#greylining

[vollzz]

it's a sleepy/sad saturday for me, so have a blackflame lore dump. I suppose this could also be sort of a character intro

under the cut I'll be talking about Greylin, one of the ruling deities, and his followers. up until now we haven't really heard much about him besides Eves' general disdain for him, so let's get into it shall we? I'll also put in a cheeky little snippet :)

Greylin - Lord of Deities (a self-appointed title)

fast facts: huge, like nearly 8 feet tall, extraordinarily brutish and muscular, allergic to wearing shirts, voice so deep you struggle to understand it. bald. always, always wears a crown. clouded, milky white eyes.

Greylin is without a doubt the most powerful of the deities, and spends much of his time enforcing that fact. The true nature of his powers are unclear - he cannot conjure flames or manipulate blood, for example, but he can immobilize the other deities and strangle the usage of their blessings. Though the other deities' allegiances to Greylin vary widely, they all fear him (though most would never admit it). It seems that he and Eves particularly loathe one another, and Greylin often goes out of his way to torment them.

[A brief note on deities and their followers since I haven't touched on this yet: when deities anoint a new follower, they bestow their blessings upon them as well as magically brand them with a unique mark. These marks are only able to be seen by deities and their followers, and a follower of one deity can see marks for every other deity as well.]

Greylin's blessings to his followers, known as Seers, allow them to resist the magic of other deities' followers. They also have an uncanny ability to sniff out and track magic of any kind. He marks them with distinctive swirling purple lines branching outwards from the center of their faces, and is the only deity to use such an ostentatious mark. Seers are often employed by royals and wealthy nobility for use as magical bloodhounds, as once they have a scent they will never forget it and can track it indefinitely. They also serve as a kind of cleanup crew for havoc wreaked by other deities (namely Nico and his blood-crazed cult followers), and as such are generally looked upon favorably by the common folk. Other followers, on the other hand, regard them with disdain - Seers are very outspoken about their hatred of the stink of magic, and the sight of their characteristic mark is often forewarning of a swiftly approaching death.

Seers are few and far between - Greylin likes to have around ten at any one point in time so as to use their scarcity as leverage when dealing with mortals. He finds amusement in goading wars and political strife between the various royal families on all the provinces, which has earned him the respect and good graces of the deity Samira.

and an excerpt -

Greylin leaned forward, his dominating presence overwhelming Calliope’s vision.

“Do you know why Eves fears me, Calliope?”

Calliope wheezed as the power constricted her even further; it held her limbs in place and forced her chin upwards to stare back at Greylin’s unrelenting expression.

“Surely they’ve spoken numerous ills of me to you, and yet when I command them, they fall in line just as the rest. Have you not ever wondered why that may be?”

Blackness began to cloud the edges of Calliope’s vision despite her attempts to breathe. Greylin leaned in until his mouth lay an inch from Calliope’s ear, the words low.

“I can wipe your existence from this world with barely a thought. I brought your pitiful deity to their knees with as much effort as I expended on you. Be grateful you’re spared the fate that Eves endured at my hand, and perhaps consider that the next time you wish to disrespect me.”

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sheesh I forgot to add the tag list -

@hallwriteblr @kourumi @space-writes @at-thezenith @careful-fear @j-1173 @liv-is @eldritch-flower

[tacocatarts]

Plush Greyline Lounging

Another fun plushie sketch for Greyline! He's basically a living beanbag chair. 

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[modaonlinemagazalari]

https://www.modaonlinemagazalari.com/moda-markas/greylin/

Greylin

[beercityhoops]

The more you know about...Money.

The more you know about…Money.

Isaac is the first & only player in the Gr3g League to have played in 30 games. (17 with City of Bridges & 13 with Greyline Nines, including the 2021 Championship.) -hard-working single father of 2 -cousin to the Commish & RossTy -recruited RossTy, PorterHouse, Gustafson, GRCCedar -heir to the Michigan Murders & Music podcast dynasty -wears #10 for Dennis Rodman (pictured here in #11) -our…

[cyancrobatthings]

If Mister GREYLIN saved abbie on time (ik its not canon-)

He's so precious

[mediumsizetex]

Greyline has had about enough by viralcosmos

[lunathejediknight]

gift time! This is a gift for @cyancrobatthings I love Mister greylin and your art, he has such a cool design! I hope you like it I had a blast drawing him

[g-m-kaye]

Solo post from my recent sketch dump - this is supposed to be a rough sketch of a different view of the Great River Anduin: where the Greylin and the Longwell meet & become the Anduin in the Northern reaches of Mirkwood, close to the Ered Mithrin.

[witchtaunter]

Awkward casual café date Comm for Greyline

[bird-of-north]

Commission for GreyLines on Twitter!

