There’s only one survivor. J'Med. He’s a Khajiit from far-off lands, traveling to Skyrim to shake off his past. Finnki helps J'Med with recovery and fitting into Skyrim. J'Med teaches Finnki about moving on and leaving one’s past. OC {F Nord/Bosmer} x OC {M Khajiit}

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Shadow of the Druadach

Tiernan is the Last Dragonborn. He is also a Reachman. He is a prickly man on his quest to save his world, despite the distrust and prejudice he faces on the daily. While he is looking for an Elder Scroll for Paarthurnax, he meets Rozelia Greensly. A master Mage at the College of Winterhold. She is very interested in the Reach and Reach magic. She joins Tiernan on his adventure, to his dismay. Perhaps the buds of friendship will bloom during their trip to find the Elder Scroll. Last Dragonborn {M Reachfolk} x OC {F Breton}

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[trickstarbrave]

the biggest problem with skyrim i see people critiquing it not point out isn't just "the writing is shallow"

i mean it is. but a lot of games have overall shallow writing without that being an issue. sometimes you dont need 90 pages of lore for smth. sometimes simple events can spiral out of control into massive problems. the elder scrolls series definitely has a world so complex though that it should have more interesting and detailed writing, but the biggest problem with skyrim isn't that

the problem is video games are not just writing and a setting. there is game play, themes, characters, and often multiple overlapping stories/plot lines in that setting. And all need to work together as cogs in a machine or the whole thing doesn't fucking work right. it's like making a play, and while i almost fucking failed script analysis in college (dont ask), i do understand that, and how different parts of the experience are weighted as a decisions

skyrim is a game that is heavily weighted towards gameplay and exploration of a setting. its primarily a sandbox game. thats all well and good, a lot of my favorite games are. it is a power fantasy that is (supposed to be) about play choice and agency. and almost nothing in the fucking game actually reinforces and works toward it. in fact it often directly contradicts it.

skyrim tries to bring up a number of themes, especially in the main story quest. stuff like morals, power, how to wield power, what actual justice means, and the nature of violence. and it does absolutely fuck all with it. if i as a dragonborn misuse my power at best i will piss off the guards which literally can happen to anyone. most of the time no matter what i do no npc gives a fuck who i am. i can be the thane of every hold in skyrim, most of the population will still be rude assholes to me.

take paarthurnax. we all hate and bemoan the dilemma we are given. either kill dragon grandpa or be locked out of the blades stuff from now on. it seems like such a stupid choice to the point one of the most popular mods is telling delphine "shut up im in charge". but i think, even if its subconscious for most people so they don't even realize it, the reason this choice is so stupid has nothing to do with the fact we like dragon grandpa (or at least not the whole thing), but because the entire empire is built upon horrific war crime after horrific war crime of emperors with dragon souls. tiber septim did absolutely heinous shit on and off the battlefield. he killed innocents. raped. abused. lied. manipulated. and he never really repented, unlike paarthurnax. what does he get? well after a convoluted scheme we learned about back in daggerfall, he gets to be a whole ass fucking god and gets worshipped. there are potentially elves who remember his reign of terror and being ruthlessly slaughtered and removed from their homes, their cities burned and families killed, all out of greed from this motherfucker. and they are the bad guys for opposing his worship. they are portrayed as cartoonishly evil mass murderers, torturers, schemers, etc etc and at no point do we get a genuinely sympathetic take from a thalmor agent where they list out all of his war crimes and horrible shit he did that still effects them to this day, and to top it all off the empire left them to fend for themselves during the fucking oblivion crisis.

so as delphine bemoans all of paarthurnax's war crimes and horrible things he has done, how no amount of repenting can make up for it and he's too dangerous to leave alive and we should kill him Right Now because what if he, even by accident, succumbs to his nature as an Evil Dragon and does horrible things again, she is also actively defending the horrific, much more recent war crimes of other Evil Dragons just in mortal form. if delphine has a point, then so do the thalmor, but they are just cardboard bad guy elf nazis and the empire can do no wrong.

violence is rewarded time and time again, but THESE characters being violent is bad. because. all dragons are evil and able to be corrupted by power, but the player if they decide to be a massive asshole don't really face that much scrutiny besides ultimate gameplay inconvenience. because this is a sandbox power fantasy! you should make your own choices without being punished! but that means the story about power, the cost of violence, justice, and morals, as well as your greater place in the world can have no gameplay weight. and if it has no weight in the most important part of the experience, then it has no fucking weight at all

i could go on and on. like how the dragons are supposedly intelligent creatures with their own language, culture, customs, and morality system but are basically for most of the game about as smart and engaging as the average bear or wolf you encounter on the road outside of 2-3 dragons in heavily scripted, linear conversations during the story, but we'd be here all day.

