#taillte

[ayumitsuu]

FE4 Character impressions 4 (Green hair+): Lewyn, Erin, Midir, Sylvia, Tailtiu, Jamke, Ayra, Shannan + Oifey

- hello, im in love with Jamke and Ayra 😍

- Midir & Tailtiu are fashionista besties 💅 u can’t change my mind

- Shannan/Ayra’s hair should be the same colour but ✨layer effects✨were cool 😜

- Lewyn is a duck but that colour scheme doe… ffffffff 😩

- Tailtiu’s hair colour is the stuff dreams are made of 😍

- Shannan and Oifey are bragging about Ayra and Sigurd, trying to one-up each other

[greenwitchcrafts]

August 2023 witch guide

August 2023 witch guide

Full moon: August 1st in Aquarius

New Moon: August 16th

Blue moon: August 30th Aquarius into Pisces

Sabbats: Lughnasadh August 1st



August Sturgeon Moon

Also known as: Corn moon, harvest moon, ricing moon, barley moon, dog moon, fruit moon, grain moon, herb moon, red moon & wyrt moon

Element: Fire

Zodiac: Leo & Virgo

Animal spirts: Dryads

Deities: Diana, Ganesha, Hathor, Hecate, Mars, Nemesis, Thot & Vulcan

Animals: Dragon, lion, phoenix & sphinx

Birds: Crane, eagle & falcon

Trees: Alder cedar & hazel

Herbs/plants: Basil, bay, chamomile, fennel, orange, rosemary, rue & St. John's wort,

Flowers: Angelica, marigold, sunflower

Scents: Frankincense & heliotrope

Stones: Carnelian, cats/tiger's eye, fire agate, garnet, red jasper & red agate

Colors: Gold, orange, red & yellow

Energy: Authority, appreciation, courage, entertainment, finding your voice, friendship, gathering, harvesting energy, health, love, pleasures, power &vitality

Sturgeon moon gets it's name from the high numbers that are caught at the Great Lakes & Lake Champlain in North America during this time of year. The names come from a number of places including Native Americans, Colonial Americans & European sources.



Lughnasadh

Also known as: Lammas, August eve & Feast of bread

Season: Summer

Symbols: Scythes, corn, grain dollies & shafts of grain

Colors: Gold, green, yellow, red, orange, light brown & purple

Oils/incense: Aloe, apple, corn, eucalyptus, safflower, rose & sandalwood

Animals: Cattle & chickens

Stones: Aventurine, carnelian, citrine, peridot, sardonyx & yellow diamond

Foods: Apples, grains, barley cakes, wild berries, cider, honey, potatoes, rice, sun shaped cookies, blackberry, corn, nuts, breads, blueberry. berry pies & grapes

Herbs/Plants: Alfalfa, aloe, all grains, blackberry, corn, corn stalk, crab apple, fenugreek, frankincense, ginseng, goldenseal, grapes, myrtle, oak leaves, pear, rye, blackthorn &wheat

Flowers: Sunflower, cyclamen, heather, hollyhock & medowsweet

Goddesses: Aine, Alphito, Bracacia, Carmen, Ceres, Damina, Demeter, Freya, Grain goddesses, Ishtar, Kait, Kore, Mother Goddess, Sul, Sun Goddesses, Taillte, Zaramama, Ereshkigal & Ianna

Gods: Athar, Bes, Bran, Dagon, Ebisu, Dumuzi, Ghanan, Grain Gods, Howtu, Liber, Lono, Lugh, Neper, Odin, Sun Gods & Xochipilli

Issues, Intentions & Power:  Agriculture, changes, divination, endings, fertility, life, light, manifestation, power, purpose, strength, success & unity

Spellwork: Sun magick, rituals of thanks/offerings, bounty, abundance & fire magick

Activities:

Bake fresh bread

Weave wheat

Take walks along bodies of water

Craft a corn doll

Watch the sunrise

Eat outside with family/friends/coven members

Donate to your local foodbank

Prepare a feast with your garden harvest

Give thanks to the Earth

Decorate your altar with symbols of the season

Clean up a space in nature

Plant saved seeds

This cross-quarter fire festival is celebrated on August 1st or the first full moon of Leo & the seventh sabbat of the year. It represents the first harvest when the Earth's bounty is given for the abundance received.

Some believe this is the time where the God has weakened & is losing his strength as seen in the waning of the day's light. The Goddess is pregnant with the young God who will be born on Yule.

In some traditions, this day honors the Celt god Lugh, the god of craftsmanship; He is skilled in many things including wheel making, blacksmithing & fighting. Though there is some discrepancy as to why Lugh is honored on this day. Some tales say it's because he held a harvest faire in honor of his adoptive mother, Tailtiu.



Sources;

Farmersalmanac .com

Boston Public Library- The Origins & Practices of Lammas/Lughnasadh by Dhruti Bhagat

Llewellyn's Complete Book of Correspondences by Sandra Kines

A Witch's Book of Correspondences by Viktorija Briggs

[king-of-thracia]

3 and 5

(Also hello, I'm new to tumblr and wanted to meet some people).

Hello there! I hope you're doing well then :)

3. Any criticisms about your favorite game, or anything you would change?

I said my favorite was genealogy so.

Hm. more movement to footlocked units even in their base class. I know that's a common complaint but please. Please. Also in the remake don't let the cousins in gen 2 hook up.

And decrease finn's initial love points with brigid and taillte. Just by enough so I don't have to constantly be watching Finn so he doesn't go inherit his nearly critting brave lance to someone else who cant even use it and lose it till chapter 8. Please.

5. Answered this in another ask. But I've completed Blazing Blade, Sacred Stones, and Engage. I am currently playing Genealogy as my main focus! I may be at the start of chapter 5 but I know. I... I know.

[vocaloid-as-gaeilge]

Amhrán Taillte Garbha, Faraoise agus Draíocht (A Song of Wastelands, Forests and Magic)

Ceol & Liricí: Travolta-P

Bunteideal: 荒野と森と魔法の歌

Amhránaí: Hatsune Miku

Forais atá beo le beatha glas,

Anois, níl sé ach talamh garbh ina damhsaíonn néal deannaigh

Ó bhun mo chroí, guífidh mé go mbéarfaidh sé arís

Le beatha beaga a cuireann suas le haon rud

Ach ag déanamh caint faoi talamh ag imeacht chun raice

Agus áit lán le cuimhní,

Líonann sé seo mo shúile le deora ag glioscarnach

Lig é dom, ná bí buartha

Má tá sé mo ghlór draíochta, is féidir liom aon rud a dhéanamh

Cuir an chúram mianta agus mothúcháin orm

Agus anois, athróidh mé iad go neart drithleach

Na scamaill a leathan sa spéir,

Gaireann siad ar báisteach agus déanann siad abhainn mhóire

Cuireann siad dath gorm ar an talamh

Sula i bhfad, béarfar a lán beatha nua

Lig é dom, ná bí buartha

Má tá sé mo ghlór draíochta, is féidir liom aon rud a bronnadh

Má tá na mianta agus mothúcháin láidir go leor, 

Is féidir linn domhan drithleach a fheiceáil

[wardencommanderrodimiss]

I have once again found out someone is married bc they can trade money, this time it was Erin and Lewyn

Fuck yes i finally remembered Fortify is a thing

Ok got Sylvia the Shield Sword, Raquesis is finally on a horse, and Tailte/Azel have tied the knot. Dew has mugged Lewyn's uncle so i can try to grind him into paste. Now all i need is Bridget/Holyn and Claude/Sylvia and I'll be set

I'm 100 turn in. Lewyn and Aideen are level capped. Taillte is 17.

