#Lacking in Magical Might

[vaguely-concerned]

I don't know what I love more, the fact that as rook you can make a statement in NO uncertain terms that you are NOT responsible one way or the other for the theological implications of the shit you're discovering in the 'regrets of the dread wolf' memories. not my jurisdiction. quite simply none of my business. not my chantry circus not my chantry monkeys. irrelevant to the matter at hand here we'll kill that god if we get to him he can get in line. or if the best thing about it is seeing the lone little 'lucanis approves' that pops up right after choosing it. corvid with a knife about to commit deicide keeping it real and sensibly, pragmatically, wilfully agnostic with me here in this magical lighthouse today

[wyfy-meltdown]

Ok so I know that the other Holy Quintet girls have much more obvious/drastic changes to their costumes but THIS

IS SO CUTE AND WONDERFUL FOR HER!!!

[smile-files]

okay, just processing what i learned from the first episode dealing with the 'relics treasure' saga...

11 years ago (kat currently being 21, she would've been 10 then)... so luke had been in america for some time, and he'd met a woman named marina and married her; she joined him on some of his investigations, and indeed she seems to have some sort of knack for puzzle-solving herself. at some point (presumably rather recently) they returned to london: in fact, luke now lives not far away from layton himself! but he hasn't gone to visit... he's been caught up in the mystery of the relics treasure, which he knows is dangerous, but has devoted all his time to because this mystery is somehow tied to katrielle - layton's daughter. foreseeing some peril, he leaves a trail behind him as he searches for the next relic stone, and indeed don paolo holds the next one, and locks him up - but at this point marina has noticed his absence and has come to ask layton to help find luke. they (with rosa) follow luke's puzzle trail and find him, unmasking don paolo on the way, and they explain the nature of the relic stone mystery - among other things, layton reiterates how the mystery is deeply related to his daughter, and thus how he has personal stake in solving it. and so luke proceeds to join up with layton again to further this investigation!

of course, i'm curious as to how kat is related to the relic stones. i'm also curious as to why, seemingly, layton hadn't been investigating the mystery himself until reuniting with luke, who'd been doing his own investigation on it. does layton not have more stake in the relic stones than luke, given how his own daughter is involved? and rosa had said that marina had come to him at a time when he was dealing with few mysteries... i wonder why he hadn't been trying to solve this one yet...

speaking of which, the 'riddle' layton left to kat then comes up, now with the specific detail that he'd told her to read it should he ever disappear: "if you're not my real daughter, who are you?" or something to that effect. the nature of kat's existence seems to be tied to the relic stones somehow, so perhaps (in a strange way) layton is hoping to have her solve the mystery herself should he be unable to? what does it even mean for her not to be his "real" daughter?

[adaines-furious-feast]

hey you like stepfather jace, but what about

actually adaine's father, jace

adaine, who has the one weird elvish ending, that the rest of the family doesn't wen/wyn versus adaine's -e.

and jace, who has the same -e suffix.

adaine, who has always felt different from her family and she *is* different. she's not an abernant

and jace, who maybe doesn't know it until the abernants leave. and now he's trying to pursue a custody case bc he's a better father than his or angwyn. and yet, he's still trying to ressurect a dead goddess and is in trouble w/ porter

idk i just think it would be an interesting wrinkle for them

Hey. You stop that (please never stop).

I'm rewatching sophomore year and so far (up to end of ep 11), Ragh has specified three times that it was Jace he saw talking to Arianwen. About what? Well, it's Arianwen telling him that Adaine's his daughter, obviously.

And at first Jace is fully ready to just scoop her up and take her in but then he finds out Jawbone beat him to the punch and Jawbone - who is an ex-drug dealer/addict with so much past - seems like a much better father than he could ever be. But he is never gonna let a kid think he abandoned them, even if it would be for the best.

Trying to figure out how he's going to go about this without making Adaine's life even worse. Meanwhile Porter's pissed because Jace is just so distracted. Like, one of the good things about Jace is that he doesn't really have anything serious going on in his life and now he has a daughter?

Anyway, Adaine ends up with two dads that love her (Jawbone and Jace in some weird shared custody arrangement) and maybe the events of junior year get avoided and maybe I have another thing to add to my to-write list.

