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Thoughout the two shows the reoccurence of particular events happened. You could consider them curses with how badly events turned for the characters. Two of which being never run or be the Mayor of Star(ling) City or you may end up dead before reelection and try not to become the love interest for Caitlin Snow and never be seen again.
Which is these two curses is the superior one?
#caitlin snow#quentin lance#arrow#the flash#arrowverse#Moria queen#I'm not tagging everyone who was a mayor in arrow#I dont even remember them all#danielle panabaker#paul blackthorne#susanna thompson#dctv#arrow cw#the flash cw#Admittedly DP herself put an end to that curse in some part by season 4#But I'mma vote for Mayor cause that seriously is a cursed position in star city#this has been in the draft folder since october cause i couldn't think of the right pics to use lol
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OP hotties from most to least awkward when flirting
Haha let’s gooo😂😂😂
Most awkward to least at flirting…
Rosinantè Donquixote aka Cora-San💕
Koby🦸💘
Katakuri Charlotte 🍡
Fujitora 🐅
Karasu🐦⬛
Oven Charlotte 🍞
Eustass Kidd🤘🎸
Buggy🤡
Gecko Moria🦇
Akainu🌋
Dragon D Monkey 🐉🐒
Rob Lucci🐆
Iceburg💜
Douglas Bullet🚅
Killer🔪
Ryokugyu 🌱
Kaido🐉
Gild Tesoro⚜️🏅
Who’s-Who ❤️🔥👹
Marco the Phoenix 🦅
Queen👑
Sir Crocodile 🐊
King 👑
Benn Beckman 🔫
Doflamingo Donquixote 🦩
Izou🔫🔫
Kizaru ✨
#one piece#sir crocodile#crocodile one piece#akainu sakazuki#one piece akainu#donquixote doflamingo#king one piece#killer one piece#queen one piece#aramaki ryokugyu#fujitora issho#benn beckman#charlotte katakuri#kaido one piece#izou one piece#monkey d dragon#eustass captain kidd#buggy the clown#marco the phoenix#gecko moria#iceburg one piece#gild tesoro#rob lucci#borsalino kizaru#who’s who one piece#koby the hero#karasu one piece#douglas bullet#donquixote rosinante#Charlotte oven
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All evidence suggests yes
#starting a new power scaling system for the warlords of the sea but im rating them based on whether i think theyre an ally or homophobic#kuma is an ally because photos dont lie and hes clearly wearing an ally pin#also you cant spend that much time around somebody with the title “Queen of the Queers” and somehow be homophobic afterwards#unless youre sanji but hes still on his internalized homophobia growth arc. i believe in you buddy you can beat this#crocodile is trans and baroque works is the alphabet mafia in a literal form#with that said. he has the energy of “im not homophobic yall are just annoying”#doffy has the energy of a homophobic homosexual#like hed kiss a guy and then call him a f*g and throw him out a nearby window#jimbei joins the strawhats so ofc HES an ally#blackbeard sucks but i dont think hes homophobic#hes one of those people you meet and theyre just the worst all around and youre like “man this guy has gotta be homophobic”#somebody mentions their partner and you go “oh boy here it is” but he just has no reaction whatsoever#hes such a problem but at least hes not homophobic on top of everything else#Gecko Moria is such a virgin that i dont think he knows being gay exists any more than he knows being straight does#Typa MFer who thinks “sex” is just a synonym for gender#also hed see your top scars and get excited because he thinks youre a zombie#gecko moria probably thinks LGBT is an acronym for some branch of the navy that he doesnt know (or care) about#Because Boa lives on Sapphic island i would jump the gun and immediately say she's an ally but i feel that its more complicated than that#not unlike moria. she also doesnt actually have a real strong grasp on being straight vs being queer#but thats just because shes used to everybody being whipped for her equally#somebody tries to explain it to her and shes just like “??? but theyre all obsessed with me?”#if she ever encounters a gay man it will be a reality shifting event for her#id say itd be the same if she met a sex/romance indifferent aroace but like#monkey d luffy#its already happened#mihawk is probably both an ally and queer himself but he just minds his own business so much that we may never know#one piece#seven warlords#warlords of the sea#bartholomew kuma
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Moria: The universe is cold and unfeeling. The only constant is chaos.
