#Elyon’s Warriors

[dargeereads]

Metatron by Eve Langlais

 5 stars

audiobook

This was an absolutely epic conclusion to this story!!!! We finally get the story of our leaders, Metatron and Francesca, as all the little pieces fall into place, and left me agape with what happens. Just wow, the story, already twisting things and putting them on their head, took turns no one could anticipate, while still touching on certain lore, making it all believable. Loved these angel aliens and all that they are <3

[captainshyguy]

art piece i did for a rp me and my friends are doing!

pov u just walked into the Wrong Fucking Room

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Young Wizards by Diana Duane (1983-2016)

Nita Callahan is at the end of her rope because of the bullies who've been hounding her at school... until she discovers a mysterious library book that promises her the chance to become a wizard. But she has no idea of the difference that taking the Wizard's Oath is going to make in her life. Shortly, in company with fellow beginner-wizard Kit Rodriguez, Nita's catapulted into what will be the adventure of a lifetime—if she and Kit can both live through it. For every wizard's career starts with an Ordeal in which he or she must challenge the one power in the universe that hates wizardry more than anything else: the Lone Power that invented death and turned it loose in the worlds. Plunged into a dark and deadly alternate New York full of the Lone One's creatures, Kit and Nita must venture into the very heart of darkness to find the stolen, legendary Book of Night with Moon. Only with the dangerous power of the wizardly Book do they have a chance to save not just their own lives, but their world...

Valdemar: The Last Herald-Mage by Mercedes Lackey (1989-1990)

Though Vanyel has been born with near-legendary abilities to work both Herald and Mage magic, he wasn't no part in such things. Nor does he seek a warrior's path, wishing instead to become a Bard.

Yet such talent as his, if left untrained, may prove a menace not only to Vanyel but to others as well. So he is sent to be fostered with his aunt, Savil, one of the fame Herald-Mages of Valdemar.

But, strong-willed and self-centered, Vanyel is a challenge which even Savil cannot master alone. For soon he will become the focus of frightening forces, lending his raw magic to a spell that unleashes terrifying wyr-hunters on the land.

And by the time Savil seeks the assistance of a Shin'a'in Adept, Vanyel's wild talent may have already grown beyond anyone's ability to contain, placing Vanyel, Savil, and Valdemar itself in desperate peril.

The Star-Touched Queen by Roshani Chokshi (2016-2018)

Fate and fortune. Power and passion. What does it take to be the queen of a kingdom when you're only seventeen?

Maya is cursed. With a horoscope that promises a marriage of Death and Destruction, she has earned only the scorn and fear of her father's kingdom. Content to follow more scholarly pursuits, her whole world is torn apart when her father, the Raja, arranges a wedding of political convenience to quell outside rebellions. Soon Maya becomes the queen of Akaran and wife of Amar. Neither roles are what she expected: As Akaran's queen, she finds her voice and power. As Amar's wife, she finds something else entirely: Compassion. Protection. Desire...

But Akaran has its own secrets -- thousands of locked doors, gardens of glass, and a tree that bears memories instead of fruit. Soon, Maya suspects her life is in danger. Yet who, besides her husband, can she trust? With the fate of the human and Otherworldly realms hanging in the balance, Maya must unravel an ancient mystery that spans reincarnated lives to save those she loves the most... including herself.

The Wingfeather Saga by Andrew Peterson (2008-2014)

Janner Igiby, his brother, Tink, and their disabled sister, Leeli, are gifted children as all children are, loved well by a noble mother and ex-pirate grandfather. But they will need all their gifts and all that they love to survive the evil pursuit of the venomous Fangs of Dang, who have crossed the dark sea to rule the land with malice. The Igibys hold the secret to the lost legend and jewels of good King Wingfeather of the Shining Isle of Anniera.

Myth Adventures by Robert Lyn Asprin (1978-2002)

Skeeve was a magician's apprentice--until an assassin struck and his master was killed. Now, with a purple-tongued demon named Aahz as a companion, he's on a quest to get even.

The Land of Elyon by Patrick Carman (2003-2008)

Alexa is curious about what lies beyond the massive ramparts that surround the city and the walled roads that link Bridewell to nearby towns; soon after town leader Thomas Warvold passes away, Alexa finds herself outside the walls, acquires a stone with remarkable powers, and discovers that she's meant to stop a potential war from occurring.

The Worst Witch by Jill Murphy (1974-2018)

Mildred Hubble is a trainee witch at Miss Cackle's Academy, and she's making an awful mess of it. She's always getting her spells wrong and she can't even ride a broomstick without crashing it. Will she ever make a real witch?

The Left-Handed Booksellers of London by Garth Nix (2020-2023)

In a slightly alternate London in 1983, Susan Arkshaw is looking for her father, a man she has never met. Crime boss Frank Thringley might be able to help her, but Susan doesn't get time to ask Frank any questions before he is turned to dust by the prick of a silver hatpin in the hands of the outrageously attractive Merlin.

Merlin is a young left-handed bookseller (one of the fighting ones), who with the right-handed booksellers (the intellectual ones), are an extended family of magical beings who police the mythic and legendary Old World when it intrudes on the modern world, in addition to running several bookshops.

Susan's search for her father begins with her mother's possibly misremembered or misspelt surnames, a reading room ticket, and a silver cigarette case engraved with something that might be a coat of arms.

Merlin has a quest of his own, to find the Old World entity who used ordinary criminals to kill his mother. As he and his sister, the right-handed bookseller Vivien, tread in the path of a botched or covered-up police investigation from years past, they find this quest strangely overlaps with Susan's. Who or what was her father? Susan, Merlin, and Vivien must find out, as the Old World erupts dangerously into the New.

The Lighthouse Witches by C. J. Cooke (2021)

When single mother Liv is commissioned to paint a mural in a 100-year-old lighthouse on a remote Scottish island, it’s an opportunity to start over with her three daughters–Luna, Sapphire, and Clover. When two of her daughters go missing, she’s frantic. She learns that the cave beneath the lighthouse was once a prison for women accused of witchcraft. The locals warn her about wildlings, supernatural beings who mimic human children, created by witches for revenge. Liv is told wildlings are dangerous and must be killed.

