#grieving mother

[thequndemands]

Bells

[wurdulart]

pillars of eternity doodles bcs i guess avowed news put in the mood. also thanks for discord friends for the prompts.

featuring sad elves, yatzli avowed, grieving mother, ydwin chewing on adra, and my watcher orfea :)

[witchofthewild]

grieving mother if you read this im free on Thursday night and would like to hang out. Please respond to this and then hang out with me on Thursday night when I’m free.

[cosplayamaradolce]

Just me being increasingly dramatic with my hands while I give you 10 seconds of burn damage as I ignite your soul! (Sorry!) Implemented some slight changes to my Grieving Mother cosplay for Zenkaikon. Other than the new bracelets, I also wore one of my old wigs that I was going to retire because it was too messy, but it worked really well for the character. Then I wore a pair of grey contacts to match her eye color better, though it only made my eyes a few shades lighter in the right light.

Also for those who asked in my last GM post if the chimes on my bracelets jingled, they do! Whenever I got separated from my group, I would shake my wrists so that they would hear them and turn around. Happened frequently, actually!

[triflingshadows]

pillars redraw. my besties....2!

[if-i-look-straight-look-again]

The way they fell into each other’s arms and buried their faces in each other’s necks and inhaled each other and held onto each other and ignored the hurricane around them

[herearedragons]

...so yesterday I noticed a fun Pillars of Eternity thing.

There are 11 companions in POE1. There are also 11 gods in Eora.

So, naturally, I decided to see if you can match every companion's themes/aesthetic/general plot to a god, and, you kind of can? So I'm going to put the list of matches I ended up with here, and more detailed explanations under the cut.

The List

Edér - Eothas

Aloth - Berath

Sagani - Rymrgand

Kana - Wael

Durance - Magran

Pallegina - Hylea

Hiravias - Galawain

Grieving Mother - Woedica

Maneha - Ondra

Zahua - Skaen

Devil of Caroc - Abydon

(disclaimer: this is not the "every companion secretly represents a god" theory. this is just me having fun and seeing how far I can take this idea. some of these are A Stretch)

(another disclaimer: I'll be referencing both the first game and the short stories, so, uh, spoilers)

(also special thanks to @solas-backpack-mug for helping me brainstorm this)

Evidence

...the first thing I should probably mention is that, to make things easier for myself, I assumed that every character we know to be devoted or otherwise connected to a specific god will be representing that god. That mostly worked out (I'll get into my reasoning for Hiravias later), and in some cases there was even additional evidence to support this.

So!

Edér - Eothas

the theme of rebirth/second chances is all over his dialogue, storyline and even combat abilities (his Second Chance armor). you could argue that the warrior ability that allows you to constantly regenerate Endurance is also kind of relevant, but that's a stretch

Eothasian

Aloth - Berath

like Berath, his soul has two aspects, male and female (the Usher and the Pallid Knight vs Aloth and Iselmyr)

his quest is literally called "Two-Sided"

in his short story, he brings up the fact that the Aedyran priesthood of Berath, specifically, opposes animancy - which he also does

also in the short story, he for some reason chooses to pray to Berath in a moment that's important to him, and it might be a cultural thing, but I also think this is the only time we've seen him pray at all?

Sagani - Rymrgand

general arctic theming

this is one of the shakier associations, but once I started looking into it I realized that the themes of futility and deterioration are kind of present in Sagani's story. She references in her short story (and I'm pretty sure in the game as well, though I don't remember) how she's growing older and more distant from her family the longer her search takes, being literally worn down by time. And in the end, she finds Persoq as a dying animal who can't understand her; under a certain interpretation you could say that her search was futile, though that's definitely not the only reading (and it's not my personal interpretation, but for tinfoil-hat purposes, it counts).

you could argue that her hunting down a reincarnated soul is kind of like Rymrgand's entropy coming for every soul eventually

Kana - Wael

his entire character is based around different aspects of knowledge: knowledge preserved, knowledge newly discovered, knowledge lost

has a humorous streak

seems to have a tendency to wander and defy the existing order of things

Durance - Magran

I mean

Pallegina - Hylea

she's an avian godlike

I guess you could say she's devoted to the growth and prosperity of the Republics, which resonates with Hylea's theme of nurturing?

but it's mostly the godlike thing

Hiravias - Galawain

worships or used to worship Galawain, depending on your choices

druid, strongly associated with beasts and nature

he could end up as a follower of Wael, which by my own rule would qualify him for the Wael parallel, but: a) I think Kana fits Wael's thing better, b) I think that, regardless of your choices, Hiravias' quest is ultimately still about survival. Either he proves himself to Galawain by surviving his trials, or he walks away and chooses a better god to follow - but that, too, is a form of self-preservation.

