#sindhol

[matgpt]

This is a joke I (@highladyluck) am taking too far, as always. Thanks to @anyboli for the original inspiration, @gunkreads for the OpenAelfinn piece, @iliiuan for saying someone should actually make this a blog, and @pillowfriendly for the completely cursed header image manip and adorable icon (based off original art by @coreylansdell).

This is somewhere in the liminal space between an ask blog and an RP blog- ask questions about how Mat would respond to situations or characters, what Mat knows or doesn’t know, etc. Answers will probably not be delivered in-character but any dialogue will be.

If you don’t like the answers, please reblog your answer with more specific instructions so MatGPT can be refined and improved!

If you really don’t like the answers, please direct complaints to OpenAelfinn by entering the nearest twisted stone doorway (no fire, music, or iron implements permitted) or visiting our headquarters at the Tower of Ghenji.

[elnynaevetialmearamandragoran]

So like..... now that Mat is a confirmed Hero of the Horn, am I to understand he's gotten his memories of previous lives back by blowing the horn? And his understanding of the Old Tongue? And so certain Other Dimensions may not appear?

[iliiuan]

To be played during the return to Sindhol

To the tune of "Take Me to the Moon"

🎵🎵Take me to Sindhol

🎶🎵🎵Via the Tower of Genjei

🎶🎵🎵We'll dance with snakes and foxes

🎵🎶While we pray that we don't die

🎶🎵The Aelfinn, they speak true

🎶🎵The Eelfinn, they'll eat you

[divorceblogger]

Okay the post about Rand's sexuality is here - you can expect spoilers up to and including A Memory of Light so you should avoid reading it if you haven't finished reading the series. Obv I don't think that a lot of analysis on psychology and sexuality were necessarily rooted in science or research in the early 1900s but Freud's theories have always had a lot of literary significance and that's how I approach analysing how the larger narrative interacts with RJ's deployment of the oedipal complex in the post and I do think the books intend to critique it, at least in part.

the great hunt, chapter 16

Nynaeve and Moiraine are often both posited as potential romantic figures in the series if not in the same sequences in which Rand considers other romantic interests. They both go on to develop into Rand's mentor-mother figures in the series (as Lan functions as the mentor-father figure) and Moiraine’s death in The Fires of Heaven is very hard on him. Rand’s relationship with his various ‘mothers’ have always formed a very important facet of his characterisation - the first significant battle that Rand engages in at the end of The Eye of World involves the Dark One attempting to ‘tempt’ him by promising to resurrect Kari al’Thor, and it’s important to note that the Shadow is specifically involved in the attempt to lure him by using his mother - to succumb to Oedipus's fate is not a favourable outcome.

the fires of heaven, chapter 7

The vision (in other terms, a prophecy) that Moiraine witnesses in the ter'angreal in Rhuidean hints at disastrous consequences should she try to seduce Rand and it's in direct reference to the prophecy that Oedipus would kill his father (see: The Gathering Storm), marry his own mother, and bring down a terrible tragedy upon his people. Once the first two elements of the prophecy are fulfilled in the myth, the kingdom is struck by a plague and the crisis is only resolved when Oedipus blinds himself and goes into exile. This is again vaguely familiar in terms of how the story evolves over the course of the series as Rand is blinded briefly, nearly kills his own lover as Oedipus nearly did, and dies in 'exile' from a home he never returned to for fear of betraying it to his enemies.

With the Oedipal Complex, Freud postulated that the journey to adulthood resolved itself as a 'heterosexual' development of sexuality while homosexuality represented an arrested stage of development. In the series, Rand notably describes Ishamael and Demandred as attractive people and also goes on to describe various men as individuals that women might like to consider as likely candidates for romantic interests - the former also signals Lews Therin's own implied struggles with homoerotic relationships with men; regret colours how he remembers the friendships he'd cultivated with them as he refuses to accept the reality that he's dead; or in other words, stuck in a state of stasis that he refuses to move on from - to develop, or, to mature. He warns against the dangers of male channelers and the Black Tower and cautions Rand against them, which is where a lot of the queer readings arise from.

