#rune lore

[akanemnon]

FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!

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MASTERPOST (for the full series / FAQ / reference sheets)

[luxlitemidnight]

Oh boy! Well, let's have them speak for themselves.

Midnight: hi! My name is Midnight, I'm an Anadi from Harthta. Harthta is the world our partner system made, and many of us are from or connected to there. Anadi are originally from Pathfinder 2e, but really the only similarities are that we're tarantula shapeshifters hehe. Anadi in Harthta were created by the god of nature and destruction to protect nature. However, when he was dethroned by Rune the Anadi started to slowly die out. Eggs just stopped hatching. In the OC world I thought I was the last Anadi alive. Long story short, I was not, and my husband, Kujo, is actually half Anadi.

Rune: since I got name-dropped, I'll pipe in. My name is Rune, and I am a fusion of multiple versions of myself. I am from the worlds of Harthta and Artka. My story in a nutshell is that I was a mortal, rose to godhood by alchemy/science, became the god of creation by the blessing of the prior god of creation, was corrupted by the power (it was actually a kind of weird plural situation where the god itself corrupted me it's interesting in retrospect terrifying in action), got dethroned, and became a better person as a mortal. I'm physically disabled in headspace because I was such before becoming a god (spinal injury in Harthta, multiple sclerosis in Artka) and was still disabled after being dethroned

Etsai: So I don't have many source memories, I'm actually pretty divergent from my original source, but I do like the OC version of myself so! I am from Artka pre-shattering. For those not in the loop, the shattering is what brought magic to Artka. I was the co-host of a DID system called the Ashes System who worked at what's effectively olive garden. We were your typical depressed human. But when the shattering came, it mutated us into a tiefling who had these tree-ring inspired spots that grew, the color of the rings being who is in front. This version of me is very connected to D&D, and I was a fighter, the other host (who was played by a different player, hence why it was DID), Monty, was a rouge. There was a version of me who lived in Harthta that makes up some of my memories, but that's not canon to the official OC canon.

Bart: oh boy, where do I start. I'm not from the same Harthta/Artka universe the other three are from. I'm from Earth, but a few separate versions. I introjected from The Sims 4, Fallout 4, and my own OC canon. You can find out the story of the sole survivor in fallout 4 on your own so I'm not gonna talk about that specifically. I was born in 1899 in England on a dairy farm. I had my older brother, Will, and my younger sister, Lily. As a spectacular moment of teenage wisdom, I lied and went to fight in WW1 when I was 17. I died when I was 17, to a vampire in the trenches. I was reborn the next day, and eventually made my way back home. Things start to diverge here and I have multiple memories, which tbh I think I'm a subsystem based around my sources which explains all the different feelings and memories connected to these. But yeah I survived as a vampire from then on. I don't particularly want to go too in depth into it. My Sims life means I remember having a lot of children and other various descendants.

#One-Hundred-Sixteen

[pt: #One-Hundred-Sixteen]

Octives, introduce your source! Who are you? What's your story, or even... what is your story about? Share as many details and fun facts as you'd like!

[storyshift-sk]

PART 1/2 - Storytime!

Once Upon A Time… Things were great! Until they weren’t. dun, dun, dun

Every great fictional world starts with a history lesson!

[beesmygod]

just tried to draw something in color in under an hour to warm up. aaahhh....may chaos take the world!!! MAY CHAOS! TAKE! THE WORLD! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[epicfroggz]

Messmer’s Great Rune

A Great Rune of a long lost demigod, a shardbearer denied.

Its blessing greatly increases poise while attacking or casting.

The Great Rune smolders with blackened red flame, and enwreathes the wielder’s body and soul in darkness. It is in the base serpent’s nature to attack with reckless abandon, and this rune would have allowed it to feel no pain in the heat of battle.

That the rune encompasses the upper ring marks Messmer as the firstborn son, and thus godhood—his birthright.

(credit to @katyspersonal for pointing this out :> art and item desc by me)

[sorrowmoons]

Dakota and Steph are pretty good friends 🙌🙌

[68spidey]

Anon wanted to know if I had a Venus de Milo design for 2017... the answer is YES!!

[vaultureculture]

Character design explorations of the characters from my story, Stillness

[moocfitab]

Spoilers for today's Bound lore :]

10/06/24

Vast looked down at the grave ( if you could even call it that ) of Viviana, the pathetic deep slate tombstone that she didn't deserve stared back at them.

Vast couldn't help the quiet chuckle that escaped her lips, before a roaring laughter paired with tears of joy began running down her cheeks. "..I'm free..." She whispered,

"I-Im free from you.." She laughed again. "I-IM FREE!" Vast laughed, she laughed and laughed until her lungs were tight. "IM FREE YOU MOTHERFUCKER!!" She screamed.

Vast hadn't realized when she knelt down, nor when some of the magpies sat on her shoulder.