Grieving Mother - Woedica

was "destroyed" when her cipher powers backfired and now lives as a lesser form of herself, can be restored to her full power depending on your choices

manipulated the minds of an entire village to hide the truth about the Hollowborn from them, and protecting secrets is very much a Woedica thing

Maneha - Ondra

instantly qualified by being an Ondrite and a Giftbearer

is a coastal aumaua, for extra ocean vibes

wants to forget a murder she committed, just like Ondra wants her murder of Abydon to be forgotten

I'm pretty sure that Maneha and Devil were at least a little intentionally written to mirror Ondra and Abydon respectively, so I'm feeling pretty good about this one

Zahua - Skaen

mutilation or self-mutilation as a means for achieving a Noble Goal (revenge for Skaenites, enlightenment for Zahua)

seeks to liberate his enslaved people

Devil of Caroc - Abydon

murdered and reborn in an artificial body

depending on your choices, her story either ends with rage or with sinking into the ocean and being forgotten (which kind of mirrors the restored untempered/not restored Abydon endings; sure, he's not forgotten in the unrestored ending, but the whole "sinking into the ocean" does fit the "Ondra wins" vibe)

again, pretty sure she's an intentional parallel to Abydon. she's also the only one who doesn't need any extra help to survive striking the crystal with Abydon's hammer at the end of TWM2

[voicesofeternity]

Hiravias: Pardon me, madam, I didn't see you there. My whole right side is...sort of a blind spot.

Grieving Mother: No need to trouble yourself.

Hiravias: Well, I was wondering how long you've been...oh forget it. Probably no big deal.

[eemamminy-art]

[adozentothedawn]

If you want to do more voice line compilations, how about one with combat voice lines?

Indeed I do! Since you didn't specify character or situation I decided to be a bit creative. I did limit the ones that are just funny noises but those last two made me laugh too hard to not take them. xD Also turns out Maneha has a whole set of very funny reactions like this one, I might do that one seperately some time.

[jeanniebug623]

This video gets me every time...ahh, it's so well done! 😭💙

[sainte-annecanaljournals]

Shared this with a friend of mine who recently lost her mother

Every now and then I come across a post like this one and if it stings and tugs and brings tears to my eyes, I think of you and your love for your mom, and of course, hers for you. There is not much we can do when it comes to grief, no one can take it away and they shouldn't either. Just like love, grief will carve its own path through us and leave us a different person.

So figured I'd share this one with you 💗

"When we lose someone, the entire landscape of our life changes. We grieve, not only the person, but their place in our lives and in our hopes and dreams. Their absence changes everything about what we see and what the future looks like.

Yet, their love still remains steadily underneath the pain of it all. Their love plays a role in our hopes and dreams and futures. Soft and steady. Persevering. Continuing. Still there. Still there..

And we take that love with us into each new day and each new year in whatever way we can. And we bring them with us. And we know in our hearts that their love plays just as big of a role now as it did before.

Because when we love deeply, we love forever. ❤️

-Liz Newman

When we lose someone, the entire landscape of our life changes.

We grieve, not only the person, but their place in our lives and in our hopes and dreams.

Their absence changes everything about what we see and what the future looks like.

Yet, their love still remains steadily underneath the pain of it all.

Their love plays a role in our hopes and dreams and futures.

Soft and steady.

Persevering.

Continuing.

Still there. Still there..

And we take that love with us into each new day and each new year in whatever way we can.

And we bring them with us.

And we know in our hearts that their love plays just as big of a role now as it did before.

Because when we love deeply, we love forever. ❤️" 🖊️Liz Newman

[kashkadavr]

Old arts that i really like. Especially with the Grieving Mother.

[cosplayamaradolce]

They are wrapped around the Grieving Mother's wrists with tiny woven braids of hair of different colors, from white to black, brown to blonde. You feel as if you're noticing them for the first time.

I wasn't expecting to wear my Grieving Mother cosplay again, however I needed something casual and comfortable to wear for Zenkaikon and decided to wear it again. Did a little more digging in the in-game dialogue and remade/added a bracelet after I found a paragraph that detailed the colors of the strands. Very happy with how they turned out!

[thornetabris]

FINE. if i cant smooch and hug and smother the uncanny valley milf who speaks telepathically to me in absolute love then I'll settle for the pathetic wizard with double personality. i GUESS. if i have to.

[allme2]

Today we feel so…

Numb?

I wonder if we was gone if anyone would notice..

Same..

Wish we had someone to talk to