#esmund the protector

[intrigued-gelatin]

Make a jean-chain thing with all of the divine warrior symbols! Had trouble getting a decent picture of the chain as a whole but got alright ones of the individual symbols.

Thought you all would enjoy it, seeing as the pendants I've shown in previous posts did pretty well.

Symbols are made after this image (not mine) which depicts the symbols.

Edit: Since there was an ask about it, yes, I will be giving credit to whoever drew the symbols I referenced. Problem is, I don't have the info of the original artist so until I find it or someone is able to let me know who the artist is, I can't tag them or give other information. An edit will be made whenever I get that information.

[laurancezvahlslefteyebrow]

i physically cannot stop myself from making more

the laury and katelyn one isn’t a ship btw

[xielianslver]

I have all the Divine Warriors deaths in mind. I'll eventually draw somethings about them but here you go.

Shad: Never truly died, as we know. Which is funny. God of death yet she continuously tries to live. He wears clothes not meant to be buried in a casket. But ones made to attend the funeral because they are alive. Even after becoming who he is today, her "armour", although reaks death. Shows how he will kill to live.

Irene: She never really died, just "disappeared." (or something I haven't thought that far). Much like Shad but different. God of life yet she tries every waking second to die. All those that she has loved, have been met with a tragic end. Her clothes resemble that of the body laying in the casket. Even in her new form she can't help but wonder when her death would come.

Menphia: She died while saving the one she loved. Enki. In the fierce fight with Shad she was the first to go. The one to make the sacrifice that saved centuries of people. Menphia wasn't one to make sacrifices, she was a selfish woman. Yet, Enki and Irene were important to her.

Enki: He set fire to himself inside his library. It was suicide. He took all the knowledge with him. No one knows why, as they never found his journal.

Kul'zak: He died doing what he loves best. Getting drunk and dancing on a ship. He death was peaceful, and calm. Mature if you will. Much like himself.

Esmund: He was mauled to death. Perhaps it was Xaiver, the boy he helped build into a man. Xaiver was the first Shadow Knight. But who knows. It was a gruesome sight. Despite Esmund's eagerness to protect those. He seemed to have failed at protecting himself.

[stellisketches]

MY MAGNUM OPUS IS COMPLETE! 53 generations, roughly 1300 years, going all the way from Esmund to Garroth. PLEASE send me asks about the family tree I have been slaving over this for two weeks and if no one says anything I will cry. Whether it’s lore, drawing requests, who’s got the best ass in all of Ro’Meave history, I will answer pretty much anything. I hope you all like it! (Also the line connecting Naela and Ryker was the Wedding of Woe, for those of you who read my Ro’Meave lore post)

[rattotheimperialcheesegod]

Alright sooo, i did a little redesign work or did alittle touch ups on each symbols of each divine god for Misteria about a few weeks ago...

i double checked at least a few times to be extra sure the symbols of each god at least looked like SOMETHING and so i came up with this!

kul'zak's is a tree (to represent him being the god of destruction and karma)

menphia's is a firey bolt (to represent her being the god of war and hope)

shad's looks like a torn apart heart (to represent him being the god of death and reanimation)

esmund's is a shield (to represent him being the god of protection and judgement)

enki's is shears (to represent him being the god of time and the space)

and

irenes is a sort of plant like it always has been, basically unchanged honestly (but its to represent her being the god of life)

also if you want to compare these with the og designs look no further! here they are for your eyes....

Ask box is always open for questions on Misteria/my MCD+Mysteeet rewrite!

[dilucsfavorite]

I have gotten inspired from my most recent ask, about my opinions on the DW. This time, I am going to talk about how I believe they are worshiped by the people, and how they affected the present world. Not going by village, just the general most common ways they are worshipped.

