#seraphine merchant

[bibliobek]

The Dagger and the Flame by Catherine Doyle.

Definitely recommend for fans of Throne of Glass by Sarah J Maas (specifically TOG the book, not the series as a whole), and Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson.

An action-packed adventure with sizzling romance, I had a lot of fun reading this one and I'm going to be picking up more from this author!

This edition is from Fairyloot 🧚🏻‍♀️ and the art is by @gonzalom.art 🎨

[tacom-literatureu-blog]

Cringetober Day 12: Niche Interest! This is actually the one I've been most excited about- Patton

[the-eros-archives]

Deities of Eros

Hello once again! Eden here once again with our first intro to this blog. This one is about the deities of Eros! These concepts are very vague but will be updated with due time.

There are two pantheons within Eros: The Celestics and the Abyssals, the Light and the Dark. These two balance each other out, however the Abyssals pushed too far, became corrupted and got sealed away. The war that led to the Abyssals sealing was called the Silencing, which will be touched on in one of the stories that I am going to be creating.

Now without further ado, introducing the deities of Eros:

The Celestics:

Major Deities:

The Creator - One of two Primordial Beings. Creator of Lord Death, Lady Life, and the Eight. Nicknamed The Golden One in ancient texts. Originally two separate beings that had fused together after the creation of the other Deities.

Lord Death - God of Death and Misthaven (The Fade/The Underworld.) Other half to Lady Life. The End of the Beginning, the Death Breather.

Lady Life - Goddess of Life and Queen of Misthaven. Other half to Lord Death. The Beginning of the End, the Life Breather.

Balethorn - God of Spirits, the Occult and Witchcraft. Older twin brother of Nepharius. Oldest and first God of the Eight.

Seraphine - Goddess of Ice, Snow and Blood. Third oldest and the first Goddess of the Eight. The only Deity not to take a mortal lover or have demigod children.

Eos - Goddess of the Sun, Fire, Volcanic Relations, War, Lust and Gold. Fourth Oldest and second Goddess of the Eight.

Sorenth - God of the Earthly Plane, Metals, Minerals, Nature/Agriculture, and Artisans (Blacksmiths, Carpenters, etc.) Fifth oldest and third God of the Eight. Husband of Zephyrus.

Vortiae - God of the Moon, Water, Earthquakes/Tsunamis, Love and Aquatic Life. Second youngest and final god of the Eight.

Zephyrus - Goddess of Wind, Tornados, Architecture, Music and Adventurers/Merchants. Youngest and final Goddess of the Eight. Wife of Sorenth.

Minor Deities:

Malachor - Overseer of the Malachoris, a part of Misthaven where the vilest souls go when they die.

The 4 Apothecaries - 'Merchants' that aid adventurers in their travels. Plague Doctor themed. Have their hands on extremely rare items (potions, materials, etc.) and no one knows how.

Thyme - Deity of Mistveil (Limbo.) Was created during the temporary death of Sorenth during the Silencing, along with Mistveil as a whole. Considered a cryptid thanks to its occasional sightings in the Material Plane. Often lurking near those who are going to die a premature death.

The Abyssals:

Major Deities:

The Dark One - One of two Primordial Beings. Creator of the Nothing, a dark, vast expanse that Gods go when they permanently die. Corruptor of Nepharius and Pyrothos. Nicknamed The Bronze One in ancient texts.

Nepharius - God of Darkness, Corruption and the Abyss. Younger twin brother of Balethorn. Second oldest and the second God of the Eight. Exiled to the Abyss. Corrupted.

Pyrothos - Goddess of Blight, Plagues/Diseases, and Rot. Third youngest and third Goddess of the Eight. Exiled to the Abyss. Corrupted.

Minor Deities:

Erebos - Goddess of the Night/Darkness. Presumed child of Nepharius but none are sure. Was born within the Abyss but is not nearly as corrupted by the Dark One's effect as Nepharius or Pyrothos. Actively aids the Bloodlock twins in their quest to defeat Nepharius and Pyrothos.

And there you have it folks! The current list of deities of the stories. As we said before, things may be subject to change, and this is just really loose and vague ideas for each of the deities.

Any who! I hope everyone had a good time reading this and I hope everything made sense. But we will see you on our next post! -Eden

[inthestargazersgarden]

Short Story: Nagisa and Seraphine

The Stronghold on the Tell, The Fabric.

A young lady is secretly arriving at this town by train. She isn’t supposed be here, but her friend has convinced her otherwise.

The young lady has fair skin and light brown hair. She wears a beige and light blue dress with a summer boater hat and blue ribbon. She brought with her a luggage bag filled with her tailor kit and a sewing machine.

Her name is Seraphine Pretorius.

The friend that convinced her to come to this place is a young girl with long white wavy hair the reaches the hips, fair skin, and orange and yellow heterochromia eyes. She wears a pink polka dot dress with brown leggings and red shoes.

Her name is Nagisa Momoe.

The train stops in a station underneath the city. It screeches a to a halt and drops off its passengers along with some supplies and deliveries.

"The coast is clear," Nagisa comes out of the passenger carriage with a red backpack.

"Right." Seraphine follows Nagisa.

The two make their way to a stairway and leave the station, entering the city's plaza. And the place is thriving with civilians walking about, merchants selling gods, services offering to customers, and entertainers bringing vibrance.

This amazes Seraphine even though she has been to this place to study. Getting an education is something her father has offered to her, and this was the place to get it. She is able to graduate in a sense, but finding work is another story. She wanted to be a tailor, but her father never liked the idea, thinking she should find more decent job.

Veremund Riley Pretorius can be a bit strict with Seraphine and go as far as undermine creativity and wonder something with his only daughter who he adopted. Still, he is a kind man doing what's best for her and make her happy in the end.

