#shiagur

[illusivesoul]

"This is the great krogan homeworld? This is the land of the Kregak, Shiagur, and Veeoll? This chunk of rock is barely even worth standing on! Never thought I'd miss the tank…"

[mako-designated-driver]

Okay, so I'm replaying mass effect and I've started a list of things I stumbled on for the first time. Might be interesting, but it's mostly not taking interrupts.

If you tell Anderson to go to Citadel Control instead of making Udina pay a visit to his dentist, he will actually be caught and get shot, but he is still going to get it done, like the main character he is (what do you mean the story is about Shepard? No it isn't!)

If you don't take the renegade interrupt to headbutt Uvenk on Grunt's loyalty mission, then ask him if he wants to die, Shepard will warn Uvenk that if he keeps talking crap, his "few brains are going to meet the light of day". The Shaman will be impressed and call Shepard (at least femshep) a "human Shiagur", then proceed to shit on Uvenk.

Alternatively, you can investigate, then take a paragon choice to call him the worst insult Shepard can think of: A Citadel politician.

If you take Thane to recruit Jack, when the Warden says "bounty hunters aren't dependable", he'll tell him to "try assassins"

If you ignore Bailey until you get reinstated, he will call you "Spectre Shepard" the first time you talk to him, and you won't get the "scanners think you are dead" conversation.

In the first part of Garrus loyalty mission, when you are talking to the volus, there is a renegade interrupt to shoot the bodyguards, right? If you don't take it, Garrus is going to tell them to leave and... they will. Without a word. While the volus screams for them to come back cause he already paid the guys.

If you go paragon with Elias (the guy who hired Kolyat), then take the last renegade interrupt, his lawyer will show up and tell him to "shut the hell up". Before that, you will also get the chance to rat on Mouse.

Also on Thane's mission, Talid will talk how about he is being observed and how someone is "walking on his grave, or thinking about it". His bodyguard will dismiss him by calling him paranoid.

If you don't take the renegade interrupt to blow up the krogan in Mordin's loyalty mission, you will start to regret it immediately. He will have a LONG speech about what Weyrloc is going to do to the galaxy, like throwing the Citadel in the sun, keeping salarians as slaves and eating their eggs as "a delicacy" (Mordin didn't like it much). The good news is that the interrupt will be there until he is finished talking, so there is no need to actually hear the guy.

If you stick around to hear Charr's whole poem, he will kneel in (one of) the last verses. Just a tiny detail but it was actually adorable.

If I find anything else, I'll let you guys know!

[calder]

this actually looks kinda approachable

[theratking-heheheheheh]

I’m literally love them so much!!!! I love hearing about the Kogan rebellion and their warlords and I like that even though we don’t see them until the third game female Krogans are fighters and warriors and warlords 

And shout out to warlord Shiagur gone too soon😔

[ndostairlyrium]

Multiples of 10 for the wholesome ask meme?

Oh hi!!! Thanks for asking <3 Hope you're doing great <3 also congrats on finishing the first draft of your project!! ** That's a great achievement in such a small amount of time!

I'm... kinda torn between two characters here so I'm going for both. One is Elanor, who I don't showcase often, and the other is Len, who's not going to tell you this is her favorite place on the Citadel.

10 - What is their favorite thing in the world?

Fighting. But even if they approach it differently, the core is the same. It's the moment they can toss everything aside and just exist without having to deliver explanations. It's raw, liberating, almost arousing? In that moment they feel like they're truly themselves, and they really excel at it too! On a less profound note, they both fall for biscuits. Petit fours for Len (she's addicted), whatever has raisins for Ela.

20 - What is their hidden talent? Is that a skill they've been practicing since childhood or just something they happen to know and never had the chance to show? Besides, was it something forced upon them, taught by someone close, or they picked it up themselves?

Elanor may know a thing or two about flower arrangement. It's something her mother forced upon her, but in truth she's a natural. She's kind of the MacGyver of flower compositions. Give her a pinecone and a couple of daisies and she'd be capable of turning them into the Mona Lisa.