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Irene: Much like how hospitals have the red cross symbolizing medicine and hospitals, Irene's symbol is that. Wherever a doctor and where a hospital is, is the Irene symbol. The matron symbolizes healing due to her many healing abilities, and so that translated over to hospitals and doctors when the idea of medicinal herbs and such were made popularized. Churches are typically where she is worshipped, sermons and days specified when they will join together and pray. The believers also believe that all plant life should be looked after and taken care of, destroyed only if necessary. Many of the bigger villages have green houses filled with medicinal herbs and native flowers that are religiously taken care of. However, there is a dark side. Bandits, kidnappers, just evil doers in general, use the promise of prosperity the name of Irene brings, to bring down and dangers unto others. There were even historically recorded times of people sacrificing others in the name of prosperity and good health.

Enki: Enki was the one who coined the idea of recording history and knowledge within books, less in murels. He was also someone that pushed education buildings and the idea that everyone should get the chance to learn, even if societies at the time did not want that to happen. He was also the cause of the publishing of the first maps to be made of the entire world and the nations. There is one major university using his symbol as the colleges symbol, even if that is not historically accurate. However, most books were destroyed in book burnings that he had created, ones not stored in a major library that is still hidden to this day. He is worshiped by scholars and sailors alike, though there is not one set place people worship him. Though the library could count.

Kul'Zak: Kul'Zaks symbol is used at camps and hotels people own in order to convey the idea that this is where wanderers and travellers can stay. He also had helped Enki publish the maps, though he was the one who had created them. He is not necessarily worshiped, but he has a small mantra that goes around camps that adventures learn, one that is said to bring safety and protection to those going between cities and nations.

Esmund: Esmund is the symbol of the guards order and is used at the guard training facilities around the different nations. He is the symbol of protection and people use his plus Irene's when them or a loved one is sick or injured. Irenes for health and healing, and Esmunds used for the protection of the person. It is also a symbol used alongside head guards, next to the cities symbol. It is only used by the head guards of said village, since they are the main protectors. It is rumored that one can learn the skin hardening ability he has, but it had only been done once, and it was an old man close to death.

Shad: Before he became the destroyer, he was the fighter. Unlike the idea of the protector, he was always on the front lines. He worked with blacksmiths to make different types of weapons that are used today, some were even the basis of better weapons made at later dates. He was worshiped among brash men who only want to become fighters within the wars, but he had the respect of weapon makers. When he became the destroyer, he was worshiped by small cult like villages, ones who praised him to the brashness he had faced as well. They do not believe in the other DWs, and they believe that Shad is the one and only being, the one true DW. Whenever someone was close to death, they were killed to be sacrificed to the Shadow Lord. When young promising fighters come along, they are sacrificed to Shad. Thus, the Shadow Knights began.

Menphia: She is actually the most less known DW, one who is not widely known. Only the oldest witches (and that's few) know of her and worship her. Other than that, there is folklore surrounding her. She would stay in the back lines and rain fire or ice balls from the sky to hit enemies in the lines. Though, that story became less of her and more of a ghost story that surrounds battle fields. That if the battle is gruesome enough, the sky would rain fireballs to torch those who dare make such a gruesome display on nature. Though that type of story is common within Irene believers. She was fine with being the most less known DW, as she did not want fame or worship.

YIPPEE!!!!!! I hope you like and pls expand on your own ideas as well :3

[that-one-i-think]

Another thing to help me characterize my Divine Warriors - Vices

Shad: Bloodshed - After becoming the Destroyer he was always hungry. He craved to consume and destroy everything in his path, whether it be people, animals, or towns.

Irene: Attention - While attention in itself isn't bad, too much of it can be bad. Irene was subscribed to "Any attention is good attention" and was how she became the most worshipped god. She encouraged it so more people would come to her for help. She was a fixer.

Enki: Power - The man was a hoarder of knowledge, and in this world, the quote "knowledge is power" is directly inspired by Enki. She was the Keeper, and they constantly wanted more.

Menphia: Booze - She was the fury, the one who constantly got into fights. The definition of a warrior, but as a warrior, she often killed people in her bouts of fury that she never meant to. This led to her taking moments to... calm her mind with a stiff drink.

Esmund: People - This man was a self-sacrificing maniac. He desperately wanted people to love him and, more specifically, Irene to love him. He wanted to wrap everyone in his big strong arms so no one would ever be unsafe again.

