#the eternal champion

[trickstarbrave]

funny concept in my brain: nerevar reborn with all of his memories. but theyre not in morrowind or being shipped off to morrowind. theyre the eternal champion. they have no fucking clue whats been going on in morrowind for the most part. they see dunmer and flip out. start reading. hear about the mysterious "tribunal" and think ayem, seht, and vehk have achieved immortality and have been pulling a prank on their worshipers (mephala would find it funny hence why they think the tribunal havent been smited)

gets to morrowind for that fucking staff. is found trying to cross the ghost fence illegally and isnt a pilgrim either. eventually through a series of mishaps ends up in front of vivec, and they just treat vivec with the same casualness as before all the godhood shit.

vivec: so you're here to fulfill azura's prophecy then i take it? champion: huh? prophecy? what prophecy? champion: btw is voryn also still alive? i imagine not considering all that happened at red mountain but im just curious. i see you have wraithguard and you're immortal from that he might be too considering he was fucking with the tools vivec: vivec: oh wow you really dont have any idea whats going on do you

[luckthebard]

VAX???????? WTF!?

[half-giant]

"Is Harrowhark the First an Elric?" The most regular thread in the history of forums, held back from its potential by not enough people reading the Eternal Champion books.

[doctor-disc0]

Meet Ingar the Altmer Mage. So far, he's a dumbass scaredy-cat who runs away when he hears goblin noises. He also nearly died to a goblin. The goblin was alone.

But! He found an enchanted belt! Yay! Now, instead of enemies having a +10 to hit him, they have a +6! So he's slightly less likely to die now. He'll still probably piss his pants when he sees a rat, though.

Your Eternal Champion, everyone.

[tamrielli]

This one goes out to all the two arena fans!

[rels-tenim]

The heroes of The Elder Scrolls (according to promotional materials) have been transformed into little plushies! Which one are you taking home?

Other plushies here:

Set 1 (Oblivion NPCs) Set 2 (Assorted TES)

Set 3 (Assorted TES) Set 4 (ESO NPCs)

Stickers

[nival-art]

Let’s dance!

[retrocatastrophy]

Spoilers about the champions' death under cut, but I had to do this

Elric - dies a tragic and nearly pathetic death

Erekose - dies to fulfil his destiny, quite epic and satisfying to an extent

Hawkmoon - I lived, bitch

Corum - gets hit in the head with an irish brainball

[okayfinethisismyinuyashablog]

Inuyasha - Chapter 16 of 559...

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Sesshomaru is lovingly gazing at Tessaiga and thinking of all the demons he can kill with this sword.

BUT OH HO HO WHAT'S THIS?!?! Tessaiga's barrier has rejected Sesshomaru and the sword won't come out!

Inuyasha arrives on the scene and goes after Sesshomaru. Sesshomaru taunts Inuyasha about wanting the sword. Myoga, however, determines that Sesshomaru could not pull the sword out himself!

Inuyasha, however, does not give a shit about this sword. (This is probably the LAST time we're going to be able to say that.)

At first, Inuyasha tries to fight Sesshomaru in hand-to-hand combat, but Kagome's reasoning on why Inuyasha should take the damn sword already wins Inuyasha over.

While Inuyasha can GRAB the sword and hold onto it, it still won't budge.

Myoga Squash Count: 4

Sesshomaru goes after Inuyasha while Kagome goes to prevent Jaken from aiding Sesshomaru. Jaken throws her off of him and she grabbs Tessaiga and accidentally...pulls the sword out of the stone.

So, Sesshomaru wants Tessaiga, but can't touch it. Inuyasha doesn't care about Tessaiga and CAN touch it, but can't take it. Kagome can touch AND take Tessaiga, but can't use it. I love how everyone has a completely different relationship to this word, and the sword also wants what it wants.

So, this is a tangent...

I'm not recommending you actually read the Elric of Melnibone books because I don't think they're actually that good, but if you are familiar with them, I think that Elric and Sesshomaru share a lot of physical traits, as well as having a lot of the same characteristics. Elric is an albino with white hair, he's royalty, he has a feud going with his cousin Yyrkoon, AND these two cousins fight over two demonic swords (Stormbringer and Mournblade). (Yyrkoon is a total bastard and is nothing like Inuyasha, btw.) There are a lot of differences, since the two demon swords in the Elric stories are bad news, while the two demon swords in Inuyasha (Tessaiga and Tenseiga) are good swords, but they also have a lot of things in common. The Elric swords can suck souls into them. The Inuyasha swords can suck demonic powers into them. Also, Elric of Melnibone was big in Japan in the 70s because Yoshitaka Amano did the illustrations for the books' release. I think it would be very interesting to see how these stories percolated in the Japanese imagination and showed up in the 80s and 90s in other stories.

Also, Michael Moorcock, the guy who wrote the Elric books, has this idea of The Eternal Champion and The Eternal Consort. The Eternal Champion is reborn again and again and can never truly die, and he/she will always fall in love with The Eternal Consort, who is reborn again and again, and their love every time is thoroughly doomed. (Hmm...reincarnation and doomed love... Interesting...)

Anyway, Elric of Melnibone has a lot of interesting and cool ideas, but at the end of the day, the stories are not well written and it seems like the author kind of wants to just write the same story over and over, so he made a multiverse where he can justify writing the same story over and over. I mean, do I read fanfiction about two idiots falling in love over and over and over again? Yes. But is the fanfiction more interesting and better written than most of Moorcock's stuff? Also yes.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAANYWAY, yeah.

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[ploppymeep]

dooble..

[puppetwoman17]

Magic Billy headcanon coming through!

