#Emrik

[experi-sketches]

Can we get some Emrik lore?

omg yes!! I love Emrik and relish the opportunity to talk about the stuff in his life that (most likely) won't come up or be relevant in AIBT's main plot lol.

Allow me to ramble through a (brief) summary of Emrik's past:

Emrik is Eskari, obv, (a drowen elf,) and he was born in Eskaria's capital city, Caskari. The oldest of three, he had two younger brothers, Amril and Helvrik. His father was a blacksmith, and his mother was a soldier with a strong skill for sword-wielding. They became infatuated with one another after she commissioned a sword from him, and the rest was history.

While Amril and Helvrik both took after their father with blacksmithing, Emrik inherited his mother's athleticism, strength, and knack for sword wielding. He followed in her footsteps and became a soldier, making a name for himself among the ranks of Caskari's City Guard, and was eventually promoted into the Rul ban-Kari, essentially Eskaria's national army. Soldier's life kept him busy, and he was often sent on campaigns to settle skirmishes or attacks at the border. (Even before the days of the Avissithi-Vann War - the long, final war between Alravanntir and Eskaria - the Vanntinese picked fights with Eskaria.) It was during one of these border disputes that his mother was slain by a Vanntinese arrow. Emrik managed to retrieve his mother's sword (the very one his father made for her all those centuries past) and bring it back to his father. And so by the time the war broke out in earnest many years later, Emrik had a very long history of hating the Vanntinese.

By the time the war came around, Emrik was a Captain in the Rul ban-Kari. The war lasted for centuries. The great mage who founded Eskaria, Vasuthann-kari, had passed on long ago and was no longer alive to protect his people, and so, with the full force of Divine power backing the Vanntinese legions, it was a slow, painful death for the Eskari people. Caskari was the nation's last stronghold. Emrik made sure his father and brothers stayed in the city all through the war, where he knew they were protected by the magic of Caskari's Concillum, but when the final battle arrived at Caskari's gates, the Vanntinese legions led by the Divine Heir Prince Inuele, Emrik couldn't shelter them any longer. In a final bid for survival, all able-bodied Caskari citizens were enlisted to fight, which included Emrik's family. All three were slain in the Battle of Caskari, despite Emrik's desperate attempts to protect them. It's a loss that he still feels to this day: his utter failure to protect the people he loved.

Which pretty much brings us to events we're familiar with. Inuele ripped the Concillum from beneath Caskari to win the battle, and was subsequently slain in retreat, falling to Emrik's sword - a sword that was made for Emrik by his youngest brother Helvrik. He has since lost that blade during his centuries spent on the lam, but he's thought of it often, and wished to have it back.

Some other general facts about Emrik are that, at the start of AIBT, he's about seven hundred-someodd years old (I forget the exact number I gave in the story lol), and he's a fairly average magician, as far as elves go. He's no great mage, but he has enough magic to be dangerous in battle. As far as his romantic tastes he makes no distinction between men or women, which is common across all elven cultures, but he's had very little time or interest for romance since the fall of Caskari. He often copes with fear using humor, and his humor tends to be quite dry, another trait inherited from his mother. Aaaaaand I feel like that's enough rambling for now. This answer is probably too long, but I've had so few chances to talk about Emrik's past during AIBT that I couldn't help myself 😭

Thank you for your question!!! (An Iron Blood Tale can be read on my ao3!)

[valravnocs]

Dorin, Achim, + Emrik (x)

[sandythereadingcafe]

REVIEW 

EMRIK (Lunar Uprising 6) by Cyndi Friberg at The Reading Cafe

‘The fast paced premise intriguing and entertaining; the romance is fated and subtle‘

https://www.thereadingcafe.com/emrik-lunar-uprising-6-by-cyndi-friberg-a-review/

[thereadingcafe]

[loveallthegays]

Chance Hurstfield as Danny Dixon in A Million Little Things 5x03 In The Room

[experi-sketches]

Waaaah!! Please look at this adorable fan art I received of Emrik and Jerre from @allyheart707​!! I can’t even handle how cute they both are 😭😭 Thank you!!

Fanart for the story An Iron Blood Tale: Iron and Gold by @experi-sketches

[nujavlar]

Bebis

[bikerboyfriend]

screenshot dump from my new save

[fragmentedink-archived]

I think one of my favorite things is emriks favorite animal is a cow. he likes big sweaters and chicken nuggies. he's a sweetie who also happens to eat ppl when he's scared but no one's perfect

[universeofgalacia]

Emrik Devine. Bee hybrid. Pro hero Bee Plus.

[roffe-otto]

HELP I UNINTENTIONALLY MADE HIS COLOR SCHEME THE FUCKING ARO FLAG 💀💀💀

ERIK

EMRIK

[experi-sketches]

Last Line Tag

I’ve been tagged by @burntcoffeewhump for the last line tag! Rules are to post the last line (or lines) of whatever you’re working on. Sadly I won’t post the very last lines I’ve written (they’re a bit too spoiler-y) but I’ll post something very near it! 

This is a little segment from the finale of book one of An Iron Blood Tale. (We get Emrik’s POV!) 

