#grishaverse ref

[ragingstillness]

Grishaverse reference

Hi Grishaverse moots, idk if someone has already done this before and if they have, sorry, guess we've got two cakes now.

I recently finished reading lb's written version of Lives of the Saints and I have many thoughts. The following are my guesses on nation of origin and grisha power for the saints mentioned in the book, based on the stories provided. There isn't a ton of information, but these are my best guesses, feel free to put these interpretations in your fics!

Also lb's grasp on Russian is tenuous at best, so keep in mind that this list is written letter for letter the way the chapters were titled, not the way these names would be properly spelled.

Sankta Margaretha - Kerch, likely Durast

Sanka Anastasia - Ravkan, likely Healer or Alkemi

Sankt Kho - Shu, Durast

Sankta Neyar - Shu, Durast

Sankt Juris of the Sword - presumably Ravkan but he dates back to before Ravka was a country, his story references one of his miracles not his actual story of sainthood so his Grisha designation is unknown, we do know that he's a two-souled Grisha bonded with the Dragon

Sankta Vasilka - probably Ravkan due to her being described as the first firebird, likely a two-souled Grisha with a firebird, maybe a Durast or Squaller 

Sankt Nikolai - unclear nationality due to his being on a ship from an unknown port, potentially Ravkan, Squaller, maybe an Alkemi too 

Sankta Lizabeth of the Roses - Ravkan, maybe a Durast, maybe a two-souled Grisha with bees, maybe an Alkemi with plants

Sankta Maradi - Zemeni, Tidemaker or Squaller

Sankt Demyan of the Rime - Fjerdan, Durast

Sankta Marya of the Rock - Suli, Durast

Sankt Emerens - Kerch, maybe Alkemi or Heartrender

Sankt Vladimir the Foolish - Ravkan, Tidemaker

Sankt Grigori of the Wood - Ravkan, Healer, potential Durast, two-souled Grisha with a bear 

Sankt Valentin - unknown nationality, potential Squaller or Heartrender, potential two-souled Grisha with a snake 

Sankt Petyr - Ravkan, potential Inferni or Heartrender

Sankta Yeryin of the Mill - Shu, likely Durast or Alkemi 

Sankt Feliks Among the Boughs - Ravkan, likely Alkemi, the Thornwood grew where he died, two-souled Grisha with a hawk 

Sankt Lukin the Logical - unknown, potential merzost-using Healer or Heartrender

Sankta Magda - Ravkan, Healer or Alkemi, maybe secondary Squaller gift, saved Grisha children from pyres

Sankt Egmond - Fjerdan, Durast, forced to create the Ice Court 

Sankt Ilya in Chains - Ravkan, merzost-using Durast, potential Healer/Heartrender too

Sankta Ursula of the Waves - from an area in Fjerda where she is called a princess but we known her mother is Baghra and her father a sildroher, making her half-sildroher half Ravkan, Tidemaker

Sankt Mattheus - unknown nationality, Alkemi or Heartrender, turned wolves into dogs, possible merzost using Heartrender or two-souled Grisha with a wolf

Sankt Dimitri - unknown nationality, likely a merzost-using Healer or Heartrender (or a Squaller playing a joke due to his? skeleton being found in a room still praying and also talking)

Sankt Gerashim the Misunderstood - likely Ravkan, potential Durast, his vow of silence makes me think it's more likely that he was attacked and made mute because it says he stopped talking at 15 and didn’t say a word in his defense before he died

Sankta Alina of the Fold - Ravkan, Sun Summoner, obviously 

The Starless Saint - Ravkan, Shadow Summoner, obviously 

Extra thoughts I had reading the book:

“Half of novokribirsk was lost” - this is how the Darkling moving the Fold was described so I guess we have a better grasp on where the Fold moved to and how many people died

The story with Alina isn't about her own sainthood but about people praying to her, specifically Grisha children who are being sold to Kerch slaver, what a surprise that Alina didn't fix everything governing Ravka (I am bitter as hell and this is sarcastic)

Ulla being described as a princess is odd because what is she the princess of?

