#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

[theladyofspaceandtime]

Threads of Destiny and Fate - Chapter 3: The Prophecy

Lara and Crevan aesthetic made by me.

Art for Crevan/Avallac'h is by Hikaru Yagi. Check out their comic: Ciri, the Child of Destiny.

Chapter 3 Summary: Every elf knows of Ithlinne's prophecy. And Lara knows the importance of the role she must play in it. In fact...she was born for this. Story Summary: Carrier of the Elder Blood. Seagull. Aen Saveherne. Do you know the tale of Lara Dorren? Pairings: Avallac'h/Lara Dorren, Cregennan of Lod/Lara Dorren, Auberon & Lara Tags: The Wild Hunt (The Witcher), Aen Elle (The Witcher), Aen Seidhe (The Witcher), Elves, Worldbuilding, Pre-Canon, Wiedźmin | The Witcher Lore, Origin Story, Elder Blood (The Witcher), Eventual Romance, Tragic Romance, Family Feels, Character Development, Unplanned Pregnancy, Falling in Love, We already know how this is going to end but seeing how it begins is fun

[gayeredin]

honorable mention once again to avallac’h hanging out with the monsters in the cave under mount gorgon, presumably being the one to teach them speech among other things

[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

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[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.

[starsandskies]

💕 self-love time! talk about which ones of YOUR creations (edits, artworks, fanfics) you like the most then send to other creators to do the same 💕

Ah, thank you for sending me this! ♥

So mmm, as for art, I'd say that my favorites (I'm particularly proud of them) are Avallac'h and Vernon Roche's portraits (and maybe Regis too if I manage to finish it in this lifetime). Drawing stuff from The Witcher always brings me comfort, so yeah, they're probably the ones I like the most.

Thank you again! ♥

[fingons-rad-harp]

me every time there’s a wild hunt name reveal

[bravelittlescrib]

Saw that “stop shipping Ciri with weird old men” post… fuck that noice I will be shipping Ciri WITH MORE weird old men 👍👍 Avallac’h Eredin Auberon let’s go

[starwrittenfates]

「 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐨 ─ All. OCs & Crossovers are welcomed. 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐞 ─ Avallac'h 𝐅𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐦 ─ The Witcher (Books & Games) 」

"My power lies in possessing knowledge, not sharing it." The elven sage stated proudly.

[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.

[theladyofspaceandtime]

Threads of Destiny and Fate - The first 2 chapters are currently up!

Story Summary: Carrier of the Elder Blood. Seagull. Aen Saveherne. Do you know the tale of Lara Dorren? Pairings: Avallac'h/Lara Dorren, Cregennan of Lod/Lara Dorren, Auberon & Lara Tags: The Wild Hunt (The Witcher), Aen Elle (The Witcher), Aen Seidhe (The Witcher), Elves, Worldbuilding, Pre-Canon, Wiedźmin | The Witcher Lore, Origin Story, Elder Blood (The Witcher), Eventual Romance, Tragic Romance, Family Feels, Character Development, We already know how this is going to end but seeing how it begins is fun

This is my origin story for Lara Dorren, exploring her life, how the Elder Blood came to be, and the world of the Aen Elle.

Check out the Prologue for more on the story details!

[revoevokukil]

*That* Apology

My friend @dragonfly255 made a point that compels me: when Ciri apologized to Crevan in that elven courtyard, she saved her ass from his laboratory.

I always found it fascinating that Ciri apologized. Not least because letting loose on the people with whom she has a bone to pick is standard fare for her temperamental self, and she has more than enough cause. Mostly though, it’s because her apologizing to an adult - one several times over at that - is mature beyond anything anyone would expect of a 16-year old traumatized young woman. There is so much more going on in her “offer” besides, given the context and the tatters of her psyche, but the point first.

Avallac’h is what you would call a rogacz in Polish - a stag, a horned one (someone to whom “horns were made” by an unfaithful wife or lover); a cuckold in English - and Ciri noted Lara as his weakness earlier in the chapter. She presses on his wound knowingly. She wants to hurt with this. By saying what she says, it’s as if she is taking another little vengeance for the hurt, shame, and humiliation she has and is made to feel. And then she is confronted with exactly the same emotions in her captor.

