#nettle lore

[zurriko]

Grown up Nettle writes her diaries as a teenager, and Breeze criticizes his pupil for the ugly handwriting😆

[lagosbratzdoll]

Ryan did a bunch of interviews recently that I've been reading and I have some thoughts. You can find the interviews here and here.

There's a lot of terrible stuff in it but I don't have the time or inclination to bother with all that. I'm going to be focusing on two things he said in the interviews.

Starting with this from the House of the Dragon podcast which I've linked above.

In it, Ryan talks about why he decided to contrast the lives of Hugh Hammer and Ulf the White with the lives of the privileged Targaryens. It was fascinating to get a peek into his head.

Ryan reads a rapist and thinks "this is a person worth deepening. We need an in-depth exploration of what goes on in this rapists head. We need the audience to sympathise with them."

Which wouldn't be so bad on its face, there's always room to analyse a fictional rapist. The problem is that he then reads about a little Black girl who raised herself on a tiny island rising up to become a dragon rider on her own merit. A little girl whose Valyrian heritage is constantly debated and discounted. He reads that and decides that there's nothing worth exploring there. Her story isn't unique. She isn't unique. In fact, she's so common that while we adapt and humanise not one but two rapists, we're going to erase one Black girl and turn the other into everyone's punching bag.

Then I read his puff piece from Big Think.

This is a fascinating glimpse into his thought process. I read this and Ryan Condal's baffling decisions began to make a little more sense.

By his own admission, Ryan's ideal show is one where Black women are erased, flattened and ignored. He claims to write powerful women but we've not seen hide or hair of these women. In Ryan's show, nothing is ever deliberate and the women are largely passive participants in their own lives.

In Ryan's ideal show there's no room for a little black girl to claim a dragon with nothing but faith and her wits. In Ryan's ideal show we need all of the rapist men but the Black women are interchangeable AND replaceable.

In Ryan's ideal world, it is too much to ask that a Black girl be adored, have songs written about her and knights joust for her favour. In Ryan's ideal show, Black people aren't fully developed characters, they're props that he forgets about for episodes on end.

And that is why the show will continue to drop in ratings. When I saw the Nielsen numbers for the premiere, I laughed until I cried. The biggest streaming day ever for Max and they couldn't beat The Boys or Your Honour. The most recent numbers are even funnier.

But don't worry gang, House of the Dragon is doing great. It's now number three. It finally beat a four year old show! Everything is fine.

[galacticghoste]

I need Nettle lore, yesterday

Idk what u mean by yesterday sorry

BUT I can give u some lore hehe on Nettle

(I'm so gonna lose track of all these worlds, probably change stuff later idk)

With the help of Tails, Amy and Metal got themselves a kid bc why not she wasn't created with any purpose in mind more to find her own path and that was dance ✨

She finds out pretty early on she's a robot seeing that she doesn't need food or water like a living being would

Wants to be the best in her class

She didn't have her lil tutu back then Egg man provide the upgrades he made her rocket tutu at Nettle request

She tried Tails but he didn't want her to be vengeful

I think egg man would at least have a bit of soft spot for her once he sees she got that vengeful attitude and ego

He just thinks she's wasting it on dance

(its only towered dance anything else she could careless)

no world domination or become the ruler of the world girl just want to be the 1 dancer

She feels this need to be perfect and be better then anyone else

and eventually thinks she is better then everyone else at ballet since unlike them she can dance far beyond the limit

anyone who gets in her way she will take care of >:)

She wont admit it but she dose envy living beings she wonders what is it really like

To be alive

[silvixel]

he only praises the action but literally criticizes the story and the writing, they are destroying the lore he is establishing in his books, but he is so hypocritical that he is the one who sold his work.

[inmydrcams]

this is racism.