Just broke my first staff :3

Turn 195, Taillte is lv20, and i Do Not have the staff uses to do the same for Azel

Sylvia has now had her first conversation with Claude, cried at a compliment, and married him on the spot

Had Lewyn nuke the boss (his other uncle?) with Forsetti and- WHAT DO YOU MEAN THAT WAS A YEAR?

wait, desert? oh god pls not the sand mov drop...

Grünenritter... are they Green Riders bc they're green units?

Watching these messages progress over five hours in my inbox was incredibly funny just to see like. how long this game takes when you start grinding in it. I regularly speed up the game and it doesn't help me a whole lot.

Anyway Sylvia's a whole-ass mood right there. Poor girl. She's had it rough.

I'm presuming the year in Silesse was...the majority of it was probably just the gang vibing at the castle with the queen and then everything went to shit so the last couple months were the military campaign, but I really love how the timeline of this game simultaneously has concrete passage of time but is also wildly, wildly vague.

I am. so sorry to inform you. that not only is there desert in Chapter 5....there is also desert in Chapter 6. Sand movement drop my beloathed, even death will not free us from it.

[coppercrow]

The Battle of Taillte

In the wake of the latest Artemis Fowl trailer, I ended up rereading the series and I have So Many Feelings after finishing up the Last Guardian.

But what I really want to know more about is fairy/human history, and the events leading up to the Battle of Taillte. Everything we know is very fairy-centric - their point of view on an event that completely changed their civilisation forever 10,000 years ago.

From their perspective, the humans of that time were bloodthirsty Mud Men who wanted to kill faries for no other reason than that they were different, while the People were entirely peaceful.

We never get a human perspective on these events, which is to be expected - it's so far back in human history that the only remnants left is folklore. But I'm sure that the humans of the time would tell a very different story to that of the People.

10,000 years ago (around 8000 BCE), the humans in Europe were still firmly low population density hunter-gatherer societies who used stone tools. During the Mesolithic period in Ireland (8000 BCE to 4000 BCE), the population is estimated to have been no more than 8000 at most.

We know that the People's population was low at that point (and still remained low even 10,000 years later), but that puts things into some perspective for the Battle of Taillte.

From the story Holly tells in the Last Guardian, we know that the People retreated to Ireland for a last stand after prior conflicts with humans. However, even if a force of humans joined the battle from the British Isles or mainland Europe, the numbers involved cannot have been that large given the low population at the time.

We also know that there were 100 fairy Beserkers buried under the Fowl Estate, which made up only a portion of the People's fighting force, which includes demons, dwarves riding trolls, and warlocks. For the People to still have been overwhelmed despite all this, you have to assume that close to every able bodied human in Ireland was fighting.

The losses for the People may have been great, but I hate to think what a dwarf riding a troll could do to humans who at best had basic stone weaponry. There would have been a high number of deaths for humans as well.

So that leaves me to wonder - how did the conflict between the People and humans start? Did humans start off with the intention to hunt the People to extinction? Or perhaps was the conflict started by a misunderstanding between species that sparked into all out war where the stakes were too high to back down from?

[orangerosebush]

Lebor Gabála Érenn, (ENG: The Book of Invasions) is a collection of poems and prose narratives in Irish that serve as a mytho-history of Ireland from the creation of the world to the Middle Ages.

The AF books reference two locations that appear in Leabhar Gabhála/Lebor Gabála Érenn (the book of invasions): Tara and Teltown.

The reference to Tara is explicit, as in book one Holly mentions it being a site of great magical import, whereas the reference to Teltown is implicit.

In reference to “the battle of Tailte”, it is likely that “Tailte” is a different spelling of Taillte/Tailtiu, who in the mythology of Ireland (though there is some uncertainty regarding this due to revisions of the original myths after the Invasion of Normandy) died of exhaustion after making the plains of Ireland fit for agriculture. Her adopted son, the Tuatha Dé Danann named Lugh, then established a harvest festival/ set of games to honor her memory — this was to be called the Fair of Tailtiu (Óenach Tailten), and the importance of this festival was likely roughly equivalent to that of the Feast of Tara (both sites are located in County Meath).

Image: Enfield Meath, “Visiting the Area”. http://www.enfieldonline.net/legends-and-places

I invoke this myth specifically because of the goddess Tailtiu’s story, which deals with the idea of the invasions of Ireland.

There are multiple waves of invasion in Irish mythology, but I’ll mainly deal with the Fir Bolg, Tuatha De Danann, and Milesians. Essentially, Tailtiu was part of the Fir Bolgs, and most of her kind were displaced after the invasion of the island by the magical Tuatha De Danann (of which her son Lugh was one). However, despite the power of the Tuatha De Danann (essentially being pagan gods and goddesses), they were overcome by the Milesians, the human proto-celts according to the story.

The reason for their conflict varies. In some versions, some Milesians had visited the island years prior and were killed by the Tuatha De Danann (who then proceeded to shield the island with magic), and the return of the humans is due to wanting vengeance. In others, some Tuatha de Danann had killed one of the relatives (Íth) of the leader of the Milesians (Míl Espáine), so the return of the Milesians is an attack to avenge Íth’s death. However, in some versions, the Milesians simply land on the island and wish it to be theirs, and thus the fighting commences.

It’s not… entirely clear how the humans beat the Tuatha De Danann, but over the course of many battles, they prevail. Specifically, one of the battles that led to the downfall of the Tuatha De Danann was the battle of *teltown* or the battle of *Tailtiu* — the battle of Tailte to which Colfer refers!

Following their defeat, the Tuatha De Danann retreat underground to live in hiding from the humans for the rest of their days in the otherworld, and in living in this diminished form of power, they become the sídhe, the fairies of Ireland. At this point, you have the folktales where some fairies remain aboveground and toy with humans, while in others, humans travel below ground to barter for magical miracles. That’s where you again start to get some overlap with the mythos of AF, IMHO.