You know all those comics where magic is taken away from its users? And most of them are really weak or get constant headaches?

Yeah, I decided to crank it up cause Billy full on dies. As in he will drop to the floor and his body becomes a husk. There’s not even a little memory twitch from his fingers. The boy is GONE.

Now, I’m thinking this could be because when someone is chosen to be the Champion, their soul is automatically turned into magic. They’re still a person, but they’re kind of like a puppet. This could be a thing before they’re born, like a destiny sort of thing, or immediately when they speak Shazam’s name the first time.

Whichever ones the case doesn’t matter tho, cause Billy knows it. He feels how different his soul is. This isn’t a commonly known thing tho. No one in the magic community knows this because the details are hush hush.

So imagine, someone(maybe Waller, maybe Luthor, cause apparently anyone can just waltz into the rock 🙄), finds a way to take magic away, whether it’s by subjugation of the rock or some kind of magic suction spell. Doctor Fate wilts in his seat, not able to talk as much. Zatanna, Giovanni, Constantine, Xanadu, Specter, what have you, they all hold their heads and do their best to keep standing up—

Billy falls to the floor. He’s not blinking. He’s not breathing. He’s not speaking. He’s not moving. The boy’s just gone.

Diana falls to the floor to cradle his head in her lap, feeling for a pulse, lightly slapping him to wake him up.

Clark is motionless standing up. He says slowly and with dreading horror:I can’t hear his heartbeat.

This jumps the heroes into a frenzy. The magic users go through the books they have on the Champion; his duties, research on the RoE, etc. There’s nothing on this. Nothing at all.

The rest of the League put him in the medbay immediately, trying to see if there’s anything normal that they can do. But without a heartbeat, their options are limited.

Some time later, they decide to split. A larger team will do what they can to bring Magic back, and the rest will stay at the Watchtower. The magic users already suspect that this has something to do with Magic anyway, so it’s a win win.

It takes a couple days, but magic is returned to its users and the worlds at large. Billy jolts awake in his bed to a bunch of hysterical heroes and his first words are: how’s the Rock?

Yeah, the JL is not happy. They want an explanation. Surprisingly, the magic users do too.

Billy tells them with hesitant eyes, about his soul, about how he is essentially nothing without magic. He is magic, as closely related to the center of it(RoE) as anything else.

Unfortunately, this only seems to aggravate his friends. Now he’s apparently convinced them that he’s a puppet for forces beyond their reach and a slave to the system, which is pretty funny cause he’s already a slave to the foster system and he is, in fact, one of those “forces behind their reach”.

Even the magic users are uneasy about this, which says a lot cause whenever Billy tells the league something hair-raising, they just nod their heads.

Billy is not left alone for the next few weeks. It’s torture.

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 128

Everything was gone. But it had been gone for a long time. Cities crumbling to dust under the march of time and under the battering of the weakening sun. Everyone had long since passed into the realm of the dead, and he had long since retreated from the land of the living as he aged, growing larger amidst Time’s coils. 

He’d long since stopped being known as Danny to most, his true Name cradled in his core as it grew in power and importance with his own primordial ascendence. Others called him by just as many names as Clockwork, if not more as his planets grew life, his galaxies cultivating their own beings into existence. 

To some he was a creator, the bringer of life itself. To others he was destruction, the end of all. So many names, so many even coming close to his Name, each cradled gently by his core. 

He was Space, he was stardust, he was a blackhole, the far off galaxies, newborn stars forming in his hands and dying with a blink. Galaxies dancing in his hair, what was, what will be, splintering into planes amidst his strands of hair. 

He was Balance, chaos and order dancing together on a tightrope twisting through existence. He was Phantom, a name whispered amidst the Realms as a guardian, a protector, and yet a hunter, a destroyer at once. 

He was a Brother, a Father, an Uncle, a Son. He was many things, and that was fine with him, but even if hypothetically he should be impartial, he would freely admit he had favorites. Danielle, his little Moon, his first Daughter and her children of Krypton. Dan, his raging Sun, his Son and his little Laughing Magicians. Clockwork, his Father of Time, and his Speedsters who raced through timelines like giggling toddlers, not really understanding but loved all the same. 

His dear Sister’s children, her Ma'aleca'andrans and Atlanteans she tenderly cradled and protected as long as she could before sleep overtook her. His dear Tucker’s Champions, the children of Magic lost and alone. His dear Sam’s children of Lazarus, dancing with blades and between life and death. 

Their dear children that came from all of their blood. The Lords of Chaos, of Order, entire Cities brought to life by their magic, entire planets whose heartbeats pulsed with their own. 

Everything of what they had once been was gone. And it had been gone for a long time. But they were all still here. For Death was just as much a beginning, as it was the end. 

[thenaturalfriends]

Delightful to see Sam Campbell art pop up on Taskmaster this week.

[phoenixcatch7]

Cap should be allowed to teleport to the rock with his transformation lightning. I mean that's where it's coming from, after all.

He would use it to get out of so many situations XD.

Batman: captain, do you have a minute to stay after this meeting?

Billy, going to be late for school if he doesn't hup to: um haha sorry the wizard wants me back at the rock I'm already pushing it hahaSHAXAM

The wizard, looking up from his orb: *raises an eyebrow*

Cap, transforming back with more lightning and rushing for his bag: I'm sorry I'm sorry Mrs Ermine is going to KILL me if I'm late again this week!

The wizard, to his rapidly retreating back: this is the seventh time this month you've used me as an excuse.

Billy, halfway down the hall of sins, voice echoing: I said I'm sorrrryyyyyyy!!

Batman, left all the way on the watchtower: :|

[cokefien]

Sorry for the inactivity !

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