Brook: Was that place out of chocolate-chip pancakes again?
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Moria: ���Ladies and gentlemen” is unnecessarily gendered, overly formal, lengthy, and honestly, I’m falling asleep already. “Cowards” on the other hand, is inclusive to all genders, to the point, and dramatic.
Moria: Much more my style.
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Moria: I need you to come meet me, and I need you to come alone.
Brook: And I need you to be less vague and weird.
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Moria: What is this?
Brook, hugging Moria: Affection!
Moria: Disgusting.
Moria: ...Do it again.
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Brook: Treat spiders the way you want to be treated.
Moria: Killed without hesitation.
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Brook: Priest kink is definitely a thing and I am afflicted by it.
Moria: Go to church.
Moria: WAIT—
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Moria: Ok so, apparently the "bad vibes" I've been feeling are actually severe psychological distress.
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Brook: Perona got into a fight.
Moria: That’s bad.
Moria:
Moria: Did she win?
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Brook: I couldn't do this without you, Moria.
Moria: Sure you could. Not as stylishly, of course
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Perona: Master Moria keeps forgetting which WiFi network he’s supposed to use.
Perona: So I renamed ours to "Moria, use this one" to help him out a little.
#one piece#sigma's one piece au#incorrect quotes#gecko moria#gekko moriah#soul king brook#soul queen brook#female brook#perona#one piece au#moria x brook
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Daily 30 min sketches 21/2/23-2/3/23
Sorry I haven't been updating these so often I've been busy, I'll schedule them from now on so I can catch up quicker
#art#artwork#fanart#sketchbook#sketches#daily sketch#one piece#jojos bizarre adventure#one piece fanart#jojos bizzare adventure fanart#vocaloid#leone abbacchio#elden ring#rennala queen of the full moon#diego brando#crocodile#hot pants#shanks#monkey d. luffy#gecko moria#rin kagamine#basil hawkins#anime#manga#lineart#sketch#artist#steel ball run#one piece manga#len kagamine
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Unhinged or unhinged?
#Sauron’s Spotify Wrapped 2024#all men must die except for aragorn#came for the ring but stayed for the throne#elrond would of slapped joffery#samwise would of burnt kings landing too#the red keep is just edoras with extra steps#the lord of light and the dark lord are frenemies#sauron didn’t spend years forging the rings just to deal with lannisters#numenor would totally take the iron islands#all hail the witch queen of angmar#the mines of moria would make a great throne room#winter is coming but so is gandalf#unhinged#playlist names#lord of the rings#playlist#spotify#game of thrones#house of the dragon#the rings of power#spotify playlist
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Draw me anything involving QUEEN Disa! (Bats eyelashes) Please.
Queen Disa my beloved ♫
#I WOULD DIE FOR HER#(and so would Durin)#rings of power#trop#lotr trop#the rings of power#disa#queen disa#disa trop#disa the rings of power#lotr disa#trop fanart#rings of power fanart#lotr fanart#[sketchbook]#f; lotr#f; rings of power#khazad dum#khazad dum dia#moria
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LOTRO question: Can you ride the Honey Goat mount from Bees Big Business instance rewards in Moria? Or do they do weird justificationy stuff to disqualify it? Bc if it counts I will be running that instance a LOT to get everyone but Hal that goat. xD
#queen in middle earth#i have already bought iri a cloak and rhia a new outfit with spring leaves :3#i need to look at the pets again bc hal's menagerie might increase some more#i just really don't wanna have to wait to raise rep for my other mains to get one of the moria goat mounts
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"Beetlejuice" Recast (OP)
🖤👻💚
Betelgeuse: Gecko Moria
Adam Maitland: Franky
Barbara Maitland: Nico Robin
Lydia Deetz: Tempeste G. Venus (my OC)