[whistold]

Whistold’s Imperfect Creators

An Imperfect Creator by the name of Xra created a world he named Whistold. Since the world was created in secret, he had to find a partner that would assist him without revealing the existence of his world. Xra eventually encountered a divinity named Astral, who helped sustain this new world by cloaking its existence from their homeworld.

Xra is the Creator of Life in Whistold, and is the source of all biological life that exists in their world. Xra relies on his Guardians to safeguard the life that they created since they cannot directly interact with the beings that were created. Astral is the Creator of Magic in Whistold and is responsible for the various types of magic that exists in this world. Astral’s own magic is somewhat unstable, so even Astral does not know how every magic works, and some forms of magic are restricted to specific beings in the world of Whistold. Additionally, mutations of magic are fairly common on Whistold due to Astral’s magic instability.

[the-dist-ortionist]

Btw if you become curious about oc lore because of something I post please ask I will ramble

[bohemian-nights]

GOT S5 Histories and Lore: Daemon & Nettles

[actualjenna]

writing a comic currently! ive missed doing portraits so here are the main characters, olle, nettle, ines, and pyrus!

[silkhorse]

what about myrrh? what's his story? how'd he end up with a literal schoolhouse following him around lmao

This will also be quite a long post!

Myrrh lived in this small town near the base of a mountain. The temple there, and most of the other towns in the area, worshipped the Sun and Moon as the main, true gods. They did this because it practically snowed all year around, but with the Sun, it brought light and warmth. With the Moon, there was rest and tranquility, and it represented death in some ways as eternal sleep, but was mainly worshipped for peace.

However, there was also Order and Chaos, like light and shadows, one could not exist without each other. Mainly, the world was made up of humans, which they dubbed themselves as 'Orderly' and 'Meant to Be'. Everything 'supernatural' (were-creatures, shapeshifters, hybrids, etc) were all deemed as born from Chaos.

Which leads us back to Myrrh and all the kids in his care. He owned a makeshift orphanage near the outskirts of the town, which mainly housed abandoned supernatural kids. He worked alone for a while, and the business was going really well. All the kids adored him and were all treated equally and with tons of care, no matter where they came from or what they were (especially since he was a werewolf himself and understood their struggles).

Eventually, a mercenary stops by the town with his Saint Bernard, Macbeth. The mercenary, Vien, turns out to be a vampire, one of the more prejudiced against supernatural, and was *reluctantly* accepted into the town. However, as he looked for work in the town, the people didn't exactly trust him near their produce or workers. Vien eventually found the orphanage at the end of town, and despite not being fond of children, he helped out.

Vien was getting used to living in the small town and working at the orphanage after a year, but he knew he couldn't stay in one place. This was essentially made harder because he and Myrrh were starting to fall for each other and stuff. While Vien was considering just disappearing, the old priest at the temple retired and was replaced with one from the capitol.

This new priest was a lot less lenient in the teachings of Order, Sun, and Moon and consciously left out all information about Chaos that wasn't discriminatory. This basically led to the people who weren't human to start being treated as less — which included Myrrh, Vien, some of the orphans, and others in the village as well.

It got bad to the point where the new priest rallied up the humans and started chasing everyone else out. This escalated quickly as one of the humans pushed away one of the supernatural kids under Myrrh's care a little too hard. The kid fell and hit their head very hard on a rock, knocking them unconscious. Being as protective as he was, Myrrh shifted into his wolf form and started attacking the humans.

Despite supernaturals having a bit more strength than the average human, there were just too many humans. This ended with Myrrh fleeing up the mountain with the surviving orphans and Macbeth while Vien acted as a distraction. Myrrh and the orphans end up safe in the comfort of the mountains (in an old, abandoned cabin), but at the expense of Vien's life.

Occasionally, Myrrh leaves the kids in the cabin with Macbeth and Nettle (he's the most mature) in charge so he can go down the other side of the mountain to go hunting or foraging. Sometimes, he even goes to a different village to look for any other mistreated kids or orphans to basically snatch them up and take him to his cabin. Myrrh doesn't allow any other adults up the mountain in fear that they will eventually come and take away his kids again.