Nagisa has met Seraphine the moment she joined the Order of the Blooming Amaranth which Veremund is a member of. Veremund vouched for Nagisa to become a member so that she can be a friend to Seraphine. The result is pretty mixed.

Seraphine's impressions of Nagisa are that she is the only best friend she will have. And she is grateful that Nagisa is doing things for her that her father would never do. What they do here has to be kept a secret, and if he does find out, a certain Paladin promised she can protect them as she is the only one willing to tell him how to parent.

"Come on, this way!" Nagisa is trying to get her to a boutique in The Stronghold on the Tell.

The two would walk through streets and alleyways. They stop by merchant tents and stands and shops to look at fabrics, jewelry, threads, and other materials. They are overall exploring the city as they look for the boutique.

They eventually stop and sit at a bench and nearly exhausted.

"Nagisa... are you sure we're getting close to this boutique?" Seraphine keeps her luggage bag on her lep.

"Right in front of us," Nagisa points out.

Seraphine looks in front of her and the boutique is right across the street from the bench that they're sitting on. She looks up and see that the skies are still blue. There is still some time to spend at this spot.

Nagisa chuckles as she catches her breath. "And we got some stuff from that market for you to make something here! Good, right?"

"Yeah... thank you." Seraphine tears up a bit, still smiling and covering her mouth.

"Woah there, don't cry." Nagisa immediately tries to comfort her.

"Right, right." Seraphine wipes her tears and takes a deep breath.

This is the best thing Nagisa has done for her. She is a true friend.

She and Nagisa get up and walks their way into the boutique. The owner welcomes them and was called ahead of time by Nagisa, so they expected Seraphine and allow them access to the workplace.

Seraphine and Nagisa go behind the counter and into the little workshop where the clothes are handcrafted. Seraphine places her luggage somewhere and opens it up, taking out her sewing machine and tailoring kit.

"If it's alright Nagisa, and I don't want to ask much, but is it okay if I have you as a model for my clothes?" Seraphine looks at her and has clear idea of what kind of dress to start with.

Nagisa tilts her head slightly and thought about it, but she then gives a nod. "Sure thing!"

"Just sit right where you are, I think I got the proportions in my head." Seraphine then gets to work, starting with some threads and a few yellow fabrics.

[shivasdarknight]

For Seraphin

🌳 - What’s their extended family like?

🐾 - Do they have any pets?

🌳 - What’s their extended family like?

Mega hella dead - both adopted and bio. Seraphin's bio family was the Evrardoux of the Velodyna Clan, which lived on the border of the Shroud and the fringes of Gyr Abania (gestures at the Velodyna river and why it's named that). Beyond his parents and siblings, any extended family was killed in the Garlean onslaught. They mostly kept to themselves and weren't as proud as Seraphin's father, but Seraphin couldn't tell you much about them even if he tried since was like four or five when that happened. He's one of the only survivors of the massacre, the other being Iolaine but she's...weird.

On the adopted side of things, he has a few aunts and uncles that are still alive but they're older and lost their children to conscription. They're kind, sad, and deeply distant from losing their homeland. This is the Eldridge side of things, of Ala Mhigan highlanders who had as long a history with the land that the Velodyna clan did. They weren't nobles by any means, but they eked out a life on the fringes and maintained a lot of the original religious practices that King Theodoric tried to ban. So Seraphin does what he can for his adoptive family, but also spends a fair amount of time around Little Ala Mhigo trying to do what he can to ease the pain of his older extended family - family that lost their children on foreign lands, and would never be able to bury them, or lost them to the Crania Lupii's recruitment thanks to Gaius.

🐾 - Do they have any pets?

Technically, yeah! Seraphin's got a true griffin he raised from an egg named Camilla - he was about 7-9 at the time, so they've been life long partners. He found Camilla's egg while playing where he really shouldn't have been in Southern Thanalan, and wound up witnessing an ambush of an Ul'dahn merchant's cart at the hands of Amalj'aa. The reason? Typical black market shit, the asshole - now dead and in multiple pieces - not only managed to swipe some drake eggs, but Amalj'aa as well. They were just getting back what was theirs, especially since it was their children caught in the mix. Among the eggs were other things this merchant had planned on smuggling into the city, including a true griffin egg. They weren't really sure where he found it, but they were just going to leave anything that wasn't theirs.

Until they spotted Seraphin.

One of them wanted to get rid of witnesses, because that's how you get the Immortal Flames on your ass. The other told them off, recognizing that Seraphin was not only a child, but one of the refugees from Little Ala Mhigo. They had no qualms with the refugees, as this Amalj'aa recognized the common adversary they shared. This Amalj'aa cautiously approached Seraphin and offered to at least get him most of the way back home so he'd not get killed by wildlife or reanimated corpses, and realizes that a gesture of good faith to the Ala Mhigan refugees was sitting right there. They give Seraphin the egg and tell him to take good care of it, before helping him get back safely.

Yeah, so that Amalj'aa would be known as Hamujj Gah, the leader of the Brotherhood of Ash.

So, Seraphin raised the griffin at Little Ala Mhigo and became deeply attached to her - his parents even worked to get him riding gear for her and the two are inseparable. That gesture from Hamujj Gah helps build up better sentiments between the two encampments, and it's also what pushed Seraphin into his dumb heroism as a Warrior of Light years later. So beyond Camilla being a dear companion - a very sweet griffin that has separation anxiety - she means a lot on a wider scale in that she was a gesture of good faith between the Brotherhood of Ash and the refugees of Little Ala Mhigo that would eventually turn into an allegiance against Ul'dah's bullshit .w. Very fitting she wound up being a true griffin, considering their significance to Ala Mhigan culture.

[angels-arbys]

CRINGE SKYBLOCK HC TIME

Random Skyblock HCs I have [Nothing super cool or important, just little things like personality/lore]

Scorpius is covered in battle scars, hence why his body is almost completely covered up by clothing, for the sake of a professional front.