[pseudocyance]

OC LORE TIME LETS GOOOOO

I spent all afternoon on this lmao

This is my watcher character Codex! I've drawn them a few times but it's already 11 and I need to sleep so I'm not going to link it rn

This is the only writing I've done based on them and this is their escape from the watchers.

Cw for death, murder(?), manipulation

Word count - 976

@aurum-the-yapper I really want you to see this :D

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The lava hissed below them as they sprinted across the bridge. It was a less than favorable method of transportation but there was no alternative. Codex needed to get out now.

They had been collecting obsidian for months now, scrounging up every scrap every moment the magic brain fog cleared to make the portal here. Some poor soul had made this bridge, possibly a previous student making an escape attempt.

“Shit-”

Codex tripped, their hands flying out to keep themself from falling off. They fell to their knees and scrambled to stay on the bridge. The lava was only a few feet away and the sizzling heat licked their skin.It took a few seconds of frantic grasping at the netherrack, but Codex got a firm hold on the bridge.

I can't stop, I don't have time to stop, I need to keep going. Keep going, idiot.

They pulled themself up and kept sprinting. Through the nether fog and smoke, they could make out the shape of an island ahead.

Only a few more steps. Then you can find a new portal to go to the overworld through. Or make a new one! You have enough obsidian. So… Close…

A piglin dropped down in front of them from a ledge. It clutched a crossbow made of a deep red wood.

“Ah, hello! Um, I need to get out of here, like, now, so if you can move that would be great.”

It just looked at them, with its soulless white eyes. Codex was glad that the eyes were not a trait their piglin heritage had given them. Instead they had gotten the pink skin and small tusks. They had no idea what their eye's color had been before becoming the distinct purple of the Watchers.

“I would really rather not hurt you, but you are between me and getting away from this lava so it might have to happen.”

The piglin tilted it's head to the side. Codex wondered if it could understand them or if it was just considering whether to shoot them into the lava. Or both.

But instead of raising it's crossbow, it stepped to the side and pointed to a nearby cave.

“Thank you? I think? Thank you for not killing me, Mx. Piglin.”

They started running again, this time towards the cave. Any directions, even from a feral pig monster, was better than nothing.

Don't refer to your ancestors that way.

Codex shook off the guilty feeling and slowed down their running. The cave was widening and going downwards. The temperature was rising with every step and Codex had the feeling that if they broke any of the walls, lava would come pouring in.

Why had the piglin told them to go this way? What was down here? A deep rumble shook the ground.

“Oh voids, they're here.” How had they already noticed they were missing?

Codex started sprinting again. The heat was becoming unbearable and it was getting harder and harder to breathe.

A flash of purple in front of them made them screech to a stop. But it wasn't their pursuers. It was a nether portal.

Finally. The exit. I'm so close. When I get to the overworld, maybe I can find a player to help me get to a new world.

They stepped towards the portal and reached towards the swirling surface.

“Codex,” a voice behind them rasped. “Where do you think you're going?”

They whipped around, tail flipping angrily.“Get away! Leave me alone! All you've done is hurt me, and it is my right to escape.”

The blue skinned Watcher sighed at them with a bored, slow blink. “Kid. You don't know what you're doing. Come home and nobody will get hurt”

“I've already been hurt! Everyone there is hurt! Plus, that place has never been my home.”

“Fine, then.” In less than a second, Thane raised his hands and clapped them in front of him. Purple sparks radiated from his palms and the cave began to shake.

“You're going to kill us both! This is going to cave in, and I'm the one that's closer to the portal. You'll never make it out alive!”

“Codex… did you really think I was stupid enough to come here myself? I would never risk my life on something as insignificant as you.”

A fissure cracked through the roof and lava began pouring in. Codex stepped backwards towards the portal, not wanting to take their eyes off the Watcher.

“This is your fault. You shouldn't have left.” Thane's figure wavered. Codex thought it was heat waves at first, but then the older Watcher shortened in height. His skin turned from blue to a pale peach and his purple waistlength hair turned to white bob.