It's a but of a lore dump, but I hope that answers your question!!

[zurriko]

I am glad to introduce you my oc👀

Rainwing Shamrock(he/his) and sandwing Hyena(she/her)

[cbrownjc]

The problem is, HOTD only put thought into adjusting Rhaenyra's age but didn't put any work into adjusting the ages and timeline of anyone or anything else in the show to fit around that.

Again, sorry for comparing it to IWTV, but when that show decided to adjust and move up the timeline for when Louis was turned, it's clear it's not only Louis' character they looked at when adjusting that timeline. They clearly put thought into what Lestat would be doing for that extra 150 years; what Armand was doing during that extra time; how things would be different with Louis, Lestat, and Claudia staying in NOLA from 1910 to 1940, etc.,

The showrunner and writers of IWTV actually put thought into the implications of the timeline moving up not just for Louis' character but all the characters and the story as a whole. Meanwhile, with HOTD, I can't find any indication that the show took the timeline into consideration in any way beyond aging up Rhaenyra, because everything else is just so off.

It's lazy. It's lazy worldbuilding and writing. And throws things into the lore that were not there in the source material just to make one character seemingly look better than another for no reason other than that. Which, again, is just lazy.

Especially for those who are now screaming that Meleys chose Rhaenys and rejected Daemon, and this is canon because that was said so in a stupid show.

Rhaenys was born in 74 year after conquest, Daemon was born in 81. Rhaenys became a rider in 87 year a.c., when Daemon was six years old.

Baelon the Brave was mentioned as a loving and caring parent so I highly doubt he would allow his youngest son to try to tame a dragon in such young age.

Daemon did not try to become Meleys's rider, and she did not reject him for Rhaenys. At least in canon. I don't know what's going on with the characters' ages and timelines in the show.

[ellie-writes-games]

Lucanis Lunchboxes: Dalish Stripweed Nettle Soup

What if Lucanis packed Rook lunchboxes with little notes in them throughout the main story?

On the map, a "!" icon appears in the hallway just outside Rook's room in the Lighthouse. A temporary chest here holds a one-of-a-kind Valuable and a letter from Lucanis that is added to the Codex. Triggers after all Companions have been recruited in Act 1.

[SPOILERS] Read the letter from Lucanis below the line:

Writing Rambles

There's a lovely feeling when we reach the paella cutscene with Lucanis that the group is finally getting into their groove. It feels like a found family, with trust and rapport built one fade-touched stone at a time.

So naturally, I wanted to explore the opposite of that. How many things can go wrong at once? How can everyone give into their impulses or fall back on old habits in a way that gives the gang a ways to grow, while making as many little nods to lore, existing banter, and honoring the canon?

It was a doozy and this runs long. I don't generally like long codices, but I worked with an editor on this piece and shaved it within an inch of its life. (I like to think it still packs in a whole lot of scenery, despite how efficient I tried to be.) In a perfect world, this kind of writing might live in a few codex entries by different authors, or coexist with an ambient dialogue to let the note breathe a bit.

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Part of an on-going series of fan-writings. See the full Masterlist here.

This is fanfiction written by me, @ellie-writes-games. These are NOT actual screenshots from the game. Peace, love, and mad props to the DA writers.

[horizon-verizon]

On this here day, GRRM wrote an entry clarifying several things about the dragon lore in his novels, and it vindicates so many Dany stans/Daenerys as the Azor Ahai:

Saying dragon "mysteries", in-world, will be revealed in the last two books AND Septon Barth got a lot right. I'm taking that to mean that dragons change sex (Viserion, here you come, baby!), like two particular Twitter mutes I have (danylanzhou and Branwynwitch). It also seems like he's confirming that dragons and the first 40 Valyrian families (which include the Targs, then and now) mixed dragon blood with their own in some long past ancient event AND that only these families, therefore, can bond with dragons to rides them safely or befriend them.