Boss Corleone is in the way Dante is a slime, a magma cube himself(perhaps a Yog due to location, also the two are besties).

Dante wears makeup so he looks more human(I have a comic about that, it’s cringe tho).

Scoop and Elle of the Nether are dating(I will not be elaborating).

Sirius is the uncle of Lucius and Scorpius, last two being half brothers, the trio are closest with each other relative to the rest of their family.

Seraphine and Elizabeth are 100% in love.

The Boss and Executives of Team Treasurite are all very close, a tight knit group.

Barry and Tia the fairy are related(I say siblings but close cousins works as well).

Aatrox will help almost anyone in danger despite their background, even though he has that unpleasantly threatening dialogue, he will see no warrior fall(perhaps something happened in the past, maybe with Maddox?)

Paul and Scorpius have some history, although they both refused to elaborate whether it is positive or negative. They seem to get tense near each other

Marina and the Fish Merchant have a thing, the Merchant(probably named Fischer or something) is always flustered around her.

Barry never having been in office and only showing up for elections, is most frequently dabbling in more serious matters which are unknown to the general public. Serious matters may include exploring new islands(more on that later), discussing laws and guidelines regarding magic with other high up wizards and perhaps keeping a certain tormented soul locked away.

Tia is a caretaker of all souls, not just those of her fallen sisters(as she says), though it isn’t an occupation she has to consistently tend to, she does possess the ability to handle soul-related jobs and issues.

Foxy is best girl. Jk that’s not just it, I think despite the Pinkie Pie-esque front she has, she’s is a surprisingly strong and in that sense, threatening individual, but people don’t know that until they get on her bad side.

Dante and Derpy grew up together and despise each other due to their opposing nature, Derpy running for mayor simply out of spite for him.

Scorpius, Barry and Paul are often a group that goes out exploring new places together, they are often the people who discover new islands and what not. This group dynamic means Barry is the only one who knows what’s happening between the other two.

Barry knows a lot, perhaps even too much. He knows about him and where he resides, he knows his connections.

Shifty is close to the Dark Auction trio, like family.

Despite mentally being in his 20s, Scorpius is chronologically super old, same with characters like Barry, Elle, Jerry ESPECIALLY(easily one of the oldest within the realm of Skyblock), Dante, etc, etc. Yet due to Scorpius’ status and where timeline logic comes into play, Lucius is still considered the older brother.

Sorry there so much Scorpius, with a character so mysterious there’s so much room, but I definitely think there’s more to him than meets the eye.

I also like to think Scorpius takes much pride in his appearance and gets quite emotional when his presentation is ruined, especially around people important to him. I love the trope of the collected character losing their cool over their looks.

Unfortunately I don’t do dungeons frequently and don’t know the lore there, I just know there’s a lot of necromancy involved.. it makes you wonder about a certain dictator we all know and love.

[ladyleahcat]

Seraphine’s Lore Rework

So.. I have to say that I was really hyped for Seraphine. I followed her in social media and I really liked her design. But, after her lore and abilities were revealed, it just felt... out of place in Runeterra. Her in-game abilities don’t make sense with her natural gift. She doesn't have a grand purpose, or breaking point in her story that motivates her to be... you know, a champion. So, I tried to fix the lore. Please be kind, and let me know what you think (English is not my native language, so there may be some redaction mistakes). 

I don't have an extensive knowledge of the LoL universe, so here goes nothing! (I took the official one and changed a little bit too much... I kinda throw away the dream of unity between Zaun and Piltover. And knowing that the Brackerns communicated through MUSIC it´s a fact too rich to ignore. I did a little reseach and took some terms and ideas from Skarner’s short story).

As a child, Seraphine always loved music, especially her father’s lullabies. The songs were beautiful, but sad. He and Seraphine’s mother—two lifelong Zaunites—always dreamt of a better life in the City of Progress. But poor as they were, they did everything they could to give their only child a decent life in Zaun.

Leaning out the window of their hexcoustics workshop, where broken sound tech was made to play again, Seraphine sang along with the dark streets. The constant sound of the leaking pipework, working machinery and wispered conversation was her companion.

Over time, Seraphine realized she could sense songs too private, too personal, for any ordinary person to hear. And as she grew, so did the intensity of her gifts. She heard every person’s soul, loving or cruel—turning the streets she’d once loved into an overwhelming cacophony of conflicting desires. How could she make sense of the voices if none of them harmonized? Some days, she hid shivering in a corner, hands over her ears, unable to hear herself above the chaos and feeling her sanity slowly escape.

Seraphine’s parents couldn’t bear seeing her struggle. Even scraping together their savings, they knew it was not enough to help her. Risking their own safety, they made a deal with powerfull mechants in Zaun´s black market to purchase a shard of a rare hextech crystal. And so, they crafted a device that dampened her magical hearing. For the first time in years, there was silence.

Within that quiet, though, Seraphine heard something—someone. The crystal had a consciousness. But it was hard to hear, and harder to comprehend. Seraphine, awed, asked for guidance. But the crystal refused communication. She made her goal to achieve understanding of this rare soul, but her attempts were interrupted by tragedy.

The debt of the crystal was greater that what her parents could pay, and the mechants, tired of waiting, decided to claim the price in their own way. On the darkest of the nights, the rumbling sound of incessant knocking on the door accompanied by violent threats awoke the family. Taking their few possessions, they intended to flee, but, Seraphine´s father knew they would be followed. Giving his wife and daugther one last kiss, he ordered them to run and never look back, while he faced their attackers. They did, and in the distance the sounds of gunshots rang out. Seraphine was ten when she saw her dad for the last time.

