#countdown to dawntrail

[tearlunars]

(COUNT)DOWN TO DAWNTRAIL

⠀── ๋࣭ ⭑★ DAY 1 - A REALM REBORN.

[grimdraaaws]

The Leveilleur Twins

[voidsentprinces]

Graphic design is my passion...anyway!

Welcome to the Countdown to Dawntrail, at time of posting, we have 9 Weeks to go!

So here's the deal. You select one (or more if you want) prompts. And either write or screenshot to correspond with it. And then just do it within the week. No need for daily submission, just...whenever you have time for it. Stress free. Don't feel rushed. Just do it when you got the chance and inclination. Stretch those creative muscles when possible. And I hope my lack of good looking *gestures* encourages those with lesser experience in writing, gposing, what have you...to join in.

For those whose phone won't load the picture or whatever:

COUNT DOWN TO DAWNTRAIL

WEEK 1: A REALM REBORN

PROMPTS:

Beginning City

Starting Job

Scion

Race

Primal

XIVth Legion

A Realm Reborn Raid

The Crystal Braves

Beast Tribe

Discipline of Hand or Land Guild

A Realm Reborn Dungeon

A Realm Reborn Region

You can just @ me if you want to show off and I'll reblog. But its just something fun and relaxing to do.

[this-is-ris]

⋆｡Well come and well met, my brave little spark⋆°

Day 1- A Realm Reborn:

A new realm, far from the comforts of what was once her home in Golmore- Ris sets off on a new path- one of light and love to offer to every soul she meets in Eorzea.

Where will this worn cobblestone path lead her, she wonders.

[nolanel-corbeaux]

Towards Finality

This fight was probably my favorite in all of Endwalker! Much love to my partner @iron-sparrow, my friends @hazelkjt, @this-is-ris, and all my other friends who aren't on tumblr for joining me in finally getting my P12S clear after my previous static imploded! It was a complete joy of a fight, unlike trying to find Athena's dang model (hint, not under name but under number).

Endwalker as a whole has been a wonderful journey from the start, where my friends and I all got up as early as possible to enjoy the start together, to the new friends I made along the way, and all the accomplishments I've done! Endwalker will forever hold a special place in my heart.

I am looking forwards to our new journeys!

[eidingate]

Countdown to Dawntrail: Iceheart

What if we were two Echo users whose hearts ached for each other from the first blush, but you'd already committed yourself to a cause in the name of a dead woman you never knew, thought you had to commit your heart to an ancient love that could never be yours, and every time we came close to expressing the need for each other, the world reared up once again? What if we were only ever silences unbroken but we peered into each other's hearts and memories in all their messiness and wished we'd been given a chance to find a place in them?

~

For @voidsentprinces's Countdown to Dawntrail week two prompts

[otherworldseekers]

Countdown to Dawntrail Week 1: ARR

Beginning City

Starting Job

Scion

Primal

XIVth Legion

A Realm Reborn Raid

Disciple of Hand or Land

A Realm Reborn Dungeon

A Realm Reborn Region

Decided to group all the ones I did into one post. This is a very fun challenge. Thanks @voidsentprinces!

[thelittlestancient]

Countdown to Dawntrail: A Realm Reborn!

Rakuyo's timeline starts to vary from canon during the 2.x patch sequence, and this illustration by @mythlorn captures the moment when it really goes off the rails. Instead of killing Nabriales, Rakuyo chooses to spare him in exchange for knowledge of Ascian magic. What ensues is a series of lessons interspersed with sparring beyond the gates of Revenant's Toll, amongst the charged crystals of Mor Dhona.

The partnership between them takes time to develop in full, but when the traitorous Crystal Braves attempt to seize the town in 2.55, they're met by a force consisting of the Doman refugees and a small contingent of A Realm Reborn's outcasts, led by Nabriales and assisted by Foulques and Riol.

Rakuyo is canonically still a BLM during this time period, and his 'canon outfit' is the Demon Robe of Casting, its colors adjusted to better show his Doman background, the Demon Skirt of Casting, and the Brand New Thighboots. The side crystal from the robe has been removed; ICly, the crystal in the front clasp is his original Crystal of Light.

His tail is very long and nearly-prehensile; he often uses it in combat to disrupt and control his enemies. Be wary when facing him, lest he use it to bind you as he's done with Nabriales here...

