#darkstone is having a bad time u guys

[fallenclan]

would you guys believe me if i said i only remembered that "we thought there was 3 but there was actually 4" is an official warriors plotline After i wrote this one. because i really am just that forgetful. <3

anyway FINALLY DONE WITH THIS THREE-PARTER!!! finally i can draw cats other than feathersight honeysong and darkstone... beautiful world

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[lightkidshenannies]

here's some very scattered thoughts/headcanons about the elders

Daleth - raised Alef after ushering stargazer and rejecting voyager die from darkstone sickness, feels responsible for the death of the kingdom caused by Resh in the Shattering, was closest to Resh the Edenstone when it Shattered which is why his mask is broken + beard gone when we first see his cutscene in the game (also I think it's interesting to note that in the Hebrew alphabet daleth is very very similar to alef like from my English-speaking non-Jewish understanding there's just like a stroke of a pen's difference)

Ayin - soft mans, in every way. genuinely so nice it annoys the shit outta Samekh especially during competitions, gets along best with Teth and Lamed and Daleth, WILL cry if you bring up the Priestess, brother to Tsadi, devastated by what has happened to the realms due to pollution and desperately craves The Old Kingdom back in its natural pre-industrialized state

Teth - b u f f b l a c k s m i t h, in love with the Priestess and if you bring her up it's Hammer Time, feels like a second mom/aunt to the Twins + partially inspired their competitiveness, created their prosthetics after Resh found a way to power darkstone with light, sister to Lamed, feels little remorse for what happened to her realm + temple but the remorse IS there

Samekh - conjoined twins of the Priestess, originally only had one eye each then lost their conjoined arms in surgery performed by Lamed and replaced with prosthetics designed by Teth. Both are more concerned about reaching new heights than maintaining where they've been, though Sah is more contemplative and looks Back more than Mekh does, bringing marginal balance to their aspirations

Tsadi - that big big helmet hides the dopiest face. he made the mistake of taking it off around Teth once and n e v e r a g a i n the teasing was so bad. brother to Ayin, uses the big tough guy putting-down-rebellions-and-defending-the-Vault exterior to compensate for feelings of both personal and political/ruling inadequacy, as he allowed his realm to be ravaged at the behest of his leader. Injured in the Shattering because he was standing next to Daleth, takes this extremely personally and it injured his self-image even more because at least before he could defend his realm and the next. now he feels useless, like a broken spear, incapable of properly defending his polluted, krill-infested realm

Lamed - also severely injured in the Shattering but not as badly as Daleth. second adoptive mother to the twins after the death of the Priestess, sister to Teth, totally not in love with the Priestess what are you talking about, struggles to maintain the nun-like image that she cultivated due to personal relationships with the other Elders (hard to stay professional around Family), but would rather get shattered again than break decorum around the other ancestors, meditation friends with Ayin, sister to Teth, thrilled with the invention of darkstone memory lanterns but devastated to learn what must be sacrificed to create even one. haunted by the hundreds of lanterns in the Vault - what wonderful tomes of knowledge, but at what cost

The Priestess - mother to the twins, forbidden yuri with Lamed, was best friends with Ayin. used to braid Tsadi's hair before her death, and it took him a long time to redo it after her passing, first of the Elders to Fall to the realms, which is why she's so integral to the architecture, adores the very mountains and clouds that became her realm, worships Megabird and her cycle as Holy, would have been d e v a s t a t e d by the effects of the Shattering + what it did to the kingdom and her Family

Prince Alef - I'm a sucker for Chosen Ones Who Become Corrupted. Little Alef didn't stand a chance, prophesied before he fell by the Priestess to become the god-king of Sky. watched countless children around him die in trials that only he was fated to be able to complete, and after completion of the trials most of his identity was stripped away to Maintain His Image, and he slowly adopted the persona that was pushed on him and after invention of functional darkstone he Ascended as King Resh, as the darkstone allowed connections between realms that weren't wind paths or cloud swaths and provided other assistance that we see in-game

King Resh - [longest yeah boi ever] after Ascending as King, Resh was absolutely beholden to the pressures of the realms and the other elders, pushing for more prosperity, pushing for more darkstone inventions, pushing pushing pushing until he snapped and flipped the script - we're doing this now, this insane project to build a giant darkstone to power the whole kingdom, how dare you question your King? This will surely bring Ultimate Prosperity and they will finally let me Rest... the Edenstone shattered, an overblown circuit exploding in everyone's face exactly how much of a disastrous failure he had become as a leader. he's trapped in the edenstone, suffering constant Storm, tortured eternally for the suffering brought to the realm and creatures of light. he (and Daleth) await the day that Eden can be healed, when he can finally escape that hell and maybe, just maybe, start making up for the damage he's caused. he's still Alef, after all, still a scared little boy who didn't understand why so much was being asked of him, still so desperate to Please