#endarkenement

[theunbeholden]

Ideology: The Thirty-six Sith Rules

From the first book in the The Way of the Sith trilogy. Tenets are the principles or rules about nature that allows one to confront or face oneself or others, in a way that will help one understand knowledge, knowledge of oneself or others, physical or metaphysical. To see what awesome power you have within yourself as a being that is one its way to garnering a whole and healthy mind. It’s meant…

[shepherds-of-haven]

What is the general reaction of the inhabitants of Hael to the death of all the Faceless Lords? I guess they are terrified of the Hero of Haven 😅😅

You can get a good guess as to their reaction if you play Soldiers of Hael and listen in on Ancila's council about the Revenants who get wrecked (by MC) at Prihine's wedding! It's a general feeling of concern and consternation for sure. But if the Faceless Lords are dead, the general inhabitants of Hael aren't going to find out about the details of their deaths, or that they were all caused by a single person, since there aren't a lot of demons around in each case to "report back" on the specific circumstances of the Faceless Lords' demise. But the upper-class Cacophant generals and rulers have their spies, so they're eventually going to put two-and-two together once word spreads throughout Blest (which also takes some time, since most people aren't even aware that the Faceless Lords exist/were around to begin with. It takes the people who were directly there, like Briony/Tallys/Ayla did at the Lockwood estate, to spread the word and impress upon people what actually happened. Otherwise most people just know MC does big things, like taking down Black Sun or saving the kidnapped children from cultists, without knowing specifically their struggles with the shadowy Faceless Lords behind it all).

All of this is a roundabout way to say that no one in Hael is really clued in on MC specifically and who they are/what their name is/their role in each of these events (which is a good thing for MC, because otherwise they'd have a very large target on their backs), but the Endarkened higher-ups do know someone is going around murking the Faceless Lords: they just chalk it up to the Shepherds in general. As a result, they're treading lightly and scoping out the Order from afar for now, but, true to their nature, they're also taking the opportunity to scope out whether they could fill the power vacuum and become a suitable Faceless Lord replacement!

(Endarkened on that level have no friends or allies, only rivalries and covetous enmity. Most are pretty unfeeling about the Faceless Lords, like, Damn, I always hated him anyway. Maybe I can take his job, but I'll have to be careful not to get taken out too... So mostly the news has just generated more scheming!)

[gebo4482]

The Endarkenment

Teaser

[kris-mage-fics]

A couple of Shepherds of Haven memes on this fine day. MC when they have one of those dreams:

Monsterfucker Endarkenedfucker Mages:

[aylaaescar]

sims 4 gameplay is so mid, but it sure is great for making my Shepherds (and they even live in Haven)

row one: Tysinno Maratis (he/him, hunter heritage and circle training, healer, Ayla romance) | Brygita Sinuraya (she/her, elf heritage and self taught, battle-mage, Shery romance) | Lyka Layosa (they/them, ket heritage and self taught, binder, Tallys romance)

row two: Odelina Payne-Isibis (she/her, norm heritage and apprenticed to Belnus Farplane, shifter, Briony romance) | Vincent Vircona (he/him, norm heritage and circle training, enchanter, Riel romance) | Elyon Rhuinae (she/her, elf heritage and circle training, diviner, Prihine romance)

row three: Fayne Uvana (xe/xem, norm heritage and self taught, wild-mage, Chase romance) | Seyda Moderni (they/he, ket heritage and circle training, elementalist, Red romance)

[exquisiteagony]

writing some blooddrunk au endarkened and it is quite funny

[learmonti]

If the Earth needs night as well as day, wouldn't it follow that the soul requires endarkenment to balance enlightenment?

~ Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume

[prose2passion]

last year's feature on the general endarkenment of our times is now in the open archives and sadly still as relevant as it was 12 months ago.

[shepherds-of-haven]

What would a casual conversation between the Faceless Lords be like? How do they get along with each other?

They don't get along at all! Some people misinterpret their relationship as being related to each other, like members of the same family, but actually they're each five different rival generals who rose to prominence and earned the Archdemon's favor during the Dawn Wars, leading to their elevation in power--they were each 'selected' for the position as a result of their individual deeds and schemes back then, so they each regard the others as rivals, though they'll sometimes reluctantly cooperate if required to by their lord and master. It's comparable to the relationship between Sibella, [REDACTED], and High Augur Arameri, or even better, the relationships depicted in Soldiers of Hael (if you're familiar)!

You can actually see what a casual conversation is like in a very specific route of Chapter 5! :)

Hope that makes sense!

[gebo4482]

The Endarkenment

[madlovenovelist]

Book Review – ‘City of Heavenly Fire’ (#6 The Mortal Instruments) by Cassandra Clare

The Shadowhunter gang rally once again to fight enemies from all sides. Genre: YA, Urban Fantasy, LGBT+ No. of pages: 733 Clary and her friends fight the greatest evil they have ever faced: Clary’s own brother. Sebastian Morgenstern is on the move, systematically turning Shadowhunter against Shadowhunter. Bearing the Infernal Cup, he transforms Shadowhunters into creatures out of nightmare,…

[monriatitans]

WORD OF THE DAY Tuesday, September 6, 2022 OED Word of the Day: endarkenment, n. The state of becoming less informed about something than was previously the case, or of finding a situation, subject, more obscure than before.

SENTENCE EXAMPLE "How we should handle this new endarkenment which wants to destroy everything that the democracies in Europe and North America have fashioned over centuries." - 2007, Guardian 24 Feb. (Review section) 8/3

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[aylaaescar]

when you're a shapeshifter who likes messing with Blade so you learn to perfect his form just so you can do this #justlittleOdelinathings

[exquisiteagony]

we're like the opposite of this emoji 🤝🏻 😂😂

i'm frothing at the mouth for more blooddrunk and feeling very normal about hannes being held hostage 😳😳🔥🔥

we are 😂😂😂

i hope you like today’s entry because it’s the aftermath of yesterday’s 👀👀 and features another minor character

[matthewsvoyage]

Something I think that makes TLH stand out is how relatable the characters' traumas are. In most of the series, the characters have by and large suffered some massive supernatural trauma- Will's fake curse, Jem's yin fen addiction, Emma's parents being killed by demons, Julian's dad being Endarkened. But the TLH squad contends with issues that are very real, that you or a friend may have coped with before. Alastair deals with an abusive alcoholic father and a toxic ex; Cordelia has massive golden child syndrome. Grace is essentially a glorified sex slave undergoing physical abuse. Thomas is realistically grieving for his sister. Even Matthew, the most "supernaturally" traumatized of all the characters with the events of CLS, had pre-existing mental illness and the trauma of parentification. This is magnified even more by the fact that Cassie made TLH more character-driven than past series and actually did a pretty decent job of delving into most characters' underlying trauma responses on-page. Combine this with the fact that every member the TLH group responds to their trauma in realistic ways, and it's no wonder that the TLH stands out as feeling uniquely real.

[autumnsunshine10]

Finality

The end

Cavernous

Cadaverous

Sarcophagus saturated in tears

Rusty serrated blade

Severing now from then

Brittle-bent by frostbitten winds

Beginnings tend to flare up bright

Only for endarkenment

To endear itself slowly blending in

Adhering to any warmth

Like a tick draining dry

Leaving lyme and grime

Behind, it hurts looking back

Boggles the mind to be so off

Track the trail but still not finding

Where there veered to here

Nowhere near what was in sight

How did it get this late

And far away from soft shiny

Once upon a time

Prompts: the ending's the thing; endarkenment