#mage crafts

[the-faultofdaedalus]

magic system where “dark magic” and “light magic” are literal terms - dark magic consumes photons, making an area around the spell visibly darker, sometimes to an Extreme extent, and light magic releases photons.

because of this most dark mages tend to work in very brightly-lit areas (either artificial light or outside in the daytime) to fuel their spells and wear and use lightly coloured clothes and tools so that they’re easier to see in the dimness their spells create, whereas light mages wear heavy, sometimes leaden robes (depending on the work being done) and the magical equivalent of welding masks to protect themselves from what can be an extreme amount of light, and sometimes other kinds of electromagnet radiation!

needless to say this is incredibly confusing for anyone unfamiliar with the culture

[starcrossedandstupid]

you don’t understand how much tiefling Princess Lizzie means to me already

In my fic I have not worked on it months(I love you Wormweed), Lizzie’s man group was a royal themed group. A princess and her knights, her soldiers. She wasn’t just a princess, she was a commander of a deadly army of three.

And now she’s a princess, and she wants to be evil again. And Cleo is here. It’s different, but yet the same. A tyrant tiefling princess and her right hand fire mage. Setting the world ablaze. It could be everything. PLEASE.

[thefoamwarrior]

Some of the various light settings you can have - it's hard to pick a favourite. 😵‍💫 You can get your own scroll on my etsy store. 🙂

[charmanderxerneas]

last night did some pony drawings with spacebuggy (not postin em all because idk if he wants to share them but he drew Laios pony and Senshi pony and Chilchuck Breezie lol) These are the guys i drew hehe

[assi9art]

Ready to kidnap babies ig

2nd fuse bead project, can't wait to try more :D

[chachacharlieco]

No beast master this live letter and patch and nothing interested me. It's time to unsub, my wallet will thank me for this hahaha.

[greenleafconfetti]

The Aekinemetron, an arcane pocket chronomantic device.

Usage known to The Order. Highly volatile. Handle with caution.

Jk. I made that all up. It's a makeup compact I prettified.

[arimabari]

touching inquisition for the first time in ages and have decided I am going to romance Cullen. I will however be making him much much worse.

[gxldencity]

"Rook has personal beef with blood magic so you can't play as a blood mage"

[fxiled-fxithful]

(So, Bear made pics for the fan child between Philza and Angela through some doll makers. I love her so much.

Look at their adorable angel baby. Her name is Ravina Craft. ♡

@mages-pandoras-box

[jbcrochetwizard]

My black mage design measures 8.5” H x 8” W (21.6 x 20.4 cm).  Crochet pattern is available individually and in a pattern bundle with moogle and baby chocobo.

Etsy |  Ravelry

[thefoamwarrior]

Giving my prototype book a 2nd life by ripping out old crummy LED's and doing a blue colour scheme instead of purple/gold. I'm thinking purple round gems and a silver trim/purple body bookmark will finish it off.

[sparkknightella]

Mild Hexenzirkel Lore Dump/Random Things I’ve noticed in The Mage’s Tea Party vid

So as we all have seen, there is this pretty pretty little image of 8 witches that appear at the start of the video

At first I was going to try to match up each Cameo with a known member, but there really is not enough to go on. Especially considering both Alice and Andersdotter appear to use the Bottom Left Cameo on their teacup and ink bottle respectively.

I could just not be seeing it correctly because they are very small, but it definitely looks like it’s the woman holding her book in both of them, not the two different emblems of witches with books.

Literally no idea what this could mean but now i’m very confused about the point of the 8 emblems at all.😭

NOW TO THE FUN PART

Each member that spoke seemed to have a special little flash of art during Alice’s last little speech.

I’ve included them in the order they appear as she’s speaking. I’m assuming they match up with each member in the order they started speaking in the video. Meaning the first represents Alice, the second represents I. Ivonova N., the third is Rhinedottir, fourth is Andersdottor, and the final one is Barbeloth.

Each painting has a witch motif somewhere, EXCEPT Andersdottor. Keep this in mind

Alice’s is interesting because she is HATLESS, unlike the other witches shown in these paintings. She appears to be gazing at something descending on Teyvat with a giant stack of papers beside her. Maybe she witnessed the Twin’s fall to Teyvat while she up late working on an early edition of the Teyvat travel guide?? who knows.

I. Ivonova N.’s seems straight forward until you realize there is a second witch in the background. This second witch is drawn with a different outline which leads me to believe she could be an illusion of some kind. Maybe the real Ivonova is projecting a fake Ivonova to see if her love will come back?? maybe to see if there’s an assassin after her? again, who knows!

Now Rhinedottir’s had me thinking THOUGHTS. Is Rhinedottir the witch flying by in the background? or the little girl with fierce braids?? I have no idea what kind of conclusions to draw from this.

ANDERSDOTTOR… I spent a good 10 minutes trying to find the witch and I simply cannot. Maybe Andersdottor was the only member who genuinely had no magical or elemental abilities or proficiencies. Maybe she was just a simple mortal, who’s allegorical retellings of the world led to her being invited into the Hexenzirkel. We do know she’s one of the only canonically DEAD members. Her painting shows the main characters from The Boar Princess.

and finally, Barbeloth. Not much to say, big hat, clearly astrological. Mona’s master blah blah. Clearly some of these were more fun than others

Anywho, i’ve been watching Genshin Lore videos all day and not a single Hexenzirkel video mentioned these really cool paintings included at the end and their clear connection to the stories of these witches!!! I hope someone sees this and starts thinking big thoughts with me!!

[shiominato]

i could put this on mikaboshi

[eldritchamy]

me, drinking coffee for once: this is it, this is going to fix me. today I will have just enough of a functional brain to be productive and get important things done

the horrible little creature that lives in my brain and decides what I hyperfixate on and when I go into an infodumping trance on an arbitrary topic and also makes me wildly over- or under-use punctuation:

[dragon-age-codex-entries]

Codex entry: Amrita Vein

"Amrita was a hedge mage, famed for her talent as an herbalist. She could brew philters to soothe every ache or ailment, even coax the ill back from the brink of death. As word of Amrita's talents spread, she was made a target for capture. Amrita fled from them, refusing to go to a Circle. The templars took off in pursuit, dogging her steps, until they came to the edge of the Western Approach. Knowing the templars were less than half a day behind her, Amrita forged ahead. When the templars came to the edge of the desert, they stopped and turned back, believing that Amrita would be doomed to die in that sand-blasted wilderness.

But Amrita did not die. She crossed the wasteland on foot, living off the strange plants that grew there, finding water in roots buried beneath the sand. On that long trek, Amrita discovered the herb now known as Amrita Vein. She brought it out of the desert with her and continued to study and cultivate it. Amrita's extensive writings about desert plants, including Amrita Vein, eventually found their way to the White Spire, where it was decided that her contributions would earn her a degree of freedom. She was allowed to continue living as she desired, as long as she submitted to the Harrowing."

—An excerpt from The Botanical Compendium, by Ines Arancia, botanist