Hurt, shame, humiliation, anger, desire: for vengeance, for settling of accounts, for that something which is missing.

Ever since the end of the Tower of the Swallow, Ciri has tried to hold back from unrestrained vengeance, and she is proud of herself, however small the progress. That lump in her throat. It’s doubtless painful to hear all this being said about you by your sole “friend” in this world (note how Auberon later calls himself Ciri’s only friend instead), but different forces may be acting upon her, ranging from sympathy to fear and dependence to romanticizing someone’s heartbreak and! the love they must be capable of feeling by implication. Ciri is young and fond of dime novel romances. Constantly bereft of safety, love, and belonging, and no longer unwise in heartbreak. What must it be like to be loved the way Avallac’h loved “his” Lara?

But there’s more, and I think that might be the most important: the awakening of humanism.

In an important sense, Ciri’s sympathy toward Avallac’h’s suffering is an example of the grail knight’s kindness which heals the Fisher King. Sapkowski seems partial to Wolfram von Eschenbach’s retelling of the Grail myth: the power of the Grail in Parzival which heals the Waste Land in the human heart is unleashed through compassion.

An apology is something Avallac’h likely never heard from Lara (nor Cragen). It brings the first bit of spring, the first bit of new life and light, to the Waste Land that is Crevan’s heart.

Again, Ciri does something nobody would expect of her; not even Avallac’h. Avallac’h has just pinned her for Cregennan’s successor and, in the heat of the moment, may be reconsidering his opposition to having Lara’s daughter brought into his laboratory. Ciri realises how precisely she “doesn’t know what she is talking about” as the pinchers close around her neck: she is walking on a knife’s edge with Avallac’h; his love runs as deep as his hate. But Ciri surprises: she asks for forgiveness from the one who is wronging her. And hope springs.

The journey to transcending your own damaged being thanks to compassion toward others forms the heartwood of the Witcher tale. It’s what keeps evil at bay. It can fail, but it’s what’s needed: heart. Being human is important. It’s about looking for the Grail within. Compassion toward the other ignites compassion toward the self, and vice versa. By healing we heal, and healing, we learn how to heal. Ciri has, in babysteps, been on a journey of abandoning the path of vengeance. She is young. She is growing. She springs.

The other side of this coin?

By apologizing, Ciri may have not only saved her ass from the elven laboratory but also pushed Avallac’h toward arranging or letting pass Auberon’s demise and made him not interfere with Ciri’s escape (aiding it along, in fact, by one argument). Spring brings thaw, but thaw in a heart set in its ways reveals chaos.

Avallac’h suffers from unresolved romantic attachment, guilt, and lack of closure. In his relations with Ciri, he could solve himself and his failures of the past in multiple ways. The problem is that by default it would involve exerting control over another’s fate for his own sake, which disqualifies you from finding the Grail (within), unless the other party meets you halfway.

One of the judgements that The Witcher passes is that you should not seize the reins of someone else’s fate against their wishes, and Crevan’s character, I’ve come to think, revolves hugely around the obsessive need for such control.

As a prescient character, he is ideally suited for dissecting such questions. He has the means for more control than pretty much anyone else, but control has also eluded him big time. It has shaped his personal tragedy, because control manifests as part of love too. Despite all nobility in desiring to keep the person you care for safe, by the time of the books, Avallac’h’s inability or refusal to let go of Lara is for his own sake not hers. And it stems, among else, from a sense of failure to control fate.

(It is funny that despite coming across as the most credible chess master in the tale, Avallac’h has trouble with controlling himself; he can be impetuous, petty, and volatile underneath that veneer of acerbic cool.)

We can assume Avallac’h did not initially care about keeping Ciri safe because she remained not wholly known him, and because the last time he had tried it had ended in tragedy. Lara’s downfall and demise could not be prevented. So Crevan does not do much (to our knowledge) to protect Ciri up until her reaching the Tower of the Swallow because she remains an unproven quantity and because by intervening he can lock them in a path to a kind of future that will prevent a long-term positive outcome or make things worse in another way.

It’s only once he is surprised by Ciri’s behaviour toward him in the courtyard that the hope of change really emerges. If the story continues and his and Ciri’s paths will cross again (as in the games), the hope is that as a result of Ciri’s kindness he will do something differently. The tragedy is that he might not.

[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.

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