#aetherstorms

[unsunderedphoenix]

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@aetherstorms

Opsiános sighed, just as exasperated. Take your eye off a creature for five seconds and it was gone. He supposed he really couldn’t complain much given his own creation, that was currently being reviewed was like that. Granted, his spriggans were likely a little more adventurous.

“ Let’s go find your lost creation.” He stated a soft smile on his lips. Best to do it together and have some fun with it.

[minarcana]

@aetherstorms // mean to him.

Ker is unperturbed, staring down Emet-Selch with his usual inscrutable sort of bemusement. "Would you have asked? Even if you needed my advice desperately, which you do, I doubt you'd ask. I'm simply saving you the trouble by offering it unsolicited."

He realizes that he's largely speaking nonsense, but delivers it with confidence and authority befitting a professor. Ker's own hair is of far too long a length for any rule-abiding Amaurotine to take his advice. "Anyways, you should part it differently. Or something with your bangs. It really is a crime that having your hood down is so frowned upon, but you can at least try to look decent underneath al the boring featureless outfit." Spoken like a true mage who keeps 'forgetting' to put on their mask.

[bladeshowers]

How do Amara and Evan feel about being the WoL in their respective WoL verses?

Evan kind of stumbled into things and never really saw them going the way they did. She's in it purely for the adventure of everything and to witness cool things other people don't get to. Sometimes the entire thing feels a little constraining to her, but she's happy to be able to help people, even if doesn't necessarily view it as something she has to do. idk. She honestly kind of views it in a very spiderman like way. She has a lot of power and a lot of responsibility to the world. Sometimes it sucks since she can't save everyone and she has to live with that. She just kind of accepts the good and the bad of it all. Evan's come to terms with the fact that she'll never get a break and will probably die doing something heroic and there isn't much she can do to change things. She's content to go with the flow and see where life takes her. Being WoL is very fulfilling to her, even if she does feel like she's more emotionally distanced from those she cares about because of it. Evan doesn't like to burden people, and even though she's more in touch with herself emotionally, she does tend to keep that stuff to herself. And, to be fair, no one really asks her either.

Amara tends to lean towards being resentful of the responsibility and all the weight that gets put on her shoulders. Originally, she definitely leaned into it because it was getting her money, fame, fortune. Then shit started going downhill with the faux assassination and just kept getting worse between people she cared for dying and the increasing amount of pressure on her shoulders. Now, she's kind of stuck in this weird place where she's a hero but doesn't really want it because she doesn't feel like everyone deserves to be saved. Endwalker kind of forced her to accept the intellectual fallacies of her logic given how high the stakes were. (Which is her fascination with Amon explained to some degree.) It also solidified that she - as warrior of light - is bordering on primal status and that could be tipped over the edge one day. Which is frightening to her. She likes the idea of that power but… Ultimately she's stuck walking in Azem's shadow and she hates it. She always wanted to be free of one cast from her family or brother and now she's stuck with a bigger and more grandiose one. Her hatred is offset by her fascination though.

[valiisthea]

Are there any AU’s you’d like to explore but haven’t had the chance to yet?

Munday Meme!

@aetherstorms

Oh so, so, so so many. Most of them can be found under my AUs link on my pinned post, but some new ones recently I've tagged as wishlist or mentioned in passing.

Specifically, there was a modern AU where Clive was kicked out at 18 and moved into a cheap complex owned by Cid. Elwin foght Anabella to let Clive stay but Clive left as to not complicate things. Joshua is sick in this verse. It's pretty much a sandbox!

There was also a medical/ER AU where some 16 charas worked as paramedics, some worked as ER nurses, some were ER doctors.

There's the thread I want to write where someone comes to let Terence have some closure on Dion.

There's the Dion survives mess I wanna write.

And then everything under that AU link.

I freaking LOVE aus more than anything.

