#belanaril

[tiredela]

Companion for TES summerfest! @tes-summer-fest

"Your gryphon shall become an extension of your very self. Your thoughts, your feelings, your needs, everything will be connected."

id in alt

[album-aurum]

первый грифон всегда комом, примета такая

Много ребёнка.

[markynaz]

ah yes, relequen's gryphon, benadryl,

[daggerfall]

Pointless bits of Cloudrest trivia that I inflict on my guildmates and friends whenever we run:

The mechanics each of the Welkynar are known for are actually their gryphons attacks. Roaring flare, hoarfrost, and voltaic overload are all from their gryphons, which is why the mechanic continues even if the shade goes down, but stops during the mini fights if you kill the gryphon first

Relequen is their leader, with a title called Wing Captain though he is referred to as Sir Relequen. He also wrote the style book for the Welkynar motif. Each of the Welkynar's proper title who is not Relequen is just Welkynar (name).

There's four members of the order at a time, representing the four cardinal directions.

None of them are wearing the armor type and weapon for their respective set. Relequen is a stam dps set, but he wears light armor and uses a staff. Siroria is a mag dps set but she wears medium armor and uses a sword and shield. Galenwe is a tank set and he does wear heavy armor with one exception, but uses a greatsword. Olorime is the worst though: healing set, wears heavy armor and uses a shield and mace, and uses templar jabs alongside the players in execute

The one exception for Galenwe is that he wears medium armor shoes in the same color as Siroria. However, his shade wears heavy armor shoes. I have no clue what this is about.

While Belanaril and Silaeda (Relequen and Siroria's gryphons) dont have translated meanings to their names, Falarielle and Darremalatu (Galenwe and Olorime's) do. "Cold Beauty" and "Mercy Truth". UESP also has she/her pronouns for all of the gryphons except Darre, who Olorime uses he/him for. I'm not sure how reliable this is though, as I cannot think of any sources on this.

Relequen makes a dad joke during the Z'Maja fight. "I think you'll find my gryphon quite shocking!"

Galenwe tried to stop the others from bringing Z'Maja into the city and appears the most academic of the four.

Welkynar share a magical bond with their gryphons, with the bird becoming an extension of their very selves. Thoughts, feelings, needs, everything is connected. During the mini fights, it's likely - based on the dialogue the shadow Welkynar have - that they can in fact feel the pain you're inflicting on their shadow gryphon. Even with Z'Maja's shadow magic mind controlling them, that bond still comes through above that.

If even one Welkynar doesn't survive, each of the surviving ones has their power drained from them to the point where they do not believe they can continue on as a Gryphon Knight. They accept an early retirement and mentoring new Welkynar. Only doing a +3 allows the order to continue on.

If it wasn't obvious, Nocturnal or one of her daedra/cultists gifted Z'Maja with her magical amulet that gives her her power. See the heavy attack being called Nocturnal's Favor, and her magic being shadow magic.

They're sexy

[hellahezz]

I can’t sleep I just keep thinking about how much “Belanaril” sounds like a name for a brand of cough syrup

[daggerfall]

While you all yearned after Galenwe and his floppy undercut and mutton chops, I grabbed both Relequen AND Olorime and we're riding away on Belanaril to have dinner together 😌