#drazhar

[wh40kgallery]

Drazhar vs Jain Zar

by Igor Sid

[neeps-peeps]

My wife’s Drukhari H.Q. - Drazhar

[apollinaresart]

I read The Goblin Emperor last week and it lives in my head rent free now I guess

Csevet is a morning person. Maia… is not

[taylorsterryart]

Edrehasivar, seventh of that name <3

[calaathmaza]

[ID: a three panel comic depicting maia, cala, beshelar, and eshevis tethimar from the goblin emperor. 1) maia seated at the throne, his nohecharei behind him. he looks very weary and is saying, "what is your concern, dach'osmer tethimar?" the nohecharei look on past maia in suspicion and disapproval. 2) a closeup of tethimar, looking darkly upward and saying, "our concern...? our concern is..." he launches up, pulling a long, thin knife through the air, cloak billowing behind him as he says, "A KNIFE!" 3) cala and beshelar crowd in front of maia, who looks horrified. cala holds up a hand crackling with maz, and beshelar raises one arm in front of him, the other shielding maia. both are yelling, "NO!!!" end ID]

let me see what you have!!!! A KNIFE

this was @lollians 's idea thank you my beloved

redbubble

[baladric]

shhh sh they're planning the ethuverazheise ubi system

[heyitsrink]

Maia receiving his daily dose of court gossip from Csevet

[thesunlikehoney]

one thing about maia's characterization i find really fascinating is how a recurring source of anxiety for him is potentially having to have sex in front of his nohecharei, and more specifically in front of beshelar.

like the first time i read the book all i really clocked was how much of a teenager anxiety that is but after the fourth read it’s so-- it’s so fascinating and so sad because it’s not about sex at all it’s just that sex is where all of his complexes collide. maia is deeply embarrassed by his ignorance, he is incredibly ashamed of his appearance, and he feels suffocated by and resentful of his loss of privacy. he doesn’t mediate in front of his nohecharei because he worries they will think less of him, and now he is faced with a marriage he did not want to a woman who views their entire relationship as a duty and has to come to terms with the possibility of consummating that marriage in front of people whom he thinks not only do not like him as a person but do not approve of him as an emperor. like. just. holy shit.

maia cannot bear to be judged for his sexuality the same way he cannot bear to be judged for his spirituality. he experiences sexual desire but the act of sex itself is not something that he finds… sexy. he has very little sexual education, and thinks himself ugly and thinks everybody around him also finds him ugly. all that he anticipates from sex is embarrassment and shame and judgment, from his household and also from his partner. it's not about the sex just like it's not about the meditation it's about how every private and intimate thing in his life is now going to be on display to people he does not trust.

[tartan-tardis]

More sketches from The Goblin Emperor. It’s quickly becoming my favourite comfort book.

[aowyn]

ethuverazhid zhas

[cemchelarna]

Whenever prostration is mentioned in the goblin emperor I've always pictured something like this:

But some curious googling left me more confused as apparently it can also look like this:

Or this:

Or this:

which I guess makes sense as maia refers to people prostrating themselves "full length on the floor" but it also seems like a bit of an impractical way to be constantly greeting the emperor? Although I bet csoru took great delight in making people throw themselves onto the floor for her like this

[artemistartarus]

“our inmost and secret heart, which you ask us to bare to you, we wish to banish them as we were banished, to a cold and lonely house, in the charge of a man who hated us. And we wish them trapped there as we were trapped.'

'You consider that unjust, Serenity?'

'We consider it cruel,' Maia said. 'And we do not think that cruelty is ever just.'”

-Katherine Addison, The Goblin Emperor (The Goblin Emperor, #1)

I think about this quote a normal amount

[fleursdesmorts]

i love their relationship

[lordofnowhere-art]

"There will be an eclipse of the moon in a fortnight's time, Serenity."

[calaathmaza]

ID: a digital illustration of csethiro ceredin, maia drazhar, and csevet aisava, from the goblin emperor. csethiro and csevet are both pale elves of average build, with white hair pinned up. maia is a taller, thin goblin-elf, with charcoal skin and dark hair piled in elaborate braids. csethiro and csevet are embracing maia from either side. csethiro is resting her head on maia's chest, and csevet is stretching up on tiptoes to rest his chin on maia's shoulder. all three wear peaceful contented smiles. end ID

the imperial throuple

[telimezh]

Modern au Maia!!! The first 2 busts were inspired by @calaathmaza 's beautiful modern au art, including lifeguard Cala which gets better every time I look at him 😏