#the war of dwarves and dragons

[mrkida-art]

Memories of blood and bone

I wanted to make a more symbolic piece focusing on a young King Thrór. He lived through the war of dwarves and dragons and also likely saw his little brother and father be slain by cold drakes. He became one of the youngest known Kings of the dwarves, and he led his people away from this carnage to resettle elsewhere. His new settlement? Erebor. His story is one of the saddest of all dwarves in the legendarium, because ultimately he would lose everything to dragons once again.

[3gremlins]

me: i care less about dragon age now, it's been almost decade, i am tired.

*a few crumbs of dragon age news*

THE BEACONS ARE LIT! GONDOR THEDAS CALLS FOR AID DISCOURSE!

[mangamithedragon]

Brok and Sindri (God of War 2018)

[peppermintgrim]

*blows a kiss to my computer* this one's for you, Aldith Sereda Wilhelmine Aeducan, kinslayer & kingmaker

[missriggie]

What Was Stolen - Post Veilguard Fanfiction

Rookanis | Lords of Fortune | Slow Burn | Hinted DreadRook | Pirate Adventure

A year or so after the final blight, Thedas is trudging through its tumultuous path to recovery. Syvillia 'Rook' Laidir has left the Lighthouse and returned to treasure hunting with the Lords of Fortune, flitting about Rivain with her good friend Taash and hoping to put the past behind her. Ida and her boys attack the Alienage on the suspicion that the Geldauran clan are hiding there. Upon activating the Syphon Stone, Ida hears whispers warning her that the path she walks is not what it appears, her mind thrust into the final memories of someone she loved - the reason she began this journey of vengeance and glory for the dwarves. Doubt creeps in when the she cannot tell the difference between devastation within these memories and the reality she created in front of her. Meanwhile, Rook and Lucanis share a coffee in a suite at the Perfumed Spring. As they catch up on their year apart from each other, it becomes obvious to her that more must to be done to repair their relationship.

[orteil42]

we are in dire need of some new media trend. we've done pirates, we've done cowboys; we've gone through two whole zombie revivals. aliens and space themes have basically been a constant since at least the 1950s, as have robots and evil AIs. we went pretty heavy on vampires for a while. we've also done dinosaurs, ninjas, musicals, wizards, sea creatures, ancient rome, ancient egypt, middle ages out the wazoo, entirely too much world war II, we're currently overdosing on our superhero phase, we've done monsters (misunderstood), monsters (radioactive), fake guy in the real world, real guy travels to fake world, caves & mining, vikings, what if you were really small, genre parody as a genre, sand, New York, time travel, something racist goes down in the jungle, neurodivergent detective, buddy cops, crooked cops, gangsters, bank heists in particular, kid has powers, revolt against the corporate world, portals, social insects, dragons, the British, global apocalypse, martial arts, roadtrip as self-discovery, Jesus, clones, clowns, babysitting goes wrong, demonic possession, ghosts of all kinds, talking animals, fucking with the stock market, restaurant ownership, dwarves, planes, and spies. where do we go from here. what's our next big thing

[maegalkarven]

Probably unpopular opinion, but The Ranger Achieves series is better than The Echoes saga.

Idc about all these elves and mages and young greycoats falling in love with elves, and the plot, and evil elf rising, and the other evil elf serving the Main Evil elf scheming in the Nightfall-

I just care about Asher and whatever fuckery is going on with him at the moment.

[probablybadrpgideas]

Mean Insults By Species

Human: "Hey, how's scrolling tumblr rather than improving your life going?"

Elves: "In the cycles of the moon above the dew-dropped forest, where the creek runs with silver and gold, a deer sings to the song of dreams" (your guess is as good as mine, but the one elf I said this to turned pale and ran off crying.)

Dwarves: "You look like the kind of fool who'd mistake metamorphosed limestone for metamorphosed dolostone!" (This exact phrase caused three clan-destroying wars throughout dwarven history)

Halflings: "Wow, I can't believe you spend your nights crawling into two dirty holes."

Gnomes: "You law-abiding tax returner!"

Orcs: "I've got half a mind to not beat the crap out of you right now, asshole!" (Orcs tend to enjoy fighting a lot)

Teiflings: "Your eyes barely look like limpid tears and you don't even look half related to Gerard Way!"

Dragons: "I..er..your hairstyle is...subpar and your mother is...above average weight... for her age and social class!" (Yeah, they don't get a lot of practice, what with generally responding to social difficulties with firebreath. Act offended anyway, if you know what's good for you.)

