#Kingpriest

[honore-art]

Kingpriest of Istar

[the-pale-chancellor]

Some official art for the new "The Last Trial" rock opera

Translations: Raistlin: "The black moon devoured the morning" Crysania: "Creator, it is not my will, but yours" Caramon: "People will follow you" The Kingpriest: "I am called upon to purge evil with fire"

Art credits: https://vk.com/valtor_fabulos The last trial blog: https://vk.com/neoposledneepi

[skull-bearer]

Chapters: 2/? Fandom: Dragonlance - Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Dalamar the Dark/Raistlin Majere Characters: Raistlin Majere, Dalamar the Dark, Mari, William Sweetwater, Par-Salian (Dragonlance), Justarius (Dragonlance), Ladonna (Dragonlance), Original Male Character(s), Original Female Character(s) Additional Tags: Coming Back, Second Chances, Changing the Darkness, Towers of High Sorcery, Return, Mind Control Aftermath & Recovery, Optimism, Definitely Upbeat, Friendship, Dating, Alternate Universe - Flower Shop, ish, Healing, Cuddles, Things Get Better, Secret Identity, Secret Identity Fail, magic shows, Raistlin actually having fun for once Series: Part 2 of A Second Chance Summary:

Raistlin is alive again, and determined to make the most of it. He meets old friends, and some both old and new.

Chapter 2 Raistlin and Mari reach Losacrum, and get to work.

[ask-the-crimson-king]

I would've had more Warhammer but I also want to shout out the other things that have been possessing my brain for the past few months.

Honorable Mentions to Kingpriest Beldinas, Governor Beckett Brass, and One Specific NPC from a pf2e game I've been playing in for nearly 2 years now.

Tagging: @jakey-beefed-it, @trukingofskeletonhell, @tzeentchs-secretary-tea-time, @tagedeszorns, @ave-dominus-nostramos

Blorbo Poll

Rules: make a poll with five of your all-time favourite characters and then tag five people to do the same. See which character is everyone's favourite.

Tagged by @powersuitup. Probably very predictable picks for anyone who knows me but whatevs.

NP tagging @tweetthang96, @coolnerdyrn, @kayliemalinza, @raaorqtpbpdy, and @thephilosophersapprentice.

[hubrisbracket]

list of characters with only 1 submission under the cut

characters need more than 1 submission to qualify, so if your blorbo is on this list, submit them!

sorted alphabetically by fandom:

Manfred Von Karma - Ace Attorney

Dahlia Hawthorne - Ace Attorney

Princess Bubblegum - Adventure Time

Sasha Waybright - Amphibia

Gale - Baldur's Gate 3

Vess Derogna - Critical Role (Campaign 2) (mostly a joke by mod bee bc i really like her)

Zerxus Ilrez - Critical Role (Exandria Unlimited Calamity)

Vegeta - Dragon Ball Z

The Kingpriest - Dragonlance

Legarde - Fear and Hunger

Berkut - Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadow of Valentia

Victor Frankenstein - Frankenstein

Ibex/Attar Rose - Friends At The Table: Counter/weight

Scaramouche - Genshin Impact

Lucilius - Granblue Fantasy

Bill Cipher - Gravity Falls

Prometheus - Greek Mythology

Narcissus - Greek Mythology

Zeus - Greek Mythology

Bellerophon - Greek Mythology

Jason Dean/JD - Heathers

The Pale King - Hollow Knight

Rose Lalonde - Homestuck

Vriska - Homestuck

Simon - Infinity Train

Amelia Hughes - Infinity Train

John Hammond - Jurassic Park (Novel)

Dan Kuroto- Kamen Rider (Ex Aid)

Tendou Souji/Kamen Rider - Kamen Rider Kabuto (2006)

Clutch Powers - Lego Ninjago

Morro - Lego Ninjago

Muu Kusunoki - Milgram (by Deco*27)

Gabriel Agreste - Miraculous Ladybug

Wei Wuxian - Mo Dao Zu Shi/Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation

Queen Chrysalis - My Little Pony

Cozy Glow - My Little Pony

Hannibal Lecter - NBC Hannibal

François Toulour/The Night Fox - Ocean’s 12

The Shapeshifter - Odd Squad

Top - Only Friends

Goro Akechi - Persona 5

Marcus - Pokemon The Movie: Arceus And The Jewel Of Life

Homura Akemi - Puella Magi Madoka Magica

Maya Tendou - Revue Starlight

Dr. Frank n Futer - Rocky Horror Picture Show

Catra - She Ra

Dr. Eggman - Sonic

Medic - Team Fortress 2

Lucretia - The Adventure Zone: Balance

Lucifer - The Bible

Ghirahim - The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword

Scar - The Lion King

Zira - The Lion King 2

Henry Winter - The Secret History

Number Five Hargreeves - The Umbrella Academy

Edward Kendal Sheridan Lionheart - Theatre of Blood

Fei Wong Reed - Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle by CLAMP

Gabriel - Ultrakill

V2 - Ultrakill

[majerelioncourt]

This scene hurt so much to watch. Tantai Jin is realizing that his whole life has been predetermined by the Devil God. He feels like no decision has been his and he has had no free will.

It reminded me a lot of this passage from "War of the Twins" by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman For those unfamiliar, the Black Robe wizard, Raistlin Majere has a plan to become a god, but he needs a Cleric of Paladine. a god of good, to help him enter the Abyss to kill Takhisis, the Queen of Darkness, so he can take her place. They travel in time, but they take the places of the previous people, who attempted to enter into the Abyss. Raistlin ends up feeling like he has been walking in the footsteps of Fistandantilus:

 “Master of Past and Present!” Raistlin laughed hollowly—bitter, mocking laughter. “I am Master of nothing! All this power, and I am trapped! Trapped! Following in his footsteps, knowing that every second that passes has passed before! I see people I’ve never seen, yet I know them! I hear the echo of my own words before I speak them! This face!” His hands pressed against his cheeks. “This face! His face! Not mine! Not mine! Who am I? I am my own executioner!”

I also choose to hope like Crysania that together, Tantai Jin and Li Susu can change the ending like she says here:

“No,” she said softly, her gray eyes looking up at him, shining in the bright sunlight that filtered through the leaves, holding him with her steadfast gaze, “we will alter time, you and I! You are more powerful than Fistandantilus. I am stronger in my faith than Denubis! I heard the Kingpriest’s demands of the gods. I know his mistake! Paladine will answer my prayers as he has in the past. Together, we will change the ending … you and I.…”

[whats-in-a-sentence]

Canticle of the Dragon

Hear the sage as his song descends

like heaven's rain or tears,

and washes the years, the dust of the many stories

from the High Tale of the Dragonlance.

For in ages deep, past memory and word,

in the first blush of the world

when the three moons rose from the lap of the forest,

dragons, terrible and great,

made war on this world of Krynn.

Yet out of the darkness of dragons,

out of our cries for light

in the blank face of the black moon soaring,

a banked light flared in Solamnia,

a knight of truth and of power

who called down the gods themselves

and forged the mighty Dragonlance, piercing the soul

of dragonkind, driving the shade of their wings

from the brightening shores of Krynn.

Thus Huma, Knight of Solamnia,

Lightbringer, First Lancer,

followed his light to the foot of the Khalkist Mountains,

to the stone feet of the gods,

to the crouched silence of their temple.

He called down the Lancemakers, he took on

their unspeakable power to crush the unspeakable evil,

to thrust the coiling darkness

back down the tunnel of the dragon's throat.

Paladine, the Great God of Good,

shone at the side of Huma,

strengthening the lance of his strong right arm,

and Huma, ablaze in a thousand moons,

banished the Queen of Darkness,

banished the swarm of her shrieking hosts

back to the senseless kingdom of death, where their curses

swooped upon nothing and nothing

deep below the brightening land.

Thus ended in thunder the Age of Dreams

and began the Age of Might,

When Istar, kingdom of light and truth, arose in the east,

where minarets of white and gold

spired to the sun and to the sun's glory,

announcing the passing of evil,

and Istar, who mothered and cradled the long summers of good,

shone like a meteor

in the white skies of the just.

Yet in the fullness of sunlight

the Kingpriest of Istar saw shadows:

At night he saw the trees as things with daggers, the streams

blackened and thickened under the silent moon.

