#dark souls elements

[triestella]

Of Beginnings and Endings (Mabinogi AU Oneshot)

It was strange once again for all of them, especially since Altam had become the new leader of the Alban Knights, to find themselves in the memories of Elysia, no longer displaced in worlds and shielded from unsuspecting eyes by Aton Cimeni's will.

Especially they now see an older, and much more mature Elysia on the lap of Altam's old mentor, Ronan. The melodic voice of Elysia filled their ears as the mystery of the disappearance of Altam's mentor before he once more showed up with Altam in his arms unfold, as Ronan caresses a noticeable large bump on Elysia.

"Ronan, what should we name the child?" Elysia slips off his lap and twirled around, her dress flutters as she holds her heavily swollen belly. "I think Alistair is a lovely name for a boy, maybe Tieve if they turn out to be a girl."

Ronan smiles and laughs as he follows her . "Perhaps Keaghan, but maybe Altam. I always wanted to name a son that." Elysia smiles but it falls off when the night edges near and the ground shudders as gods and beasts start to roam once more.

Elysia eyes the crude carved statue of Aton Cimeni as do others. "... soon you be able to return. Your god has promised that." Ronan grimaced as the others watching did. " Aton Cimeni did... for myself and the baby once they're born. I wished they did the same for you. I-" Elysia hushes him, placing finger and slightly bends down to peck his forehead. "Aton Cimeni has done enough. I am not a being of his jurisdiction nor have I given him any reason to do so."

She eyes the assortment of armor and weapons next to the threshold of the little hobble they called home. "It is also my time to fulfill my duty. I rather have both of you live and be happy in that world then to for you both to rot in a dying world with me."

Ronan falls silent but he moves close to embrace Elysia, falling down to his knees as he holds as she gentle pets his head.

"Will you promise to find me and our child if you do find your way towards us?"

Elysia breathed and she grimaced and sobbed. Her grey eyes glistened and tears started to fall down her pale skin.

"Please don't ask me that. Don't make me hope for the impossible."

-----

The scene changes around them and Altam is given a reassuring tap from Avelin as it changes to a field of carnage, the corpses of people, beasts and gods alike litter the field. They see her, and she struggles, she strives forwards, plunging and hacking off the incoming waves of her enemies. Till their eyes widened and fear filled them, paralyzing them as they witness the most unholy of gods descending upon her and she slaughters them, and in retribution, the ashes of the fallen gods affect the world, decaying everything, taking the world of Elysia's memories with them.

Elysia is moving towards something, and all is silent as no more was left but Elysia, a bonfire and a stalwart emissary.

The sky is dark and the eclipsed sun look downs upon them all as she took slow steps up and towards the bonfire. Elysia looked exhausted, weary and distraught as the world around her starts to crumble. Her sword gleams slightly, chipped and smothered by ashes and blood and she swings it to her side.

Bowing deeply towards the emissary, before resuming to her stance.

She murmurs in a small and solemn voice, "Soul of Cinder, protector of the First Flame. I am Elysia of Astoria."

The Knights watch in baited breath as the emissary rises and in turn it bows. But it did not respond in kind, instead it howls as it charges towards Elysia taking the flame embraced sword with it and swung. She responds in kind, the shield she carries is sacrificed to allow her to send a flurry of slashes before she rolls out of the way.

Phine gasps as during one of the exchanges, Elysia is caught pieced through by the sword of the emissary and slung forward into the debris of metal and flowers. The cry was heart wrenching as they watch her scramble to her footing and riposte the other and deals a savage blow to the other.

Time felt like it has been frozen over, but Caswyn notices a light coming from her neck and it revealed a necklace of their god. And the others noticed too as Elysia triumphs over the emissary but they all know its not over as the other plunges their sword into the ground and is engulfed in blazing inferno.

Elysia starts to become engulfed in fire too but in comparison, she is just merely embers compared to the stalwart of fire. But they knew she would succeed, even if the odds seemed grim.

The Soul of Cinders rains down Lighting and Light, hailing down on Elysia as she weaves through and whittles them down with all her might. With one last breath, Elysia plunges forward, piercing them with her sword. The other takes steps back, howling as they twist around to fall to the ground, the gaze turned towards the sun before exploding in starlight and ash.

The bonfire explodes and Elysia gives a sobbing sigh of relief.

She drags herself towards the bonfire and raises her hand. But she hesitates and retracts it. The knights peer over and see markings, glowing white as she stares at it . Her voice cracks as she knelt before it and activates it.