Lenore is passionate about languages and exo-anthropology. Only a selected few know that. She's ambitious so whenever she picks up a hobby it has to be functional to her goals. Learning a different language has a person to dig deep on other cultures' habits and it's always an advantage when it comes to diplomacy, especially if you don't stop at the basics. She knows how to look a Hanar in the eye, basically.

30 - What is their love language?

Tough one. They're both quite physical, in a dudebro kind of way. Loud pats in the back, punching arms, and chest bumps to assert dominance. Elanor is slightly more words oriented, she would tell her loved ones how much she cares, even if it would take her a moment to open up. A big moment. Huge. Also she shows it. Like, you can tell she wants only the best for the ones she loves. Lenore shows it more through actions. However, she's neither generous nor kind, you have to make an effort to realize she's doing whatever she's doing in your regards as a form of love, or even basic appreciation. She's a terrible friend, really. Correction: she's a terrible human being.

40 - What is their celebrity crush? How would they react if noticed by said crush?

Oh, for Ela is definitely the Inquisitor! Prior to meeting her she was intrigued, after that she basically became her #1 fan. If she had warmth left in her body, she would blush whenever Ankh adresses her by name.

Lenore is a bit harder because she thinks she's above everything and everyone else. She did have a crush on Warlord Shiagur back in her teenage years tho, as long as many dead historical figures << She's a theater kid gone wrong, really.

[dragonflight203]

Mass Effect 2 replay, exploring:

-As others have mentioned, the N7 missions in ME2 are a mixed bag.

They have more variety than ME1 assignments, but frequently do little to nothing to contribute to the story, world building, or even character development. Most of them are just a change of gameplay. By comparison, ME1 assignments normally tied into the over arching plot or side plots in some fashion.

Still, I’ll do them for completeness. And experience.

Ploitari

-MSV Estevanico – This is such a ridiculous mission. Yes, let’s send the first human spectre to explore a wrecked ship balanced precariously on the edge of a cliff.

Just, why? What is the point of this mission? Shepard can’t send an email to Anderson to check out this wreck? Cerberus doesn’t have any salvage crews? Hell, there’s no Cerberus personnel on the Normandy they can send? Why does Shepard have to go? How about I send someone small and light on their feet, like Kasumi?

-The planet is also disappointing. A skybox like Earth, a world like Earth. C’mon, if you’re going to have me explore a teetering ship at least get a bit creative with the background.

Normandy

-There’s a quick bit of autodialogue when speaking to Jack. Very minor, but this is making me aware of how much more there is in ME2 than ME1.

-Jack reminds me a lot of Aria: Bioware really wanted them both to come across as tough and powerful, but it feels like they’re trying too hard.

-With everything Jack’s done and claims to believe, it’s still baffling she’s sticking around. You’d expect her to bail first time the Normandy lands on Omega or the Citadel. More likely Omega.

Yes, she obviously wants friends and a place to belong. But what has Shepard done to make themself worthy of Jack’s trust so far, however slight?

Obviously it’s needed for the plot, but I wish Bioware had provided a better reason.

-Of course the first thing Grunt feels is hatred of turians.

Grunt: I get it. I hate turians. I thought you’d be glad.

Well, it’s better than nothing I suppose.

-What’s interesting is his logic. He doesn’t hate them because of Okeer or because they’re turian. He hates them because of what turians have done.

Can’t say I agree with the logic of hating an entire species of past actions, but at least it’s not inherent xenophobia.

-Also find interesting his innate conviction that revenge is necessary. Turians killed Shiagur, so krogans to had to response with an equal or worse action.

And conveniently, once again, the fact that krogans dropped asteroids on turian colonies isn’t mentioned. I suppose only krogans are permitted to respond to violence with violence, not vice versa. Unless the turians dropping an asteroid on Canrum would have been acceptable?

Regardless, the cycle of violence in krogan life is highlighted here. If every act of violence must be met with an equal or greater act, there’s no ability to deescalate. Everyone just keeps pummeling each other until only one party is left standing.

That doesn’t lend itself to playing with in a multi species civilization.

Faryar

-Eclipse Smuggling Depot – On insanity this is ridiculous. I did the trick of luring the mechs one at a time to the shuttle, and ran out of ammo on the third. Had to keep circling around the shuttle and spam reave. Did manage to save all the boxes at least.