However, Colfer plays it pretty fast and loose when it comes to borrowing from mythology versus generating new lore for the series, and I would be fascinated to see different ways to situate the People in historical and/or mythological context(s). I’m also definitely interested by the idea of how to holistically deal with the past of the People, as I think any attempt to paint them in black-and-white terms of morality is 1) boring and 2) misses out on the opportunity to explore that they’re a completely different civilization that carries within it different cultural mores, religion(s), and ethical systems — if anything, I don’t see them as being morally grey so much as I see them functioning in a wholly different manner that just so happens to overlap in some places with common human systems of morality (e.g. vis a vis perception of violence, environmental value, etc).

From that perspective, I’d say that it was likely two groups of relatively equal power antagonizing each other, if one synthesizes the lore from the myths with the books. I think the instigating event could vary, though, as I’ll admit I’ve not given much thought to specifically that topic.

[another-fire-emblem-sideblog]

You've probably long moved on from your recent non-optimal FE4 run, but if you remember could you rate the kids you got in terms of bad to worst usability?

Ayra’s kids are easily the best (You can’t mess them up) and Taillte’s are the worst. Well, Cairpre is probably the worst unit out of them (yeah I really wanna train up a level one unit to see if his 20 ish percent magic growth will turn out) but Lene is always useful so I call that a wash. Apart from that, I guess I would go Erinys’s kids > Edain’s kids (solely for Lana, tho) > Brigid’s kids = Lachesis’s kids. Roughly

[bean-na-farraige-agus-foraoise]

A Rebuttal of “Lesson 7: Values, Morals, and Ideals”

This is part 7 of my 20-part manifesto on why druids should do some research for once. You can find the master-post here.

This is a long post, so the actual rebuttal is under the cut!

You can find Robine Herne’s “lesson” here. 

To start things off Herne has finally used the word “druid” in a way that I can disagree with. As we hopefully all know a druid was not a layperson in early Gaelic society, to be a druid was to be a member of a profession, and it was a profession we know very little about. Essentially all we know about druids is that they were educated on the law and the religion and there is some loric evidence that they also practiced magic. It is assumed that they would advise kings, but ultimately we simply don’t know what they did. At the very least I am extremely wary of referring to modern Gaelic polytheists as “druids” in the same way that I feel many other pagans are or should be hesitant to make use of the word “priest/priestess” - it was a profession and it denoted a member of a particular class. To call all modern Gaelic polytheists “druids” is as baffling as it is inaccurate - after all, druids were supposed to be education on the religion and the lore, something very clearly lacking in modern druidism.

But beyond my scruples with druidism, it’s odd to say the least that Herne focuses mostly on laws when there are surviving wisdom texts that discuss values, morals, and ideals and when the lore itself shows us examples of these ideals and values in action. I understand of course that knowing these things requires one to have both done research and actually read the lore, but when one is a founder of a “Druid college” these things really should be the bare minimum. Furthermore, Herne’s focus on trying to figure out which laws are Christian and which laws are pagan in origin, is in my opinion pointless. Regardless of when the laws were written they came from Irish culture and if they were Christian, they came from the perspective of the highly syncretic Gaelic Church. The focus on the supposed “religion” of the laws is really nothing more than an attempt to separate pagan and Christian Ireland while looking at texts from the transitional era. 

Herne focuses so much on the law that he almost seems to run out of things to say about them. He dedicates almost a whole paragraph to the question of whether or not a “modern druid” can be vegetarian- a question that is not even raised by the laws he’s looking at, and talks around the issues. This “lesson” is mostly just sound and fury, it signifies and means nothing. What Herne provides is an incomplete picture barely befitting an introductory lesson. What is lacks in substance is certainly intentional, Druidic orders tend to focus less on the ways in which the lore and the wisdom texts show us how we should conduct ourselves so that the abuses of power within among their leadership and the lack of substance in their teaching isn’t as obvious to their members. 

Links to the wisdom texts are provided below, and once it’s finished I’ll add a link to a post I’m working on about how to get more out of the lore and how to view it as a religious text or scripture rather than just as a collection of stories. 

The Testament of Cathair

Testament of Morann

The Instructions of King Cormac

Cormac's Glossary

O'Mulconry's Glossary

Dromma Cetta’s Collection

The Fitness of Names

Of the Qualifications of a Poet

The Colloquy of the Two Sages

The Psalter

The Boroma

The Convention of Taillte

That’s all for today! If you want more reading on any of the topics mentioned in this post feel free to shoot me an ask or a message and I’ll provide you with a reading list!

[randomnameless]

While Langobalt or Lombard, did show sympathy for Lord Ring. My impression/headcanon is he's a very a traditionalist when it comes to families, the Dozel motto is also tough love to make your kids strong. Yet despite this, killing a family member with no remorse as Andorey did is very much against the Dozel's code. I don't think Langobalt is a great dad, mind you, but I do think he loved his kids in his own way. He's more reluctant to fight his kid then Reptor, & tries to talk Lex out of it.

I think TV tropes has a trope for it like “even evil has standards” or something. Lombard might have some values, he also has a lot of problematic stuff under his beard so yeah...

maybe he isn’t as “evil” as F!Lewyn wanted to make us understand, but we can’t deny he did pretty serious shit in Isaach. That’s why I was actually very happy with Oosawa’s portrayal of Lombard in the manga (even if he is all “Danan is a brute/stupid son you would have been perfect Lex if you didn’t rebel” which didn’t please me).

This is why I’m pretty sour at the “Dozels were all crap since Lombard” thing, crap because of regicide and starting a war and all, but even Lombard had limits. F!Lewyn should sweep his own rug before talking shit about other people, did Dacar and Maios possess any qualities??

[moczothe1st]

Let’s Play Fire Emblem IV: Genealogy of the Holy War, Part 19: He’s a Late Blume-er

Part 18

Welcome back to FEIV! You may recall last week we killed Ishtore, a man with amazing lightning magic and truly astounding (not GOOD, but astounding) hair. He will be missed. I mean, not by me, but someone will miss him.  I mean, not his girlfriend, she also died, but…. Look, it’s a whole thing. The key is that we took his castle, and nobody is gonna be happy about it.

(See? No happiness.)

Bramsel: Men, this is our chance! Jabarro, send in your brigade! Hit them hard while their backs are turned! Leave no survivors!      

Jabarro: At once, sir!

Lene: Don’t you get it? He’s just using your loyalty to treat you like a weapon! I… I hate him so much!  

Ares: Lene… no, that isn’t…

Lene: Okay, fine! Whatever! Go with him, if you love him so much! It’s your life to waste, after all! But you can just go forget we ever met!

Ares: Lene…

(In her defense, judging by last week we can safely assume she’s worked out Ares is the only thing keeping her from getting locked up in Bramsel’s rape dungeon.)

(Yeah, here it comes. And meanwhile, at the other evil castle…)

Blume: I want you to show these rebel pigs just what the empire can do!  

