#mirage monday

[mirage-daily]

starting the week off GOOD. happy mirage monday!!!!!!!

[infernalmellifera]

mirage monday: miscellaneous post :)

sorry no NEW mirage monday content today :( ive been super busy with my halloween costume & work that i havent had the time to assemble a new outfit for her. Instead, have some older (unedited) never before seen pics! mirage monday should resume as normal in november ~!

[realspartavp]

Is It Just A Mirage 🕌🌅

[cyberrkid]

miroah mondays ?

[fernsensei]

i'm finally feeling better!!! here's victory v1

[textsfromcybertron]

(404): We still on for Manwhore Monday?

[slutnali]

She’s fucking stupid 😭😭😭😭 (I love her)

[ask-the-royal-absol]

*The aura that surrounded Destino’s body began to fade into themselves, cream and green fur becoming white and grey. Claws became visible and everything appeared as it normally would. Destino gave themselves a thorough check over, seeing if any strand of fur was out of place.

Destino: Told you it wouldn’t be much of a challenge. Guess I’m just a natural at this whole “illusion thing”.

[master-hekates-ceremonials]

#LandscapeMonday

[largemandrill]

Trying to find Individuality in the Named Rises

There are many towers that decorate the Lands Between. These four are named after individuals we’ll never be able to meet. I’ll be going over Oridy, Tetsu, Mirage, and Lenne’s rises here in as much detail as I can muster. There’s interesting narratives told in these towers that I think is ignored by the community as a whole.

(Also I will refrain from mentioning the puzzle for each rise unless I find it interesting enough to mention, go to Fextra if you’re stuck on these)

Oridy’s Rise- Weeping Peninsula Getting the boring one out of the way

This is the first rise most players come across (me included) so there isn’t too much special with this place. It’s the standard straight up with a ladder rise that makes up a majority of the rises in the game. Even so, it can work as a solid base line for what to expect from every other rise. That being small mechanism littering the floor, boxes of glintstone, books decorating the upper walls, the works. Oridy’s Rise also features something I find interesting due to how commonly repeated it is

this painting in the top level:

A painting of a tower base that I could not find for the LIFE of me. I’ve been unable to find it, I’ve a few culprits: Tower of Return, or mayhap the tower on the west side of southern Liurnia. That’s not what matters about this prop though; what does is the fact that it’s a painting in the first place, a landscape to be specific. Which brings me to-

Tetsu’s Rise- Upper Liurnia Lake A timid painter

This has to be one if my favorite single tower rises in the game, it tells you so much about the sorcerer who inhabited it with props alone. The Rise tells of a painter who viewed glintstone as a secondary hobby to their art. Their paintings cover both the walls (and floors) of the rise

Each of the paintings depicted here were the most interesting to me, for their implications are astounding! I’ll go through them in order:

Mystery Shack: Much like the tower base in the Oridy painting, I’ve searched desperately for where this shack could be located, only to come to no concise answer. It may be the artist’s shack but based on the wooded area it could also be the revengers shack. (The conifers imply the location to be Liurnia)

Snowy Valley: It’s said that the sorcerers are decent from the Astrologers on the mountaintops. This may be Tetsu’s painting of their ancestral home. I’ve yet to try and find this area but it could be from the northern mountain tops of the giants near Heretical Rise (which will be explored in the next post I do on this)

Yeah that’s Stormveil: I get why Testu would paint this, it’s a beautiful castle when it comes to architecture. I believe this to have been painted where the Margit fight to be

The paintings in the other Rises have lead me to believe (and this is very much a headcanon) that maybe Tetsu believed that their art, while not precious enough for royal halls, gifted their work to their fellow sorcerers as an act of good will

Mirage Rise- Bower of Bounty An Odd One Out

Much like the name suggests, this rise is one that you must make reappear by completing its puzzle. The specific spells you obtain are two Sellian Sorceries that make you or your weapon invisible, which makes this tower’s location quite a marvel to me

What truly makes this Tower special is that its owner is still inside:

I mean he’s dead. But he’s here.

The body here is special also because it holds a very rare item when it comes to overworld pick-ups, the slumbering egg. This egg is an owl egg that will never hatch, it is only used to craft one type of item; sleep resisting strips of meat. And you know what area very close to this tower had a cut quest line that centred around Saint Trina?

In that little crevice there an unused NPC named Rico, a worshipper of Saint Trina, resided there in a shack. These items feel related in some way to me, but I’m going to move on now so this doesn’t become another Miquella conspiracy post, sorry.

Lenne’s Rise- West Dragonbarrow A Tragedy in all but Name

This Rise is unique from all others in the game for one simple reason, the puzzle never completes itself. You have to jump via spiritspring onto a balcony that will let you break into the rest of the rise. Unlike the Heretical rise, however, the seal never breaks when you do this; represented by the broken imp statue near the front entrance. Why is that? Because the seal isn’t meant to keep you out, its means to keep the rot out.

Inside the tower, the floor is covered in the aftermath of an intellectual scrambling through their entire repertoire for an solution

Books scatter the floor, practically replacing the tiles in their abundance. Whoever Lenne was, they appeared to have been looking for a way out after the scarlet rot reached the dragonbarrow. Tragically, downstairs may be what remains of the proud sorcerer who coveted this amount of knowledge…

A graven mass, the result of mixing several sorcerers into one ball of wretched horror. Lenne may not specifically be in the mass, but they may have produced it as a last ditch effort to find a way out. Once you defeat the mass, the door becomes more apparent. Blocking the door are glintstone that have been tinted red by the rot that they’re blocking from entering

The glintstone is also spent beyond use, barely hanging on to the seal that is meant to permanently block access to the rise. There’s a deep tragedy that we’ve arrived far too late to prevent. A story of a man going mad trying to live the worst natural disaster that has ever hit their nation.

Going into the unique construction of this Rise compared to the three we have listed here, Lenne has a much more complex tower than their associates

The rise is split into four sections, and has an elevator instead of the standard ladder we’ve seen up to this point. I believe this to represent a higher status among the sorcerers. Lenne may have had actual importance in their field.

Last thoughts

I find all of these rises interesting on their own merits. I would like to believe that each one of these has their own story in the actual lore, but I understand if some of these are simple window dressing used to make getting memory stones more interesting.

[potatoesandsunshine]

when i finish a season of friends at the table it's like i need to just sit for a good few days w that. no new media can be experienced i just had a big meal i need to digest

[mirage-daily]

it’s so awesome that it’s mirage monday two days in a row

Might i introduce you to. mirage tuesday

[infernalmellifera]

girl get up its mirage monday

its also 9/11 , happy 9/11 to those who celebrate

[realspartavp]

Daughter Of No One🦅

[mashmouths]

i ❤️ alcohol to be so honest

[thecollectorsbase]

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