Charles Deetz: Dracule Mihawk
Delia Deetz: Catarina Devon
Otho Fenlock: Hogback
Beryl: Victoria Cindry
Grace: Honey Queen
Juno: Kureha
Magician Assistant: Boa Hancock
Maxie Dean: Cabaji
Sarah Dean: Alvida
Jane Butterfield: Zala (Ms. Doublefinger)
Ms. Argentina: Perona
#subject to change#recast#beetlejuice#one piece#one piece oc#tempeste g. venus#gecko moria#cyborg franky#nico robin#dracule mihawk#catarina devon#dr hogback#victoria cindry#honey queen#dr. kureha#boa hancock#ms doublefinger#perona#cabaji#alvida
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rarepair this rarepair that
if someone saw my rarepairs i keep to myself theyd hurl
#ride or die for whatever ship name moria and cas would be#i dont even kow why i gravitate to em think they'd have a funny little dynamic#moria cas and hanzo??? okay now were cooking#hanzo would be their vee imo#junker queen and ashe??? yeah good stuff right there#phara zarya also scratches my brain#mauga moira as well thats such a fun little dynamic#does lucio and venture count as a rarepair?#yeah those are kinda my top ones#overwatch#rambles
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#lumikuningatar#snow queen#the snow queen#prins hatt under jorden#prince hat under the ground#de vilde svaner#the wild swans#ronja rövardotter#ronia the robber's daughter#ronja robbersdaughter#askeladden#askeladden i soria moria slott#the ash lad: in search of the golden castle#kvitebjørn kong valemon#white bear king valemon#the polar bear king#east of the sun and west of the moon#kvitebjorn kong valemon#isbjörnskungen#der eisbärkönig#snedronningen#einiberjatréð#the juniper tree#pessi ja illusia#pessi and illusia
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Oliver and Barry both loose their mothers at the hands of one of their mentors turned enimiess. Which death do you find saddest to sit though?
#nora allen#moira queen#susanna thompson#michelle harrison#the flash#arrow#arrowverse#dctv#pretty sure moria might win this one. as sad as Noar's death is watching Moria stand there accept this must happen and trying to protect he#kids gets me crying way more than Nora's. Also we knew nora was gonna die from episode one moria not so much#tw death mention#tw blood
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Heyy, could you do what would the op daddies social media profile pictures be?
Haha sure, I’ll do a description 😂
Kizaru ✨: it’s a photo of him at his desk while he’s doing paperwork, looking deep in thought. This was taken by his secretary.
Akainu🌋: he’s carrying his favorite plant in the photo and even gives a little smile.
Ryokugyu 🌱: it’s him butt naked with only his sunglasses and he’s surrounded by all his plants…very Adam and Eve inspired.
Fujitora 🐅: it’s of his favorite bowl of soba noodles.
Sir Crocodile 🐊: it’s a selfie of him and his bananawanis.
Doflamingo Donquixote 🦩: it’s a thirst trap of him in the mirror showing off his hot body.
Benn Beckman 🔫: it’s one of those dad selfies that are way too close to their face and he’s not smiling.
Katakuri Charlotte 🍡: it’s a side profile picture that was sneakily taken by one of his siblings.
Killer🔪: it’s a picture of him in an apron that says ‘kiss the killer’ while he’s cooking spaghetti.
Kaido🐉: it’s of him getting wasted.
King 👑 : it’s a photo of him without his mask while he reads a book.
Queen👑: it’s of him performing on stage looking cool af.
Izou🔫🔫: it’s a photo of him in his favorite kimono looking like a snack.
Dragon D Monkey 🐉🐒: it’s a picture of him when he was younger.
Oven Charlotte 🍞: it’s of him baking a loaf of bread.
Buggy🤡: it’s a picture of him with his hair down and looking sexy af.
Marco the Phoenix 🦅: it’s of him just chilling on an island with a drink in his hand.
Eustass Kidd🤘🎸: it’s a photo of him making a machine with his devil fruit abilities.
Rosinantè Donquixote aka Cora-San💕: it’s a selfie of him and Law.
Who’s-Who ❤️🔥👹: it’s a thirst trap picture of him biting his lip in the mirror and showing his sexy body.
Gecko Moria🦇: it’s a picture of him from 20 years ago when he was hot af.
Iceburg💜: it’s of him drawing a new ship, looking thoughtful but sexy.
Gild Tesoro⚜️🏅: it’s him looking out at his ship, looking all regal and shit.
Rob Lucci🐆: it’s him in his leopard form.