Twenty-two years later, Luna has been searching for her missing sisters and mother. When she receives a call about her youngest sister, Clover, she’s initially ecstatic. Clover is the sister she remembers–except she’s still seven years old, the age she was when she vanished. Luna is worried Clover is a wildling. Luna has few memories of her time on the island, but she’ll have to return to find the truth of what happened to her family. But she doesn’t realize just how much the truth will change her.

Reckless by Cornelia Funke (2010-2020)

Jacob has uncovered the doorway to another world, hidden behind a mirror. It is a place of dark magic and enchanted objects, scheming dwarves and fearsome ogres, fairies born from water and men born from stone.Here, he hunts for treasure and seeks adventure in the company of Fox - a beautiful, shape-shifting girl, who guides and guards him.But now Jacob's younger brother has followed him into the mirrored world, and all that was freedom has turned to fear. Because a deadly curse has been spoken; and Jacob must risk his life to reverse it, before his brother is turned to stone forever...

[nogetron]

El, the original Semitic creator god. An omnipotent creator, all things emerged from his hands. With Reality bending around his fingers, El is the highest authority across the pantheon, Even greater than the king of the gods Baal. The specifics on how El created the universe is still a mystery, but it is believed that he created the cosmos from the nothingness around him. After creation, El investigated the seas of Chaos that flowed from him, among the waves bobbed the heads of two women, that of Asherah and Raḥmayyu. Curious, El took them home and began cooking a bird, he asked them that once the bird was done if they could call to him as either father or husband, whichever one they picked he would behave as such, once the bird was done they called to him as husband. The following intimate night resulted in the birth of Shachar and Shalim, the gods of Dusk and Dawn. From his coupling with his two wives the pantheon of Canaan was born. Baal, Mot, Yam, Astarte, Anat, all of them came from the light of El. El oversaw and organized the race for the throne of the king of the gods, a competition in which his children could campaign to be bestowed the throne by El. During the race, the sea god Yam gained much influence, with him having the favor of El’s wife Asherah. However, during a gathering of the pantheon, Yam insults the entire pantheon including his own father El. But following a duel with Baal, Yam is defeated and forced to pull out of the race, leaving Baal to be crowned the king of the gods. With the help of Asherah, Baal is able to convince El to authorize the construction of a palace. However during a feast ushered by the newly appointed Baal, the death god Mot consumes him. El joins the universe in grieving the loss of his son. Despite being in the throes of grief, El dreams that Baal is still alive. Elated, El sends the sun goddess Shapsh to rescue his son. After his return Baal once again begins combat with Mot, that is until El steps in, threatening Mot that if he continues he’d annihilate him, causing Mot to back down. In a separate myth, during a feast of the gods, El gets outrageously drunk, but is ultimately healed.

El was an incredibly important deity, it cannot be understated just how important he was. His worship evolved and transmitted into many different gods, the Syrian Dagan, the Mesopotamian Anu Enlil and Marduk, the Hurrian Kumarbi, and his Hittite form Elkunirsa. El also corresponds to the Chinese Shangdi, the Zoroastrian Ahura Mazda, and the Slavic Rod and Svarog, with some of these gods possibly developing out of El. The Egyptian Ptah also has traces of El within his worship, as both share the epithet of “Eternal”, however among the Egyptians Kothar-wa-khasis was supposed to be cognate with Ptah. The most important theological relation El holds is his connection to the modern Abrahamic God, as El is the direct originator of the Deity. Originally Known as Yhwh, this deity originated as the Israeli form of El, similar to how Dagan was the Syrian form of the god. Yhwh was a divine warrior god married to Asherah, with their children being the other Canaan gods like Baal and Astarte, all these deities held divine messengers known as Malak. Yhwh was the foremost worshipped deity in ancient Israel, with the vast majority of prayer being offered to them. However during the subjugation of Israel under Babylon, the monotheistic Yhwh emerged as a form of resistance against their Babylonian rulers. The deities of Canaan were demonized and absorbed into Yhwh and his Malak, who became the angels of Abrahamic faith. The naming scheme of angels keeps their relation with El, as seen in Raphael the oldest name among the angels. The modern God shares many of their other titles with El, including El Shaddai, Elohim (the term referring to the Canaanite pantheon meaning “the children of El), and El Elyon. Phoenicia also held Canaan’s gods and myths, including El. However due to being conquered by the Greeks, Phoenicia was forced to Hellenize their culture, with it essentially becoming Greek mythology with a Canaanite coat of paint. This is seen most prominently in their recorded creation myth, in which El wasn’t the creator or original god, but rather the son of the sky and earth who in turn were created by El Elyon, which was originally a name for El himself. El is later deposed by Baal, obviously this myth is heavily based on the greek theogony, with El taking the place of Chronus and Baal with Zeus. My personal theory on the origin of El is that he may have developed from the African creator gods, like Ra, Nyame, Amma, and even possibly Zanahary. El held many titles, such as “the bull god”, “Creator of creatures”, “the gracious one”, “father of the gods” and “father of man”. In many god lists from ancient Canaan, El is preceded by Ilib, a character not mentioned in any other texts. Ilib’s placement has led to the idea that it was possibly a forerunner deity to El, however no other texts support this, and the belief that El was the original deity contradicts this. Ilib is used as a term to refer to dead ancestors in Canaan, so most likely the Ilib in the god lists refers to the familial dead ancestors. The word El is used as a term to denote a deity in Canaanite language, evolving from Il, in texts however El himself is distinguished from this word by using ha El meaning “the great El”.

[talesfromgringolandia]

Felenor the Warrior

continued to advise King Azor and Queen Elym, as the Kirla astronomers sighted new comets in the sky. Felenor's advice was to prepare for war - establish a warrior class for each race. So Azor ordered it to be done.

The Elrathi set aside a group of newborns who were trained, educated, and enhanced from birth. These Druids were given command over creatures and plants. The Lralku chiselled out of stone Giants and Trolls, and Lralso gave them life. The Kirla established new schools of song, dedicated to composing music of combat and battle, the masters of which were known as Magi.