Tears streamed down her cheeks as she spoke to the unresponsive grave. "I won't let you ruin anyone's lives again- I-I won't let you control my life again."

Small coo's and chirps sounded around her- agreeing with her and cheering her on.

Vast stood up, towering over Viviana's dead body, buried in earth that was far too good for her- and spit on the grave. "I don't love you." She smiled "I hate you, with every fiber of my being, and I will never love you.."

Vast's hands shook, not out of fear, or terror- but out of excitement. "I'm in love with Rune." She laughed. "Im in love with Runethian Ventura, An flightless inventor.. a kind- gentle- loving person- the first person to look at me like I was a person in over a decade."

A small voice landed next to her, landing on her shoulder and looking down at the pathetic grave.

"Kalia would be proud."

Vast laughed, gently reaching up and scratching the top of the birds head. "Yeah.. She would."

After several moments, Vast reached into her pocket and pulled out Armor's scale. "...they both love me.."

Little Dude's words filled her ears..

"You know he loves you.. Right?"

Vast didn't know what the magpie meant.. But she knew that- deep down, she loved him too.. Weather it was platonic or romantic- she didn't know

But Vast knew she loved him too, and that she was going to find him.

A light, over in the East pulled Vast out of her mind,

Vast turned her attention towards the sunrise, smiling, and held up the scale towards the glowing orb.

The scale shined

More precious to the magpie than any jewel or gem.

"I'm going to find him." She smiled.

Vast pocketed the valuable, safe with Rune's feather and looked back at Viviana's grave. "...Do me a favor,"

She turned away from the grave and pulled out a slight crystal.

"And Rot in hell, you bitch"

[aashiyancha]

RF Pride Week // June 28: Coming out / Firsts

This comic is set around a month after the siblings first arrive in Rigbarth

*Ludmila and Meg are not here yet so there's only 1 girl in town who matches that description atm

** The noble duo have been here less than a week, so Ares doesn't have much opinion of them yet

[nervousalpacahologram]

The Fish Theory

I'm Making this post so I can either be proven right or wrong when the DLC Comes out.

In Elden Ring, there's a suspicious hole in the story. That hole is perplexingly mermaid-shaped.

When Godwyn is found in game, something's happened to him. He's become gargantuan, twisted, stuck in the pose of his death and staring listlessly out into the darkness of the Deeproot Depths.

He's also a mermaid.

Why?

One could chock this up to a cool design decision, invoking the Ningen and the other aquatic imagery associated with Those Who Live In Death (Boats, Scales, Fins, Stagnation, Flies, etc). His head resembles a clam, and his hair is matted like it's wet. He has a tail, scaled and mermaid like. This could all just be a cool design.

But Fromsoft, the ones who put staggering amounts of detail into random pieces of iconography, building techniques, and even the road tiling to denote who created it and why, are not one to toss something into a game for it to look cool.

There has to be a reason Godwyn looks like that.

I personally believe that Godwyn was always this fish monster, and never a regular Demigod.

My Evidence:

1: Godwyn's face is never shown.

"But there's paintings of most characters!"

Not Godwyn.

"But the Statue of him cradling Miquella and Malenia!"

There's no confirmation that this is Godwyn. it may very well be Messmer, given his relationship to fire, his descendancy of Marika and/or Radagon, and his neat fit into the Butterfly Theory (Miquella=Nascent, Malenia=Aeonian, Messmer=Smoldering). Again, no confirmation.

"But we see him in the Intro and the cinematic trailer!"

That I will give you, however there is precedence on how this could be subverted. In the shot of him dead:

His face is obscured by shadows and hair, purposefully keeping him anonymous. And yet, a power of the Golden Lineage, demonstrated by Morgott and Mohg, is to project versions of themselves elsewhere:

(Godfrey even displays this to a lesser extent, with the golden clone of him in Leyndell.)

I believe that images of Godwyn and his appearances in the Lands Between are projections of him.

In every shot of Godwyn, you never see his face fully or his legs at all. Both are obscured, and even the shot of his eye only shows the barest hints of skin, which could be the more alive version of his clam-head skin. His forearms, where the fins grow out of in his Prince-of-Death form, are even suspiciously covered up. The skin of the Prince-of-Death is even the same as the head, so no contradictions in skin color there.

My final piece of evidence is this:

All of Queen Marika's children are cursed.

I'm talking specifically of Marika, and not the ones descended from Radagon taking charge. Morgott and Mohg are Omens. Miquella, Malenia, and Messmer are cursed or appear to possess unnatural features (Eternal youth, rot, serpentine characteristics). Ranni, Radahn, and Rykard appear perfectly fine.

So why does Godwyn appear normal, when none of his borthers or sisters do?

