#hylea

[valensolo12]

PoE journal part... 5? where i was forced to face the inevitable challenge of learning how to draw dragons (previous entries here)

entering spoilers territory maybe!

I loooved speaking to the gods and reading those dream-like encounters with them, probably one of my favorite parts of the game so far.

also the adra dragon fight? big fan of her killing everyone in the party in one hit! what the hell

[solas-backpack-mug]

you are correct @ampleappleamble

also i think my initial sketch of galawain hugging a bear deserves recognition

[adozentothedawn]

Attempts at egg mildly confusing but progressing? I think? Really not sure how those wings are gonna look in end but we'll see.

[ampleappleamble]

🎊☀️🕯🎁✨ YEA DOTH EOTHAS' LIGHT SHINE BRIGHTLY DOWN UPON THEE @silversynthesis ✨🎁🕯☀️🎉

happy Secret St. Waidwen! i had a lot of fun drawing your moon boy Amias! hope he likes godlike campfire book club and arguing about the intent and meaning behind the use of the word "passion" in ondrite scripture with Tekēhu 💙 thanks also to @secret-st-waidwen-exchange for their hard work and dedication to such a massive undertaking! credit to Raphael for his painting The School of Athens, from whence the characters' poses were stolen homaged

close-ups under the cut:

[lith-myathar]

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[spacepigfanclub]

Maybe that's what Gaun's about??

He represents the harvest, and is associated with farmers

RimmyGrimmy is associated with winter

You could say spring is about Hylea, Berath and Eothas telling Rimmy to chill out, because he's been showing Kith a very small fragment of his domain and almost killed everyone

Berath is here, because it's because of them that death ends in life and life ends in death

Mayhaps Berath counts for both spring and winter because of that

But it's all unofficial, aka pulled out of my ass

Actually the Engwithans big major secret shoulda been obvious cuz I don’t think they have a creation myth? A ‘how the seasons change’ myth.

And of course, there’s still no god of fuck

[perenians]

galawain more like galaweighing deez nuts on a scale. woedica more like woedicking around. abydon more like abydong. ondra more like ondragging deez nuts across your face. magran more like magrunning deez nuts across the floor. eothas more like eothrust. wael more like deez waelnuts. berath more like berather deez nuts than doze nuts. skaen more like skaenning deez nuts onto internet archive. hylea more like hyling deez nuts of all afflictions. rymrgand more like rymrgrinding th

[eora-confessions]

Which god's design do y'all like the most? I fw Rymrgand and Sapadal the most personally.

[returnofismasm]

So now that we have a few more details on what happened to the godlike, here's my guess as to the status of known godlikes:

A Godlike Watcher is still alive. This is mostly because they're the protagonist, and I don't think Obsidian would kill of a PC without player input, but I do think all of the gods that a PC can be the godlike of have a vested interest in keeping the Watcher alive.

Tekehu is canonically still alive, and you can find a transcript of his sermon. Ondra plays favorites.

I personally think Pallegina has not been called by Hylea. I DO think Hyea absorbed the majority of her godlike (and then wrung her hands about it) but Pallegina severed her chime, and I think that might have functionally cut her off from Hylea.

Vatnir I feel is 50/50. Rymrgand definitely does not care about him in the slightest, so there's no personal bias. You can find a note in Avowed that states that Vatnir left the Dead Flow, though it doesn't specific in the company of the Watcher, and has not returned. Rymrgand was also among the least concerned of the gods with the breaking of the Wheel, and he doesn't really work on short-term timescales. Entropy always wins in the end. But he IS invested in the Watcher. So it's possible that Vatnir's status changes based on if he was recruited--he's alive if he's with the Watcher, but he left the Dead Flow and was subsequently absorbed if he was never recruited.

As far as any non playable Godlike, I have not encountered any mentions of Llengrath having died (but I haven't finished the game yet), so either Galawain didn't claim her, or she saw the writing on the wall and transferred to her next, non godlike body. The only other really major NPC is Humaire from Seeker, Slayer, Survivor, and I unfortunately I don't think Galawain favors her enough not to slurp up her soul. Every other godlike from the first two games--crew like Handsome Eliam, Backer NPCs, shopkeepers, those pirates from Pallegina's personal quest--I think is probably gone.

[pavlikbuonarroti]

(if you're unfamiliar, they're in order from left to right in the picture, except eothas, who isn't pictured)

[joshbii]

"what a civilized breed we'd be" off the Elytis prompt list?

Prompts

What a Civilized Breed We'd Be

No matter how often she plucked the feathers from her face, they always grew back, and more strongly now; the plumes that formed her hair were but the least of her concerns. How long before her nose would be better described by ‘beak’, or before her brothers would notice the eyesores that had sprouted along her shoulders in an imitation of wings.

Still, she plucked. Each time she yanked a feather free, she wondered if this would be the last. If Hylea would finally relent. But the gods were never so merciful.

More and more feathers landed in the woven box she’d use to carry them, later, to the place that would be their pyre, each of their quills carrying her blood. She stopped to think on this, on more than one occasion – her blood, blessed by Hylea, so the others told her.

Blessed to bear beautiful plumage, blessed to carry Hylea’s love. Blessed to bear these chains, this curse, a brand that marked her as other. It was true that the gods could love one like a parent; just a shame they took after her father.

