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ms-elias-will-see-you-now · 7 months ago

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This post may have inspired me to start a blog about answering only the background questions in panels from manga.

Because I love these questions and they’re cool as fuck.

In the tags

God ykno that panel of marcille saying yeah it was highly illegal magic so don't tell anyone about this and chilchuck makes a fucking expression and then is like sure whatever and starts drinking from the bottle. That's how I feel reading some people's posts

#dark elves or dokkalfar taken from Norse mythology are as you can expect #something that doesn’t exist #but really doesn’t exist not in a reality way but literary way #thought to be a mistake in understanding when first Norse myths were translated years ago and now widely accepted to be #the result of treating the elves of Alfheim and opposite their cousins the dwarves of Nidavellir #thus the dwarves would be referred to as dokkalar in contrast with ljosalfar #and the term dark elves to describe dwarves was misunderstood by a generation of fantasy authors #to mean an entirely separate race and indeed an entirely separate made up realm #Svartalfheim #for the dark elves #they’re just dwarves people #they like the dark and also smithing and that’s Nidavellir baby

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