"I told you R-Ronan. I can't make the promise you want."

The markings glow and rises up a familiar figure from the memories they watched and the Fire Keeper from the shrine rises up and turns towards the First Flame. The Fire Keeper takes a few steps before kneeling down, gathering the wilting Flame. Elysia knees beside her, her blade tossed aside as the world darkens around then and the First Flame is cradled in the Fire Keeper's Hand.

"The First Flame quickly fades."

The Knights watch them from across the bonfire, as they watch in sadness as all the pain washes from Elysia and she starts to breath in shallow breaths.

"Darkness will shortly settle... But one day, tiny flames will dance across the darkness."

Elysia's shallow breaths echo as the other spoke.

"Like embers, linked by lords past."

The Flame Keeper spoke and her voice sends shudders through the knights. Unsure what's to become now of the deal Elysia has soon to be made. Darkness envelopes them all and the breathing heard by the Fire Keeper and Elysia is when the Fire Keeper's voice cuts through the darkness.

Ashen One. Hearest thou my voice, still?

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The memories suddenly cut off and they all are suddenly before Elysia, sleeping in the snow of Sidhe Sneachta.

"Oh..." Elysia cried out but she remained asleep. "Fire Keeper, has thy flames woken once more? Am I to return?"

The falling snow and the silence echoed after and Elysia weeps in her sleep.

"I don't want to leave my son, but I don't want to forget home."

Llywelyn guides them back except Altam away from Elysia. All of them understood. This was sacred to her after all, they must leave her to her reprieve.

A soul like her must be allowed this, for she deserved this much.

Altam sits by her and covers her with his cloak as he made a small bonfire like his mother taught him, something looking so simple yet ever lasting in the cold forest mountains.

He hums a tune, unsure of where it comes from, perhaps from his father, maybe from his mother.

He could feel Talvish watching, maybe from their memory traversing through Elysia's memory, or his close proximity to his mother, as he is the strongest in connection to the Divine Light. A tug pulls him a bit from the hymns he murmurs into the world and he see his mother grasping his suit, and he quickly releases her fingers, gently as he could as he allows her to grasps his own.

[ordheist]

fire monk

[lambmotifz]

am i the only one who doesn’t like normal/regular wincest au

because all the supernatural storylines are the main factor that makes their dynamic so special. wincest without horror elements just. isn’t wincest

[little-demy]

Elemental Spirit of Noblesse Oblige

You found her standing alone in that abandoned domain, humming to herself. Around her, blue butterflies dance along her tune. It was very peaceful, yet also sorrowful.

She turned. Her mask made you unable to see what beneath it. But there's a gentle smile on her lips.

"You're not a spirit ... Oh, a human! Must be a soulweaver."

[ruinmegently]

I'm straight up obsessed with this black page dot journal, y'all.

Gonna be using it for junky inspiration for my WIPs and OCs. This shit's kick-starting my brain and my FUCK have I needed a kickstart.

[itsgirlcraft]

Omg I've just realized none of you have seen my Rainbow Quest birthday cupcakes!! It was 2 years ago holy cow-

I'd never done, like, frosting art, so I was realllyyy out of my depth here but!! I made two of each default color, all 7 leaders/Nightmare, and Dark, Light, and O!Rainbow! Plus the Rainbow Hub statue I think!

I actually had a whole plan, I was gonna make SO MANY-

Actually wait I have the drawings-

Okok so in order, left to right, we've got:

Pic 1: RQ Hypno, SS Hypno, RQ Crystals, RQ Sabre, Astronaut/Darkness infected Sabre, SS Sabre, RQ Nightmare, SS Light, RQ Light, SS Rainbow, RQ Rainbow, and Galaxy Sabre!

Pic 2: RQ Dark, Illusion, Elemental, Time, SS Nightmare, TFC, Shadow Sabre, RQ Reverse, Galaxy, Void, Memory, Plague, M or The Guardian, SL Dream, RQ Gerald, Faceless, an RQ leader base, RQ Corruption, RQ Soul, SS Alex, RQ Sol or TR Elite, a Chromatic Steve base, SL Genesis, Origin, and Prof. Red!

Tbh maybe I'll actually try this again, I really just need to learn how to use fondant or whatever makes shapes n stuff.

I was kinda rushed on the og versions 😭 maybe I'll just try to experiment, like my sister does. She's a baker, so like- maybe I'll just. Borrow her stuff lol

(Also I can't believe I actually tagged them all- well uh most-)

[xelys-xlys]

a walk gloomy in the woods is not bad, it's fun to venture out and see the environment

for a moment I thought that I still lacked practice in the illustrations of the Backgrounds 🤔

an important fact about the pacster mask you express the opposite

unhappy - happy

happy - negative <(???

