#necromancer!Lucas

[thedeadthree]

𝐃𝐑𝐀𝐆𝐎𝐍 𝐀𝐆𝐄: 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐕𝐄𝐈𝐋𝐆𝐔𝐀𝐑𝐃 ➸ irulanne . the rook .

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[needleanddead]

here is who i think my ocs would romance and what they would choose to play as in bg3 btw;

constance: romances shadowheart, naturally. sees a pretty lady and is immediately like. yeah thats the one. also plays as a high elf paladin, oath of devotion because she thinks its romantic but definitely ends up an oathbreaker

cass: really think he's predictable and would romance astarion unfortunately. sees too much of himself in him. plays a lolth-sworn drow rogue (assassin subclass).

teddy: absolutely romances halsin i don't know what to tell you. is actually really good at video games and probably also romanced karlach in a save or two too. plays a human bard if he's Playing Himself but has several saves with characters he's made up who are more Gaming-Focussed.

rose: gets decision paralysis between romancing gale and wyll but unlike teddy is really not good enough at video games to have more than one save. lets teddy choose and he chooses gale for them. plays a halfling cleric (living the absolute opposite of their real life and plays life domain with selune as their deity)

percy: full of himself, romances gale too bc he approves of gale the most (and also tara). plays a tiefling warlock bound to the great old one.

van: cant play video games technology goes fucky around him. would probably also romance halsin. wood elf druid.

lucas: lol can u imagine

[vyncentevelyn]

I had a dream. And now it is quickly mutating into an obsession.

Sweet, bubbly, beautiful Chrissy. Just as magical as she is in every bright happy way. Except, she’s a necromancer.

Innocently, bringing dead animals back to life. A dead robin, who now sings sweet shadowy songs outside her window at night. A cat she found hit by a car who hides in her closet while she is at school. A mouse she found in her basement caught in a trap, who lives in the air ducts of her bedroom. A dead bee she found in her window sill that floats around her garden at night.

She doesn’t really think twice about it. Until a haunting clock starts chiming and a rasping voice keeps asking for a body…

[stygicniron]

detectivechandler asked:

“For once in your life, would you please just listen to me?!”

Meme That I Am Too Lazy to Find the Link For -- @detectivechandler

"And are you going to listen to me?" Nico snapped back, dark eyes meeting the detective's easily. It wasn't like he could take the detective to the graveyard to show him exactly what was going on. The Mist was too thick and despite everything, or at least as far as Nico could tell, the guy was depressingly mortal.

But people were dying, and the dead already hung so thick around London it was like a second mist. The atmospheric kind, not the monster-hiding magical time. "I'm not just saying this to live out every goth's dreams," he said with an eye roll. "You need me there too," he insisted, settling his jaw a little before he continued. "London has a necromancer."

[bossuary]

FIC: The Demon (ao3 link)

Rating: T or G, idk Fandom: Dragon Age: The Veilguard Pairing: Lucanis Dellamorte, Emmrich Volkarin Tags: m/m, pining, age difference, height difference, death, Nice Necromancer, Shit Assassin, romantic inexperience, a touch of hand kink, a smidge of spirit/demon kink?, a bit of intellect diddling, mary kirby is to blame Word Count: 1020 Summary: Lucanis discovers that insomnia in the Lighthouse is not a solo activity. Emmrich doesn't sleep much, either. And he's very interested in...things. Notes: MIGHT KEEP GOING AND MAKE SOME FILTH would that be...of interest to anyone?

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“Oh dear. People truly call you that?” Emmrich’s voice was tinged with scorn and scandal. “To your face?”

“Some do, yes,” Lucanis said with a nod.

He smiled at the sensitivities of Westerners. In all the pages of his life, all the way back to when he had been Luca, demon was the least of the epithets he had endured.

“Charming,” Emmrich murmured.

The moka pot burbled on the stove. Its tin lid shimmied. They seemed illusions of warmth, meant to comfort mortal senses. Lucanis watched for steam, felt the dreamlike throb of the Lighthouse, and was grateful that it didn’t itch. He poured a short cup for himself, and one for his fellow sleepless companion.

Emmrich thanked him, and took his cup to the table. Lucanis plucked a lidded bowl from the cupboard, and spooned sugar into his coffee. More than he should have, less than he truly wanted, always.

“It’s a colorful appellation for a man of your profession,” Emmrich mused from his seat at the cozy kitchen table. “Tell me, is it…an accurate one?”

Lucanis tensed. Granules of sugar skittered across the counter. This wasn’t the time to work out the semantics of what he was. Not in the small hours, ragged with insomnia. Not in this place between places. Not with the death mage. He dropped the sugar spoon into its bowl and gave Emmrich a smile as brittle as his cup.

“It’s just a word,” Lucanis replied, fighting to keep things light. “It’s no different than assassin. Or necromancer .”

