#Of Mitths and Legends

[amandamadeathing]

[purringysalamiri]

legends! thrawn in the final comic book.

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[thrawns-backrest]

Please list what's your top 10 things that people should know about Thrawn according to you that is vital to getting to know this blue daddy of a man.

oooh oh la la this is an interesting one! my book knowledge is a bit rusty but I'll try my best (if I get anything wrong then these are my headcanons lol)

Generally not very expressive. he does show emotion but it's always very subtle and a lot of times feels involuntary. He's the type to internalize rather than show.

Very specific love language. Thrawn seems to express his love by very specific means. it's not the usual smiles, hugs and confessions, rather he tries to improve the lives of the people he loves. he mentors, he protects, he encourages. the journal he left Eli, teaching Che'ri to fly, fighting to build a better future for his people. it's not the first thing people think of but it's there

How he shows anger. this one is pretty specific but I felt I needed to include it. hissing and becoming physical like in Rebels? nah. going all stiff and frosty? it's in the books and feels much more like him imo

Not that clueless. Thrawn straddles a fine line here, he's clueless about some things but never completely. he misses nuances, implications, social cues but he also uses sarcasm and irony and can lie and pretend to achieve his goals

Notable lack of arrogance. He's overconfident but not arrogant. if he's telling his enemies he outclasses them it's a matter-of-fact statement, something he perceives as a fact not something he's gloating with. he's disappointed by others' inability to keep up but doesn't look down on them

Tendency to get carried away. stubborn to the point of recklessness when he sets his mind on something. it's my personal headcanon that he long had a feeling his plans for the Empire were falling apart but latched on to the idea just so his efforts wouldn't be in vain

Disciplined and a workaholic. he's a very good fit for the military in that regard

Inspires very strong feelings in the people around him, you either hate him or love him

Insane emotional endurance like holy shit

Some abandonment trauma there, he's too quick to let his loved ones go and we all know about Borika

I think these are the first ones that come to mind, putting them together was fun. I can talk more about them but I feel like I won't be able to stop once I start

but if anyone wants to discuss...

[leahikol]

as my friend said: "the man, the Mitth, the legend"

[exponentchunk]

OCs Art

Finally got done and finished my sketches of my OC and her and Thrawns kids! I never really post my drawings but I was super proud of these! Here's some backstory on each of my characters! Let me know if y’all would be interested in more drawings or more about my OCs!

Thrayn is the one in the red cloak. He and Thrass are twins. He is the oldest of all the siblings but he is smaller than Thrass. He is slim and tall but still athletic though he hates fighting. Thrayn is more of a diplomat like his mother. Thrayn is a crazy genius but he lacks drive. He purposely chose not to go into the military despite his intelligence. He butts heads a lot with his father and they could not be more different personality-wise. Thrayn is a momma’s boy as she is who usually helps calm the waters when Thrayn and Thrawn fight. He is a sweetheart who does try to stay out of trouble but it finds him. He is closest with his Uncle Eli as Eli raised the twins in their first couple of years. Thrayn almost sees Eli more as a dad than Thrawn and doesn’t feel like he fits in with the family.

Thrass is a spitting image of Thrawn. He is the most serious out of the siblings and is constantly getting Thryan and Thaera out of trouble. Thrass is the youngest of the twins but he is a pretty big boy compared to his brother. He has broad shoulders and a stocky tall build. He isn’t as smart as Thrayn and Thaera and it frustrates him. He is close with both his parents but he does sometimes resent his mom for being human. Sometimes he is embarrassed to be only half Chiss. Is a bit of a hot head though his father works with him on it. Not as smart as his Dad but still a very skilled tactician. He worries a lot about not living up to the legend that is his father.

Thaera is the wild child and the youngest. She is a spitting image of her mother just in Chiss form. Huge daddy’s girl as Thrawn always wanted a mini version of Maya. Thaera is a mini version of her mother’s personality too which means she and her mother buttheads a lot. Maya doesn’t like how much Thrawn lets Thaera get away with stuff. Thaera loves making art which is another reason she and her dad are close. Thaera doesn’t want to go into the military or politics cause she sees the evil in both. If she can she wants to be an artist. Both her parents are supportive of her dreams. She is sassy and loves pranking her brothers much to their dismay. She also has her big brothers wrapped around her finger. She is good at manipulating people to get what she wants.

