#irithyllians

[buriedknight]

Wherever you go, the moon still sets in Caria Manor. Wherever you may be, Caria Manor is your home.

[katyspersonal]

Thinking about this preset again 🤔 Dark Souls 3 presets don't have hair and eyes lore; absolutely all of them have black hair and green eyes, even Astoran ones, so the only lore here is how skin color and features change!

Basically, we don't know what hair or eyes color were common for people from Irithyll, all characters born there are dead or mutated into infinity or both! But the only Old Gods with bleach white skin we've seen are Gwyndolin and Velka! The two were doing the same job within the pantheon. Velka had darkness affinity, that's for sure, however she had power to manipulate time (erase someone's transgressions from history) which is the power of light. And Gwyndolin had strong moonlight affinity but also a bit of darkness (his darkmoon blade miracle is purple which is darkness and his other miracle, ring and associated "Statue of Goddess" is in Catacombs). However, light too; his pale yellow illusory magic is what Oolacile people use and what animated stone forest guardians.

So, I think there is a third affinity within disparity. We have Light, which is also fire, life and time. We have Dark, which is also cold, death and devolution/entropy (or other things defying time as first flame created it). But there seems to be a Night affinity, that sort of bridges the gap between the two or exists between them? Think of moon and stars that are also light, but they only exist in the darkness. Gods like this can dab in both dark and light, whether they "side" with only one extreme depends entirely on what they do.

So, it seems like cold colors are a consistent thing! White Night-affiliated person with have literally bleach white skin, but brown and black Night-affiliated people will have very cold and desaturated skin tones that might look grey (like Rosaria's), blueish or even purple on low saturation. The hair I am not sure about... Velka has black hair and Rosaria has dark grey. Maybe hair will also always remain cold. Like, "blond" hair of Night person will be very pale yellow, like moon that didn't reach its peak yet (like Ciaran's hair), when Night "redheads" would have pale red hair which, again, is a color moon can take under certain lighting such as lunar eclipse. 🤔

I guess the reason why "features of Old Gods" only refer to Night people for now is because such Gods are pretty much the only ones who remained alive or even just remembered at the DS3 times

[theknightsstars]

Sirius

Oc, wanted to show off his funky teeth

[frosty-talks]

"What a pair they make.... a monster hunter-turned-devil, and a monster hiding as half elf. How long do they have before they turn on each other?"

Art by @irithyllians

Wyll and my Dark Urge Aurelio (known as Aelar in BG3). I haven't been able to get enough of these two since I started playing the game last year. All I could think about was the dynamic: a monster hunter being in love with the exact kind of monster he should kill.

[thefleetingflashofa-sword623]

KILL ALL IRITHYLLIAN BEAST-HOUNDS

[lowstrear67]

Irithyllians

[tunarath]

my Reli and her beloved Azandar by my friend @irithyllians 🥺💕

[i-simp-for-fennorian]

A little bit of oxygen is all we need.

A little bit of mind control is what you do to me.

I'm falling hard and harder as you got my heart in your palm.

I need you in my arms.

🦇🖤🦇

By irithyllians

[maranigai]

I’ve dressed my Chosen Undead in Irithyll-style fashion because Blades of the Darkmoon and I love irithyllian designs 

[warriordragonart]

My Ashen One was once caught in a bonfide shoujo triangle between a Carim maiden and her sworn knight because what are obscure lore snippets but rife with potential for entertaining drama? (Also backstories are fun to flesh out hehe) Essentially it's a knight/maiden duo who were once best friends but eventually grew to despise each other, now trapped in an oath that neither of them actually want (as described in Morne's set in DS3: "A Carim knight will dedicate an entire career to attending a single maiden, just as Morne once served one goddess alone.")

So, instead of dealing with their problems, both of them end up hardcore projecting their expectations for the other onto the naïve young Darkmoon guard of the Irithyllian ambassador. Things don't go great and they give Lia lifelong commitment issues.

Some extra doodles under the cut!

[daphneorelse]

a looooot of you would be forever branded and imprisoned by the irithyllian jailers

[cosmere-described]

ID: A sketchy drawing of Lezian from the Stormlight Archive by irithyllians. Lezian is depicted from the waist up, standing before the viewer and looking off to the side. He has wide shoulders armored in spikey carapace. Carapace covers the top of his head and forehead, his cheeks and his nose. He has two jagged carapace horns, and his ears are pointy. His long hair and beard wrap around his chest and torso instead of clothes. His expression is amused, with his mouth smiling and showing sharp teeth. /end ID.

Lezian the Pursuer

[thefleetingflashofa-sword623]

No enemy in any fromsoft game has made me angry Except irithyllian hounds

[blossombloodcurse]

Amy you just haven’t listed Blackwall often enough... top 5 book or video game characters with beards

1) ok so obviously blackwall..................... call me

2) eder teylecg from pillars of eternity, i literally cried when he wasn’t romanceable in poe2

3) gimli from lotr, just on principle, i just vibe, i just love him

4) ok not a book or video game, but i cannot stop thinking about marcus kane from the 100 when he was at peak daddy

5) kaladin stormblessed from the stormlight archive, this counts right? it counts

[lichposting]

[sniffs the tags on a post I reblogged from you] PSIJICS? PSIJIC OC? Tell me about herrrrrr 👀

Yeah! Her name is Nialamide and she’s technically a former psijic as she split from the order in the late 2nd era due to differing opinions about the role of magic in society. She’s a conjurer (in eso she’s mechanically a petsorc) and she spends most of her time trying to wrangle Daedric artifacts

[screenshot from the elder scrolls online showing a blonde high elven woman with gold skin and bright yellow eyes. she is wearing ornate white armor with a long skirt and gold and blue accents and wielding a long gold white and blue staff. her hair is in a loose bun and she wears a small gold circlet on her forehead.]

[a sketchy digital drawing of the same character. she taps her face and looks annoyed.]

She’s been in a relationship w/ a Telvanni magister (Serjo Dirvenna Hlaru Telvanni) for over a millennia. They met when Nia snapped out of the lure of apocrypha and showed up on Dirvenna’s doorstep half dead

[the high elf from before and a much shorter dark elven woman. the dark elf has grey-blue skin, orange hair, red eyes, and lots of necklaces and earrings and rings. the women are sitting at a table drinking tea and speaking to each other as if gossiping.]

While she’s an ESO character (she’s my main/crafter/quester/trial dd) in my ~lore~ she’s not actually the vestige and was largely uninvolved with the events of ESO

[shrikeseams]

Yeah, this tweet from @irithyllians was the original spark for the thought.

As far as I'm aware, balrogs are pretty consistently just a group of umaiar with a shared... flavor? Of physical form. Which would make them much more closely related to 'good' maiar other than (most interpretations of) orcs and elves.

Gandalf and the balrog were both members of the same metaphysical chorus before Arda was made. Even if Gandalf wants to argue that the balrog has become a different species, I think it's going to ring hollow.

...so does Gandalf's fight with the balrog make Gandalf a kinslayer? 🤔