#lorebook style

[echosong971]

On The Nature Of Light

“The Light...well, it's a funny thing.

It's unique to each Guardian, the draw of their Light. No two energies are the same. That's why I could pick my brother out from a sea of Stormcallers if I really wanted to show off. I know the crackle of his Arc and the buzz of his Light like I know the weight of his presence, the shape in which he takes up space—it's a signature so electric and so uniquely him. I know it so well that it surprises me when people don't notice him.

But apparently, there's even more to this story. Somethin' I just found out.

See, you spend time with someone for long enough, be intimate with them long enough, and somethin' real funny happens with your Light:

It leaves traces. Imprints.

I go up to my partner and I can feel it. Within the smolderin' furnace of Solar Light radiating from his body, I sense it. It curls through his systems and courses through his mechanical body—a slithering line of Void tanglin' with his Light. It's small, yet its draw is strong. Potent. Heavy. I can feel its presence in my chest like how I feel the snap of a tether when it breaks; it's intrinsic and second-nature, as natural as breathing. I can feel the way his flames interact with it. Instead of swallowin' it, they merely embrace it, envelop it, accept it as if it were one with him.

I found myself wonderin' if he feels it too, that piece of me within him. I wonder if he can feel the mark I've left on what is the closest thing to a soul we have.

Then, I wonder if he's marked me.

I found that if I close my eyes and focus real hard, I can sense it. I can sense the roaring flame within the empty expanse of my Void Light, flickering so brightly within the abyss, refusing to be devoured. Yet the gaping darkness merely cradles it, holds it, kindles it so that it burns for the rest of time.

I can feel the spark of his Light burnin' bright in my chest, warming me from the tips of my toes to the top of my head. I feel the imprint he's left on me, the piece of him I carry with me everywhere I go.

I feel the marks our Lights have left on each other.

And I smile.”

- from the journals of Echo-3

[icharchivist]

There's animated Dragon Age???

yeah!! there's a Netflix show, about 6 episodes long, called Dragon Age Absolution!

it's set after Dragon Age: Inquisition, with a mostly fully new cast (in the main cast only Fairbanks come from DAI), and it's a heist story of a group of people selected by the Inquisition (the organization you build in DAI) in order to retrieve an artefact in Tevinter.

The show refers to the previous games a lot, and have set up some stuff regarding the direction da4 will take, but still overall it's a really fun stand-alone in the universe of DA with a really compelling cast

i need to rewatch it sooo bad it was so fun....

[chevvy-yates]

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For a long long while I've wanted to shoot pics of how I see Vijay as a netrunner in cyberspace or how I imagine a Cyberpunk 2077 cyberspace interface in his style could look.

More under the cut. Beware you may read how my head breaks into pieces as I try hard to understand Cyberpunk's netrunning world lore. I copy pasted some texts from lore books about netrunning because I lack in explainging by myself — so if you're interested, there you go:

First I thought about making the background black, like how it's in the game when you stand in front of the blackwall or talk to Alt. But somehow that isn't it for me.

I've read a while ago netrunners can program their cyberdecks I-G interfaces with a so called 'CREATOR' program that makes netspace like the netrunner wants or has to imagine it.

"There are two other programs on a cyberdeck. One is the Operating System: a program that listens to the instructions the Netrunner thinks to it and obeys his commends. The other is the CREATOR virtual reality system, which is really a complex drawing program that tells the I-G that “when you get this signal from the Net, show the guy this image instead of the one he normally would see.” Our small and stupid computer also has a capacious memory; it can store and run various programs (as directed by its owner), and it also has a huge library of images that both CREATOR and the I-G interface draw upon to interpret what the Netrunner sees while in Netspace. […] By activating the Creator drawing program hardwired into his cyberdeck, the runner is basically modifying the deck‘s basic I-G interface program. First, a background is selected from a huge database of backgrounds, then modified by using simple controls to adjust color, shading and texture. Then the 3-D objects are selected from another database of objects scanned from real life, then stored in a compressed, high-resolution form. The objects can be decompressed and “assembled” into virtual reality on four different levels of resolution. When a runner saves a program, he is saving all the instructions for redrawing the virtual reality he’s created. Anyone entering the Virtual (either where it is stored on the runner’s cyberdeck or in another system) automatically activates the picture and causes the cyberdeck or computer to reconstruct it."