(Nabriales voice: kinky)

[chysgoda]

Beginning City

A prompt fill for @voidsentprinces's countdown to Dawntrail prompts!

Art’imis sipped the tea Momodi had given her. Momodi herself had been called away to get four new adventurers signed up in her book. They looked so damn young. Even younger than her daughter who was now a seasoned soldier and adventurer herself. How many books had been filled up with names since she had put her own down? That had been…she didn’t want to think about that number. 

“And what’s gotten that expression on your face?” Momodi asked. The lalafellan woman placed her hands on her hips. 

“I think I need to Limsa up this tea,” Art’imis sighed, “with the good stuff.”

“And what brought that on?” Momondi laughed as she looked for the whiskey in the cupboards under the counter. 

“Thall’s platinum balls, they’re babies!” The paladin made a vague gesture in the direction the newly sanctioned adventurers had wandered off in. “Babies!”

“Art’imis you were that old when you came to Ul’dah.” Momondi said, her words muffled by the counter. She popped up with the whiskey bottle she’d been looking for and poured a generous amount in the tea cup. 

Art’imis wrinkled her nose as she protested. “I was in my twenties when I signed that book!”

Momondi reached up to flick the end of an ivory horn. She snorted when Art’imis made a face at the buzz it caused in her head. “You were that age when you started on the blood sands, which some people might say is worse.”

Art’imis took a long sip of her fortified tea so she could ignore Momondi’s snorted laughter at her sulk. She looked out across the tavern and back through the years. So many landmarks in her early adventuring career had happened here. So many meals were taken here when Bel was young and she’d been too dead tired to cook for them at home. For a few years it had been the only place in Ul’dah she had felt safe after the bloody banquet. 

“A gil for your thoughts?” Momondi asked.

Art’imis blinked and came back to the present, “Just remembering when I practically lived here between meals, seeing what leves there were, meeting clients.”

The Momodi started wiping down the counter in the barman’s never ending battle with smudges. “You had a bit of an advantage with clients back then, since you’d been rubbing elbows with the who’s who of the upper crust for almost a decade before Mylla kicked you down to us.”

Art’imis laughed and took another sip of tea. “Just been thinking about beginnings and new adventures.”

“And where’s your eye turning next?” Momondi leaned against the counter always ready for the latest gossip. 

“X’rhun and I will be heading to Tural sometime soon.” Art’imis turned so she was fully facing the other woman. When had those crow’s feet developed around her eyes? She took another sip of her tea. “I’m thinking of taking Gale and Zephyr, giving the shield a rest.”

“Pelhi’sae’s blades?” 

“I think I can pick up the style again without spiraling,” Art’imis looked from her tea cup up into Momodi’s face. 

Momodi frowned for a long moment and then rubbed her forehead. “Have you spoken to Mylla?”

It was easier to tell when Art’imis was irritated now, Momodi thought, the golden aether scaring glinted when her eyebrows twitched subtly. Art’imis was better at keeping that irritation from ruling her responses now too, so her voice was even. “No, I didn’t think there was a need to.”

Momodi looked out over the tables filled with adventurers and all the folk that tended to congregate around them. She turned her head to the ruby door, she could still picture Mylla practically dragging one of the highest earning stars on the sands in to sign up with the adventurer’s guild… had it really been fifteen years ago?  

Silence stretched between them and Art’imis deflated just a bit. “I was in bad straights then.”

“You’d have been a dead woman walking if you’d continued on the path you were on,” Momodi stated plainly. She’d always prided herself on being honest with her adventurers. 

The woman known as the warrior of light flinched and then rested her weight on the edge of the bar. “I guess you’ve a right to worry. You saw the worst of it, when I spiraled out after Pelhi’sae’s death.”

Momodi rested a hand on Art’imis’s arm. “He was your father in every way that counted, how you lost him would have broken anyone.”

“There’s been a lot of my stories that have ended since the final days, I’d like to finish this one too. I need to be able to look back on him without those years just after haunting me.” Art’imis looked at the wall behind Momodi. 

“You’ve got people who care enough to keep you together, now.” The matron didn’t comment on the wet sheen in her friend’s eyes. “You don’t need to ask for my blessing to do this.”

“No, but I didn’t want you to worry when you saw them on my back.” 

Momodi patted her arm, “thank you for the warning, but you’d best let Mylla know as well.” 