Karasu🐦⬛: it’s his wanted poster picture.
Koby🦸💘: it’s a selfie of him and Luffy.
Douglas Bullet🚅: it’s a picture of him at the gym in the mirror while he’s flexing his muscles.
#one piece#sir crocodile#crocodile one piece#akainu sakazuki#one piece akainu#donquixote doflamingo#king one piece#killer one piece#queen one piece#aramaki ryokugyu#fujitora issho#donquixote rosinante#benn beckman#charlotte katakuri#kaido one piece#izou one piece#monkey d dragon#eustass captain kidd#buggy the clown#marco the phoenix#charlotte oven#gecko moria#gild tesoro#rob lucci#who’s who one piece#karasu one piece#koby the hero#borsalino kizaru#iceburg one piece#douglas bullet
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The Rumbar pirates watching Brook's love life from pirate heaven like its's the world's weirdest soap opera: *yelling at the screen* Girl walk away you can't fix him! Girl!.... Oh shit she kinda fixed him.
Ghost Yorki is hella jealous because Brook and he were a thing when he was alive and Moria’s not good enough for her!
...Well, actually he seems to make Brook pretty happy...she hasn’t been happy in a long time. Barring the misguided attempt to keep her safe by stealing her shadow, he treats her pretty well...
#one piece#sigma's one piece au#one piece au#rumbar pirates#Captain Yorki#moria x brook#soul queen brook#soul king brook#female brook#gecko moria#ask response
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One of the fun things about shipping Haladriel and about Galadriel's story in Rings of Power, for me, is that we know exactly where this is going to end up. And I wanted to babble for a bit about where that place is because I have seen so many people view it as "she is retired to some woods to be a passive wife-and-mother who can do magic but in a mystical New Age-y way", and: no! No.
So a quick overview of where she will end up by LOTR:
Very much not removed from the war against Sauron.
She is constantly mind-battling against Sauron: One of the lines that inspired McKay and Payne's whole show was her talking about this: "I say to you, Frodo, that even as I speak to you, I perceive the Dark Lord and know his mind, or all of his mind that concerns the Elves. And he gropes ever to see me and my thought." In one of the versions of the Annatar story in Unfinished Tales, Sauron immediately realises she will be his 'chief adversary', and has apparently not changed that assessment 3500 years later.
She co-ordinates joint efforts against Sauron: The White Council that Elrond talks about in LOTR, the combined force of Ring-bearers, wizards and elf-lords that first drives Sauron out of Dol Guldur - she's not just on that, she founded it.
She gets Gandalf back after Moria and the Balrog: Galadriel learns what's happened to Gandalf from the Fellowship when they arrive in Lothlórien. The the Fellowship are sad; the elves of Lothlórien mourn; Celeborn loses it a bit and says Gandalf 'fell into folly'; but Galadriel sends Gwaihir the eagle to get him, returns him to health, updates him on the situation with Boromir, gives him some messages to take to the others, and sends him back on his way.
She is possibly in Lothlórien because of its position of strategic importance: from Unfinished Tales here, she 'saw that Lórien would be a stronghold and point of power to prevent the Shadow from crossing the Anduin in the war that must inevitably come' and that's why she and Celeborn go there. (There are other versions as with almost everything else in Tolkien, but this is one of them.) She's not there to hide away from Events.
2. Calmer than in TROP, but not all-wise and all-sweet and still pretty scary.
She is still tempted by power and world domination: "I do not deny that my heart has greatly desired to ask what you offer [...] In place of the Dark Lord you will set up a Queen. And I shall not be dark, but beautiful and terrible as the morning and the night!"
And, she doesn't just turn down the One Ring because it's abstractly eeeevil. She turns it down because she knows what she, specifically, would do with it. Sam sees a vision of the Shire, and tells her "I wish you'd take his Ring. You'd put things to rights. You'd stop them digging up the Gaffer and turning him adrift. You'd make some folk pay for their dirty work," to which she says that yes, she would: "That is how it would begin. But it would not stop with that, alas! We will not speak more of it."
