#areelu

[morrigan-sims]

i am not a woman, i'm a god - redux

I'd already been working on tweaking my old Areelu sim for a few days, but then @strangegrapefruit posted these ritual horns, and I instantly knew they were perfect for her. So behold the new and improved Architect of the Worldwound.

[reference pic under the cut]

As you can tell, these horns are much more accurate than the other ones I had on her. Still not perfect, but better. And I also added arm tattoos (not exact, but the best I had), rings (recolored just for her), bracelet, bracer, and belt accessories. I also added her wound (purple "scar"). I know it's on the wrong side, it's fine. Oh, and I recolored this dress for her.

[six-improbable-things]

Update on my Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous obsession: I have fallen head over heels in love with Areelu. I'm OBSESSED with this woman. She may be responsible for causing the apocalypse, but I don't care. I love her. I'm kind of tempted to angle for the secret ending, but we'll see what happens.

Also, I've been torn between romancing Lann and Galfrey, but I just did Lann's personal quest in Chapter 4, and I think that sold me on him. I love that man to the ends of the earth, and we all know I love some whump-adjacent things. (though I do wish that being near Samankelev actually gave him negative buffs.... Would it make the fight more miserable? Yes. Do I want it anyways? Also yes.)

Also, Woljif and Arushalae are my best friends. Woljif's personal quest in Chapter 4 and him calling my character "the best thing that ever happened to [him]" broke me a little bit. And I just adore Arushalae so fucking much. Her learning to dream???? So fucking pure and adorable, I love it.

(If I had a nickle for every time I'd fallen in love with a fictional chaotic purple tiefling with curled horns who convinced a group of people that he was someone important, I'd have two nickles. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it's happened twice.)

And Ember... my dear Ember. Where I'm at pretty soon we'll be going to talk to Nocticula, and you'd better believe I'm taking her with me. Do I know this will probably have interesting consequences? Yes. Am I going to let her say whatever she wants anyways? Also yes. I think Reda (my ranger PC) is both vaguely amused by and also inspired by Ember. Like, Reda doesn't seen how someone who's gone through so much horror can be so kind, even to the people who hurt her. But at the same time, she finds it endearing, and Ember helps her see the good in the world, and helps keep her from losing hope during the Crusade and all that.

[teddybaeran]

Areelu could have taken the sword when offered as Yaniel

Didn't get screenshots of this because I didn't realize the significance when it happened, but when you offer the sword to Yaniel, she can't grab it due to being weak and says you keep it.

But. Why would Areelu do that? HM. I am excited to learn more about such an interesting character....

[starryflyingplatypus]

More WOTR memes!

[ronavorona16]

[dmagedgoods]

5, 6, and 11 for Sal for the KC asks please! 👀

5. Did you have a fixed team? If so, who did you take, and why? Salvadore took the people along he needed and / or trusted most. Daeran: Not only did he strongly enjoy his company from the very start, he always was highly useful and capable within his fields of expertise and beyond. Aside from this, of course, Salvadore’s feelings for him grew serious quite fast and he wanted him at his side to talk to him, to hear his opinions, and spend time with him. Daeran was in the group always. You can’t expect Salvadore to leave without his Field Attaché. Regill: Salvadore often wished he could multiply him. On one hand, he needed him in charge in Drezen when he himself had to go on missions, on the other hand, he wanted him present during those missions as well. In the end, he left things in Drezen to Irabeth and Anevia quite often, because he cherishes and wanted Regill’s company, experience, skills, and advice. Woljif: All those chests would have stayed locked without him and it’s far easier to walk ahead with your nose as high as Sal’s if you are warned of each and every trap. Furthermore, Woljif is a skillful fighter making excellent damage. More importantly: Despite admitting it quite late, Salvadore always enjoyed having him around and missed him a lot during the short period (when he ran off) he wasn’t in the group. Arueshalae: Those arrows are deadly! She was highly valuable in battle, but Sal mostly took her along because of the friendship developing between the two of them. Cassius: Of course, Salvadore always has his beloved leopard with him. The last member in the group changed, depending on quest and whose knowledge and skills would come in most handy. Usually, the place got filled by Wenduag, Sosiel or Greybor, Ember on missions not too dangerous to take along a child. Very rarely, it happened that Salvadore changed the team completely if there was an important reason: During Daeran’s act V quest, for example. He only picked those of his companions who would keep the existence of the Other and the fact that Daeran had served as their portal secret – even after everything would be resolved. 6. Did they intervene in Pharasma’s court? If so, what did they decide? Salvadore’s emotions towards Areelu are quite complicated. I wrote a lot about them here. Despite her terrible deeds, he always felt that, on a personal level, he owes her a lot. Without her, he wouldn’t have reached what he did to the same overwhelming extent, Knight Commander, ruler of the Wounded Lands and Mendev, celebrated hero and savior, celestial being. Furthermore, he saw guidance in some of her actions and words. It may be connected to the complicated relationship with his own mother and his struggle to get her attention when he still was a child, but it hurt him when eventually, he got to know that the hint of pride and affection he had recognized in her behavior was about Areelu’s actual son, never about him. Nonetheless, he spoke in Areelu’s favor when she stood in front of Pharasma and cleared his debt. 11. What did your KC think of the Hand of the Inheritor? His very first thought, not without jealousy: Impressive wings. I found it kind of entertaining (for that very reason) that eventually he got his own. While knowing that he wasn’t Iomedae’s chosen one long before he found out about the actual origin of his powers (being an atheist with no connection to the goddess at all), he liked to use this rumor in his favor and the presence of the Hand of the Inheritor served this very purpose even further and his radiant reputation in front of his soldiers, allies and enemies alike. Now this sounds cold, doesn’t it? Salvadore saw more in him than a political tool, of course. He cherished him for his principles, his honor, and ideas of goodness they shared. When the Hand of the Inheritor stood firmly at his side during Galfrey’s unsuccessful attempt to strip him off his title, Salvadore thought that a friendship could develop from mutual respect and loyalty between the angel and him. All the more, he was sincerely hurt when the Hand of the Inheritor turned his back on him the moment the truth about his powers got revealed. Suddenly nothing he had done, nothing he had accomplished, seemed to be of any worth to him anymore, all things he had praised him for were meaningless now. If you betray and humiliate him like that after he already decided to let you close, it’s very hard to regain Salvadore’s trust. Of course, he gave him back his heart. But it was a patronizing gesture, to raise above him while he lay on the ground. When the Hand of the Inheritor apologized, Salvadore – being on angel path – would have had the chance to forgive him so fully that it would have allowed him to return to Heaven immediately. But he couldn’t. He couldn’t forgive him yet. The Hand of the Inheritor decided to live among mortals for a while, to study them and learn. Salvadore genuinely hopes he’ll meet him again. He will be ready to forgive him then.