We know that dragons and sildrohers exist in the grishaverse but nebulous "demons" are also mentioned as taking over people's bodies. It's unclear how real these might be or whether they were trauma responses or mental health issues.

A ton of these people are hermits, likely because it helped hide their powers.

Lots of saints being accused of conspiring with the “demons,” lots of the saints are described as “witches.”

The prose feels like I’m reading propaganda written by the Apparat. ex: All the saints are described as pious and this is what their actions are attributed to despite clearly being the result of Grisha powers.

It's interesting to me personally lb even included Aleksander or allowed a story to exist that showed how his expansion of the Fold benefitted a Ravkan citizen.

Most Saints are described as weak and sickly, wonder why that is (wasting sickness from hiding their powers). 

The Tula valley was desolate before the Fold because Feliks died there and many crops rotted after his death.  

A lot of these stories have townspeople and noblemen turning on the saints, also lots of stories of people fighting for royalty then being betrayed by the same royalty (what a sucky trend for Grisha).

Many saints are said to be monks and scholars, this might be Apparat propaganda but it also might be an extension of them being in hiding about their powers.

Lot of saints are Durasts and Alkemi, likely because Materialki powers are the easiest to hide. Possible Etherealki Saints probably didn't survive long enough to be remembered.

A surprising amount of saints were Squallers. This may be because wind is harder to predict than other natural forces and is more likely to be dismissed as nature rather than Grisha power.

Only one saint is a potential Inferni. Probably because it's arguably the most difficult power to hide.

Some of these legends definitely seem older than others because they reference each other and lb does not make it clear where in the historical timeline they fall in relation to each other.

Some of the saints are only described with their miracles not their stories of sainthood, this is a curious choice and I wonder why it was made.

Some of the saints' deaths are written as fade to black while others are described in excruciating detail. Another weird choice.

[paintsandquests]

An evening in Ketterdam

[kazscrows]

the one and only Wylan Van Sunshine with 2C of the first character sheet?

Here’s the merchling himself!

☀️💣 Wylan Van Sunshine 💣 ☀️

I think this was my first time drawing Wylan? He was super fun!!

[snickerdoodle14]

King of Scars reference in sab s2..... BLESSED

[lorenfinch]

Introduction

Hello! Very recently I found out about the existence of writeblr, and since I am currently working on a book series and trying to get the word out about it I thought I'd make a sideblog for it!

My name is Loren, and my full pen name is Loren Finch. I'm 24 at the time of writing this (though my birthday is less than a month away), I like to primarily use he/they, though I still go by she/her in some places due to not entirely being out and still experimenting with my pronouns. I am a mixed, queer, autistic/adhd, transmasc, aroace author who enjoys all things fantasy, gothic, and supernatural.

I am also an artist and you may find some of my character art here! My main blog is @circuslollipop and my art sideblog is @circuslollipopart! You can also find me on twitter @/circuslollipop and on insta @/circuslollipopart!!

I would love to meet and befriend fellow writers and seek out some beta readers in the future once I'm ready for it!

My current writing project was actually inspired by another writing idea I had! That project was moreso about faeries in a steampunk-inspired city, until I had a few worldbuilding ideas on how to integrate vampires into the setting. Then I came up with a couple characters and an entirely new setting, and found that I wanted to write about them instead!

For the time being. Perhaps when this monster of a project is all done, I can go back to that other idea! Or, idk, something about sapphic werecoyotes in an Old West-inspired town.

MY WIP

Currently, I am working on a new adult dark fantasy book series, with an aim for 5 books total. I would comp this as GRISHAVERSE x HELL FOLLOWED WITH US x THE WITCHER.