“Where am I? What happened? Why-” the human began screaming as the lava approached her.

“ROSE? Why are you here? Come here! We can escape together!” She fell forward and started to crawl towards Codex. But the lava was too fast. It oozed towards Codex's classmate and began to swallow her.

Codex would never forget those screams as they backed into the nether portal. They would never forget the expression on Rose's face as they left her. They would never forget the smell of burning flesh and feathers.

As Codex tumbled out of the other side of the portal, they felt an excruciating pain coming from their forehead. The searing pain caused them to curl up into a ball and reach for their head, only to discover horns protruding from what used to be smooth skin. Probably yet another mark from the Watchers, claiming them as a member. The pain continued to burn for what may have been minutes, hours or days.

When it finally cleared, Codex opened their eyes to see a sunrise. Orange light flooded the forest they had tumbled into.

“I’m… free.”

[orginllazyblog]

Some long time ago

Dura: Hey brother, look! *shows one of the earliest celestial heroes like*

Annih: ...So you started a cult?

Dura: What!? No! I'm just showing you what I created. I called it the Celestial!

Annih: Hm... what are you up to?

Dura: I have a suggestion!

Annih:...*sigh* What suggestion?

(Headcanons up ahead, also thanks @theproperweirdo for the idea)

Annih: So let me get this straight. You want to prove your faction that a celestial and a hypogean could "possible" get along.

Dura: Exactly! This would help for the other factions to also get along

Annih: But why can't YOU tell them instead? Aren't you Esperia's favorite god?

Dura: I want them to make their own decisions instead of order them around for my sake

Annih: Is that why you'll be leaving in the future?

Dura: Yes...

Annih: Just remember, you need to come back some day to fix your own mess. To make things more interesting, how about a bet?

Dura: A bet?

Annih: If a celestial and a hypogean become more than just friends, you'll have to come back. Plus 100 gold

Dura: Okay, I promise

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Yeah, I know that is not how it happened, but Lilith isn't focusing on the lore, so I'ma do it myself.

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Small headcanons

Not only did Gavus and Eugene end up together, as well as Baden and Thane. A celestial and hypogean, a lightbearer and graveborn. So that means Dura owes Annih 200 gold once she comes back

Eugene perhaps was created to be more decent with just a small portion of Annih's blood so that he can get along with his celestial soulmate

I believe that Dura got tired of how she had to fix everyone's problem. Which is why she created the celestials to look after Esperia, but even some of them still didn't understand Dura's word

If Lilith plans to finish the lore, Dura and Annih finally become playable (maybe like awaken heores) possible even get new designs 🤔 since it's been a long time

Dura could be the eldest, while Annih is the youngest. Or maybe born the same time.

If the Esperia people think Annih is terrible they say, then there almost right, only Annih knows how Dura can be scary if she wants to. Not even the celestials know

In all honesty, Annih isn't bothered all the trash talk. He's just doing his job as the God of Dead

Dura cares for her brother as he knows her more than anyone

[thetrgger]

Imma keep it 100 wit u, I am absolutely biased towards Skyrim, and I don't give a damn. I love Skyrim, it was my childhood and I still play it, I must have a total of 400 or more hours on it if I added up all the times I had pirated it in my youth to play. My real, legit copy on steam (special edition) has 195.4 hours, so in total about 600 hours of Skyrim in my life. But that doesn't mean I know the lore inside and out, nor do I know every location, quest, NPC, glitch, exploit, whatever. I love Skyrim because it has perfected a formula that I had no idea I loved. I'm doing my best to 100% it, all quests, locations, spells, shouts, all modless and cheatless, though I do use small exploits like refreshing merchant trades and I do save scum if I pickpocket. I was inspired by a TikTok of all things, and for some reason it really struck my heart, and I wanted to make the REAL Last Dragonborn. The thane of all holds, the champion of all the gods and daedra, the leader of the dark brotherhood, companions, college of winterhold etc. And the character doing it all is Prisoner, The imperial stealth archer.