These references to the attraction that men hold for Rand also decrease in frequency over the course of the series, and are also significantly concentrated in situations preceding Rand's acceptance of responsibility - in other words, Rand is only considered a man who has reached adulthood upon accepting the responsibility of the Dragon Reborn at the end of The Great Hunt, following which he begins to actively return the romantic interest that Elayne and Min show in him after failing to adequately return any interest in Selene or Egwene. His true and final acceptance of his fate is seen during The Fires of Heaven where he's forced to confront the reality that he will not be able to evade or trick the prophecy as he'd planned to do following his trip to Sindhol in The Shadow Rising. His encounters with the Seanchan in The Great Hunt and The Fires of Heaven - i.e. colonialist imperialism, which is often likened to rape - waken him to the responsibility he owes the world on both occasions, and he later loses a hand in another significant encounter with the Seanchan*. Childhood is past for Rand, and there's nowhere to run.

*Mat also experiences several moments that can be described as a ‘loss of innocence' which can be directly traced back to participating in conflicts against the Seanchan, as seen during The Great Hunt and Knife of Dreams.

This recognition sets the trend for Rand's relationships with men moving forward - he severs the bond of friendship he's cultivated with Mat and overwrites it with a relationship based on responsibility during The Fires of Heaven. Following the "kiss" that Rand administered to Mat in The Shadow Rising and the intense degrees of homoeroticism they display in The Eye of the World, he recognises Mat as a point of personal crisis. Perrin is afforded a similar treatment in Lord of Chaos and they're both eventually banished from Rand's lives as they're figures from a childhood with varying degrees of homoeroticism coded into their relationships that Rand can no longer afford to associate himself with.

Similar treatments are afforded to all his friends and allies during books 4-7, but in doing so he weakens himself leading the narrative to deride him for childish, poorly conceived approaches to asserting his maturity. He begins avoiding the Maidens (who often identify themselves as his 'mothers') who are sworn to protect him more religiously to his disadvantage. He asserts his adulthood with irresponsible and dangerous acts, in part guided by the personal traumas that he's endured. He set himself at odds with Moiraine for four books before recognising his mistake - but it didn't prevent him from committing the same mistake again repeatedly in subsequent books.

But the books also display plenty of sympathy for Rand, and in preventing the fulfilment of Moiraine’s prophecy they tackle the idea of the inevitable disaster and Rand’s flawed approaches to reach adulthood - they recognise and draw attention to the points of pressure and negative forces corralling Rand in and preventing him from acting in his best interests and ask the reader to pity him as he begins to isolate himself. The books are critical of his ill-conceived approaches but they don’t forget to be kind to him. And Elayne, with her specific homoerotic relationship with Aviendha, exists to offer an ideal example of a leader who can accept responsibility and make the journey into adulthood with the proper support, empathy and training.

TLDR: rand is bisexual and in denial. like his mom, moiraine, and girlfriend, elayne, who were definitely not in denial.

[apocalypticavolition]

How Moiraine Might Break Her Shield

Obviously, Moiraine's shielding has been a big matter of speculation since it's completely off-book, and I think I have an idea that is going to be heavy on the book spoilers!

So, in the books - as you should know if you clicked "keep reading" or at least don't care about knowing, seriously if you do care about knowing stop reading this post you silly billy -

Moiraine disappears for about half of the series, stuck in a place whose name literally translates to "Neverland". This has also been a big source of speculation, because the reality of acting is such that making an actress take a big break like this might mean you never get them back at all. Some have suggested that her visit might be truncated, and I think that that's exactly what's going to happen.

Another thing that happens in the books as a result of this sequence is that she loses most of her channeling power thanks to the denizens of the land. She manages to avoid actually being affected by this though because she has a powerful angreal that more than makes up the difference.