Man established the Order of the Paladins, who were each given their own Sword, forged by the Lralku in the likeness of the Sword of Azor. On their Sword each man swore their own Oath, to serve their King faithfully and to protect the creatures of Galatras. As they were children of Elyon, brothers of Galatras, they were given command of the rest, as officers of the new army.

Upon completion of their training, each Great Warrior was given the opportunity to drink once from the Fount of Aether, giving them communion with the Spiritual Realm that was available only to Man. As such, these warriors were the wisest and most holy of all their race, second in grace only to their high king.

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DC OC | Reading List Pt.2

Sophia Evangelista | Angeknight

Angeknight: Between Heaven and Hell - Sophia's debut series that follows her and her team the Sun Angels on their mission to destroy the Fallen Angel Ophiel and her legion of darkness.

Pandora - Major supporting character. Elyon is both Sophia's ward and sidekick before being handed off to the newest Teen Titans.

Sol - Sophia is also a major supporting character in Solana's solo series as her mentor.

Angeknight: Schism - The longest series of Sophia's publication history at over 100 volumes long. Schism follows Sophia having to deal with splitting factions of Angels in Heaven, major changes in her work and personal lives, and learning secrets about her family.

Angeknight: Reformation - As Titans Academy's new guidance counselor, Sophia works hard to push the rowdy children in the right direction. However, she must answer Heaven's call again after receiving a disturbing vision.

Angeknight & Cheshire - A oneshot comic that follows Sophia and Jade tracking down the person who put a hit out on both of them. It takes place shortly after Reformation.

Knights of Titania: Faith, Trust, and Fairy Dust - She appears as a major supporting character. Sophia's one of the group's mentors despite not being a member of the Titans. This is her last appearance under her Angeknight name.

Isis - Sophia's Outsiders (2003) era. Sophia retires Angeknight and moves back to Star City for a fresh start. She forms a new team called the Calvary under a new codename: Isis.

Archangel - An Elseworld story where Sophia joins Team Arrow and becomes the White Arrow then Archangel.

Isis: Champion of Bana-Mighdall - Another alternate universe where Sophia never becomes a Seraphim, instead the champion of the Bana. Various team ups include Artemis, Niobe, Yara, and Donna Troy.

Marietta Brooks | Glamor

Glamor - Marietta's debut. The covers of each volume are references to different album covers of black femme pop singers.

Glamor: All That Glitters - A few years after her debut series, Marietta's reign hasn't stopped as she takes on Hollywood. Before that can happen, a person from her family's past threatens to put out her star.

Glamor: Back in Black - Marietta retires from the world of vigilante crime fighting and into her new position: award winning actress, singer, wife, and mother. That is until a person from her past as Glamor comes back with news so devastating, it forces her to don her costume one last time.

Venus Parks | Star Sapphire

Star Sapphire - Venus's debut. From world famous DJ to intergalactic warrior, Venus's life is full of twists and turns. As a Star Sapphire, it's her duty to restore love to the universe; but sometimes she needs a little love herself.

Star Sapphire: Ring of Light - Venus sought out by the queen of an alien planet to find and return a stolen artifact called the Ring of Light. Venus is up to the task only for the search to be more difficult than she expected. Having no other options, she's forced to team up with the newest Red Lantern, Furiosa.

Star Sapphire: City of Diamond - Who is the Twilight Knight; and why do they want her ring? That's a question Venus wants answered after a mysterious masked figure attacks her while returning to Earth. Teaming up with fellow Star Sapphire, Pepper Jackson, their search takes them to the farthest reaches of the galaxy, to a whole other solar system.

Star Sapphire: Trifecta - During an investigation into illegal weapons trafficking back on Earth, Venus crosses paths with Larissa and a new Green Lantern called Emerald Ranger. They join forces to create Trifecta, a team made up of the three lanterns.

Red Hood and the Outlaws - Venus joins the Outlaws as an ally before becoming a full member.

Boombox - After an incident with her Star Sapphire ring, Venus temporarily retires the mantle and begins to build a new one. Donning a mecha suit made of radio devices, Venus debuts as her new hero persona, Boombox.

Daliah Yukimura | Snow

Snow - Daliah's debut series that features her first forays into being the local superhero in her hometown of Happy Harbor.

Young Justice: Of Ice Queens and Sun Goddesses - Daliah's Young Justice debut. At the request of Superboy, Daliah joins the team alongside another new member, Solana Banks.

Snow & Arrowette - Mini series that follows Daliah and her childhood friend Cissie as a duo; before either of them joined Young Justice. A highlight of this miniseries is the family reunion from hell and the introduction of the Yukimura clan.

Snow & Crysticle - Another miniseries featuring Camryn, Daliah's older sister and member of the Watchers. Camryn has returned home for the summer which means sisterly fun and crime fighting.

Jawbreakers - Now in college and on her way to becoming a professional figure skater, Daliah moves to San Francisco with Solana as roommates. She puts her superhero career to the side to keep up her training. Eventually, she joins the newly formed Jawbreakers.

Justice Girls - An Elseworld story where Cassie breaks off from Young Justice to form her own team, the Justice Girls.

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[princess-polls]

A

Anya/Anastasia - Yellow (Anastasia) VS Donkeyskin - The Sun Dress (Donkey Skin)

Stella - Orange (Winx Club) VS Belle - Yellow (Beauty and the Beast)

Morgana Pendragon - Purple (BBC Merlin) VS Rapunzel - Purple (Barbie as Rapunzel)

Rapunzel - Purple (Tangled) VS Elyon Escanor - Purple (W.I.T.C.H.)