[ferrocyan]

granson's section in encyclopedia eorzea 3!! his blade having such a sweet history was unexpected ahhh he bought it for a song?? his wife fixed it up??? god this makes it so much more tragic that he used it for self-harm

i did expect him to be 28 (milinda died a year before we met him, btw) also, love his name. "ketch" is a type of sailing vessel and "thane" is a free retainer of a lord (per merriam-webster). very middle english! i suppose that'd be the culture of kholusian humes

i got this from twitter so if anyone has more role quest characters lore please do share them ;w; i want to know more about my friends

[nani-nonny]

Welcome to Nonny’s TedTalk about their background characters and their significance to the plot aka my excuse to suddenly lore drop OCs (I guess I’m calling them OCs now)

Anyways, a bit of a long post hehe

Roddy Runes: First Appearance on Distorted Mirror Ch.1: Switch

In front of Leo is a rodent yokai with a huge, bushy tail covered in singed fur. The yokai is wearing what can only be described as scraps of cloth dirtied in, well, dirt and what Leo hopes to be is dry ketchup. Over the yokai’s snout is a purple gas mask of sorts with a small D on the lower jaw—it looks way too close to Donnie’s logo…

The yokai’s eyes widen and his hold on Leo’s upper arm weakens. He drops the teen and looks over his shoulder at a human wearing the same gas mask. He glances between Leo and the human who pressed her finger to her ear.

The yokai finally stops to stare at Leo who stares back at him with the same look of confusion, “This—I don’t—where is the leader?!”

A rodent mutant (species unknown) that Leo meets upon first entering the future timeline. He’s a bit of a worrywart and skittish soldier in the Resistance. He loves children, and if it weren’t for the Krang apocalypse, he would have been a daycare attendant or a teacher/tutor. Leo wasn’t aware of this, but in the future, there was a huge accident with the Krang that mutated hundreds of humans. Roddy was one of them, which explains why Leo mistook him as a yokai in DisMir. Originally, Roddy’s name was Rudolf Thanes, but he changed it to Roddy Runes to better match his new appearance.

Fun fact: He would’ve adopted Leo in a heartbeat if the future timeline counterparts hadn’t claimed Leo as one of their own.

Occupation before the Krang: full-time university student majoring in education, part-time camp counselor

Occupation after the Krang: Scouter. Before his mutation, he was already talented in noticing the near-unnoticeable tracks laid out by any living being, including the Krang, or spotting enemies from afar, etc. But after his mutation, those senses were multiplied, especially as a mutation into the prey category. He’s extraordinarily talented in this area of expertise, to which he jokingly give thanks to his perception of always keeping track of kids he was chaperoning in his past

Significance: He played the part as the guiltripper and backup plan for Leo in DisMir. He unintentionally brings forth Leo’s guilt by mentioning the importance of family and teamwork when trying to reassure Leo’s nerves. Leo would have the option to run back to his side if absolute fear would take hold, and he would have gladly protected Leo with all of his ability and life. His significance didn’t seem all too grand, but he pushed Leo to take anxiety and fear in hand and step forward to responsibility.

Olympia: First Appearance on DisMir Ch.3: Breach

Leo raises a brow and is about to question the weird turn the conversation has made before the person serving the soup speaks up.

Her voice is gruff, limited to a rough but welcoming tone. She’s a mixed yokai, one Leo has never met before or even seen, with features of a bull and snake. She's missing a horn and snake scales travel up the length of her arm to the side of her face. She scoops a hefty portion of soup and drops it into Donatello’s bowl.

Her spoon flicks broth at Raphael’s face when she points her ladle at the turtles, “Watch it, it’s not easy to make balanced meals with what little shit we have. Don’t forget I can spit some venom in your rations.”

A bull/snake hybrid yokai based off of the Ophiotaurus from Greek Mythology that Leo meets with his brothers’ future counterparts. At the time taken during the fic, Olympia’s name wasn’t introduced but she’s the lunch lady that fed all of the Resistance present at the temp-base her bland soup. She isn’t normally the one who makes food, but she was the only one present with experience in feeding large numbers at a time, especially because she occasionally helps her wife in the kitchens back at home base. She is one of the surviving yokai from initial Krang invasion that is able to move and around and speak of the tale. Shes a socially perceptive yokai who likes to dish out people’s stories or secrets without the other noticing.

Fun fact: She was hinting that she was fully aware of how suspicious Leo’s appearance in the future timeline was, hence a part of Raph’s nervousness in talking to her. (Aside from pointing out that Leo looks “suspiciously” like Future Leonardo.)