I think that in the show her shield is not going to be lifted properly until she goes to Sindhol and that since she won't be staying long (maybe a single year off at most), the power artifact she'll walk away with is instead a ter'angreal that will let her get around the shield or the Finn outright breaking it altogether.

Thoughts?

[amemoryofwot]

Nvm me hallucinating a Towers of Midnight AU where Rand actually gets to do something (fun fact did you know that’s his lowest POV book, not even TDR) and Travels to Seanchan with Aviendha because yknow she’s been there before and it makes the Sex Igloo relevant and SHE gets to do something more than go on a grimdark wankfest about the Aiel slowly and graphically dying. And Semirhage has already killed the Crystal Throne so their prophecy about Rand kneeling is null and he can use ta’veren magic to help them understand sul’dam can channel and when he comes back to confront Tuon he can threaten her with either amnesty for her participation in the Last Battle or throw her to the mobs he’s riled up. Mat can pop out of Sindhol out of a previously unbeknownst Tower on Seanchan land because why not that would be fun for them.

[mermaidtablet]

Oh. Face palm. I think Mat's little genie oil lamp is an easter egg for the Sindhol wishes

[wafflelovingbatgirl]

The Eelfinn and the Aelfinn are just here to cause problems on purpose. Because they’re bored and it’s fun for them (delicious emotions).

[iliiuan]

This is fantastic.

They also steal her ability to channel somehow. Like she's channeling and they're eating her sensations and she's losing her ability? IDK. If you wanted to add some more layers, you could.

And then there's Lanfear being there, and it seems that they interacted somehow? Or were aware of each other? Again, I don't know. Just more possible layers.

But if you add, don't subtract, because this is gold.

wheel of time ficlet: architecture

898 words

Summary: Moiraine's experience with the Finn, in the abstract.

SPOILERS: full series-ish plus RJ's notes

TRIGGER WARNINGS: dissociation, torture, rape, hurt no comfort!!! seriously ZERO COMFORT

Relationships: Moiraine/Siuan, Moiraine/Lan

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I read RJ's notes on this months ago and I still haven't recovered. of my numerous attempts to write Moiraine Ghenjei content, this is the closest I can get, even though it's mostly in metaphor. at this point, I don't know if this even makes sense if you're not in my brain. I have to assume the average person probably doesn't have many thoughts about Cairhienin architecture, but here we are.

I was going to say "enjoy," but this is one of the least enjoyable things I've ever written, in more ways than one. idk. take care of yourself. and let me know what you think - very open to constructive criticism here. in fact I crave it

First there are hallways and everything is dizzy and backwards and sideways, everything is winding and white and twisting and the Finn have each arm in a vice grip. It hurts, but everything hurts. This pain is unimportant, though it offends her dignity that they won’t let her walk alone.

At first she tries to track the twists and turns, but after the second repeated doorway she gives up. What’s the point? She won't escape on her own. The truth is bitter, but it’s still true. This is her destiny.

Then abruptly there are no more hallways and it's wide and empty. The room is full of Finn and full of echoes. They hiss at her and she speaks back as calmly as she can. She dances the steps laid out for her in Rhuidean and in her own mind after, choreographing her doom on many sleepless nights.

Now she dances to that doom with poise and grace. No matter what darkness waits, she can still do that one more time, dance the Damodred dance, weave words like the Power smooth and deft. Her fear, coiled in her chest, is hidden behind a facade she’s been perfecting since youth, though she sees a few nostrils flare and gets the horrible sense they can smell it. Can those flattened noses smell the sweat pricking her skin? Can those pointed ears hear the drumbeat of her heart?

Her voice doesn't waver.

She gets what she wants. She can’t stop her hands from shaking as the deal is made.

Then there are more hallways and then stillness, a large room where sound should echo but is instead eaten by the cavernous expanse. She stands in the center of that room as the bargain dictated. It was a good bargain for everyone but her, which means it was a good bargain. She breathes in through her nose and holds herself tall.