[momo-de-avis]

como guia, tens visto a evoluçao do turismo em lx na última década? por exemplo, sentes que aumentaram muitos os tuk-tuks e que "estragam" a cidade? vi agora uma notiicia sobre a camara import limite a esses veículos e fiquei curioso

Bem eu escrevi toda uma resposta que o tumble apagou mas pra sumarizar porque agr tenho de escrever etsa merda toda outra vez:

há 10 anos era muito pior a questao dos tuktuks, acredita que havia o triplo na cidade

a maioria era piaggios, que sao aqueles a gas ou gasoleo ou o crl, que entretanto supostamente foram banidos e só se pode ter eletricos, mas eu continuo a ver piaggios em todo o lado

a questao é que isto é portugal e passa-se leis e o caralho mas fiscalizar a tua mae que fiscalize portanto nao passamos da cepa torta

tuktusk sao uteis à nossa cidade porque é uma cidade muito inacessivei, de passeios muito estreitos e com colinas muito ingremes e pessoas de mobilidade reduzida podem enfiar se num tuktuk e usufruir a cidade e acredita, acredita por amor de deus, que as pessoas chegam aqui e nao têm a puta da noçao de onde se vieram meter. Cheguei a ter uma gaja que me disse que parcou viagem a lisboa e nem nunca viu uma puta duma foto da cidade, nao fazia ideia que havia colinas. Subiu uma rua ia falecendo.

Essas sao as pessoas que depois marcam WALK TOURS e querem-me matar a mim por as fazer andar por 3h e vao ecsrever reviews negativas porque nao as acomodei porque lhes doía os joelhos coitadinhas. Entretanto tinha mais 13 pessoas que acomodar e suponhos que os outros que sa fodam

Tuktuks servem pra essas pessoas. Deviam era ser mais regulamentados, todos eletricos e as empresas tem de ter mais criterio (dependendo da empresa, tèm, mas istoe ra bem pior há 10 anos)

Vai pra rua do limoeiro durante uma hora e tenta nao perder a cabeça. Entre o autocarro do castelo, o da greyline, a merda dos tuktuks mal estacionados e os eletricos a tentar subir, é um absoluto inferno aquela rua

Já cheguei a estar num passeio, onde me convém, com o meu grupo, e vem uma vaca duma condutora de tuktuk, BUZINA-ME TIPO SAI DAI QUE QUERO ESTACIONAR. NO PASSEIO. e eu fiquei??? tu comes merda ao pequeno almoço, so pode???

podia falar mais do turismo mas é negocio que da pano pra mangas

acho que o pior de tudo sao os cruzeiros. piores clientes, pior pro ambiente, pior merda que se inventou ponto, era reduzir era merda ao máximo e acabou

é hipocrita da minha parte porque preciso de trabalho mas foda-se as vezes custa quando preciso de ir trabalhar e quero tomar o cafe antes e nao ha um puto dum sitio onde me sentar em toda a baixa de lisboa mano e a frustraçao toma o melhor de mim. ando me a fartar da confeitaria nacional, que é onde vou sempre, porque as 9h da manha aquela merda tem uma fila da puta que pariu que é so franceses que nem sequer sabem fazer uma fila a dizer 'uhhhh qu'es que c'es ça??? et... et çaaaa et là' mano DESPACHA TE, já levei MEIA HORA a pedir um cafe crl

[eligecos]

Orlund the Dragon, character belongs to Greyline

[tacocatarts]

Greyline Goes POMF!

Quite the sudden expansion! For Greyline

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[vollzz]

blackflame characters out of context!

tagged by the wonderful @space-writes, thank you!!! hope y’all are excited about blackflame because I have 20(!!) total chapters in this draft. the chapter names I have right now are placeholders and some are straight up too spoiler-y so there will be some redactions. game rules:

Rules: Include one character quote of your choosing ⁠from each chapter of your WIP (or as many chapters as you'd like). Give absolutely no context, save for what's between two parts of an interrupted sentence, should that occur. You may mention who said it.

I’m not specifying who is talking unless it’s part of the dialogue, so bonus points if you can guess who is saying what!

ready set go quotes are under the cut!

1. business as usual-

“You will forget you saw me here. You will turn around and walk to the other end of the estate before returning. If anyone questions you, say you saw an animal running about.”

2. the meeting-

“Would you believe me if I said I was taking inventory?”

3. eves-

“Perhaps if it was one of the mortal kings across the sea, I would entertain the idea, but Leon is incredibly uninteresting. I can barely stand to be in his presence, let alone seduce him - what is it with mortals and making the most idiotic choice of rulers?”