— Rache Bartmoss' Guide to the Net – The Cyberpunk Sourcebook for the Global Computer Net

I'm honest, I'm having a hard time to understand the netrunning world as decribed in the lorebooks. Somehow it always ends same for me like when I watch documentations about the universe expansion, dark matter and supermassive black holes for too long: my head hurts, I have too many questions and I think I'm the dumbest being on the planet. lol

But this gave me basically the idea to make it look like it looks now in the pics, so I imagined maybe Vijay programs it so that it looks like how he wants it. But if he enters other parts of cyberspace he may not have an influence on it as it changes into a different interface if I understood it right.

Anyways, I took a behind the scenes shot this time if you are interested how my 'set' looked. It was very experimental. Who needs a photostudio? x)

By the Way:

The glowing balls visibly in his hands or next to him stand for an anti-system program named 'Cascade II' Vijay uses. Lorebook says this:

"Cascade is not a daemon, bearing more in common with Virazz and Viral 15. lt can only be used against a system CPU. When used, it overwrites system code, causing the CPU to switch programs at random. Every turn there's a 2 in 10 chance that whatever program the runner has encountered will change to something else at random-files might switch to ICE, ICE to system controllers, etc. Anything is possible! lf used against a cyberdeck, the deck chooses a new program at random to run each turn. Cascade can only be stopped by preventing it from reaching the CPU, or by dumping the system code and reloading it ICON: A floating ball of energy."

— Rache Bartmoss' Brainware Blowout – The Hardware and Software Compendium for Cyberpunk

Most of the netrunning stuff will stay a mysterium forever for me and I get why netrunning in the game is made that simple as it is. You simply cannot transfer this massive cyberspace stuff into a videogame. I imagine that e.g. Night City would have to be entirely rebuilt as cyberspace with changing interface virtual realities – everything needs an icon, has code gates, data walls, all kinds of watch dog programs and so on. There's like terrabites of programs runners use. From what I undestood is the quickhacks used in the game do invade other runner's and machine's MicroNets and we basically see it only happen in the real world because we do not see a runners cyberspace window. They are described like this:

"While The Net is a global community exploring everything fit for man and beast, a microNet is a pinched-off part of cyberspace all to itself with very small scope and very defined purpose. MicroNets are in things like: your own cyberwear, your smartgun, that AV-4 you were chased by last night or the hot little red Audi convertible of that girl you’ve been trying to find an excuse to get to know."

— Rache Bartmoss' Brainware Blowout – The Hardware and Software Compendium for Cyberpunk

MicroNets can be accessed through connection from outside (like these kind of data points or when you got real world access to it so you can simply jack in as we know in the game) or 'microNetrun' via a runner's c-deck. And I think ingame quickhacks such as "Synapse Burnout" as we gamers know them are in reality more Anti-Personnel programs called "Brainwipe" "Zombie" or "Lich". Last two are the evolution of Brainwipe what is describet like this:

Brainwipe is the simplest of a series of black programs, all of which are designed to attack the Netrunner instead of his programs. All black programs can be carried by an intruding Netrunner and used to attack other 'runners encountered in the Net. Brainwipe tracks the victim down, fries his forebrain with a jolt of current, and reduces him to a drooling vegetable <1D6 each turn to INTI. The screaming Netrunner feels his mind melt away, until his INT is reduced to O and he dies. Lost I NT cannot be regained.

This surely is a program Jaysen will definitely make use of. Vijay could but doesn't since he doesn't want to kill people anymore (he used it in his early runner days with a drugged mind as well).

Okay, okay I need to stop or it gets worse.

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throwing on your binder and taking in a deep breath, you look at yourself in the mirror, hair a little rustled but looking great nonetheless. a smile appears on your face for a moment, before drooping slightly.

residuals of yesterday still lingers at the amount of times you found yourself getting misgendered left and right. and gods, it was frustrating — but your boyfriend had luckily been with you through it all, very gently telling people what to say once you got too overwhelmed to speak.

his eyes linger from behind you.

you see it in the mirror, his fond look at you, that knows and has related to how you felt and feel at this very moment. the dysphoria, the faces.

