#magic and dragons and shit

[13eyond13]

wish I could reblog that post about how the only two genres that exist on booktube to choose from are classics and YA fantasy/romance bc god that's true

[gavamont]

A wizard that uses a wrapping paper tube as their magic staff. They cast spell of *bonk*

[snurtle]

I've been thinking about the templars lately. they were promised honor, virtue, told that they would be charged with protection of the innocent... And then those same people are systemically exploited and abused, abuse others because they're taught to regard everyone else as either sheep who need to be lead or potential threats. Never equals, except in their brothers/sisters-in-arms. They act as the guard-dogs and military arm of an entirely different organization that they're only a functionary member of but have no governing say in. Even the chantry aren't their equals- they function as the templar order's supervisors! And all this isolation and closing of ranks ends in disability, addiction, death, and abandonment by the system they spent their bodies in service of.

To top that off, retaliations against them just confirm the paranoia they were taught to embrace. It's probably a long hard road to get out of that hole.

Like, listen. the dichotomy of mage vs templars is a satisfying and easy one, but the system is tearing them apart too. have you ever heard of a retired templar?

at the end of it, mages and templars need to unite against the real threat. the chantry.

[heybiji]

dandelion casually dropping traumatic information while insisting that instead of killing the problem wizard they simply burn his tongue

[quinnyyyleft]

Our DM gave us a shared bag of holding.

It's called the "Bag of Sharing" and we each got a fanny pack type bag that meets the big one that one of us carries. So all of our items and supplies can get shared.

Today, one of our party members stored a martini in her bag, and another party member dipped his hand in it.

10/10 Magic Item

[justaz]

semi-dark king merlin au, someone from ealdor tells king cenred about merlin and he is captured and held as a slave in essetir. since merlin despises captivity and servitude, he’d rather be dead and free than alive and in chains so he acts out and pisses people (especially the king) off so they’ll think him too much trouble and kill him. at first they stick to beatings until merlin manages to get his chains around a few necks and now has a body count so they kill him…..only he wakes back up a few hours later and king cenred is Intrigued and keeps him close. merlin keeps acting out but no matter how many times they kill him, he won’t stay dead. merlin has this moment after waking up perfectly fine after his twenty seventh death where he is hopeless and believes there to be no escape, not even thru death. a few other sorcerers in chains come and help him clean up and give him a lil peptalk, realizing him to be emrys, and then they revolt and take over the kingdom and crown merlin as king and now uther is like “wtf” bc his neighboring kingdom who was kinda sorta on his wavelength about sorcery, though uther did not approve of keeping them alive, is now a kingdom ruled by magic. he goes to war with them but with magic running free and fucking emrys on the throne, they don’t make a lot of headway. anyways merthur meet on the battlefield, enemies to lovers, you get it

[zuppizup]

The way dark magic can use parts of a sapient being without their knowledge or consent. The way Claudia could track down Rayla with a piece of her hair and Rayla didn’t even realise that was what was happening, how she thought the lights were cute and tickled…

The way it reminds me of those “if you’ve nothing to hide, you’ve nothing to fear” type arguments when it comes to the surveillance state. How parts of you (your data, your DNA) can be stored away until it is useful to those who might want to control you.

All to say, I am having the most fun with my dark magic AU.

[asweetprologue]

i know probably nobody following me is even relatively in this fandom but I just finished s5 of the dragon prince and I gotta tell you. the canonical lovechild of the gay-coded villains was not something I saw coming

[moongothic]

Seen a few people too many discuss the concept of Dragodile Baby 2 and my hot take is that there's no way in hell Crocodile would ever detransition just to go through nine months of horrible dysphoria again, let alone go through pregnancy ever again (or allow Ivankov to even touch him, what if they died and weren't able to trans Croc's gender again afterwards? Hell naw, ain't worth the risk)

But this leaves an opportunity for a Funnier Option:

Dragon wants another baby? Sure, but it's his turn to carry it >:)

[spirit-meets-the-b0ne]

The thing that Targaryen antis either don’t or can’t understand is that in spite of all the discussions, discourse and arguments (& moral conjecture): I simply love dragons and mentally ill women with great hair sorry if you can’t relate

[starry-skies-writes]

Wait wait

If they do end up freeing Kpp’ar with the last quasar diamond, which is possible, I was wondering WHY and like

Wouldn’t he totally help in changing Claudia’s heart? Somehow? He knows Viren, he knows what Viren did— (Viren considered Kpp’ar his family, I’m sure of it) while Claudia doesn’t.

All this time, I think Claudia has only seen how Viren’s vile acts HELPED her family. She doesn’t exactly know that he’s the reason Lissa left (because he wanted to complete a dark spell) doesn’t know how Viren treated Soren all these years, how he blamed Soren for their family breaking apart. She denied that Viren would ask Soren to kill the princes (I think? At least at first) because to her, anything dangerous and horrible he did only had good endings even if it had to sacrifice an unknown creature’s life along the way.

Viren has done anything and everything for his family, but he’s also done so many evil things TO his family.

(He’s tried to have Harrow’s—someone he still considered his brother— children killed. The Lissa thing. Soren. And now Claudia too, for years.)

Claudia has to realize that the things she think were an act of love are also just— evil. Wrong. Unforgivable.

Kpp’ar could help her see that. About Aaravos too.

And then Claudia might finally realize her own truth.

[raayllum]

Just one spell, and you never thought about dark magic again? Well, I've read a lot about it.

[gavamont]

A punk rock wizard that has boots with magical sigils on the soles. When they stomp they lay down spells on that surface.

[hannahwdraws]

Just a couple of girls from The Free Marches

"I can't believe the girl I taught to weave flowers at the Arlathvhen grew up to be the 'fearsome' Inquisitor."

"I can't believe Varric didn't put two and two together sooner that we might have already known each other."

"Try not to blame him, you're so different from the girl I knew from back then."

"I'm still just a Dalish girl from The Marches"

[lethalhoopla]

imagine you're getting a rare research-and-liquor-based sleepover with your bestie after you've had to split ways across the continent to further bear the responsibility of entire nations/peoples when your other best friend and the love of his life/literal Champion of a city-state bust in and inform you that yet another Big Bad is in fact Bad At Staying Fucking Dead

or, I finally came up with an excuse to riff on this post:

[saturnniidae]

Watching tdp season6 and my god I adore Claudia with my whole heart. my evil autistic bisexual gf with abandonment issues...