And saying she wants to rule the world here is not me joking about! This is Tolkien describing that moment in LOTR:
It was not until two long ages more had passed, when at last all that she had desired in her youth came to her hand, the Ring of Power and the dominion of Middle-earth of which she had dreamed, that her wisdom was full-grown and she rejected it
People are scared of her: The only scary moment we directly see is the Ring temptation, but she does other unsettling things. When she meets the Fellowship she tests them by reading their minds and offering something they really want to see if it would make them "turn aside from the road and leave the Quest and the war against Sauron to others." (She offers Sam a garden; the One Ring later on tempts him with the same thing.) Even the hobbits are a bit disturbed by this and Boromir, who's already said he doesn't want to go into Lothlórien because people who do that never leave again, absolutely does not trust her.
Éomer, a few chapters later:
'Then there is a Lady in the Golden Wood, as old tales tell!' he said. 'Few escape her nets, they say. These are strange days! But if you have her favour, then you are also net-weavers and sorcerers, maybe.'
She's scary! She's ancient and powerful and people are scared of her.
3. Married, but not in the character-limiting way the nerdbros want it to be and would have you believe it is.
I am not telling anyone they should ship Galadriel/Celeborn or even find it interesting just because I do, but, the angry nerdbros fancasting Celeborn as Henry Cavill and talking about how he'll come back to tame her and tidy her neatly out of the narrative are writing their own little AU headcanons because that is not what's in the text.
She's the more powerful one. Partly because she's one of the 'High Elves' - she's Noldor and has lived in Valinor seen the light of the Trees - which for various reasons about the way Tolkien's elves work just makes her more powerful, partly because she has a Ring of Power and Celeborn doesn't. It's her Mirror; she's the one reading people's minds; she's the one locked in endless mental battles with Sauron; she's the one the Rohirrim (whose lands border Lothlorien's) tell each other scary stories about. Celeborn at no point ever seems to have an issue with this, and calls her his 'treasure'.
They work together. Even in a big-action-sequences sense: after Sauron's defeat, Celeborn 'led the host of Lorien over Anduin in many boats' to Dol Guldur, where Galadriel 'threw down its walls and laid bare its pits'. But the rest of the time, too: she says of him that 'together through ages of the world we have fought the long defeat'.
You really get the sense that they have been married for a loooooong time. An actual sequence of events in LOTR, somewhat condensed:
The Fellowship reveal there's a Balrog in Moria;
Celeborn goes "!!!!", complains about dwarves waking it up and says he'd never have let Gimli into Lothlorien if he'd known that;
Galadriel smacks Celeborn down for being rude to their guest;
Celeborn apologises to Gimli;
Galadriel tells the Fellowship that Celeborn is accounted the wisest of elves;
Boromir says something about "old wives' tales";
Celeborn, whose wife is one of the oldest beings in Middle-earth, tells Boromir not to be so dismissive because "old wives keep in memory word of things that once were needful for the wise to know";
Galadriel hands Celeborn a drink.
Whatever is going on here is clearly something that works for them, is what I'm saying! And you don't have to find their marriage interesting just because I do, of course; but what it's not is some trad fantasy of domestic subservient-wife anything.
So where her TROP story ends up is ultimately with LOTR Galadriel: powerful, important, tempted to rule the world, a bit calmer than in TROP, a bit happier than in TROP, co-ordinating big strategic efforts in the war, married to someone who's got her back and adores her and they fall out a bit sometimes but generally work pretty well together, and still having Sauron constantly trying to get into her head. I am fine with this! I am more than fine with this.
#rings of power#galadriel#haladriel#celeborn#multishipper rights#'but I don't like Celeborn' oh what a shame he always said such nice things about you#I do not need characters in a ship to be canonically married and walk off into the sunset together#tbh I do not even need the characters in a ship to have ever met#but a ship where they end up locked in endless mind-battles and she's still tempted by what he offered her 3000 years later - so good!#genuinely find it baffling that anyone would think ANYthing season 2 of TROP could do would kill off a ship that we know ends up here#eyeofacat meta
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World Map Notes: the Elven Northern & Southern Central Continents
These nations are where all the elves in the story except Marcille and Thistle are from. This post collects all the information I could find about these two nations, and included a bit of analysis based on that information.
