#Minor Nobles

[morsmortish]

chinese noble house of black is so so important to me because of the tradition of the eldest son being expected to always live with and provide for his parents/elders, even once he has his own family. and then thinking about just how much more heartbreaking and difficult it would have been for sirius to leave after growing up with that expectation upon him, as the eldest son.

[almoststedytimetravel]

Me: I am normal about the internal political structure of nations on fire emblem Awakening.

Also me: Okay, so from the village dialogue in chapter 8, we know that despite Grima being the main deity of worship, average plegians don't seem to like the Grimleal. Implying that the Grimleal are either weirdo fundies that no one really likes but they have an out sized influence on the government or Plegia is polytheistic and they worship gods related to their occupation and Grima is the god you worship if you're a dark mage or you want their blessing in war (god of destruction and all). Awakening characters do say Gods (plural) when they sware, meaning that multiple gods are consistent with Archneaian theology. Chrom’s father is stated to have labeled the Plegian people heathens likely because the Grimleal gained influence in whatever hierarchy rules Plegia. We know it's likely semi democratic because Gangrel supposedly worked his way up from being a street urchin to the position of king. Because it's stated to be a theocracy, it's likely similar to how catholics elected the pope via the collage of cardinals.

[dreadark]

ebenholz is such a…character. if you make him your assistant he just tells you he won’t do shit. he forgot his tragic backstory because he got hit in the head really hard. he got his name from looking at a piano for 2 seconds and it was so obvious he immediately got called out. he tells you his headache doesn’t matter then right after uses it as an excuse. he has the voice of a 150+ year old tyrant king in his head and he talks to it like he’s acting the two bagels vine

and then he says shit like this. Who are you

[divorcedwife]

i feel like the default period for historical AUs is the regency era, but personally i always want to drop people in 1780s france, for maximum drama

[danielnelsen]

obviously the silliest possible worldstate is one where the warden simultaneously becomes queen of ferelden, teyrn of gwaren, and arl of amaranthine (and, come dai, lover of the divine), and hawke becomes both the viscount of kirkwall and princess of starkhaven

i think they really missed an opportunity to maintain that energy in inquisition. i get why they scrapped the idea to let ANY inquisitor (even m!adaar) become divine, but i think a faithful f!trevelyan would be a perfect candidate for divine, and also should have been able to marry gaspard (and m!trevelyan could have married celene)

i wouldn’t even care that it was gender/origin locked (i didn’t have a problem with that in dao), i just think it would have been very funny and also inline with previous games

let us rule ferelden, kirkwall, starkhaven, orlais, and the ENTIRE CATHOLIC CHURCH

oh well, here’s to becoming archon of tevinter and also the black divine in dav

[patriamrealm]

There was a saying passed down from generation to generation,

“The bond between warden and noble is as infinite as the sky and everlasting as the mountain.”

Such a bond was blessed by the Almighty Sinnoh granting the warden a boon of strength and power to match their noble. A bond that could never be broken.

That unbreakable bond had always been relied upon by the people, had always been something to revere and praise. All looked on in horror as spears of ice pierced the heavens. What was once a force of protection and safety turned against them.

“The bond between warden is as infinite as the sky and everlasting as the mountain.”

Noble and warden shared everything from the time they held dear to the space they lived.

They were fools to think Noble and warden would not too share their madness.

[nonuggetshere]

I've had these guys for a good few months now and finally decided to bite the bullet and design them

Looking for a female adult bagworm photos was. Unreasonably hard tbh

[bad-as-me]

i love listening to morgott and mohgs themes back to back because its literally just

[jerreeeeeee]

lou’s character work is always incredible but his choices for deli are so interesting and only work in this setting with this timeskipping plotline. starting out as this idealistic and driven young man who’s also a little inexperienced and naive and turning him gradually into a bloodthirsty warlord completely consumed by his own ambition to the point where he’s lost himself completely and the only way he can weather his transformation is by finding a savage joy in it is so appropriate for the ravening war setting its a tragedy but its inevitable that war turn him into this and the worst part is that he’s not even special. this is happening all over the world to all kinds of people because there are forces bigger than them that they desperately want to control and some of them, like amethar, are forced into it rather than following their ambition into that despair, but plenty of people, likely including belizabeth, focaccia, basha, and definitely karna in a different (although maybe more fucked up) way are following that exact same path

[tiggymalvern]

Doctor Who Tennant Specials

I'm playing catch up with the latest Who, now that there's going to be a gap again. I watched The Star Beast and wow - it was the first Who that actually made me have feelings in years. Welcome back Russell T Davies! Thank the lord for that! Then Wild Blue Yonder immediately did it again, with the Doctor telling 'Donna' about the trauma of his back-story, and then asking her later if she remembers any of that, because he desperately needs someone to talk to. But she doesn't. The Power of the Doctor was such a Chris Chibnall episode. Let's throw everything in there! Let's have the Cybermen, and the Daleks, and the Master! It'll be amazing! And what actually happens is there's too much going on the whole time; everybody spends the ep yelling and running away and jumping off buildings and blowing things up and the impact that should have been there with the return of Ace and Tegan just wasn't. The only moment that had any emotion was the very end, with Dan's gathering of ex-companions and especially seeing Ian there. So Russell T Davies comes back to write a bottle story with nobody but The Doctor and Donna and shows exactly how powerful writing can be when the characters have time to talk.

