#orinn

[name-centrum]

Name of the day...

Orrin ˎˊ˗

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Origin: British, Irish, Celtic

Meaning: River; Green; Mountain; Pale, fair or white.

Notes: The name Orrin is a masculine name that is "an Anglicized form of the Irish/Celtic name Odhrán." (Source)

"Across many traditions, rivers symbolize journeys and the incredible force of nature. It could be a reminder of inner strength, setting your little one off into the world to carve their own path through the world." (Source)

Alternative spellings of the name are Orin, Orinn, Orryn, Oryn, Orynn, Orren, Oren, and Oran.

Other names similar to Orrin are Arrin, Arwin, and Orwin.

Nick-names: Orry, Ryn, Ry

Popularity:

[eluvisen]

I got this beautiful commission of Velire from the amazing @commander-sarahs-art 💕

[surely-galena]

Fridged: the Von Hagens

[theres-a-bea]

three years of tears of themis and we still haven't met artem's deadbeat ass father

[assassin-artist]

Young Druid lost in the labyrinth, what will she do? (she'll ask the butterflies to lead her out)

[commander-krios]

Holiday gift by @theoasiswinds for the lovely @eluvisen of Velire 💜

[morphlingunderscore]

The gang's all here! These took a few days to get through, but I've wanted to draw my favorite funny bugs since i saw this game. :]

[kathanglangit]

The Third Blade: Hinalung - Handheld Speartip

Five days left to go before the launch of the Gubat Banwa Kickstarter campaign! Gubat Banwa is a TTRPG that allows you to play as warrior Kadungganan in the Sword Isles, a fantasy setting as colorful and intricate as the Southeast Asian cultures from which it draws inspiration.

I've been posting the weapons I've been drawing for the game as kind of a countdown, leading up to the launch on October 10. I was planning to do this for Swordtember, but sometimes you gotta shift the goalpost a little bit. 3/7 blades down, behold the HINALUNG

This multi-purpose blade comes in a few different shapes and sizes, but in general they are symmetrical and double-edged. They don't get much longer than one's forearm, and more often than not have handles wrapped in rattan lashings.

(Blades by Tatang HImanggo and one of his students- a certain Arnold; As shared by Biboy's Sharp Edges) If I'm not mistaken, the term "hinalung" is Ifugao- referring to a certain group of indigenous peoples in the Philippine Cordilleras- though the usage of the blade itself was widespread across the mountains of north Luzon. Nowadays, it isn't just Ifugao smiths making them, and a number of contemporary smiths from across the region seem to lay claim to the blade. In any case, the blade is of the Cordilleras, unconquered by Spain.

(Blades by Ifugao Traditional Blades) One more thing of note is the open scabbard, which seems to be common among blades in that region- not just the hinalung. Some of them boast enough space for more than one blade to be sheathed, and are often sold as novelties. The first example below has a large hinalung in the middle, joined by a pair of pinahig. It can very quickly get out of hand. These X-in-1 sets are usually sold as novelties.

(Blades by Orinn Mongalini/Panday Anitu Mumbaki)

(Photo from Orinn Mongalini)

(Photo from Ifugao Artistic Blade)

Now for the fun part! You may be wondering why the handle is shaped the way it is, with that triangular opening near the base of the blade? Or perhaps you read the title of this post and you already know where this is going?

They double as spearheads! The handle itself is steel folded in to create a hollow socket, allowing the hinalung to be mounted on a wooden shaft, turning it into a spear. Supposedly, this spear-form was used for hunting. You can see the hollow socket more clearly here:

(Blade by HanYan Blades)

(Screencap from a video by AJ Blade Reviews testing the blade as a spear; Blade by Lakay Paul Dulnuan Sr.) As mentioned previously, the Philippine Cordilleras were never conquered by Spain, and as such were able to carry their traditions with a little more ease into the present day. It is very much apparent in the blade culture. Present-day smiths in the Cordilleras still forge hinalung, some of them stating they do it in the traditional way, others admitting to hewing to more modern methods.

(Antique from the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology)

(Modern build by Lakay Pabian, photo by Ramon Bathan) Like I said before: Blade culture is alive and still developing. One of the Five Major Mahamandalas of Gubat Banwa pays homage to and gleans inspiration from living cultures like those I mentioned here. If you want to know what the first half of that sentence means, check out the game and its Kickstarter!

The Gubat Banwa Kickstarter launches in 5 days! Check it out here:

I've watched this game be started, written, and developed by like- one guy, who just managed to drum up enough interest and meet enough people willing to help shape the dream, and make it what it is today. It could not have gotten this far without all of them. Still, it remains a very small team of creators from the global south, with very limited resources. We would dearly appreciate any and all help in getting the word out about the game!

[jules-from-tumbir]

Not Minthara comming onto my Tav after killing Orinn. At this point everyone wanted to bang Tiri... besides Wyll 😅

[charomiami]

Velire Orinn

A sketch of thanks for @eluvisen for helping me with Road to Wasteland donation! Her Star Wars OC Valire Orinn, whom I can't wait to doodle in the desert, maybe something a little Tatooine!

[lilbittymonster]

I saw in Kitali's about that she formed an adventuring party. Are you able to elaborate more on that; ie. who they were, what sort of adventures they did, how they joined the party, etc.?

(okay I have enough energy to be coherent about this lol)

So Kitali's original form was a tiefling ranger, who joined up with a bunch of other rangers and trained with them from a young age. They were actually the largest chunk of her backstory that I was able to salvage and retrofit to FFXIV! She joined up with them after leaving her mom to go off on her own, and basically got adopted by the extrovert of the group.

Jex - Hrothgar, rogue

Veliren - Elezen, archer

Orinn - Lalafell, warrior

The four of them were a unit for about two years or so before they were joined by a fifth member, a white mage from Gridania named Tirana, who Kitali ended up in a very imbalanced relationship with. Veliren and Orinn split off due to varying external responsibiities, leaving just Jex, Kitali, and Tirana. Right about now is when conflict is ramping up with Garlemald in Eorzea, and the three of them are both dodging conscription and picking up more and more dangerous jobs to make ends meet as people are going off to war.

One of these jobs went horrendously sideways, and the three of them scattered to the winds. To Kitali's knowledge, it was Tirana who sold them out to save her own skin, but she's never had any closure on that. Back on her own, Kitali made her way further into Aldenard and wound up in Gridania coming in from the eastern coastline near Gyr Abania.

She does eventually find Jex again in Bozja, though I still haven't done anything beyond Gangos so the details of that aren't set yet.

Thank you for the ask @gatheredfates!

[eluvisen]

I was very lucky to be able to commission @stellorc​ to paint Velire!

[surely-galena]

Carenina!! It’s Carenina!

[theres-a-bea]

i swear all the von hagens have a case of gay face

[assassin-artist]

a druid and a drow walk into a bar...

[summer-freeze]

my oc orinn and anasui!!!