[bladeshowers]

Rhea heaved a sigh and gazed wistfully at him. A small smile quirked the corner of her lips as the fondness she had for him appeared in her eyes. "I do and I don't." In truth Azem had many conflicting feelings over it all. "My heart both yearns for the unknown, to aid the people, but also for those I love and care about. I cannot have both at the end of the day. As much as I've tried, I cannot justify dragging you, or anyone else that I care about around the world with me." It was true that she could summon them whenever she wanted - and they consented - but it simply wasn't the same. A part of her did yearn for that level of normalcy that others had and took for granted. Sometimes it was hard for her to not feel bitter.

Rhea squeezed his hand sympathetically. "I assumed as much. We'll handle everything together. Perhaps that at least will help to soothe your nerves?" It wasn't a foolproof plan, like he might have wanted, but it was better than nothing. Surely having the - admittedly sometimes chaotic - Azem at his side would be some comfort? Lover or not? "Of course. I'll always be here for you." (Until she wasn't.)

Ah, birds. Hopefully that meant it was working. "We'll have to keep our eyes and ears peeled for them. Do inform me what to look for. Birds were my weak point until you began tutoring me in their nature and that of flight." She'd even help him catch them if he so desired. Whatever he wanted, he would have. (There was a certain irony of this thought that would be lost to her.)

Hermes blinked. “You’d…prefer to be in the city? But I thought you enjoyed the adventuring?” He had to admit, this took him a bit by surprise. He had thought she was like Venat, who had loved traveling so much that she had kept it up even after retiring. Loved it so much that he was surprised she had retired. But Rhea didn’t?

He shook his head slightly afterward. “Yes….I am imagining the worst.” He made himself relax his fist and turn his hand over to grasp hers, take comfort in her company and the knowledge that she would be with him. “Thank you, Rhea.” He had been invited, and he adored this cousin, so he would go. It would be fine, because he loved his cousin and because Rhea would be there.

“I hope I can catch one of the birds.” He murmured. “I would love to take a good look at it.” Now this was a much nicer thing to imagine than the things his other relatives would say. If it was a swallow, then it would have certain characteristics, but it had to be different somehow or there wouldn’t be a reason for it to have been released. He wanted to find out what made it special.

[sheepwithspecs]

i hope devs realize that having carvallain and rhoswen show up as starlight npcs doesn't mean they're allowed to skip them at valentione's bc at this point it's tradition--

[spotofmummery]

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Whatever you are looking for, it can be found. It is waiting for you. This fear has no place in your home. No matter what shape your grief comes in, there will always be a place for you in this world.

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[reassambled-dragoon]

12: Quarry

   She was a hunter, and she was tracking her prey through unfamiliar terrain. Not just unfamiliar, but hostile, with massive protrusions of overcharged elemental energies thrusting outwards everywhere she looked. Additionally, there was yet another aetherstorm, a phenomenon the Mor Dhona locals called Gloom, sullying the air and tinting everything purple.

   Everything made her teeth feel like she was biting down on a live wire. It was painful, but she had lived through far worse. And she still had her quarry to find, and a reputation to uphold. 

   Stasia knelt down to inspect a scuffed stone. The faintest trace of a boot could be seen: too large to be hers or Alisaie’s, too small to belong to Storm or Star. In fact, the trace looked about right for a human. Hyur. At this moment, focused on the hunt, Stasia did not give a damn about the distinction.

   She focused for a moment and made a tiny gesture, drawing on the ambient magics swirling around her. In a heartbeat, she became well-nigh invisible and eerily silent, her glowing eyes also dimmed. She slipped past Saint Coinach's Find unseen, then climbed to a rocky perch and studied the researchers.

   No. Her prey wasn't among them.

   Stasia moved on, patient and focused. She found another trace, this one backtracking slightly. With a flick of an ear, she ghosted along the rocky trail, her senses alert. The crystal formations became flame-hued, and the air audibly crackled and hummed, making her skin crawl. She had to fight to keep from being overwhelmed, and cast about for another trace.