Emmrich nodded as Lucanis spoke, cradling his cup so the steam whispered up along his face.

“Mhm. Or, mage killer, for example,” he said, sipping his coffee around a tease so slight it took a demon to catch it.

Lucanis inhaled and looked away. “Ah. About that…”

Emmrich held up a hand. It would have been a patronizing gesture, had the old man’s smile been less disarming.

“Please. To serve death is to respect it utterly, wouldn’t you agree?” he said, holding Lucanis’ gaze over the rim of his cup. “I could never be afraid of it.”

Or of you.

“Uh. Well said, I think,” Lucanis offered, and lifted his cup in salute.

The placket of Emmrich’s shirt curled open at the throat, Lucanis noted, and the sleeves were rolled neatly to his elbows. He hadn’t just been sleepless, tonight, he had been working. Was there a tattoo above the sculpted forearm, or just a shadow?

Lucanis pushed past it. He savored his coffee. Velvety and dark, with a cherry tang. It anchored him in this unmoored place. Across the room, Emmrich appeared equally soothed. The silence they shared between fragrant sips eventually thinned. Emmrich cleared his throat.

“The word ‘demon’ is derived from daemonium, in Tevene,” he began, and rose from the table as if giving a private lecture.

If only Lucanis had been any kind of scholar.

He sipped his coffee and listened, and caught himself noticing useless things: the engaging rhythm of Emmrich’s accent, stray locks of silver that fell over his forehead, his hands. Mostly, damningly, those hands.

“For centuries, the Alamarri in the Frostbacks used an ideogram to refer to what one might call a demon today. It was a fish hook, rather a clever shape to describe such a complex being, or a complex relationship to one.” He came to stand a few feet from Lucanis at the counter, easing his lean shape against it, holding his cup like a precious artifact. “It looked…not unlike that symbol, there.”

Emmrich gave a subtle nod, his eyes fixed on Lucanis’ belt. Among the other medallions was one etched with a soot-black hook. Reflexively, Lucanis looked down at himself, and heat bloomed in his face.

Made you look.

Emmrich’s interest was so present, his gaze as deft as the finger of a jeweler, that Lucanis half expected to see the medallion move as if lifted by a spell. There was no itch, however. What Lucanis felt was purely the magic of the man’s attention.

An itch by another name. To name it, he would be a straw doll striking a match.

He should have spoken by now. Emmrich, patient as the grave, used one of those elegant fingers to touch the scattered granules of sugar on the counter. Maybe it was the Lighthouse, or some other ancient charm, that freed Lucanis to imagine he could take Emmrich’s finger between his lips and have all the sugar he liked.

A swift pang of loneliness stole his rising heat, though, and stilled his hand as it drifted to the medallion. If Illario were here he would mortify Lucanis with salacious suggestion and vulgarity until misery became another name for family.

But Illario wasn’t there.

“For us, this does not represent demons,” Lucanis said, finally, and grimaced.

Emmrich gave him a confused look.

Bravissimo, Professor Dellamorte, very smart.

Lucanis drained the remaining coffee he would have preferred to sip, pushed his cup away, and nodded to Emmrich.

“Goodnight, Volkarin.”

He retreated to the dark hall beyond the kitchen light, but Emmrich’s voice stopped him.

“I pity the incurious souls of the world, those bereft of a willing heart, for there is such pleasure in knowledge. They won’t know the meaning of a word, or the nature of the creature it describes.” He strode to the edge of the lamplight, hands clasped behind his back, and fixed Lucanis with another arresting look. “A carelessness that too often extends, also, to people.”

Lucanis swallowed. The shadows seemed a meager protection, now.

“Meaning?”

With a smirk and a flick, Emmrich doused the kitchen lamps. Lucanis felt a brief scratch behind his eyes.

“Only that whatever I may be called by others,” said Emmrich, joining Lucanis in the shadows, “I wish you to know that I am not a careless man.”

Lucanis said nothing. He froze as if a great light had spotted him where he shouldn’t be.

“Goodnight, Master Dellamorte,” said Emmrich, warmly. “Sleep well.”

As he watched Emmrich disappear into the guest wing, Lucanis had a single, desolate thought in reply.

Not even when I’m dead.

[aesopcatt]

Idv Characters I Write For

Emily Dyer  Emma Woods Naib Subedar Martha Behamfil Tracy Reznik Fiona Gilman Vera Nair Kevin Ayuso Margaretha (Margie) Zelle Eli Clark Aesop Carl Norton Campbell Patricia Dorval Mike Morton Jose Baden Demi Bourbon Victor Grantz  Andrew Kreiss Luca Balsa Melly Plinius Edgar Valden  Ganji Gupta  Anne Lester Emil Ada Mesmer Orpheus Joker (Weepy) Luchino Diruse Qi Shiyi Frederick Kreiburg Alice DeRoss Lilly Barriere (Platonic) Matthias Czernin Florian Brand Violetta  Michiko (platonic) Wu Chang Joseph Desaulniers Mary Antonio Galatea Claude Grace Alva Lorenz Ithaqua Sangria Fools Gold Lady Truth Mr. Inference Siegfried Melodis (Noir) White Gatto Desire Melodis (D.M) Necromancer Narcissus Lady Bella Kroto Ronald Of Nice Paranormal Detective Lockheart Sway Tuberose Datura Rosemary Phantom Sail

I write ships and x reader

I also write for other skins for characters

I write Ada and Emil together and separate 

I write for any ship that isn’t a pro-ship!!!!