4. lorien-

“Calliope,” Tedrin crooned, “I can't say I know too much of Eves, but regardless of what your arrangement is, I wonder if we couldn't come to one ourselves.”

5. reunion-

“I’m sorry, if…” Lucas bit his lip. “If you’ve had experiences like that. It’s not right, that these uppity nobles think that just because you’re obnoxiously attractive they can take advantage of you.”

6.[redacted]’s party-

“Well, while I guess I appreciate your staunch defense of your fake fiancée’s honor, I'm asking that you please don’t ruin this outing with another dick measuring contest.”

7. dangerous territory-

“Very mature. I’ll have you know most women recognize the artfulness of the northern accent.”

8. consultation-

“There's every reason, you stupid whore,” James leaned forward, a newfound savageness in his voice, “I have to share Eves with you, some bitch that's traveling with a companion! Clearly they don't know about him, if you're sitting here in one piece.”

9. the heist-

“Agreed. It'll get some of the heat off our backs if we leave the guards be. I trust you to get it done, Calliope, but I will kill them if there's no other choice.”

10. blasphemy-

“So you just… talked all night then, I assume? Giggled to one another under the sheets?”

11. [redacted]-

“How interesting it is to see two little Lovers not ripping each other’s throats out. Is Eves getting bored with just one of you at a time?”

12. truth emerges-

“Spare me the worthless explanation, Calliope. If you truly must break my heart, it is only fair that I break yours in return.”

13. new beginnings-

“Look at you. You’ve barely eaten. You don’t speak, or even cry, or do anything besides sit on the godsdamned floor. Hate me all you want, but I’m not going to watch you shrivel into nothing. We’re going outside. Now.”

14. [hooo boy this one’s really redacted]-

“I do not feel that I can forgive you yet.”

15. [also redacted]-

“I can wipe your existence from this world with barely a thought. I brought your pitiful deity to their knees with as much effort as I expended on you. Be grateful you’re spared the fate that Eves endured at my hand, and perhaps consider that the next time you wish to disrespect me.”

16. [redacted] 2: electric boogaloo-

“To go from such elation to naught but vitriol… Were it not directed at me, I would find it fascinating.”

17. terror-

“I’m so sorry, Cal, I’m so sorry,” Lucas swallowed painfully. “I know you’re afraid. I’m not going to hurt you. We need to get out of here, okay?”

18. [redacted] also I haven’t written this yet lol

19. new destination-

“Pardon the outburst. Now, Calliope dear, if you will excuse me, I must go prostitute myself at Greylin’s insistence.”

20. [extremely redacted]-

“You are certain that Eves spoke of me? They mentioned me by name?”

wow that was a lot thanks for taking a look! I’m going to gently tag @sam-glade @squarebracket-trick and @awleeofficial. but also this one is fun and you get to share a lot for it so open tag too (and make sure you tag me so I can see I wanna read it all!!)

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blackflame tag list-

@hallwriteblr @kourumi @space-writes @at-thezenith @careful-fear @theunboundwriter @liv-is @eldritch-flower @kingkendrick7 @poetinprose

[sapphic-scylla]

Starting a new trend. Tell us about 5 things about yourself that you don’t get to talk about enough. I’ll start:

I am sex-positive asexual and demiromantic. Sex is very much a hobby to me and the belief that sex and feelings equal each other is a foreign concept to me, though it doesn’t stop me from yearning for a deep emotional connection with someone.

I recently found out that I am autistic and struggle very deeply with not only social situations and social anxiety as a whole, but that I have been this way for pretty much my entire life and no one knew cared or told me.

Ruby Rose is the character that shaped a lot of my personality leading up to this point because I found her right as I was coming out of a brainwashed state. She taught me to think for myself, be interested in things, to be there for friends no matter what, and it’s better to believe that the world is inherently good even though it doesn’t feel like it most days.

I like the feeling of freedom. Sounds obvious, but it’s deeper than that. Clothes frustrate me and I don’t like the feeling of not having full range of motion while wearing them and I wish I could pull off sundresses, booty shorts, and all kinds of clothes just so I don’t have to wear too many layers or fabrics all at the same time.

I have a twisted imagination and a god complex while still having lots of insecurities. A lot of the stories and characters I write are very greyline characters that just want to make the world better for themselves rather than doing good things just for the sake of doing them, but they also spiral into niche horror elements like Cosmic horror and nightmares and madness and stuff like that.

Hopefully, this helped you get to know me just a little better. Reblog if you feel like it :)

[cyancrobatthings]

I've seen a lot of people making FPE OCs, so i wanna try making it-

Mister GREYLIN and his adopted daughter tammie

(If someone has the same name of their Ocs I'm sorry, I'm not good at creating names- :') )