“I think I’ll need some more Limsan tea,” Art’imis grimaced, thinking of approaching the high strung guild mistress, “without the tea.” 

Momodi laughed and left the whiskey bottle at Art’imis’s elbow so she could attend to a patron approaching the bar. The raen woman watched her and considered the roll book that still sat on the bar. She finished her tea and indulged her wandering mind in some philosophy, just because the story was finished didn’t mean it vanished. She poured a shot into the tea cup and slammed it back before sealing the bottle. She fished a small bag of gil out of her pocket and caught Momodi’s eye. She held up the bottle and then dropped the gil pouch onto one of the many step stools behind the bar. 

Offering obtained, Art’imis stood and went to see Mylla. 

[ofsecretsandsighs]

Countdown To Dawntrail Week 2:

Ishgard

While not somewhere Secret ever thought she would end up, she has come to find Ishgard home just as much as Limsa Lominsa. After all, it was the one place she could think to run to when being in the rest of Eorzea proved to be unsafe. And remained the place she would run to since then.

One benefit being people didn't quite recognize her in Ishgard. They had their own issues to deal with - what with the dragons and the heretics and the church - but an assassin? Secret had been in the habit of doing jobs in the snow, and she was much better off for it. No, they didn't recognize Secret the Assassin but they did recognize Secret the Scion, a title that had been handed to her less than willingly.

Thus she found herself donned in hooded garb, the outfit less likely to draw attention in the cold. Not that she really felt the cold, but that was a whole other discussion.

Secret was free to blend into the shadows in Ishgard, a position she greatly preferred.

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week two | @voidsentprinces

[tearlunars]

(COUNT)DOWN TO DAWNTRAIL

⠀── ๋࣭ ⭑★ DAY 2 - HEAVENSWARD.

[grimdraaaws]

Y'shtola Rhul rkgk

[voidsentprinces]

I continue to excel at Graphic design...trust me.

Welcome to the Countdown to Dawntrail, at time of posting, we have 8 Weeks to go!

Missed the first week? Impossible. These prompts don't have a time limit except...like...maybe if you want to do them before Dawntrail it'd be better but, AGAIN: The spirit of this Countdown is we all have lives and different levels of motivation and focus to do things. So do them when you CAN. Like one prompt from one week but not another? Want to pick and choose from week to week or skip one? Totally fine! Just DO THEM WHEN YOU ARE ABLE for THERE IS NO RUSH!

Stress free. Just do it when you got the chance or inclination TO do so. Remember to stretch those creative muscle when possible. And I hope my continued lack of *gestures* encourages those new to the scene or more inexperienced to participate. Writing, screenshots or however else you feel like attending this, feel free to join in at your leisure.

Or there are 8 weeks and 5 expansion. If you want to see a prompt that I don't provide. Give feed back and I'll fill those last 4 weeks with recommended prompts.

For those whose phones won't load the picture or for whatever other reason:

COUNT DOWN TO DAWNTRAIL

WEEK 2: HEAVENS WARD

PROMPTS

The Parting Glass

Ishgard uwu

Nidhogg

Ravana

Iceheart

The Warring Triad

The Heavens' Ward

A Knight's Calling

Vengeance

Favorite Heavensward Dungeon

Favorite Heavensward Raid

Favorite Heavensward Region

Remember to @ me and I'll get around to reblogging your uhh...whats the word? Entry?

[this-is-ris]

Now sing with me once more, share of your Life

Day Two- Heavensward

My beloved friend, may Menphina's arms embrace you into the aetherial sea, much like you embraced us into your life- with the warmest smile this star has ever seen.

I miss you....my mugs of hot chocolate are not the same without your comforting company.

[tsupertsundere]

Old places, new again.

✩✫✧✩✫return to your roots, #countdown to dawntrail week six!

[nolanel-corbeaux]

Remembering Shadowbringers

This fight is still my favorite fight of all time. Eden's Promise is the tier that got me into raiding, as well as introduced me to many people who would continue to be the best part of my life.

Also featuring the armor I wore during Shadowbringers (although I was a Hyur then). The Diamond Armor of Fending still holds a special place in my heart as well.

As always, though, I am looking forward to the future as I walk into Dawntrail with high hopes, my friends, and my wonderful partner.

See you in Dawntrail!