The Finn swarm.

And they start to take things.

They take things and she pictures herself as a manor house. The body is nothing, the body is incidental – it does not matter if the body shakes or cries or screams. She is not the body. She, Moiraine Sedai, is a manor house, tidy and vast, like the ones she dreamed of as a girl. Not the Sun Palace – although her skeleton is Cairhienin architecture still, all austere corners and edges and cold drafts – but a lush country estate with too many rooms to count and a beautiful garden on the grounds.

Her new body is a manor house and her mind is the ghost inhabiting it, and if the Finn are in one room she can simply glide to another. If they are rustling through the kitchen – they love the kitchen with all its knives and poisons. A Cairhien childhood makes for good eating – if they are rustling through the kitchen, then she will go to the bedroom, all silk sheets and heavy curtains. If they are corrupting the bedroom with fake-touch and fake-pleasure, fake-pain, fake-Warders who push her to the floor and take her from behind –

If –

If Lan –

Well, then she will breathe the calming scent of flowers in the garden. She will admire the hedges, perfectly trimmed. She had always liked the Sun Court gardens when she was young, liked the privacy, until Taringail had demonstrated just how easy it was to sneak up on someone where no one else could see or hear. After, her servants had shown her how to hide the bruises. A kind of kindness, she had thought at the time, but would it not have been kinder to warn her, shelter her? A useless thought. There was no privacy in the Sun Court, no safety.

There is none here either. The Finn smile wide and waxy. They lick the tears from her cheeks. She lives and dies and lives again. 

When the manor house fails her, when they’ve stripped it to the bones, she flees. Briefly she is with Siuan, in the fish hut of their dreams, sturdy frame built with their four hands. The house is by the water and there are always mangoes in the bowl on the counter. She likes to scoop the flesh out with her hands. She likes to tease Siuan by touching her with sticky fingers. That’s a solace for a while, until of course they take it too. They take the salt-brine smell and the woven blankets and the way Siuan pants when she climaxes. They take the roughness of the floors and they take the safety. And they take Siuan.

When there’s nothing else, Moiraine becomes a body again. They devour her. Her love, her hate, her power, her memories. Spindly fingers take and change and add and subtract, stir and mix and corrupt everything they touch. Her memories aren’t hers. Her body isn’t hers. Her past isn’t hers.

If she ever makes it out, she thinks in fleeting moments of despair before they sink their teeth into that too, she doubts her future will be hers either.

At first she had been worried she would never escape this place. A price she would pay, however horrible.

Now, however, she fears that if she ever makes it back, it will be no better than this. She fears that they’ve ruined it all. That if she makes it back, there will be nothing that doesn't hurt.

[alectology-archive]

moiraine is a princess in the tower send post

[iliiuan]

Um

WHAT?!?!

That made no sense and then it made even less sense.

Moiraine cuts Lanfear's throat?

And then Lanfear's looking around as if that much blood loss wouldn't end her?

I guess we're definitely not getting the heroic leap into Sindhol.

What's the point of adapting a book series to screen if you're not even going to try to tell the story? Make your own story and don't pretend that it's anything to do with the books.

[pillowfriends]

how i sleep after scheduling a post-Sindhol angsty ficlet for tomorrow morning

[iliiuan]

I would watch a show that was about the daughter when she comes back from Sindhol. It would be so dope to get this story as allusion to shit that went down in the past. The slow reveal to the audience would be delicious.