TL;DR (includes both fact and my speculation):
The Northern Central Continent is a feudal monarchy with a strong class system, as well as strict borders, & could probably be considered an ethnostate. It's deeply hierarchical, and the queen is a traditionalist - so it's probably very structurally biased against non-elves and half-elves.
Elves in the NCC practice cannibalism in some rural areas!
The Southern Central Continent is more diverse, with a large tallman population on its South Coast.
To elves, "Court Magicians" exclusively refer to those serving the elven queen - a prestigious role that seems likely to be only open to nobles.
The SCC may not be a monarchy, though it's not clear what kind of leadership or societal structure it does have.
The NCC will habitually take anyone involved in ancient magic as a criminal to prosecute on their terms, regardless of jurisdiction, but this depends on their political influence and ability to pressure local leaders to agree to extradite the criminal.
Elves VS Dwarves and Gnomes may have been at war around the time of the Golden Kingdom being sealed. This conflict also may be one of the factors pushing the kingdom to be sealed in the first place.
The "Central Region" might be the origin of the "Common Tongue" that our characters speak.
Northern Central Continent
The Adventurer's Bible | p. 132
For this place to have a high quality of life, and also a declining population - especially when it's so close to the Western Continent, which is stated to have poor quality of life - there must be strictly maintained borders and a strong anti-immigration policy. Based on the attitude of the elves, I wouldn't be surprised if it was very difficult to move there unless you are also an elf.
It could probably be considered an ethnostate - and while in these kinds of fantasy worlds, that's pretty common. Take Rivendell, or Moria, in LOTR - they take for granted that these kinds of different fantasy races will live in separate communities.
But that isn't actually realistic, and I think Kui has considered it as more of a politically established status quo rather than an obvious natural result of having magically distinct "races". Which, even in Dunmeshi, I think is a difficult and not-terribly-accurate way to represent politics - racism does not emerge from actual, physical differences between races, after all.
But Dunmeshi's presentation of this idea is interesting, because of the recognition that if there is an "elven nation" which prioritises the interests and rights of elves over other races, that is because there's a deliberate, concerted effort to keep it that way.
But there's a small section of the NCC with a high tallman population - I wonder what kind of community they have, and how they fit into the strict elven hierarchy?
The Adventurer's Bible | pp. 134 & 136
Kabru and Rin, and other kids like them, who are adopted or taken as adopted children(rarely - the way Milsiril treats Kabru is not perfect, but she's deliberately attempting to be better than other elves.... meaning other elves are usually worse)/pets/objects by elven nobles, as well as accomplished or notable individuals who earn the elves' favour/are "invited" to stay (such as they try with Laios at the end of the story) would be an exception.
Other long-lived races could probably (...?) visit, but given the historical conflict between elves, dwarves, and gnomes, I think they'd also be pretty hostile to many of them coming to live on the NCC, even if they see them as more like equals.
Social Structure & Nobility
The Northern Central Continent is an absolute monarchy under a 372 year old queen, Heimeya (IDK what the official romanisation of her name will be).
...With extended "nobility", which are the group that the canaries' guards draw from. We don't get much clarification of what sort of structure their nobility has, what titles there are, and where our characters who are nobles fall into it.
Pattadol (House of Vari), Mithrun (House of Kerensil), and Milsiril (House of Tol) are nobles.
Mithrun's noble house, Kerensil, is apparently a well-known family of investors! I wonder what sorts of businesses they invest in & what the elven economy is like?
Milsiril's house, on the other hand, is a well-known military family. I wonder if Kabru could claim the surname "of the House of Tol". He did go to family gatherings after all. But if he was comfortable doing so and it would be accepted, I would assume he'd have done so when introducing himself to the canaries.
Flamela is a distant relative of the queen, who has additional status due to exhibiting the genetic trait associated with their queens, extremely dark skin.
The queen is a "staunch traditionalist" who wouldn't even acknowledge a half-elf like Marcille. Nice! I really feel bad for Kabru and Rin growing up as tallmen in this sort of culture.
Court Magicians
While generally this is a term for any magic user who serves in a royal court, in the Northern Central Continent it seems to carry a lot of esteem; even just as the daughter of one, Pattadol assumes Marcille has the right to boss her around and to handle highly secret, highly illegal ancient magic secrets.
