#the lighthouse keepers

[blonde-elf-gf]

What is with Bahari Bay and tragic logs of lost love? What’s in the air over there??

[paeliae-occasionally]

Good day ! ✨👋

I am still going thru everything in the pinned post at the moment so feel free to ignore this if you’ve already talked about them, but the lighthouse keepers have intrigued me! Tell me about them, please?

Ooh! No, I haven’t talked about this yet!

So the lighthouses are scattered around the coast of the main continent here:

The orange Xs with the L are The Lighthouses

Obviously there are other lighthouses in the world but the ones marked on this map are part of a group with a larger purpose.

Who are the lighthouse keepers?

The lighthouse keepers are a collection of powerful casters who protect and often prevent inter-planar travel. They particularly deal with creatures who manage to cross from their home planes into the mortal plane.

History

The lighthouses were first built before the dissolution, so before magestones prevented gods from travelling out of their plane. During this time a lot of creatures discovered ways to pass the boundaries with gods, or gods straight up let them into the mortal plane.

This was incredibly dangerous as a lot of these creatures wanted to kill the mortals, so a group of mages and druids formed an alliance to protect mortals from these extra-planar beings.

These casters were each given a section of the continent under their protection and they built lighthouses which all connect through arcane teleportation systems so they could arrive quickly if needed.

Present Day

Ok so in the present day there are 11 lighthouses and 54 designated lighthouse keepers. The keepers are spread between the lighthouses based on the needs of that area.

For example the lighthouse in the desert below the sand walkers is full of demonic creatures who travelled to the mortal plane before the magestones or that have found workarounds to return to the world. This is a particularly dangerous place so it has a higher number of lighthouse keepers (11)

Other entities that the lighthouses protect against include: Necromancers who return from death to life, demons, fey, enchanted creatures, gods sometimes, etc.

If it isn’t native to the Mortal plane they have a duty to banish it back to its home plane.

Different lighthouse keepers will have a speciality in one type of creature and they will be assigned to the lighthouse where that creature is most prevalent. There is always one keeper, called the traveller who travels between the lighthouses and across the continent to evaluate cross-zone problems and also to ensure all of the lighthouses are doing their jobs correctly. They also make contact with the other continents to discuss issues.

Because the keepers have such a long uninterrupted lineage, they also preserve history specifically cultural and religious history that would otherwise be forgotten to time.

Many lighthouses have their own libraries and many of the keepers are also scholars of history as well as magic and creatures.

Hope you enjoyed, if you have any further questions don’t hesitate to ask!

[wrathofachilleus]

born to be an abstract concept, forced to be a percievable entity

[emberglowfox]

Keeper -- a short comic about an angel meeting a robotic lighthouse keeper that doesn't know the world has already ended. Made in about 18 hours for a 24-hour 24-page* black and white comic challenge (that I arrived late to, ha.)

*the actual submission does not include the cover, which was created after the fact for this post.

This was a really great learning experience as someone who's... never really made a completed comic. I ended up really attached to the story by the end of the project (possibly due to all-nighter deliriousness lol) and ultimately am very proud of what I made.There are some things I'd still like to change, particularly text placement, but in keeping with the spirit of the challenge I've elected to leave it as is.

[maretriarch]

[skyartworkzzz]

Some Ratau doodles following up on my practice with COTL characters + one Ratoo cuz I needed to know how I wanted to differ them x'D

ALSO AN...................ACCIDENTAL COmic heavily based on @/brightgoat's interpretation of the brothers cuz I used their art as inspo for how I understand these characters + Ratoo's lover for the sake of angst

TW for blood! Enjoy :)

[oblivionsdream]

I definitely do not need more OC’s but here’s my new selkie guy Tiernan. I decided with his design to make him look a little less than human.

The lighthouse keeper keeps trying to make him return to the sea but he refuses to listen to her 😂

[libanezink]

casual conversation between merman and lighthouse keeper totally not falling for one another 🌊 yes, I have a little MerMay AU going on for my Tav, Úna and Gale 🌊

[martyr0l0gy]

thinking about lighthouse keepers and stormy seas again

[vanished-lighthouse]

funny how i got lazy to do a birthday gift for myself but gets super excited at doing fanarts for other people LOL.

happy birthday to this old ass nerd.

[guiltywarden]

More COTL human designs

[felassan]

ancient meta from the dawn of time and by that I mean pre-DA:I's release in 2014 [edited for brevity] [the Hermit card].