[mordremrose]

Bite sized lore dumps for my 3 thieves, 3/5 necromancers and one (1) elementalist to fill out the “human in game but not in lore” page! Blorbos go brrrr

Transcriptions of their blurbs under the cut bc I know what my handwriting is like i promise

Dyraoi: She/her, Nightmare Courtier— Lady of Decay, minion-mancer

Briefly left her duties with the Court to study Orr

Her most beloved pet is a recreation of Zhaitan’s dragon champions, based on Tequatl and Blightgast

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Rhialora: she/her, spector— “The Viscount”, Order of Whispers agent in the Nightmare Court, while undercover in the Court she grew attached to those loyal to her.

Post HoT, she welcomes [both] Mordrem and Courtiers to her side to heal and recover

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Jian Cain: he/him, Soundless Deadeye

Makes a living helping [around] a small fishing village, though he spends almost all his time either in or on the water

Vaikeres: she/they, Dreamer (sorta), Harbinger

An incredibly skilled and reckless alchemist, Vaikeres once created a potion that reversed a death. She has not been able to recreate it

Joint: seaweed/kelp twins— Since Jian cut himself off from their shared dream, the twins have steadily drifted further and further from the Grove

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Countess Andreas: she/her, scourge— A powerful and respected Orrian necromancer who avoided the same fate as the rest of her people by trapping her own soul in an amulet��� or so she claims

Niawah: catalyst, he/they — A young Largos in self-imposed exile on the surface after the death of his older sister on a hunt

Luca Anatole: she/her, daredevil — A young Shrine Guardian who bound herself to a sickly human girl to save her life. The lines between them have blurred into one mischievous mind

[do-you-ship-this-taz-ship]

Propaganda: Kravitz literally cannot help but fuck his bounties it’s like hes contractually obligated to. and Lucas is also just especially annoying in a fuckable way i think they could fuck nasty style before they part ways after the whole crystal kingdom thing. Lucas would be into it cuz he lowkey likes the thrill of fucking the guy that could totally throw him into necromancer prison

Submit a ship through the form or in my askbox!

[six-improbable-things]

Some examples/name stories under the cut

My dnd characters Odynia and Morana both names (including middle/last if they have them) whose meanings are related to their character/story.

Odynia, who is a Vengeance paladin in a greek-inspired campaign got her name from a greek root word meaning pain/grief, and her middle name Adrasteia being another name for Nemesis, who is her goddess, and her surname (Erinyes) is in reference to the Furies.

Morana's first name means death, plague, and is the name of a slavic goddess of death and winter. Morana is a necromancer who hails from a frozen country. Her surname, Novak, is also slavic in origin and was traditionally given to someone who was new in town. She does happen to be new-ish in town when the game begins.

Meanwhile Rook (dnd) and Fallon (original writing) both accidentally got names that fit their characters/stories.

I picked the name Fallon for my queen OC randomly, and only later did I discover that it means leader.

I can't remember how I chose Rook's name, but I know it had nothing to do with chess, yet chess symbolism ended up becoming a big thing for him recently.

My most recent dnd two-shot character is a mix of "it just sounded nice" and "has a meaning relevant to their character". Her first and middle names (Luca James) were just chosen because they sounded nice. Her surname, Keeley, both sounded nice and also is a bit of a joke because the keel is the lowest part of a ship's hull, and Luca is a pirate.

[noxcorvorum]

Do you have any horror podcast recs

I liked tma and old gods of Appalachia but I'm caught up and need to BINGE

hello! youve come to the right place :)

Ghost Wax feels kindof similar to tma, especially tma season 1, with the main character (Owen Voncid) taking statements of people who've encountered the supernatural. However, Owen is a necromancer (the last Reclaimer!) who briefly reawakens the dead so that they can tell their final story, and all of the statement givers are dead. He also has an assistant, Luca Eso, who made the wax cylinders that he uses (he's been around for a very long time, and the remembrances are beginning to slip from his brain) and is a pop culture nerd. They work with a seer, Pip (or Phillipa Le Fay, to respect the stagecraft), who uses her grandmother's tarot cards.

