#avallac’h

[averagedettlaffenjoyer]

i want to hold Caranthir in my arms and tell him that he is good enough and that it isn’t his fault that they didn’t succeed and that he didn’t let Eredin down BUT NO HE HAS TO DROWN

[hanzajesthanza]

regis casually suggesting they desecrate tir ná beá arainne, an ancient and sacred elven mausoleum, just because he wanted to see what was up inside

[frenziedflame6]

Happy (belated) New Year to my dear friends! ✨♥️✨

This is the first ever full illustration I've done. I have learnt a lot and there is still a loooot to learn.

I am kind of unsatisfied with this drawing, but I've been sitting on it since the end of December.

Imperfect is better than never finished in my book.

[vamphotographer]

[arugulafriend]

I hope I get to kill solas in the new dragon age I hope they let me kill that cock headed dirt bag let me kill him BioWare BioWare you hear me? I’m at your back door let me in let me in so I can kill solas i think you should make a game just for me where I can fucking kill that bald incel LET ME AT HIM

[littlestsnicket]

I really need to re-read lady of the lake, and this is probably my personal bias at least as much as what is in the text, but i remember side-eyeing Avallac’h so much harder than Eredin so I am just ??? whenever I hear things about the game plot or when people talk about them in general.

[starwrittenfates]

🖼️ would love to see your take on Ava and Ciri because your moodboards are always so beautiful and I enjoy seeing them in general.

send 🖼️ and i’ll make a moodboard of our muses’ relationship || Still accepting!

@mysteriouself

[averagedettlaffenjoyer]

feainnewedd is the flower that grows only where the elder blood was spilled according to legends, but it really only grows in the place where Lara died.

now my headcanon: it doesn’t grow there because elder blood was spilled. it grows there because this was Lara, who Avallac’h was maddly obsessed with. he didn’t shy away from any experiment that would bring her back to him.

he never stopped loving her, not even after centuries after she had passed away. why wouldn’t he go there and try to heal her or bring her back? why wouldn’t he go back to her and cast every spell he knew to try and save her?

of course, he didn’t succeed, Lara was gone - maybe she didn’t want to come back to him - as the note next to the magic lamp in his Velen lab says; Lara remains silent.

he couldn’t bring her back, but the frozen ground began to bloom around them as he tried to pour his life power into her.

[hanzajesthanza]

ida emean is the most mysterious witcher character to me. like she literally just showed up from the blue mountains (i thought the elves were starving up there last time we checked) (also last time we checked the elves which lived in the blue mountains wanted nothing to do with humans ever and that’s why they live in said mountains) (like filavandrel whom sapkowski said intentionally never showed up again after time of contempt because he was an old and wise elf that could not be fooled and was not persuaded by the nilfgaardianian bequeathing of land)

and she just shows up as francesca findabair’s plus one to the who run the world girls meeting. you know. which contains humans. and then her only thing is that she’s an elf. she showed up. and oh yeah she fucking slayed that shit so hard not wearing any stones or metals at all in her jewelry in a daffodil dress. and her red hair. of course. but her dialogue is basically just: “yep confirming that’s magic” and “you are being a bit racist don’tcha think”

but the thing that REALLY makes me throw my hands up here is that she’s an AEN SAEVHERNE ?? literally a title we know best from it also belonging to LARA DORREN and AVALLAC’H?? but she was just hanging out with francesca in dol blathanna like going over to her friend’s for tea, when it is said even among the elves it’s rare to known an aen saevherne. so what relationship do they have that… ? dunno.

and but of course, because she is an elf, she is aloof, taciturn, and inscrutable as all hell and so we learn practically nothing about her.

[frenziedflame6]

"Belleteyn wilderness" doodle for those who cannot fall asleep.

[starwrittenfates]

@mysteriouself

Sorry didn’t want to color it, hope you like it :)

[vamphotographer]

[revoevokukil]

TW3 Story Leaks

It's Saturday, and I bring you some cold, hard rumour.

It seems somebody on reddit is working through the leaks of The Witcher 3, claiming approximately 300k of lines relating to the previous story iterations also leaked in 2021. Much of what they are claiming matches with the leaked files from 2014. There is completely new information too, though, and they plan on publishing their work-through early 2025.