Full of sorrow, the broken family got to Piltover with almost nothing. There were difficult days of cold and hunger until Sera´s mother could grab a job at a hextech workshop, as she refused to sell the crystal, see her child suffer, and let her late husband´s sacrifice go to waste.

Seraphine refused to sing the first months in Piltover, as it didn´t feel like home anymore, and it hurt to much to remember, while she also felt all their disgrace were her fault. One day, through her pain, she finally heard a distant voice. The lethargic soul hidden in the crystal slowly opened up to her. It told her stories and songs of the old brackern race. About how it once was big and respected, and how the greedy softskins destroyed it to gain the power of the crystal namestones hidden within their bodies. Horrified, Seraphine realized how the city that surrounded her was powered by the brackern, and so, she asked the voice why it had decided to share all that information with her. With a kind voice, it answered that she had a unique talent to hear souls and songs, and, that she could understand the pain of loss after what she had been through, just like it had lost its kin a long time ago. Then, the soul inside the crystal proposed a way to help them both.

The brackern knew Seraphine had a gift, and he could teach her to amplify it with magic. To give her voice power, potency and purpose. She could ease, enchant and thrill the crowds, gain fame and fortune, and give her mother a better life. But she could also inflict pain, make suffer and bring death to those who took her father away. The soul only wanted something in return.

There was an old ritual that brackerns knew about. The content of their namestones was to precious to get lost, and they designed a way to bring their race back if something ever went wrong. The proccess requiered to gather a great amount of brackern crystals in a hidden temple within the deserts of old Shurima. But it demanded a great price. The same amount of souls of a single different race in exchange for the awakening of each soul of the dormant one. The brackern wanted them to be human, as it seemed as a fair exchange. The enchanting dreamsong to fulfill the process had to be sung by a representative of each of both races. And she was the perfect candidate of her kin to do so.

Seraphine felt dread all over her body and refused, at first, to cooperate with the crystal; imagining the amount of people she would be required to slay. But as the weeks passed, and she and her mother keep on struggling to survive each day, Seraphine decided to agree to the plan. The brackern teached her a melody to seal their agreement, and with it, theirs souls were bounded to commitement, while allowing their magic to flow and combine. Their practice together begun. Each night, Seraphine grabbed her crystal and escaped to the superficial sewers of Zaun to rehearse. Slowly, she learned to manage the noise. Seraphine felt the crystal´s influence as it helped her understand how to resonate with a crowd, to sing with them, using her dampener less each day. Soon, she realized her full potential, and started to develop dangerous skills as well as the brackern teached her magic enchanting melodies of old. It took them years of practice. When she felt ready, Seraphine asked her mom for help to turn her dampener into an amplifier to test her full abilities.

The first time she performed in front of an audience, testing her skills, she was sixteen, and nervous beyond words. She choose a poor street of Piltover to start. With simple clothes and just her amplifier made of old recicled hextech, she started singing. And soon, a crowd gathered enchanted with her lovely voice and bewitching melodies, as she could take all of their personal songs and hopes to turn them into heart touching harmonies. The first day she collected so many coins that her mother and her were able to buy new things for the first time. With each passing day, the crowds were getting bigger, the profit was growing, allowing her little family to slowly achieve the life they always dreamt of. Still, something was missing—in the crowds, and in herself. She knew her father’s crime was still impune and with each song, his memory was painfully revived. She wanted justice.

Using her newfound richness, Seraphine located the merchants that took her father's life and (by her crystal's indication) collected a vast amount of a very special type of mineral, native from the Shadow Isles. Taking advantage of the cloak of night and her growing abilities, she descended into Zaun to make them pay. She infiltrated their place, lured the group of men and their leader with a beautiful melody and then took their lifes with one of the most complex ancient songs the brackern had teached her. Following the elaborate instructions, she absorbed the bodies and souls of the criminals into some shards of the minerals she brought with her, trapping them forever. These were the first souls she would need for the ritual. Taking advance of her accomplishment, she took all of the remaining brackern crystals keept by the band, and then, her mission started.

Although she felt guilty about her actions, she knew that, finally, she had made justice by her own hand, and had found a purpose for her gifts. The brackern's namestones had been waiting for a long time for someone that could listen their dreamsongs and help, and that was exactly was she was about to do. She was born for it. Seraphine knew there was no way she could take all of the brackern crystals in Runeterra, and that not all human souls are aware of the horrors behind the powerfull fuel of hextech, but there were enough gilty ones that she could execute.

Armed with a platform to keep her precious brackern crystals hidden and safe, and also her trapped human victims, she has become the premier star in both Piltover and Zaun. In the public eye, she uses her playful apearance and beautiful voice to enchant the crowds and win their hearts and favor, while she listens for the brackerns old voices slowly awakening inside their cores and calling out for her, singing gladly their dreamsongs. In the shadows, it´s her duty to retrieve them to safety and trap the souls of those who are greedy enough to collect them. She knows one day, she will gather enought of them to make the journey into Shurima´s desert, looking for the one called Skarner that the ancient spirits talk about and being able to, at last, fulfill her destiny.

(I know it’s not that great, but let me know your thoughts and suggestions :3 ) Disclaimer: These characters belong to Riot Games. I don’t own them, I just did this for fun.

[curtaincalling]

❛ do you hear it too? it’s like a summer shower. ❜

→ BE THE COWBOY! | accepting

     He has known nothing quite like the Piltover autumn, where the season seems not defined by the crimson trees and the crisp air, but the stalls of caramel apples and bushels of imported gourds. Seraphine’s comment only perplexes him more— not in an unwelcome way, but in the way he might feel sitting in front of a painting, searching for the meaning in every paint stroke. 

     That sort of introspection is not like Iva Zhong, the smiling merchant that Seraphine knows him as, who is comfortable in his autumn coat and has little want beyond a warm drink and good conversation. 