All three of these people work for the Order of Hamsa, which fights the supernatural. Hamsa are incredibly powerful entities who have magic such as geomancy and necromancy, and usually inhabit a human body, though generally not for an incredibly long amount of time. There are several Hamsa in this podcast, including Owen. Owen has remained in his body for much longer than usual. Some other characters I enjoyed are Emea, the apiarist as well as Owen's best friend and a Hamsa, Cosa, the android librarian/archivist, and Azem, who is very thoroughly haunting the narrative. Don't look away.

I absolutely love this podcast, its easily in my top three. There's several incantations/spells which are so fun to me, found family, and really fun sound effects. It has 46 episodes as well as 2 Tales from the Vault, which are filled with smaller stories (I submitted a story to the second one!), there's content on patreon, and season 2 is in production.

Malevolent is about Arthur Lester, a 1930s private investigator from Arkham, Massachusetts, and the voice in his head and his eyes. Episode 1 opens with Arthur coming to on the floor of his office, suddenly blind, a strange entity speaking to him, and his business partner dead on the floor. Arthur and John, as the entity comes to be named, must now figure out how to navigate the horrors, try to find a way to separate themselves, and figure out where John came from. There's lots of cosmic horror/lovecraftian influences in here, and they have so many miles to go before they sleep.

There's a LOT of audio gore/squishy flesh sounds/Arthur screaming because the horrors love ripping into him, so if that's no good then this podcast is not for you. Some of the more eldritch characters also have voice filters, most notably John, which could make them hard to understand, though there are transcripts available. the plot can also be a little hard to follow sometimes.

I really enjoy this podcast, I'm currently relistening to it and having a great time. It's kindof forced family? because Arthur and John physically cannot get away from each other and yet they Have To communicate. They're so so much "its rotten work" "not to me, not if its you" AND "its rotten work" "especially to me, especially if its you, ill do it but christ alive". It's currently 42 episodes at usually 40ish minutes each, and still going, with new episodes releasing mostly monthly. There's also one voice actor, everyone sounds similar because it's the same guy.

Hello from the Hallowoods is a post apocalyptic show about identity, grief, family, and survival. It's formatted as a radio broadcast by an entity named Nikignik, who narrates everything. There is one voice actor for the majority of this show (save for the occasional character speaking outside of Nikignik's broadcast), and they do an amazing job, especially considering the amount of characters.

Some of the characters I really enjoy are Diggory Graves, a nonbinary frankenstein's monster with knife hands and a leather jacket, Percy Reed, a transmasc piano ghost, Riot Maidstone, the lesbian punk daughter of a rockstar, Olivier Song, a genderfluid cloud witch, Ray, a ghost possessing an automobile, Moth Scarberry (moth/mothself), Ray's adopted kid, Walt Pensieve, the asexual groundskeeper of the Hallowoods, and Polly, a devil in a floral suit. Some of the antagonists include Lady Ethel Mallory, a gaslight gatekeep girlboss of a marketing specialist for an evil corporation and the Instrumentalist, a religious fanatic who keeps killing people and turning them into instruments. Darker than your dreams, and farther north than you remember, the Hallowoods loom.

Each episode has a different theme based on the title (such as Keys, Names, and Bones), and is split into several different stories that follow different characters as Nikignik jumps around. There's not very many voice filters, because Nikignik is doing the voices himself, though I think there are a few, and transcripts are available. There's 145 episodes at usually 30 to 50 minutes each, and a new one releases every wednesday.

Sidenote, the Instrumentalist is *really* religious as well as homophobic and transphobic, and he regularly misgenders/deadnames a trans main character. He only exists in the show for about 50 episodes, and definitely gets what he deserves.

The White Vault is a found footage podcast with the first two seasons comprising a repair team's trip to Outpost Fristed in Svalbard. They go up to repair some damaged equipment as well as look at some weird readings, and then have to wait out a massive storm. They find a hatch in the auxiliary bunker, and explore the tunnels beneath to find a village beneath the ice. Theres Graham Casner, the survival guide, Walter Heath, the repair technician, Karina Shumacher-Weiß, the geologist, Rosa De La Torre, the medic, and Jónas Þórirsson, the representative of the company sending them. Travel is not advised.

I listened to the bulk of the first 2 seasons at 2 am while playing powerwash simulator, and it made me so incredibly anxious that I had to have my back to a wall *in the game* so nothing could sneak up one me. Highly recommend. There's so much fear and helplessness surrounding what could be hiding in the storm and in the ice, and I absolutely love the concept for the antagonists.

Seasons 3 and 4 are about a different team in Patagonia, season 5 checks back in at Svalbard, and season 6 is somewhere else entirely. 3-4 are pretty alright in my opinion, maybe a bit repetitive as it follows a similar pattern to the first two seasons, but I don't hate them. I think 5 is pretty good, though it has my favorite character in it, so, you know. I think 6 goes in a bit of a different direction, though I'm not caught up so I can't really comment on it. Seasons 1 and 2 are absolutely stunning, though.

