#Dragon Lump

[zelly-raptor]

I've never played D'n'D ever but I did enjoy Honour Among Thieves was a Great Film! And Themberchaud OHH!! Themberchaud Is a Gorgeous lump of a Dragon

LISTEN.

I don't play DnD and I don't have any authority on how true to the game Honor Among Thieves was - but what I do know is that Themberchaud is my son, my everything, and the love of my life <3

[lae-zels]

The one you gravitate towards the first time playing any cRPGs. Included Pillars of Eternity races and Divinity Original Sin ones.

[merrybandofmurderers]

based on the results of my last poll, i wanna get the DETAILS of this situation

for male wardens vote here, for non-binary wardens vote here

please share your reasoning in the tags/notes, but keep any discourse about various characters or the ethics of the situation to yourself, thank you

[partially-controlled-chaos]

I love how Hezenkoss’ own personal purgatory is being stuck on a table and being forced to listen to 7 idiots of her arch rival ask her questions all day like she’s a magic 8 ball.

[soloragoldsun]

Just so we're perfectly clear, I'm not skipping DATV because "wHy arE tHEsE WOKE dEVs PuTTing TOP SURGERY SCARS in MYYYY FaNTAsy AHhhhHHHHH!!!" I'm skipping DATV because "Fuck Bioware for laying off their people without severance pay after getting what they needed from them, and fuck them for deciding to take away the choice-based carry-over narrative that has always been the PRIMARY DRAW of the Dragon Age franchise!"

Juuuuuust want to make sure that line is drawn.

[agirlking]

10 years for them to kill Varric, give Solas a fate worse than death, and reveal a big bad who apparently controlled everything in the series.

[sleepymarmot]

The news that we'd get to customize our Inquisitor in Veilguard inspired me to figure out Ghisharen's canonical appearance again.

DAI's own editor was, as usual, not very cooperative, but I remembered that I had a draft in the Dragon's Dogma 2 CC, and tried working on that. I'm actually satisfied with the result!

[sapphire-draw]

GATHERING MATERIALS ON BOTH GAMES: DQB1 Builder: (Carefully picking up branches, distinguishing between types of lumber and preserving the chunks, even colecting some foliage too) Malroth (DQB2): (Obliterating forest) W O O D I S W O O D .

[bees-bees-fear]

Leliana is voiced by an actual French actress, and is just speaking: wow this sounds so fake

Characters have actual real proportions, instead of hero proportions: wow this looks so weird

Characters converse like people with facets, instead of archetypes: wow this sounds so bad

Writers interact like actual human beings who make art and are inspired by feedback: wow this is so unprofessional

[satsuha]

me: my type is a fictional guy who inadvertently caused the mass slaughter of their organisation/community and blames themselves for it despite it really not being their fault at all. also cares too much about a family member

friend: ...that's really, really specific

[spacedoutwitch]

Dropping in at random on a Monday night because my arms are wack, but not quite as wack as my brain refusing to let me buy Chants of Sennaar.

[avernusreject]

One thing I like about is Veilguard is that you can create six different faction Rooks and theoretically there is nothing in universe that prevents them all from existing on the same time line during the events of the game (even if they aren't the protagonist).

Each character still can go through their exile from their faction, the deciding factor of who becomes the official Rook is just where Varric happens to be at the time. There's nothing stopping them from finding reconciliation with their factions on their own.

We know that companions can have relationships with faction NPCs (i.e. strife and emmrich), so whose to say they're romances and friendships still don't happen in the periphery. You can even go far enough to headcanon that during the events of Veilguard, those characters could be fighting alongside their given faction in the final battle.

[lionblaze03-02-art]

dude I cooked up trying out wof roblox finding out it was free to play. I got him stuck in the floor so many times it gave me a brilliant idea; that he just didn’t have them at all.

Introducing, Smog the legless skywing, the little wyrm, the man of the hour! I’m a little bit obsessed with him I kinda love him. The dude ever. He’s outwardly rude and shitty to most strangers (just repaying what they send his way <3) but can’t resist helping someone in need or danger. Generic hard ass protagonist with a heart of gold except he’s a dragon with no legs

[merrybandofmurderers]

based on the results of my last poll, i wanna get the DETAILS of this situation

for female wardens vote here, for non-binary wardens vote here

please share your reasoning in the tags/notes, but keep any discourse about various characters or the ethics of the situation to yourself, thank you

[a-book-of-creatures]

One of the notes on the sea serpent post had this to say and I think it’s a very good point!

I’d say it’s all in how you frame it. It’s the age-old question. Like, what is a dragon? Is it “any large mythical reptile”? Or is it “a mythical serpent from European folklore that originated in the Greek drakōn, itself almost certainly an exaggerated description of a python or other large snake”? The first description could include the Chinese long, the North American horned serpent, the South American boiúna, the Australian rainbow serpent… the second, meanwhile, is a lot more restrictive.

So, in this case, what is “the sea serpent”? If the description is “a serpent that lives in the sea”, then yes, Leviathan could indeed be one of the older versions.

However!

The legend of Leviathan is that of the chaos battle, the defeat of an older water or water-adjacent deity to create order out of chaos. This is derived from the likes of Lotan and Tiamat, and there’s a clear degradation of the concept, from chthonic deities gradually being demoted to dragons/serpents of chaos and eventually great beasts that inhabit our world. It’s complicated. Leviathan also sometimes has multiple heads, something which I don’t associate with sea serpents. Tangential but worth mentioning.

Serpents that live in the sea have existed for a long time. Laocoon and his sons were killed by them. Aelian mentions them. Jormungandr is a big serpent that lives in the sea.

But it was the Scandinavian sea serpent that created the modern conception of the sea serpent as a serpent that lives in the sea which exists, and can be seen. It precipitated the whole sea serpent craze. Sober eyewitnesses reported sea serpents from all over the world.

Also it is literally called “sea serpent”. Not Jormundandr or Leviathan or Tiamat or whathaveyou, but “sea serpent”, not a proper name but the name of an animal. The great Scandinavian sea serpent is, indeed, referred to as such (sjøorm).

It was Olaus Magnus’ account that created a mythic landscape in which just about every unfamiliar thing in the sea became a sea serpent, from decomposed whales to long strands of kelp

to large sea life towing marine debris

to skim feeding sei whales

to whale penises

to stranded oarfishes

to whales tangled in debris (or maybe just another whale penis)

So yes, Leviathan (and Jormungandr) precede the sea serpent, and could be considered the origins of the myth, I agree! But for a more restrictive definition, I would say the sea serpent as we know it was born with Olaus Magnus’ account.

[divine-vermin]

Saying hello to Fiore.