One of those Three Names he Just Said: Yes, Milord. Leave it to us.  

A Second One: We will never let you down, milord.

The Third: The rebels shall be destroyed quickly, cleanly, efficiently, and utterly. Excuse us, milord.

(All three of them are identical except for eye color and the game never says which is which until they’re on the field, so.  NO clue.)

Blume: Hmmm. Everything depends on you.

(You may recall Tinni as being mentioned by a village two weeks ago, wherein they said she was much nicer than her family and the best person ever and definitely recruitable. And if Blume is her uncle, that means Taillte is her mom.  Arthur will want to have a chat with this one!)

Blume: Hmph. One would think I could expect more gratitude from someone I raised out of the goodness of my heart after her mother died. Or have you forgotten my many kindnesses?

(Ass.)

Tinni: No, uncle…

Blume: Good. Now get moving! Remember, these rebels are responsible for murdering my dear son Ishtore, and his true love Liza! Avenging them is your mission, Tinni!

Banba: We will be the ones to claim Seliph’s head as a trophy this day. We mustn’t be beaten by Tinni’s unit.  

Tinni: I… don’t know what to do anymore. Oh, mother… what would you do…?

She would probably shout a lot, if I remember her right.  Now, our phase begins and…

(Dammit, everyone needs to shut up!)

Lene: I see right through you! The moment Ares is out of sight you think it’s okay to act all tough again, you vile louse! Don’t even think about coming any closer. I don’t need Ares around to stop you!

Bramsel: Of all the nerve! You little wench!  Throw her in the dungeon! You’ll have plenty of time to think about what you’ve done there!

Lene: No! Ah… Ares…

Jabarro: Oh well. I guess it’s all in the past. You’re gonna forget ‘er sooner or later.

Ares: I beg your pardon? What exactly are you trying to say, Jabarro?

Jabarro: Heh… oh, nothing. Well, ‘cept that I bet Bramsel’s right about to…

(Oooooh, that was the wrong answer.)

Ares: T-this can’t be… Jabarro! How could you know his foul intent, yet let your tongue lie still?!

Jabarro: You can’t worry ‘bout the fairer sex, Ares. Have your fun with ‘em, but never stick around for when their lives come crashing down…

Ares: How dare you?! And to think you held my trust for so long… I must return to Darna! Lene needs me!

Jabarro: Nah, that ain’t gonna happen, see. Nobody, and I mean nobody, blows off my orders and turns tail on my watch! Not even you, kid.

Ares: … I’ve come far in your company, Jabarro, but our association ends now. If anyone wishes to stop me, Mystletainn will eagerly welcome your necks!

Jabarro: Grr… I’ll show you your place, whelp!

And with that, Ares reveals what sets him apart from his dad: he puts his personal morals above his oaths to jerks! Or he just really digs dancers, one of the two. Either way, he is now on the team!

And here’s our new BFF.  Ares is an overall phenomenal unit; like Shanan he joins up with his Holy Weapon and can therefore wreck most of the enemies on the map, but unlike Shanan he actually has pretty solid growths and will likely be a much tougher unit by the end of the game than he is now. Better still, he has a horse and comes with three great combat skills, Pursuit, Adept, and Vantage. TL;DR, we need to get this man to an Arena. For now, though, I run him south toward the rest of the army to meet his new friends.  

Now then. We have three armies to deal with. One moving south at us, following Ares. One moving west at us, with Tinni and the Three Stooges.  And one moving north to try and make one more shot at conquering Leonster.  Time to split the army. First, Fee is going to head toward Leonster, she can fly so she’ll beat the enemy there. She has an armorslayer sword and the enemy is all armor knights, she can hold the castle.  

Second, to the east, there’s two swordsmen blocking us off from getting Leif, Finn, and Nanna to the rest of the army.  Let’s move them. 

 … Finn. For shame.  But at least you can promote now. I am going to send him off to our home castle ASAP. Going north to help Ares I send Oifey, Lana, Dermott, Shanan, Ulster, Johan, Patty, and Seliph since he needs to take the castle to save Lene.  Going east are Leif and Nanna, as they’re already there, and backing them up will be Julia, Larcei, Lester, and Arthur, who is needed to recruit Tinni.  I can’t see any reason this won’t work off the top of my head, but… I mean. Fire Emblem.  

End turn!

Only one person could reach us, so this was a boring enemy phase. Next one will be much more… active. For now, though, let’s try to purge some of the northern enemy. 

Well. This didn’t go badly, but not great either, barring Lana finally getting an Aideen-tier level. I just didn’t kill off as many as I’d been hoping to, and the enemy phase will be pretty dicey.  I think I’ll have Finn stick around to help this group, rather than letting Lana warp him back to promote right away.  

End turn.  This will be…. Fun.

… *sigh* Well, I knew something could go wrong, but I didn’t see it being everyone dogpiling Johan of all people. Well, nice to be surprised, I suppose.

Reset.  

This is becoming a pattern. I do something interesting, die, and have to go back to boring old ‘sit at the edge of their range and bait them out’.  I know it works, but really.

Not bad at all! They tried to dogpile Ares this time, and like I said: he’s pretty badass. Probably would have died if Jabarro had taken a shot at him, but since it was specifically Jabarro’s range we were staying away from, we pulled through just fine. Now, to the eastern front.  

… That was just sad, Leif.

Okay, our turn.  First thing to do is clear out Jabarro’s unit. The man himself is a giant pain, packing both a Silver Sword and a Skill Ring to leave him obnoxiously accurate. Let’s send in some heavy hitters to roll him down.  

And Shanan gets the skill ring, which he absolutely does not need. He does need money, however, so selling that later will be a nice source of income for him to keep Balmung nice and shiny.  And from here, it’s really just a nice, normal purge.  

And hey, Ares can chat with Seliph.  I wasn’t planning to do it right now, but they ended up next to each other, so why not.

Ares: They call me the black knight, Ares. Perhaps you would recognize me better, however, as the son of Eldigan.  

Seliph: What?! It cannot be… you don’t mean the legendary Lord Eldigan of Nordion, do you?!

Ares: The very same! I am the son of Eldigan the Lionheart, the man your father killed in cold blood! My noble mother, the Lady Grainne, died wracked with grief and rage at Sigurd! It is high time you knew my family’s pain!

(Weeeeeeren’t you an infant at the time, bro? How do you know?)

Seliph: That’s… I don’t understand. As I was told, your father and mine were the closest of friends. As tragic as their end was, I don’t believe our fathers would ever have begrudged each other.

Ares: That’s impossible… Sigurd was my father’s mortal foe! This… this is all I’ve known my entire life…

Seliph: Please listen, Ares. Would you consider traveling with my army? I know we can resolve this misunderstanding, if we just give it some time. I hold the late Lord Eldigan in the utmost respect, just as my own father did. Please, understand this.

