#olorime

[fortunatto]

"Siroria said that if she had to stay another minute in bed, she'd set it on fire. I take that as a good sign." (I really love the cloudrest trial but i wish there were quest and explorable city instead ;-;)

[caliblorn]

✨TEFFEST23✨ - August 10th - IN BLOOM/ blood

Extremely late, but it's done. A Welkynar apprentice and her gryphon blossoming into their respective roles.

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[album-aurum]

- Will it blow up?

- Nope???

;)

[daggerfall]

Pointless bits of Cloudrest trivia that I inflict on my guildmates and friends whenever we run:

The mechanics each of the Welkynar are known for are actually their gryphons attacks. Roaring flare, hoarfrost, and voltaic overload are all from their gryphons, which is why the mechanic continues even if the shade goes down, but stops during the mini fights if you kill the gryphon first

Relequen is their leader, with a title called Wing Captain though he is referred to as Sir Relequen. He also wrote the style book for the Welkynar motif. Each of the Welkynar's proper title who is not Relequen is just Welkynar (name).

There's four members of the order at a time, representing the four cardinal directions.

None of them are wearing the armor type and weapon for their respective set. Relequen is a stam dps set, but he wears light armor and uses a staff. Siroria is a mag dps set but she wears medium armor and uses a sword and shield. Galenwe is a tank set and he does wear heavy armor with one exception, but uses a greatsword. Olorime is the worst though: healing set, wears heavy armor and uses a shield and mace, and uses templar jabs alongside the players in execute

The one exception for Galenwe is that he wears medium armor shoes in the same color as Siroria. However, his shade wears heavy armor shoes. I have no clue what this is about.

While Belanaril and Silaeda (Relequen and Siroria's gryphons) dont have translated meanings to their names, Falarielle and Darremalatu (Galenwe and Olorime's) do. "Cold Beauty" and "Mercy Truth". UESP also has she/her pronouns for all of the gryphons except Darre, who Olorime uses he/him for. I'm not sure how reliable this is though, as I cannot think of any sources on this.

Relequen makes a dad joke during the Z'Maja fight. "I think you'll find my gryphon quite shocking!"

Galenwe tried to stop the others from bringing Z'Maja into the city and appears the most academic of the four.

Welkynar share a magical bond with their gryphons, with the bird becoming an extension of their very selves. Thoughts, feelings, needs, everything is connected. During the mini fights, it's likely - based on the dialogue the shadow Welkynar have - that they can in fact feel the pain you're inflicting on their shadow gryphon. Even with Z'Maja's shadow magic mind controlling them, that bond still comes through above that.

If even one Welkynar doesn't survive, each of the surviving ones has their power drained from them to the point where they do not believe they can continue on as a Gryphon Knight. They accept an early retirement and mentoring new Welkynar. Only doing a +3 allows the order to continue on.

If it wasn't obvious, Nocturnal or one of her daedra/cultists gifted Z'Maja with her magical amulet that gives her her power. See the heavy attack being called Nocturnal's Favor, and her magic being shadow magic.

They're sexy

[seimone-schell]

I finally saved all the Welkynars.

[balcaps]

I was surprised to find Olorime in Shimmerene. I haven’t noticed the devs putting any sort of indicator outside of the trials themselves that a trial has been completed, and seeing the completion of a trial affecting the world (or at least seeing evidence of the events of said trial having happened outside of the instance) is refreshing.

Also, the thought of Olorime spooking some sense into some stubborn nobles with her gigantic fucking gryphon is hilarious. Zos pls. We need this. I’d like to attend that meeting.

[eyevea]

some eso characters who are lesbians because i'm a lesbian and i say so:

- quen

- veya releth

- queen ayrenn

- adusa-daro

- varuni arvel

- silurie

- siroria

[harrycollins]

Feeling cute today, might try to convince my friends about doing vet DoM.

[nixiegenesis]

Last night during cloudrest I noticed I was turning invisible when I switched to my bow bar. Lol. The game, the internet, or maybe just my computer, was on the drugs. @alackofghosts I feel your pain 😂

[giglioscarlatto-blog]

“La poesia olorima è costituita da versi interamente omofoni, nei quali la rima è costituita dalla totalità del verso.”

“Poesie olorime”, di Ciro Maiello, sulla rivista “Alibi - altrove letterario”, Anno I, n.0 (Gennaio/Marzo 2013)

[coyote-ralyn]

Tesinktober2021 or Testober! Day 6. Creature . Welkynar Olorime and gryphon Darremalatu 🦅

[fortunatto]

From Alinor to Shimmerene and every point between, The Welkynar ride the winds and defend our gleaming isle

[elderscrollscryptids]

Player name: Olorime’s hoe cousin Beth

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face sketching

[daggerfall]

Some in depth cloudrest headcanons and rewrites stemming from an hours long conversation about trials in eso and the stories involved:

Cloudrest is the only trial where player death and revival is not actually death, but merely disabling. When a player dies, zmaja makes a shadow clone of them. Only when the shade is dead (and merged PROPERLY with the host), can the player come back. This reminds me a lot of Clockwork City, where one important aspect of shades is that you cant just kill them or else the owner will be permanently weakened, as shades are an important part of the person. Separating and killing the shade has consequences. Which is why I imagine that Olorime is frantically casting the spells to merge peoples shades with their bodies throughout the fight.

