#Haurchefant/WoL

[bulkier-sphinx]

Hyborian Age

Rewatched Conan the Barbarian recently and got inspired.

[angelinlazurite]

[Repost January 2022]

Together Forever

[neunian]

🥺

[tovaicas]

↳ ʜᴀᴜʀᴄʜᴇꜰᴀɴᴛ ɢʀᴇʏꜱᴛᴏɴᴇ ✦ ʜᴏᴜꜱᴇ ꜰᴏʀᴛᴇᴍᴘꜱ ✦ ᴏꜰ ᴛʜᴇ ꜱɪʟᴠᴇʀ ꜰᴜʟʟᴇʀ

— ʙᴜᴛ ʀᴇᴍᴇᴍʙᴇʀ, ɴᴏ ᴍᴀᴛᴛᴇʀ ʜᴏᴡ ꜰᴀʀ ʏᴏᴜ ᴍᴀʏ ʀᴏᴀᴍ, ʏᴏᴜ ᴍᴀʏ ᴇᴠᴇʀ ᴄᴏɴꜱɪᴅᴇʀ ᴛʜɪꜱ ᴘʟᴀᴄᴇ ʏᴏᴜʀ ʜᴏᴍᴇ.

[dainesanddaffodils]

Thinking about how I’d known Haurchefant died from early on (I wasn’t spoiled-spoiled - I just had a feeling from Reactions I’d gotten when mentioning that my wol loved him) and it was so still much worse than I thought it would be

Because, since I knew it was coming I started looking for signs of the when’s and how’s of it. And the lead up to The Vault was pretty fucking obvious with that in mind.

So I’m listening to Haurchefant make his impassioned speeches after Aymeric is captured. How it’s his Knightly Duty to Aid Those in Need and Rescue a Good Honorable Man like Ser Aymeric etc etc

And I go “oh yeah okay he’s going to have his big Knight Moment and die saving Aymeric gotcha gotcha”

And then. he doesn’t.

He dies saving the Warrior of Light.

And I’m sure it’s a different read if you don’t ship your WoL with him but boy fucking howdy if, like me, you do!!

It’s Haurchefant, who has put so much of his fucking identity into knighthood and serving Ishgard and all that jazz, in the single emotional instant of the Warrior of Light being in peril - throwing all of that away to protect them. because in that instant that is all that matters to him. they are all that matters to him.

it's there in his final words, how he says "forgive me, i could not bear the thought [of you being harmed]"

he loved the Warrior of Light so much that for a second it eclipsed everything else. and thats what killed him.

anyways my WoL is real fucked up about this everyone have a nice night

[shalpilot]

this was gonna be an angst comic abt the night after the banquet but it went silly instead

[haverdoodles]

stay warm, dear friend! ❄️

— (haurchefant)

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just finished ARR part 2 and entering heavensward :") accidentally spoiled a crucial part of his story for myself when searching for refs (rip) but i adore him regardless

why so serious pookie!!!!

[katriaarts]

who up finalling their fantasy fourteen

[arcteris]

different ways of looking out for the wol

[tritoch]

thinking about the fact that the vault is level 57 and paladin wols learn to heal the very next level when they gain clemency at 58...ow

[bulkier-sphinx]

Day 17 - Free Day

N'reska always looked forward to her and Haurchefant's secret trysts.

Bonus below the cut.

*touches the butt*

[kanamedaite]

Short comic about The Vault with some wolchefant flavor

[neverunnie]

some of my fav haurcheroshos and some bonus sillies ☺️

[artofalassa]

The Books And the Cocoa

And a lapful of cat. Piece for @/blizzly. Thank you so much!! <3

[koukouture]

I'm sorry but every single day I think about how it's implied that WoL was driven to confront Thordan mainly because of Haurchefant's death. Like yk we're the hero we're supposed to do things because they're right!!!! Not this time. Thordan is terrified of WoL once you defeat him because now he's on the receiving edge of vengeance.

Beautiful moment, tbh. WoL has so many other little moments of characterization that I will eventually talk about.

[stars-and-clouds]

You know what makes Aymeric and Haurchefant special?

Despite having every reason to be cold, vengeful, mean and selfish people-being bastards, living in a house they weren't born to, growing up in an environment as hostile as Ishgard, having inherent beliefs different to everyone around them- they still chose to be kind.

I think it takes something away from them if we assume they were simply born with a kinder deposition.

Haurchefant was bullied by all of Ishgard, including his step mother, for being a Greystone. Aymeric was adopted and has really low self esteem because he probably grew up hearing how ill deserving he is of everything he got by being adopted into house Borel. Yet they both made a conscious choice to be better. They wanted to treat others the way they wanted to be treated themselves. They wanted to love and invite change when Ishgard taught hate and stagnation.

This is why the warrior of light would've failed in doing everything they did if it wasn't for Haurchefant and Aymeric. How many warriors of light have tried helping Ishgard before us? Over hundreds of years of war, this revolution can't have been the only one. Yet it was during our lifetime that the stars aligned perfectly to have Haurchefant aid us and Aymeric lead us into changing Ishgard for the better and bring about peace.

Without Haurchefant, we'd have ended up in prison and possibly executed (he saves us again by taking a blow meant for us) and we wouldn't have been let into Ishgard. And without Aymeric's trust over his best friend he wouldn't have let us go to Dravania and afterwards, invite the reality shattering truth about his ancestors' actions and usher Ishgard to peace and unity.

Everyone hails the Warrior of Light as the antithesis to bad with absolute power. That, if they're there, everything is solved. But without Haurchefants and Aymerics, the Warrior of Light would be nothing and would not be able to solve half the problems they have solved.