Snow White/Mary Margaret Blanchard - Purple (Once Upon a Time) VS Jasmine - Purple (Aladdin)

Kaguya Houraisan - Pink + Red (Touhou Project) VS Lymsleia Falenas - Green + Yellow (Suikoden V)

Tiana - White (The Princess and the Frog) VS Neo Queen Serenity - White (Sailor Moon)

Cinderella - Blue (Cinderella 2015) VS Rosella - Blue (Barbie as the Island Princess)

B

Ariel - Blue (The Little Mermaid) VS Star Butterfly - Blue (Star vs the Forces of Evil)

Zelda - Blue (The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild) VS Korra - Blue (The Legend of Korra)

Aurora - Beige (Sleeping Beauty) VS Gwendolyn - Blue (Odin Sphere)

Iris - Pink + White (Lolirock) VS Xena - Black (Xena: Warrior Princess)

Elsa - Dark Blue (Olaf’s Frozen Adventure) VS Anya/Anastasia - Dark Blue (Anastasia)

Scorpia - Black (She-Ra and the Princesses of Power) VS Ororo Munroe/Storm - Beige (X-Men)

Snow White - Blue + Yellow (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs) VS Melia - Pink + Blue (Xenoblade Chronicles)

Cinderella - Silver (Cinderella) VS Sofia - Purple (Sofia the First)

C

Athanasia de Alger Obelia - Pink (Who Made Me a Princess) VS Ahiru/Princess Tutu - White (Princess Tutu)

Apple White - Thronecoming (Ever After High) VS Estellise Sidos Heurassein - Pink + White (Tales of Vesperia)

Cinderella - Pink (Cinderella) VS Princess Peach - Pink (Super Smash Bros)

Anneliese - Pink (Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper) VS Lachesis - Ballroom Bloom (Fire Emblem)

Belle - Pink (Beauty and the Beast) VS Guinevere - Red (BBC Merlin)

Elena Castillo Flores - Red (Elena of Avalor) VS Princess Cookie - Red Rose Gown (Cookie Run)

Mia Thermopolis - Pink (The Princess Diaries 2) VS Princess Una - Blue (Stardust)

Princess White Rose - Blue (SaGa Frontier) VS Beatrice - Blue + White (Rune Factory 5)

D

Fiona - Green (Shrek) VS Eowyn - Green (Lord of the Rings)

Hisui Fiore - Green (Fairy Tail) VS Riesz - Green (Trials of Mana)

Tiana - Green (The Princess and the Frog) VS Odette - Pink + Blue (Barbie of Swan Lake)

Anna - Green (Frozen) VS Céline - Green + White (Fire Emblem)

Princess Nautilus - Blue (Cucumber Quest) VS Princess Iron Fan - Red + White (Lego Monkie Kid)

Rayfa Padma Khura’in - Pink (Ace Attorney) VS Snow White - Red + White (Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs)

Odette - Blue + White (The Swan Princess) VS Belle French - Blue (Once Upon a Time)

Leia Organa - White (Star Wars) VS Nefertari Vivi - White (One Piece)

[alice-skiouros]

Lord Rayner Deloi: Most of the village we grew up near has children now, what of you?  Elyon Adurna: I can't  Lord Rayner Deloi: How come? I wonder but won't press further.  Elyon Adurna: Demon blood it seems renders one unable. It was a choice that I made nonetheless  Lord Rayner Deloi: Nice to know there's no risk if we ever hook up lol  Elyon Adurna: I didn't want children anyway and it seems to have been the best choice since it seems there were complications that in doing so I'd avoided  Lord Rayner Deloi: Nor do I want any spawns of my own. Especially with the way the world is currently? And a child that came from both of us? Pretty sure that's a future war criminal right there  Elyon Adurna: I'd bring a child up proper; a true warrior of the tribes  Lord Rayner Deloi: A child of both Kingdom and Tribe? It could work. Wasn't one of the former Overlord of the tribes human-raised?  Elyon Adurna: I don't confess to know the history of the former Overlords, I know some but not all. A child of both though could perhaps be the start of peace, but who's to say really?  Lord Rayner Deloi: Mayhaps if the child was from us? Who knows  Elyon Adurna: Its folly to consider anyway since it cannot happen

more to this idea a friend went back and forth with me to write this part; names are not set in stone and nor are all the story aspects because chief while this was good where do I fit it in??? eh I'll figure it out

[themournwatcher]

My DA Worldstates

uhh this is just notes for me to keep everything straight because i have two worldstates now and i'm notoriously stupid

Worldstate One

Elves

HoF: Mahanon Tabris; transmasc/warrior/kills connor/saves the mages/kills werewolves/puts bhelen on the throne/defiles the ashes of andraste/reaver arc/spares loghain/fucks off immediately after the epilogue and disappears with his goth gf Morrigan Warden-Commander: Elyon Andras; transmasc/warrior/dalish/estranged husband/dead kid/orlesian courts/arl of amaranthine/recruits all the wardens/lets the city burn and returns to defend vigil's keep

CoK: Garrett Hawke; transmasc/mage/purple+blue/friendmances Fenris/sides with the mages/spares Anders(?? still working on him)

(featuring Laurent Surana, who romances Sebastian and tags along as a companion arc)

HoA: Iveani Lavellan; transmasc/rift mage/dalish/somniari/partially blind/recruits the mages/makes briala the puppet leader of orlais/does not disband the wardens/does not try to redeem solas he's not stupid

Worldstate Two

Skywalker-level Dysfunction

HoF: Naoise Cousland; transmasc/rogue/duelist/kills isolde/saves the mages/barters peace between elves and werewolves/puts bhelen on the throne/does not defile the ashes/does have a threesome with Zev and Isabella/keeps Alistair as a warden/Anora rules alone/becomes warden-commander with long distance bf Zev

(featuring Jurian Amell in the Awakening era; apostate/mage/shapeshifter/pretty boy era/prettiest boy dare i say/says people wrote poetry about him/mistaken as one of the swan-swain/is out to steal your girl)

CoK: Trystan Hawke; transmasc/warrior/red+purple/possible andersmance/andersmancers don't get excited its not gonna go the way you want/still working out details

HoA: Arlan Trevelyan; transmasc/mage/FUCKING ANXIOUS WRECK THAT'S ALL I KNOW FOR NOW

ok ty bye :3

[dargeereads]

Elija by Eve Langlais

 5 stars

audiobook

With each book, this story becomes more and more interesting, and unbelievably addicting! It is smart, it is witty, with flawed characters, and so many things that seem familiar, but aren’t. Elija knows what he knows, or so he thinks, but when he opens up his thoughts, he realizes many things aren’t what he thought. Cindy Lou wants to know everything, questions everything, and barges into any situation. What starts out as two adversaries quickly morphs as they spend time together. Their attraction, undeniable, the love that grows, unbreakable. The upcoming battle, deeply anticipated!!!