That makes sense, as in the society of the Northern Central Continent, you'd be directly serving the elven queen. But also, she has enough Court Magicians that Pattadol would not expect to know Marcille's mother's name, but few enough that it would be a big deal and Cithis would know about it if one had a half-elf child.
I don't think it's remotely unlikely based on that to assume that this role is only available to nobles.
A "Court Magician" who doesn't serve the NCC Queen isn't a "real" Court Magician in the eyes of NCC elves. Those short-lived monarchs would be happy just to have an elf around regardless of whether they were actually any good at magic.... according to Cithis.
Magic seems very important to the society of the NCC elves. The queen communicates with her subordinates via familar, and the birds we see surrounding her seem like they are some kind of magic - perhaps not familiars since we see her familiar, but some other kind of scrying?
Also, based on the fact Pattadol assumes a Court Magician would be serving the Queen of the NCC, we can theorise that perhaps whatever structure the SCC has, it isn't a monarchy....? Heimeya is "the queen of the elves", after all - that doesn't sound like there's another elven monarch competing for the title just next door.
Ordinary People
Apparently the NCC is a safe place and life is easy -- but given the strict class system, I kind of expect that varies a lot depending on the family you're born into.
The only elves we meet who are not nobles are the convicted criminal canaries, so it's hard to get a sense of what life is like for them from that. Cithis was apparently a wealthy fortune teller with "an intense jealousy for those born noble or wealthy." So I assume she was not born into comfort.
Apparently "There are also primitive villages deep in the woods and underground, and in some regions cannibalism is still practiced." Which is awesome. Based on her videogame elves art I think Kui's probably making a little nod to Divinity: Original Sin elves, who can absorb memories through eating the flesh of others. Elves in dungeon meshi don't have this trait, but I wonder if there is a magical ritual or some kind of cultural practice with a similar intention.
Cuisine
Marcille's mother didn't think much of the elven cuisine.
Liricmumwarel is fancy candy given out by the elven queen the shape of which conveys blessings.
Elf Cake is a crumbly dry cake that Kabru and Thistle don't think much of. I've heard someone discuss what it's likely to be made of, but I am afraid I don't recall.
Southern Central Continent
The Adventurer's Bible | p. 132
It seems like the Southern Central Continent gets a lot more immigration and has a more diverse population, especially along the south coast (near the Western Continent). That south coast has a high tallman population.
Fleki and Lycion are from the Southern Central Continent. Fleki got into ancient magic for the money, so you can assume there's probably class disparity there too; things are noted by Kui to be more "disorganised" than the NCC. Not a bad thing at all - the NCC is definitely too "organised" in my books. But that does potentially also mean there's less, e.g., bureaucracy, central organisation, less of a social safety net. But then again, in the NCC I doubt that whatever "safety net" there is, is available to everyone.
We can't extrapolate much from Fleki & Lycion's personalities, because they clearly aren't in the most stable societal position, and I get the sense that they're the countercultural type - they probably don't represent the type of person typical to the SCC. Also, our NCC characters are all either nobles or used to navigating high society (Cithis, Kabru to an extent) so they aren't exactly a typical "ordinary NCC person" as a basis for comparison either. However, there's less of a "strict set of social rules" type of feel to the SCC characters, fitting with my suggestion that the SCC may not be a society with a strong feudal element.
Geopolitics & Conflict
The fact that, despite their being from the SCC, Fleki and Lycion are in the Canaries, who work directly under the NCC's Queen, implies that the the NCC feel entitled to process and prosecute people who commit ancient magic-related crimes regardless of any notion of "jurisdiction". This is backed up by the way that they were going to take Marcille - but that is something that the governor of the Island had to give permission for, which Laios is able to withdraw. So I assume that the NCC elves apply pressure on various world leaders to extradite criminals involved in ancient magic.
The SCC would cooperate with this, since they're allies, even if they don't have a great relationship (according to the World Guide).
The NCC are also clearly able to take half-foots without trouble, as we see by Chilchuck saying he's known half-foots who got involved with "black magic" (ancient magic) and were disappeared by the elves. But I doubt gnomes or dwarves are giving people up easily - though that probably doesn't go for dwarves like Senshi and Namari, without strong community ties.