The creators and cast of seasons 1-2 also have a horror dnd podcast called Dark Dice. I must admit I haven't finished the first campaign, though I really liked what I did listen to. I'm told the second campaign has Jeff Goldblum in it, and has 2 different parties with one hunting the other, though I haven't listened to it yet, so take that as you will.

Jar of Rebuke follows Dr. Jared Hel, a cryptid scientist with amnesia in a small Midwestern town, and perhaps closer to the cryptids than they realize. They're also immortal, and (for a reason I don't remember at this particular moment) he has to wear a key around his neck, and never take it off. I'm not caught up, though I really liked what I did listen to. There's lots of fun cryptids and supernatural happenings, such as Jared getting a hellhound as a pet. The episodes are about 10-20 minutes each, and it's ongoing.

As someone on tiktok so aptly said, if you have trust issues with your therapist, you probably shouldn't listen to this podcast. Jared is manipulated by their therapists, and we sometimes hear them talk about him like he's a test subject or creature, not a person.

Do You Copy is another found footage podcast surrounding Redtail National Park, which more or less contains an area called the Dead Zone, in which technology doesn't work and other spooky stuff happens. The Dead Zone has a possible imminent ecological disaster, and though the park is evacuated until the emergency is over, there are a couple people still inside. These include two ghost hunters, a hiker and their dog, and two park rangers who have been instructed to stay inside in hopes of hearing from the three others. I found the Dead Zone and what lies inside VERY interesting, both from a horror perspective and a speculative biology/ecology perspective. It is finished at 14 episodes.

The Hyacinth Disaster is a space horror found footage podcast, and easily in my top three (the other one on that list is tma). It is set in 2151, when Jupiter and Mars have been colonized, and the asteroid belt is being mined for resources. There are two main mining companies in the show, Halaesus Mining Co in Lagrange 4, Greek objects, and Lykaeon Minerals Corporation in Lagrange 5, Trojan objects. The Corvus, a ship contracted to Halaesus and ordered to survey and harvest an asteroid in Lagrange 5, was captured by Lykaeon and held for ransom, and Halaesus denies the ransom broadcast is true, unwilling to pay. The skeleton crew of the MRS Hyacinth has gone rogue in the slowly dwindling time limit to survey a possibly incredibly valuable asteroid, hoping to pay the ransom themselves. But they are 6 people manning a ship meant for 53, and there are so many things to go wrong.

Conlin Hynes is the captain of the Hyacinth and is a good friend of Ember Roth, the captain of the Corvus. Con isn't the greatest captain, not by a long shot, but he's incredibly loyal, and maintains a talented crew. Famke Hynes, or Blue, is Con's sister, and the captain of her own ship, the Sibirica. She would have been the captain of the Hyacinth had she won the rock paper scissors match when they first bought it. She's returned to the Hyacinth to run comms for her brother as they bring Ember and her crew home, and to blow things up along the way.

Finch is Con's wife, and doing an admirable job at being an one-person engineering and seismology team. She's doing her absolute best with the equipment they have that corporate refuses to replace or reapir. Dreadnought in exosuit 2 is by far the youngest of the crew at 24. He's a surveyor, and in fact surveyed Saniss 130991, the very rock they're at, himself. He saw the potential and purposefully misfiled it, hoping to make a bigger profit if corporate didn't know about it, and told Finch, who told Con, and now they're all here.

Grimm is in exo 4, one that he bought himself and has carefully maintained. He refuses to tell the others what he's named it. He moves around a lot, as he gets bored of jobs quickly. Seems like a hardass, but he's actually a pretty nice guy. Argus in exo 7 is one of Con's best friends, having worked with him and Grimm on several jobs. He's a pretty optimistic guy, and follows Grimm as he moves from job to job. His lucky object of choice is a surprise tool that will help us later.

There's lots of angst and horror but also lots of comedy. I've seen a couple reactions that thought there was too much comedy for the situation, but personally I really enjoyed it. It's 7 episodes long, at about 2.5 hours total. There's a lot of sound effects for the ship controls that could potentially be irritating, Dreadnought's dialogue is full of static and sometimes difficult to understand because his radio is partially broken, and there's a loud, extended, high pitched static sound often in the first few episodes (It's when they activate the squealer device, it lasts for about 10-15 seconds each time and there's a countdown from 5 right before), so if you have issues with mechanical/static sound effects, this probably isn't for you. There's transcripts for episodes 1-4 on the website, along with a database of more information about the world.

I'm so so normal about this podcast, I have a note full of facts and trivia (Ember was voted into captaincy by her crew, and according to dreadnought, the ratio of greek names to jovian objects is about 1 in 50,000), my senior quote was from here, I've relistened to it so many times. I cannot recommend this enough.