[mrvenuspluto]

Innerstanding

Spirit told me to visit the waters thats a place to free my mind and understand my deep thoughts. It was a cool and windy evening, did a lil writing, planning, then sat the books aside and relaxed my head back and let spirit talk to me from within. I felt at ease and relaxed. Moments later i took a walk down the trail and admired and appreciated natures scenery. My active self always have to work out or use my mars energy! So i did 101 push-ups, then some pull-ups from different angles. My blood was flowing and body was warm. It was a barrier of rocks set up on shore to walk along to get close to the deep waters. Walking along the path i saw a man fishing. It looked like he been out there for awhile, but no fish caught. Made a quick convo, asked him what type of fish is out here, and did you catch anything. So i proceeded to walk the rough and rocky path, had to be agile and coordinated, since the rocks were not exactly aligned. As i got futher and futher from the shore, the wind picked up, waves gotten more intense. Some areas the waves splashed along the path, so made the path more treacherous. My logical side said naw lets just turn back before the weather gets to much and water gets more dangerous, my more dare devil, rebel and spirit side said if you dont get on and move forward and take risk! So i get to an area that i felt was fine and cool, i just stood there and watched the waves crash against the rock barriers, and the clouds move so smoothly and serene across the light blue sky. My eyes were dilating so much, from all i was seeing at once. Seem like everything was happening so fast and precisely. Eventually i sat down, facing the open waters, just fascinated about the elements and how strong they are. My brain just started to process ideas and concepts. As i looked at the water moving move and splash against the rocks, i then looked at the rocks, hmmmmm water is based on EMOTIONS and FEELINGS the rocks are based on PRAGMATIC, PRACTICAL and LOGICAL. So then I was like the rocks are stopping all the waters emotions from going over board or getting carried away. Then i was like well what causes the water EMOTIONS to go in different directions, hmmmmm AIR, so air deals with LOGIC as well, so the air was directing the EMOTIONS or water the way it wants to go. which can cause chaos because its not being delt with just being pushed away and directed to other areas that may not have barriers or having 2 many waves or emotions clash. So i was like where is the fire! My brain was just thinking and searching for a answer in the middle of the waters, came to me. Im the fire, my thoughts, ideas, faith, and energy to ignite the whole reality. We are from the ether realm so thats fire where faith lays. Fire gets things started and make them seen from within and can get a flash look at what can be before it materially sets in from a earth element. I just stared at the weather, it started to get a lil more windy, but i was comfortable where i was. I saw a bird flying in the sky, kinda looked like he was floating and just hovering, since the wind was so strong. I watched the bird float and fly over the waters looking for fish or anything that was edible in the wavy waters. Watching this bird fly in these powerful winds, while still searching for food, motived me or just inspired me sooo much, this bird out here still trying get it in or feed its belly or feed its family through this tough weather. I seen other birds sitting on a rock or somewhere sterdy or protected until the storm passed. Not this bird he was cut from a different clothe, he needed it by any means necessary. Then i zoned off for a second, i went within and stared at the waters, skies and then controlled the environment around me. Watched the waters get more and more stronger, waves splashed more harder, the winds increased, then it started to rain lightly. I felt my energy get stronger as i created what i demanded to happened.