     But Jhin thinks he knows what she means. The Piltover streets are warm and beautiful— but there is something turbulent, roiling beneath its surface like a brewing summer storm. He sees it in the nervous eyes of the people who walk past him, who are uncertain of what lays beneath their feet, and the stiff and formal ways in which they mingle amongst themselves. And every now and then, Jhin will brush shoulders with a passerby, and in that single moment, feel the rain of their anxieties. He cannot hear it, but it simmers under his skin. 

     Jhin closes his eyes, as though taking her advice and listening. But instead, he is imagining: a dance of crimson, the violent rain... and what to follow? He opens his eyes, and tilts his head to look at her.

     “I hear the people walking by,” he tells her. “And I hear you. But I imagine the song in your ears is far more complex.” 

     He chuckles, light and easy, and thinks of a warm summer sun in Ionia, shining off of red-slicked grass. 

     “Tell me more.” 

[legendwills]

seraphine & her family before i forget - adopted by a woman named rosalie & is the middle child of three ; with her older brother raphael , & her younger sister iseul . everyone calls rosalie nana - rosalie owns an inn in a fairly large village ; raphael is head of the local guard & iseul works as a traditional healer . seraphine used to train with raphael . - though she left the village at around five , seraphine still visits occasionally in between missions & is greeted with much fanfare every single time . - raphael is an adventure seeker & travels a lot . usually gathers rarer herbs & what not for iseul . he ’ s like a mercenary for hire with a dummy soft heart - iseul is second in “ top people with dummy soft hearts ” & is the village doctor . helps rosalie with a small flower business as well . her name means dew . i would die for iseul - listen .. this family is wholesome that ’ s all i know . they all love each other very much . no discussion . - ok wait Tragic Backstory time : the village that they live in has been terrorized by a nearby encampment of bandits for a really long time . when raphael was 15 , iseul 12 , they set fire to the village . it was extremely devastating but they are on their way to expanding the village during fe : a . they went from near destruction to prosperity .  - Village Info Time : they they prosper off of trade & visiting merchants ! they also have a really good baker in town ( she has a son named casper ) .

[bibliobek]

The Dagger and the Flame by Catherine Doyle.

Definitely recommend for fans of Throne of Glass by Sarah J Maas (specifically TOG the book, not the series as a whole), and Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson.

An action-packed adventure with sizzling romance, I had a lot of fun reading this one and I'm going to be picking up more from this author!

This edition is from Fairyloot 🧚🏻‍♀️ and the art is by @gonzalom.art 🎨

[midas-nocte-blog]

Son of Mael Nocte and Delphine Nuit. Younger yet than Ares, Achlys, Seraphine, and Xavier. Older still than Takis, Orion, Odessa, Antony, Bastian, Mael, Leah and Lilah. Often the keeper of family books. Midas Leandro Nocte No woman or children to his name. Merchant with a mind for coin. Part of House Carpe Noctum. Karian by birth and oath.

[nightspeakswrites]

What are pets and companions like in CW? Are there pets simply for companionship, or are all animals working animals? Is there anything like a witch's familiar? Do pets factor in to daily life? Do working animals? Would someone who doesn't /need/ a pet have one simply for companionship or other purposes? (Like a thief and a particularly smart weasel)

Excellent question! Sorry this took me a little while to get to. I hadn’t given it too much thought (which is strange considering how big a part of my life my own dog is!). Some of this probably was covered in the Mounts section of transportation, but I’ll add on to that. There isn’t a caster’s (witch’s) familiar, but animals do play a role in daily life.

Generally speaking, in most of Ima (and this holds true for Beryl and much of Minn) animals are kept both as working animals and for companionship.

Mounts are commonly owned by merchants and the nobility, as well as those with the means to care for them. The cavalry units of Beryl use a mix of horses, Betrial great eland, blue elk, Andesine reindeer, and Berylian deer. The Spectrum Regiment in particular uses Betrial great eland or Andesine reindeer, depending on where they are stationed.

In addition to use as ridden mounts, many animals are used for plowing and other agricultural tasks, and they are frequently used for draft purposes, pulling everything from carriages to trade caravans. Draft and agricultural work animals include hardy ponies, large horses, oxen, yaks, and Blue elk, but others might be found in other regions of the world as well.

 In addition to draft animals and mounts, other animals are used to curb pest infestation (rodents and other vermin that often carry diseases or destroy crops, hunting and retrieving game, and rescue and recovery (in a variety of terrain). Dogs and cats of some species or another exist in most parts of the world, and falconry is common in the more forested areas of the world.

 While many animals do serve work purposes, there are some who are kept only for companionship with their owner. This might include looser arrangements such as leaving a dish of table scraps out of the neighborhood dog who comes to the door every night, or scattering bird feed to attract local birds so that they nest and reside closer to your home. However, others keep pets in the sense we as modern readers might traditionally think of, true housepets meant solely for companionship. Generally these are kept by nobles or merchants (as upkeep for a pet does take money and time). One notable example is the very large, grey and fluffy striped cat of Councilman Aldo Persimus (generally the cat thought of in the game “The Councilman’s Cat”). Many of the apprentice dormitories also keep cats or dogs for companionship, as they are particularly adept at calming and comforting young apprentices who are living away from home for the first time.

In terms of our main cast? Well, Saoirse is quite fond of the tortoiseshell tomcat who seems to have taken up residence on the stoop of her townhouse building. While he has never been convinced to come in further than the lobby of the building, he’s quite content to let her pat him and tell him her troubles whenever her shift in the Healer’s Hall has been particularly stressful.

Denetta Mairenn very much considers the birds around the estate to be hers. They all have names, and she keeps detailed note of their comings and goings. She knows all their calls and songs, and some of them, particularly Senna, will come and perch on her arm or nearby so that she can sketch them.