“baobei come, settle next to me.” he beckons softly and brushes his hand across the intricate bed.

you’d always loved being in his room. it was a safespace for the both of you, and you felt comfortable every time you stepped foot into it.

and as you join him on the soft blankets and pillows, he wraps his arm around you and draws you close, gently squeezing your shoulder and pressing a kiss to your cheek.

“hey.”

“hi.” you reply quietly, the pout on your lips lingering.

.

.

.

“baobei look at me.”

immediately your gaze moves to look into his maroon eyes. they droop slightly as he scans your face, his eyebrows knitting together a little.

“you look so handsome today.” he murmurs and presses a small kiss to the corner of your lip and gently rubs your jawline with his thumb. massaging at it to ease the tensions you’ve had in your jaw for the past 24 hours.

it has you easing up in no time, sighing and melting into his hand, closing your eyes and nodding. ”but—”

“and the way you have styled your hair gives you a very masculine and absolutely amazing look.” he interrupts with a hum and tilts his head.

you open your eyes and pout at him a little, only to receive a small laugh and a shake of his head.

“baobei you are a man. you look like a man, you speak like one, and you feel like one. gender is not defined by what people confuse us as or misgender us as, and it is not defined by which genitalia we we were born with. it is about our soul, how we feel and how we perceive ourselves. and you my love, i can tell you, that your soul. it is just as mine, it is masculine.” he reminds gently, reassuringly.

“you’ve struggled enough. listen to yourself and i when we both say, you are good enough. and we will continue our journey.” he hums and smiles.

“and hey. remember friday? I was struggling because of my ass feeling too feminine but you proved me quite wrong did you not?” he chuckles, earning a small laugh from you and a playful push to his shoulder. and oh how can he not sit there and smile.

his lips across your face after a while of playing around and laughing, sharing experiences.

yeah, this is nice. this is home.

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[msviolacea]

why you should play elder scrolls online in 2023

Okay, I've been considering making posts about "why to play X game I love" but finally decided "what the hell, no time like the present." And since ESO is on my mind today, it gets first dibs!

What is ESO??

It's an MMO set in the Elder Scrolls universe - think Skyrim, Oblivion, Morrowind, etc. It's the Elder Scrolls theme park in the same way that FFXIV is the Final Fantasy theme park. But, in the same way, it's not exclusively for people who have experience with the previous games - it's a fun, immersive fantasy world whether you know anything about previous lore or not.

You should play ESO if ...

You like immersive fantasy worldbuilding. Listen, if there's one thing the Elder Scrolls team can do, it's worldbuild like motherfuckers. Do you want a story that reaches back thousands of years and covers dozens of countries/empires/territories, where you can find lorebooks around every corner, and expansive essays on the internet about the briefest of details? ESO has you covered.

You love overland exploration. This is ESO's bread and butter. The explorable areas are expansive and varied and absolutely gorgeous, and the game is built for the player who just wants to travel and collect things and see the sights. Tamriel has pretty much every biome you can imagine - you want medieval Britain? Head for High Isle! You want an Arabic-style desert? Alik'r Desert is your place! Rugged arctic landscape? Listen, there are FOUR SEPARATE Skyrim areas for you. You're like "I just want weird fantasy things that don't look like anywhere on earth?" Vvardenfell and its surrounding areas have you covered. You can explore as you play the story, you can go on a hunt for the perfect screenshot location, you can find an RP location that fits your character exactly, you can make it your goal to complete every exploration achievement in the game ... you can do it all.

You want a game where exploration isn't gated behind your level. ESO made the switch to what they call "One Tamriel" fairly early in their development cycle - this means that all mobs and quests are synced to your level in the overworld, and you can start or go anywhere you want no matter how low level you are. You can play through the storyline in release order, or you can say "I want to start in the newest expansion," or you can go "listen I'm only here for vampires in Western Skyrim," all of these are valid and possible ways of playing. You don't have to go "man the new expansion looks great but I have to put in HOW many hours to get there??" It's all available to you from level 1!

