#Dundall

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Thank you @thatdoodlebug for endorsing my madness and giving this template to me.

[lacnunga]

even magical kings get a bit sleepy...

[merrymorningofmay]

actually. making my take into a post (og chart credit)

william: has a boss who is prone to random fits of whimsy that may end up with william suddenly in charge of a whole country OR in gruesome atrocities

thomas: can tolerate gruesome atrocities but is forever alienated from humanity and also his family doesn't love him

john: is actually very gender conforming but the gender he conforms to is previously unheard of and only he has it

[uskglass-mirror-house]

can't decide if the dude is Childermass, William, or Thomas, but!

credit to alterdiego7

[gotankgo]

«A double feature of Ginger and The Abductors plays the Dundale drive-in in East Dundee, Illinois November 16 1973»

[ssosoftfeather]

Fall In Jorvik

All the clothes and tack can be found in the global store

Hair can be found in Fort Pinta "Beauty on the beach"

The scar can be found in Dundall.

The preset is "Maple" by jamie.cloverglass on Instagram

[sleepy-delusional-dreamer]

It is a super interesting idea that Catherine might just be a random magician who somehow got known as the great magician of the Aureate age because Pale happened to summon her.

We do see that happen a freaking lot irl with historical figures and authors because they had family members or friends who tried to keep their works and memories alive so it is very likely that Pale, her student, mentioned her so much in his writing and kept talking about how amazing she was that everyone knew about her.

But if that is the case with Catherine, I wonder whether this also applies with Godbless and Stokesey. The fun of history, you never know lol.

But personally, from what I infer from the texts, I always interpret tha Godbless and Catherine were Uskglass’s students and Stokesey wasn’t taught by him. And while we know that Catherine had to love the Raven King from that small excerpt of her book in The Ladies of Grace Adieu, we never really see them interact. So I like to imagine that out of all the great magicians of the Aureate age, only Godbless could be truly considered a favorite of John Uskglass based on how he was the only one who understood the King well enough to comfort him after his sickness.

Thought dumping ends.

Actually, it doesn’t end, I need to dump more thoughts. Do we even know whether William and Thomas interacted with Catherine and like her or did they just treat her like a random magician who they happened to see around sometimes? Do we even know Thomas and William liked each other or were they just suffering coworkers? Do we even know Thomas was one of Uskglass’s favorite servants? Because in JSMN, it is mentioned that William was Uskglass’s favorite servant and that Thomas was Uskglass’s first human servant but it is never properly stated that Uskglass favored him particularly as a servant.

So it is kinda my headcanon that Thomas was left out of the Uskglass’s favorite servant group because he honestly wasn’t that good of a servant because he was a dashing type of knight who liked his adventures and fun but Uskglass just liked to have him around.

I am crazy about this book and this is not okay to me.

Me: it is really funny that we just assumed that Catherine of Winchester was Uskglass' fave/ friend/ lover/ etc. just by virtue of being the most famous female magician. In the text, it is stated that she taught Martin Pale, who was the first to write down his magical techniques and that is probably the main reason why she is remembered. Like she could have been one of the many average magicians Uskglass taught and Pale just happened to summon her ghost to teach him magic because it was easy, or because he came by her name in a moth-eaten manuscript, or because some random innkeeper told him casually about this one magician that had done magic in his hometown once 200 years prior. What I am saying is that history and posthumous notoriety is also a matter of chance, not an indicator that you were famous or relevant during your lifetime.

Also me: anyway, Catherine and Uskglass were bf and travelled around shapeshifting into small creatures of the forest, causing havoc in a beautiful flur of mischievous delight, and occasionally helping those in need. Catherine eventually became ambassador in the fairy kingdom, had her own pantheon where she taught other magicians, and.......

[akbey1913]

Jumah Mubarak

Ramadan Mubarak!

I’m still searching to reach that middle path.