The Finn stole my baby AU

ok FINE you can all have the Eelfinn Stole My Baby in outline form

I've never pinned down the details on this, because I think it would be most interesting as an installment in a larger series and a lot of the details would be determined by the needs of the overall storyline, but this is the vague outline:

1) Fortuona has just found out from Min that her kid's going to be a marath'damane. Because a) SOME IDIOT (maybe Mat, maybe Berelain if they're on speaking terms, there's some other options depending on the scenario) made the mistake of telling her about Sindhol in some way that makes her actually believe in it, b) she's a slut for prophecy and always has been, and c) she wants to explore all her options, she wants to go to Sindhol to get some answers from the Aelfinn. The questions she intends to ask vary by setting but it's something along the lines of how to survive the current situation/protect her marath'damane child/solve the sul'dam problem/ensure stability of the Empire in the westlands/how best to reconquer mainland Seanchan. You know! #FortuonaProblems. Mat eventually agrees to escort her; both to get in, since the only way in right now is the Tower of Ghenji, and to get out.

2) But because they're going in outside of treaty rules and Mat's there, the Eelfinn are the ones waiting for them and they won't let Fortuona go see the Aelfinn (maybe they say that they won't see Mat, but they will see her, if she agrees to be escorted alone. Mat's almost like "oh, over my dead body" but catches himself just in time.) Whatever deal Fortuona makes with the Eelfinn involves something she can use to solve her existing political problems (not sure what this is but it could be something horrible, like a better male a'dam), and something for Mat (maybe a magic replacement eye?). The third item is either something else for her, something else for Mat, or a very thoroughly rules-lawyered escape clause, depending on how confident Mat was/she is about being able to escape with the ashandarai. In exchange, they take her about-to-be-born-child, which she either explicitly names as the price, or is counting on them taking as the price.

3) At least they're not gonna eat the kid; the Eelfinn want a human child who can channel to build them new treaty doors someday, and if the human child is raised by them and therefore on their side, so much the better. They're also thrilled to get another piece of Mat. I figure the Eelfinn would want the savor of Mat and Tuon fighting about this, so while there's a possibility that the world's least hygenic c-section happens before Mat cottons on to what Tuon just bargained away, I think it would be more likely that they don't strike until the price is explicit or Mat has figured it out.

Tuon's like "I understand that you're upset but it's better this way. I came to solve a problem. It's not solved the way I intended, but it's solved and I got you an incredible boon in the bargain. We can always have more children."

Mat's like "Yeah, well, you aren't having them with me! You're a monster for unilaterally trading our child to my eldritch enemies."

She's like "If I'm a monster, so are you. As soon as you found out she would be marath'damane you began setting plans in motion to take her from her destiny. From the empire. From me. Don't think I haven't noticed. At least in this situation, I'm getting something out of it that benefits both of us."

4) I honestly don't entirely know what happens next, but it's bad. Unstoppable force (Mat's desire to rescue women & his love of Tuon) meets immovable object (said woman/Tuon just betrayed him and his innocent child to his worst enemies). Would he just leave Tuon there? (maybe?) Would he try to trade Tuon's life for the baby's? (I like this because I like pain and I think he might be deranged enough in the moment to do it) Would he try to trade his life for the baby's? (maybe, but they wouldn't accept it.) Would he try to kill all the Eelfinn? (yes, and they'd still take the baby.) Like how the fuck do you recover from any of that? And the worst part is you can like… sort of see where Tuon is coming from, if you enjoy women's wrongs? And she really just wanted to meet the Aelfinn and it's Mat's fault that it isn't going as planned?

5) If there's a sequel, it would be the fully grown child showing up in their world with a terrifying knowledge of esoteric ter'angreal construction and thoroughly socialized as a *Finn some improbably short amount of time later. Maybe when Elayne and Mat mount a rescue mission in a few months. Time runs differently in Sindhol if the *Finn need it to.