Which means Nettles is definitely of Valyrian/Targ-descent, which really should have been obvious. One of my mutuals also asserted that this makes the idea of Nettles-Sheepstealer/Rhaena-Morning being interchangeable for their supposed HotD merging GRRM-disapproved bc he makes a point to say that dragons don't tend to move far from their lairs that are usually very high up in mountains and volcanos. Sheepstealer can't be going to the Vale while having a lair in Dragonstone:

As for the thought of Sunfyre flying miles to get to Dragonstone...this is where he/they were born and where the real magic that sustains dragons is coalesced from hundred of years. It makes sense for him/them to fly to this castle even if Aegon weren't there after he had been bodied by Meleys/Meleys & Vhagar, looking for recovery. This is where the Targs get most of their eggs/dragons and it is near where most dragons in Westeros make their lairs.

Note that he says, in the very last paragraph, how:

Fantasy needs to be grounded.  It is not simply a license to do anything you like. Smaug and Toothless may both be dragons, but they should never be confused. Ignore canon, and the world you’ve created comes apart like tissue paper.

It appears he is VERY not happy about something to do with dragons in the show's second season, how they bond in the show, how a certain dragon is "explained" to have traveled a too-long distance for a certain pale-locked young girl who has been trying to hatch her own dragon for years...I see you GRRM, fighting for Nettles AND Rhaena I see.

Oh, and just bc he said he liked epi 2, doesn't mean that he cannot critique anything about HotD ever again...he is the writer and creator of this universe that they are capitalizing on. As long as a writer of any genre stays logically consistent and relatively undiscriminatory in their original writing, they definitely can tell any of us readers what is real and not real or possible in their own creations! That this is even up for debate is a travesty to logic.

Mind you, this is the same man who said the show and the book are two separate canons AND that adaptations "nowadays" tend to fail bc the adapters think they can make the story "better" and ignore critical lore details. And in his latest commentary on HotD's S2 first two episodes, he says, and I quote:

“Rhaenyra the Cruel” has been getting great reviews, for the most part.   A lot of the fans are proclaiming it the best episode of HotD, and some are even ranking it higher than the best episodes of GAME OF THRONES.   I can hardly be objective about these things, but I would certainly say it deserves to be in contention.   The only part of the show that is drawing criticism is the conclusion of the Blood and Cheese storyline.   Which ending was powerful, I thought… a gut punch, especially for viewers who had never read FIRE & BLOOD.   For those who had read the book, however… Well, there’s  a lot of be said about that, but this is not the place for me to say it.   The issues are too complicated.   Somewhere down the line, I will do a separate post about all the issues raised by Blood and Cheese… and Maelor the Missing.  There’s a lot to say.

Note that the latest post was about epi4 and this one I just linked is only abt epi 1 &2....so where are his thoughts for the hated/comedic epi3?! (we see each other, George). (BTW, I gave my thoughts on his thoughts about 1 & 2, HERE.)

I'll say it once again: though GRRM praised the portrayal of grief, defended Cheese being lost, and loved the dog (the last I don't fault anyone for, I also loved them) in the Blood & Cheese episode, he also expressly talks AROUND how Blood & Cheese and Helaena actually interacted and comments on the Maelor-lessness (therefore the lack of Sophie's Choice) that many people--inclu myself--have been saying was a huge problem.

Now we have two different sources that seem to support the ideas of:

GRRM both not being as "involved" with the actual writing of this show for a bit AND not approving of a lot of critical changes

HotD's writers cannot create anything truly "canon" or "real/true" for this universe, it only can make any sort of "sense" if it also retrieves information from the original tale, which is not really just F&B but THE ENTIRE SET OF AVAILABLE BOOKS!

[the-dist-ortionist]

Remember when a girl named asali was part of that mildly popular indie band❓️neither does she‼️