-Once again, disappointing environment. Earth like skybox and world. Bioware, if you’re going to the trouble of making each mission unique please make them look like I’m on an alien world.

Normandy

-Jack’s life is just one tragedy after another, and I can’t tell how much of it is her fault.

Presumably some of it is – what are the odds of having that many things go wrong without some of it being your own responsibility? - but going strictly by what she says she seems to just have the worst luck.

Any time anything slightly good happens it immediately blows up in her face.

-Still, it’s very obvious that she wants people to care. She’s screaming for it – multiple times in her talks she leaves openings for Shepard to ask for more information.

She tells you about her tattoos. Some of them are things she’s lost, but they’re not your business. It’s better to be lonely than to let someone get close enough to hurt her. She does the smart thing when people fuck with her, even if it means killing her friends. You should remember that.

If Jacob is a feral cat that won’t let you get too close, Jack is the cat that ran into your house, hid under your bed, creeps out at night to eat the feed you leave out, and hisses at you when you shine a flashlight on her to check if she’s all right.

Amun

-The storytelling here is very well done. You could easily miss this entire system, but the planet descriptions tell a fascinating story.

Essentially, to stay competitive with batarian slavery Anhur abolished the minimum wage. This led to a civil war over whether or not slavery would be permitted. The abolitionists won by hiring Eclipse mercenaries. Slaves during the war still got fucked over by working in camps without mass effect fields to maintain gravity; the resulting bone loss meant they’d be crippled on standard gravity worlds.

-Some of it does strain credibility, however. I don’t think abolishing the minimum wage would immediately result in the reinstutition of slavery.

But it does raise interesting questions of how a galactic economy where slavery is the norm for one power would work. There absolutely would be pressure on the other powers to adopt it if it was required to stay competitive, and many of the less scrupulous among them would consider it.

-Wrecked Merchant Freighter – Finally, an alien world! The orange tendrils moving around in the skybox are very pretty.

-Also, a mission where vanguard is actually useful. There were a couple of close calls, but I managed to charge out without needing to fight.

Magus

-Fleet – The Blood Pack use this planet as a vorcha training and breeding ground.

“Breeding” vorcha has come up a few times – mostly on Omega, as one of its broadcasts – and each time it makes me angry. Vorcha might be short lived, but they’re still sentient. They shouldn’t be bred and trained like you would dogs.

And the depressing bit is these training and breeding programs might be better than being exterminated as vermin like they are on Omega.

Just… The Vorcha really got fucked over by their biology, and they deserve better than the treatment they receive.

Strano

-Jarrahe Station – Argh. I hate the breathing masks some squad members get instead of proper helmets in ME2. Both Miranda and Kasumi get them, so this will be a continuous annoyance on this playthrough.

-Normandy is visible through the windows. Nice touch.

-The station VI provides some dark humor through this mission.

In the Living Quarters, it advises intruders to engage in self destruct procedures to avoid death by starvation.

So sweet of it to care.

-I have no idea how enabling doors in the Living Quarters works. I just keep pressing the computers until they’re all enabled.

-Why are there windows smashed all over? How did all these people die?

Most of them are lying in puddles of blood, something killed them.

I presume security mechs killed them and shot open the windows. However, if so where are the mechs? Why doesn’t the station VI send them after Shepard?

-The station VI attempted to upload itself to the Normand (well, docked vessel – maybe a shuttle?) just before you shut it down. I suppose that’s to show how the virus is spreading?

[awaylaughing]

Am finally playing MELE after picking it up at launch and once again falling head over heels for my various Shepards and I CANNOT stop thinking about one silly ass HC for my Vanguard, Ieva Shepard so here it goes.

After Ieva cures the genophage a bunch of krogan start suggesting that salarians might be on to One Thing, namely this reincarnation thing because look at the Facts:

female battlemaster

cuts a wide swathe through the galaxy leaving tears in her wake

good public speaker

Wrex says she's smart

has given many children to the krogan, albeit in a non-traditional way

charges enemies and hits them like a damn Tomkah when she does it

Conclusion: she’s Shiagur reborn and since the salarians say each life you learn something new this is the one where she learns how to not just be a crafty battlemaster but one who kicks ass in the traditional way too.