Long before the current times, elves fought dwarves & gnomes. There might have been more than one of these conflicts...? While long ago, this war isn't "ancient" (like the ancients who sealed the demon into dungeons, before their world was mostly destroyed by it).
Thistle, Delgal, and the Golden Kingdom were (I believe) caught up in one of these conflicts, which used Melini as a staging ground - thus why Thistle was pushed to seal the entire kingdom in the dungeon.
To do this, Thistle unseals a dungeon created by the "ancient people". These could be the "ancients" who created the dungeons, before the apocalypse. Or they could be another, still extinct, society.
Regardless, at least one of these conflicts seems to have taken place after the golden kingdom was sealed - so, within the last 1000 years.
Though, this could refer to a different, more localised conflict between the Golden Kingdom and their dwarven neighbours.
The order of events is that the Golden Kingdom was sealed (1000 years ago or so) > Dwarves took over > Elves stole the land from the Dwarves ("long ago" by the Island Lord, a tallman's, standards) > Elves gave the land to a local lord, who was either an ancestor of the Island Lord, or the Island Lord himself. The Island Lord is himself a descendant of the lord who poisoned Delgal's father, as is noted in the World Guide. However, it isn't impossible for there to be large gaps of time between these events, which could put the elf / dwarf wars at a more recent date.
The fact we know that the elves stole the land from the dwarves, and then granted it to a political actor who was relevant during the events of the Golden Kingdom flashbacks we see suggests to me that the events were roughly contemporaneous. If they were, that puts at least one of these conflicts at roughly 1000 years ago.
So, the elf/dwarf & gnome conflict is "long ago" by short-lived standards, but would be considered "modern" by the long-lived races, if you ask me. At least, the equivalent of the World Wars for us - recent history, even if we weren't alive.
I'm guessing the "Elf King" from the below panel in fact was a word that's more gender-neutral in Japanese, since the "Western Elves" definitely have a queen.
Language
When Kabru says the "Central region" I expect he means the region where the NCC and SCC is.
The fact that he observes that the lack of any accent means he's from the Central Region is really interesting. It could mean two things;
either they switched to speaking in the language spoken on those continents, which Kabru would naturally know, having grown up there. It's 100 percent possible, but I think this would be noted in the story.
or, the language that gets called "the common tongue", the one that all our principle characters speak for most of the story, originated from the elves in the Central Continent. Or at least it's the same one that the elves use, and their political influence is great enough that their accent gets to be considered not an accent at all. The fact they were "granting" land in this area to tall-man lords suggests a large enough historical influence in the area that this is quite plausible to me.
Mithrun absolutely does have an accent - nobody speaks without an accent. His accent is just politically and socioculturally normalised to the point of being considered the "default/proper" way to speak - like received pronounciation in English.
The common tongue isn't ubiquitous everywhere - not just Kuro, but Kiki and Kaka are also noted to be studying the common tongue. The Tansus were born on the Eastern Continent, so probably gnome communities there speak their own language - Kiki and Kaka grew up primarily surrounded by gnomes after all.
It's also quite likely that Kabru, specifically, because of where he grew up, would consider Mithrun's way of talking to be the default "not an accent" accent. His adoptive mother surely has the same upper-class NCC accent. I expect that other characters might experience it as more "marked".
This isn't a world where everyone speaks the same language everywhere; the common tongue is called that, but there are many different languages. Kabru and Chilchuck are two characters who are adept with many of them - Kabru speaks the language of the kobold, and probably lots more. Chilchuck works as an interpreter as part of his union stuff - I can tell you from experience that that's a hugely valuable skillset in that context, as many of the people who most need union representation are people who don't speak the dominant language, or at least not fluently.
If you got all the way to the end of this post.... thank you for reading, I love you. Check out my other World Map Notes under that tag on my blog; I've made a few so far and there will almost certainly be more. Next I'm thinking the dwarven nations...? But I could be persuaded if someone had a preference.
Also, anyone got any speculation on what, exactly, is the previous time that Heimeya ate a person/monster/chimera that this panel implies:
We really don't have anything to go on whatsoever, but I think it's a fun tidbit.
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