#the Jailer

[romarisea]

Sylvia Plath, from “The Jailer.”

[somecrimsondream]

They stole Maurice...

[bisexualenbyblueberry]

It's not you it's the tdp characters who are most likely all dead by now that have the most insanely beautiful character design you've ever seen

[raylatdp-astridhttyd]

S5 credit art without words Pt 1

Part 2: https://www.tumblr.com/raylatdp-astridhttyd/725032471557734400/s5-credits-without-words-p2?source=share

[bubbasbubblebutt]

MORE DISNEY PRINCESSES AND DBD KILLERS FOR MY SOUL

[the-oracles-maw]

The Entity: are you seriously hunting survivors by yourself?

Tarhos: Nah I’m with mY BOYYYYYYYYYYYYYS

*The faithful three cheering* *Alejandro screeching* *war horn*

[drawingdeamon]

hows about that new chapter

[its-leethee]

tdp jailer cosplay part 3 of 3 - bracers, shirt, and finished

drafting/prototype - used up the last of my white eva foam from my monkie kid dragon sword project. glad that i made a practice one first; too many fiddly cuts in the first version. simplified the design and swapped to black eva for the final

i got a heat gun and ohhh i noticed right away how much easier it made shaping the foam (vs my hair dryer, lol). being able to heat-seal the foam properly also reduced how many coats of plasti dip and paint were needed to finish.

painted the bit with brass leafing paint and added velcro between the overlap to make them removable.

shirt and accessories: not much exciting to add here:

for the shirt, i altered two large t-shirts (two so i'd have enough fabric; a cost-saving but not a time-saving shortcut) - added a standing collar, an invisible zipper down the front, darts on the back, and the crennelated motif to the bottom edge.

and two belts, because they're essential xadian fashion.

this was my hobby part-time-job life fun little project that consumed me for the past three months....how many hours actually? hahaha i'd tell you but then i'd have to trap you in a magical prison for three hundred years

part 1 part 2

[kradogsrats]

Thinking about the Jailer a while back and finally sat down to do the research that would let me articulate what exactly is going on with her design:

My brain initially glazed over the pattern at the edge of her cowl (and also on the lower edges of her coat, as we see in the other art) as standard gear or crenelation pattern that had parts frayed or worn down. In my defense, I think I was primarily thrown by the inclusion of the visible stitches on the cowl, which add a "worn out" appearance.

Interestingly, while I had thought there were more instances of crenelation motifs present in Harrow, Callum, and Ezran's designs, it actually only appears in the trim on Sarai's skirt:

Anyway, after looking more closely at the Jailer over time, I realized that... that's not accurate. The TDP artists aren't that lazy—those designs are geometric and uneven for a reason. Here's the reason:

It's a motif of (and here's where I had to do research) the bit of a warded key.

I found a really great post about faux-medieval locks and lockpicking vs. actual medieval locks and lockpicking (i.e. what's in ever Elder Scrolls game ever), but a quick summary: a ward or warded lock is a lock that is designed to allow only a specifically-patterned key to turn in the lock to open it. This is similar but subtly different from lever locks, which are still used in modern applications: lever locks use the pattern cut into the bit of the key to shift a series of levers into place that otherwise prevent the bolt from moving, similar to how pin tumbler locks raise a series of pins into alignment. Warded locks, on the other hand, don't actually have anything that prevents the bolt itself from being moved, but instead have a pattern of physical barriers inside the lock that prevent the key itself from being turned unless the pattern on the bit matches up with them. So you sometimes got stuff like this:

Anyway, most of the antique keys you see are probably for lever locks, since those were invented in 1778, are significantly more secure, and generally look a lot simpler in their bit shape.

The problem with the warded lock as a concept is that if you can get to the part that moves the bolt, there's nothing at all to stop you from moving it. Enter the skeleton key—which, contrary to popular belief, is not just any old-looking key. A skeleton key is capable of opening more than one lock, usually a warded lock, by essentially bypassing the wards. For example, the skeleton key on the right here would be able to open the warded locks for both keys on the left:

Something like this seems to be a pretty common skeleton key set for some kinds of modern padlocks:

hmmmmMMMMMmmmm

[sthormiiii]

you know what this fandom needs more of?? JAILER FANART. her and the orphan queen cared about each other bc i say so !!

(tdp just give me her canon color palette pls)

oh, and she hates aaravos <3

(shes stabbing him with the nova blade, its psrt of an au but i like it a lot 😙)

+ her in a suit just because....

srsly tho where r all my jailer lovers at!! (...i made up her personality, she appears for like two seconds in the whole show...will that stop me from drawing her? hell no !!!)

[mintcrows]

4 blokes that do fuck all

[thorne-antics]

I just think she's neat :)

(Photos from end credits of s4ep4 and s5ep5)

[raayllum]

so we know the Jailer was a human mage, but we don't know whether she practiced dark magic, primal magic, or both huh?

[flowerbloom-arts]

Hemulgust day 9

“Deep in his heart stirred a faint, unhemulic memory of his childhood.”

[renaultmograine]

The Jailer: has to rip out the souls of people to control them to any degree of success, and even when their soul is 99% destroyed they still find a way to resist rather easy to break from his grasp.

Onyxia: put on a necklace and a lovely dress and men started killing each other over an invented issue.

[self-spaghettification]

today i realize the one on the right is the orphan queen

I MAY BE STUPID

i cant tell u how many times i was genuinely wondering who that was OOPS