Maya: She and Thrawn met when Eli and Thrawn were at the Imperial Academy. Maya was staying with her Uncle Yularen who had taken her in after he met her during an ISB mission. He offered her a new life if she promised to help him during the mission. Maya was a street rat on her home planet and had a dark past. She is politically smart as she had to survive the streets and she learned a lot about politics while living in the upper class of Coruscant. She met Thrawn and Eli when she surprisingly beat their team during a capture-the-flag simulation. Maya had found a way around the rules and Thrawn was not very happy about it. Kinda of a rivals-to-lovers trope. Maya was a jokester and pranker and Thrawn at first hated how unserious she was though that became the thing he loved most about her. Maya and Eli became friends very fast once all of them were on the same team for a simulation. Maya became the political ally Thrawn needed as many in the upper society liked her. Maya was a combat officer until an accident happened and she had to medically retire. She and Thrawn eventually got married in secret and Eli officiated the ceremony. Maya found out she was pregnant right around the time Eli was sent to the Ascendancy and she was sent with him much to her dismay. Thrawn was worried about what the Emperor would do if he found out about Maya and their future kid(s). When Maya joined the ascendancy she tried to join house Mitth as technically it was her right to do so by marriage. She met Thurfian who didn’t like her at first 1. Cause she was human and 2. She was Thrawns wife. He was impressed however by her political skills and offered her a deal. She and her kids would be a part of the Mitth household if she were to live at the Mitth household and be his political advisor. She rises quickly and becomes Thurfian’s closest advisor (he still hates Thrawn tho lol). Maya would give birth to the twin boys with the help of Eli who supported her through the entire birth. Eli helped Maya raise the boys which is why Thrayn is a mini Eli honestly. The boys came out looking full Chiss which made Thurfian happy. Thrawn wouldn’t see the boys until 4 years after they were born. It caused some problems with him and Maya that he was gone for so long but they made up and that’s how Thaera was born.

[electricnik]

More of my pieces from the Thrawngirlies Ascendancy week event. Some of Thrawn's 'families' through the ages. OCs from the Empire of the Hand days, apparently he had family and adopted family during that period, both in canon and legends, though canon Thrawn had his enforced holiday on Peridia. The Imperial team and of course his original mob in the novels, the Mitth.

[hellonoblesky]

Starflash.

[ID: A digital drawing of Grand Admiral Thrawn, drawn in his Imperial uniform with the addition of the Legends epaulets. He is standing with his shoulder facing the viewer, angled slightly away so that part of his back is visible. His face, however, is facing the viewer, and looking two thirds to the right. His expression is on the line between calm and mournful. Ringing his head is the Mitth family crest, and a bright bright Orange sunburst rings his head. End ID]

[aroayr-shuk]

I have a vision,

And it will probably never be realized.

Taking from Legends, Nuruodo is a family name. In this case it defines what we as humans think of, instead of a political family. A surname.

There is a planet near the Ascendancy, so close some would mistake it for being a part of it. Our world, Earth. During this time, it "discovered" by the Chiss and recognized as a colony.

Humans are as we know them, no remarkable traits, but with key differences from the Star Wars humans. They're thought to be cousins genetically.

The humans begin to integrate into Chiss society, though many are unhappy about it. The story focuses around the humans fight to be recognized as equals by the chiss. And their victory.

It also examines the joys and hardships of a interspecies marriage between a chiss and a human. And their eventual success.

I have one scene playing on repeat in my head:

It has been decades since humans first began the fight for equality, and progress has been made. The MC and her husband stand on a balcony in the Aristocra's Hall, with their three children behind them. All clothed in burgundy red.

An usher announces every being who enters the room. They are there to witness the induction of new merit adoptives into the Family. His loud and clear voice reads over their names on the list.

"Presenting, of the house Nuruodo, honored by the Great Family of Stybla,

"Raw'nuruodo, Grand Admiral of the Empire, Agent of the Acendancy.

"(Y/N) Nuru, Syndic of the Ruling Family of Mitth.

"Their sons, Mitth'icra'nuru, cousin of the Family, Junior Commander of the Chiss Expansionary Defence Fleet. And Mitth'ras'nuru, cousin of the Family.

"Their daughter, Mitth'aia'nuru, cousin of the Family, Lieutenant of the Chiss Expansionary Defence Fleet."

*Thrawn was sent to the Empire for 8 years, he was rewelcomed into the Acendancy as an Agent and retained his rank of Grand Admiral, it is a complicated ordeal. His wife, is Syndic Prime of the Mitth, and combined chiss and human tradition for her name. Thicran is their eldest son, and an officer of the CEDF. His sister Thaian, is three years younger and followed his footsteps to become an officer. Their youngest brother Thrasn, was named after their uncle, he was born ten years after his sister and is not of age at the events of the scene.

[revoleotion]

Can you tell me more about Dawn?

I CAN ALWAYS TELL YOU MORE ABOUT DAWN

(vibrating intensely) pls send more asks if there's anything specific you want to know but...

some basics? Did I ever do this on this blog?

first off, there are two "versions" of Dawn, the original way I wrote him and am playing him in the Pen and Paper... and the version I did for playing him in bg3, lovingly dubbed DNDawn by my DM.