Which also ties into my theory on why the Welkynar become permanently weakened if you fail to save all 3 of them. There's a cutscene that should have happened (I vaguely remember hearing that it was in the game and was either removed or just doesnt work anymore) where after the fight ends, Olorime quickly merges the shades with the Welkynar before they fade away with the death of zmaja. Only if you do the good ending does Olorime have enough focus to do this ritual correctly and fast enough. If even one of her friends is dead, and she's been helping you with the mini fights before the main, then shes tired and upset enough to miss that window of opportunity and the shades escape. Condemning her friends to never regain their full strength

Zmaja's plan before the Undaunted show up to defeat her is not something something use the amulet to channel power and eventually escape (saint olms). She is not guarding something or blocking the way for another boss (first two bosses sunspire and kynes aegis), not just in her home and You broke in (assembly general), and not doing some grand task that cant be interrupted (bahsei, nahviintas, falgravn). Based on her wipe and death dialogue, shes very eager to gain new additions to her shadow army. My theory is that shes baiting Olorime and anyone else who wants to free the welkynar into coming directly into her trap to be killed and shadow cloned. Her goal is to keep tricking adventurers into coming to slay the big scary sload and free the heroes of the Isle, only to realize just how in over their heads they are and die. I find it really interesting that her motivations as a boss are actually just To Kill, rather than that she will just Fight Back if attacked.

The Aerie where the fight happens, and the rest of cloudrest in all honesty, should have looked more lived in. Like a city. Its bigger than Alinor ffs if you look over the bridge into the fog. The aerie is very weirdly shaped for a training area for the welkynar, and it seems more likely it would have been an amphitheater, or a marketplace. But it shouldnt have been completely barren like in game.

Similarly there should be way more dead bodies. You know you're failing to write the devastating impact of an attack on a city well enough when the impact of death in Halls of Fabrication feels stronger than Cloudrest. Bodies line the walkways of one Telvanni tower's basement, people are crying over them, wondering how they will go on. Meanwhile cloudrest, which is an entire city, is filled with a moderate number of survivors in a small area and should have had at least some dead.

Rather than have Olorime simply react to her fellow Welkynars deaths with just "curse you zmaja" and continuing to allow the player to kill them (especially after you kill the first mini boss and realize it kills the real welkynar too), she should show more reaction. She originally states that only a great warrior could defeat zmaja with all 3 shadow warriors at her side, and that we should divide and conquer. But should you do that, she realizes "shit I just killed one of my friends. What do I do," she wonders. Because to order that they fight another shade means losing her friend, but promising a more safe final fight with zmaja. Ordering them to fight zmaja now risks losing all of them (undaunted, welkynar, herself) in an impossible fight. Does she have an obligation to protect civilians over her fellow welkynar? Do they deserve to die for letting zmaja into the city in the first place? I think itd be a much more emotional story if Olorime was allowed to speak more and have conflicted thoughts on what it is "better" to do as an action plan.

[nxtheromoved]

Cathanwe Thromorin

Temporary Bio / Stats / Verses

Synopsis

Cathanwe is a Welkynar Gryphon Knight trainee with a personality as light as a cloud and a heart as golden as her armor. She has little ambition beyond improving herself, proving her aptitude to her superiors, and honoring the legacy of the Welkynars; a trait admired by her comrades. Though she can come across as an airhead, her prowess with strategy and combat should not be underestimated, nor should her dedication be overlooked.

Basics

Name: Cathanwe Thromorin Nickname(s)/Alias(s): "Cathy" Title(s): Cey-Welkynd (literally "Shadow of Sky Child"; a term I've headcanoned for Welkynar initiates that have been chosen as a knight's apprentice) Age: 51 (elven years; appears in her mid 20's by human standards) Race: Altmer Birth Date: 4th of Sun's Dawn, 2E 531 Birth Sign: Pisces Nationality: Summerset Isles Orientation: lesbian Gender: cis woman Class: polearm paladin Occupation: Welkynar apprentice Hair: a slightly lighter shade of gold than her skin; wavy and long enough to reach her thighs and is almost always tied into a tight ponytail braid Eyes: bright gold Height: 6"4 Weight: 196 lbs Body Type: lean, straight body shape with even fat distribution; lots of definition from training but not much fat in general due to traditional dietary restrictions

Personality

Positive Traits: Tolerant, Reliable, Charismatic, Altruistic, Compassionate, Dedicated, Organized, Strategic, Gracious

Neutral Traits: Absentminded, Driving, Emotional, Frugal, Noncompetitive, Soft, Undemanding

Negative Traits: Overly Idealistic, Too Selfless, Sensitive, Reckless, Meddlesome, Quirky, Uncritical, Naive

Biography

Cathanwe was born in Alinor to Korilina, and artist, and Mithron, a banker. Mithron was killed in a botched heist when Cathanwe was 7, and Korilina couldn't cope with his loss. She left Cathanwe in the care of her father, Soliron, and disappeared into the night. She never forgot her daughter, and often her only contact with civiization would be the letters she sent to Cathanwe and her father. Cathanwe never held it against her, though it took her a long time to be able to understand why her mother left.