[thepete77]

Its been a two and a half decade process of study and practice for me to develop the spiritual views that I have. There were some definite negative times and slow times and significant emotional alignment and adjustment to even the basics of witchcraft that started with very much excitement to be able to buy a lot of cool stuff from the local occult shop in town, that I was not even half way aware of the application of the stuff I was getting. Dried herbs, oil burners, statuary and decor, and books on a regular basis, tea light and other candles, and other items that were mainly just entertaining to get. Contemplating on the significance of every symbolic meaning later and my application of my own path, has really ingrained some points that I am easily able to refute Christian nonsense with all around.

First, the universe works in a way that is not in the Christian way it works. The early Jews were antagonistic as slaves in the societies and culture of the Egyptions and Babylonians, and during the initial writings of their documents they stole pagan concepts of spiritual practices and integrated them. This can be seen in major ways of the inquisitions and crusades era and before, when the church built cathedrals replacing the central and publically known temple areas of early people of Gaul and the British Isles. It can be seen about the identification of the fictional story of the Nazarene with the winter solstice, and the seasonal adaptation of spring and the Germanic deity Eostra for developing their non existent resurrection to replace the earlier held beliefs of Reincarnation. It as well can be seen in their theft of the African symbolical meaning of the serpent, and the application of the different names of their so called singular God in use of Canaanite deities like El Elyon and Adonis, into Elohim and Adonai, and their direct theft of the Roman Italian deity Lucifer as their adversary.

Offerings were a major practice of the ancient Greeks, Romans, and Egyptians who gave food, beverages, items of worth, and burned incense and candles and poured drink offerings to invoke favor and blessings from them. The Hebrews separated themselves, supposedly, from these practices, and went through long eras of spiritual confusion and doubt about their own god, trying to establish their nation of Zion, Israel, in lieu of their appearing theocratic warrior priest king to rule a refurbished earth with his non-existent spiritual authority. Until Christianity was established as the Roman authorized religion, Christians stuck with the unintelligent lower orders of non-aristocracy in small private groups, knowing exactly the non-favorable and displeasing responses they would receive.

Studies of the ancient Greek practices revealed a strong legal structure of politics and citizenship and enforcement of punishment upon criminals. A major method of punishment was a large hollowed iron oxen, that criminals would be placed in to experience the heated iron from sunlight and possibly even flames. The complaining, whining, and bickering Christians more than likely took this activity and slandered this ancient law enforcement custom, writing that they sacrificed children to the flames of Moloch.

Thus the first passages of traditional commandments to the slave nation was “thou shalt have no other gods before me.” with their theft of Babylonian legends of their priests upon the mountain of Sin, turning it to the mountain of Sinai. The original mountain of Sin was attributed to the Babylonian moon god by the same name, affiliated heavily with the Babylonian moon goddess Innanna.

This is important material to know aforehand, not only because of the Christian use of the word sin and the way that they inaccurately think, but also to understand and crystallize the principles and concepts of polytheism and the mindset of traditional pagan worship of the gods. God, Gods, and Goddesses, are title nouns. They are not the pronouns declared by the gods as how they refer to themselves. Starting in the Christian faith with a standard modern world view, one can see the preaching and declarations about the word God like God is the actual word their deity goes by, treating their so called creator and ruler of the universe commonly, like they just have to pray using their words to have a conversation about even the most trite and basic topics of interests. The consecutive manner of this focus can lead to grandeur failures of recognition of reality, thinking they can walk on water and raise the dead and cast out demons, speak in tongues, prophecy, and heal the sick and other miraculous events, and fall flat on their faces looking entirely foolish.

One should be cautious of this potential failure even in witchcraft, that there are legends of very severe reputation of blighting crops, causing tempests, destroying livestock, and other activities that have very significant different meanings and beginnings. One can fade out from interests in magical practice with a standard sane mindset having severe doubts about being able to summon and evoke demons, even doubting their very basic existence. A general rule of thumb that I've read, is that sorcerers/witches should strive practically according to mundane efforts at all costs and use magic only as a last resort when things aren't working. This basic premise makes very much sense to me on many accounts, and is a very wise way to begin in choosing the discipline of witchcraft.

One should not feel disheartened however, about the existence of spiritual entities and deities, thinking all is fraudulent and their is no hope at all. Or try and misuse science of different types trying to debate about foregone conclusions in ignorance and false authority. During my spiritual practices as a Christian, having former views from the Mormon church, I valued the Bible as being at least more authentic from actual ancient manuscripts that still exist in museums to this day, rather than the obviously non-existent and suspiciously disappearing plates of brass, and the so called required faith it takes to have the spiritual wisdom from them and the little blue book. The history of printing having central texts like the Guetenberg Bible, and the idea of the king James Bible being published initially in 1611, at least has a length of more intellectual history. Still, the original writings of the initial documents and history of the slave nation is corrupt even in that context. Within standard rational thinking of the content, thinking of the related ancient cultures involved and the bits and pieces of names and principles listed, the Bible can be used to put things together in combinations. Knowing titles like Asherah, Baal, Amun, Belial, and Leviathan, and the practices of burnt offerings and libations, invocations, and following Greek roots of words like Sheol, Word, and practices like meditation and ascension, can prove to be beneficial.

Getting adjusted to the modern occult practices of witchcraft when coming from a judeo Christian background of any sort takes patience, courage, honor, and rationale. When you have the right attitude about even basic items like offering candles and spell kits, they can be most powerful and intriguing in the way they impact a persons life. Just be sure to keep your records about your activity, even in basic mundane non spiritual terms for review, you'll be surprised of what can happen even in a year.

[theunitedstatesoffemale]

How To Make A Trick A Treat

I won't question this. That is not my desire.  Here is my goal:

HOW TO MAKE A TRICK A TREAT.