   Above.

   The hunter found a hint of a path, more like a natural way through the rocks and crystals. The climb made her head throb, but she managed to maintain her stealth spell just long enough to silently stalk up behind the man in white and tap a finger to his temple. Her stealth spell dissipated, revealing a wicked grin. 

   “Hello, Thancred. This round goes to me.”

[socialpoison]

The Phyrexian Arc where my ocs are concerned:

-Traenor went on a revenge quest for the friend he thought he lost to Jin-Gitaxias, Endry.

-He enlists Klaus and Andra to help him out.

-Traenor and Klaus went to New Phyrexia and helped the resistance for a bit.

-They investigated Kaldheim, then Kamigawa, where they met Avon, who was investigating consortium leads that led her to Tezzeret's trail.

-They try to follow up on leads that bring them to Elspeth's homeplane, New Capenna. They meet walkers from the Order of Heliud , Lys Ora, Vanya, and Constance. Lys Ora blames Andra for initiating their homeplane's eventual destruction (andra is unaware) and she chases Andra off. Vanya joins the gang.

-They go to Dominaria, after reports of Phyrexians invading. Vanya takes them to the Serran Order of Grace, her order which had been infiltrated by Sleepers. Avon helps root them out, until she accidentally mind melds with a sleeper, and turns against them, nearly destroying them all. Avon is captured and left to recover, though they do manage to save the Order.

Around here, Ellidus is captured and compleated, and the Order's listening post on New Phyrexia now monitors planeswalker travel for New Phyrexia.

-In BRO they meet with the Gatewatch formally. They prepare their homeplanes for invasion. Traenor finally gets his second knighthood.

Around here, after months of the Listening Post being used to stop planeswalkers from messing with Phyrexia, the Order hires a certain Metathran to take it down. Ellidus is punished for losing it, and to try and make up for it, they help augment the Phyrexians' new anti-planeswalker field, with their body as a component.

Also Ora discovers Andra never intended to kick off the growing of Axin's aetherstorm, and would have stopped it if she could. They return to the gang.

-In ONE, the gang go to New Phyrexia to try and run interference for the Planeswalker Strike Team, and achieve a secondary goal, which is to try and find how the Phyrexians are compleating planeswalkers.

But Klaus is separated on arrival and captured. His immunity from Melira is bolstered by some Halo he takes, so he isn't compleated at first. However they do put him into a pod to access his memories and magic. While he's under, he dreams a journey through the layers of Phyrexia, where he sees people he knows being either captured or compleated. He's rescued just before he dies or gets compleated.

Ellidus is probably separated from Realmbreaker, left helpless.

[xanican-exile]

"This world is dying."

A wizened old man stood up from his chair, stacks of papers detailing various experiments, expeditions, and vivisections in front of him, lit by flickering candles. Primitive, but it was all he had at the moment.

"Its death blow dealt over a millennia ago, since then it has limped on, its wound festering and draining its vitality." Slowly, made his way over to an open window where his telescope stood, aiming at Talak. The old man gazed upon the larger of the twin moons and the swirling aetherstorms that yet raged on its surface, their shifting colors visible even to the naked eye. Once those energies has saturated the earth, pure and calm. Now they raged above, violent maelstroms that crashed into each other far away; the result of gods and dragons squabbling like children over this world. And where were they now?

"Gone, lost. Abandoned us after breaking their toy." He turned away from his telescope in disgust and looked down at the land below. To his sight the old leylines ran with streams of magic, filled temporarily by what aether trickled down from the moons above, only to be washed away every day with the rising sun. Once, they had been rivers of light, power that sustained the creation of wonders scarcely imagined today. Not bound to journey of the sun and moons, orphaned far above, but anchored to the earth where it naturally belonged. "They've lost so much, and they don't even know it..."