Kul'Zak: Smoking - After becoming immortal against his will, he took up the habit so he could at least feel like death. After all, a smoked fish is a dead fish.

[trans-garroth]

Her Guiding Light

W i l l s a v e u s a l l

[goat-guy-tm]

Every divine fell in some way. It was bound to happen, no one figure could be holy and pure forever. Each shaped the soul of the divine in some twisted way, something that changed them completely.

Enki's ravenous thirst for knowledge, to become all knowing no matter the cost.

Irene's loss of all emotion and draining of compassion for those under her.

Drae'lic (Shad)'s loss of his own soul and spiral into beasthood.

Menphina's abandonment of those closest to her.

Esmund's thirst for power and control, his want to become stronger than even the other divine and gods that came before them.

Kul'Zak's sudden dissapearence after watching all his fellow divine rip each other to shreds.

The divine's flaws were covered up, twisted and changed to seem more holy. After all, no one wants to admit the god they devote their whole life to is nothing but a desprate, scared, bloodthirsty child.

[pack-coven-thing]

@queeryutbrb you have opened a can of worms you're not ready for /j /j

This all, like all my needlessly extensive worldbuilding, is subject to change until I write it down in my lore notebook or it's written into the rewrite itself. So be warned I guess✨✨

@romeave-wives-club you probably wanna see this post too

Starting off with the world map reveal to show (roughly) where Gul'rak is! Things keep shifting nonstop so, don't mind the other regions/continents quite yet.

So! The region of Gul'rak is technically split up in two, the Enki Warrior Island and Gul'rak proper. The reason it's this way is simply: The Demon Warlock, who like canon pulled his magic bs to seclude the island, letting in only who he wanted in and letting no one out.

The island is technically part of a series of islands, and on top of that it's- kinda small. Not tiny, per say, just small.

It's a mystery and an enigma to anyone living on the other islands or Gul'rak proper, people will swear there used to be another island, it had to be there right? But when they look for it, they can't see it. God forbid they try and sail, they'll either crash the shore or get turned around and lost.

It's something of an urban legend on Gul'rak, by the time we get there in the story.

The Enki Warriors, surprise surprise, primarily worship Enki. Which is funny because they refuse to believe Travis when he's trying to give them very valuable information but that's fine-

Anyways, Gul'rak proper primarily worships Esmund the Protector and Isana the Determined (have either me or @romeave-wives-club gone over our divine warriors fully?)

I could. Talk for hours. But that's the basics of Gul'rak! Once I get the entire region ironed out, there's gonna be a huge lore post probably, however until then if you want more info you can always send an ask! :>

[localcryptidinthewoods]

i feel like The Divine concerts are always crazy as shit, theres always some drama or some stunt being pulled by the band or some crazy shit happens in the crowd due to lack of concert ettiquete

Irene has def played a surprise break up song which is her very clearly being petty about Shad. It comes out later that night that Shad and her got back together. She also seems like the type to give fans kisses, think Nana Osaki from the anime Nana type vibes. She’s also def done some VERY suggestive dances and acts while on stage and will continue to do them without shame. Shes probably also been on stage either drunk or high off som.

Kul’Zak decides to have a pre concert qna over on twitter or som which ends with him calling someone an idiotic bitch due to them running a fan account of him and treating him like hes an illiterate child instead of the full grown adult he is and getting cancelled (first time thats happened its ussally everyone else getting cancelled)

Enki posts a story of him in irenes dressing room with the caption “new things coming soon. . .” mid album tour before deleting it as it starts trending. Enki & Menphia got caught making out pre concert by a fan w a VIP w backstage access badge who took photos and posted them immediately after. Needless to say that person got kicked out pretty quickly.

if someone throws something on stage and menphia gets up and throws it back at them 10x harder because it almost hit someone on the head and shes getting real pissed of people throwing stuff on stage ( she also gets controversy over this because it did, indeed, hit the fan who threw it in the first place, not in the head but it still hit them )

i feel like this is probably someones (dont remember who) yung gravy garroth leaking into my view of esmund since garroth is esmunds descendant, but you cant tell me esmund hasent been handed and or thrown bras during concerts. he takes em and asks if their sure cuz he knows bras are expensive asf, but he takes em. ussally washes and donates them afterwards, but its always funny to hear him yell thank you over all the loud music, theres complilation videos of it happening

its happened once or twice that a fan manages to get on stage due to security lacking and nothing is more terrifying than watching a 6’9 Shad grab the person by the arm and DRAG them towards security if they manage to get too close to someone with a death stare. Shads a pretty big and strong guy and intimidating, and is absolutely TERRIFYING when he uses that to his advantage.