Among the Stars and Bones is another found footage space horror, but this time it's about anthropology and alien technology. The format is mission files being sent back to the company from a large team investigating an abandoned alien settlement. There's about 7 different perspectives, one from each branch of the team (xenoanthropology, IT, etc).

I really enjoyed it the first time I listened, there were a lot of good anxious moments. A couple of my favorite characters are Dr. Celia Pannella, who heads the xenoanthropology section, and Ben Kelleher, who heads the xenoarchaeology section. I found the alien science/speculative biology really really interesting.

Given you liked tma I'm assuming you know of The Magnus Protocol, but if you don't, it's pretty much Magnus but in a civil service job instead of archiving. It has such characters as Colin the longsuffering IT guy, Alice, who is coping with the horrors by ignoring them, Needles, and Chester and Norris, two text-to-speech voices who we have definitely never heard before (/s).

It has 10 episodes plus an Easter/April Fools special, and it's on a break until April 11th.

Mabel is a podcast about ghosts, families, secrets, and connections. Anna Limon is a carer who has been hired to take care of Mabel Martin's mother Sally. The house is odd, the house is alive, and the house is hungry. Anna is unraveling a mystery as fast as she can find the thread, and Mabel, having grown up half-feral and half-faeral, is somewhere under the Hill.

I will admit I haven't finished this show, but I would definitely recommend it. I actually had to restart it because I wasn't expecting to be as invested as I was. It is very much a faerie story, with riddles and all.

The Silt Verses is a story about faith, and what people will do to keep it. It follows Sister Carpenter and Brother Faulkner as they travel upriver, looking for revelations of their outlawed god, the Trawler-Man. There's a whole cast of gods, many of which are capitalistic, and most of the ones that are not have been outlawed. Some examples are the Trawler-Man of the river, the Waxen Scrivener of decay and books, the Saint Electric of radio and electricity, and the Cairn Maiden of graves and death.

I'd say it has semi similar vibes to Old Gods, mostly with the many deities and monsters. I'm only about halfway through it, but I'd definitely recommend it.

Hope you find something you enjoy!

[thedeadthree]

thinking thoughts thinking thoughts thinking thoughts th—

what if irulanne was from the same clan as m*erril but raised a city elf since she was found in that crypt

what if she’s from the al*erion on her moms side and a l*avellan on her dads

what if lhysas father (an assassin just like his daughter lhysaa <33) had allies in his days as an assassin a pariah of his family

what if he wasn’t the only one that was betrayed when a thing went topsy turvy (will be getting to how that went down eventually !!!!!)

what if lhysas father moved on from lúthien the mother of the inky and her brother (she sort of went *poof* for reasons of her own that golly i need to write all of this down jdnxgcg i mean tungle post is a good place to start dnbxgxg)

what if unbeknownst to irulanne her and lhys and feanorian are half sibs what if her mother gave birth to iru and hid her in the crypt what if they found her and thought her to not have magic at first so she was raised by the elder of the alienage. (her mother was likely to have passed on as well poor iru 🥀🥲)

what if they kept an eye anyway knowing the bloodline she hailed from (lonans line lhysa and feanorians line has a STORY if there ever was one i will yell about it soon prommy !!!!!) and low and behold none too long later her magic manifested what if they waited a while more until she built her network of little creatures she reanimated that relayed her things and gaggle of friends what if she had a kingdom of her own and she refused

what if she was thrown under a bloody ritual to wipe her memories so that all she knew was the sisters a sort of sect of necromancers within the mourners that had their own ideas and machinations and saw her as their heir of sorts??

what if it was like she was to be some sort of lich queen…thing(?) ruling the living and the dead from the necropolis and that it went topsy turvy (to irulannes benefit ubeknownst to her at the time!!) when the thing happened and that whole her having a mage heir to rule was merely a side thing that if it happened cool but the main goal was the lich queen thing.

what if feanorian was in the area for a reason or another (maybe i can think of that with emms episode !!) he’s looking for the rook on behalf of lhysa who has her ex to thwart/save and a demigod daughter to raise etc etc (things i am planning to yell about later oo there’s so much to yell about with lhysa but this is a iru lore essay <3)

what if the prodigy to gifted kid burnout between lucanne (heir to bloodline etc etc luca and child of nothing destined to inherit everything irulanne) made me insane <3

[stained-glass-cicada]

God I find Voncid facinating

He sees so much death and when everything happened with mayberry I sort of expected him to? Take it a little easier

And I suppose that's unfair they were clearly close, I mean she called him Owen which very few people in the ardent do

And it's just Facinating that a man so surrounded by death has literally no concept of accepting it as a part of life

He really struggled with Mayberry, he fought to keep the observer alive, he wont let go of his Sumerian spouse despite it being fucking 2023, and to top it all off theres this thing he's doing with the babysitter's spirit and the big secret mission that he hasnt even explained to Luca