[luckyashes-art]

guys if i make the shinonome au (y'know with the hermit set and kohane6 set), what if Ena was a changling

In the sense that the Shinonomes do originally work with the fae and magic, and overall has a good relationship with them- so when the firstborn probably like died after its first night, a fairy of some sort swapped the child out overnight so the mother wouldn't grieve

looked exactly like the one that died, minus the horns sprouting from her head

[vigilskept]

🗡 for all the mages!

🗡 for a weapon-themed headcanon:

diya’s fighting style changes quite a bit depending on the worldstate!!

in the worldstate where she & gavin are recruited by duncan she learns to fight with a halberd but that takes a long time!!! sten teaches her how to wield a staff defensively (<- guy who’s fought enough mages to know they are useless in close quarters) but it isn’t until freeing the arcane warrior in the brecilian forest that she’s really capable of fighting offensively at all (<- without magic)

in the worldstate when she’s recruited during broken circle, she’s had a lot of experience fighting abominations and templars using blood magic & she’s good at it! she needs a hand free and a knife in the other to be the most effective and tries to manage distance with barriers (or uh. thralls) it mostly works fine. ylva gifts her a dagger (<- crafted by branka!!!! on The Anvil!!!!) on her return from accepting paragonhood in orzammar. it continues to be diya’s weapon of choice even after she becomes a deserter :)

yapping about the rest below the cut since apparently i can’t keep it short!!!

qadir is no longer a mage by the start of the fifth blight. he’s tranquil. he’s not particularly gifted at enchantment (<-esp compared to sandal lol) so ylva’s not really motivated to keep him out of the fray. so he learns!

he hasn’t got much muscle strength left after a month half-starved in the circle, so rather than a heavier weapon she trains him on shortswords. & while he isn’t a great enchanter he is good with poisons and puts that knowledge to use :) and after he becomes a warden…. is everyone familiar with the ability tainted blade? that. he also takes to using a pair of swords he took off a hurlock’s corpse. which could mean nothing :)

gavin fights with the cousland family sword and the shield of highever. could he be more effective as a mage if he took diya up on learning how to become an arcane warrior? yes. but even if he’s a known mage now his attachment to those arms means he won’t budge on this. no fucking chance!

shiva’nasalin does just use a staff. it’s made of blackened sylvanwood. blackened, that is, when she set the sylvan on fire after it attacked the passing aravels. her quick defense of the clan that day was what earned her the position of second & the staff was commissioned by keeper marethari to commemorate the occasion. it always feels pretty hot to the touch!

she’s also fairly competent with a bow. she was a better shot than tamlen, actually which was really irritating for him. she holds onto her brother’s (extremely tainted!!) bow after his death. it’s no good for hunting, but there’s nothing else to remember him by except a tree planted on the far end of ferelden.

thematic headcanons

[danidoesathing]

...So apparently, it's official League of Legends Canon that most of the magic in Runeterra is an innately corruptive force that wants to be used. (To quote directly from Ryze's lore: "Magic wants to be used," said the sorcerer. "It is all around us, emanating from the first fragments of creation. It wants to be wielded. And that is the true challenge on the path we both walk. When you realize what the magic wants, how eager it is... Well, then the difficulty isn't how to begin wielding it. It's knowing when to stop.")

It certainly explains why Hextech went so wrong, and it makes sense given the type of world Runeterra is, but it feels... Almost too straightforward? (That said, I will accept it an answer to the "Hextech dilemma" since it does make sense and adheres to the Lore.)

i mean i suppose that makes sense. the idea of magic and the arcane wanting to used is interesting (esp as it implies more heavily that the Arcane can and does possess a will). it would give a bit more insight into the arcane's behavior and the way it conducts itself through Viktor, as well as adding a lot of possibilities as to why it wants to be used.

however i still think the idea that magic inherently corrupts and that hextech is inherently evil is. lame as hell and a cop out. Magic always seemed to be more of a neutral force, where in how it's used depends on it's maker and master. A hammer is as much a tool of creation as it is a tool of destruction. Hextech are tools, ones that always had duel natures. It's explosive and volatile but it's a great power source. The Atlas gaunlets were meant to aid miners but were used instead for violence. The Mercury Hammer was something meant to keep peace but it killed a child. All of these things depended on Hextech's wielder, not hextech itself.