(I don’t respect him very much, if that helps.)

Ares: Seliph… very well. I can stay my hand for now. However, be warned. Should I learn that even a single word of your claim is false, your life is forfeit in your father’s place. Do I make myself clear, Seliph?

Seliph: if that happens, then do as you must. Ares… I wish you could know just how ecstatic our fathers would be to know we’ve met at last. If only it had been under better circumstances…

Neat. Now, where were we? Oh right, IN THE MIDDLE OF A WAR.

*snerk* I like how it took three people together to bring down the first Mage Sister, and Arthur alone completely wrecked the second.  Anyway, I have him and Julia blocking off the enemy; as long as Tinni doesn’t fuck this up and try to kill her invincible brother, I think we’re in a good place.

…

She’s gonna, huh.

*sigh* End turn.

Okay. So far so good. But there’s still one more…

Julia, I know you hunger for blood, but please don’t kill this one.

Tinni you magnificent bitch, dodging on a 93% hit chance. I love you.

Our turn, and I start it with Arthur:

Arthur: Really?! Then you’re Tinni! Oh, I’ve finally found you!

Tinni: Er… who are you?

Arthur: Here, maybe this will clear it up. This pendant is exactly the same as yours, and I’ve had it my whole life.

Tinni: Y-you’re right, but… what are you saying?

Arthur: See, years ago, my mother was a warrior in Sigurd’s army, and after the war she fled to Silesse with her children. When I was little, my mother and my newborn sister disappeared… I was left behind with nothing but this pendant. I only recently learned what happened. It was King Blume of Alster. He abducted them. He took my family from me. The rumors all said Mother had died awhile ago, but they also said my sister is still alive. That’s you, Tinni! I’ve finally found you after all these years! I came all this way just to see you again…

Tinni: I… I never even knew Blume did that to Mother… it makes sense, though. I can’t remember much of her, but I know I never saw her smile or laugh. You’re… my brother… ohhh… sniff…

Arthur: Would you play down your arms and join our army, Tinni? We’ve still got so much to talk about.

Tinni: Mm. Thank you, brother. I never did want to fight…

And that’s that. Let’s take a look at our new recruit:

And there’s Tinni! She gets a lot of flak because she’s hard to build super-well, but honestly I like her. She’s also hard to make bad; she doesn’t have Pursuit, but neither did Taillte and she did just fine. I suspect the people who don’t like Tinni are mainly the people who didn’t really like her mother either; I know she has a pretty wide selection of the fandom who view her as too poorly-built to use and she should be left childless. But unlike most of these chuckleheads, Tinni actually has a character arc, and for me that’s enough to bring her along. And you know, it’s not like she’s bad at combat. Wrath, Adept, and Critical are all fine skills, and while she won’t have growths as good as her crazy brother’s, she’s still got two different Holy Bloods.  In my experience, she’s gonna get on just fine.    

………………………

And then, I don’t know, either I forgot to save or my file got corrupted and I lost the last two turns. I… I was very sad. So I had to re-do them, and since that many shots would make the update unbearably long, I will summarize:  Ares got half the levels (people kept ignoring him to go after Ulster this time?) but he was able to kill his old boss and get the Skill Ring, Patty got a very good level thanks to Dermott leaving some half-dead dudes behind, and Julia almost murdered Tinni.   But, on the plus side, Finn finally got warped home to promote.  

*whistle* Take a look at that 25 Strength. That much power and a Brave weapon basically sets him up for the rest of the game, because he is gonna hit like a runaway freight train. Might have to be careful on defense, he’s only above-average in Speed and Defense and has no resistance worth mentioning, but as an offensive unit he’ll be a monster.  Let’s test him out in the arena while we’re here, he won’t be needed on the battlefield again for this map.

Finn: Seven wins, gained no levels. He might be a bit overpowered.  

Okay! End turn, this is going pretty well barring the occasional horrible glitch that I hate.  

…. Well, other than that. I underestimated how quickly they’d get to Leonster and… *cough* may have forgotten to move Fee once or twice, so I think the enemy will be taking the castle after all. It’s not a big deal, they’re really expected to, but I’m still a little annoyed this is happening because I didn’t think.  Ah, well, it will just be a quick detour to liberate it after Seliph finishes up at Darna. I have him head toward it, his army pausing at the edge of the defenders’ movement range (see, I can learn) and have the eastern group start moving up toward Leonster. Fee pauses in a position to challenge one or two of the armors, hopefully the whole group will turn to chase her and she can run up to the castle and hide inside.  End turn!

Jerks. You know, it’s kind of unfair that any of them can take a castle, but we can only have Seliph do it.  

God, you are just like your mother.

To the north, Darna’s defense line doesn’t take the bait. They must not move until attacked. Well.

Their loss. At our other army, I have Fee take out one armor unit:

And then run away, hiding out over the ocean to her west to avoid any other counter attacks.  She hasn’t got much health left, so she needs to avoid any damage until I can get Nanna or Julia up there to help her out. They’re on their way, so this will be turning around shortly.  End turn; no enemies are close enough to take a swing at us, so it goes immediately back to our player phase.  

Fantastic. Darna will fall on our next turn, and shortly after that the other team should be running into the unit who took Leonster. Fee probably won’t even die.  End turn! Once again, nothing on the enemy phase; they’re moving toward us, but they’re on the slow side.  On our turn, Julia patches up Fee to gain a level.

Hehehe. I’m legit impressed by how well her speed is doing, it tends to be a lower growth.  The rest of their unit parks on the local villages to await the incoming storm o’ units.  

Now then, Darna. First, clear the last defender:

 Bramsel is a general, despite appearances, and stat-wise he isn’t super impressive. His one and only real trick is that he’s packing a Horseslayer weapon, so cavalry had better be sure they’re gonna take him down if they take a swing at him.  He’s got no defense against distance attacks, but, like a doofus, I sent all the mages to the other army.  So, uh, Oifey… wanna try that javelin?

Bramsel: Darna is my city! Mine! Nobody will ever take it from me!

Well, it’s a start. Not sure this will work, but… Seliph, wanna give it a shot?

FUCKING PAVISE. Okay, so Darna will fall next turn.  End turn. Ya jackass game.

And that’s Bramsel. Our turn begins, and Seliph takes the castle.  

Lewyn: It was the last free land in Jugdral. In battle after battle, the overwhelming might of the Loptyr Empire had devastated the resistance. Ultimately, the last of the resistance soldiers barricaded themselves within Darna’s walls. Battered and wounded, they were nonetheless determined to fight to the bitter end. But then, suddenly, there was a miracle… from the heavens descended twelve gods, who bestowed upon twelve young warriors miraculous weapons and immense power. Thus were born the Twelve Crusaders, the heroes who led the resistance to victory.