Bonus: I'm still debating adding a variant of this to the epilogue of The Fox That Makes The Ravens Fly- for one thing, I haven't decided yet if Tuon is pregnant, and if she is, by whom. If I do it'll be Rand who tells her about the Aelfinn & Thom who tells her about the Eelfinn, she'll go in with Thom and someone else (Elayne, I think, in exchange for access to the dice-ring ter'angreal that replicates Mat's luck, also Elayne would love to go on that field trip, although I could see Min being interested for the metaphysics of it all), and the ostensible point is to rescue Moiraine. I think instead of that, she negotiates getting Mat back, at the cost of leaving her baby with them, and resetting the timeline so Mat never died and the canon events where Moiraine gets rescued happen, but she remembers the old timeline. I have no idea if the *Finn actually get to keep her baby, who may or may not be a sparker in this scenario, or for that matter if they get to keep Moiraine, but I bet they'd take the bargain regardless because they invested a lot in Mat & also now Tuon has some weird fucking emotions about the entire life she didn't lead. Also they're the fae, the only thing they like more than bargain eyeballs is bargain babies.

[highladyluck]

One of the most surreal aspects of Wheel of Time is for as much as it's one of the major trope codifying fantasy series, there is actually a hell of a lot of flat out sci-fi background/implications rolling around in in it too.

YES I love it so much! It makes it feel expansive and really rounds out the ‘legend fades to myth’ themes.

The Age of Legends is a Crystal Spires and Togas magitech utopia (that’s actually a bit of a dystopia if you start looking at the underlying premises). They could create pocket universes (vacuoles). The One Power has a lot of physics DNA, including the linking rules being based on electron valences & other atomic properties of elements. Portal Stones and the Ways are wormhole networks/alternate universes. Sindhol has non-Euclidean geometry. The Ogier are from another dimension. Tel’aran’rhiod is yet another alternate universe. Ancient tech from a lost civilization is abandoned, discovered, misused, reused, etc. Bayle Domon can rattle off a laundry list of classic sci-fi weirdness including the glowing field that kills anyone who gets too close. The Forsaken more or less time travel to a post-apocalyptic future. RJ used the same sources Frank Herbert did so the Aiel feel like a Dune pastiche. Aginor is a mad scientist.

I’m a sci-fi reader more than a fantasy reader- WoT is my exception that proves the rule- but I think one of the reasons I find it so compelling is the very dense layer of SF behind so much of the worldbuilding.

[the-last-punbender]

Forsaken Kill Counts

Out of 19 Forsaken (including reincarnations), 2 survive the Last Battle: Hessalam and Moghedien.

Rand kills 5: Ishamael, Rahvin, Semirhage, Aran’gar, and Moridin.

Egwene kills 2: M’Hael and Mesaana

Moiraine kills Bel’al, and although she forces Lanfear into Sindhol, she is still technically alive.

The Green Man, Lan, and Perrin also get 1 each, putting the total kill count for the Light at 11.

Mashadar (not on either side) kills Sammael.

Forsaken Kills by the Shadow: 5

Ishamael kills Lanfear to get her out of Sindhol

Graendal kills Asmodean

Shaidar Haran presumably kills Graendal

Elza Penfell kills Osan’gar, not realizing he was a Forsaken in disguise

And lastly, Aginor kills himself by overdrawing the One Power at the Eye.

As far as information the Light receives before the end of AMoL is concerned, it is known that Moridin and Cyndane are resurrections, putting the total Forsaken known at 16. As far as anyone knows, Rand killed Graendal. No one knows what happened to Asmodean, Hessalam’s identity is unknown (though she is suspected to be Forsaken), no one knows Rand killed Aran’gar.

Osan’gar is never found out to be anything other than Dashiva. So Aginor woke up, immediately killed himself by accident, was resurrected, then got killed by friendly balefire before accomplishing anything. Bel’al may have a contender for Worst Forsaken; but then again, I forgot about Bel’al when I was trying to remember all the Forsaken.

[elan-morin-tedronai]

Dear Yuletide Author

Hi there! Happy Yuletide and thank you for writing for me! [updated 9.11.]