Occupation before Krang: Battle Nexus fighter

Occupation after Krang: Frontline fighter, focused on giving and taking heavy hits as a tank, honestly not much of a change for her but became increasingly more of a life or death situation

Significance: She played the part of providing a sense of comfort and familiarity for Leo in a world completely strange to him, filled with people who aren’t strangers to the mind boggling situation of the world amidst an apocalypse. She’s kindhearted and warm, strong and easygoing, she truly cares for people. Her part wasn’t long, but it showed readers that despite the war, there are still kindness in people’s hearts and a sense of the mundane in the future. She also played the part of suspicions that are rising within the resistance soldiers present in the throwaway base, no one would voice their concerns, but she played it off as teasing. Very sneaky hehe

Wiler: First Appearance in Dead Man’s Deal Ch.4: Visit & Last Appearance in Return of a Champion

Leo turns to see two yokai who haven’t left the room yet. The shorter yokai, a penguin…of sorts, is seated with a large dumbbell in hand. The taller yokai, a falcon, lay on a bench with a barbell above his head. The falcon halts to a stop while the penguin sneers at Leo’s eye contact.

“Don’t expect us to leave just because Big Mama favors you,” the penguin snapped.

A penguin yokai based off of Maori mythology of tawaki. Just like the myth, Wiler often ventures to the surface under the pretense of being human. Hence his rough and boisterous demeanor, which he picked up from nights in New York observing the harsh demeanors of drunken Yorkers. Wiler was named by a Battle Nexus fighter after being abandoned in the cages and continued to live within the Battle Nexus until Big Mama finally deemed him enough to become a fighter. He only knows of the Battle Nexus, so he went above and beyond when satisfying his curiosity of the outside world and journeyed to the surface. He spent years observing the humans from afar, fear keeping him from actually interacting with them. The closest he got to an interaction was accidentally bumping into a child and apologizing profusely before he hid behind a trash can. He often surfaces to find that child again, to see how they’re doing.

Fun fact: He’s 4’9” (145 cm) in human form and often gets mistaken for a human child on his adventures on the surface.

Significance: He plays the part of providing a sense of normalcy to F!Leo’s life by becoming a close, adult friend outside of family. In the beginning, his short fuse was familiar to F!Leo as a reminder of Raph back in the days, although F!Leo never noticed this. He showed F!Leo how easy it is to talk to people and what it’s like to be normal, despite F!Leo’s reality of being a former war vet and from the future. His boisterous temperament broke through F!Leo’s thoughts and helped the fallen leader from drowning in thoughts of self loathing and regret. He would never admit it, but he thoroughly enjoys being F!Leo’s friend.

Ripper: First appearance in DMD Ch.4:Visit and DMD: RoC

Leo ignores them and just stares, wondering why the penguin is so hostile. The falcon falters under Leo’s stare, but the penguin gets more annoyed by the second. It got to the point the penguin dropped his dumbbell and stormed over to Leo. Leo had to crane his neck down to meet the penguin’s eyes who got angrier by the action.

-continuation of Wiler’s first appearance

A falcon yokai based off of Slavic mythology known as the raróg (or raróh). Unlike his best friend, Wiler, who was practically born and raised in the Battle Nexus, Ripper was sent to the Battle Nexus as punishment for a crime he did not commit. His family are renowned in the black market for a variety of merchandise, especially artifacts. They often sold to Big Mama and she is their best customer, but Ripper grew to fear her the day the family tried to sell her “authentic” artifacts from the human world and she retaliated by framing his father for drug-related crimes and personally sent his father to the Hidden City prison. This led to his elder brother taking over, but was swiftly framed for the sudden disappearance of artifacts within the Hidden City councilroom. His anxious and fearful demeanor made it difficult to speak his truth and was charged for the crime and sent to the Battle Nexus as punishment where he met Wiler. They swiftly became friends, where Wiler helps Ripper steadily overcome his skittishness and anxiety, and he helps Wiler get out of trouble by stepping in before it becomes trouble.

Fun fact: Wiler and Ripper met during training, much like how they both met F!Leo for the first time. Wiler was working on the barbells when he failed a push and Ripper easily lifted the barbells off of Wiler’s neck, saving the penguin’s life.