You love decorating houses. Listen, if there is one thing ESO does better than any other MMO (at least the ones I've played), it's the housing system. You can own ALL THE HOUSES. SO MANY HOUSES. Small and large and every conceivable style! You can buy land with no house on it, and build your own structures! You can decorate without having to learn how to glitch or press six buttons at once! And housing feeds very well into the rest of the gameplay - you earn furnishing plans from pretty much every conceivable gameplay system, so it becomes an excellent reason to go do your daily stuff and explore. And the housing community in ESO is one of the most creative groups I've ever seen, I could watch their YouTube videos and streams forever.

You like MMOs that allow you to play mostly solo. None of the story progression is gated behind the need to group up. There is plenty of group content, but it's all optional. There are bosses across the landscape and in public dungeons that require multiple people to kill, but you'll always come across people who want to help kill them without having to group up. And with the last few expansions, you now have companions - NPCs you can unlock and have follow you around everywhere. They can be set and geared to perform any role - tank, healer, DPS - and the AI is good enough at any of those to get you through pretty much anything overland you want to do. (And as a side note, some of the companion quests are really good, and they've been getting really, really good voice actors for the companions themselves - see: Laura Bailey, Brandon Keener - and they have fun dialogue as you wander.)

A couple of caveats:

If you play for story, your mileage will vary. Don't get me wrong, ESO has some very, very good stories within it! But it's not a linear story a la FFXIV or single player MMOs - it has a main storyline for the base game zones, and each DLC/expansion has its own storyline that sometimes connects into what happened in the base game, but for the most part ESO's story is a fragmented experience, and you have to go searching for the stories that connect most with you. Can you find them? Yes, but be ready to put in the time to look. (My personal recommendations? The vampire story that starts in Rivenspire and continues in Western Skyrim and The Reach is my absolute favorite; Elsweyr is also very good, but is more of a direct continuation of the base game story than anything else, so would probably need that context going in. A good portion of the fanbase will cite the larger Morrowind-Summerset storyline as the best the game has, and it's very good, but didn't quite stick with me as much as the others mentioned.) ESO tends to be more about the story of the world at large than about the stories of individual characters.

And speaking of story, the game is absolute balls at directing you to places where starting the story would make the most sense. If you want to experience the story in a vaguely linear fashion, here's what to do when you create a character - immediately head to whatever city is your chosen faction's starting city (Daggerfall, Auridon, or Stonefalls), and wander around until you trigger the "Soul Shriven in Coldharbor" quest. That starts the base game main story, and is the best place to start as a brand new player. The other tip: the fancy striped quest markers are indicative of the "main" story quest in each zone, do those when at all possible.

And speaking of factions, those only matter if you want to play PvP - and only Cyrodiil and Imperial City PvP at that. Otherwise, it's just flavor these days.

In conclusion:

ESO is my comfort "explore and collect" game - I find it very chill to just wander around, level new characters, dig up antiquities (ANTIQUITIES, my favorite side system, seriously I could look for leads and dig things up forever), collect materials to sell in my guild trader, and vaguely achievement hunt while listening to music or YouTube. The scenery is beautiful, the character creation is robust and turns out very cool looking characters, and the combat system is simple enough that I easily remember how to do things even if I've been away for a little while. And it is free-to-play, after buying the game; you don't need a subscription to access anything you've purchased, you just miss out on a few good quality of life features. (The craft bag, I could not live without my craft bag, seriously.)

Some version of ESO will be free on the Epic Game store starting tomorrow - my assumption is that it will be the version that contains all DLC/expansions except the Necrom chapter, which was just released last month. I highly recommend picking it up if you play on PC, just to check it out, if anything above sounds appealing to you! (And if you want to splurge, I can very highly recommend Necrom - the new class it introduces is maybe my favorite class to play yet, the two companions it introduces are fantastic, and Apocrypha is a fascinating area to explore if you like creepy eldritch horror type stuff.)

If you want to know more about ESO, just give me a shout! And if you're a mutual who decides to try it, hit me up, I have many gifts to give people!

[a-driftamongopenstars]

still trying to figure out how i want to write out my guardians' backstories. recently been thinking about some lorebook style. maybe as they talk to someone else, or someone else talks about them 🤔

[besiegedhunter]

Projekt Red thought. Purely lorebook and CN module spoilers but:

Seven Cities-style Restaurant

Terra: A Journey

Lappland's Module: The Cub's Fangs

They're really trying to hint there's going to be something with Woodcutting and axes, huh?