I love to write. I love to create, basically.  I have a few books of poetry that can be purchased (selfish plug) and if I am not creating, I am bored and I just plain out don't like it. But when it comes to my mental, emotional, and spiritual health, one of my favorite forms of alchemic healing and prophetic, prolific soul transformation is writing. So here is a blog for me to discuss how to take something "dark" and make it "light".

Let's face it: we need the sun and moon. We need light and dark. I don't know how they do it in states and countries when it's either more daylight than night or vice versus. I like balance. I need it. So when we discuss, or rather, I discuss "dark" and "light", let's talk the difference between your shadow self and soul and truly malignant and evil beings (since today is All Hallow's Eve, I will basically put on blast negative spirits, beings, entities AND people).

I don't know about you but I like sleeping when it's all dark. To me, where there is darkness there is rest. Peace and restoration. A time to shut down or quiet down enough to be still and travel to places within me and in other spaces of Time, Space, Local. I like that. I'm a Christian Shamaness, which means TO ME that YSHUA of the Hebrew bible also lovingly and sacredly known as Jesus Christ, Jesus of Nazareth, is real and then some along with what GOD, male and female (that means GOD and GODDESS. No detracting or minimizing the Feminine Divine here. That's my Momma and Daddy we're talking about. Deal with it).  And all that GOD/GODDESS, to me in Hebrew El Elyon Elohim created - rocks, crystals, energy, elements, words, thoughts and deeds made sacred through purifying intent, spirit, soul and body - has the life of my Heavenly Parentage, who created the Universe for their children to bless in the reaping and to teach as well. What we sow we reap. It's a law that one cannot get away from, and it's present in various thoughts, spiritualities, religions, paradigms and as I study quantum physics (I'm enjoying Pam Grout, Gregg Braden and others) I understand that in dealing with the spiritual and soulful, some things need to be addressed that mainstream or New Thought/New Age believers or workers have as I have read, hear and studied, either ignored or make irrelevant or rather, part of a dying religion or faith.

I love Jesus. In that one name there are many names and in course with believing in Him, I believe as well in the spiritual architecture or framework in hierarchies in this faith of His.  I don't do or believe in religion.  To me, it has put GOD in a box and has been the primary way I have experienced being in proverbial caskets so therefore I take the Bible, the writers of it lately with a grain of salt because religious man had their way with something sacred and ancient, toying with it as they do in systems and well, I believe in Jesus and His message, principles and character. I also believe that there are demons and diabolical entities, male and female. So many believers in Christ are not aware of demonology or angelology (the study of angels, spelling in question..HA!).  I personally due to my own faith structure believe a third of celestials, from seraphim to archangels to elemental angels some call fae,  before Time became non-Love, non-Life, non-GOD yet two thirds remained to stand guard, assist, worship GOD and do the will of the ALMIGHTY.  I believe what the New Testament says about being "ambassadors of Christ" and in being a shaman worker in the way that I am, I take this very seriously.

To say I have dealt with malignant and downright evil people and things is a small statement.  And let's not forget there is a difference between a "demon" (anglicized for fallen celestial) and a "daemon", in Greek for a warrior who has passed who chose or was chosen to be a guardian.  I don't know of any churches personally that teach the difference or acknowledge but in "studying to show yourself approved before GOD" and "My people perish for lack of knowledge", I do not want to be one who doesn't have knowledge or isn't studying or searching for the higher consciousness of Christ and of GOD, where the bible says we could "have the mind of Christ". So that means we could know and experience the love that has no height, width, depth or length, the Love that conquers fear perfectly. So on a day and night like this, there is, to me, always battles, confrontations, strategies to be made and as a believer it is my duty to partake of the Love that strategies to conquer evil.

So how does this correlate with "How To Make A Trick A Treat" and mental health?

The picture I posted with this blog is me. The many, perfect me's that make up the imperfectly perfect me. Some are not so perfect.  And today, as I have sought to lay down the search for my identity and rest, I find that I am requesting to be a spiritual and soulful gateway not just for the ancients and for the deities who serve Love (to ME, GOD is Love and GOD is the MOST HIGH so the sons and daughters of GOD that the Psalmist writes of and says are heavenly beings are NOT sons and daughters of man and women...get it?).   See, I tend to use spirit and Spirit, my soul and the Soul of GOD, my Abba and my Mama, to heal and to rest because sometimes the light is too bright and because of my mental and emotional health and difficulty finding outside treatment for the Dissociative Identity Disorder diagnosis I only received ONCE after a lifetime...and OLD lifetime of hospitalizations and programs and paradigms of old...I have had to reach outside the box of the Christianity I had known and some may even call me a "witch".  I have been told "you are a witch and the bible says I should kill you" by a Christian family member who then took back saying it for whatever reasons, but the fact she said it AND believed it is something that has always had me questioning if I was evil or crazy.

And I am neither evil nor crazy. So there!

How to make a trick a treat.

Believe in you. I believe in me. I believe I am a Most High Daughter of the Most High GOD.  I also have now chosen as said daughter, to not fight what I could use as a second armor of GOD. That is where medication and treatment come in, even though I'm not in the type of treatment to help me integrate the many of me that are now so silent my memory is gone of substantial past and history but awaken when they desire and it is a...challenging existence.  So as I say "believe in you", I actively believe in the What I am because the Who?  There are deep questions of who I really am, my age, my name, my birthplace and I don't dislike "Deborah Ramos" because that is one beautiful name but it isn't me. SHE isn't me because once upon my lifetimes I have lived in these years due to the dissociation, I was told and made to be a "Trick", not a "Treat".  Labeled a sin and a demoness yet I gotta tell you, I'm neither. And in understanding that, the worlds I survey as a creatrix and as a goddess (daughter of GOD, people) and the truths I have chosen to live by and believe, well, the worlds are beautiful. With shadow and sunlight and fire and earth and water.  I belong simply because it is time to "be".

Be beautiful in my skin that doesn't at times feel my own.

Be secure in the knowledge and wisdom and discernment that come with Spirit that my Momma Wisdom who Jesus said knows Her children knows me and I am loved, loved, loved...

Did I say I was loved?

