#immortal city

[a-drabble-a-dray]

“...Something’s wrong.”

“...Huh?”

The changeling froze, wound hidden under their jacket.

“Wrong, like…?”

“...Oh!” The kobold blinked, glancing back. “S-Sorry, thinking out loud. It… Isn’t supposed to rain.”

“You say that, but…” They looked up. The sky was already dark with clouds.

“I know, it’s just… Geomancer’s intuition?”

The first distant thunderclap rocked the street.

“Must be nothing. Apologies.”

The second rumble echoed the first. Identically.

“...If it isn’t rain,” their eyes narrowed, free hand gripping the half-sword at their waist, “what is it?”

“I… I don’t know. Something bad, for sure.”

“Good. I’ve got some steam to blow off.”

[artwithjej]

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all photos were taken by me📸

[windybluebelles]

I don’t think, as a fandom, we have utilitiesed the concept of immortal Alfred along side the Fawcett time bubble.

Now, I know for a fact that it’s canon Alfred is not immortal and has infact died, I also just don’t give a shit

I’m also fairly sure that time bubble fawcett has never been canon (atleast in the way that I picture it) , and at the very least isn’t anymore, I still don’t care.

Just picture, Itty Bitty Billy Batson (orphan whos entire support system from when he was younger is just entirely gone) hears a familiar voice coming through Batman’s personal comms, and just kinda thinks,

Holy Shit that’s Uncle Al

Now he’s obviously very confused, last time he heard anything about his Uncle Al was approximately in like 1954, and he was around the same age as his parents who I imagine couldn’t be any younger than like 30. So how tf is he not brain dead and being fed through a tube by now? (I’m sure there are some very functional 90 year olds but like… what are the chances?)

I imagine that Billy would eventually figure out that Alfred works for the Wayne family in Gotham (I also imagine that he now vaguely know Batman’s identity but he’s also like 12 so why would he care?) and finds a way to get there as soon as possible.

I’m picturing just like, Tim or someone opening the door to this tiny little boy whos holding a box full of pictures and letters and is politely asking if he can ‘Speak with uncle-err, Mr Pennyworth?’

[illustratinghan]

Acorn ~ Immortality 🌞

- a recreation of Magnus Bane’s flower card -

characters by @cassandraclare 🤍

[bet-on-me-13]

Ghost Cores are Dionesium

So! I while ago, I saw a Post about Danny and the Court of Owls, and one suggestion in the comments basically said, "What if Dionesium, the stuff they use to bring back the dead, is just Ghost Cores?"

And that got me thinking. Lazarus Pits are just Dionesium Infused Water, so how would they be created if Dionesium is a Ghosts Core? Well they way I see it, Lazarus Pits can only be formed in 2 Ways.

The first way is for a large number of Ghosts to be Ended at the same time, with their shattered Cores piling up and dissolving into Water.

The other way, if for an Ancient to Die. The Ancients are practically God's, and as such their Cores are immense in Power. When an Ancient dies, and their Core is left to dissolve in the Human Realm, it forms a Lazarus Pit in the exact same way it would take hundreds of normal Cores to do so.

Where am I going with this?

Well, isn't there a Giant Lazarus Pit under Gotham? The Batcave even has one, doesn't it?

The reason Gotham is so cursed isn't because Lady Gotham likes to collect Curses, or because her Ectoplasm is corrupted, it's because she isn't there to stop them anymore.

Lady Gotham is Dead.

Her Core sank deep into the Earth, forming a Lazarus Pit under the entire City, but thankfully far away from her People. She died, and only the fact that she is a Conceptual spirit saved a piece of her Consciousness. She represents a City, she can only fully be killed if the entire City is leveled. That doesn't mean she is still alive however, just that the barest sliver of her mind is hanging on by a Thread.

This is how Gotham possessed Batman that one time, it was her base instincts saving one of her precious children.

If you want her to be a little more cognizant, maybe she is just severely Injured? Her Core is cracked to the edge of shattering and she desperately needs help.

She she calls out to whoever could save her, and a certain Ghost Boy hears her cry for help?

[musickickztoo]

Rowland S. Howard 

October 24, 1959 – December 30, 2009

[enigmaart]

“Hermoso.. tan hermoso. Eres tan hermosa como el sol en el cielo. Tan delgado, apretado y puro.”

Doodle from Chapter 1 of @flippythegodzilla 's "Puss in Boots and the City of Immortals"

[lyculuscaelus]

Diomedes! We’ve promised your father this, so now we present to you—immortality. Menelaus! You’ve married Zeus’s daughter, so now we present to you—a ticket to Elysium fields. Odysseus! You’ve suffered alone for ten long years, so now we present to you—a gentle/feeble death, from the sea or because of salt or whatever…just die when you’re old.