AO3 name: Tedronai

General likes & dislikes:

Likes: epic friendships, angst, hurt/comfort (physical or emotional works), complicated dynamics between unlikely allies, politics & court intrigue, complicated relationships (romantic or otherwise), enemies to reluctant allies to friends (to lovers) or basically any variation thereof, themes of loyalty and/or betrayal, porn with feelings (or porn with character exploration), tragedy.

Dislikes: plotless porn, plotless fluff, domestic fluff, crack humour, A/B/O dynamics, most mundane AUs for fantasy/sci-fi fandoms (high school, coffee shop, etc), redemption = death trope, pregnancy or kid fic.

Do Not Wants: Harm to cats. That’s basically my one hard limit. I mean, I hope it was never going to be relevant in the first place, but you know.

Otherwise I have no triggers or serious squicks so you can do basically anything you feel the story requires!

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Fandom #1: The Malazan Book of the Fallen Character(s) requested: Silchas Ruin

I requested only Silchas this time, but like I said in the sign-up feel absolutely free to throw any other characters you feel relevant in the mix. (Including OCs, you know. Knock yourself out.) I’ll be very happy with anything you can come up with, but if you’d like some prompts to get your creativity flowing, here are some ideas:

a look at his life in Kharkanas after the end of the series, dealing with the losses while trying to help his people rebuild something

any kind of missing scene from the awkward road trip with Seren, Fear & co, any exploration of the dynamics between any of the characters, I just think that any of them is a super fascinating fit with Silchas

an AU in which he somehow manages to reunite with Anomander before Anomander does the thing (you know which one)

anything about his doomed alliance with Scabandari and their friends to uneasy allies to enemies relationship

as far as shipping goes, if you’re so inclined, you can ship him with anyone and I’ll probably be happy, personally my big ships for him at the moment are Scara, Tulas, Anomander, but I can honestly get on board with anything, go for it

you know how I said I dislike plotless porn? we’ll make an exception for this one :D

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Fandom #2: Wheel of Time Character(s) requested: Ishamael | Moridin

AAaaaaaa where do I even start with this one?? As I’m sure you can tell, I love him very much, and anything, with any incarnation of the character, would be absolutely fabulous. However, if you want more specific prompts, look no further!

anything about his relationship with Barid and Lews pre-War of Power

maybe after he’s already turned to Shadow but it’s not common knowledge yet?

or, alternatively, the immediate fall-out of his declaration in the Hall of Servants

if you’re more into Moridin, I’d especially love to see something about the immediate aftermath of his resurrection; his reaction to being alive again, to the new body, to the soul-crushing disappointment that death was not the end

maybe dealing with any of the other Forsaken for the first time post-resurrection

going to Sindhol to free Lanfear

as far as shipping goes, if you’re so inclined, my big ship for him is obviously Barid but I'm completely open to other options; Elan/Lews, Ishamael/Asmodean (thanks Nip for this one), Moridin/Taim are all good shit

anyway generally with Elan, angst is the name of the game but if you don’t feel like destroying your own soul for Yuletide, obviously that’s not a requirement. just, feel free to go as dark as you like! 

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Fandom #3: The Silvan Saga - R. K. Lander Character(s) requested: Pan'assár, Gor'sadén

Alright so this series [link] is basically the answer to my long-time craving of some good old high fantasy. It’s on-going, with three books out so far, and it’s got some really cool worldbuilding details that I really love, but what really makes it for me is the character dynamics. I really love how friendship is put to the forefront in the story, and romance... yeah, the compulsory hetero love interest to the main protagonist doesn’t even show up until book three.

Anyway, that’s the sales pitch, but if you offered this fandom I assume you’ve read the books so I don’t need to sell them to you. :’D

I requested Pan’assár and Gor’sadén because I love epic friendships and I just really, really loved everything that went on with them in book three... And I want more! Anything! From their youthful escapades centuries ago with Orta, to present day getting-drunk-and-reminiscing kind of scenes. You can make it funny, you can make it sad, you can make it an innovative mix of both, anything goes. I just want more of these elves.