#renfri vellga

[tawnyfool]

𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘪𝘳𝘭 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘰𝘥𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴

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[nellieofthevalley]

There are two deaths that I wish the showrunners had written out of the show. Mainly because they were either totally pointless or they hurt me to my soul, the only reason Im making this is because they killed characters that never died in the books, they could PLEASE STOP KILLING MY FAVES.

Renfri and Tissaia. Renfri made me angry, Everything that ever happened to her could have been avoided, her death was meaningless and only happened to give trauma to geralt, who knew her maybe a day and then acted like he was the most affected by it. I wish she had survived, or at least had a more impactful role in the story

Tissaias made me uncontrollably sob. That death scene hit me so close to home that it scares me, The woman who until this point has been a boulder in the way of everything falling apart watching her friends and family be killed around her, and loosing herself completely when there was nothing she could do.

I miss her so much.

[letthewhumpbegin]

The Witcher, s1e1

[holliday-inn]

Happy birthday to Renfri Vellga. Born under an eclipse

[restless-witch]

Witcher Fandom: Costume Historian Weighing In On Episode 1

my first post that’s screenshots next to art/garments they remind me of and a little commentary

Renfri

Important details to highlight:

-Wrap around top with a separate piece as the collar

-Fairly tight sleeves

Portrait of a Young Man; ca. 1508 Hans Süss von Kulmbach, German

NGL I had completely dismissed finding anything for Renfri because of how anachronistic her design seemed to me re: historical design (because of her pants and leather armor) but I was wildly delighted to find this piece. I was drawn to the similar wrap-around structure with a separate collar piece to add stability. In the painting it seems more like a jacket with sleeves that button open along the arm, but I’m still chuffed!

;) hair’s not so different either

Stregobor

Important details to highlight:

-High gathering on the sleeve head- though not a puffed sleeve

-Small ruffle on the cuffs and collar of his shirt/smock

-Unstructured overgown/surcoat (considered somewhat unfashionable/worn by old men by the 1550s)

Originally, I’d placed the silhouette much more in 1500 because of the length of the skirt on his jerkin and his wearing an overgown/surcoat but high neckline, the absence of a true puffed sleeve, and the long line of buttons pushes this forward in time

Portrait of a Man with a Rosary ca. 1508 Lucas Cranach the Elder, German

The neckline here is low compared to Stregobor but you can clearly see the kind of overgown/surcoat that Stregobor wears: they were often trimmed with fur, as in this painting, but they were typically fitted through the shoulders and loose around the body.

On the arms of the doublet, you can also see what appears to be a damask or brocade fabric- though much much subtle than Stregobor’s!

Alessandro Vittoria ca. 1580 Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari), Italian

Here we can see a sleeve much more like Stregobor’s- it’s gathered high in the head and tapers down into a slimmer fit on the forearm. We can also see the ruffles of his shirt at the cuff and collar. There’s a line down the front, and I can’t see if there’s buttons because of the image quality, but fabric or thread covered buttons to “blend in” with the garment were also made at the time!

Danek

Important details to highlight:

-Breastplate with vertical striped ornamentation

-Relatively low/smooth line to the pauldrons

-Relatively small/tight spaulders

-A low pigeon breast curve to the breastplate

-Low collared gorget

Hello I know very little about dating armor

Sir John Shurley of Isfield (1588) British Painter British

Arms and armor are hard for me to date but I feel like these look like contemporaries

Calanthe (helmet)

Important details to highlight: 

-High Ridge

-Visored

-Angled Cheekguards

Burgonet ca. 1585 Italy

If I remember correctly, this is the style of helmets worn by pikemen and cavalrymen- the ridge was to redirect the force of a direct bashing blow

Marilka

Important details to highlight:

-Straight cut to skirt

-Low neckline on her smock/chemise

-Waist is high under the bust

We don’t have many dated and easy to discern peasant outfits in the historical record- but what I really like about Marilka’s outfit is that the palette is in a natural and available dye color. Her skirt is in the range of what you can dye with madder and her coat/bodice is a mostly blue / sort of green which you can achieve by overdying woad with weld.