[annoyinglandmagazine]

Caranthir at the annual Feanorian strategy meeting: You know, we could just chuck it all and turn to piracy. It would be a LOT easier.

[tagmusicblog]

smith college girls or whatever

[y-rhywbeth2]

Been thinking on the afterlives of the party:

I mean Shadowheart is faithful, so Gates of the Moon or Palace of Night (unless Shar is feeling stupid and short-sighted again and wants to lessen her own power by abandoning a powerful faithful soul).

Halsin is faithful and an elf, most likely to go to Arvandor but could get claimed by Silvanus.

Mystra is willing to claim Gale, if he's still mortal, so it's up to him.

Karlach's been praying to gods such as Lathander and Selune as she approaches death, and the gods do take deathbed conversions from compatible mortals, so she could potentially end up with Shadowheart. Cleric characters can also pray with her, so she could go with a Tav.

Wyll's so incredibly lapsed/areligious that you wouldn't call him faithful, but he acts in accordance with the teachings of the Triad, so I'm pretty sure that gives them a potential 'in' if he takes it.

Lae'zel is faithless (Vlaakith is not a god). She can easily dodge that by just not dying on Toril though.

Minthara: false false false false

Astarion is not only faithless but pointedly so. As an elf he theoretically has a foot in the door to Arvandor, but considering his relationship with the Seldarine is probably terrible...

Durge is either Bhaal's faithful or false, and as a Bhaalspawn should go to Gehenna regardless, though Jergal apparently has called dibs and they could seek another faith if we ignore that second bit. There are lots of gods you can pray to in this game. Most of them evil! Shar, Loviatar, Bane... most of them are Bhaal's co-workers, so you can sort of end up in the afterlife where your estranged and pissy dad usually lives and works.

Anyone who undergoes ceremorphosis might have 'property of Ilsensine' stamped on them...?

The Wall of the Faithless has been struck from SCAG errata, apparently, so I guess anybody who doesn't have a place in the afterlife (statistically; Minthara, likely Astarion, maybe Durge and Wyll) is going to be getting a job in one of the most boring cities on the planes, False or Faithless. At least there are occasional invasions from the Abyss, weird politicking with devils, and Jergal sometimes secretly sends souls out into the planes as undead on missions, so it could get interesting sometimes...

(All of this assuming that Jergal doesn't flat out claim any or all of them and fudge the reports the way he casually omits usage of undead from them when he hands them in to Kelemvor. Still comes out to the same result though.)

(There is the question of whether the personality is going to stay intact once they're dead, and what position you get; Myrkul's petitioners sometimes got to be 'princes' of sections of the City, while others were just faceless, identity-less wraiths wandering aimlessly. Cyric turned his into weird monsters who also didn't really remember who they were... The gods get to decide whether you keep your personality or not.)

Speaking of; Myrkul's domain is presumably still within the City of Judgement, so Ketheric is probably there! Dunno about your Tavs or Durge but mine is going to have a beautiful reunion if the idiot ever dies and ends up on the Fugue and Ketheric still has his memories and personality. Eternal punishment: spending eternity continuing the hell that was having this brat/this annoying old fuck as a co-worker.

More fun: maybe Myrkul still has an avatar there! That's not going to be awkward At All. Repeatable boss battles!

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"...Ugh." She sighed. "Speak quickly, I need to-"

"Treat the wounded after last night?" They completed, lifting the box of supplies onto the desk.

"Oh. Thank you, I suppose."

"Did you... Expect something else?" They began prying the crate open. "Sidetracking seems... Unwise."

"It annoys me, too. Seems I can't ignore someone from the orphanage, even if-" She snapped her fingers. "...You're a mage. Somewhat. Quick— Head to the backroom, I need help with the potions."

"Your potions require magic to make? That works?"

"No."

"Then-"

"They require knowledge," she stared down, "about how useful a good lie can be."

[prettykittytanjiro]

I finished Aru Shah last night and oh my god okay wow someone help me

IM PUTTING UP MY THOUGHTS AS SOON AS POSSIBLE I SWEAR

I need time for this to settle in gsjsy 😭

Crying

[70sscifiart]

John Berkey’s 1995 cover to The Immortality Option, by James P. Hogan

[silverstarssart]

Today Aiden woke up to Aru standing over his bed like a sleep paralysis demon. And got booped. I feel it

[flippythegodzilla]

After about three months, Puss in Boots and the City of Immortals is back!

For how long I don’t know! I just hope it ain’t another three months!