Even diminished, it was beautiful, thin lines of liquid light rushing and swirling across the ground. He longed to reach out and grab it, to fill himself with its power as he had so many times. The effort would have been futile, in his current state only the merest trickle would answer his call. He had wasted far too many nights over the centuries trying for more. Perhaps I am dying a slow death as well.

The thought made the old man shake his head. No, no he could not allow himself to die. Not with so much still to be done. Works unfinished, plans to set in motion.

He would not abandon this world as its gods had

[horademagic]

Roca da Tempestade Etérea/ Aetherstorm Roc

Tipo de criatura: Ave

Custo de mana: 2 brancas + 2 de qualquer cor = 4 no total

3/3 de Poder e Resistência

Por que ela é interessante? Essa criatura tem voar, vantagem sob oponentes sem voar ou alcance para se defender. Toda vez que essa criatura ou outra entrar no campo sob seu controle, você recebe um marcador de energia. Toda vez que essa criatura atacar, você vai poder pagar 2 marcadores de energia, se escolher pagar, então coloque um marcador de +1/+1 nela e vire até uma criatura alvo que o jogador defensor controlar. Aqui a única questão é que precisa de um deck que realmente gere energia para que nunca falte recurso para tornar ainda mais forte.

Preço da carta: em torno de 0,20 até 10,00

Disponível em Português

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Link: https://www.ligamagic.com.br/?view=cards%2Fsearch&card=Aetherstorm+roc&tipo=1

Até a próxima postagem, Ulli e Thiago

[unsunderedphoenix]

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@aetherstorms

Aurora hummed as she looked up at him. The collar that suppressed her powers slowed her healing factor, but did not eliminate it. In the and she would be free of scars. There was also the fact that she would never forgive herself if he died when she could prevent it in some way. If any of them died by this bastards hands really. She also knew her defiance, as small as it was, gave many of the other slaves in the house hope. Hope that something would happen to free them of the Master torture.

“ The beatings do both bother me. Better me then one of you, you are all much easier to kill.” Aurora hummed and gave him her signature soft smile. Even her voice was soft and carried an almost etherial quality to it. But then, her entire presence could be described at that.

[hugsloves]

I can't wait when this map will be finished. I'm so hype for it

[bladeshowers]

"Good, because I'm not going back there either unless someone is paying me." Amara pinched the bridge of her nose. Too many bad memories and the weather was far too cold for her taste. As far as she was concerned, most of the Garleans didn't want her help, and she wasn't the person to give it. The twins were perfectly capable of helping out on their own when they desired to do that. The other information Themis would likely find out later. Mostly because Amara imagined Amon wouldn't be able to resist bragging about it further. When? She had no clue, but she imagined it would happen eventually.

Amara made a noise. "I kind of have to by virtue of the fact we all live together." Eventually it was going to come out and then her family would make demands. Briefly, she made a face. "He'll get along perfectly fine with my mother as is." The thought left her mouth before her head could properly catch up to it and she quirked an eyebrow. "That explains a lot, actually, now that I think about it." Amon had a similar enough personality to her mother and Themis was more laid back like her father. Ah. Psychology was a wonderful thing.

Within that moment Amara casually gave up on the distance she had put between them and moved to rest her head on his shoulder. "I have a complicated relationship with them. I was always close to my dad but… Mom's always been rather distant emotionally and disinterested. I always felt they preferred my brother over me. I always felt like I wasn't good enough. Which was the catalyst that started everything."

“Aside from the lab in Azys Lla, the only other one is in Garlemald and I’m not going back there any time soon.” Amon retorted from the kitchen. “Though I certainly won’t deny that Azys Lla could use some cleaning, considering someone went tromping all over the place breaking things! Or well, I suppose it must have been several someones, so I can’t lay all the blame at your feet.” He cackled then at mention of the soul transfer. “I do believe you were the one who just brought it up, but good to know you realized the lavish meal I was referring to!”