Seliph: That was the legendary Miracle of Darna, yes?

Lewyn: The very same. And even as we speak, Seliph, another miracle is dawning. Just as the resurrection of Loptyr looms on the horizon, so too are the Crusaders themselves arising in our world once more…

Seliph: I beg your pardon?

Lewyn: Heh… don’t worry Seliph. You’ll understand soon enough.

(Well. Seliph may not have a ton in common with his father, but he clearly has Sigurd-tier obliviousness.)  

And of course he can’t rescue Lene because Seliph is standing in the way. Ironic, really; we could save Lene, our dancer, if we had a dancer to move Seliph. That’s Fire Emblem Philosophy 101, kids.  In any case, Lana starts warping people back to Melgen so they can have a shorter walk to rejoin the remaining action; Shanan goes first and Lana levels up.

Then, while he’s at a friendly castle, Best Prince takes the opportunity to run the Arena.

Shanan: Seven wins, gained one level: +1 HP, +1 Skill, +1 Speed, +1 Defense.

*sniff* I may cry. He’s doing much better than I’d expect from him, I tell you that much.

Now, to deal with the Leonster enemies, who are (finally) in range.

… Am I being trolled? Nanna? Are you trolling me? Because you’re doing the same fucking thing Ethlyn did.  You aren’t her child, Nanna. Leif is. If Leif didn’t get any magic ever I could understand it.  That’s genetics. But you’re just the same damn class!  I hate you.  

End turn.  Bitterly end turn.

…. Bitterness increasing.

*sigh* 25% chance to hit and she took it right on the jaw. Fire Emblem, ladies and gents!

Let’s… try this again. This time, let’s go mainly for the commander and try to take away their Leadership Stars, see if that works out better.

… Welcome to the team, Ethlyn 2. 

*sigh* Well, better. Nobody is dead, anyway.  Lana warps Seliph back to Melgen so he can start the long trek over to take some castles for us, and Ares goes into Darna to rescue his gal.

Lene: Ares…

Ares: Oh! Is everything okay, Lene?!

Lene: N-no… it’s not… but someone from the liberation army rescued me… and… I knew you’d come, Ares…

Ares: Lene… I beg your forgiveness… I was a fool! I should have heeded you…

Lene: It’s okay… after all, you’re here now…

Ares: I swear to you, I’ll never let this happen again.  

Lene: And I swear I’ll try to keep my big mouth to myself from now on! Don’t ever leave me again, Ares…

… Dark! Anyway, Lene has no signed up, and as you might have guessed she is Sylvia and Claude’s daughter. And like her mother before her, her stats and all that junk are irrelevant so I don’t need to waste time showing it! She’s a dancer so she’s amazing and will be very, very useful to the army in any situation. And unlike Sylvia, we can actually use her from day one because it doesn’t matter if she gets married.  Go team!

Oh, and speaking of the team, time to finish that actual ‘war’ thing.

Not bad at all, barring the fact Arthur has apparently decided he’s done with Perfect Levels. And with that, the map is basically over. The only enemy units remaining are Blume himself and the three generals in front of his castle. So it’s time, I think, to have assorted folks and units do stuff. I sell Seliph’s Brave Sword so I can pass it around, and have anyone who hasn’t finished the Arena take a shot at it.

Patty: Up to seven wins, gained two levels: +2 HP, +2 Skill, +1 Strength, +2 Luck, +1 Defense

Julia: Up to seven wins, gained one level: +1 HP, +1 Magic, +1 Luck, +1 Defense, +1 Resistance

Ares: Seven wins, gained two levels: +2 HP, +2 Strength, +1 Speed, +2 Luck, +2 Defense

Nanna: Seven wins, gained three levels: +3 HP, +2 Strength, +2 Speed, +1 Magic,, +1 Defense, +2 Luck, +1 Resistance

Leif: Seven wins, gained two levels: +2 HP, +1 Skill, +2 Strength, +1 Speed, +1 Luck, +1 Defense

Tinni: Seven wins, gained three levels: +3 HP, +2 Skill, +3 Speed, +1 Magic, +3 Luck, +1 Resistance

Also, Lana gains some levels from zapping people around:

And some conversations happen.

(“Ugh. More of the commonfolk. Oifey, where is my peasant-beating stick?!”)

Lene: I’m Lene, the Dancer!

Seliph: Y… you’re Lene?

Lene: Ooooh? Mister Seliph, is this the first time you’ve ever seen a dancer?

Seliph: Y-yes, miss…

Lene: Hee hee… that’s adorable!

(And it ends there. Lene knows what she wants in life, and it is to laugh at dorks.)

(

... Picture here an image of Leif introducing himself to Seliph. No such image exists because I’m a doofus.)

Leif: My parents both died in the Battle of Belhalla’s prelude… they were felled by a Thracian ambush. My homeland, Leonster, soon founds itself in the clutches of an Imperial occupation, and fell under the reign of its Duke Blume. If not for my knight, Finn, I wouldn’t be here today. He raised me in hiding in nearby villages, and we awaited the day Leonster would rise again.  We thought that day had finally come, but…

Seliph: … We both took to the battlefield around the same time, did we not? By now practically all of Jugdral knows of King Blume’s brutality. I sorely wish my army had arrived soon enough to properly aid you. You have my deepest apologies, Prince Leif.

Leif: No, Lord Seliph. I’m the one who should be apologizing. Our failure was squarely my fault.  However, this isn’t over yet. I am the son of Quan, a man worthy of being dubbed a Knight of Nova. I refuse to shame his legacy, and so I’ll live on. I’ll fight on, no matter the cost. To that end, Lord Seliph, my comrades and I would like to join your army.  I may not have much of an army left, but what I do have is yours. May we serve you well in restoring honor to Grannvale.  

Seliph: Thank you, Prince Leif.  Often have I heard it said that our fathers were inseparable friends, bound together to the bitter end in both life and death.  Not to mention your mother, Queen Ethlyn, is also my aunt…

(“Oh yeah, we’re literally cousins, forgot for a bit!”)

Seliph: Both of your parents gave their lives to support my father’s cause. Prince Leif, you have my deepest, most heartfelt apologies for their sacrifice.

Leif: Thank you, but that isn’t necessary. I’m proud of my parents, and have the utmost respect for Lord Sigurd. The only hatred I bear is for the true villains, Emperor Arvis and King Travant!

(Holy crap, Leif is logically blaming the people actually at fault? Are we sure he’s an anime teenager?)

Seliph: As do I. Prince Leif, in the name of our late fathers’ last wishes, I seek to restore peace and light to all of Jugdral. Please, join me in my cause!

Leif: Yes, milord! You have my blade as your own!

Dermott: Perfect! I’m your brother, Dermott!

(“Excuse me? I was always told my brother’s name was Diarm-“ “YUP, DERMOTT, THAT’S ME.”)