Some who say this are, of course, joking, many are very earnest though. When Grunt tells Ieva about it she asks which side he's on and he shrugs and says Shepard is Shepard, which Ieva is strangely touched by. When she asks Wrex he just smirks at her and lets her sweat about it lol

[astorythatwritesitself]

Overgrown

Microfic ask game fill for an anon! Featuring two hitherto unseen (unless you've been in the shrimp server lol) Mass Effect OCs...

"Why're we even here?"

Roz doesn't so much as glance back this time, simply trudging ahead as she has for the last four hours. Her whelp's whining is annoying, sure - but it means she's there, in earshot, without Roz having to exert any effort on her part. 

"Same reason I told you on the ship," is all the older krogan says, swinging her head side to side, taking a few deep breaths. There's nothing to see, of course - her eyes may be ancient, but they're strong, able to pick out every dull blade of grass and speckle of lichen damn near to the horizon. No, it's the air that sets their course today. Almost nothing but dust to her right, dry and almost metallic - some mineral deposit, Roz has already filed it away in her mind for later, could be good trading material.

Left, though...

"You didn't say we were going to build a home!" the whelp protests. Stamps her feet, even, from what Roz can see out the corner of her eye. The older krogan grins, gesturing to the new path.

"I said we were gonna make a new home, child. And more than that-"

Oh, that got her attention.

"More than making a home, we're reviving a clan. Tuchanka's more fucked than Shiagur - what's the use of a homeworld when half of them are bent on forgetting any culture they had, huh?" Roz huffs. "Now - smell that?"

The younger krogan gives a half-hearted sniff. Opens her mouth to complain - but nothing comes out. There's a light in her eyes, one Roz remembers, dimly, seeing a dozen or so times from agemates, back before it all went to hell.

"It's... better this way?"

Roz grunts in approval. "Maw's musk. They like it near water deposits when they're small - and they usually leave openings so the rest of us can get at it."

She shifts, just a bit, though she probably doesn't need to. Her whelp seems lost in scenting the air, and she's glad to leave the kid to it, she needs to take in as much as she can. Get used to using her actual senses, and leave relying on things like map to the old shits.

According to the map on Roz' omnitool, they're near... well, it was a settlement once, she thinks. There's not much left, going by the aerial pictures, and what remained was long overgrown. Still, shelter enough for a night. And perhaps, if they were lucky, one of the maws would surface, and she could teach the whelp how to charm them. Perhaps even in time to make a good display, if anyone showed up taking issue with their being there... not that Roz expected much confrontation, though. Hardly anyone - Council, Traverse gangs, even the Alliance who supposedly laid official claim - wanted that worm infested rock they called Akuze.

[cynical-sprite]

I want to take a minute to say I love Krogan names. They have some of the most interesting sounding names. I mean; Wrex, Wreav, Uvenk, Bakara, Kesh, Charr, Fortack, Shiagur...

[cerberusdailynews]

[TUCHANKA] Ancient Feud Forgiven

via The Galaxy Weekly An auspicious day on Tuchanka, as an ancient feud that pitted the clans Drekk and Kredak against each other has been settled peacefully. Elders from both the Drekk and the Kredak announced the results of their Crush (a traditional term for a krogan parlay or conference) at the shores of Lake Ubalk, at the former clan’s historical estate. The details of the feud’s origins are now largely lost to history, taken to the grave by its initiators. A popular explanation, given by the feuding clans and bystanders both, involves the sale of a prized varren, allegedly descending from the famous warlord Shiagur’s own stock of warbeasts. Depending on the recounter’s allegiance, the varren’s pedigree was either fabricated, or only surfaced after the transaction was made for a vastly undervalued price. Drekk Goalth, shaman to her clan, was “relieved” to be able to administer a rite of annulment at the Crush, alongside her spiritual colleague and counterpart Kredak Aruf. While the feud hadn’t provoked violence for several centuries, given the two clans’ geographic proximity it was judged prudent to formally address the matter in light of shifting political circumstances on a changed Tuchanka. Any future act of harm will “now be seen to by both clans”, reports Goalth. The matter isn’t entirely pragmatic: a prospective union between two youths of the clans served as the catalyst for this decision, she continued, and the clan elders were convinced by their shamans to see this as an opportunity for amends.

