#Silf Silverwood

[silvernsteel]

+ ℂ ℝ 𝕆 𝕊 𝕊 ℝ 𝕆 𝔸 𝔻 𝕊 +

-*kicks down door*- Hey all! It's been an age, but with EW just hours away I thought it was time I jumped back on here! I missed all you lovely people! I want to get back into the habit of posting/reposting and just spreading the love of the game around with all you cool kids! SO! Jumping into Shadowbringers with Silf, my viera, I didn't think-or care-much about playing a character that wasn't really a part of the story. Afterwards, tho, I fell so in love with everything on a whole new level and that changed how I wanted to approach things this time around. As much as I love Silf, I think for the final expansion - and end to this great story - I wanted to experience it as my alt WoL character. It was a lot of back and forth on swapping my alt and main...but I think it'll be worth it for me in the end. So, this site will be a combined page for both Silf and my WoL, Rell. For those that have me friended in game - if you see a RELL BLACKMOORE on your list, it's me! Silf is still around, but I'll be maining my highlander thru EW. I'll also be tagging spoilers, of course, from here on out - I'll hit up all the spoiler tags I can find, so no fears!! Anywho, that's all from me. Hope you all have a great time in Endwalker, and I'll see you on the MOOOOON!

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Commissions!

1. Silf Silverwood for @silvernsteel

2. Serval for @sheen1012

3. Kestrel Vylbrand for @kestrelvylbrand

4. Argent Renard for @argentrenard

5. Gezi for @draconian-rhythm

[yentotajaan]

Repercussions II: Wasp’s Nest

Yen’to wandered up to the library with a sense of foreboding. The reason for the meeting was unclear, but with Khan anything was possible. As he entered the library proper, he spied Strega and Khan already present. Damn... thought I would have some moments of peace to prepare for the drunken rambling that is sure to ensue. They engaged in a bit of small talk as they waited, much to Yen’to’s annoyance, but it was not long before the others who saw the posting started filtering in. Annoyance shifted rapidly to surprise at the steadily increasing number of attendees: Alyona, Alaric, Kouronne, Silf, Luka, Ghost, Lalatua, and Ramius. A mixture of new and old employees.... but Alaric does not even work for Lady Faye, does he? How did Khan rope him in? 

The lingering questions were soon cleared up -  Ramius indicated that he was the one that called the meeting rather than Khan. Oh good... maybe this time the briefing will actually be coherent. A strange screen popped out of a device on Ramius’ back, some sort of video feed from one of his drones that apparently captured sight of a suspicious person frequently loitering in the hills around the Shroudrose. Ramius wanted everyone to go out and attempt to find, capture, and interrogate the suspicious target. There were transmissions that potentially linked him to Garleans. I would say this sounds easy enough, but every time I have said that the complete opposite was true. Nothing involving Khan is every that simple.

As they began leaving the Shroudrose grounds, it was not long before Ramius spotted someone suspicious on a path up a nearby hill, leaning against a tree. At his suggestion, they split up to approach from different directions and hopefully catch the person in a pincer. Yen’to took about half of the group while Ramius took the remainder, and upon his signal they approached a visibly panicking miqo’te. He could not be more suspicious even if he was trying...

The unlucky miqo’te was sweating and fidgety, and cracked under pressure almost immediately. As he was not so gently prodded for answers, some in the group began remarking that they smelled smoke. That is odd... did something spark out in the forest? It is not storming, though. The sounds of bells clanging and shouts from Wood Wailers began filtering in from the south, where smoke was streaming into the sky. What in the... that looks like houses are on fire! Before anyone could figure out exactly what was happening, the twang of bows being drawn nearby forced everyone to take cover. Arrows loosed found their target easily - the poor panicking miqo’te spy. Strega and Alyona attempted to keep him alive while Yen’to and Kouronne returned fire with their gun and bow.  Their targets were dressed like Wood Wailers, complete with wooden masks. Oh no... saboteurs?!

The two saboteurs went down quickly, a bit too dead to question. Ramius began picking up strands of chatter from the wounded spy’s linkshell, prompting him to scan for aether currents with his goggles. I swear, that man has a gadget for every occasion. The linkshell chatter made it clear that they were dealing with Garlean infiltrators. Yen’to barely had time to absorb this information before Ramius pointed them north. The band cautiously made their way forward before pausing at a bend in the path.