Her grandfather Soliron was an excellent caretaker. He treated Cathanwe with kindness and encouraged her in all her fancies. He'd hoped that she would join the Sapiarchs as he was one himself, but he did not discourage her from her dreams of joining the Divine Prosecution. However, Soliron was an old man and his body would not be able to keep up with the strain of his work. Cathanwe was barely in her twenties when Soliron had to retire from his zoological position in Sil-Var-Woad. She was ready to abandon her Divine Prosecution ambitions to take on a different trade to provide for her grandfather, but another opportunity presented itself. The Welkynars were accepting a battery of recruits, and anyone who passed their tests to be accepted as an initate was given a hefty weekly allowance. That amount of money on a weekly basis combined with her grandfather's pension could allow him to live out his days comfortably. Cathanwe was eager to accept.

She wasn't an instant standout, but once she had gotten past a harsh learning curve, she came through the trials at the top of the recruits. She was accepted as an initiate and earned the allowances just as she had hoped. She split the money into three portions; one meant to pay her grandfather's bills, one to be sent to her mother, and the smallest portion for herself. Her mother didn't ask for the money and even rejected it at first, but Cathanwe persisted. She didn't care about the money; she just wanted to connect with her more. The money was merely an excuse to send her more letters.

Cathanwe fell in love with the lifestyle of the Welkynars. It was a hard life full of daily toils, but she believed in what the Gryphon Knights stood for and gave each task whether trivial or important her best effort. Her dedication caught the attention of the Welkynar Olorime, who took her under her wing. When she had gained enough experience as an initiate, Olorime chose her as her apprentice.

Things only got harder after Cathanwe became Olorime's apprentice. Olorime was fair, but she upheld the high expectations of the Welkynar and pushed Cathanwe to excell. On top of the grunt work all initiates had to do, she was now tasked with finding a gryphon egg and raising her future mount from birth. She camped outside of a gryphon's nest for an entire week in order to retrieve an egg, and after a month of incubation, she called the new hatchling Cyralaxon. Before and after his hatching, rituals were preformed to link Cyralaxon's soul to Cathanwe's own. This was the way of the Welkynars; it was how they were able to tame their mounts. The gryphons were not truly tamed at all. The noble beasts were merely bonded with and made to understand the will of their rider.

Things were going well at Cloudrest for some time. Cathanwe's training was progressing well, and she made a habit of impressing her superiors. However, a sea sload named Z'Maja enacted a vile plan to destroy the order and was near success. She purposefully allowed her own capture so she could strike the Welkynars down from within their own home. Three of the four riders, Siroria, Galanwe, and Relequen, all perished, but Olorime survived. Cathanwe was able to survive the ordeal as well, but the majority of her fellow recruits did not. Cathanwe was eager to fight back, but Cyralaxon was just a fledgling; the only way she could aid Olorime was from the ground. Despite not having a mount and being outnumbered, Cathanwe refused to give up. She enlisted the aid of a maormer fisherwoman and skilled mage, Syvenia, to assist her and Olorime in dispelling Z'Maja and her corruption. The three were able to end the sorceress save what was left of Cloudrest.

Regardless of their victory, the order was in shambles. Olorime was the only true Welkynar left and many of the most promising recruits had been slain in the battle. The remaining initiates were tasked with aiding Cloudrest's civillian populace while a few were sent to scour Summerset for more recruits. Cathanwe was one of the few asked to travel the isle, and she convinced Syvenia to come with her. The two went to Alinor to search for recruits as well as ask Proxy Queen Alwinarwe to send resources to Cloudrest so it could rebuild. There they encountered Daeris Urzara, an agent assisting the Psijic Order in combating the Sea Sload incursion and the hidden Daedric influences behind it. Cathanwe saw the venture as an opportunity to restore the damaged honor of the Welkynars, and with Olorime's permission, she and Syvenia joined the Psijic quest.

Skyrim Verse 

In light of the dragons' return, the Thalmor have enlisted the aid of the welkynar to find a way to combat the arising threat. Cathanwe accompanies her teacher Olorime to Skyrim, and the two investigate.

Oblivion Verse 

With chaos arising in Cyrodiil, the Welkynar feared a possible threat to Summerset if the problems of the mainland were not dealt with, so Olorime and Cathanwe were sent to prevent this. They had just arrived in Kvatch when the city was beset by Daedra. Witnessing the rise of the Hero of Kvatch, they offer them and the Blades their aid in ending the Oblivion Crisis.

Dragon Age Verse

Cathanwe is a Grey Warden and assistant to Olorime, the High Constable of the Wardens. Olorime does not believe that griffons are truly extinct and often leads fruitless expeditions to track down what's left of the species. Cathanwe is her main instrument in these quests, and when she is not helping Olorime with public relations, she can often be found searching Thedas for the lost creatures.