It was late at night that she found the animancer’s door. She stood silent at the threshold, watching on as he worked. Hand pulled needle, needle pulled thread, stitching and suturing the subject on the table – a young man with leaves for hair and root-like veins. Copper appendages fixed his corpse tight to the table, as if the animancer feared it would up and leave at any moment. Still the girl watched on.

“I have told you – you are not allowed to visit me here,” he did not turn from his experimentation, sparks coursing through the copper, “your commander’s words were rather… final on the matter.”

“And I have told you, a million times,” the girl cried out, wearing her armour with pride. She needed it today – not the steel over her flesh but the five suns over her heart. “I have told you… I would rather die, than live like this.” Her voice cracked, but she stood firm, grasping at the edge of her armour as if it would hold her together.

“I do so wish I could aid you, aimica, but you know as well as I do how dangerous it is.” The animancer turned now from his work and walked towards the child by the door. He bent over to match her height and looked her in the eyes, bitter and bold.

“I do not… I can not live like this. As a thing, not a person. As a godlike, not a Vailian. As a coward, not a paladin.” She inhaled as anger flashed across her face, “I will be a free woman, not a slave of the gods.”

“We are all slaves to the gods, my girl. Whether we wear their visage or not.”

The girl’s fists clenched as she stared into the animancer’s eyes; the eyes of a tired man, no more at peace with the word than she was. “What gives them the right-” she blinked hard, willing the first tear not to fall, as though its escape would signal surrender, “if they just left us all alone-”

“We would be better off for it,” he finished her sentence for her. His words were soft-spoken and carefully placed, but bore an indignant understanding. “What a civilized breed we’d be, aimica, if we didn’t have to bow.”

She thought to cry out, to scream at the unfairness of it all. No words came to her. Anger boiled inside her blood, beneath the five suns across her chest.

The animancer placed his hand on her shoulder, “But bow we must. That’s what makes us – me and you both, I mean – that’s what makes us human. Even when the gods try to make us something else.”

[adozentothedawn]

And so it is done! Praise be our bird lady Hylea, even though she was a dick to me while making it.

I tried getting multiple different lighting situations, but unfortunately none are great. If we're getting some sunlight tomorrow maybe I'll post another one in natural light.

Now, eagle (hah) eyed viewers might notice that there are two different shades of pink in this banner. This is definitely on purpose and not cause I ran out of the first one and bought a wrong one to stock up and then only noticed when it was too late.

You might also notice that wings don't look like weaving. That is cause they aren't. While the egg and the top part honestly went amazingly well on the round loom, the wings unfortunately bend into the wrong direction for the most part so it looked garbage when I tried to weave it the way I do usually. I then tried to weave it on top of the background, using the weft as another warp, but didn't look great either. Then I got the idea to maybe use the fact that I branched out in textile arts recently and just try something completely different. I ended up using a backstitch basically, but through the string itself to make it stick in one line. Honestly I'm kinda proud of that thing, cause it did come out pretty good. (Except that the one top line somehow got too long which meant I had to staunch the right wing so it wouldn't look too off kilter but at that point it would have been ludicrous to try and fix it so I did my best to work around it.)

Tbh I was too lazy to look up proper rim techniques but hey it works, so whatever.

The next project will take a while for sure, because I have about 5 million Christmas ducks to crochet, so we'll see when I get back to it.

[ampleappleamble]

my bf was saying he's annoyed that it's always 'so and so's tits!' in games. marika's tits in elden ring. now ondra's tits/hylea's tits in avowed. i was like 'well, in fairness, ondra does have a lot of titties. and hylea has a lot of birds, some of which are probably tits.'

and if it's not tits, it's balls. berath's bulging ballsack. rymrgand's frosty bollocks. i went into a cave today and someone turned to me and said "rymrgand's ten frosty balls, what are you doing here?" and i was like "...ten, did you say?"

[cilant-lis]

ok so im about 5hrs into avowed (im very slow because I tend to explore every corner) and here's my thoughts. under readmore for spoilers

a bit disappointed by the character creator... but oh well, there will be mods

decided to play neridien the scholar first because one of the godlike face features is exactly their colour scheme. but my court augur shall also come soon

if i had a nickel every time a game set in eora began with a shipwreck..

the scenery is sooo pretty!!!!!! i need photo mode pronto

1st nod to poe found! i met calisca's parents

and another one! hi sanza, thanks for letting my watcher give silly names to all the islands she mapped for u

neri finally going into the city, soooo looking forward to a warm bath to wash all the dirt and salt from themself only to be immediately killed. lmao

intrigued by what appears to be an as of yet unknown god???

watcher of caed nua mention!! my girl is famous back in her home country!

vertical exploration ! climbing is very weird in 1st person though and gives me motion sickness. i'll need to fiddle with the settings more. i also really like the sound cues for treasure chests, makes it fun to hunt for them

aghghhh dissecting every single environmental detail in paradis (especially the temples, because i love fantasy religions) (and i love the statue of ondra there )

the disappearance of the godlikes is making me nervous... if anything happened to my beloved pallegina i'm fighting hylea with my bare hands

i like taking food right from people's tables. my pie now

idk if im roleplaying my mean af envoy too hard, but i don't really vibe with kai. guess he's not my type of a character sighhh (but i just know that one of the wizard girlies will be my type of a character)

surprising absolutely no one, im terrible at combat