Nanna: What?! What… are you talking about…?

Dermott: I didn’t know until recently, either. King Lewyn told me everything.   In the war seventeen years ago, I was with the kids who fled to Isaach. But you were born after our mother went to Leonster.

Nanna: You… you’re my brother? Then where’s Mother now?!

Dermott: Er… ‘Where’s Mother’?  What are you getting at here, Nanna?

Nanna: I haven’t seen her in so long… when I was around three years old, she left us and traveled alone to Isaach, to try and find you. She never came back. I’ve waited to see her again for years…

Dermott: She did? But… but I never saw her…!

Nanna: You… didn’t? Then where is she…

Dermott: The Yied Desert… it’s a treacherous place. Very few lone travelers survive it…

Nanna: … No! Oh, mother…

(And Nanna gains +1 Luck from that, because… tragedy… builds character…?)

Tinni: I am Tinni… Arthur’s sister…

Seliph: Ah, of course. I’ve been told your story, Tinni.

Tinni: Um… I’m sorry!

Seliph: You’ve nothing to apologize for, Tinni. With the likes of King Blume for an uncle, I completely understand. You had no choice.

Tinni: Are… are you forgiving me, sir?

Seliph: Certainly! There’s no question that you’re not our enemy, and it would be an honor to have you with us.

Tinni: Wow… you’re everything the stories say you are! I wish we could’ve met sooner…

Seliph: Heh… thank you. Listen, Tinni… I know fighting your own family is a painful prospect, so please, don’t force yourself if you’re at all uncomfortable.

Tinni: Sir…

He actually means that literally.  Tinni vs. Blume is very painful to her, in a very literal, physical way.  He’ll kick her ass.  

All right. Now that we’ve gotten that all done, and Seliph has gone up to retake Leonster, the rest of the army turns to Blume.  He’s guarded by three generals, all of whom have Silver Blades and Steel Bows, so there isn’t a safe range to hit them from. But that’s nothing new. The real problem is Blume himself.

Yeah. Yeah. You remember Mjolnir, I hope, from when Reptor made our lives hell with it.  Well, Blume takes after dear old dad.  He can’t double attack with it, his only ability is Pavise, but he’s still very fast and hits very hard. And to make matters worse he has a droppable Silver Blade, so ideally we want someone who can use swords to bring him down. Realistically that means ‘Shanan or Ares’ because another Holy Weapon is your best shot at doing it without dying.    

So first things first, let’s move the guards.

Geez, these guys are beefy. That was to kill one of them.  Ulster, can you do better?

… Sorrrrrrta? He didn’t get hit in return, at least. But I also can’t get anyone else in position to support him, so he’s probably gonna get pounded in the face next turn.  Speaking of next turn, end turn!

CALLED IT!

Okay. Our turn, and there’s only one general left. Let’s clear that fucker out before we do anything else.

Ugh. I should point out that this is not actually the land of the Omni-Generals; Blume has four leadership stars and he buffs his troops up considerably. I take a few turns here to rest up, heal up, and send Shanan to liberate the remaining villages because he’s desperately short on cash.  Julia levels from healing:

You might have noticed she didn’t gain a point of magic? She’s already hit the cap. Can’t go higher until she promotes. I love my princess. <3

Now. Blume. He has conversations with three different characters, two of whom should not be allowed anywhere near him.  Since I love you guys, and I’m willing to use save states to cheese for story content, here they are.

(Frankly, I’m just amazed she hit him.)

Blume: Hmph! A likely retort, but only one of us will die this day, and it shall not be me!

(Well, he wasn’t wrong.)

Blume: Gah… impudent whelp! Just try me!

*whistle* Well. It was a close thing, but he clearly tried real good. It was caught at a bad moment, but that last shot was a crit that left Blume with only 13HP. And Ares is in range!  

Yeah, we’re not done with this jackass just yet.  Still, for the moment, Ares has a backup sword to use so he doesn’t burn through his Mystletainn all the time, and that’s all I asked for. Shanan spends the next few turns getting paid:

(Well. Only one now.)

Info Master: Ishtar’s ruling over Manster right now, and Ishtore’s posted at Fort Melgen, both doing Blume’s dirty work. Unlike their folks, they’re fine youths. You’ll be sure to face ‘em sooner or later… be on your guard, stranger.

(“They’re great kids! But, you know, they definitely will try to kill you.”)

Why Is He Smiling: His rule’s been one tragedy after another… Just when we thought he couldn’t get any worse, now he’s just letting those child hunts happen! We can’t take this anymore…

And with that, nothing else to do on this map, so let’s call it a day. Seliph, do the honors!

Lewyn: Eh, these sorts of things can’t be helped. After all, the war’s only just beginning.  

Seliph: And yet, the citizens are already all so eager to support us! I’ve seldom seen such joy…

Lewyn: For the first time, they’ve got hope for a future free from the Empire’s abuse.  YOU are the people’s last hope, Seliph, but the worst of the war still lies ahead.  

Seliph: Mm. And yet, I’ve so much incredible talent fighting by my side! With such amazing men and women with me, I know no challenge will be too great!

(I kind of morbidly wonder what he says if you let everyone die except him at this point.)

Lewyn: Yeah… you’ll all do just fine, Seliph.

 *whew* Well. Thank you for being chill about this for once, Lewyn.  I enjoy you more when you aren’t bitching at me.  Now then, see you all next week when… *shudder*

When Blume calls in… … … …

Her.

Resets: 24. It’s all downhill from here, folks.

Part 20

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Exalted Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War/Thracia 776, Part 3

Fates | Awakening | Path of Radiance/Radiant Dawn | Sacred Stones | Binding Blade/Blazing Sword | Genealogy of the Holy War/Thracia 776 part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6, part 7 | Gaiden/Echoes: Shadows of Valentia | Dark Dragon/Shadow Dragon 

Spoilers for Genealogy of the Holy War in the Stories section, and a bit in talking about the characters. All are under the cut.

The Tordo bloodline

Tailtu/Tailto/Tiltyu/Taillte = Ragara Tailtu, Fire Aspect

Arthur = Ragara Arthur, Air Aspect

Tine/Tinny/Teeny/Tinni= Ragara Tinny, Earth Aspect

The Forseti bloodline

Lewyn/Levin = Ledaal Lewyn, Air Aspect

Ced/Sety = Ledaal Ced, Air Aspect

Fee/Phee = Ledaal Fee, Air Aspect

The Rationale

In my initial placements of Houses and Holy lines, I had Tordo as House Cynis. mostly because what I knew of them at the time was that they were a potentially decadent imperial line that did very bad things. However, @demoiselledefortune told me about a different family that ended up doing awfuller things, so they earned the Cynis name, see Part 4 when it comes out. That left me floundering for what House to give them again, and I knew that I could not give the Tordo line House Nellens or House Iselsi. That left Ragara, and I do believe it fits ultimately, with a little squeezing. Ragara is uniquely placed as being the “banker” Great House, and the Tordo Line, with their holdings and support of Alvis, came out as the second most powerful noble house in GotHW’s empire.  