[laurancezvahlslefteyebrow]

alright so i’m sure we all know that garroth has got some serious religious trauma and i’m sure a good portion of you have seen that post talking about how terrified he must’ve been finding out that aphmau is really irene

but can you IMAGINE how freaked out and utterly bewildered he would be finding out that he is the reincarnation of esmund??

like i think he’d shut down for a bit

idk just a thought

[xielianslver]

Y'all listen to me with tragic love life Irene, mf apollo core.

(this only goes for ones she loved/liked back)

Zoey? Just didn't work out.

Esmund? Ehhhh yeahhhh......

Menphia? ...whoopies

Xavier? Very first SK

Shad? VERY BIG WHOOPIES

Zoey (again)? Loses her immortally

Garroth? Irene dimension

Laurance? Shadow Knight aesthetic

Aaron? Soul got torn apart

SHAD??? AGAIN WHAT IS THIS TOXIC YURI SHIT???????????

Girlie is not having a fun time

@the-martyrfication-of-the-matron because of the fact that we are mutuals now and I am annoying I'd think you'd (might) enjoy this :)

[gaybae1021]

Day 17: Familiar

Transcript:

Garroth: I don’t want to sound like I’m complaining, but why have you been so nice to me? Cause I was a proper jerk when we met.

Aphra: Huh, I’m not sure actually… I guess you looked like someone I could trust.

Hot take: I hate the “descendants only” setup for the divine warriors and I hate every theory I’ve seen of people grabbing the most random tertiary characters and trying to make them important on the basis of skin similarity.

I’ve always hated stories about fate and destiny, unless they’re unpacking the horror of that situation. If my rewrite has any major theme it’s “screw doing what people expect of you.” Following that, the relics were never intended to be used by people, and only Garroth and Travis have direct connections to their divine warriors.

In Garroth’s case though, the resemblance is uncanny, to the point where Aph, even without memories and even without seeing his face, gravitates towards him immediately, just purely off vibes alone.

Sure hope nothing bad happened between Irene and Esmund…

[queeryutb]

someone. someone tell me not to give the divine warriors neopronouns

[stellisketches]

A thought I had about the Divine Warriors...

I found it interesting that Hyria explicitly said that all the Divine Warriors aside from Irene were NOT immortal, and were reborn and/or reincarnated. Now maybe this is just my interpretation of this, but this means that the Divine Warriors aged just like any normal person, and rather than just staying young and hot forever, they had to repeatedly watch themselves grow old, get grey hair, wrinkles, and become physically weaker until they died either in battle or of natural age, and then they would have to go through the ordeal of their bodies being transformed and de-aged through Irene and have their soul reincarnated into their younger (likely 18 or 19) year old selves and dealing with the emotional trauma and dysmorphia of being in the body of a child after having worn their experience on their face for decades and being unable to recognize who they are or how old they actually feel. 

Also, another thought, try and imagine the Divine Warriors travelling together at varying stages after their last rebirth while all technically being around the same age. Imagine normal 30-something Irene leaning her head on a 50-something year old Shad, talking about their plans for the future. Imagine a 75 year old Kul’zak in a furious debate with an 19-year old Menphia who had to get reincarnated after their last battle because she was shot through the heart. Imagine a 25-year old Enki meeting an old soldier friend that he hadn’t seen since he was 60 in his last reincarnation, having seemingly switched ages with him. Imagine Esmund being freshly reincarnated, barely looking old enough to drink, and being greeted by his two children who are both pushing their late 40s.