#couldn’t help but include some Angband World Building stuff

[outofangband]

For the sensory hcs - 6, 14, 17 for maedhros? 👀

From this ask game here

6. Favorite food or flavors?

In Valinor Maedhros’s favorite flavors are savory and salty ones. Fresh bread with salted herbs and olive oil, the meat served at certain ceremonies with the spices burnt from the fire…

At the March, much of his view of food is utilitarian. What is warm and filling and accessible. I’ve written way too much about the effects of Angband on food but I think it loses a lot of its pleasure and enjoyment for Maedhros in the aftermath

I do think he still favors the more savory though

14. A sound they can’t stand

Cacophonous noise agitates him. Throughout Angband, the sounds of the forges, of shifting rock in the mines, the sounds of creatures natural and not, scraping steel, of screams and laughter and commands, of the thousands of processes that go into the running of a fortress on that scale…

And then there is the rushing wind, the call of birds, distant shouting….

There is little that truly mimics that outside the walls of Angband but scatterings of those sounds put Maedhros on edge.

17. What their voice sounds like

I struggle with this as I do not know or understand any of the words to describe voice but I imagine it as fairly even, confident and measured. Post Angband his voice takes a lower, harsher tone, the results of the severe strain on his chest and lungs upon Thangorodrim, years of misuse and disuse, and the exposure to the multitude of harmful substances and conditions within Angband and the Ered Engrin.

He still commands a room or army of course, but the changes to his voice are still stark to those who knew him before.

I hope this is ok, anon! I realized too late that 14 was actually about music, let me know if you want me to come back to that one