Moments later i stood up, felt the elements all combine to create this dynamic experience. Spirit then told me to head back, i could feel the force of the wind! Power from the rocks as they vibrate from each hit from the wild raging waves, and my firey soul as it intertwined all them together. I walked back across the rocks i came from, even tho the walk back wasn't the same due to the change of weather. Had to jump over some areas, climb with hands and jump to other rocks, when the ocean is in rage it makes it presence known. Did I create all that rage or emotional current? Was the ocean just responding back to what i projected out towards it, same goes for the wind! I was protected from these rocks or borders. Which could represent my emotional strength and perseverance with emotional baggage! If one rock was damaged or not strong enough and fell into sea, then what. It would create a domino effect, which would let my emotions pour over, and take control of my stability, mental, and cause my physical body to behave eruptly. I made it back to the solid ground, it was raining hard, i was soaked but it acually felt good. Since i was a part of its doing i guess. Once i got in the car, i laid my head back and let spirit talk to me more. Why do we run from the rain? Why no one likes to get wet? Or stand the rain? Could it be that we dont want to be cleansed, purified from our own wrong doings or wash away our fake personas. What if when it rains its a time to stand in it and let it cleanse u from all your past doings and you can be fresh and start a new cylce as the moon does. When you bath its for the cleaning or hygiene and germs. My brain just be everywhere, you dont understand your powers until you meet the real elements face to face. They awaken all your chakras, its a time when your physical aspect doesnt need to be involved to understand its powers. You can feel the water with yours emotions! Smell the wind with your intuition! See whats to come with precognition Know where you came from by observing your surroundings and your memory. When you realize its so much more than you and in you when you get time to talk to your other side of you that floats in the ether realm so patiently for your attention. So much attention gets took and gave to your brain, mind and conscious that you forget that you have energy, talents and skills that sit in the dark waiting to get explored and used. Just like water you keep memory, and deep rooted issues that need attended to. Same as fire that can light up a dark room, your soul is your torch through this realm to escape to the gateways of divine consciousness. As in air, it blows unpredictably in the ways it wants to, at times it can sit still and peaceful as a owl watching its prey. Your mind can pick up on any and everything when its open to all ideas, thoughts, different perspectives and curiosities. Like a solid deep rooted tree, that holds all its fruits and perseveres each and everything. Gains more and more nutrients from its strong foundation which helps its existence with knowledge, experience, perseverance and a understanding of its purpose.

[depvotee]

Man, I love how they give winks to dark Souls in Veilguard

[semigod]

Ready To Die

DOPE FIEND RAP

[mariocki]

Fat Man on a Beach (HTV, 1974)

"I'm going to read some more poems now. Erm. It may be that if you want to go and have a cup of tea, this would be a good time. I know that's what you masses are like. The mention of poetry and off you go."

[realwizardshit]

I will never play Dark Souls 2 again. If I try, I have requested that my dearest friends take me out behind the barn and shoot me. However. I will probably play 3 again

[egginfroggin]

Tell me your headcannons for Kirby! I don't get to hear people's thoughts about Kirby much!

Well, it's been almost two months, but it's Kirby time!

I actually have a ton of HCs for Kirby in general, though the ones for the puff himself are pretty regular, I think. He's a cheerful, clever little lad, full of innate power that the Copy Abilities serve to amplify.

As far as more in-depth HCs go, I do have one that I keep meaning to talk about, concerning what Kirby is and how he relates to Void.

This will probably get very long, so I'll put it under a read more.

Thank you for the ask, friend! :>

Kirby and Void are related in that they are both the same species at different points in their lifecycles.

Voids (the species) are incredibly powerful beings comprised mainly of magic, stardust, and emotions given form. There cycle is self-perpetuating, and killing a Void is nigh impossible

Void is the archaic name for the species; the species has never been particularly common, with few in existence at any given time, so they are mostly regarded as legend. The species is more commonly referred to as Star Children

The life cycle of a Void, or Star Child, has two branches, differing between the first and second phases; the first cycle has four phases:

Null phase, also called the Void phase: at this stage, the Void consists of ambivalent magic and stardust. The ambivalent magic absorbs energy that it comes across as it drifts through the cosmos, and will begin to lighten with positivity or darken with negativity. This form, though extremely rare, is arguably the most powerful

The "Puffball" stage: having absorbed positivity, the Void coalesces into a solid, mostly static, stable form. It is full of latent energy, and if one can sense magic and affinities, they will find that the Puffball is blindingly bright, full of love, joy, and brightness. The Puffballs are inherently light, and have an instinctive drive to A) protect that which they love, and B) suppress darkness, and especially Dark Matter, their anathema and direct opposite Puffballs usually become warriors in at least some capacity; they are considered guardians of light and the universe, and extremely powerful, skilled beings, each unique in their own sense

The Decline, or Tainted, stage: At this stage, the Puffball, usually centuries old by now, has begun to experience side effects from fighting Dark Matter. Their light has begun to diminish, and their instincts become more conflicting. Eventually, they tip into the fourth and final stage of this branch

The Dark Matter stage: eventually, the Puffball will become so stained with darkness that their light fades entirely, and they become Dark Matter. In direct opposition to Puffballs, Dark Matters are full of negativity, envy, grief, and anger, and where Puffballs seek to protect and cultivate light, Dark Matter seeks only to harm and spread negativity Dark Matters are usually unstable, and may take many different forms; they bear one, single eye (possibly a living metaphor for their one, single goal, and narrow drive), and light is their anathema. Puffballs are the creature most capable of destroying them Once a Dark Matter is thoroughly defeated, they are returned to stardust, their persisting, tattered soul laying dormant until, eventually, their magic returns to an equilibrium, and they begin the cycle anew as a blank, featureless Void