And it can't not be with Red in some capacity. We're missing a woodcutter! The question is just whether Red gets an axe or say the welfare for her inevitable event or idk her parents were woodcutters?

Something. I'm betting on it.

[arcann]

related: i finished tavern talk.

i went in with the idea that it wasn't for me because i'm not too into pure and raw dnd but i liked the art style a lot. i didn't vibe with some of the important characters but most of them have their unique charm and turn out to be endearing.

the innkeeper, the character you inhabit is on this ambigious state where they have a set past and relationships and only pick the result of each mission depending on what drinks they prepare. i didn't like it at first since you discover that this isn't your character as you progress but it serves the story and the twist is nice so i changed my mind.

the music is reaaally nice.

kinda sucks that A Lot of the worldbuilding seems to be placed apart in a lorebook dlc and you only get a bit of it inside the game. dragon age type of antics.

there are multiple endings and i accidentally got the best ending. don't know how i feel that there are good and bad results for each mission (it seemed to me like there were just different paths to solve a problem at first) but i guess it works in favor of replayability. may repeat it but mostly for achievement hunting and repeating one (1) scene.

I'd recommend it, it's a neat visual novel.

[kookiyu]

i guess the thing about modern dunmesh fandom is that they're all getting the full picture of like the entire series + omakes + artbook extras + lorebook information and are just sort of absorbing everything at once from wikis and posts circulating over tumblr and twitter taken out of context and recontextualized through someone well-meaningly but misguidedly likening it to "the way a normal artist talks about their ocs" instead of making their own connections with it over 9 years of serialization. i hate to be like "oh you had to be there" because obviously anyone reading the manga on its own then engaging with the supplemental material would have a similar experience to mine (reading since 2015) but the echo chamber qualities of fandoms does such a disservice to a manga that is ostensibly about enabling your own curiosity and taking others as they are...

dungeon meshi is not uniquely special as a manga, and it's not even unique among josei manga, it's just about subject matter that's inherently accessible to fans of european style western fantasy and has the most concerted effort going towards translating every new piece of material. there's a million manga series out there with the same level of detail and love put towards not just the primary text but omakes, extras, artbooks, etc etc, it's just not translated because they're often about things that wouldn't make a great setting for a dungeons and dragons campaign

[sylenth-l]

Hey, this question isn't really about how you draw your art. I was rewatching some lore videos by My name is Byf as I like to refresh on the lore. At the end of one of his lore videos about Felwinter, he stated that he wanted to do a more cinematic story telling of his story and The Liar lore book. At the end he stated he needed to find an artist to draw the comic style art to tell the story. I think your art would be a phenomenal option for this. Just food for thought and I don't mean to stick my nose in things lol.

Ah thank you, anon, it's very flattering that you think so!! 😊💙 "The Liar" has some cool scenes and thoughts I was thinking about drawing sometime regardless (even though I must say I'm not the biggest fan of this lorebook in general).

[elvenbeard]

2067

"My childhood, let’s see… Nights spent lookin’ for a star - any star… All dimmed by city lights. Silent lullabies sung by the flickering neon signs of Charter Hill…"

Born into Night City's corporate world to upper middle class managers Marcella and Kousuke Ezaki, Vince lived a very comfortable and sheltered life growing up. Nice corporate apartment in Charter Hill's bustling Grant Avenue, excellent education, always the newest clothes, the fanciest tech, the best cyberware money can buy from a young age on.

It was almost too comfortable and sheltered really. With what they had invested in him and his future, his parents demanded perfection and performance - and obedience. While Vince was eager to deliver at first, being naturally ambitious, it always felt like something was wrong, something was missing... He just never quite fit in, despite trying his hardest.

Vince's father died when he was 13 - by suicide in the company bathroom, or so it seemed at the time. The pressure had gotten too much for him to bear and he saw no other way out; that had been the official explanation. The supposed truth though, which Vince would uncover many years later, was more complex and even darker than that.