Half a dozen arrows whizzed by, forcing everyone to press up against the hill just before the bend in the path. Yen’to, Ramius, and Kourunne ran out to fire back at the archers, easily cutting the ambush short. Or so they thought. A shout came from the bushes nearby to “cut down the savages”, and more ‘wood wailers’ leapt out, flanking the party and trapping them in the middle of the path - lancers in the rear and more archers in the front. Damn it -- with the actual guards distracted by those fires we are on our own!

The fighting was brief but brutal. Yen’to yelped as an arrow embedded itself into his leg above the knee, avoiding the armored greaves he hoped would have protected him. Buckling down, he managed to level his rifle and return fire, felling his attacker. Most of the others managed far better, and the Garleans soon came to realize that underestimating tea house employees was a surprisingly bad idea. Lalatua used both fire and ice magic to great and terrifying effect, while Luka ended up burning and melting one of the wooden masks into a hapless soldier’s face. 

The other Garleans fell one by one, but they managed to also injure Alyona before being defeated. Most of the ambushers were dead, but a few laid wounded and moaning. As with the spy, Alyona called Khan over the linkshell to gather the wounded Garleans. Hmph, I say let them bleed out... but the dead do not give up secrets. Once again, Ramius utilized his goggles to pick up the trail and the group rushed in the direction of the ferry docks. Or all but Yen’to rushed, who could only do a hurried limp at this point.

As they approached the docks, they could see the Garleans’ sloop shrinking in the distance as it sped away. There was only one remaining boat at the docks,  with a goblin skipper drinking away the day nearby. He seemed wary at first of the anxious group, but a bag full of gil changed his tune. He promptly called over his own linkpearl to Khan that he was taking a break and that Khan could go fook himself. Oh gods -- this is Khan’s ship?!

The little sloop had seen better days, and seemed to be held together by little more than rusty nails, rotting boards, and pure hope. ... Do I also smell liqour? It had a black flag emblazoned with red glasses, reminiscent of the pair worn by Khan. A kobold on deck gave them a happy little wave and nonchalantly returned to swabbing the deck.  This... both makes complete sense and is utterly stupid. At the urging of Lalauta and Strega, Yen’to sat down to take the weight of his injured leg. Strega once again took the opportunity to stab him with a magitek medical device, despite their previous discussion about advance warnings. At the direction of Ramius, the others grabbed what they could to use as oars and employed aero magic in an attempt to catch up with their targets.

‘Their’ ship came within a few dozen yalms of the Garleans before a shout came from behind some rocks in the river, and another boat slipped out and sped in their direction. Seven hells, how many ambushes are we going to stumble into?! The party braced for impact, and the two boats soon collided and locked into place. Belting out war cries, the Garlean boarding party swarmed onto Khan’s floating coffin.

Yen’to had managed to stand by this point, and upon seeing a saber swinging his way he managed to block it with his armored gauntlet, then returned the favor by slamming the butt of his rifle into the man’s head like a club. Alaric had ripped off one of the boards from the deck to use as a makeshift weapon; a vhan below deck looked up through the hole and simply returned to whatever it was doing.  Uh... I hope that bit was not important. Ramius finished off the remaining Garleans with his quick-firing pistol, and managed to free the boats by cutting entangled ropes. 

Upon arriving at shore, they were met with a scene of carnage. Dockworkers and a few Wood Wailers were crumbled on the ground, seriously wounded but not yet dead.  A jumble of tracks led deeper into the woods. Alyona once again used the linkshell to inform Khan that there were wounded that needed tending, but his response was a complaint that it would take a while because someone had stolen his boat. ... Oops? Well, that is what he gets for being sloppy! One of the injured workers confirmed where the Garleans fled, and the group was soon hot on their heels.

The party caught up to the remaining Garleans soon enough, who were busy at work doing something near a patch of trees. They did not have long to observe the enemy before being spotted, and a Garlean officer called for his troops to form up. They did so with alarming speed and precision, and soon let loose a fusillade of bullets from their gunblades. Thankfully, their aim was not as precise as their formation but a few in Ramius’ group were still hit. Damn it... if I die here I am killing Khan!

