#mavariel

[mavariel]

Ulfric, my old friend… what happened to you?

[mavariel]

Thank you for commissioning me! 💕 I had so much fun drawing your boy

A scene of Daerhovan i commissioned from the lovely and talented @mavariel who is also my friend <3 Thanks so much again!

[merilles]

Merry Christmas to my mutuals! I’m very grateful for all of their love and support this year. To thank them, I turned their OCs into chibis!

(Ethedis for @a-lonely-dunedain, Eilian for @vinyatar, Nibenaes for @yellow-faerie, Aeilif for @mavariel, Créa for @dunadaan, Daerhovan for @eomer, Honeysuckle for @shiremenace, Curunis for @linden-leaf, Lossrilleth for @fishing4stars, and Mentelossë for @elanna-elrondiel)

[hircines-hunter]

WIP Wednesday

First wip of the year! Here’s to many more to come!!! Here have a thing I’m working on! Though i might post the chapter sometime this week? Lol idk

Gonna tag @umbracirrus @bougainvillea-and-saltwater @thequeenofthewinter @oblivions-dawn @madamefluffnstuff

@illumiera @mavariel @sulphuricgrin @pocket-vvardvark @moriche and anyone else that wants to do this! No obligations or pressure!

Sifkni and Farkas found their way back to the statue. Farkas trailed behind her. He wiped the blood off his face as he watched Sifkni kneel on the ground again. He knelt next to her and grabbed her hand. “Hopefully they bought us time.”

“They will. I trust them. .” Sifkni brought his hand to her lips, kissing his knuckles. “I love and trust you as well.”

Farkas smiled. “I know. Me too.” He squeezed her hand.

“Let me start this prayer again. And hopefully it helps.”

“I’ll be here to protect you.” Farkas rubbed her arm.

Sifkni closed her eyes and took a deep breath. She started the prayer from the beginning. Something she used to do every year. She abruptly stopped when a new scent brushed past. A twig snapped. Farkas grabbed her and picked her up before she could react. A large tawny brown werewolf stood where they were knelt. “I can transform again! Let me handle it!” She pushed against his arms.

“I just need a sword to protect you.” Farkas looked around. Steel glinted in the sunlight behind the shrine. He ducked down avoiding claws as he ran towards the shine of the sword. Thank the Divines! He grabbed the sword after letting Sifkni down. He looked over as Sifkni let the transformation take over her arms. Farkas held the sword towards the new werewolf.

“Your borrowed steel is no match for my claws and fangs.” The wolf huffed. He pounced at Farkas, swiping at the sword.

Farkas held his ground, blocking the swipes and bites. “It’s strong enough to beat you.”

The wolf bit down at the steel, teeth denting the aged metal. He slashed with his claws. They raked across Farkas’ chest.

Farkas jumped back, dropping the sword and clutching his bleeding chest. Sifkni jumped in front of Farkas, blocking a bite. She gasped as teeth shredded through her fur and flesh. She swiped at the werewolf’s face with the claws of her other hand.

“Sif!”

“Stay back, Farkas! I can handle a werewolf.”

“Farkas?” The werewolf lowered his arms and looked at Sifkni and then Farkas. He held his head to the air and inhaled. “Farkas? Of Jorrvaskr?”

Sifkni lowered her arms and looked between her husband and the werewolf. “How do you know my husband?” She growled, guarding Farkas.

[fangsandsoftgrass]

Thank you so much @pocket-vvardvark & @madamefluffnstuff for the tags wuahg 😭😭😭 here's my 2024 wrapped!!!!

Rules: it’s time to love yourselves! Choose your 5 (or so) favorite works you created in the past year (fics, art, edits, etc) and link them below to reflect on the amazing things you brought to the world in 2024. Tag as many writers/artists/etc. as you want (fan or original) so we can spread the love and link each other to awesome works!