Remiel Kai has always been too busy to properly care for a pet himself. They also don’t really fit within his father’s sense of pragmatism either. There is a sleek orange cat in the kitchens of Dumortier to help keep away pests, but he really only answers to Hiraeth’s (the estate’s housekeeper) admonishments.

The Eastmund family have practiced falconry for generations, and Pallex is quite good at it, though for obvious reasons, all of the family’s birds remain in Andesine. When he does return to the family estate for holidays, he’s pleased to take his scarlet-tailed hawk, Adena, out on hunting trips with his father, uncle, and siblings.

Prior to leaving military service, Zadkiel was particularly fond of his reindeer, Petra. Since his early retirement, Petra has been kept on the Lucas family estate in Tetrah, where his sister, Seraphine has been taking care of her (and maybe earning her way into Petra’s good graces with carrots and apples).

I think that covers everything? If not, drop me another line!

 -N

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five times kissed

send me five times kissed for a drabble about five times our muses kissed

@xviperinae - for Isa and Seraphine

The first kiss he ever gave her had been done thoughtlessly. He was sitting in his sister’s apartment, watching the two women work on embroidering a silk veil. The brightly golden thread caught the sunlight as they worked, Ayla’s fingers much more nimble then Seraphine- who seemed to be watching closely, afraid to make a mistake. She did. There was a hiss, and the woman yanked her hand away, holding her finger. 

He moved across the room quickly, instinct taking over. Prying her hands away, he looked over the superficial wound. Isa sighed, wrapping her finger in his handkerchief, before, in habit, he kissed over the bandage. “You should be more careful.”

The second was no more thought out then the first. Ayla had fallen ill, some fever that had come suddenly in the night. They both had been up for days as they cared for her. He was exhausted, worn, worry having taken every ounce of energy from him until he was numb. Seraphine had reached over, taking his hand in hers and squeezing in a silent offer of comfort.  He raised her hand to his lips, brushing a kiss across her knuckles.

Silently, he thanked her for her help, for the fact she sacrificed to care for his beloved sister.

The third had been during a party. His wedding, to be exact. He married not out of love, but duty. He needed power to keep Ayla safe. His bride’s family offered it. He had hugged her, feigning overjoyed excitement as his new in laws watched carefully to make sure he was truly happy for his new marital status. Seraphine made sure to hide his brief flash of disappointment by kissing his cheek. He returned the gesture, his lips too heavy with the burdens he now weighed himself with. 

It was like he left a brand on her, for he had never seen her more lost as he turned and walked back to his bride.

The forth was thought out. They had to play a part. A married couple, journeying with his unmarried sister to take her to meet a potential intended. It wasn’t the easiest cover, but it certainly worked well enough as they traveled through Westeros. They were sitting at the table of his host, some merchant that had been wooed by Isa’s striking looks and knowledge of trade. He smiled and said all the right things, while Seraphine and Ayla sat quietly by. His host had said something about Seraphine, and Isa stilled. 

He leaned across the short distance between them, lips pressing to her temple. His smile was tight and sharp, matching the cold warning in his eyes. “I am quite protective of my wife, ser... And I suggest you remember that before your eyes stray to her again.”

The fifth kiss was all her. He had not been expecting it, but really, he should have. Seraphine and Ayla had been deep in their cups, trying to drink away their fears and worries as the boat their chartered seemed to want to fall to bits in the waves. He was trying to get them in bed, worried of the foolish injuries they could incur as they drunkenly walked about the galley. He sighed as he got his tiny sister tucked in, before he turned to Seraphine. 

She held him and pouted, whined and laughed. He humored her, trying to keep her pliable as he tried to put her to sleep. He was cut off in some trailing thought by her lips sloppily slamming into his. He froze, shocked. She fell away with a laugh, curling into her cot and cuddling up to the wall. Isa decided to firmly deny the happenings of that moment. It was not as if she meant anything with that drunken kiss.

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How to locate the Perfect bridal dress for You and Your Baby Bump

How to locate the Perfect bridal dress for You and Your Baby Bump

“connecting the phrase ‘maternity’ to any such thing is amongst the biggest hurdles in hunting for a ‘maternity bridal dress. ‘ It’s simply a marriage gown, ” claims Giovanna Randall, Head Designer and Founder of Honor NYC, which relaunched as a bridal brand name year that is last. “You need to look radiant and not compromise individual design, that is essentially a universal demand of most brides. “

But semantics apart, in accordance with information provider SEMrush, around 20,000 individuals within the U.S. Each month are Bing looking for the word “maternity wedding gown. ” (Fun reality: For the past four years, the amount additionally spikes each January, along side seek out “wedding dresses, ” after post-holiday period engagement period. ) Within a talk during the Pronovias nyc flagship opening earlier in the day come july 1st, CEO Amandine Ohayon told Fashionista that people to the Spanish history brand name’s web site may also be shopping for maternity choices. But nevertheless, resources and helpful conversations on where, whenever and exactly how to look for bridal appearance to allow for a constantly (and unpredictably) growing child bump are not so simple to locate.

“I happened to be trying to find maternity bloggers and things like that. I possibly couldn’t find something that of good use, ” claims Brooklyn-based e-commerce administrator Liza Wenger, who is due in October and walked along the aisle the 2009 July (double mazel! ).

Therefore, we searched for specialists into the industry — a designer, a store, a direct-to-consumer disruptor and, the essential valuable specialists of all of the, two stunning brides whom experienced the process — for advice for anticipating brides to their bridal dress shopping journey.

Recognize that there is no crystal ball

“The number-one thing to consider is you cannot predict the way youare going to feel and also you cannot anticipate exacltly what the dimensions are likely to be, ” says beautiful Bride Director of Stores Erica Chasco-Smith, whom, coincidentally, is anticipating. (when you look at the name of research, she actually fit and confirmed her guidelines just before our call. ) “Everybody grows at various prices, ” plus in various areas: the bump, bust-line, etc.