Significance: He plays the same kind of part as Wiler, becoming a friend to F!Leo and helping F!Leo gain a sense of normalcy beyond the time travel and guilt and strange familial relationship of fathering brothers in the past. Ripper is a softy who would allow anyone to walk over him like a carpet if it weren’t for Wiler, so his skittish demeanor warms F!Leo’s cold exterior. Through himself and Wiler, F!Leo relearns how to be friends and adapt to being an adult in an old world. They teach F!Leo it’s okay to be alive and continue with life, it’s okay to make friends and to continue to grow as an adult, to move on from the past and accept the present.

Griffith: First Appearance in DMD Ch.2: Regret & last appearance in DMD:RoC

Leo looks forward to see a smithy of sorts. It’s not much, especially in comparison to the only smithy he knows of, which he saw in his youth. But he recognizes the type of oven and the smithing instruments. There is a lone, burly yokai slamming a hammer onto red hot steel on a pedestal shaping it with expert precision.

“Griffith,” Big Mama says, catching the attention of the big yokai who immediately stops and rises to his feet. The yokai is taller than expected with muscles stacked upon his torso. He’s a swan wearing a dirtied apron and scars along his splotchy arms where feathers no longer grow.

“Yes Big Mama?”

A swan yokai based off of no myth really, I was watching Swan Lake when thinking about what to make Griffith lol. And I thought it would be funny to see the ever graceful swan reduced (or improved) as a big buff blacksmith in the Battle Nexus. He’s a gruff fellow, observant and meticulous in his work. He has been working as Big Mama’s blacksmith for almost the entirety of his life. He’s a man of little words, his body etched with numerous burn scars and battle scars (he argues that in order to create a weapon, you have to understand the fundamentals behind the weapon). He’s fluent in weaponry, often training with different weapons before using that knowledge attained to creature finely tuned weaponry that earned him a notorious title as the Battle Nexus’s renowned blacksmith. He holds no regard to many fighters, just watches them come and go as time goes on. He’s one of the oldest yokai living in the Hidden City, due to retire although never showing signs of accepting retirement, especially how youthful he seems.

Fun fact: He offered to make Lou Jitsu a weapon during the actor’s time in the Battle Nexus, but Lou Jitsu never accepted. Despite his keen eye, during F!Leo’s time in the Battle Nexus he never saw the similarities between Lou Jitsu’s style and F!Leo’s style—almost as if they were complete strangers.

Significance: His keen eye observed that F!Leo’s style was downright barbaric, almost sloppy had it not been so calculated. For every “mistake” in movement, there was a follow up that filled the gap. He almost opted to give F!Leo a barbed mace if Big Mama didn’t tell him that F!Leo’s weapon is a sword. He, without saying anything except carved F!Leo’s title into the handle, revealed F!Leo’s barbaric tendencies when fighting. He informs F!Leo through the title that F!Leo had long abandoned teachings and opted for desperation and cruelty in fighting. This, in turn, makes F!Leo realize how much he had changed because of the war and his actions. Griffith makes F!Leo momentarily break from thoughts about the past and realize the present—and that tells F!Leo that he’s not acting as the man he once was. Griffith’s part was extremely short, but he played a huge part in F!Leo’s life that F!Leo hadn’t realized. Although F!Leo never acted upon noticing this change, it opened his eyes significantly. But in RoC, Griffith played another part in helping F!Leo accept a new norm, a norm that is beyond fighting to push the pain down to fighting to heal. Another small part, but huge in F!Leo’s life.

Officer Xeni: First appearance in Leonardo Come Down Ch.5: Atone and Alone

The yokai policeman stares at Leon suspiciously, eyeing the young mutant. Leon smiles nervously behind a confident facade, his eyes switching between the policeman and the screen on the desk he leans on. The policeman almost draws his lip up in disgust at the elbow that leans on his desk and Leon quickly retreats.

“Let me check,” the yokai policeman taps away on the hologram, suspiciously eyeing the turtle gang as he does. A few more taps into the system and he says, “Alright… we don’t have a Leonardo Hamato nor a Hamato Leonardo. But we do have a Loathsome Leonard, and… hm. No last name.”

An unnamed badger yokai based off of the mujina in Japanese mythology. He was originally unnamed and species unspecified in the fic as I didn’t want to name him at the time of writing LCD hehe. He’s a pretty laidback guy, a little normal in comparison to the previous characters. He’s simply an officer, born and raised in the Hidden City, normal family of two kids and a wife at home that happened to meet the Hamatos as the strangest part of his mundane life.