"The Inquisitor’s Edition of DA: Inquisition comes with a deck of 72 tarot cards, both major and minor arcana, with custom artwork Solas - The Hermit The Hermit, set against a barren landscape, leans on his staff and holds a lamp in front of him to light the way in the darkness. Let’s start with the obvious: Solas is literally a hermit. The card speaks of retreat, wandering, distance, reclusion, solitude and (when reversed) loneliness. In the story of the Tarot, the Hermit heads out at night, peering at and examining whatever takes his fancy. In the same way, Solas walks the Fade while asleep, finding brilliant unimaginable lights, only to smile in delight and move in for a closer look. The Hermit’s lantern illuminates animals that only come out at night, flowers that only open in moonlight or starlight - Solas sees things in the Fade that can only be found if you go in without fear, without preconceptions, your way illuminated by the knowledge. The Hermit wants the truth at all costs - Solas values freedom of thought above all else. In readings, the Hermit can symbolize a wise person with a philosophical attitude. The person may also be someone older, like the old man the Hermit is usually portrayed as. The person may be someone the querent meets who will give them the insight, tools or training needed to overcome an obstacle - someone who can shine a light on things that were previously mysterious or confusing. This comes from an interpretation of the Hermit: he has internalized the lessons of life to the point that he is the lesson. Now he returns from isolation to bestow boons on his fellow man and share the knowledge he has gained. Now he is like his lantern, illuminated from within by all that he is, capable of penetrating the darkness. He helps, acts as a mentor and offers wise counsel. In the knowledge he offers the Inquisitor, Solas embodies one of the meanings of the card - guidance. The Hermit is ruled by Virgo. if anyone is going to take a lantern into a dark place to see what’s going on, it’s a Virgo. Solas reflects key themes of the card such as going on a personal, solitary quest." </end 2014 rambling>

[emphasis added rn]

Light is a super common metaphor for knowledge, wisdom, insight and guidance. Cole says "He wants to give wisdom, not orders". The riddles in Lateral Thinker, in which we have to light a series of braziers with Veilfire torches, go:

"The Dread Wolf keeps its gaze on the one light that illuminates the way forward. // Where the Dread Wolf's gaze blazes, paths are brought to light. // When the Dread Wolf's gaze is bright, light burns in a ring of the dead. // One sees the hunter, one flees from it, one hunts it in turn, one outwits them all."

A lighthouse is a tower-like structure designed to emit light and act as a beacon. The Game Informer article calls Solas' Lighthouse a "towering" structure. this magical realm in the Fade is his lair, his inner sanctum, his home base; it reflects him (and his hermitty isolation). the article kind of likens it to visiting your friend's bedroom, it's not a showy place like Skyhold or a fortress, it's something realer and more intimate than that. you could read it as, Solas' personal home in the magical Fade is called a lighthouse because Solas, like the Hermit with his lantern or little flame in his hand, is like a lighthouse, a beacon in the dark - as if the "flaming Rook" emblem on the front of the 'red book' isn't just a fiery rook as in the chess piece or Tower card with Fen'Harel above it, but a tower-like structure, a lighthouse, and at its top blazes a bright fire, a beacon of light like those atop a lighthouse, where Solas himself resides, lighting the way.

[paeliae-occasionally]

Could you tell me a little more about how the Drysar and lighthouses climbed the ranks?

I can!

Preface

So in 0PD the dissolution happened. I have a post on that here, but essentially the most powerful magic users in the world were largely wiped out. A large enough percentage of their population died in the war that the Edrelian empire could never reform, leaving a vacancy for magical control.

The Drysar

The Drysar had been around before the dissolution but did not get involved in the mages war, so after the fighting died down, the world looked to them and the few other remaining magical civilisations to supply magical items and essentially carry the flame of knowledge after the Edrels fell. This sudden increase in trade and focus on the Drysar as an arcane people encouraged them to further their research into the death realms which ended up with a deal with death for essentially immortality by reincarnation.

The drysar died quickly in the public imagination as other great arcane cities rose much faster and decisively, but they are still around in the modern day and hold the same values of passing down knowledge and investigating magic.

The Lighthouses

Similarly the lighthouses were created pre-dissolution, however they did not just emerge naturally like the Drysar.

They were founded to protect the world from the growing threat of extra-planar beings. Creatures from the Dieral and Azeraad planes had begun crawling through the cracks between worlds and driving mortals from their lands so a small group of powerful casters gathered together to hunt them.

Many years down the line, the Dissolution happens, which ends in a treaty. A lighthouse keeper is sent to the negotiations, and proposes the condition that gods can no longer travel into the mortal plane and this applies to that god’s creatures. This dramatically reduces the threat so the lighthouse keepers settled down around the coast and watch for threats while protecting from creatures who passed through before the accords.

Hope that answers the question, Thanks wyked!

[wrathofachilleus]

[emberglowfox]

keepers as a stream request. hangin out :]

[paradimeshifts7]

༄ 𝑻𝒆𝒎𝒑𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝑬𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒓𝒆 ༄

Rated E | 20k | lighthouse/amnesia au

For Ayes on her birthday. Love you so much, friend.

Gorgeous art by Tone.

Read it here!