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"Sit," Sindri said, and the guards grabbed Emrik to push him down onto the chair. There was rope, suddenly, and Emrik felt his arms wrenched behind him, forearms lashed to the thick posts of the chair's back, his wrists pulled and bound together. The guards worked hurriedly, as though they wanted to get their hands off him as quickly as possible. For one crazy moment Emrik thought to throw them off before he was fully bound and show them the proper way to wield elven steel—but then he let the thought go. It would be pointless. Even if he avoided the ropes, he was still up three-to-one, and without his magic to boot. Not to mention that he was stranded on a ship and surrounded by Sindri's men, loyalists from his Costravann days. Emrik buried fantasies of driving a blade straight through Sindri's gut as the knots were pulled dangerously tight. The guards stepped away, receding to the doors behind Emrik, standing at attention.

Sindri looked him up and down. "You're looking well," he said. His eyes narrowed. "Surprisingly so."

"Most kind of you," Emrik bit out.

~~

I tag @pierrotwrites-hc and @i-can-even-burn-salad (sorry for my lurking tendencies but y’all’s writing is just so lovely 😭) and also leaving as a general open tag!

[formlab]

Kollage is a housing project that also contains a foodstore, two studios and a loading station. Model 1:50 by Carl Fredrik Emrik

[polese65]

SAVEGE REFERENCE SHEETS

🥳🥳🥳🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈HAPPY PRIDE MOUTH EVERYONE 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🥳🥳🥳 Starting the mouth with the new reference sheet of the Drama Queen him self, Savege. Love his new design, I make a little bit more gay to be honest, also the outfits of his different stage of age, I delive then he he doesn't like dressing coordinated like Rumble and Elzy, no he want to stand out, he want to be notice, he want to people say "he is hot!!" when they look at him. About the Bone demon form, I believe then respect of Rumble, Savege will definitely use more his bone demon power, be serious he is a theatre kid who love drama with the power to possess and control people, death body or even things, of course he will use it as his like. Note about his armor, very Savege, he love stay shortless, he spand most of his free time with out a shirt on, so obviously he is going to fight with out it. Now a minute of silence to admire Female Savege (minute of silence).Fun fact, she also have the behaviour to stay shirtless, but she is topless only at home, unfortunately she had wear something to cover when she is out and also when she fights, the minimum to cover but never nothing. I decide then Elzy, Ao Yan and Rumble in their Genderbent counterparts will remain in order Pan, Bi and Ace, Emrik (Genderbent Ember) is going to be a straight men, so he will like girls. And Savege is going to be a lesbian, because Savege have the behaviour to haunt down gay men to had thier name to his list s€x list, so of course it will be fun if Femele Savege keep this behaviour but regarding gay women, been the embodiment of the Lesbian Hunter, and look at her I don't think she will find a problem to find women.

[sleepyowlwrites]

so who are *your* vibe ocs? :0

*deep inhale* lemme just check my notes. there are...a lot of them.

Ben and Ty from Apocalypse Story are strong vibes ocs. although I've given each of them some traits and personality quirks, they are largely two overlapping sets of vibes. Ben is the nervous, earnest, hopeful, lonely kind, and Ty is the unaffected, mysterious, pop-culture quoting, lonely kind.

all the kids from Thief story are vibes thus far. Ivan is the mischievous MC kid, Reed is the leaderly kid, Dreya is the adventurous kid, Poppy is the flighty, sassy kid, Caro is the unsure kid, and Katlan is the reliable kid.

Dair from Summon Story is largely vibes. he grew up in the Claybeak gang and recently left, so he's lost and awkward, and doesn't trust easily. the Claybeaks are a gang notorious for stealing children's dreams to feed them to spirits, and then the spirits possess the kids to hep them with thievery or even murder! Dair's vibes are fidgety and splotchy.

Ernest from Magick story is all vibes. he's a cool dude! he likes rocks and doing magick with rocks and going into caves and discovering rocks and teaching kids about rocks. he's got grey skin and red hair (from working with rocks) and he has the best catchphrase.

Emrik and Qaz from Ghost story are vibes. Emrik is "intelligent academic did not sign up to be a ghost in another dimension" and Qaz is "I'm too smart and cool to be solving your ghost problems but I'm also loyal friend so here I am'." Qaz is also a werecat, which is cool.

Era and Lin from Portal Story are a singular vibe, that being "I met someone from another world and I'm afraid to lose them and never see them again."

Faroom from Space Story is literally a cosmic being, so of course they're a vibe.

Gale from Summer Story is the vibe of "mentor you didn't know you needed until just now."

everybody from Emporium Story is a vibe currently. harried retail workers.

Lunetta and Sebastian from Train story, but they're supposed to be vibes? the whole wip is just VIBES the story.

Ondo from Guild Story! a vibe. the cat and curiosity. I don't have anything else.

that's it for the greater vibes-over-actual-character characters.

thanks for the reverse uno, Amarantine!

[loveallthegays]

Chance Hurstfield and Emrik Lopez in A Million Little Things 5x11