[thegreatyin]

guild wars is an insane setting because it's a normal fantasy world but also the closest elf analogue that exists is humanity. what people would at first glance assume to be ""elves"" are actually just vaguely humanoid plant monsters made to serve an unbelievably ancient god-dragon that's also a living jungle and also all of the plant people are at maximum 25 years old because their entire species are basically collectively babies in terms of how long they've existed in-universe. also the orcs are giant cat people. the gnomes are rats. the dwarves are normal but also they're steadily going extinct and also all living rock people now. nobody even knows what a horse is

[mrkida-art]

Dwarf sisters from Ered Mithrin

[dragonagecinema]

What Veilguard Could Have Been

Very saddened to hear the news about Bioware. As much as I was disappointed with Dragon Age The Veilguard, it was a fun game and I did not wish for the series to end. That being said, for those of you who haven't seen the artbook, I want to share the initial ideas and concepts of the team behind the game. Here's what Veilguard could have and should have been.

Characters from Previous Games

Morrigan, Dorian and Isabela were supposed to be our advisors. They also had better outfits.

Sten, Cole and Shale were some other characters featured in the artbook. An early idea for Cole was to act as a compassionate voice to Solas.

The Divine was supposed to make an appearance, sending out ships to hunt Solas in the hopes that his capture will restore peace to Thedas.

We were supposed to receive assignments from the Inquisitor.

Another idea was for us to return to the Fade and rescue whoever was left behind in Inquisition.

Solas as a True Leader

Elves from all over Thedas were supposed to answer Solas' call, as presented in the ending screens of Inquisition.

Solas' appearance was supposed to be more of a surprise.

Solas was supposed to return like a regal figure out of the distant past.

Game Mechanics

The game was focused more on espionage and sneaking around. We were supposed to go on cool missions, like infiltrating the Archon's throne room.

Another idea was for us to ride adult griffons, hunting dragons.

Or to go on secret missions in Tevinter, accurately depicted here with slaves and slavers.

Story and Setting

The dwarves were supposed to be fleeing the underground by the thousands. Cause is left unknown.

We were supposed to go to Par Vollen, the home of the Qunari.

Companions had the option to betray us.

We were supposed to go in disguise to a ball in the Necropolis.

Another idea was for Solas to interrupt our mission, wiping half of our team off the board and forcing us to make an unlikely alliance.

Solas was supposed to summon a Titan in the final battle.

We were supposed to get a happy ending with our love interests.

Headquarters

And last but not least, our base was first supposed to be a ship, sailing to all the places we would visit.

We would have a war table room, similar to Inquisition.

The ship could get stolen and we would have to get it back.

However, thematically, boats don't line up with the spy theme. They're too easy to spot and attack. So the ship was transformed into a submarine.

The submarine was already named The Dumat, after an Archdemon.

These are just the parts I found most interesting from the artbook, which has more than 200 pages. I wonder who saw all these ideas and went nah, let's scrap them. I guess we'll never know.

[threeravenspublishing]

What Do You Love To Do In the Summer?

We drove out to visit family yesterday and ran into a bunch of traffic, most headed to the beach based on direction and the number of kayaks and surfboards we saw strapped to the roofs of the cars. Beach and pool season is definitely upon us in full force! I’d be the one under the umbrella, but where’s the stack of books? What do you like to do in the summer? Barbecues, time at the beach or in…

[rana-temporaria]

I absolutely love love love the horror of late stage beleriand

Like at this point Morgoth has taken over literally everywhere except the haven of Sirion and the isle of Balar

The fruit is poisoned, rotten, or full of viscera

Animals are unnaturally aggressive and sauron''s wolves prowl through the land

Small ponds through beleriand are clear enough and look safe, even if you boil it you will die if you drink from these ponds

The land itself has been corrupted by Morgoth's evil, maybe beleriand itself is a thrall

Held captive and used against the very people it used to shelter

Nargothrond which was once a home for elves and dwarves now lies under a dragon's curse

Doriath that was safe in Melian's veil and the last place free of Morgoth's evil is now populated by fell spirits, Menegroth's once beautiful halls are now empty except for invasive plants and the glowing eyes of wraiths