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Logan should be called Dundalli

Logan should be called Dundalli

Logan City was named after ruthless Captain Logan. It should be named after aboriginal resistance leader Dundalli who was publicly hanged in Brisbane’s post office Square 170 years ago. Dundalli was a lore man. A Jinibara man. A husband and likely a father. The Wonga Pigeon his name sake. He was known for his strength as a Freedom Fighter who restored balance and as an instrumental leader in the…

[lacnunga]

out of context character sketches from Eccentricities - Thomas of Dundale and Red Reynard (oc)

[merrymorningofmay]

Uncommon OC Questions: 1, 8, 38, 40, D and E for the jsamn trio please (if that's not too many xD)

omg omg omg thank you so much!!!! no such thing as too many i love talking hgghghdfhdk

1: What’s the maximum amount of time your character can sit still with nothing to do?

john uskglass: can go uncannily still for hours on end when he's doing magic, like "you have to check if he's breathing" still, but absolutely starts fidgeting and losing temper after a minute in a "nothing to do" situation (or just leaves altogether, he's the king, duh)

william of lanchester: is actually pretty patient, can go couple hours of sitting in place like a normal person if he has to; the downside is if you leave him like this for too long he'll start overthinking and give himself brain damage

thomas of dundale: goes very still and quiet whenever he senses danger and can remain like this for a while, but otherwise will start pacing around/nudging people/being silly after like 10 minutes max

8: What were they told to stop/start doing most often as a child

john: "STOP STOP STOP STOP STOP STOP" / (by thomas) "hide!"

william: "stop slouching" / "speak louder"

thomas: "stop crying" / "be like your brother"

38: What memory do they revisit the most often?

john: not the one to reminisce i imagine, but i think upon his return to england he would initially be baffled by small displays of like. kindness? basic decency? on the part of humans and replay those moments in his head later. idk if the gentleman with the thistle-down hair is a representative case but i got the vibe that jsamn fairies generally are quite self-centered and don't care for others beyond their own benefit/entertainment (which would make faerie a pretty cutthroat place for a literal child, and also explain why trust and betrayal were such sensitive subjects for john in his adulthood), so i think it would take young john some time to grasp that sometimes people (ahem thomas and william ahem) are just nice to him/one another because they're capable of sympathy

william: nostalgic af!!! thomas was born in france in my hc, so that makes william the one person in their trio to actually feel emotionally attached to england as his home. i don't think there would be one definitive memory for him, but he totally would hold his childhood memories dear (esp the bittersweet ones, what with higher mortality rates in medieval times + the north still being quite a scarred place, i imagine, emotionally if not economically. i mean, the gap between 1111 and the harrying is just a few years longer than the gap between me and chornobyl)

thomas: probably avoids thinking about his pre-faerie childhood too often, though i like to think that he used to have a dog and loved it a lot. and then he avoids thinking about his time in faerie too bc there's just a lot of unpleasant stuff there. there must've been some exchange between teen thomas and baby john in faerie that solidified their friendship, maybe john using magic to protect him or telling thomas something his family never would have, like "why do you care so much what others think", something along those lines

40: How sensitive are they to their own flaws?

john: what "flaws" (ok actually i like to think that deep down he's aware that his family backstory is pretty shaky and is himself not 100% certain that it's true, but decides to stick with it nonetheless bc he's stubborn. i hc that part of the reason he took john uskglass sr.'s full name rather than keeping just the "uskglass" part and choosing his own first name is to kind of assert to himself as much as to everyone else that yes, he belongs in the human world, he's claiming the place of this other human dude who totally belonged here, see! but i also believe this anxiety is like, half-realized and he never actually properly thinks about it. he's perfect and the strongest and the smartest and goated with the sauce etc.)

william: VERY but it's mostly the flaws he's convinced himself that he has, not necessarily anything that bothers other people. his solution is to sulk about it in secret forever

thomas: eh. he's aware of them and doesn't think much of himself in general but he's mostly "it is what it is" about it. (i think a sensitive topic for him would be having nothing to call his own; i hc that he's not too keen about magic after all those years in faerie and that he cut ties with his family after they failed to accept him back, so somewhere across those 300 years he'd try to find his own Thing kind of sokka-style, but that's more of a predicament than a flaw)

D: Have they always had the same physical appearance, or have you had to edit how they look?

yea i'm pretty much sticking with the first things that came to mind. like, things we know about william essentially boil down to 1 magician (= scholar); 2 can fill in for a king if need be; 3 has a moral compass but ultimately chooses fealty over it, so i just imagined a basic classic "introverted knight" type of dude, tall, dark, serious, nice beard, all that. thomas is kind of a contrast to him: younger, leaner, energetic, and a redhead for added fun; and john is. well. i'm a simple woman okay if i see a character i can bishounenify, i will xD

E: Are they someone you would get along with? Would they get along with you?