So no matter what is done, what is said, burned, blood-let, chanted, tried to tie and bind or kill and destroy or hinder me by men and women who just hate me because of my faith and other reasons I don't really care to try to find the why's to...no matter what they do or sow, I am reaping beauty. I am my own treat and a gift to others and as for my mental health treatment, I ain't fighting the tide anymore. I believe I need a little more help and I don't have to be like the Magdalene with her seven demons or the Gadarene being tied to a rock in a cemetery, chained rather because of her disorders and sensitivities that had made her a toy or puppet because she was NOT loved or UNDERSTOOD or trained up to be a spiritual master or worker or a Graced One. "Grace" I was taught is "the ability of GOD", not this gentle thing all the time and in that Grace, I live.

I live.

I love.

I believe.

And I am.

I AM.

Therefore, I have turned trick on the Tricksters and have made myself what my Momma and Daddy GOD have designed me to be.

A treat.

[devoralilyramos]

How To Make A Trick A Treat

I won't question this. That is not my desire.  Here is my goal:

HOW TO MAKE A TRICK A TREAT.

I love to write. I love to create, basically.  I have a few books of poetry that can be purchased (selfish plug) and if I am not creating, I am bored and I just plain out don't like it. But when it comes to my mental, emotional, and spiritual health, one of my favorite forms of alchemic healing and prophetic, prolific soul transformation is writing. So here is a blog for me to discuss how to take something "dark" and make it "light".

Let's face it: we need the sun and moon. We need light and dark. I don't know how they do it in states and countries when it's either more daylight than night or vice versus. I like balance. I need it. So when we discuss, or rather, I discuss "dark" and "light", let's talk the difference between your shadow self and soul and truly malignant and evil beings (since today is All Hallow's Eve, I will basically put on blast negative spirits, beings, entities AND people).

I don't know about you but I like sleeping when it's all dark. To me, where there is darkness there is rest. Peace and restoration. A time to shut down or quiet down enough to be still and travel to places within me and in other spaces of Time, Space, Local. I like that. I'm a Christian Shamaness, which means TO ME that YSHUA of the Hebrew bible also lovingly and sacredly known as Jesus Christ, Jesus of Nazareth, is real and then some along with what GOD, male and female (that means GOD and GODDESS. No detracting or minimizing the Feminine Divine here. That's my Momma and Daddy we're talking about. Deal with it).  And all that GOD/GODDESS, to me in Hebrew El Elyon Elohim created - rocks, crystals, energy, elements, words, thoughts and deeds made sacred through purifying intent, spirit, soul and body - has the life of my Heavenly Parentage, who created the Universe for their children to bless in the reaping and to teach as well. What we sow we reap. It's a law that one cannot get away from, and it's present in various thoughts, spiritualities, religions, paradigms and as I study quantum physics (I'm enjoying Pam Grout, Gregg Braden and others) I understand that in dealing with the spiritual and soulful, some things need to be addressed that mainstream or New Thought/New Age believers or workers have as I have read, hear and studied, either ignored or make irrelevant or rather, part of a dying religion or faith.

I love Jesus. In that one name there are many names and in course with believing in Him, I believe as well in the spiritual architecture or framework in hierarchies in this faith of His.  I don't do or believe in religion.  To me, it has put GOD in a box and has been the primary way I have experienced being in proverbial caskets so therefore I take the Bible, the writers of it lately with a grain of salt because religious man had their way with something sacred and ancient, toying with it as they do in systems and well, I believe in Jesus and His message, principles and character. I also believe that there are demons and diabolical entities, male and female. So many believers in Christ are not aware of demonology or angelology (the study of angels, spelling in question..HA!).  I personally due to my own faith structure believe a third of celestials, from seraphim to archangels to elemental angels some call fae,  before Time became non-Love, non-Life, non-GOD yet two thirds remained to stand guard, assist, worship GOD and do the will of the ALMIGHTY.  I believe what the New Testament says about being "ambassadors of Christ" and in being a shaman worker in the way that I am, I take this very seriously.

To say I have dealt with malignant and downright evil people and things is a small statement.  And let's not forget there is a difference between a "demon" (anglicized for fallen celestial) and a "daemon", in Greek for a warrior who has passed who chose or was chosen to be a guardian.  I don't know of any churches personally that teach the difference or acknowledge but in "studying to show yourself approved before GOD" and "My people perish for lack of knowledge", I do not want to be one who doesn't have knowledge or isn't studying or searching for the higher consciousness of Christ and of GOD, where the bible says we could "have the mind of Christ". So that means we could know and experience the love that has no height, width, depth or length, the Love that conquers fear perfectly. So on a day and night like this, there is, to me, always battles, confrontations, strategies to be made and as a believer it is my duty to partake of the Love that strategies to conquer evil.

So how does this correlate with "How To Make A Trick A Treat" and mental health?

The picture I posted with this blog is me. The many, perfect me's that make up the imperfectly perfect me. Some are not so perfect.  And today, as I have sought to lay down the search for my identity and rest, I find that I am requesting to be a spiritual and soulful gateway not just for the ancients and for the deities who serve Love (to ME, GOD is Love and GOD is the MOST HIGH so the sons and daughters of GOD that the Psalmist writes of and says are heavenly beings are NOT sons and daughters of man and women...get it?).   See, I tend to use spirit and Spirit, my soul and the Soul of GOD, my Abba and my Mama, to heal and to rest because sometimes the light is too bright and because of my mental and emotional health and difficulty finding outside treatment for the Dissociative Identity Disorder diagnosis I only received ONCE after a lifetime...and OLD lifetime of hospitalizations and programs and paradigms of old...I have had to reach outside the box of the Christianity I had known and some may even call me a "witch".  I have been told "you are a witch and the bible says I should kill you" by a Christian family member who then took back saying it for whatever reasons, but the fact she said it AND believed it is something that has always had me questioning if I was evil or crazy.

And I am neither evil nor crazy. So there!

How to make a trick a treat.