All of u guys I appreciate your presence and ur posts even if I've literally never said anything to you ASFKSBFK I've left likes bc u are cool and ily mwah 🫶 @aanthirin @aviel-the-trans-bucket @sanza-17 @progmetol @mavariel @vivifriend

@vriibot @bugdawgs @mewdas @sulphuricgrin @skyrim-forever @simpytheshrimpy69 @rvnwtch @ronin-of-valenwood @yewphoric

@illumiera @itsfennix @heartforransom @gay-of-waterdeep @handageddon @kiir-do-faal-rahhe @nyarevar @hircines-hunter

I know I never finished the selfshiptober prompts BUT☝️ I still posted quite a few pieces I am somewhat proud of LMAO. These are them :3c

1. A Shared Hobby (selfshiptober prompt)

2. Bats (a fennwedh fic)

3. Brambles (a followup to bats)

4. Snowberry Tonic (the moment™)

5. Hunt (a zesty selfshiptober prompt)

Thank u guys for letting me be a freak in public LMAO I love you all and happy new year!!!!!

[mavariel]

Here’s a preliminary doodle of her :)

Hey remember when I said I was cooking up a new Skyrim oc? Meet Aeilif :)

Aeilif was born and raised in Riverwood. She married her long-time friend, Halbjorn, a member of the guard. They were happy for a time, saving up money to move up to Whiterun.

Until the imperial carriage brought back Halbjorn, dead. He had been stopped by the Thalmor, on the way home from Whiterun. Accused, misunderstood, swiftly executed.

Aeilif can’t bear to stay in Riverwood after Halbjorn’s death. She wanders for a time, hunting, doing odd jobs for coin. She finds herself in Whiterun after a narrow escape from Helgen and her own execution. The city she and Halbjorn were supposed to have been living in, right now.

Having honed her skills somewhat during her travels, Aeilif decides to join the Companions. It’s a source of stability compared to wandering, and the intense training helps dull her festering anger and numb the pain a bit.

[oblivions-dawn]

O, I Don't Have the Right

Senu posting for WIP Wednesday with EVIL?? Unheard of! Unless . . . Tagging @thequeenofthewinter, @yewphoric, @hircines-hunter, @umbracirrus, @mavariel, @bougainvillea-and-saltwater, @stormbeyondreality, @sylvienerevarine, @throughtrialbyfire, @bostoniangirl21, annnnnd YOU, criminal scum <3 There isn't too much of this chapter yet, but there are lots of plans, and . . . . Fufu. >:3c I'm not sorry.

Elenwen stood up, her hands clasped behind her back. She began to pace back and forth slowly yet deliberately, every scrape of her boots amplified by the wet and muddy gravel that coated the floor.

“It has come to our attention that the woman you travel with is the Dragonborn,” she stated in a light, matter-of-fact tone. “According to the reports that we have received from Cinnmir, the two of you are rather . . . close.”

Vigdis.

Serana inhaled sharply—and became submerged in those haunted ice-blue eyes, and the sweet, addictive scent of petrichor she knew so well. The memory of chapped pink lips burned against her own, the kiss hard and angry and desperate; the faint taste of wine splashed over her tongue as warm breath mingled in her mouth; freckled fingers dug into her waist; fiery curls entangled in her pale hands; their passionate dance accompanied by soft yet ragged gasps—

Something leathery grasped her chin. Her reverie shattered under sulphur eyes; Serana recoiled, tried to jerk her head out of the iron grip—but to no avail. She clenched her teeth, her pale lips parted to bare her fangs in defiance. The First Emissary of the Aldmeri Dominion merely smiled at her.

[grogpole]

Thank you for the tag @winecupwars!