So far, this is the information I've gathered from their posts:

Iorveth's daughter was Vernossiel. Her quest had her involved with a cult of the Bloody Mother; spores from a particular "flower" affected her thinking so she got brainwahsed into being sacrificed in a ritual killing in order to rise as the Bloody Mother herself.

Cerys was fake-Ciri.

The Baron (or Baron’s men?) was originally a rapist.

The Big 4 was originally Big 5, including Isengrim. Isengrim and Iorveth had houses in Novigrad.

Vincent Meis' model existed.

There was a quest with “thralls” (most likely Following the Thread involving Jad Karadin and the Faroe island) where Geralt would temporarily get married to a chieftain’s daughter.

We’d lock Yennefer in dimeritium handcuffs at one point to prevent her from interfering with the King’s Gambit questline.

Avallac’h provided Geralt with the means to warg as a rat in order to eavesdrop on the meeting of the Big 5 (including Isengrim) on Dijkstra’s ship. (Iorveth was planning on blowing the ship up.)

The Catriona Plague questline. It had a Nilfgaardian general Martin running a krankenhaus, where was infecting his countrymen with the plague and stealing their valuables. He made deals with Gaunter O’Dimm (his involvement in HOS is as a leftover from here) to get a cure for the Catriona, then with Gaunter’s archnemesis to get to keep the cure. Geralt had to figure it all out as Catriona was becoming more and more rampant and the faction with the cure would have huge leverage in how the war questline would resolve. Geralt would get the chance to hand the cure back to Gaunter, to Radovid, or Emhyr.

Iorveth got infected with Catriona, then infected Thaler to improve his morale on getting a cure (Thaler promised Iorveth a cure for assassinating Emhyr or some such.)

The war quest lines were somehow related to the dreamer Corinne Tilly who was a Nilfgaardian spy.

Voorhis laid siege to Crow’s Perch because Temerian rebels took it over.

The Sabbath originally had slave markets, an orgy meadow, and ritual suicides. Changed after 2014.

There was an option to assassinate Radovid after taking out Roche, so Dijkstra's rule was always an option.

Roche originally preferred fighting for Temeria no matter what. Reason of State had Roche vs Thaler and Dijkstra.

Radovid was more like his W2 self. Emhyr "more like Stalin."

Radovid took over the Temple Isle.

Emhyr was supposed to appear in the army camp center.

If Emhyr lost, Voorhis would overthrow him.

All the content showcasing Nilfgaardian war crimes was cut: a Nilfgaardian general was spreading the Catriona plague, robbing his dying countrymen; Voorhis' cruelty during the siege of the Crow's Perch, Nilfgaardians' direct attack on Kaer Trolde.

Crach died during the battle for Undvik and Voorhis negotiated over his body; the corpse was returned and Nilfgaard respect local burial traditions.

Melusine quest line had more content related to blood shrines.

There was an opportunity to try and convince Caranthir to betray Eredin, after which he'd get replaced by some elven lady (Isilira?). (Conflicted about this, as in 2013 leaks it seemed Caranthir knocks Avallac’h out on Naglfar when Geralt and him try to infiltrate it.)(Isilira is the lady you meet in Avallac’h’s lab in the released version.)

There was a sequence in White Orchard in the Empress ending where Voorhis had announced he'd arrive and propose to Ciri in few days, but Ciri lost Emhyr's signet ring to prove his approval of the marriage. Then some kind of gamble ensued under the influence of a Korred, and Ciri decided if she'd win she'd marry and if not she'd run away (not sure if this shouldn't it be the other way around).

Gameplay-wise:

There was a 'vital spot' system, where you gained points by performing various actions and could then use those points to perform combat moves that would either weaken of 1-shot an enemy.

Manticores were cut.

Players could buy boats and horses; rowboat for rivers and lakes.

Wind tunnels and proper storms in which a boat could tilt over.

Water combat was cut.

Focus mode in combat was cut.

[icpe]

hi!! could you draw avallac’h’s dreams about cirilla?😏💖 I AM SURE HE HAS SOME.

(he wanna be her husband, i’m sure…)

No…not really…

[starwrittenfates]

@mysteriouself

The Kiss

[chaoticatgwent]

Happy anniversary to The Witcher 3, the game that has changed my life and brought me back to my most favorite franchise in the world🧡

Have some Avallac’h coz he’s my fave cunt

I mean, design from the game 🦊

Finally managed to finish this, just in time for today 😌