On top of it, Vince's parents had never led the happiest marriage, worn down by stress and growing disagreements. It started over smaller issues: which car to buy, when to go on holiday, which school was best for their child. But soon they fought daily, constantly, about everything... And Vince fled into the arms of kids his age and older that never had the best intentions with him, but lured him in with a sense of belonging somewhere finally.

After his father's death, Vince's mother grew increasingly paranoid and controlling - her focus shifted from her husband to her child, whom she did not want to lose as well. Simultaneously though, she refused to accept that Vince had become his own person and would never be who and what she'd wanted him to be. The harder she tried to hold on to him, do her bidding, obey, the further she ended up pushing him away...

Vince through the years (1/9)

Little BTS rambles below the cut here!

Remember these? XD Yeah, I'm finally getting around to doing my "Vince through the years" project I teased a couple months ago. I finally decided on a format! xD I wanted something diary-entry like, but not too long and complex, otherwise I could probably sink months into this, do some cool lorebook-like graphics and whatnot...

I might still do that in the future, revamp some shots, or maybe one day make a character page or something in a more complex graphic style... but for now I just really wanna share some lore actually 👀 And get these shots published before they go bad!! (read as: before I don't like them anymore cause I'm getting better with my VP XD)

Also, a little comparison - vanilla vs edited shot:

Aging him down around 10 years was hard, but also fun XD I did this a while ago and meanwhile I might do some stuff different, but I'll leave them as is now xD But yeah, I tried some other complexions first that look younger than his 2077 one, but they made him look like a completely different person, so I went with the Photoshopping approach instead. Does he look like a pre-T teenager? Eh. If you squint XD But I'll take it!

Back then he already loved his massive coats that made him look bigger and wider than he really is. Hair dyed blond mostly because both his parents have dark hair, for that good old teenage rebelliousness and self-expression <3

I kinda implied it in the text but... yeah his parents were both pretty messed up. They did see him more like an investment than a kid most of the time. It was in the end damaging to all three of them, but most to Vince, leading to him becoming a little fucked up as well.

And when I say "investment" I literally mean, they invested money into making him as flawless as possible. Got him cyberoptics and whatnot installed as a 5-year-old to combat genetic eye-problems running in their families (when glasses couldve done the trick), things like that. His mother had planned some more things for as soon as he would finish school, but he ran away from home before that.

Before that already he went on to destroy all these perfect things they tried to achive with his body, got stick-and-poke tattoos, pierced his own ear, found a semi-shady Ripper who would install him a cyberdeck *he* wanted, not the one his mother got him, etc etc. XD

He spent a lot of time with the wrong pepole, too, but the connection to them at least helped him realize that he's trans - obviously one more thing that his mother did not plan for with her "perfect child" and tries to first ignore then actively shut down as best as she can. This is a hate-post for Vince's mom <3

What really happened to his dad is gonna follow in a post to come ooooor maybe I'll leave it a secret until I finished writing his background story fic 👀

[dreamingriven]

Fireteam Coriol [a lorebook]

Chapter One: Raging Void - I

[read on ao3]

This is the first chapter of my lorebook style fanfiction series about my original characters.

Disclaimer: This is the first writing i am putting out there since 2019. English isn't my first language, so apologies if it's rough to read. I did my best. <3

Torn into pieces I was seeking what could bring me back to life.

Phernia’s reasoning for taking the offer and joining the Dredgens was simple - belonging. When she became Dredgen Night she hoped everything would turn out for the better. But after the first few months she felt more and more alone. She wasn’t great at making friends so she mostly stuck to herself, even with other Dredgens present. They all felt her desire to be alone and let her be. 

And then you came It was like some synergy had fallen in place

Her name was Maryn, but she took Wisp as her Dredgen Name later. From the moment she set foot in the camp, Phernia knew there was something wrong with her. This easy going girl - what is she doing among people like them? At first it was only the curiosity that brought Phernia close to Maryn. But somewhere between long nights out in the wild and sleepy days inside the camp they fell in love.

Take my hate, take my fight Take away all the pain I hide

Of course Phernia tried to fight it at first. There was no point in falling in love. Not now, not ever. But everytime she tried to leave Maryn would be there - Maryn with her warmth and her love. After everything that Phernia went through when she was first risen it seemed unfair that she was experiencing this. 