I think Godwyn was born as this mermaid-thing, or at least partially. He was born in the Age of Plenty, a time close to the Crucible, and may have inherited inhuman characteristics. But perhaps they were more easily covered-up, or perhaps he could project a version of himself that was more human, or maybe he simply wore a Mimic Veil.

This could explain his alliance with the Ancient Dragons, also creatures of the Crucible. It could explain why Deathroot confers aquatic features on those it effects, instead of the more avian features already associated with Death in the form of the Twinbird: Godwyn, already cursed, is the source of these appearences.

Godwyn doesn't look like that because of the Deathroot, Those Who Live In Death and those infected by Death look like that because of Godwyn.

[akanemnon]

Low key I wanna know how your Frisk reacted when they first saw Chara after falling down-

(I love the new comic I keep rereading it)

Have a great dayyy

Awww baby's first possession!

Honestly Frisk didn't react much, if even at all hmmmm... But you got a whole ray of reactions coming from Chara!

[taw-k]

Hcs on dragons and Loki's pet dragons (I don't know much about dragons in MCU. I've heard about Fafnir and that's it)

Young

Dragons instinctively want to headbutt to show dominance but a young dragons skull isn't prepared to take that yet so their horns are quite sensitive.

they show love by rubbing their heads, sensitive horns, all over a person. When Loki first introduced Thor to his pet dragons they didn't like him at all until Loki had the idea to start rubbing his head on Thor, Thor was very confused, and they understood that a friend of Loki's is a friend of theirs.

They're very gassy as they're learning to control their fire and the gas in their bellies that fuels it.

They can't fly right after they're born, it takes them a couple weeks.

They can't see glass right after they're born either, it takes their eyes a couple days to develop.

The first signs of a dragons fire is their spark, the inside of their mouth will spark randomly, indicating they're getting their fire and growing up. This makes Loki cry every time one of his babies gets theirs.

When they're threatened they stretch out their wings to make themselves look big but mostly just fall over because they aren't used to their wings yet. It's adorable.

Love pets on the underside of their neck, belly rubs, and wing stretches to explore their wings.

Always crawl into Loki's hair or on-top of his head because they much prefer high altitudes and they need to be the tallest in the room.

Very hungry! Will eat anything, Loki learned this the hard way when he left his bathroom window open and his baby got into all of his creams and soaps and ended up with a very bad tummy ache.

Love to curl up and sleep in the back of Loki's hood

Older

Very protective and able to recognise and remember people and their faces.

They HATE it when people touch their horns, they'll only allow it with people they care for deeply, such as a mate or Loki.

Love big pats and rubs on the underside of their neck, belly, and surprisingly legs.

General

For a very long time no one knew how they breathe fire, they understood the gas in their bellies, but not how it sparked. Until Loki became one of the first people to get close enough to find the runes of a fire spell carved into the inside of their mouth. These runes develop as they age and the dragons slowly learn to control the spark.

They like a diet similar to a dog or cat, lots of meats, they'll eat any meat, a few vegetables for their health, and metalsb as a treat like magnesium, zinc, potassium, sodium, especially gold, just straight up chunks of metal but only as a treat!

They also like alcohol and can stomach it when young, it's even a little good for them. Loki was very concerned when he left his wine out to find his baby dragon lapping it up until he discovered it's okay so he gives them their own little bowl when he has a glass.

Parents feed their kids by hunting, skinning with their sharp teeth, and taking chunks of meat and crushing it until it's almost a smoothie either in their mouth or with their feet. Yum...

One time Loki painted the tip of a little ones tail gold and watched them spin around in circles to eat their own tail. Eventually they realised what Loki, as he was laughing his ass off, had done and attacked him.

The reason Loki is so good with dragons is because of his bio mother. She was a friend to all dragons and once Loki, in the midst of a war, was born she showed he dragons her baby and told them to always protect him no matter what. The younglings jumped around baby Loki and tried to play with him. She giggled and pushed them away saying "he's too young to play, he can't even walk." The little ones were shocked by this strange giggling blueberry that couldn't even play. Years later Loki encounters his mothers dragon and almost dies at her hand before she realises that it's the little blueberry that belonged to her beloved friend. Loki has no idea. She trusts Loki and Loki befriends all dragons and learns their secrets such as fire breathing.

[tarnussy]

Godrick's great rune & inheritance

Putting this in a separate post because it is a recurring topic regardless of website, so I just wanna say that Godrick INHERITED his great rune, 2 characters in the game straight up say it to you. You will see the most vitriol-filled half-assed theories about it so this is a reminder.

[b00-br0-phantom]

*Why?

RUNE OF♡ UNDER [Prt 1]

[zodiacomen]

Inktober Day 23 "Guardian of Books"

"Pleasure to meet the lamb I've heard so many stories about."

"Don't fret as I am no foe. Now, what may it be that you seek? Not just anybody stumbles into my Library accidently... Then again, you aren't just anybody."

Rune makes another appearance!

Now, what could this silly owl be up to?