Plus, for brides shopping in early stages within the maternity, anticipating the way they’ll be wanting to display the infant bump once it finally pops is difficult. Simple fix though: add-ons, such as for instance a cape or overskirt, can truly add a layer, while an even more body-contouring and ready-to-wear 2nd look can be bought nearer to the marriage date.

Picture: Jessica Reaves Photography/Courtesy of Mercedes Sarantos

Shop on the web for rush purchases or gowns that are even custom

When it comes to popularity, SEMrush traffic analytics information discovered the most truly effective visited web sites for “maternity designer wedding dresses” are bridal brands by having a maternity category like Dressafford (1), David’s Bridal (3) and Bridesire (4), maternity web web internet sites with bridal offerings like Tiffany Rose (2), Seraphine (5) and June Bridals (6), plus Etsy, TB Dress, Amazon and ASOS.

Ann Arbor-based Mercedes Sarantos had been keeping down desire to wear the Spanish lace dress she initially bought. But, at five months along — and three days before her wedding day — she needed an alternate. After purchasing (and going back) a $30 “big bohemian searching gown” on Amazon that did not fit her individual design, Sarantos spotted an advertising inside her Facebook feed from bridesmaid and prom gown purveyor Whiterunway.com — as a result of her search path through about “20 internet web web sites. ” (DTC bridal brands buying social media advertising just just take notice. )

An off-the-shoulder, body-con bridesmaid dress caught her eye and Sarantos liked the dense and stretchy product cited into the reviews and bust-line ruffle that is covering. So she bought the gown in white two sizes up from her pre-pregnancy one. “we simply winged it, ” Sarantos states. “we tried it on when and had been like, ‘oh, this can zip, therefore, i do believe it’s going to work. It really is gonna need to work. ‘ My wedding came around and i simply purchased Spanx that went from my upper body to my ankles. Day” In a rush, she did not check out the return policy, but we very recommend you are doing.

You could try the customizable route with direct-to-consumer players, like Anomalie, to create your own bespoke look, or made-to-measure separates and dress brand Lace & Liberty, which Founder and CEO Danielle Wen says works with “many” brides who have bought looks at various stages of their pregnancies if you have more planning time.

“for the made-to-measure function, we could enable brides to update their dimensions nearer to the marriage date, ” describes Wen, over e-mail. The organization can hurry deliver a dress, dependent on manufacturing routine ranging from four and eight months through the purchase date.

Decide to try the hair salon experience — but find the correct one for cambodian brides free dating site you personally

The notion of a normal bridal hair salon experience — with all the risk of snooty sales staff and long distribution times — can be daunting. But boutiques that are bridal have the specialty options and expertise to support your preferences. It is simply about locating the hair hair salon which makes you’re feeling comfortable, once you understand what things to require and working using the right stylist for you.

Do initial research on line, make some phone phone calls and search for a local store that carries developers that offer split-sizing — as with, the gown’s bodice and bottom could be purchased in, for instance, an 8 and a 12, correspondingly. This permits freedom for the body that is changing more space for alterations nearer to the date. Day lovely Bride’s Chasco-Smith would direct her clients to Louvienne, Alexandra Grecco and Chosen by One.

In the event that you prepare early, the beauty salon stylist will help you pre-order a dress to reserve the manufacturing screen and make use of the designer to submit more accurate dimensions later on when you are further along. (or you’re purchasing straight from the designer in-house, request the gown and product early and confirm dimensions closer to your date. )

But the majority notably, make sure that you’re combined with a stylist that is imaginative and resourceful with fit. “Stylists actually discover how to fit a lady’s body and all of her curves, ” claims Chasco-Smith. “It is about getting innovative with seams and possibly creating an adjustment that is small where a mode line is striking, that could start completely new silhouettes and fabrications you can test. “

A note to less-than-accommodating store staff who assume they can’t get a sale out of an expecting bride: Think outside the box with how your dress offerings can be fit and altered on the flip side. The figures do not lie; individuals are searching and wish to purchase. “The shops want to challenge by themselves to be only a little more thoughtful, ” claims Chasco-Smith.

Make use of luxury shops’ customer solutions

After some research that is online Wenger understood she wished to test gowns in individual. But after an experience that is unpleasant a well-known bridal merchant trying on maternity bridesmiad gowns, she chose to proceed with the lead of her mother, whom purchased both wedding gowns at Saks Fifth Avenue. But, rather than the department that is bridal decided to go to evening-wear to explore their white choices.

“If you are expecting, planning to a huge emporium can be quite helpful, ” claims Wenger, whom landed from the 2nd appearance she tried on, a halter-neckline Monique Lhuillier gown that is non-bridal. She specially appreciated the seamless (no pun meant) means of working straight because of the experienced in-house tailor, whom coincidentally invested 2 decades honing her abilities at Kleinfeld Bridal.