Shine your love, show your light Pull me out from the endless night

I hope y'all liked it. I am planning to write more stuff soon, but there won't be a schedule (at least as of now).

[scrollsfromarebornrealm]

dragoon theorycrafting: how to fite

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So it's pretty safe to say that the Knight-Dragoon order has been forced to constantly evolve their fighting style. My headcanon has them returning to their roots not only as dragon-riders, but as highly specialized monster and demon hunters. Fortunately given both Coerthas and Dravania's location, there's no end to said fiends, which means there's more than enough for both Clan Centrio and the Knights Dragoon.

HOWEVER. It should be noted that the Order is probably still learning how to, if not starting to master by this point, fighting actual humanoid ground troops. And yes, I can hear the commentary "well they should already know how to do that!"

Nah-huh. Remember that these guys turned into a hyper-specialized shock-troop force. Now they probably were ordered into combat against heretic forces at the very beginning of the Dragonsong War, but as time went on fighting heretics more than likely eventually fell to the Temple Knights and the infantry units of the High Houses' private armies. Maybe occasionally you'd get a dragoon or two in on that, but otherwise? The Order's fighting style switched to solitary, how-to-kill-dragon only combat. It's a major point of the HW Dragoon quests that the WoL is teaching the Order how to fight with partner/partners.

Now in current time, the Order has to learn not only how to fight ground forces once more, but also remaster dragon-back combat. And there's a lot of challenges with the former. The Temple Knights have probably tried and true methods to Stop Dragoon Bullshit, Stephanvian's probably got a few tricks up his sleeves. We have the Monk class also having the skill set to Stop Your Dragoon Fuckery, the Garleans...well...it's not that hard to imagine. Seriously.

(Riven has used Garuda quite a few times to ground a certain derpgoon).

You all get the picture.

Dragon-back probably depends on the type of dragon and what opponent, plus if said dragon is willing in the first place. We see Estinien doing jumps and leaps off Vrtra, but given the many evolutionary paths the children of the First Brood can take...

Now there's probably some basics--jumping, diving, but otherwise? Tactics more than likely will depend on the dragons. There's also learning how to get along with your dragon-partner, not to mention certain aspects of a long-lived race teaming up with a shorter-lifespan race. I have a headcanon that many in the proto-Knight-Dragoon order actually passed on their mantles from parent to child, due to the partner-dragon having made a bond with the entire family.

At current, dragon-riding is still very new and still in it's infancy, as Ishgard's still got a lot of work left to fix itself. (let's be honest it's going to take generations for them to get to a relatively stable point).

Side tangent: FFXVI Dragoons

These guys are a little bit more tricky. CBU III not only went with the traditional FF dragoon, but also for the IRL version. I kinda wish they hadn't, or at the very least given us more differentiation. For those of you who don't know what a dragoon is in real life:

(do you see why I'm making the face shown above)

I'm very hesitant to offer any other theorycraft because there is a lorebook for XVI coming out (Japan this month, US next year). We don't have any idea of how many actual jumpy friends made up the dragoon ranks.

But regarding the fighting style:

Did Valisthea have anything/anyone capable of Stopping Dragoon Bullshit? More than likely, yes.

(also let us take a few moments to appreciate the masterclass that is Dion Lesage in a Jump and Elusive Jump)

There's also one more bit, and it was brought up one night from the brilliant @driftward . It's quite simple, which is that dragoon fighting-- much like any other art--becomes personalized to the dragoon. I know I have Reinhardt incorporating various movements from different polearm fighting styles, and in the clip underneath this, Dion Lesage basically flexes in a controlled fall.

(listen do you see this man smirk when he made that landing? he is a dragoon. there is a little shit that is waiting to come out. he needs tomfoolery.)

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𖹭. being in a poly with these two would be a very domestic and silly experience all at once, with rishen’s small rambles and rants about stem classes and helping you with your own homework when you’re struggling. all while talisen recites his poetry quietly in the background, roaming in the kitchen making food for both rishen and you to make sure you remember to eat.

