#Drazhar

[cursed-40k-thoughts]

What’s so funny about Drazhar?

He showed up one day, killed his way calmly into the main Incubi shrine in Commorragh, challenged the ruling Hierarch to a battle, killed them, bowed, and then took the job of sacred executioner for the entire order. All without saying a word.

In fact, he doesn't talk at all. He's never attempted to put himself in the role of a Klaivex or a Hierarch. He just wants to fight and murder interesting people. His name isn't even his name. "Drazhar" means living sword. The Incubi named him that and he didn't challenge it. All the Drukhari generally really like him, because he's impressive as fuck and spends his downtime... quietly vibing. Sometimes Incubi challenge him to fights. They die, he bows and goes back to mutely minding his own business. 1v3s some Custodes then wanders off to do Drazhar Things™.

The fact that the Phoenix Lord Arhra (because that's absolutely who he is) is just a very polite, mute threshing machine with a murder hyperfixation is fucking phenomenal and hilarious. I love him.

[wh40kgallery]

Drazhar vs Jain Zar

by Igor Sid

[neeps-peeps]

My wife’s Drukhari H.Q. - Drazhar

[grendel-menz]

wonder tales and cloud bridges

[taylorsterryart]

Edrehasivar, seventh of that name <3

[apollinaresart]

I read The Goblin Emperor last week and it lives in my head rent free now I guess

Csevet is a morning person. Maia… is not

[calaathmaza]

would you fuck your clone

ID: digital portraits of several characters from The Goblin Emperor, with captions from the “would you fuck your clone” poll meme. In order: Beshelar with a stern expression and the caption “I don’t want to fuck my clone because that would be gay sex and I’m not gay.” scribbled next to him with an arrow pointed at him are the words, “is gay.” Csoru smirking deviously with the caption, “I’m not gay, but I would actually totally fuck my clone.” scribbled next to her with an arrow pointed at her are the words, “also gay.” Vedero looking down at a book with the caption, “I’m gay, but I still don’t want to fuck my clone, that’s gross and weird.” Maia wringing his hands with a worried expression, captioned, “I would not have sex with my clone because what if my clone is evil.” Celehar looking tired and miserable with the caption, “I don’t want to fuck my clone because my self-loathing is THAT strong.” Csevet holding some papers looking self-satisfied and the caption, “I’d fuck my clone because who would know better how to fuck ME than ME?” Cala staring straight ahead with a blank expression and an unsettlingly wide smile captioned, “I’d totally do all sorts of weird things to my clone I’d be too embarrassed to ask someone else to do.” Csethiro with a fencing saber resting on one shoulder, captioned, “It’s basically the same as masturbating, right? So no big deal.” Telimezh, looking outraged and making an “x” with his arms, captioned, “It’s not the same as masturbating; it’d be like having sex with your twin. Wrong and bad!” Iäna smiling angelically, captioned, “Not only would I have sex with my clone, I’d probably make a bunch of clones and just get it on with all of them at once because that’s how pro-clone fucking I am.” Lord Berenar holding a glass of wine and smiling, captioned, “To be honest, fucking my clone has always been my fantasy.” end ID

BONUS:

ID: a sketch of Kiru rubbing her chin in deep thought, captioned, “would that count…?” end ID

[palabarian]

Someone be his friend for the love of the gods

[look-a-diversion]

Maia “Conflict Aversion” Drazhar aka emperor Edrehasivar VII, having determined that he cannot make everyone happy, deciding to make a decision that will make NO ONE happy and then immediately canceling all his appointments for the rest of the day so he can go to his room and panic about it is truly the biggest mood

[thesunlikehoney]

one thing about maia's characterization i find really fascinating is how a recurring source of anxiety for him is potentially having to have sex in front of his nohecharei, and more specifically in front of beshelar.

like the first time i read the book all i really clocked was how much of a teenager anxiety that is but after the fourth read it’s so-- it’s so fascinating and so sad because it’s not about sex at all it’s just that sex is where all of his complexes collide. maia is deeply embarrassed by his ignorance, he is incredibly ashamed of his appearance, and he feels suffocated by and resentful of his loss of privacy. he doesn’t mediate in front of his nohecharei because he worries they will think less of him, and now he is faced with a marriage he did not want to a woman who views their entire relationship as a duty and has to come to terms with the possibility of consummating that marriage in front of people whom he thinks not only do not like him as a person but do not approve of him as an emperor. like. just. holy shit.

maia cannot bear to be judged for his sexuality the same way he cannot bear to be judged for his spirituality. he experiences sexual desire but the act of sex itself is not something that he finds… sexy. he has very little sexual education, and thinks himself ugly and thinks everybody around him also finds him ugly. all that he anticipates from sex is embarrassment and shame and judgment, from his household and also from his partner. it's not about the sex just like it's not about the meditation it's about how every private and intimate thing in his life is now going to be on display to people he does not trust.

[heyitsrink]

Maia receiving his daily dose of court gossip from Csevet

[artemistartarus]

“our inmost and secret heart, which you ask us to bare to you, we wish to banish them as we were banished, to a cold and lonely house, in the charge of a man who hated us. And we wish them trapped there as we were trapped.'

'You consider that unjust, Serenity?'

'We consider it cruel,' Maia said. 'And we do not think that cruelty is ever just.'”

-Katherine Addison, The Goblin Emperor (The Goblin Emperor, #1)

I think about this quote a normal amount

[tralalalalally]

Some guys from the Goblin Emperor!

Maia Drazhar

Csevet Aisava

Thara Celehar (+ his prelate's braid)

[prawnlegs]

I keep seeing Goblin Emperor on my dash (and getting very nice tags on my other fan art) so I scanned these other Maias that have been kicking around in my sketchbook since March. I still haven't gotten around to reading the subsequent books, oops.

[suis-je-bovvered]

I finally managed to draw Maia in a way I'm happy with I'm so pleased

[waestlandbaby]

The way friendship is a central theme of the Goblin Emperor, the way Maia chose Cala and Beshelar as his two closest companions in a ritual that would have them in the place of his two closest friends. The way Cala's rebuke of Maia not being allowed to think of them as friends hurt him more than the attempted coup for his throne (and in fact) may have aided in Dazhis' betrayal, as Maia did not allow himself to know Dazhis. The way Cala and Beshelar and Telimezh and Kiru cared for Maia anyway, beyond their oath. The way the resolution of the story is Maia, acting for perhaps the first time as his own person under the title of Emperor and not as the person he knows he should be, declaring his care for Cala and Beshelar despite what he should feel and acknowledging their relationship as a unique kind of friendship. I love them all so much.