I dont think He's like Charlie where the power or fascination with the dead call to him, I think he is a necromancer precisely so he can do things like what he did with Pip, he's a necromancer fighting death

[mateushonrado]

Notable details on these four characters

Status Post #10998: Now that Star Wars: The Bad Batch is over after a three-season run with a satisfying conclusion along with a flashforward epilogue (not unlike in Rebels) focusing on Omega and Hunter with the former accepting General Syndulla's offer to join the Rebel Alliance as a fighter pilot which hints at a possible appearance for her in future media like either The Mandalorian season 4, Ahsoka season 2 or something else, I just like to cover on the four Project Necromancer test subjects who had a high M-count like Omega in terms of their alien races and could make an appearance in a future instalment, given that they survived the events of the finale.

Bayrn (voiced by Shelby Young) is an infant Tarlafar male who appeared in the third and final season as a recurring character. Tarlafars debuted in Solo: A Star Wars Story with the inclusion of Wamoth (played by Warwick Davis).

Jax (voiced by Ivan Sinitsin) is a young Mirialan male who appeared in the third and final season as a recurring character. Notable Mirialans include Luminara Unduli, her former Padawan turned Inquisitor in training Barriss Offee, Synaran San and Vernestra Rwoh (who will appear in The Acolyte played by Rebecca Henderson) along with that he's one of the notable male Mirialans depicted outside comics and novels with examples from the latter two being Aven from Knights of the Old Republic, Merven Getter, who appeared in the High Republic series of the current continuity.

Eva (voiced by Olwyn M. Whelan) is a young Iktotchi female who appeared in the third and final season as a recurring character. Notable Iktotchis include Jedi Master Saesee Tiin and Darth Cognus, who herself appeared in the Old Republic series from the Legends continuity.

And last but not least, Sami (voiced by Naiya Singh Padilla) is a young Pantoran female who appeared in the third and final season as a recurring character. Notable Pantorans include Riyo Chuchi, Notluwiski Papanoida (who was in fact played by creator George Lucas in Revenge of the Sith) and his daughter Chi Eekway.

[longbobmckenzie]

Here are a few (haha) of my favourite oneshots in the fandom! This is by no means exhaustive, as there are tons I either haven't read or just honestly don't remember enough about. I definitely encourage everyone to dig through AO3 to find those hidden gems!

For chaptered fics, see my post here!

Henrik/MC

Christmas Timing by @mrsbsmooth - cute Christmas post-villa romance Just one more bad decision by @kittidot - post-villa second chance with a major role played by one of my own OCs Not Like I'm In Love With You by @queen-of-boops - cute friends-to-lovers Reaching The Peak by @thesepromises - Henrik and MC go climbing, then do some other activities Robin Hood Stole My Heart by @chroniccomicobsession - he stole mine too The Man From the Jungle by @mrsbsmooth - Disney-inspired

Bobby

Bittersweet by @blueberrycupcak3s - great if you love an unhappy/bittersweet ending (or Jake. or both) Dummies in Love series by losingface - series of villa and post-villa fics first and second chances by @lucolestead - S5 MC goes on Seb and Nicky's podcast and mentions someone she's got a crush on On Repeat by nutshikas - rent-free fic for me with Bobby in a villa time loop

(I feel like there should be more here tbh - there are so many great Bobby oneshots out there that I had to either keep this list short or make it way too long)

Henrik/Lucas

keep me warm by Orphan Account - post-villa Lucas struggling with his feelings for Henrik Lights, Cameras, Action… by @queen-of-boops - porn AU Sooner Than You'd Think by OverdressedandUnderwhelmed - snapshots of Henrik/Lucas in what very well could be canon The Alps by @mrsbsmooth - Lucas road-tripping through the Alps and meeting up with Henrik (inspired by story from the wedding episodes)

Bobby/Lucas

everything that glitters is moissanite by @mountainmanxoxo - Bobby fake dates someone to make Lucas jealous Rude Awakenings by @mountainmanxoxo - the OG Bobcas fic, I think? Wishful Drinking by @lucas-koh - enemies-to-lovers

Rarepairs, Threesomes & Moresomes

Filthy by @mrsbsmooth (Hamish/Andy/Marshall/MC) - foursome Men of Particular Interests by @mrsbsmooth (Noah/Lucas/Bobby) - threesome The (Ia)ins & Outs of Falling 4 You by @thoracic-orchid (Bruno/Narrator) - coworkers The Boys go on a trip by @mrsbsmooth (Lucas, Noah, Henrik, Tai, Bobby, Rocco, Gary iirc) - so much going on in this one, haha the gang bullies Henrik into a threesome by @mountainmanxoxo (Lucas/Henrik/MC) - as the title says This Momentary Blue by @sparxaf (Kassam/Felix) - the rarest of rarepairs, enemies-to-lovers, absolute must read We come in peace by @thoracic-orchid (Gary/Bobby) - aliens, bang-or-die, post-villa