Fun fact: He’s the definition of “she’s so boring if she were a spice, she’d be flour” (Louise from Bob’s Burgers) /lhj he’s literally just an average guy doing his job, happy and comfortable with his life

Significance: He plays the part of the informant for the readers and Little Leo. He fills in the readers for what happened in between the time that the Hamatos were asleep and F!Leo escaped to prison. He portrays the readers’ feelings about the F!Leo situation, showing pity to Leo for wanting so desperately to see F!Leo despite the ex-leader running away so often. He’s like a reader insert lol, not too entirely significant toward the plot other than being a bridge between the reluctant and self-isolating F!Leo and the desperate to understand Little Leo.

[chaddywaddy3]

Reman Cyrodiil, the first Emperor after Alesia is a man of legends. He is no doubt a real person, however, as a man that was worshiped his origins and accomplishments may be exaggerated or embellished. I'll do my best to cover it all for you guys.

⚠️Slight Trigger Warning ⚠️

This post will contain some sexual references though not explicit I wanted to warn you.

As always this post contains my own head canons. I will make it clear when I reference the source material from in game sources, dev interviews, or kirkbride faux lore. Alright I've kept you waiting long enough let's get into it.

I think the start of Reman's story really starts with Pelinal Whitestrake who 2000 years before, screamed Reman's name atop the same hill he was born out of. I think it is important to start here because it's important to understand that Reman's story is shrouded in legend and hearsay. In my opinion he was a great emperor and he united Cyrodiil after the Colovians and Nibenese split but its hard to say if his demigod (borderline god) status is accurate.

I'll summarize Reman's origin story from the "Remanada" a book you can find in games from Oblivion onward. Then I will go into my own thoughts.

2000 years after the days of Alessia and Pelinal and 400 years after Colovia and the Niben split. King Hroll began to have horrible visions of serpents. This drove him to make an excursion with 17 of his men in search of a solution to the nightmarish visions and to join his kingdom that had been split in two.

At some point in their journey saint Alessia herself appeared to the King and his men and scolded them for letting her people stray from the dragon fires. After saying her piece she fled into the forested hills around them and Hrol and his men scattered to try and catch her.

Hrol and his right hand eventually caught up to her but it becomes unclear if he actually confessed his love to the spirit of Alessia and slept with her or if he did the deed with the hill itself. But his friend carved "and Hrol did love unto a hillock" into a nearby stone then passed away. And Hrol himself was found naked face down in the mud dead from... exhaustion after completing the deed. The remaining men returned but would not say what happened and only acted embarrassed for Hrol.

In the next nine months the mound of mud slowly grew into a mountain and a community built itself around it and named the hill Sancre-Tor. At the end of the nine months they heard a baby crying from the top of the small mountain so a shapardess went up and found Reman there and he had the amulet of kings embedded in his forehead.

They took the baby to the throne and set him on it after making quite the scene. And the baby Reman spoke with an adult voice and said "I am Cyrodill come"

Under his rule Cyrodill became whole again and he was able to thwart the Akaviri invasion and convince them to join him as the dragon born but I feel like his adult life needs to be a whole other post.

Now, it's hard to say how much of this legend is true because... well its a bit of a meme if I'm completely honest. A dude nuts in a pile of mud and then then Remans first words are "I am Cyrodill come??"

I think bits and pieces of this story are true. I do think that Hrol went on a fruitless journey to sole the problem he kept seeing in his dreams. However I believe that he and his shield thane went crazy after they claimed to have seen Alessia and went chasing after her. I have a theory that they went crazy and killed eachother or themselves and yeah maybe Hroll did the nasty with a puddle of mud but that was because he was out of his mind.

In my opinion, it would be more believable that Reman was a wealthy, high born colovian, perhaps even a bastard son of Hrol, that rose in the heiarchy of the Cyrodiillic government at the time and eventually rook the throne. The stories of king Hrol discharging into the soil to create Reman could have been spread among the people to secure his, most likely shaky claim to the throne.

The claims of Reman being dragon born could be true as evidenced by the akaviri temples and the organization of the blades.

If you read this far thank you so much and I am sorry this one took so long i had to wade through a lot of fan theory and lore writen like the bible for some god firsaken reason. Let me know if you liked it

This topic was suggested by @spooky-donut-ghost-house probably as a joke but here we are