The other branch of the cycle results from the Void absorbing negative emotions, turning its magic dark; in this branch, the Void evolves directly to the Dark Matter phase, with a power level and process similar to that of puffballs -- they have immense raw power, which they temper as their form coalesces into something similarly solid

Examples of Puffball-stage Star Children include Kirby, Keeby, Meta Knight, and Galacta Knight; Galacta Knight was sealed when he was beginning to enter the Decline phase, causing the Ancients to worry over what a being of his incredible -- even by Void standards -- power could do when he eventually fell to darkness

Currently, the only known Dark Matter that evolved directly from the Null stage is or was Zero

Void, the character, is in an odd place, as he was defeated in the Null stage; however, as killing a Star Child permanently is nigh impossible, the effect of being defeated at such a vague, unpredictable stage seems to have halted his physical progression into a full Puffball while still allowing his consciousness to fully blossom

And, for my favorite *checks notes* and only bubterfly knight, a vague few points that are subject to change:

Morpho Knight is not a true Puffball, and is an enigma; he physically resembles one, but is considered more of a "panic button" for the universe. His role is to escort ancient, exhausted souls to the afterlife, ending them permanently -- and this includes Star Children whose existence threaten the fabric and stability of just about everything He is neither light, nor dark, but somewhere in between, and he exists to keep that same equilibrium stable across the universe

That was a lot of writing! Ough.

These theories are basically a framework that I built my fics around; Kirby lore is pretty vague, usually, and someday I'll probably do a truly deep dive into it (red string and everything, probably), but today is not that day. Some smaller points are subject to change, but the overarching summary remains just about the same across all of my AUs -- yes, including Little Stray Feathers.

I could go on a whole 'nother rant about how the magic system I've roughly got in place and how it applies to different characters (i.e., Hyness, all the Mirror World reflections, Gooey, etc.), but we'll be here all day in that case.

Thank you so much for the ask! Sorry it took so long to respond to -- I knew it was going to be a chonker, and it took a while to find the energy and time to write it all up.

Thank you again! I hope you have a very good day! <3

[backpackofposts]

Similar to how the Minecraft cave spider is slightly smaller than the average spider model, I think glow squids should have a smaller model than the normal squid

[ald3r-wolfcak3]

Starshine rewrite, dark riders & horses

Sabine has Khaan, pure breed black fresian, with an unnaturaly high body tempature. Somes even reported to see Khaan burn down the grass as he stepped on it She got it as a birthday present from her parents. Khaan got trained as a dressage horse, but can perform somewhat well as a showjumper. Since she lack the love from her parents she try to win every competiton the Jorvik Stable is helding to try to gain their love.

Katja has Stalker, a pure black Parcheron, with extreamly low body temparature. Somes says when the air is humid, you can see snow forming around his body. Stalker a bit aggresive, most at the stable try to avoid him. He hates the company of other horses, but somewhat friendly with Khaan and Mortifa. Katja got him thanks her excellent scheme. But the poor girl almost find out she not got any money during the exchange, but Mr. Sands helped her out, but asked for a favour.

Mortifa, a black Belgian warmblood with a pure white face and soulles blue eyes. She has a poor eyesight, but has a really high agility. Somes said, when you are too close to her you start to feel sick. Laverne got her, when he was 12, her breeder wanted to eutanasy the foal, but he saved Mortifa. Since then she lives at the jorvik stables and has a good friendship with Khaan and Stalker.

So as I said before, Jessica hates horses. They just don't understand why there is a whole ass island where the citizens are obssessed with horses. She times to times goes to see the racies Sabine attend at also go to cheer for Katja or Laverne. She one time tried to ride a horse, but freaked out.

And lastly here is Mr. Sands and his steel gray English Thoroughbred. The PineHill mansion has a huge stable, with multiple horses, but when he go out to ride he mostly ride this old lady. There is an empty stall with a damaged name plate. The older stable workers know, there used to be a blue roan horse with white tiped mane. No one knows what breed she was, but know she and Mr. Sands had a really close bond. But he lost his horse like he lost his family...

[slugpup2]

literally the day touhou 19 was announced i finally did touhou sort since i was like "hey a new game is probably gonna be announced soon so i might as well do this before we get some newhus"

anyways the top 5 do not surprise me in the slightest but i feel like it gets kinda weird afterwards