𖹭. baking with them is one of the main activities that the three of you get up to. usually it’s talisen trying to keep rishen away from the batter, who in turn looks at you with the biggest puppy eyes. you three could bake up a storm, especially after a long week of exams. sometimes talisen smudges a bit of powdered sugar on your face so that he can kiss it away or rishen pulls you with him for mandatory decorating.

𖹭. stargazing with these two is also mandatory. they love pulling you with them on a drive to any place where the stars a clearest, with a big jug of hot chocolate or tea, and whichever beverage you prefer, plus the blankets to huddle up in — with some extra sweets and such of course. they wanna make every moment comfortable and cosy. you have talisen to your left, rambling about astrophysics and the way the universe works, while rishen is huddled up close next to you by your right, arms wrapped around you, keeping you warm, while his eyes flicker around at the constellations and bright planets that litter the night sky.

𖹭. the two are considered to be sweet boys for the most part but those who know them well, know that they can be mean girls. especially when people are being jerks. this also bleeds into it when people are being horrible to you as well. while they might be inherently soft ( narrator: you sure? ), they are immensely protective of you. if they catch anyone making you uncomfortable they are immediately handling the situation. they want to make sure that you are treated the way that you deserve.

𖹭. expect lots of cuddling when you are around these two. they are both very physically and verbally affectionate and often show it by cuddling you close to either or both of them, while whispering into your ears about their love for you, or simply conversing with you about your day and theirs. sometimes you are snatched and pulled away to the dorm for cuddles when one of them are missing you.

𖹭. late night are a staple for them. especially if rishen suggests the random milkshake dash. talisen is the designated driver while rishen and you fight over who gets to be the passenger princess. that, or you’re both in the backseat, snuggling. sometimes, rishen might decide to be a bit of a little shit and kiss you up while all talisen can do is watch from the rearview mirror. there have times where tal has pulled over randomly just to climb into the backseat and join in the heated midnight make-outs.

𖹭. they adore dressing you up in their clothes as well, watching how you flop around in talisen’s shirts and how rishen’s skirts frame your figure — and if you are not for skirts, the surely some of talisen’s pants, with a belt around you too, will look good if you style them up a bit. oh and they love, when you smell like them after, it makes them all giddy. prepare for their cuteness overload aggression, those cheek pinches will leave them sore.

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Writing out Thjys' backstory is going to be a bit tough.

I've been looking up military ranks (he's going to stay 1st lieutenant) and read a bit about CP's Militech again (might peak into a lorebook as well) and Royal Netherlands Army so I can combine things. So it's not original canon lore. I like to have him in the Dutch Army that is supplied by Militech and working for or with Militech (Europe). Before he gets to be a merc I want him to be part of KCT (Korps Commandotroepen –special forces of the Dutch army)) as well. He's definitely high leagues (since he only joins in the middle or near the end of the story).

It will be a challenge for me to write him talking as well. I mostly see him being that one liner dude who's always calm (talking less is a challenge for me bc I love to make complicated too long sentences).

But the good thing is: around Ry he opens up and shows he's got a sweet side. Not for nothing I made him love flowers, classical art and classical music, I mean. So he's got a sense of being emotional and sensitive as well that just got overshadowed by the war machine he turned into. He never really showed it since's he's never had a relationship with loving someone else dearly. — it wil lbe interesting to combine things. I can see him switch from one thing to another in a blink

So, I think it's his lil' challenge to learn to be more easy around others since his soldier career ended so abrubtly and he's now a merc. Not that he hasn't been easy with his squad mates before. He's got a profound bond with them for sure (and carries the death of all of them on his shoulders), some were like brothers for him and he always had to look out for them as well. But as said, it's more like brotherly feelings or at least best mates — nothing more. And these times might have been a bit rarer as well because once on a mission it's serious and Thyjs is always serious and focused on an operation.

I'm going to add an entire Militech outfit to him now. hope these mod replacers will all work since they are from 2021 — so wish me luck!!! Thyjs needs at least one of these outfits since the other outfits I gave him are not exactly Militech but his new merc outfits that still have a military style. After what Militech has done to him he's done with the corporation.

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i kinda wanna write some yokudan pantheon shenanigans. maybe as a lorebook style thing. tall papa.......tu'whacca.....leki........morwha......hunding..........etc