ad the idea that "oh magic is just naturally corrupting and evil!!" or even "there's good pure magic and then there's evil corrupting magic" is like. thats so boring. that's so shallow and one note and completely undermines all the nuance the show works so hard to dive into. The idea of it being overused and creating the anomaly and all that shit can work (could have been a great metaphor for captialist greed and over-consumption of resources), but Hextech has barely been around for a decade and only has one major arcane powered structure. the game lore's amount of use and the braken stuff? yes easily it could work. but arcane never made mention of the Braken and again Hextech has barely been around so it just feels. i dont think unearned is the right word but i cant think of another one. corruption arcs when presented with power are and/or power you were never meant to wield one thing but something that inherently corrupts despite never implied to be anything other than neutral because "it just does" is lame. thats lame and boring and completely out of left field for this show.

also It'd be one thing if the Hexcore and Viktor's "magic" WAS Void/void based, which is what I and a lot of people thought was going to happen pre-s2. but like. while it has some visual similarities to Void (the swirling structures) it's clearly based entirely in the Arcane and VERY much celestial in both appearance and nature. There isn't even a mention of the Void at all, instead they talk about Wild Magic. Nor does it reflect the Void's inherent nature of "Nothingness" or "unreality". For Viktor, it was all about creating something new, while Void seems to exist to consume magic and eradicate all around it. His magic isn't entirely off from Void traits but it's nature seems to lie with Celestial magic, which seems to be the opposite of Void (basing that mostly on the creation vs destruction thing

[ribbittrobbit]

also, the science fiction vibe that burrow's end is building up to is extremely cool and i love it so much

[eryanlainfa]

talk about one of your OCs!!!

I genuinely tried to think of anyone other than Aiden but failed real hard (which scares me a bit at this point ggkfkfk)

Anyway

* throws RANDOM AIDEN LORE at you*

I want to talk about their shit constitution which happens because of their powers, or the absence of it to be more exact.

Back to some worldbuilding. I did say they are a witch, it means in their lineage they share blood with a magical being, and each families have a special ability linked to that being. Witches is like its own subspecies of halfbloods- they appear almost entirely human with the only exception being their 'odd colored' eyes.

Aiden's family are mind witches, their special ability is hypnosis. Its a powerful ability and Aiden was REALLY good at it without even realising, to a point it caused reoccuring incidents and weird rumors. So their parents, who wanted to lay low (witches arent very welcomed in the Light Kingdom), decided to leave and find a way to lock Aiden's power, better safe than sorry. Since then Aiden has a tattoo on their back, close to where the heart would be. (Its also how their eyes turned orange instead of purple.)

The thing is that it made Aiden's past hypnosis null. And they used to hypnotize themself A LOT. So lots of physical problems started to appear, all the times they pushed their body past its limits, all the sicknesses they seemed to not catch, plus their body losing a flow of energy it used to be swimming in. Their health got TERRIBLE. It took them a while to get better enough to come back to Old Corona.

It also made them grow a bit distant from their parents (who are genuinely very good people) because they were too over protective. Lil Aiden simply saw that their pain caused pain to their parents and that when they werent feeling well they couldnt do much except resting in bed so they decided to ALWAYS be fine no matter what. It results in them putting aside any 'wrong feeling' and the start of them focusing on others well being rather than their own. Which globally makes their own health even worse, eventually resulting in them losing some limbs and being in pain 24/7 because they cannot ask for help ever-

Cue the want to become a physician rising. It makes them able to take care of themself on their own if needs be, but more importantly they get to be busy worrying about others rather than themself.