Juni, Brevarium Grimani, fol. 7v (Flemish)  circa 1510 

As I said above, here’s a good example of the color palette in the historical record. For the closer woman, the blue portion you can see is probably the bottom half of a kirtle which would also have a laced bodice. Marilka could be wearing a kirtle under her jacket: many didn’t have a “front” portion as we would know them- some of them had a full back and just tied across the front to accommodate different sizes. The jacket has short sleeves which would have provided additional protection from the sun and like Marilka they have a v front.

okay hello everyone I am not going to go down the rabbit hole of the history of knitting here too like I’m sorry it’s weird and complicated and hard to explain but TL;DR knit garments of the time were not like Marilka’s they were like this because of complicated political/guild reasons and also the price of labor and wool

The Knuckle Bones Crew

Important Details

-High shoulders to the jackets

-Lack of puffed sleeves, some with shoulder “wings”

-Trunks/Hose are close to the legs

The puffed sleeves generally drop from fashion in the 1560s and the puffed trunks/breeches drop in the 1570s where they become baggy and become more fitted in the 1580s. Though in the 1580s, the doublets generally had longer skirts so I’d generally place this in the 1590s.

Doublet 1605-1610 (made), 1870-1895 (altered) England

This is from a decade later- so the waist line on the jacket has risen a bit. Here you can see the double seams of the sleeves (along the front and back of the arm) that allow for a tighter fit and full range of movement. You can see the shoulder wings here- rather conservative. In the 1590s the wings were wider in length, and in the 1600-1610s they were thicker. Interestingly, along the waist seam you can see small holes/eyelets where the hose/breeches/trunks would lace into the doublet! That lacing held your “pants” up

Two Children Teasing a Cat (c. 1600) Annibale Carracci Italian

NGL I just thought this was cute

Ciri

Important Details:

-High Narrow Shoulders

-Sleeves Coordinating (not matching) Body

-Slight puff to shoulders

Separates for women were a thing that we know was common though there’s fewer portraits I can find of it. Women wearing doublets was a trend in the Elizabethan era (c. 1560-1600). I think her full outfit has a separate matching skirt and there’s a peplum on the doublet which did happen.

Portrait of a Lady in Black and White -  Alessandro Allori (Florence) c. 1590

This is a rather fanciful example but here we go: a front closing women’s doublet/gown with coordinating sleeves. Under the ruff, there was likely a grown-on collar as Ciri wears. I’m peeved because I know I’ve seen examples much closer to what Ciri wears but I can’t find any right now.

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I skipped over a few screenshots I originally wanted to do (Eist, the ball guests, and Mousesack/Ermion for sure) because I’d already spent two nights on it but if there’s something you’d like me to unpack- I’d be happy to do it for you <3

[renfroodles]

I needed a new avatar, and I’m physically unable to draw Renfri without drawing were!renfri (Woofri) so… here ya go.

[ofqueensandwitches]

The Pistol series directed by Danny Boyle. Or what I prefer to call as 'that time Viscount Tewksbury became a punk singer and dated Renfri Vellga'.

[grcycosmcs]

@renfri-vellga cont'd from HERE

" she sounds great , " janine responds. it's selfish of her , she knows , but there's a fleeting moment where she wishes that she had experienced motherly love that way. she loves her mom , but the woman had a very different way of showing it – one that in more recent years includes appearing almost solely to ask for money. " i'm sorry to have interrupted. "

[rhenawed]

Syanna @ Stregobor & Eltibald: Look, I just wanna talk 🔪🔪🔪🔪

[free-use-renfri]

Renfri of Creyden Playlist

Yellow Flicker Beat - Lorde In The Woods Somewhere - Hozier Shrike - Hozier Godhunter - Aviators Black Dresses - The Builders and The Butchers The Horror and The Wild - The Amazing Devil Devil's Resting Place - Laura Marling Tongues and Teeth - The Crane Wives Quiet As A Rat - Amigo The Devil Free Animal - Foreign Air

[devilsmenu]

@renfri-vellga cont. from here

"They didn't open today or that's what the sign on the window is saying" Heiya replied with a sigh. "They could at least say it instead of having a closed door on our faces".