[kutkhart]

Art on the theme of the multiverse

[darkergrey]

Areelu Vorlesh design simplified for animation activities. Based on a combination of her adventure path look and the crpg design.

[fried-piranha]

mommies！

[sansevierias]

"Here are my last words – I regret nothing." ( Art sources: 1 2 3 )

[arendaes]

Finally made good on my threat promise to get my favorite meme done Ariadne-style. Done by the wonderful @nen-the-pigeon, who still has comms open on VGen!

[morrigan-sims]

i am not a woman, i'm a god

I think I did a pretty good job bringing her to life in the sims!!! I wanna make a full-on edit with her, but this was plenty for tonight.

[moxruina]

areelu vorlesh my beloved *dies*

[thatratgo]

The intellectuals of Pathfinder :D

[bite-the-bloody-hand]

I have a lot of thoughts about the Secret ending and Endgame but the one that's got me in a spiral [affectionate] right now is

how when you go back to Areelu's lab and you find her memories. You play through this whole situation with her kid summoning monsters and doing stupidass shit right. You see it all and then at the end there's this very odd bit of dialog where the kid is like 'oh mom you'd never actually let me be hurt and you're only letting me explore on my own and someday I'll be big and strong thank you mom!' or some shit like that.

That moment and the kid's horrible death are the only memories you see of him, and then you get to speak to Areelu herself. And what she has to say is so interesting right, she talks about how absorbed she was in her work and how desperately focused she was on essentially saving mankind from themselves that she didn't even realize Inquisitors were at her door until it was too late to stop them from murdering her child.

And of course seeing her kid die like that broke her, of course not being able to resurrect him because Pharasma had already passed judgement made things worse.

But what gets me is that her grief, her regret, is something she's never actually processed. When she talks to you in the secret ending, and you spell out all you've done to understand her, she breaks because she can't see you as anything but her child anymore... which is so heartbreaking to me because she never even knew who her child was.

All she has are her memories, which themselves have literally become projections of her own regrets. The kid we see summoning up Balors at age ten, who fully understood and accepted his mother's motivations, who only ever acted out because of curiosity and never because of a harsh sentiment between them... I'm pretty sure that kid never existed. Areelu, so caught up in breaking the world to avenge and reclaim her child, forgot who that child ever actually was.

The implications of the Knight Commander's time in her Lab suggest that (if you're playing a shorter-lived race anyway) she takes them from some point in childhood to begin her experiments; periodically snatching up and then re-releasing them to assure her long-term study is successful. She's manipulative if not outright coercive, resorting to abusive experimentation, ruining the life of a living child to have perfect dominion over a dead one.

Her tragedy is so delicious to me, I must say.

[nerywen]

Areelu Vorlesh 🌹

best mom from Pathfinder

art for my friend <3