[high-guardian-herbs]

So part of my research for this is flowers and their symbols

For example, I searched the main four plant symbols and this is what I found :

Rosemary : fidelity, love and remembrance

Sage : immortality, wisdom, health and domestic virtue

Parsley : life, death, rebirth

Thyme : courage, power, sacrifice

Among other symbolisms for the rest of the characters

It's an interesting naming system, as you can look at a plant and make a design out of and then make the characterization after the symbolism of it, or have the name be something of a foreshadowing for a plot point regarding a character

(it's also one of the things that annoys me a bit that the characters don't look much like their herbs and flower, even color wise. Such a missed opportunity)

See they even used some of the symbolism, as seen in rosemary always remembering her mom, and her remembering aster in the final ep to come up with a plan at the library and such, and her being the first out of the group to fall in love too

Sage is supposed to be wise I guess but it isn't really showed much, so maybe she was supposed to become so later on? An interesting thought

Honestly parsely symbolism could either be connected to how big her family is (life) or a foreshadowing for a pretty sad plot line (death)

As for thyme, well. I'm not sure, she is kinda strong but, also kind of meh, it doesn't feel like they lent enough on her elf side honestly

It's why I'm planning to make her a coward who is searching for a way to be courageous, that could be her arc, and also have her learn better plant magic to be stronger

I won't spoil much but I need you guys to know that the symbolism, of the main characters especially, will play a big role in their backstory and their future arcs

[cassmouse]

OKAY so I finally got to watch Taika Waititi's Next Goal Wins and like. That was brilliant?? I saw the mixed reviews when it came out and got worried but couldn't see it at the cinema because of stuff that was going on and I JUST finished it and OH MY GOD?? I LOVED IT

Not as good as Boy or like Hunt for the Wilderpeople but it was a hell of a lot better than some other stuff I've seen recently honestly I really liked it

This man can do no wrong honestly it was beautiful

[autismjpg]

genuinely obsessed with justin playing taako as a ranger during imbalance thats so legitimately funny but,,, DEEPLY interesting to me,,, taakos relationship with magic and casting is so deep and complex and i know this was Justin just having a laugh BUT TO ME. it really showed how that complexity manifests sometimes

[temporalreverie]

oh i didn't think about this being ambiguous until drawing over that horse pic but the headpiece of Carrie Go-Round's carousel tack actually is actually more of a halter, not a bridle. the gold circle next to the corner of her mouth is just a thin disc on each side to attach the straps together the way a ring would (but visually simpler lol, she already has enough going on), rather than a metal bar that goes in the mouth. otherwise how would she have conversations & give ponies life advice with a bit in her mouth, lol.

she doesn't have a bit, reins, or a loop where on could attach reins because strongly channeling carousel magic is about letting her destiny guide her from internally, rather than something external like the rider having control. the purpose of the outfit is a mix of various things:

partially practical for giving horsieback rides with the saddle

partially aesthetic to give the carousel vibes

partially a work uniform mindset thing

partially comforting and grounding for anxiety like a weighted blanket/thundershirt

and overall helps her channel magic due to each of these

it isn't so much that the physical parts of the tack are inherently magical artifacts (it's just a quality custom made outfit), but rather all of the aforementioned reasons contribute to her having a focused mentality and/or being aligned with carousels.

[liikeahawke]

hm. I worked all day so I didn't do anything for sinday but there are certainly thoughts in my head

[waywardsalt]

beating back my own ambitions like look i have a hard enough time reigning in my own ideas dont be pulling this shit

[nammyfanficsblog]

Fe3h au : Hidden manakete - Little helps

- Annette often asks Ashe to carry her as he flying around when there's a cleaning task ( so that's Annette could reach the higher places or to the roof to see the scenary).

- Caspar training so hard to transform ( without using dragon stone cause he doesn't know how to use it yet ) but only Claws , Teeth or Tails are visible, he can't exactly transform into fully form yet. And Linhardt always cheer him up ( so he could study him and also he doesn't like to see Caspar feeling down )

- Ignatz often see Marianne talks to animal and Dorte and since he could understand and talk to the animal. Sometime Ignatz said those animals enjoy her conversation ( which both surprised and impressed Marianne)

- Even Constance doesn't ask, Balthus likes to spread his wing to give her a shelter so that she wouldn't suffer her low-self esteem ego. ( if he see that it pain her or she is in danger ) Also Let her ride his back in his dragon form ( but if Balthus is too hungry he won't able to stay in his dragon from for too long and reverted back, nearly making her falling down with him able to catching her before she clashed the ground)