Everyone Else

A Lifetime of Promises by @fuseboxmusebox (Seb) - cute friends-to-lovers Bitch by @thoracic-orchid (Jo) - what really happened on Jo/Rahim's date Golden Thread by @starsarestars (Arjun) - modern day Romeo and Juliet without the tragic ending Lucas Koh: An Erotic Life by @becangle, Jglbly934TXS (Lucas) - egotistical Lucas spoof Mean Boys by @thesepromises (Noah) - Mean Girls crossover Mer de Désir by @lucas-koh (Levi) - Levi as a French aristocrat So Good Staying Here by @sparxaf (Seb) - SEEEBBB Swimming Pool Deep by @thesepromises (Levi) - pre-villa Levi, please read The second life of Allegra Rossi by @bypine (Allegra) - vampires! Undead of Night by @queen-of-boops (Noah) - Noah as a necromancer

[bossuary]

FIClet: what but joy? (ao3 link)

INSPIRED BY THIS, by ex-textura

Rating: T Fandom: Dragon Age: The Veilguard Pairing: Lucanis Dellamorte x Emmrich Volkarin Tags: m/m, undifferentiated LUST, age difference, height difference, death, Nice Necromancer, Noble Assassin, sexual inexperience, a touch of hand kink, a smidge of spirit/demon kink, a bit of intellect diddling, older man seeks awkward hardbody with unprocessed childhood emotional abuse, also an animated skeleton is there Word Count: 616 Summary: Emmrich is a sensual man, and a thinker. Maker help the one on whom he thinks too long. Notes: that's so interesting emmrich talk a little bit more about luca's slutty waist. just whenever you have a minute.

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No one could accuse him of lacking imagination. Certainly not. 

To work in some of the darkest places in the world, one had to exercise creative thinking. And the years had taught Emmrich that a little fantasy went a long way in the dark, provided one was careful about potential observers from beyond the Veil.

Because the palace of Emmrich’s mind was brightly ornamented, it required substantial fortification. Protections which had never failed him, until now. Now, within the Lighthouse, the battlements around his imagination wobbled and creaked. Barriers once strong as dragon bone dissolved like sugar under the observation of a certain companion. One who had lately paid unmistakably non-imaginary attention to Emmrich.

“The assassin must be a fair dancer,” he said, and put aside the book he’d been cradling, unread, for an hour. “Don’t you think?”

Manfred paused in his work and tilted his head at Emmrich doubtfully. His crystalline eyes dimmed as if narrowed.

“Oh, come now. If he wanted me dead, precious little could stop him.”

Emmrich folded his hands in his lap, sank deeper into the chair, and gave himself to the fantasy which was already testing the doorknobs in his mind. 

Unstoppable. Yes, Lucanis was certainly that. Graceful. Enigmatic. Guileless–a rare charm, for a Crow. 

“Touchable,” he murmured to himself, with a crooked smile. “At least, one hopes.”

Did he hope for such a thing? Maker, yes. With the regularity of a cat at her bowl. That smile upon those particular lips, arranged atop that body, itself a promise and declaration of discipline written in muscle as hard as…he inhaled sharply. 

Emmrich very definitely, undeniably, and with cosmic thoroughness hoped to touch Lucanis Dellamorte.

read the rest of the small, mildly spicy meatball on ao3

[aesopcatt]

Masterlist!

Emily Dyer  Emma Woods Naib Subedar Martha Behamfil Tracy Reznik Fiona Gilman Vera Nair Kevin Ayuso Margaretha (Margie) Zelle - X Reader Headcanons (GN) Eli Clark Aesop Carl Norton Campbell Patricia Dorval Mike Morton Jose Baden Demi Bourbon Victor Grantz  Andrew Kreiss -Shy Reader (GN)(Platonic) Luca Balsa Melly Plinius

-Would you still love me if I was a worm? (GN reader) Edgar Valden  Ganji Gupta  Anne Lester Emil Ada Mesmer Orpheus

-Would you still love me If I was a worm (GN Reader) Joker (Weepy) -Shy Reader (GN)(Platonic) Luchino Diruse Qi Shiyi Frederick Kreiburg

-Would you still love me if I was a worm? (GN Reader) Alice DeRoss -Would you still love me if I was a worm? (GN Reader)

Lilly Barriere Matthias Czernin -Shy Reader (GN)(Platonic) Florian Brand Violetta  Michiko Wu Chang Joseph Desaulniers Mary Antonio Galatea Claude Grace Alva Lorenz Ithaqua Sangria Fools Gold Lady Truth Mr. Inference Siegfried Melodis (Noir) White Gatto Desire Melodis (D.M) Necromancer Lady Bella Kroto Ronald Of Nice Paranormal Detective Lockheart Sway Tuberose Datura Rosemary Phantom Sail