[luimnigh]

Okay, I want to preface this by saying that I'm not complaining, it totally makes sense for the character to have done that.

But I just wanna emphasize the magnitude of Han'Gerrel's dumbassery.

To begin with, he nearly murdered a diplomatic envoy trying to negotiate an alliance between the Quarians and Humanity. This is most likely the first alliance the Quarians have been offered in three centuries.

And it's coming from a Council race, at that.

But that's not even getting into who the envoy is.

Commander Shepard. Hero of the Citadel, twice. Council Spectre. At this stage, the face of Humanity, who answers only to Admiral Hackett. The leader of the war against the Reapers. The person who negotiated an alliance between the Turians and the Krogan. Personal friend of the King of the Krogan. The person who cured the Genophage.

At this stage, Shepard can also have helped retake Omega, and saved the Hanar homeworld.

And on top of that, as well as one of Gerrel's fellow admirals, this action could have also killed one of the following: another Council Spectre, a personal advisor to the Primarch and high enough in the Hierarchy that generals are calling him sir, the fucking Shadow Broker, or the last Prothean.

So if Shepard and their squad had died on that Dreadnought, Gerrel would have pissed off:

The Council

The Councillors specifically

The entirety of Humanity

The Turian Primarch

The King of the Krogan

The entire Krogan race

The entire Hanar race (even if not for Shepard themselves, killing an Enkindler would rightfully piss them off)

Honestly? A good chunk of the Quarian race

Aria T'Loak

A collection of the Galaxy's most skilled warriors

Like that's absolutely grounds for ostracism from a massive chunk of the galaxy's population, if not assassination attempts from a dozen different sources. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if great swathes of the Krogan swore Shiagur-style blood oaths against the man who killed the person who cured the Genophage.

All for a single dead Dreadnought.

[intergalacticlittlespat]

((are you fine with others' OCs interacting with your characters?))

You guys are absolutely welcome to draw your OCs interacting with these guys!  Bring it on!  Spat met @blood-of-shiagur’s friend Branka and @tidywire‘s friend Liah last September and they had a great time!

I will say that this blog is more for comics and answered asks and brief encounters than consistent, detailed back and forth character interaction.  I don’t have a roleplay blog for these characters, but the Tumblr rp community is generally a great outlet for really developing OCs with other people in detail, for any of you guys who are itching to do that!

[dr-ladybird]

WIP meme

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"Ryder?" Cora said. "Are you planning to permit this?"

"Liam's beard?" If she ordered Liam to shave, he'd laugh at her. Polite requests would probably work? "This isn't the Alliance, Cora, I think he can have a beard if he wants one."

Cora looked dubious. "We're unofficial ambassadors. We should look professional. I know Drack's a lost cause, but Liam, I should be able to hold you to higher standards than a man who literally fought for Warlord Shiagur."

[smackins]

Choose between Efi or Orisa

YOU MONSTER. 

uh... 

UM... 

ERHHMMMMMMMMM... 

Efi. 

[drsimetra]

For the Overwatch meme: Reinhardt

- i have 2 hours on reinhardt out of 36 hrs- i gotta have my beef boy for pushing - griefhardt ( aka the best reinhardt skin )- 100% ana no question

[icejin-tails]

blood-of-shiagur replied to your post “So I got my tablet. I’m sick and I’m bored. I’ll take some doodle...”

It would be cool to see your characters interact with canon somehow. If they could meet canon chars which would they be and what would they do?

This was definitely fun, and a little challenging! Gelato and Tiatle who are Freeza family members because I’m trash both have some connection to canon characters (minus their Xenoverse! selves) so I put them with characters they’d definitely not get the opportunity to interact with for one reason or another. We have Gelato being scolded by Krillin for trying to eat Oolong, Tiatle talking ...mechanical talk with Bulma (I really love the idea of Tiatle being friends with Bulma, I don’t know why), Gelato and Vegeta being all buddy-buddy after beating the crap outta each other, and Tiatle fangirling over the Ginyu Force.