#moonshadow elves

[uwudonoodle]

Rayla had a really terrible day, and she found a small way to cheer herself up a little by mildly torturing Callum.

[m4rs-ex3]

something about the fact that ghosting is "a unanimous community decision that has to be discussed by all members of the silvergrove and is not taken lightly." every single elf in the community committed to symbolically killing two loving parents for a supposed moment of shame. including rayla. every single elf in the community committed to symbolically killing a child, for making it out alive. for what they so momentously assumed was abandoning ship. they destroyed the life of a child for not being willing to die.

tiadrin and lain were--to reiterate--loving parents. they were brave enough to dedicate their lives to protecting the future of xadia. i'm sure everyone admired and honored them greatly. then, everyone (symbolically) ended their lives. their best friends, whom they trusted enough to leave their child with them. their own daughter, who loved them, and who spent years of her life looking up to them--revering them to the point where she could validate their decision.

rayla was 15. rayla was endlessly hardworking, achieving, mature, kind, heroic, brave, resilient, and noble. rayla went out of her way to become an assassin, a role in the silvergrove highly respected for their understanding and handling of life and death. rayla did everything she could to be as valiant as her parents. rayla betrayed her own parents, and did everything she could to be nothing like them. rayla was everything the silvergrove could ask for. and rayla made one presumed blunder, and she had the gall to live on.

rayla was 15 when her community, her entire world, abominated her for "cowardice." her honorary father. grief-stricken over the love of his life, but nonetheless having taken her in, shown her the utmost kindness and sensitivity, and raised her for half a decade, at the very least.

i am normal. wdym rayla has trauma? wdym rayla is incredible for having come this far? wdym rayla doesn't deserve to lose everything she has left for what she good-intentional-ly did when she was as fractured a person as you can be? wdym tdp is really good at building cultures with nuance? wdym

[transrunaan]

Wow, they mentioned the diamonds before? No way!

Only three? That's so easy! 😃

The diamonds! It looks like a pretty crown I hope that skywing elf is nice and welcoming!

Oh no:( We don't have a startouch elf who is available, that's really sad

Corona of the Heavens? And it looks like a tower in a frozen place! Could it be the Frozen Sea?

Great! They can kill Aaravos (I mean imagine keeping his coral prison as a souvenir, weird right?) and also save the moonshadow elves!

I HOPE THEY GET THERE IN FUCKING EPISODE 1 OR I WILL BE FASTER I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR FIVE FUCKING YEARS GIVE ME RUNAAN BACK GODDDDDDDDD AND ALSO IF ETHARI DOESN'T HELP THEM I WILL RIOT, I WANT ETHARI SAVING HIS HUSBAND AND I HOPE IT'S FUCKING WORTHY

[apogean-tides]

I'm not sure why Moonshadow culture is so obsessed with moths but I'm here for it

[empressgeekt]

TDP- Headcanon

Runaan is a f*cking lightweight. He can not hold his liquor. One drink and he is out. And when he's drunk he acts completely out of his usually stoic self. He's giggly and constantly flirting with Ethari. Once he even forgot they were married and asked if Ethari was single, and if he would court him, and started crying with happiness when Ethari told him they were in fact married.

Lain has never let Runaan live this down.

[greenmoons]

Andromeda's age

So because of what Runaan said here I thought Andromeda is the youngest besides Rayla. She and Ram looks pretty young and they were at least teens when Rayla was a child. But look at her horns cuffs, she is already married. So she got married when she was sixteen or seventeen? She is not fully trained yet because she can't access the moonshadow form yet, so she is young. It might not be weird in their race to marry at a young age.

By the way and it's not related but my headcanon is that she was married with Eljaal from Tales of Xadia. He is also assassin and he left because he was afraid their partner won't agree with their action, because they didn't kill their target so it's make sense their partner is assassin as well. They are married because of their horn cuffs so it's nice to think they are married to each other.

[tinygirlyjuggernaut]

Have we confirmed if this Startouch is infact Aaravos?

And since we have confirmed magical jewelry (Kim’daels collar), -

Could this possibly be an Aaravos forced to participate in the exiling of humans to the west & mayhaps whatever transpired before the lava river was created?

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Additions-

So this past-Aaravos may have been barefoot, way bluer, and decked in silver anklet bits, cuffs, collar, waistband, and circlet. —Maybe even little thingamabobs on his horns…. Not to mention his eyes are a solid light/glowy color.

All of which is quite opposite to his current design.

Man I have so many thoughts but I have no idea how to articulate them

[aldanil]

Ethari and Runaan

[moon-sky-sun-earth-ocean-stars]

Tales of Xadia characters-Fentheth

Name: Fentheth Pronounce: He/him Race: Moonshadow Elf Living place: Hollow Wood Profession: Bug trader Information: He is old elf with wry grin and it's hard to read him. He trades mantigrades.