Gondolin the secret city that hid away from war and bloodshed is burned

Himring which defended the frozen north is used as a fortress for the Enemy

The pools of ivrin once protected by ulmo now lie defiled by glaurung

The plants once foraged for healing now cause painful deaths and sickness

Beleriand itself is captured and controlled

[sesamenom]

highlights from Hobbit-Era Worldbuilding:

according to tolkiengateway these were-worms are never again mentioned (occupying a similar mythological space as mermaids and turtle-fish and dumbledors/hummerhorns), and the Last Desert is in fact the Gobi Desert

dragons established a breeding population sometime between the end of the War of Wrath and the beginning of the Hobbit

dragons have an innate sense of the market value of precious metals

one troll has a talking purse, which is also never again mentioned

The entirety of the moon-letters?? and also the riddle-game

lol bilbo

gollum has pockets, apparently

okay so at this point in the lore chances are this is either irrelevant or metaphorical. but imagine if gollum survived 500 yrs with the ring because he randomly has a fire-fea, like some weird ancient hobbit equivalent of feanor

gandalf's "also naughty little boys that play with fire get punished" sounds very much like it was tacked on there as part of the bedtime story edition lol.

the Eagles regularly random shepherds' flocks

matches exist and are commonly in use, except for by dwarves

eagle pleasantries

the Lord of the Eagles might not be gwaihir on account of the lack of a crown in gwaihir's later descriptions

forget bombadil, where did beorn come from. he's probably related to the tompolle dancing bears of numenor, but where did *those* bears come from. and who are these ancient giants (the thunder-battlers?)

beorn's weird dogs

how many dancing-bear skin-changers are there in rhovanion?? or is beorn just hosting dance parties with regular bears

The sleep river and eyes and white deer are probably the mirkwood equivalent of the nan dungortheb too-many-ainur-in-one-place weirdness

Thingol mention!

also "his people neither mined nor worked metals or jewels, nor did they bother much with trade or with tilling the earth." what was doriath even doing

dragons do the dolphin sleep thing

...so this bit of dragon etiquette is definitely turin's fault

and come to think of it, the wearing-hoards-as-armor is definitely from azaghal stabbing glaurung

bilbo has coined a lot of proverbs

hey that was gandalf's original name. it's a noldorin/gnomish name now and not attributed to a numenorean, so was bladorthin like. gil galads successor or something.

i had forgotten how much this sounds like the Oath

lol

the Iron Hills dwarves have some sort of superfine maille?

sorry thorin, that's what you get for calling him a rat

imagine the Wars of Beleriand with added bilbo commentary

[felassan]

Dragon Age: The Veilguard spoilers under cut. (Concept art by Matt Rhodes)

Matt Rhodes: "Black Codex (2015) - 1/3 Dragon Age had an unreliable history by design. People had an imperfect view of the events that have shaped their world. However, from the very beginning of Dragon Age, there was a secret document refered to as The Black Codex. It held the true history of Thedas. This helped to steer the half-truths, misunderstandings, and lies that shaped the world. The story of the Veilguard was going to reveal so much actual truth, it meant the Black Codex could no longer be a secret. This series of illustrations was a way to explore the major events of Thedas' history, so that we could easily refer to them when designing murals, costumes, architecture, etc... Beat boards like this were meant to be "single frame storyboards" to quickly communicate a big idea. 1) Titans watch over their peaceful garden 2) Dwarves tend to the Titans, like helpful bacteria. The spirits begin to envy their form. 3) The first spirits use Titan material to craft bodies for themselves, becoming the first elves. 4) The titans and elves wage terrible magical war against each other. It only ends when Solas finds a way to tranquilize the titans, severing their spirits from their bodies." [source]

Art by Matt Rhodes.

ArtStation filenames: Image 1 - Black Codex 1 - in the beginning Image 2 - Black Codex 2 - spirits desired corporeality Image 3 - Black Codex 3 - spirits made bodies Image 4 - Black Codex 4 - Solas tranquils Titans

[source]

[paper-mario-wiki]

donald trump as a jobber in the second episode of a seasonal isekai:

look at this guy. pathetic guy. WEAK guy. no mana. no armor. theyre letting anyone into D rank. i spoke to the guild lady, smart lady, she said she checked his mana and it was lower than anyone shes ever seen. im being honest. i went to the tavern and spoke to the dwarves who fought in the 100 year war. strong guys. tough guys. they always smell like dirt. they told me they saw this guy beat a green dragon. i said "this guy? this guy is weak. hes a wimp! i'll show em that this guy's not all that", and thats really what i still think.