The Everdark. A vast expanse of forest and mountains where the sun cannot touch, where monsters roam wild and where magic permeates the very soil. To most mortals, the Everdark is a death sentence, but one young man hopes to make it a sanctuary. Renwick had always held a fascination for vampires, and now that he’s been turned into one, he revels at the chance to finally leave behind who he once was—scared and meek with no friends, shunned by his fellows who insisted he was a wretched little girl. Yet instead of the grand castles, billowing capes, and candlelit ballroom dances of his dreams, Renwick finds himself thrust in the middle of a conflict between vampires and monster hunters that threatens to turn deadly. With his new home and fellow vampires on the line, Renwick must uncover the secrets lurking in the fog, all while searching for his enigmatic uncle and grappling with the mysterious circumstances of his own transformation.

This series will feature vampires, undead creatures, elves, magic, a trans autistic MC, many queer characters, and an eventual MLM romance. The setting is inspired by mainly 19th century Europe with some medieval/renaissance era elements, and North American natural landscapes. Currently, I have just started drafting the first book! I am a plotter by nature, and have completed outlining book 1, and have mapped out where the rest of the series will go.

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[only-drink-to-get-drunk]

hi loves!! <3

everyone keeps doing little introductions at the top of their blogs, and now i wanna :] so here we are!!

hi, i'm fae (or spectra)!! pronouns are they/them. i am 16 (only one year until i'm a dancing queen, then it's over for u bitches). i am a very neurodivergent fucked up chaotic insane lil mess (bsc /ref) — personally i think that makes me lovely and fun, but who really knows (not me, that's for fucking sure).

okay. so. i am: + a falafel (don't ask) + a certified matchmaker (i married @thesunandstarss and @squishy-lemons in the grishaverse swifties server) + a wedding officiator (officiated their wedding (also proposed for them)) + professional spammer + coleader and most active member of the oomens eyeball cult + the best nickyname maker + the best knife wife ever (@lee-says-things this is where u agree honeylee) + ingenious word maker upper + deranged chaos awakener + writer + poet + songwriter + musician/composer + artist take everything in this list as you would a resume. when i say everything i mean the last five things. im not good at them but i do them so i am a Professional Doer of them.

my other blogs: @faeruine // writing, poetry & art shit @tears-on-the-letter // ur here. tada. @a-crisis-of-my-faith // fandomy shit. main fandoms are the grishaverse, throne of glass, the marauders, dead poets society, etc @of-light-and-darkness study blog @defective-angel (why wont it tag??) lil journal and quotes and aesthetic shit idk i like music. music is amazing. my fav artists are: + maisie peters (thank you @its-tortle) + taylor swift + lauren aquilina + victoria carbol + nf + phemiec + jessie paege + sabrina carpenter + three days grace + finneas + hayley kiyoko + skillet + thousand foot krutch and other artists. feel free to send me asks, messages, tag me, talk to me, etc :] please do not be creepy tho or i will block you <3 also im sorry i sometimes take eight years to respond to asks, i like to think its a part of my charm and mystique

btw my tag for my dumb lil comments and rambles is #faerambles so block it or follow it or ignore it, whatevers :]

enjoy the chaos.

[kazcreates]

HI you seem really cool!!

i showed my heartrender friend (/ref shvjci) the soc annotations we could not stop laughing :)

I’m very glad you enjoyed them. Most of our annotations are just ridiculous media references, flirting with each other, or comparisons between Grishaverse ships and our relationship with our partner. Someday, when my crows come back to roost, we will finish our annotations throughout the whole duology. At the moment, it remains half finished. (Apologies for my rambling-)

[nerdyhuntress]

“Saints, how many are there?” Jesper asked, loading his revolvers and taking aim.

Nina yelled in Fjerdan. “I’ll kill you all if I have to!”

One of them chuckled. “Fight all you want, witch. We have orders to take you in alive and there’s dozens of us here.”