The gloves were off now, and no mercy was to be given. Yen’to finally activated his machinist aetherotransformer and spewed a gout of flame from the end of his rifle towards an unfortunate clump of Garleans. The others did not hold back either, letting loose with their fiercest techniques to utterly obliterate their targets in a storm of explosions and fire. I almost feel sorry for the bastards.... almost. As the smoke cleared, it was made apparent what the Garleans had been concerned with - a secret door leading underground. 

Cautiously, the group made their way into the underground store room. It was unlit and barely any light made its way inside. Yen’to’s moon-keeper eyes quickly adjsuted to the darkness, but few of the others were so lucky. Lalatua used some aether to light up her staff, and what it revealed gave everyone pause.

There were numerous desks and cabinets filled with papers, and posters and flyers covered the walls alongside maps. Almost in a stupor, they fanned out to dig through the papers to figure out exactly what they were dealing with. It was worse than suspected. On the largest desk, there was a stack of flyers with names and brief descriptions, many from previous missions with Khan:

Faye Covington, Silf Silverwood, Mocking Bird, Yen’to Tajaan, Elyn Merielle, Mako, Strega, Deccan, Ramius Raske, Khuron Khan.

By the Twelve.... these are signed by tribunus Lucian. He knows so much! How?! Aside from Lucian’s signature, there were directives commenting on multiple phases and local assets. Some of the other posters had vaguely familiar sketches, but were lacking descriptions. Sensing time was of the essence, everyone gathered whatever they could carry and made haste back to the Shroudrose to disseminate the information later and lick their wounds.

All this from one little information gathering mission that went sideways almost a moon ago. If the Garleans do not kill us, Lady Faye just might.

https://yentotajaan.tumblr.com/post/635629242574602240/repercussions

@tough-bit-of-fluff​

@ramius-xiv​

@fair-fae​

@eorzeanharmony​

[silvernsteel]

                               F I N A L   -   F A N T A S Y   -  X I I                               Ⅎ I N ∀ ˥   -   Ⅎ ∀ N ┴ ∀ S ⅄   -  X I Λ

                “That's what sky pirates do, they fly do they not?“

My little belated tribute to FFXII’s anniversary this year! Enjoy a little Sky Pirate Silf & Leona as my first comeback piece. This was fun to work on and was kind of last minute, but had a blast doing it...even if it was late. Below you can see the original image I based this off of. FFXII has always been one of my favorites and I’ll never get over these two cool kids :hearteyes: Fran and Balthier 4 life. I hope you enjoy this little dumb piece as much as I had working on it! 

ORIGINAL

[silvernsteel]

...one fear

[silvernsteel]

                                         ☽ 𝔸 ℝ ℂ  𝕃 𝕀 𝔾 ℍ 𝕋 ☾

𝒞𝒶𝓈𝓉 𝓎𝑜𝓊𝓇 𝓈𝓅𝑒𝓁𝓁 𝑜𝓃 𝓂𝑒...

[silvernsteel]

                                       ꧁༺ Ɱօօղƒìɾҽ ✦ Ƒąìɾҽ ༻꧂

[silvernsteel]

“You gotta know, I'm feeling love      Made of gold, I'll never love a            'Nother one, another you                    It's gotta be - love, I said it” 

[silvernsteel]

𝒢𝑒𝓃𝓉𝓁𝑒 𝒾𝓂𝓅𝓊𝓁𝓈𝒾𝑜𝓃      𝒮𝒽𝒶𝓀𝑒𝓈 𝓂𝑒, 𝓂𝒶𝓀𝑒𝓈 𝓂𝑒 𝓁𝒾𝑔𝒽𝓉𝑒𝓇               𝓕𝓮𝓪𝓻𝓵𝓮𝓼𝓼 𝓸𝓷 𝓶𝔂 𝓫𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓱

[silvernsteel]

                                             + 𝓓 𝓔 𝓔 𝓟 + 𝓑 𝓛 𝓤 𝓔 +

[silvernsteel]

"Silf likes to stick to a few select outfits, anything that allows for easy mobility at the drop of the hat is preferred. Form and Function and all that~” - Blade Dancer: Her go to outfit for most days, especially if she knows there might be fighting involved. Great for training in as well as lounging about her house. - City Attire: While out and about in any major city, Silf likes to try to fit in more with more common garments one might see. Leaning a little more with the locals but still adding her own Viera flare. - Crafting Gear: This tried and true outfit is Silf’s go to not only for crafting, but when she goes out to gather materials as well. Allows her to carry all the necessary gear while being comfortable and breathable. - Night Out: Silf likes the finer things in life, but tends to avoid wearing garments that are too restricting like fancy dresses. This outfit allows her to feel comfortable while on a night out with Leona, but still allows for her to flash a few battle moves if the need arises. 