[themistdragon]

Since my last post abt Moonshadow genetics did well, I decided to try to figure out eye genetics 😬👍

Research Results:

From what I have gathered, it is probable that Moonshadow elves have three main phenotypes for iris melanin, which happen to be the primary colors of Blue, Red, and Yellow.

If we hypothesize that the sister dominant phenotype combinations (blue+red and red+yellow) result in true incomplete dominance (the colors blend together completely), then that would explain where the eye colors of purple and orange come from (brown as well, since brown is just a dark shade of orange).

Since Lain’s eyes are orange, he has a Red phenotype, and paired with Tiadrin’s Blue phenotype would create purple!

Since we have yet to see a Moonshadow elf with fully green eyes, it is reasonable to infer that although all the phenotypes show incomplete dominance with their nearest neighbor, the yellow phenotype is simply too weak to fully mix with blue, which would result in a blue eye color that leans towards green, but doesn’t cross the threshold to be considered fully green (e.x. Runaan with turquoise eyes, and Lunjanne with teal eyes)

Conclusion: It works???????

(@cartoonish-character since they’re the one that made me start thinking abt this)

[talesofthedice]

I had an original list of Dragon Prince tarot cards I wanted to do, but that was back when there were only two seasons.

[amys-books27]

For me, the reason Rayla didn't send letters to Katolis to inform the boys she was alive from time to time, is because as she said in Dear Callum, she didn't want to give them hope that she'll be coming back when she wasn't sure.

For all she knew, she could send the letter and when they received it she could be already dead. For all she knew, she could be dead at any time.

And this way of thinking and processing might come from her parents abandoning her.

We don't know much, but what if they did send letters to her once a month or even weekly? And those letters always give her hope she will see them again soon. Which didn't happen, and when she found out they were missing all that hope held in her heart became hatred for herself because she was too naive to believe it, and only did because she wanted it to be true. It hurt her most because they gave her hope of something that would not happen. That didn't happen. As she says, it was too much pain for her to bear. And also as she said in her letter to Callum, she didn't want him to feel the same as she did.

Then, when she returns, Rayla understands she screw things up and didn't do the right thing. Didn't leave in the best way. She understands that she hurt Callum. Maybe she'll also understand she doesn't need to pay the price for other people's mistakes, and that she can break the cycle of abandonment in her family. She can and she will.

[cofbu]

TDP stuff I never posted

[rainwalker-dragonblade29]

It is now time for us to look inward and begin asking ourselves the big questions...

🙄 WHAT WILL KIM'DAEL SOUND LIKE!?

[ask-ethari-anything]

Just a little something I've always wondered about. Those little cuffs around your horns - Runaan has some too. And Tiadrin and Lain have their own sets. So are those cuffs the elf equivalent of wedding rings?

Oh, a jewelry question! *eyes light up* Bless you, love!

You know how, when you first pick your markings- Oh. No, you likely don't, do you, love? Hmm. Let me try again.

Ah. Imagine you've got your first set of tools! No, no, stay with me on this one... They're all part of the same set. And so you use them to mark each other with symbols that will tell everyone they belong together. Some might look a little different - 8mm on one, 2cm on another, things like that - but the markings match, even when they don't match.

Alright, maybe horn cuffs aren't terribly like a matched tool set after all. But they do mean that the elf wearing them belongs. To someone, to a heart somewhere out in the world. And if they were made by a clever craftsman *cough* then you can get a peek at who that special someone is, just by looking at the horn cuffs themselves!

My cuffs are darker than most. Shadowy. Sharp and pointy. And they've each got a bright turquoise gem inset in them. If the shadows are just right, it can look like I've got a protective spirit hovering just over my head, staring down any threats with a fierce gemstone gaze.

That's my husband. That's who he is, and I wear his vibes proudly wherever I go.

Runaan's cuffs are bright, silvery, gentle-edged, and drenched in exquisitely crafted swirls. I literally could not fit more swirlies on there - I tried! He is so loved, so loved! I will show off all my best work to make him pretty, and safe, and happy. My beloved, with his horns embraced by the work of my hands. *extremely romantic sigh*

We're a matched set. We go together. We are for each other. That's what horn cuffs mean.

There are some elves who change their hearts, and they change their cuffs as well. But I never will. My heart found its home, and I cuffed those horns so I can always find my way back to him. I won't need to do it a second time - unless Runaan needs some repairs done!

[fyrestein]

First rayla (and tdp) illustration! Drew this instead of reviewing my notes for classes tomorrow