He searched books for the paths of Huma,

for scrolls, signs, and spells

so that he, too, might summon the gods, might find

their aid in his holy aims,

might purge the world of sin.

Then came the time of dark and death

as the gods turned from the world.

A mountain of fire crashed like a comet through Istar,

the city split like a skull in the flames,

mountains burst from once-fertile valleys,

seas poured into the graves of mountains,

the deserts sighed on abandoned floors of the seas,

the highways of Krynn erupted

and became the paths of the dead.

Thus began the Age of Despair.

The roads were tangled.

The winds and the sandstorms dwelt in the husks of cities,

The plains and mountains became our home.

As the old gods lost their power,

we called to the blank sky

into the cold, dividing gray to the ears of new gods.

The sky is calm, silent, unmoving.

We have yet to hear their answer.

"DragonLance Chronicles: Dragons of Autumn Twilight" - Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman

[vivianvixen]

The alignment framework in Dragonlance is fucked

First of all, the setting makes a huge deal about how important balance is, but also the good gods are more correct than the others and the evil gods are the most wrong, at least when it comes to how they are to deal with mortals. So clearly the High God has a favorite side.

But that's not the worst of it, oh no. Let's talk about the Cataclysm, the event that shaped the world of the original Dragonlance modules. The gods tossed a mountain on Istar to punish the Kingpriest for his hubris. But what was said hubris?

At the height of the Holy Empire of Istar, the forces of good had decisively won, basically ruling the entire continent of Ansalon. They went on to destroy the churches of the evil and neutral gods, legalize slavery, and enact genocide against goblins and minotaurs. So the argument seems to be that if the forces of good aren't balanced by the forces of evil, they'll do all the same things that the forces of evil would, but just in the name of good, which is some epic level "both sides" horseshoe theory nonsense.

Is this what the gods, specifically the good ones, punished Istar for? No, not really. They did send various calamities as warnings, but the people just assumed it was the doing of the evil gods, because why would they think anything else? And the last straw for the good gods wasn't all the slavery and genocide, it was when the Kingpriest asked them to be made a god.

And all the while, the Kingpriest remained lawful good.

[cosmik-homo]

I'm still not Watching la/st trial just flitting through it- the 2017 proshot this time- but i will admit what drew me to rly commit to watching it soon was looking at one of the exchanges with the kingpriest and crysania and going "alfred-samah core". the children long for a death gate cycle musical.

[the-pale-chancellor]

Okay, so DM is Astinus (I still have no idea who that mf is I've just seen the pics with him), fourth wall break is probably Raist looking at the crowd when the Kingpriest tells that they didn't manage to find the "Dark Mage" ™, but what about the players huh????

So no one was gonna tell me that they added a DM, players, and fourth wall breaks to The Last Trial? I was just supposed to find that out myself? 😭

[the-pale-chancellor]

more cringeposting, but from the actual recorded video (which I'm gonna post soon). bro's ascending

[skull-bearer]

Invictus Fans

For the sequel,

Andras Rannoch POC character y/n?

Or, for those who haven't read the Kingpriest trilogy-

Andras Rannoch is the mage who cursed the tower after being brainwashed and completely fucked over by Fistandantilus. He has been brought back to life as of end of Invictus, and I am seriously tempted to make him a POV character.

He still isn't aware the Cataclysm happened,

[therealkrynnsub]

[skull-bearer]

It actually got me to finish of my Kingpriest trilogy re-read.

Man Beldinas is a dick

Day 2 of the Ao3 outage. My God, if this continues much longer, I might actually have to read *books*.

[kait-draws-vanguard]

moar memes

[penume]

Day 46. Tympanum of the chosen of Horu. The angels who rose up from the post-mutant-cybernetic-vampire strain of dwarves were appreciated for their beauty mostly in the acoustic realm. Some of them had saggy chinsacks that were not appreciated by other folk. #digitalpainting #drawingoftheday #drawnonmyphone #autodesksketchbook #dwarf #tympanum #bookproject #conceptart #highking #kingpriest #angel Also BBQ'd a huge roast as small part of a big dinner tonight for some amazing babes.