A few facts about OG!Dawn:

he's a Chiss sky-walker who retired (read: lost his connection to the Force) at 17, which is pretty late for a Chiss but still pretty traumatizing. He spent the months leading up to retirement trying to stop the loss of his Sight or at least trying to find a way to be useful in other ways, but he still had to leave eventually

right before that, he met the human sent to the chiss ascendancy (Eli Vanto), which inspired a conversation about a life outside of the ascendancy. Vibes wise, I was going for a parallel of that conversation between Thrawn and Thalias in Chaos Rising!

anyway, Dawn didn't leave immediately after retiring, though. He went to an academy for a few years, where he had a roommate that he suspects might have been a sky-walker too but they never actually talked about it. Her fate is uncertain too but she probably died shortly before graduation. Dawn actually got a degree from that academy, which he never mentions and does not care about in the slightest

once he had his degree, he got a tattoo done (on his back, a star constellation only seen from Csilla), chose the new name Dawn so that lesser space inhabitants can properly address him, and fucked off to meet an Imperial contact Eli gave him

it turned out pretty quickly that Dawn was not Empire material, and he didn't care for it either, but this information is important because it shows that his first contact with the Empire was neutral (+ knowing that Thrawn ended up working with them also helped shape Dawn's opinion of that regime). This opinion changed later, of course, but it's important that he didn't immediately hate the Empire or distrust its members

and this is how he eventually ended up with the torment crew! yey! and that's when the campaign started and....... well. shit happened.

he's also trans (most, if not all, sky-walkers are girls, but he never really vibed with that) and very, very gay.

dawn gets to use a mechanic that i lovingly refer to as the "autism dice" where sometimes my DM makes me roll in conversations with other crew members to see if dawn notices the deeper meaning/sarcasm in other character's words (most of the time I didn't notice it either, and if I fail, he's not explaining it to me either, Dawn & I just have to live with it. rude (jk jk, I agreed to this))

my favorite thing about Dawn is how he views himself as a tool but sometimes (very, VERY rarely, and ESPECIALLY when he's tired/not thinking straight) slips into this mindset of "excuse me, do you know who you are talking to??". no matter how alienated he feels from other chiss, he is one, and maybe those legends about chiss not reacting well to being betrayed are true after all.

since sky-walkers get their memory purged to avoid any unnecessary feelings/homesickness, Dawn does not remember his childhood or family. It also means he has no idea of his original family name. He has a twin sister but will very likely never learn that or meet her. After his service as a sky-walker, he got adopted into the Irizi family, hence his name.

Dawn has very strong feelings about being compared to Thrawn, mostly about the fact that he's a Mitth and how dare people compare him to a Mitth??

the thing I struggled with the most when creating him and playing him in early sessions was his moral alignment. He was pretty much a blank slate, due to the memory purging and being used as a military child weapon most of his life... so this didn't make it any easier. By now, I have his alignment and loyals figured out though! It's more complex than I first expected, and the fun bit is that he is now very torn between wanting to do what's best for the crew and the connection he's feeling towards the guy speaking to him through the sith holocron, mostly because he is grysk (and therefore, from the same region as Dawn AND his mortal enemy but you know what, we can excuse that as long as we get homoeroticism and narrative foils)

dawnkallig. my beloved. i should write another essay on my pnp side blog

ANYWAY this got long. Tell me if I should talk more about the DNDawn version (who shows up in my bg3 fanfics)...... or if you have any more random questions about my boy!

[purringysalamiri]

Some recent images of Legends!Thrawn I have discovered

not sure if this one was even supposed to be him because of how inaccurate it looked, but i edited it anyway and colored it so it looked more like him. thrawn transformation

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[gil-estel]

Very excited to finally share my piece for Of Mitths and Legends: A Thrawn Anthology! Leftover sales end today, but there's still a few hours to snap up a digital copy of the zine!

[jemichiart]

I can finally share my contribution for the Thrawn: Of Mitths and Legends zine. ^^ The leftover sales are currently happening so this is your last chance to get the zine or the cool Thrawn merchandise if you missed them earlier. But the supplies are very limited! thrawnzine.gumroad.com/ There is some symbolism to the elements you see here and their placing, and a number of small easter eggs for the fans who are familiar with those, but rather than pointing them out I'll let you interpret it the way you see it.

[thraaaaaaaanduuuuuuuuiiiiiiiiil]

Hey look I’m in a thing! (With a lot of other people so you should like...go to the zine twitter and check out all of the artists and writers in the main zine, and then all of my fellow digital zine artists and writers too).

[electricnik]

fandom question: if Thrawn were to go back to the Ascendancy, how do you think he would be received? barring the obvious, would it cause much of an uproar?

A difficult one, it would depend on the circumstances of his return. He had been gone for a long time and a lot of the people who he dealt with would either be dead or moved on. If he went straight back there would be some people who would complain, the Mitth were not the force they were, but if he did like in the Legends verse, set up his own mini empire allied with the ascendancy made up of people who were not completely allied with them and survivors from the empire etc he could liase with them from there. He could deal with them on his terms.