Believe in you. I believe in me. I believe I am a Most High Daughter of the Most High GOD.  I also have now chosen as said daughter, to not fight what I could use as a second armor of GOD. That is where medication and treatment come in, even though I'm not in the type of treatment to help me integrate the many of me that are now so silent my memory is gone of substantial past and history but awaken when they desire and it is a...challenging existence.  So as I say "believe in you", I actively believe in the What I am because the Who?  There are deep questions of who I really am, my age, my name, my birthplace and I don't dislike "Deborah Ramos" because that is one beautiful name but it isn't me. SHE isn't me because once upon my lifetimes I have lived in these years due to the dissociation, I was told and made to be a "Trick", not a "Treat".  Labeled a sin and a demoness yet I gotta tell you, I'm neither. And in understanding that, the worlds I survey as a creatrix and as a goddess (daughter of GOD, people) and the truths I have chosen to live by and believe, well, the worlds are beautiful. With shadow and sunlight and fire and earth and water.  I belong simply because it is time to "be".

Be beautiful in my skin that doesn't at times feel my own.

Be secure in the knowledge and wisdom and discernment that come with Spirit that my Momma Wisdom who Jesus said knows Her children knows me and I am loved, loved, loved...

Did I say I was loved?

So no matter what is done, what is said, burned, blood-let, chanted, tried to tie and bind or kill and destroy or hinder me by men and women who just hate me because of my faith and other reasons I don't really care to try to find the why's to...no matter what they do or sow, I am reaping beauty. I am my own treat and a gift to others and as for my mental health treatment, I ain't fighting the tide anymore. I believe I need a little more help and I don't have to be like the Magdalene with her seven demons or the Gadarene being tied to a rock in a cemetery, chained rather because of her disorders and sensitivities that had made her a toy or puppet because she was NOT loved or UNDERSTOOD or trained up to be a spiritual master or worker or a Graced One. "Grace" I was taught is "the ability of GOD", not this gentle thing all the time and in that Grace, I live.

I live.

I love.

I believe.

And I am.

I AM.

Therefore, I have turned trick on the Tricksters and have made myself what my Momma and Daddy GOD have designed me to be.

A treat.

[candlekept]

Dragon Age World States

Torny Brosca ♕ — Sword & Shield Warrior | Champion & Guardian | ♡ Leliana Marian Hawke — Dual-Wielding Rogue | Shadow | ♡ Isabela Herah Adaar — Storm Mage | Knight-Enchanter | ♡ Sera

Lyna Mahariel — Dual-Wielding Warrior | Templar & Spirit Warrior | ♡ Zevran → Nika Kader — Dual-Wielding Rogue | Bard & Legionnaire Scout Garrett Hawke — Entropy & Arcane Mage | Force Mage | ♡ Anders Ashton Trevelyan ♕ — Archer Rogue | Artificer | ♡ Iron Bull

Devyn Amell — Creation & Entropy Mage | Spirit Healer, Blood Mage, & Battlemage | ♡ Morrigan Lorena Hawke — Two-Handed Weapon Warrior | Berserker | ♡ Merrill Berik Casash — Dual-Wielding Rogue | Tempest | ♡ Dorian

Recca Aeducan ♕ — Two-Handed Weapon Warrior | Berserker & Reaver | ♡ Alistair Gladys Hawke — Dual-Wielding Rogue | Duelist | ♡ Fenris Evelyn Trevelyan — Winter Mage | Rift Mage | ♡ Josephine

Kallian Tabris — Dual-Wielding Rogue | Duelist & Shadow | ♡ Leliana Catherine Hawke ♕ — Primal & Creation Mage | Spirit Healer | ♡ Sebastian Elda Cadash — Two-Handed Weapon Warrior | Reaver | ♡ Blackwall

Aedan Cousland — Archer Rogue | Bard & Assassin | ♡ Anora Tanner Hawke — Elemental & Spirit Mage | Blood Mage | ♡ Merrill Ilana Lavellan — Sword & Shield Warrior | Champion | ♡ Solas

Neria Surana — Primal & Spirit Mage | Arcane Warrior & Keeper | ♡ Alistair Lilian Hawke — Two-Handed Weapon Warrior | Reaver | ♡ Isabela Kaaras Adaar — Dual-Wielding Rogue | Assassin | ♡ Cassandra

Elyon Mahariel — Archer Rogue | Ranger & Assassin | ♡ Morrigan Rylan Hawke — Sword & Shield Warrior | Templar | ♡ Fenris Mana Lavellan — Spirit & Inferno Mage | Necromancer | ♡ Cullen

Vico Amell ♕ — Entropy & Spirit Mage | Shapeshifter & Blood Mage | ♡ Zevran Letty Hawke — Archer Rogue | Assassin | ♡ Anders

[felidaefighter]

I have a whole slew of books on my bookshelf I can recommend!

Island Of The Aunts by Eva Ibbotson

Follows two kids who are unhappy/unsafe in their homes and are “rehomed” to foster aunts, to help care for magical creatures

The Land Of Elyon (trilogy) by Patrick Carman

Follows a girl who lives in a sheltered city, and makes her way into the wildneress with the help of a magic stone that allows her to speak with animals

The Outcast Of Redwall by Brian Jacques

A story about little animals (mainly mice I believe) who live in mideival-type settings. Not sure if this is fully fantasy but it might be cool, there’s also several books in the Redwall series to choose from but this one’s my personal favorite

Inkheart by Cornelia Funke

A girl whose father’s silver tongue is so powerful that when he reads stories aloud they come true, and she and her father read themselves into the world of a book

Varjak Paw by S. F. Said

This is how I found Warrior Cats honestly, it’s about a kitten who learns martial arts in order to rescue his family and solve the mystery of very gruesome and horrifying disappearances throughout the city he escapes into

I hope this is kinda what you’re looking for !

can anyone suggest books for a teenager who is not into anything with old-timey language but likes fantasy. previous enjoyed books have been: good omens, wtnv (book), guardians of ga'hoole, warrior cats, no country for old men (?????), his dark materials

i really really want to get them more books. they're currently reading gideon the ninth but are on the fence about it.

[auroralynne]

Caleb/Elyon - "Warrior" by Aurora Lynne The Queen/Light of Meridian taking bow and arrow classes from her favorite teacher <3 They're still in my system, there will be more. Hope you like it! -DO NOT REPOST-