[mvsicinthedvrk]

@renfri-vellga said : “you don’t want to make me a lady, much less a princess.” to qi yan from renfri

"Rest assured, I have my hands full dealing with other princesses already," Qi Yan informs her, politely enough. Even if the princess in question doesn't remember being one, it's still plenty to worry about already. "So luckily, I'm not at all concerned with what you become or don't become."

[nellieofthevalley]

Not quite killer frequency But I HAD TO DRAW RENFRI!

Shes my favorite character in the witcher, I hate how overlooked she is and Most of all I hate her book design. I definitely like her book representation the most, though so I wanted to kind of combine her show and Book looks!

Also most people draw her with VERY bright blue eyes when she’s described as having “ocean colored eyes”, and to me oceans are more of a dark blue or turquoise look- idk though maybe thats just me.

ANYWAY I wanna design yen next

Feel free to use in art with credit :))

[letthewhumpbegin]

The Witcher, s1e1

[bloodofthefates]

|| x. continued from here with @witchered

Nothing was bad for business like a Witcher. It seemed no matter how many times they inadvertently crossed paths or wherever geographically they ended up, the natural aversion to Geralt’s otherness extended to Renfri no matter what circles and gangs she’d managed to amass in his absence. She worked better alone, though she survived by the protection of a pack mentality from time to time. It was Geralt’s unique moral philosophy that cost Renfri a fair bit of coin; his different opinion on what consisted of honest work for fair wages when Renfri preferred to view the rest of the world as her potential hunting ground. Her reputation far preceded her, fear served to insulate her from authorities as much as it tended to steer unsuspecting directly into the paths of her traps. While thieving other thieves wasn’t entirely frowned upon by the narrow margins of the law, it certainly displeased Geralt and colored his already less than favorable opinion of the former princess. And so she’d gotten creative, offering him a lucrative stake in the deal should they succeed and survive in taking to the caves of a known hostile rock troll in search of payment. Even Witchers needed money, that much was obvious by the state of Geralt’s clothes and armor but neither of them were exactly prepared when the troll made his own displeasure known not by attacking them directly but by using his surroundings. Fists slamming against rock caused the entire cavern to rattle and begin crumbling, leaving Renfri unstable on her feet just before dust and rock began to clatter from the roof overhead. Raising an arm up over her head in an instinctive gesture, it was a feeble attempt at protecting herself but Geralt was faster to react. Slamming against her and securing her into the nearest small alcove at the last second, she felt the breath knocked out of her for a moment as she sucked in dusty air and doubled over as far as the space would allow. Dirt and dust covered her hair and smudged her cheeks, small pieces and pebbles the only thing managing to touch her from Geralt’s bodily shield. Still coughing and sputtering as the air began to clear, Renfri pulled herself upright to find most of the pile of rubble stacked up where the troll once stood. Turning to Geralt as he straightened and rolled his shoulder, her expression briefly flickered to one of concern as she recognized the soreness and the brunt of the damage he’d taken in order to guard her from it. A hand reached out to touch his shoulder, pausing mid-motion as she thought better of it and retreated just as swiftly. “Fine. Better than that old lump anyway. Are you? Alright?” She eyed the pile restraining the rock troll briefly, knowing he was right and they needed to put distance between them and fast but her concern remained focused on Geralt as she gave him another once over and drifted closer to him to move out of the smaller space he’d pushed her into for protection.

[coreofgold]

@renfri-vellga​

“The history of Halloween is very fascinating isn’t it ?”  Aziraphale turned to ask the person the were tal. . .oh they left.  “I shall see you next time then !”  Aziraphale calls out and sighs.  “Suppose my tact requires work.”  The angel said to himself.