#BBS&B

[tisiphonewolfe]

Which Tectomancy Saga race do you belong to?

Let's play a little game! Each culture in The Tectomancy Saga is blessed with a Divine Magic from their goddess. Pick which one you'd want to be able to use, and check under the read more to find out a bit about which Tectomancy Saga culture you belong to!

Find out what you picked under the cut!

If you picked TECTOMANCY you are HUMAN

Humans in the world of The Tectomancy Saga are known for their great architectural feats, such as the ringed island city of Leirsham and the great marker-columns which they use for navigation. Tectomancy is wielded and passed down in secret by members of the royal family. Congrats on becoming a Tectus! Did you marry Almyra? Releine won't be pleased.

If you picked ILLUSION you are an ALFR

The Alfar are mostly native to the rocky plains and deserts. Their vast, mostly-underground cities are concealed by enormous, powerful illusions. They lay out their dead in an ever-expanding pattern, each town's centre a mausoleum, as they believe this permits them to communicate with their ancestors. They have stick-thin torsos and necks, as well as inner eyelids, and tripartite ears which they can move independently.

If you picked ENCHANTMENT you are a DEMON

Demons mostly live underground, in the warm places near the base of the world. At the very centre of their society lies Hell, their capital city. Their reputation as tricksters and tempters is unfounded, and their culture is quite firmly based in trust - you do get the occasional rogue causing havoc on the surface, but there are equally as many trying to use their powers for good. They come in many different forms - tall, short, wings, no wings, hooves, no hooves, a million colours and shapes of horn. Their sclera are all pure black, however. Demons also have the curious habit of naming themsleves after virtues and traits when they come of age.

If you picked CONJURATION you are a GENOMOS

These guys probably don't reach your hip. They have wide, drooping ears and a heavy focus on academia. Every specialisation you could ever dream of is taught at their university cities, and their primary export is geniuses. The person who's at the tippy-top of their field will get named a Genius, granted the power of conjuration by their Archdean, and sent off to spread their talent through the world.

If you picked NECROMANCY you are UNDEAD

Four hundred years ago, a shadowy cloud swept over the edge of the world on the edge of the human realm. People touched by it were changed - they didn't age, they didn't die. Some hungered for flesh and blood. Some found themselves burned by sunlight. The land rotted below their feet as the plague spread westwards, until the entire eastern border was quarantined. Scarce few among the people there found that they could now speed up and slow biological processes.

If you picked GRAVITURGY you are a DROICH

The Droichs like the icy mountains at the north rim, where they live symbiotically with the Dragons. After the Dragons turned on humankind, they moved into Droichish territory for protection. The Droichs were cautious at first, but now exist in a welcoming partnership with their scaly friends, using their power over gravity to mine materials to repair their hides with. In return, the Dragons fly them all over the world for trade.

If you picked CHRONOMANCY you are a GOBELIN

Gobelin language is hard to translate for most people. They communicate in sped-up time, so quickly that most can't process it. Because of this they function like schools of fish in small groups, coming to consensus on who should do what when extremely quickly. They excel at large projects, but do poorly when it comes to individuality. Gobelins are very much cogs in their machines. As a result they have names like eats-loudly or sings-in-the-shower for easy identification.

If you picked DIVINATION you are an ORKIM

The Orkus are typically gentle folk, large and blue with cute little tusks, content to farm and craft in their swampy, marshy stilt cities. However, their divine magic is aquired only via strength, which has forced combat to become part of their culture. Their warriors - battle-sisters - follow the rallying cries of their battle-mothers, the strongest among them, who their mother-goddess has granted the sight - the power to see possible futures. Most, like Yurhagh for example, would rather live a quiet life, as say... a fashion designer.

If you picked SPIRIT MAGIC you are BEASTFOLK

Part-animal, part-beast, though they have no specific rules on which part is which. They live in seclusion somewhere deep in the Arboric ocean, very rarely appearing outside their own society. People who go looking for them often disappear.