9 people you want to know better tag

three ships: Uhhhh lets see...Courier Six / Cass from New Vegas, Dragonborn / Lydia from Skyrim, aaaaand Gideon Nav / Harrowhark Nonagesimus from The Locked Tomb!

first ship: Honestly it might well have been Courier Six and Cass lol

last song: Heel Turn 2 - Jordan Lake Sessions Volume 1 by the Mountain Goats! God! What a song

last movie: Mad God (2021) By Phil Tippit! Visually stunning, second-half pacing was not my cup of tea sadly, still highly recommend tho

currently reading: Perdido Street Station by China Mieville for the second? third? time. It's very very very good. It's got cactus people, a man with thirteen mouths and excellent prose. Go read it.

currently watching: Amphibia! Again!

currently eating/ate: Got some chicken goujons and steamed veg in the fridge. yum.

currently craving: A coherent narrative to write and time to play my backlog of games

tagging @jiubilant @galoogamelady @falmerbrook @words-not-working-for-mouth @moicaire @mavariel but no pressure at all!

[mavariel]

Coming back from beyond the grave to offer you the most pathetic jarl in Skyrim <3

[mavariel]

Hehehe she was a pleasure to draw!

It’s the girl. The High Queen herself.

Thank you so much to dear @mavariel for such a beautiful and wonderful surprise. She’s gorgeous. 🤩

[loremastering]

A scene of Daerhovan i commissioned from the lovely and talented @mavariel who is also my friend <3 Thanks so much again!

[marahsfandomloves]

Thank you, @mavariel, for drawing this scene from my first fanfic after Taniiaae first phases into a werewolf where she was nervous about talking to Sinding.

[hircines-hunter]

Farky Wifeys Lusine, Sifkni, and Aeilif

for me and @umbracirrus and @mavariel

Yes I just used in game screenshot for the BG IDGAF I'm not drawing Jorrvaskr. Besides I made it as an early bday for myself!

[moicaire]

Awwwww Vedathyr 😭😭😭😭 I hope he gets the love he deserves someday with someone who takes the time to get to know him <3

Hi!!!! I love your polls and art thanks for your awesome contribution! Here have some free Aeilif dumping :)

Aeilif grew up in Riverwood. Her parents owned a shop there, and when she was a young adult they moved to Cyrodiil to get away from the cold and start a new shop in the city. Aeilif stayed back to run the Riverwood shop herself. She married Halbjorn, her childhood best friend and Whiterun/Riverwood guard.

Their plan was to save up some money and then move to Whiterun, but he was killed on the road by a Thalmor justiciar with no warning. After that, she tried to continue running the store, but she felt too alone and isolated in Riverwood without Halbjorn or her parents. So she gathers up some supplies and hits the road by herself to earn some coin and try to run away from grief.

She ends up mistakenly captured by the empire (cue “hey you you’re finally awake”) and after the dragon attack escapes with Ralof. She runs to Whiterun to tell Jarl balgruuf what happens.

It’s not until she arrives that she realizes that she has lost all of her possessions and money with the exception of a few items she had on her person, so she can’t afford to go to the inn. But Aela happens to be there when she talks to Balgruuf, and invites her to Jorrvaskr for a rest.

Aeilif is reluctant, but ends up joining the companions, thinking it’s an easy way to keep traveling and making coin only with a bit more security. But the longer she’s there, the more she starts to care for her shield-siblings.

Things hit a turning point when she’s badly hurt on a mission to clear out some draugr. Farkas drags her all the way back to Jorrvaskr and they all go out of their way to help her recover and cheer her up. This is when she finally talks about being widowed, and when she realizes that she can open up to the companions, that they’re her family and they actually care about her.

All this time she is in fact the LDB but I think it takes her quite a while to acknowledge and pursue it. When she does, she’s supported and encouraged by the other companions. I havent fleshed that story out much yet but hope to write that eventually! I have this backstory started as its own fic that I might actually post :)

Can’t wait to hear about your OCs! My asks and messages are always open if you want to dump more!

GOD poor girl. fucking thalmor justiciars. its really sweet that she learns to find family and companionship (heh) again!! (also thank you! i'm glad y'all enjoy my polls and art!! <3)

fact for fact: vedathyr wants to get married and have kids and such, but he's so socially awkward that he's given up on ever having either

[mavariel]

young nelyo

[marahsfandomloves]

Thank you @mavariel for the adorable piece of Taniiaae and Sinding and for reading their story!!!