“We chatted because of the seamstress and completely deconstructed the thing that is whole” she states. That included lifting the natural waistline to produce a mod-ish empire silhouette. “I’m therefore thankful because for my fitting that is second had grown so much that they needed to purchase the dress yourself in another size. The tailor had currently started working it didn’t matter on it, but. Since it’s Saks. ” (Note: the seamstress had just pinned and never slice the gown at that time. )

Another pro-tip: if you should be shopping in-store anywhere, bring support. “I would surely opt for some body you are aware and trust and who doesn’t offer unsolicited advice because you are going to be additional sensitive and painful, ” claims Wenger, whom regrets making her very very very first check out solamente. “I went with my mother and that ended up being a actually good experience. If your mom’s not stupidly sweet like mine, don’t do so. “

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Mother of thirteen. 9 boys, 4 girls. All of them wearing the surname Nocte. All of them born in Port Kar. None of them timid, or weak of heart. Grandmother of 5. 3 boys, 2 girls. Blessed is the family that grows continually. Merchant by birthright. Claimed once by a Slaver, he died. Mael Nocte. Matron that remains. Children; Sons: Ares Lucifer Nocte         ·Arius Lucifer Nocte         ·Athena Rose Nocte         ·Alanna Violet Nocte Achlys Eryx Nocte Xavier Aeolus Nocte Midas Leandro Nocte Takis Milo Nocte Orion Nikolai Nocte        ·Kaden Abel Nocte Antony Panos Nocte Bastian Zephyr Nocte Mael Priam Nocte Children; Daughters: Seraphine Arissa Nocte        ·Corban Mael Nocte Odessa Astrid Nocte Leah Nicia Nocte Lilah Pandora Nocte (Those bolded, are munned, those italicized aren’t old enough. Want a role? As, accepting those to play the remaining Nocte sons, and some Nuit roles. Willing to discuss the potential. Just DM me.)

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unlimited OC list!

Long story short, I’m bored, and I took my original unlimited list and cut it in halfs of Original by me, and fandom OC.

So, here we are!

Completely originals

Jacù the Owl Shaman

Mikaela

Arish the Raven

The armed dragon. Maybe I forget his name. (From the same story, about chamans and demons and excorcists)

Shori Tsubaki Langford

Aline Langford

Tatsuhiro Wolf (Son of Shiori)

Aryton Langford (Son of Aline) (The wolf’s tesaure, a pirate story)

Sakuya Hervary

Her princess That I absolutely forget her name

Ankoku Ookami

Yuki Ookami

Inazuma & White (all are Werewolves, and wolf demons, originals form different places)

Aslan

Belani

Clarise

Damira

Ren

Sunny

Tau-Lan

Galileo

Titania (The strom keepers, a D&D Satire)

Jessica Van Larrouge The hatter

Captain Marcus Hook

Dendrion the Chessire Cat

Thinker Death bells

Alexander “Alice”

Aneli “Alice”

“Peter Pan” the one who forgot his own name (The second star but to the right, wonderland&neverland dark bullshit)

Derek, The death Time

Jheannette the vampire (Just a random vampire)

Jared Wolf

Jing “Abbey Falcon” Wang

Richard “Dog” Cray

Dan Bull

Benjamin “Benz” Coen McQueen

Matryonna Borislaba Braginskay “MBB” (A militar/fantasy story, It don’t even have a good name)

Bee

Lea

Tenshi

Jasper (Oc’s who are togther but I don’t have any story for them)

The Wolf Prince  -  Alba

The Fox King   - Demian

The Cuon Merchant - Savitri Chanda (the wolf prince, a knight story)

Niclás “Nick” Godoy, That Guy called “the prince” 

Gabriela “Gabe” Quispe, also knew as the “City Witch” (The medium’s secret, a satire of horror/ghost genere)

Lady Katherine Villabene & Barn Fire  (Witch/Scarescrow/fire entity: halloween oc)

Ocean A centaur

Samanta Lourdes Barreda / The Jack

Jackson ¿Cabrera? / The Queen

Alison Cabrera / The King

Daiuana Juarez / The Ace (Imperial Flush. superheros/magical girls)

Yingjie (A Dragon)

Asim

Adile (An angel and ademon)

“Z” (Just...Z)

Nikitta “The equilbrist”

“The Plant Girl”

“Whispers” (Herosona/Hero OCs)

Fan characters

Eclipse

Sensu

Riku

Sora-Tsen (I swear I named the brothers before knowing anything about Kingdom hearts… I may will rename Riku)

Taiyoo

Tsuki

Lee Shao

MeiMei

Nigiyaki

Shila

Zam (all of them from Atla “GII”)

Xia-Rui

Seraphine

De Chen The general… How was he called? Lee? (until here was all ATLA)

Shinjuu Hyuuga

Chiasa Hyuuga (Lol I used to watch naruto.)

Shaira Brunhild

Alissa Brunhild

Ryan/Raisha Brunhild (FMA)

Bastien K. Bonnefoy

Alice K. Bonnefoy

Arthuria Pendragon Aka Ynys Prydein, Aka Antique Britania

Collette Bonnefoy aka Paris

Matias Carriedo aka Madrid

Demian H. Anika (his mother)

Lenora & Alina, I’ll count them in the same numer because any of them have so much character (Hetalia)

Sasha Lupè

Sihaya Seraphine Katrina Auswitch (That was her name?)

Aeron Summers

Haruki Ito

Haruka Ito (Soul Eater)

Iris Ohanzee Phantom

Fiona

Ryan

Louis

Chiara (Pokemon trainers)

Onix

Rainbow Quartz

Obsidiana

Tanzanita 

Kyanita (Gems)

Noah

Ika

Alana

Aya (LOZ)

Matías Ezequiel “A.g” Vasquez Acosta

María Sofía “Silver shield” VasquezAcosta (OVW babys)

Roween

Rohma

Whetu 

Ragni // The vulture

Nikau // Scrapper Hyena Kinda… Overwatch…

Coyote // Michael Jenkins

Bites // Sascha Uhura two Warboys

Kaoru Oikawa

Tsuki Oikawa

Megumi Oikawa Mob psycho ocs

Characters I can’t give a cathegory because????

  Sara U Kafrey (I made her for a friend story)

  Charllotte (Same reason)

Pandora

 Aneli

Alexa

Mirai (They are Pseudo Madoka Magica, but aren’t Madoka Magica fan Characters?)

Dominique Lafleur

Adeleine

Two guys with them who i don’t have names.

(Kinda code Lyoko, but not Code lyoko either?)

 Coyote And  Bites (also aren’t as much as war boys as the start?)