Tectomancy Saga Tag List (DM to be added or removed!): @indy-gray @sam-glade

[princessw0lf]

Happy STS! What's a cute moment/bit of lore (in backstory or present) that probably won't make it into your WIP but that you'd like to share?

Oooh, great question, thanks! A few things come to mind -

The true story of how Droichs and Dragons became allies, and the first Droich to ride a Dragon.

A lot of stuff from the goddesses' backstories and how they were when they knew each other - unless I write that prequel . . .

More on the story of how my butch vampire & femme werewolf couple met, and what happened to Versewelt. Though I did write a little snippet about it!

A bit more about the relationship between Ifys & Sildrey Tectus and Ifys's guard, Anslo Spicer. Sildrey has passed away by the start of Made with Crown and Claw, so the only scene I've had of them together was in the prologue of Bound by Stone and Blood.

Baby Tenacity forming her relationship with her divine mother.

[welcometogrouchland]

[ID in ALT] I've made posts before about Talia/Dick co-parenting Damian moments (will never happen but let me dream) and this came to me in a vision. Took me ages to finish for some reason 😭 and then even longer to post

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LEVI STARTS ASMR CHANNEL??? NOT FAKE!!

(blank/betterQuality and reference under cut =w=bb)

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ISSA RAE via Instagram

[i-ate-your-dog-srry]

Yayayay bbb!!!! I think I'm getting a hang of himz!!! :3 edit: whyyy is the quality so low- also thank u kit and sesame for da tuts TuT

[whereifindsanity]

Eric Clapton and BB King by Robert Sebree

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[softerhaze]

can't stop thinking about the pack leak so of course i'm building lots that may or may not work with the new multi-family lot system 😙

[yesloulou]

Max in the Monza Paddock on media day | 2024 Italian Grand Prix 🇮🇹

[hyperfocusthusly]

Downloading some AU Zukka thoughts;

- Okay so Zuko gets banished, but ends up on his own

- Somehow washes up in the southern isles and finds himself a cave to go flop in, happens to be nearby a certain water tribe

- Between injury, hunger, thirst, being out at sea and general exhaustion he’s gone a bit feral

- Maybe some of the kids from the tribe are out exploring and they find the cave

- Zuko warns them off with fire and they go home shouting about a dragon in a cave near the village

- Sokka is pretty sure that dragons aren’t real, or if they were they’re at least extinct, and even if they aren’t he’s fairly confident they don’t hang out in the snow

- He goes to investigate the cave and catches a glimpse of a boy, probably not much older than him, clearly hurt and in need of help, but he also gets fire shot at him

- He starts taking food to the cave, leaving it near the entrance, it never gets eaten but the fire always tells him the boy is still there

- He sits by the entrance for a while just talking, about the tribe, about the village, about anything just to try to tell the boy he’s not by himself anymore

- The food never gets eaten and Sokka starts to worry about it, he calls in to tell the boy that he’s going to come to the entrance, he’s not going to come in, not going to look at him, he just wants to show him the food is safe

- So he does, trying to be confident in the idea that he isn’t about to be set on fire, eats a spoon of the soup and a drink of the water in view and puts it back

- The next morning the bowl is empty, the water gone and Sokka finally feels some relief

- He starts to spend time just sitting near the edge of the cave, reading a book he borrowed from Gran Gran

- Each time he does he can hear the boy coming closer, shuffling along the wall of the cave

- One day, when he knows the boy is close, Sokka slides his hand into the cave and asks the boy’s name

- The boy bumps his hand into Sokka’s and a small flame writes in the snow

- ‘Zuko’

[tisiphonewolfe]

Where do you live in The Tectomancy Saga?

Pick what sounds nicest from the options below to find out which major settlement you live in from the world of The Tectomancy Saga!

Locations and descriptions unveiled below the cut!

1. Leirsham

You live in the ringed city of Leirsham, the human capital. It's built into a hilly island, raised out of Lake Simul a millenia ago by King Artol Tectus. The city falls in tiers, rings around the island divided by walls; The docks and storehouses; the merchants' district; the residential area; the academics district; the upper city, and the palace. As a hub of human trade and travel across the gigantic lake, it's always bustling!