Themis tilted his head slightly in curiosity concerning the soul transfer statement, but since Amara seemed uncomfortable with it he opted not to ask. Instead he gave a slight shrug. “My duty as Emissary always went beyond simply the Convocation’s interests. Being Zodiark’s Heart didn’t change that. Even when it came to our agreed upon goal of restoring Etheirys to its whole state, the methods of doing so were not something we always agreed upon….ah, but that is a moot point now since we have agreed there is no further need to seek the Rejoining.”

He shifted to rest chin in hand then, and made a thoughtful sound. “Ah, well you don’t have to introduce us, of course. I was simply wondering if you would.” His gaze drifted toward the kitchen. “Although, much as it goes without saying, you may want to….rub down Amon’s sharper edges beforehand if you do.” He looked back to her. “Though might I ask why? You choose to live close to them, so I assume you get along with them well enough.”

[valiisthea]

Munday Survey !

Name/Alias: Jess! But I've taken an affinity to being called 'Diehards' (a play on my twitch username).

Age group: Erm...old lol. I'm 32.

Pronouns: She/her

Favorite color: green or blue, don't make me choose.

Favorite food: ugh, pasta. Particularly alfredo pasta. Im an alfred-hoe.

Tattoos/piercings?: Mhm, I have six tattoos (both shoulders, forearm, wrist, foot, chest/over my heart) and then 11 piercings (5 in right ear, 4 in left ear, septum, right nostril).

Current song stuck in your head?: Actually, none. BUT. Yesterday it was "all the things she said" by Tatu LOL.

Pets?: OH boyyyy. Five cats, 3 dogs, and a mouse. Yes a pet mouse, not a house mouse lmao.

Favorite book?: Sheesh, In The Heart of The Sea or The Martian.

Do you have a 'prized possession'?: yeaaah. My uncle passed away when I was 5, he gave me this silly little robot toy when I was maybe 2? It's in the barn right now, but I'll never get rid of it. My dad appreciates it too. That was his little brother and one of the only physical things we've got left of him.

Dream job: ok don't laugh at me, but I've wanted to be a paleontologist since I was 5 years old. I'm obsessed with dinosaurs, to the point where I've been caught physically crying looking at bone casts in museums before and taken online classes to learn more about em.

Tea or coffee?: both my friend. Both.

Hobbies: I stream on twitch!! That's really all I do aside from work and RP. Yall can come hang out with me and my twitchfam any time! www.twitch.tv/forthediehards

How long have you been role-playing?: Since I was 18, so 14 years?

Who is your most active muse: Mm, any of the FFXVI ones right now. Most specifically Dion. I've also got a lot of muse for Roche from 7 remake.

Significance behind your url?: hm, well, it just means there's a surplus of hearts. Because I have an assload of muses, and they've all got hearts. So many, many many hearts lol.

Tag some partners!: @lightxrampart @mediciina @pheoniks @sagefired @madrites @carrotsaversion @havfayth @aetherstorms @legendaryplayer @eifri @levinstrike @kihel-sorcas @oifrit @rosfieldj @lightwxrden @creatrix-mea @ofdiamonddust @ultimaleus @holyguardian @rosxrian @waloedrex @waloed-steed @stellarisen @poeticphoenix @spiras-summoner @txnichtgut @diions @ofdragonslight @firevow @wingedturmoil @tsckcyomi @knightxvowed @swerte @owyrmtail @gillionaires @of-mythos @wyvern-flames @oultima @floscaedis @rosfeild @eikonshiva @poppydedicant @yinjiyang @inproelia @ifritmade @lionheartedscout @equescaeli @adenial @phoenix-flamed @flamesofrebirths

[aetherstorms]

After thinking about it for a couple of days, I'm putting all my Final Fantasy muses in one convenient place; here! So on top of XIV, there will also be XVI and VII here as well. You can check my muses list for everyone who is making their home here.

So don't be alarmed when you start seeing posts from the other series, I'm still playing 14! This just makes more sense than juggling multiple blogs.

I am also considering changing the name (yes, again) to aetherstorms, since I like it a lot better.