After Nina and Jesper are kidnapped, Kaz Brekker organizes his Crows to rescue them from the Druskelle. Written for the Grishaverse Mini-Bang (@grishaversebigbang). Rated M for violence

(Thank you to all the people who collaborated on the art for this fanfic! You're all the best :) )

@artbymagsn (https://www.tumblr.com/artbymagsn/732348950545367040/so-excited-to-post-another-grishaversebigbang-23?source=share&ref=artbymagsn)

@gimmedafood @scinnahunbun

[adanseydivorce]

link to the kandrew version poll results if you missed it: https://www.tumblr.com/gothictessa/732077687279157248/stolen-from-a-moots-poll-idea-for-another-fandom?source=share&ref=_tumblr

and Kaz & Inej is an obvious choice/comparison that I was pretty sure would sweep so I eliminated it and went with Zoya & Nikolai (who also have parallels imo) instead like me not adding the adansey option to the kandrew poll you people are predictable w Trc and Soc (and so am I but that’s a nonissue here <3)

[simplydifficultme]

Seemingly every grishaverse artist rn: omg S2 ,yes so many cute scenes to redraw yay!!

Me: omg trueee let's go!! I have so many refs saved!!

Me: *spends all day drawing crackship Kuwesper sketches*

Me: .........what ?????

[egret-orchids]

refs for genya safin from my grishaverse modern au!!

[kleethoughts]

hi new introduction time idk.

i'm gretel, although i also go by arte, ney, nina and mukuro.

i'm also a minor and mentally ill so if i come across rude/weird i'm not trying to be!

i go by they/them, but i don't mind other pronouns except it/its.

not super active on this blog but if i post at all it'll usually be whatever's on the evillious chronicles or grishaverse tags, or my other interests. (i lied currently i'm storing fic refs here)

textposts under gretel.txt (may change but i don't have any better ideas)

other blogs:

@mars-graveyard: my current, active blog. i post the same sort of things there (as well as whatever my mutuals have been posting.)

@taleofabandonment: i just store kin memories/anything related to kin here. nothing super important.

@ultimateheartedits: my edit blog! it's self-explanatory, really.

my second account is @blossomofhope. i'm not super active there but it's a place for my prosekai aus and cross-posting my ao3 works if you like that sort of thing.

i'll share my ao3 if anyone wants it.

that's all bye :>

[perkamentus]

[x-winging-it]

“Just a moment,” David said, planting a finger on the page to mark his place in his book. 

[...]

“If you upset my wife again, I will kill you where you stand.” 

Shadow and Bone Countdown 7/14 (x)

[variksel]

welp . exam procrastinatings got me bad, even to the point of drawing soc fanart after a year

SO YEAH. UH. fun fact ive never liked how canon kaz (kanon kaz or canon caz if you will) looks. like at all

i get that thats his point and he was pretty much designed just for the purpose of being the hot badboy for ya-loving girls and i respect that but still, i just personally dislike his looks so i wanted to draw how i see him/how i personally wouldve designed him if i had been in charge of that

more on him under the cut! instagram || twitter

gotta be honest, i . rea ll y dont like how perfect canon kaz is... like obviously hes not a perfect person but hes a perfect edgy badboy and perfect love interest and i just dont find that interesting.. in some scenes he straight up pisses me off with how supposedly cool he is, so if i were to design kaz, i would tone that down

i wouldve honestly made him less conventionally attractive, in that this kaz wouldve been more slouchy and greasy and Extremely tired, not really taking great care of himself

he also wears HUGEEE coats and suits all the time and constantly purposefully slouches and hunches over his cane in an effort to really shield himself from any possible physical contact. hes slightly jumpy and constantly on alert.

i also feel like he could be less funny at the beginning, like sure he could be snarky but more mean? and then he could like learn to tone that down and let himself actually joke with people instead of being grumpy 24/7 ((((((also this kaz wouldve been made by the story to apologize to jesper like he deserved and his treatment of inej wouldve been punished more and his friends wouldve called him out a lot more fyi)))))))

also this kaz is way shorter than everyone else. short king shit. idk why dont ask me.

YEAH OK SO. rewind/reminder: i dont hate canon kaz! he just doesnt appeal to me much and thats fine, i respect that, hes not the type of character im into. i am in no way saying canon kaz is worse than mine, i just like this version more because he appeals more to my personal taste

[nostromo130]

First drawing of 2021, its Kaz of course