Placing the Foresti line as House Ledaal was something of a process of elimination. Given that the holy weapon of Forseti was a tome of powerful wind magic, I knew I wanted an Air aspected Great House for them. This narrowed down my choices to House Tepet and House Ledaal. However, I had plans with House Tepet and equating it to the sibling lines of Noba and Dain, which left House Ledaal. That all the members of the Forseti Line (plus one from Tordo’s) ended up being Air Aspects as well was beautiful happenstance.

This part of the Exalted Emblem series was almost going to be a full “all Air Aspect, All the time” post. It ended up not happening becuase, despite their affinity for Thunder magic and thunder’s association with Air in Exalted, it did not fit Tailtu or her daughter, Tinny. However, it fit her son, Arthur, and the whole Forseti pack very well. On the one hand, there’s the surface reasons: Lewyn, Ced, and Arthur all focus on wind magic in the game, Fee is a Pegasus Knight, a flying mounted unit. Easy associations. Getting into the nitty gritty of their personal journeys are that they are all wanderers of some stripe. Arthur and Fee  enter together becuase She’s searching for her brother, and Arthur is searching for family, Lewyn regularly gads about as a traveling bard, hiding his royal heritage, and Ced left home to find his father, Lewyn, and ended up distracted by becoming a hero. The final nail in the choice for Arthur is also, despite how soft and gentle he look in the art, has a very stormy personality, prone to not giving a fuck about people that aren’t his own.

For Tailtu and Tinny, I turned more to their personalities than their power sets. Tailtu is a vivacious young woman who is able to power through traumatic events until her fire is so suddenly doused through the torture Hilda inflicts on her. That is also why Tailtu is Fire rather than Earth. Fire can be a bright, devastating, blaze, but it can also be put out with the right circumstances and tools. For Tinny as Earth, I could make a poetic motion about how she is the ash left behind in the wake of her mother’s protective bonfire, but that is not the only reason. Thunder is her element, and you can also make equations of the booming sound to the earth clapping it’s hands together. For her personality, one should give Tinny props for being able to remain steadfast while being abused by her aunt and uncle, and living long enough to get out from under their thumbs. 

The Stories

For people reading this who are more familiar with Exalted, you might remember the story of Sesus Rafara as detailed in “Aspect Book: Fire” from First Edition. For those who aren’t, it explains that the most defining moment of Rafara’s childhood was when her mother threw her favorite nannies into the sea to be eaten alive by sharks. She nearly threw Rafara overboard as well, except that Rafara exalted. So take that, up another few notches, and you got what happens with Tinny and Tailtu that lead up to Tailtu being driven to suicide/being murdered. 

One of the things that can happen in Exalted, is that a person can make a deal with a demon for power, becoming an Akuma. However, though the person would get a giant leap in power, they also would lose their self-determination. Given that in many ways gods and demons are mirrors of each other, there could be a way that a god could give a human a similar investiture of power. So let’s say that it happens when a person is near death, and we would have the set up for what happens to Lewyn between the two halves of GotHW. And the reason for doing it as a god version of Akuma is, since he’s already exalted, he can’t really be chosen to be an exigent for some god of winds.

Ced and Fee have a pretty interesting mini hero’s story for their personal arcs. They leave home to find other people - Ced to find their father, Fee to find Ced - but they get distracted by joining Seliph’s army as it turns from mere rebellion to a holy crusade, and them Crusaders in that war. Other complications include the sheer amount of resentment that they hold for Lewyn/their father, and how that effects them emotionally while still being there. 

[lotrmusical]

hi!!! throwback: holly short for the headcanon!!!

GOOD

sexuality headcanon: bi

otp: holly/commander vinyaya has been my number one favorite thing for holly for EVER and it’s never like... relevant to anything so i never bring it up but it’s GOOD

brotp: ARTEMIS, butler, mulch, juliet, foaly

notp: i love holly and i love artemis but holly/artemis is not something i need

the first headcanon that pops into my head: she and artemis held weekly movie nights up until the time she made artemis watch the entire hill of taillte trilogy with her because he was irritating her and she thought he’d hate it but he actually got really into it and she kept trying to nap during the movie and being woken up by artemis going ‘fascinating’ and it was like trying to watch a movie with no. 1 or something, Honestly, biggest mistake of her professional career

one way in which i relate to this character: exasperation

one thing that gives me second hand embarrassment about this character: honestly nothing i love her

cinnamon roll or problematic fave?: cinnamon roll

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fecipher twitter, 20-4-2017: "Alster-Bound Mage, Arthur" and "Heir of a War Mage, Arthur"

"My long-lost sister is still alive!" Holding that truth in his heart, the youth Arthur is resolved to find her, no matter how far away it takes him. His destination is the faraway city of Alster. All to meet one who shares his blood... His sister, fellow inheritor of the blood of his mother, the war-mage Taillte! (Illust. Miyuki Asajima)

more fire emblem cipher series 8 translations!

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If you're doing the character writing meme, Azelle?

send me a character i’ve written & i’ll tell you the top 3 to 5 concepts i keep in mind while writing them.

1) Insecurities vs Standards. Azelle is insecure and lovelorn but he has limits and standards. For instance, I firmly believe that as much as Azelle believes he loves Edain at the outset, he wants her to truly love him back and doesn’t want any false pretenses and certainly doesn’t want a pity f***. If he can’t win Edain on his own merits, he’s gonna move on. And most likely, he does. Compare this to Arvis and his relationship with DeeDee, yeah.

2) He’s kind of an Eternal Loser (I wrote a whole ‘fic about this conceit) but not really? That moment where he tells Taillte that he’d have doubts about anyone who’d kill their own father, even if that father is an known murderer and traitor, is a real moment of self-definition for Azelle to me. He has his own moral compass and intends to hold the people he loves to it as best he can. The same thing would drive him to confront Arvis post-Belhalla should he survive that long.

3) Bros. I love his friendship with Lex and the fact that he has such a good friend says a lot about Azelle. Yeah, it’s two Black Sheep bonding, but still.

Basically Azelle is an admirable if insecure young man in a world that doesn’t want let people like him stick around. Poor guy.

[jadesnap]

All of Lewyn's talks with his daughters are sad. Fee's is dramatic due to not forgiving her father for never being with his family, Lene's is bittersweet for never knowing her parents but finding comfort that they love her, and Tinny is the most tragic because... well remember her situation? Go read that version if you can.

IM GETTIN TO IT I GOTTA GET EM ALL EVENTUALLY!!! i did levinferry first and its gonna kill me when i have to do taillte/levin