2. The Genom University

The Genomic people take 'university city' very seriously. The entire city is a university filled with lecture halls and libraries and laboratories, where Genemos study hoping to attain their people's divine magic through rigorous scientific research. Its central feature is the archive, a library where all of Genomic history is stored - through the power of conjuration, this is quite literal. It is said that entire historic buildings can be summoned from the archive.

3. Ipurrol

Ipurrol lies in Versewelt, near the edge of the world. It was cut off from the rest of human civilisation 400 years ago, when a plague swept the land, turning its victims into various forms of bloodthirsty ghoul. Those who remain have learned to live with their condition and keep living on, rebuilding their community together. The Vismoores are the local nobles, who live alone in the castle that looms over the village - even among oddities, those two are odd.

4. Athyran

You live in the Alvian city of Athyran. On its surface, surrounded by desert, its grand architecture dazzles tourists, and baffles them by appearing to be abandoned; most of the city resides below the surface in cool caves, hidden by an illusion. The buildings extend below the earth, making it a forest of towers among glowing formations of crystals. Their cuisine is quite mushroom-heavy. This city represents the centre of the 'pattern' which Alvians bury their dead in across their lands.

5. North's Edge

North of human lands, in arctic tundra, wintery wastes, and snow-covered rocky mountains, the Droichs live in peaceful alliance with Dragons. The Dragons fled from humanity, their former allies, 900 years ago, and formed a partnership with Droichs. The Droichs mine to maintain the dragon's scales and hides with metal and stone; the Dragons serve as defence and transportation for the Droichs. They make their home nestled into a cave-pocked ravine, where Dragons and their Droichish riders gather around the fire together.

6. Hell

The Demonic city of Hell is far below the suface, near the very axis of the world. Its sloping side is marred with holes like a honeycomb, through which the swirling blue mists of the edge of the world creep. Lit by glowing plants and lava flows, the city is built into the rock like a warren, with only gothic spires and roofs peeking out above the ground. Due to the Demonic magic of enchantment, you have to be very careful who you talk to and what you say. Demons though, have this down to a fine art, and natter endlessly to each other.

7. The Hollow

Formally 'Colossus' Hollow', because it looks like a giant kicked a huge hole in a hill and people built a city there. Sat on the border between human lands and Alvian ones, and with a clear view to the Arboric Ocean, just about anyone and everyone could turn up there. With nobody quite able to lay a claim to its leadership, it is more-or-less ruled by an organised crime gang known as 'The Robes'. Their own operations take place in other cities, but their rules for everyone else just say "If you fuck this place up for everyone else, we're coming for your head."

8. Gorzlun Kudh

One of the largest Orken communities; its name means 'Risen City'. Made almost entirely of drenchwood, a form of moisture-resistant wood, it rises out of a great swamp on thick stilts. It is home to the Oracles, wizened Orken elders who have practised the art of future-sight for centuries. It is also home to the battle-mothers, and their endless raiding gangs of battle-sisters. Most older Orkus remember a time when it was not like this. They farmed, they relaxed, they made things with their hands, and they helped their neighbours. Maybe one day it'll be like that again.

[valfeathers]

get out the way (get out!)

[lilatara]

one of the weirdest moments for me is when Buffy and Willow raid the Watcher Diaries in Halloween. Because at best, they're just flipping past all the descriptions of torture and murder to get to pics of girls Angel might've fucked. But at worst (and frankly, more likely, considering just what types of things watchers would chronicle), they're looking at pics of girls Angel ATE and being like "I think you could pull off that look, Buffy."

[rinneroraito]

"If L's a genius then B's an extreme genius. If L's a freak, then B's an extreme freak."

A moot on Tiktok requested I draw them, so I did and tried to convey the kind of "relationship" they had.

(full sketch and another closeup under the cut)

[inwhichifangirled]

The feminine urge to skip the shadow and bone plot in shadow and bone