[shaykai]

Tiny Vat’il in Menzoberrozan(?) doodles (plus Tav’ilin & a concept doodle his older sister. For vague context, Tav is Vat’il’s adoptive brother in the good timeline :>)

[comparativetarot]

King of Pentacles. Art by Claire Christine Sargenti, from the Noble Moon Tarot.

[squirrelwrangler]

I like the Easterlings's betrayal because in Silmarillion, I always wondered what the Feanorians's followers (elves or edain) thought of wasting their lives and time going after a butch of shiny rocks that will only belong to the 8 (7?9?) Feanorians, why would they even care about the Silmarils at all

Asoiaf/Hotd have that a lot, from Lord Karstark, Roose Bolton, House Frey in general, Willem Blackwood with Daemon

Minor houses, subordinates and even commoners and soldiers have their own will and goals beyond their lords's, their own reason to follow or not follow certain people and wars

Its interesting

Damn right it's interesting!

There's a missing Bór story that bridges the gap between Foremother Borte and Kreka, that of Marti and the Second Kinslaying. Bór (and Borte)'s reasoning for why they first joined the elves and gave loyalty when the majority of the Easterling factions did not has already been answered - and that it had nothing to do with the Fëanorians would offer distinct from any other elven group except that thanks to geography that's whom they met when entering Beleriand who had an opening. Then post Fifth Battle it's Borte's desperation and lack of other options and that she was able to shame the Fëanorians into giving her non-combatants a refuge. She and the Bór are the non-Oathbreakers and have that specific high ground in which to demand from the elves. Because the other routes are too dangerous and she had that angle of obligation with her sons' loyal service, staying with the Fëanorians felt like a safer option than trying to survive independently or trying to ask the Haladim or Sindar/Falathrim for shelter or wandering around trying to find the hidden Nargothrond. When her granddaughter, Marti, is an adult, there is fractiousness. Now the generation is one that has grown into adulthood with the outlaw Fëanorians as they're about to attack other elves (and dwarves in most versions of the Sarn Athrad battle) for those Silmarils. Followers doing seemingly counterintuitive actions that benefit their leaders but not themselves is nothing new. But it is what led into the Bór fic series. Kreka's sunk-cost mentality of staying with the Fëanorians because the safer options in Beleriand are very limited to begin with and her inherited family tie to them means that she's not welcome in Balar/Mouths of Sirion. She could let go of morals and go back to Easterling-controlled aka Morgoth-aligned Dór-lomin, as her brother did, if she hid her family and tribal heritage (that's the other missing Bór story, Ruga and the Underground). But after the Third Kinslaying, Kreka admits she's staying not out of any loyalty or love, but contemptuous pity and fear for her son and the two young half-elves. A mother staying in an abusive home for her children. When the War of Wrath happens, and there's elves that don't have the immediate ugly history with the Fëanorians that will automatically give her tribe guilt by association.

Consael and his family is another one where I deep-dived into that position (being based off House Westerling) - why they'd ...okay it's not so much follow the Fëanorians but that Celegorm and Curufin dumped themselves on Consael's family land, and why Consael's family stayed instead of leaving right then. But then why when the first round of events in Nargothrond happened, Consael follows Finrod and Beren. But even his ambitious mother drops C&C when the fallout in Nargtohrond happens.

The Fëanorian camp has true believers- but mostly opportunists. Some of the desperation driving that is more noble, but most isn't. The true believers bought into the myth of Silmarils' specialness that Tolkien did a piss-poor job of convincing me, the reader, of. And because those followers have placed their identity in the sons of Fëanor as their team, then the sons of Fëanor need those special rocks to have proof of their greatness and righteousness (and therefore legitimacy to carve kingdoms out of Beleriand and give the spoils to their followers).

[the-kickster]

I'm getting into dnd and one of the suggested names for a half orc was Thokk. I'm choosing ice spells and i hope i get the opportunity to call someone a piraka

[invested-in-your-future]

You are just mad they have shown Atlas for hellhole it was

Yes, totally. I am totally angry at them doing that, that's what it all is about.

glances at the notes for my AU

Wouldn't want Kingdoms to be seen as incompetent, messy or bad...totally not...

I would never do that

[nonokoko13]

Friendly reminder that being queer/LGBT ally/jewish/pro-semitism isn't, can't and shouldn't be used to justify and support ethnic cleansing, colonization and genocide. If you do think so then I don't want you to talk to me ever again 👉🚪