Thanks for the ask, @muffinsandglasses​ ! AND SO SORRY FOR THE LONG WAIT AS WELL! *silently ree’s* I wanted to do four outfits for four hearts and couldn’t decide on which ones ;o; so many to choose from...ahhhhh! I went with some of my most common and loved/well worn outfits for this. You can really tell what I pretty much never leave home without :3 I’ve got a lot of fav’s though so top ones I’m sure will change eventually! THANKS AGAIN FOR THE ASK! FFXIV SCREENSHOT MEME (feel free to send me some anytime!)

[silvernsteel]

                           ✤ 𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓜𝓪𝓷𝔂 𝓜𝓸𝓸𝓭𝓼 𝓸𝓯 𝓢𝓹𝓻𝓲𝓰𝓰𝓪𝓷 ✤

SORRY FOR MORE SPRIGGAN APPRECIATION! I really adore all the animations they put on this best boi ;o; it’s easy to miss all the little details, but it’s all so good! I love how expressive he is, this is my favorite mount - he’s trying so hard, everyone give your Spriggan a big hug!

[silvernsteel]

                                           ☽ 𝓐 𝓢 𝓣 𝓡 𝓐 𝓛 ☾

                                     𝒮𝑜𝓂𝑒𝓉𝒾𝓂𝑒𝓈 𝐼 𝓌𝒶𝓉𝒸𝒽 𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝓀𝒾𝓁𝓁                                      𝒞𝑜𝓁𝒹 𝑒𝓎𝑒𝓈 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓃𝑜 𝓇𝑒𝓈𝓉𝓇𝒶𝒾𝓃𝓉                                       𝒜𝓃𝒹 𝐼 𝓌𝑜𝓃𝒹𝑒𝓇 𝒽𝑜𝓌 𝒾𝓉 𝒻𝑒𝑒𝓁𝓈                                        𝒯𝑜 𝒶𝓃𝓃𝒾𝒽𝒾𝓁𝒶𝓉𝑒 𝒶 𝒻𝓇𝒾𝑒𝓃𝒹

Companion Piece ☽ 𝓤𝓜𝓑𝓡𝓐𝓛 ☾

[silvernsteel]

                                               ☽ 𝓤𝓜𝓑𝓡𝓐𝓛 ☾

                                                 𝒮𝑜 𝒸𝓁𝑜𝓈𝑒 𝓉𝑜 𝒽𝑒𝒶𝓋𝑒𝓃                                          𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓈𝑜 𝒹𝒶𝓂𝓃 𝒻𝒶𝓇 𝒻𝓇𝑜𝓂 𝒢𝑜𝒹                                                𝐿𝑜𝓈𝓉 𝓉𝑜 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓈𝒽𝒶𝒹𝑜𝓌𝓈                                            𝒿𝓊𝓈𝓉 𝒶𝓈𝒽𝑒𝓈 𝒾𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒹𝓊𝓈𝓉

Companion Piece ☽ 𝓐 𝓢 𝓣 𝓡 𝓐 𝓛 ☾

[silvernsteel]

                               ⤝ εvεη ιғ συя ωσя∂s sεεм мεαηιηgℓεss ⤞                         ⤝ ιт's ℓιкε ι'м cαяяүιηg тнε ωειgнт σғ тнε ωσяℓ∂ ⤞

[silvernsteel]

                                                         ✧                                      𝐼𝒻 𝐼 𝓌𝑜𝓊𝓁𝒹 𝑔𝒾𝓋𝑒 𝓂𝓎 𝐿𝑜𝓋𝑒                                    𝓦𝓸𝓾𝓵𝓭 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓭𝓲𝓮 𝓯𝓸𝓻 𝓶𝓮?                                                          ✧