WELL john is a hard no, william is the one i'm projecting onto the most so i guess?? but we wouldn't necessarily hang out much; i think i'd have fun being around thomas but i doubt he'd find my company very interesting. that's all assuming i have something to talk about with medieval noblemen x)

anyways THANK YOU SO MUCH IT WAS SO FUN!!! <333

[siennawaterbrooke]

the view from the docks with my chincoteague pony, mistbelle

[uskglass-mirror-house]

In The Ladies of Grace-Adieu, there is a story featuring Uskglass going on a hunt and it perfectly aligns with your headcanon of his dogs being very loving and obedient. He has also been shown to like them a great deal, so hell yeah!

Semi-related: I had a headcanon that while living in the brugh under Oberon's authority Uskglass befriended an ancient creature made of shadows, which then started following around and assisting him in magic eventually leading to him besting a fairy in a fight and getting noticed by Oberon.

The ancient creature would take the shape of a raven perched on Uskglass' left shoulder (yes, my headcanons are that specific) most of the time but when someone tried to hurt the King, it would become an enormous and furious wolf hound; needless to say, John was the only one who could calm it without having to use high-level magic to chase it away (Oberon and Titania could tame it with magic but the creature would not listen to them, it had lived in the brugh even before they decided to make it their fortress).

When John was almost assassinated with the iron knife, the creature guarded him as he recovered and helped him get back on his feet (it also ripped the assassin to shreds but whatever). It did not allow anyone to get near except Thomas of Dundale and would sniff out the food to ensure it wasn't poisoned.

It is unclear where this creature went when Uskglass left England, but it is either guarding his castle from the shadows or waiting for him on the King's roads.

So a while back, I was reading some stuffs about hunting in medieval time and how hawking was such a rage and that there were dogs bred to be fierce and quite violent.

So, I started to wonder whether Uskglass would probably have some of the best dogs and hawks in Europe. The hawks would listen to him and obey him with minimal training (they might not respond so well to the falconers though lol). And the dogs would love him and listen to all of his orders.

However, there would be some issues, such as:

His dogs were very strong, fierce and violent. Not many human trainers could actually handle them so fairy servants were given charge of the fiercest dogs. The dogs would bark and attempt to hurt humans but the moment John Uskglass was around, they would turn into the cutest, obedient things and wagged their tails like mad. Seeing them around Uskglass would make you think they were actually nice dogs.

The hawks would be quite wild and fierce, too, and generally only listen to the fairy servants, some magicians, and obviously Uskglass.

So obviously, when Uskglass went hunting the kings and lords of other countries, even when the kings and lords had the finest dogs and hawks money could afford, Uskglass's animals always appeared to be the most well-trained and obedient ones, which gained everybody's admiration.

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Mistfall is rather beautiful!

[mythopoeticreality]

So can I talk about Thomas of Dundale? I’ve been having a lot of Thomas of Dundale feels recently. Lets talk about Thomas of Dundale!

So Thomas of Dundale was the Raven King’s first human servant and served as translator for him during those first early years when John Uskglass had conquered the North of England.  There’s a footnote in the book that goes on to describe who he is and the circumstances of how and when he found himself in Faerie: “It seems that several of Henry’s noblemen recognized Thomas as the younger son of a powerful Norman magnate who had dissapeared one Christmas fourteen years before. Given the circumstances of his return it is doubtful whether they felt particularly pleased to have him back”

Can I just....there is just so much going on in those lines and I...

Okay, first of all, Thomas is the younger son here, implying atleast one older brother, if not more siblings. Now the book specifically describes Thomas as a young man, and fourteen years have passed since his disappearance so, (discounting any magical weirdness, but hey, it’s Faerie so anything is possible), Thomas must have been fairly young when he was taken. With that said, he can speak perfectly understandable Anglo-Norman, and there is enough in his face for people to see and know it is him. Especially if you are say, a father who was been thinking about and mourning your lost son for these past fourteen years? A brother who grew up beside Thomas only to find that one day he was just...gone? That face is burned in your memory, and you know it when you see it.

How must have that felt for them, to basically have this missing family member return from the dead, only to be fighting on the opposite side of a war from him? And What must have that been like for Thomas? I can’t help but feel he must have thought about them while he was in Faerie. Did he miss them at all? And then to be reunited with them after so long, only to be fighting against them?

I’ve already talked about it briefly, a long while ago, over here, but I headcanon Thomas and John meting when they were both young and basically growing up together in Auberon’s brugh. I can’t help but feel there was some almost brotherly connection between the two, so, for Thomas to then find himself in England, to see his family again? Can you imagine the split loyalty he must have felt there? Can you imagine what it must have been like for Thomas to lock eyes with is father, this man he’d never thought he’d see again, especially under these circumstances?

So...yeah. I’ve been having a lot of Thomas of Dundale feels recently.

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