#when legends and lore collide

[saphs-tales-from-paldea]

Colin from Team Arctic still hasn't noticed that he left my hands untied, lol. I'm just recording his little rant about the artifacts and trying to control legendaries-

...

Did this guy just say he wants to make a clone army of the legendary trio???

[saphs-tales-from-paldea]

I'm staying with Octavia right now and she just did this.

[maple-memories]

How do I tell Saph that she looks epic and kinda lowkey hot?

[wyvernvoneldritch]

Hey so do ya’ll remember that bat Pokémon I made a while back…

I was revisiting previous character designs in case they needed updates when I realized that I did in fact not like my ‘final’ design for her, so I decided to fix her design to look more like a stand-alone legendary and not a regional Noivern!

So, without further ado…

Meet Phantazotz, the Grim Pokémon! Her name is a combination of ‘phantom’ and ‘Camazotz’, the Mayan Bat God of Death and the main inspo for her design and lore!

Type: Ghost/Dragon

Size: 25’

Base Stats:

- HP: 120

- Attack: 95

- Defense: 85

- Sp. Attack: 115

- Sp. Defense: 100

- Speed: 140

Total: 655

Unique Ability: Final Breath

The embodiment of the state of being between Life and Death, Phantazotz is a noble Pokémon who tries to appear approachable despite her otherworldly aura. Legends speculate that only those who prove themselves to be worthy in a near-death battle get to see her and that, should a champion ever win, Phantazotz may deem their soul worthy and righteous, blessing them with gifts of ancient knowledge about the ties between mortality and immortality, but punishing those who fall short with a fate worse than death. As none who have ever ventured to find Phantazotz in seek of her knowledge returned, none can confirm nor deny the rumors.

In reality Phantazotz is a guardian of the dead, forever flying throughout the night skies and making it her onus to find the lost souls of Pokémon and their trainers who have been long forgotten so that they can be taken through ‘The Veil’ to a paradise where spirits can reunite and rest. She dutifully watches over and guards every spirit she rescues and treats every soul she meets with a kind and gentle reverence. Legends further corroborate that should she die, The Veil would shatter, and the worlds of the Dead and the Living would collide, leaving the lost spirits to wander the mortal plane and the living to pass over into an eternal limbo of soulless comatose upon death.

⚠️ DO NOT use the art or characters without permission

⛔️ NO tracing, NO reposting

⛔️ NO shifting, NO role playing

[saphs-tales-from-paldea]

CINN NO NOT THE TREE IN VICTORY SQUARE

to get festive for christmas eve, the Christmas Eevee is being released onto the public to wreak as much havoc as possible on every ornament it can find before it evolves at midnight into a Decorateon

[ao3feed-piltovers-finest]

Between Vengeance and Valor

by Actually_A_Sinnamonroll

Vi is a rebellious outlaw, and Caitlyn is a strict enforcer. When their worlds collide, they’re forced to team up. Despite their differences, they begin to rely on each other and sparks fly as they fight side by side.

In a world full of danger, trust, and tough choices, can they survive together—or will their differences tear them apart?

I know short summary but hey Star Wars au!!

Words: 3444, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence

Categories: F/F

Characters: Mel Medarda, Jayce (League of Legends), Viktor (League of Legends)

Relationships: Caitlyn/Vi (League of Legends), Jinx & Vi (League of Legends)

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Star Wars Setting, I try to do this in a way it could fit I am not all knowing in the star wars lore but i do my best, Implied/Referenced Character Death, Background Character Death, Violence, Slow Burn, Enemies to Lovers, okay they are not really enemies but you get the thing, Angst? yes angst, Angst, i don't know how to tag okay so i will change and/or add tags, Not Beta Read

Read on A03. from AO3 works tagged ‘Caitlyn/Vi (League of Legends)’

[bardic-tales]

Snowbound Storyscapes: Day 1: Climates

Throughout December, I'll be revealing of my world's lore. Each day will explore a unique aspect of its realms, celestial wonders, and other lands. From Nephilim to legends, this event will offer a glimpse into the magic and mythology that make up Fantasy Worlds Collide.

What is the climate like in your world during winter?

In the northernmost reaches of the Celestial Realm, winter transforms the landscape into a realm of beauty. Towering mountains separates the Frostbond Expanse from the rest of the Celestial Realm. The barren plains become layered with snow and ice as blizzard-like conditions by unyielding winds. The Nephilim — giant children between mortal and celestials — live in harmony with these harsh elements. These Nephilim grow to be around 12 to 15 feet (3.6 to 4.5 meters) and adapt to withstand the cold. Here, winter is not a wonderland but a fierce display of nature’s power. The storms rage for days, obscuring the sky and drive most of the Nephilim into their stone homes carved into the mountain sides. Life in this harsh expanse causes fortitude with the Nephilim.

Above the Frostbond Expanse, auroras dance across the heavens. These ribbons of cyan, green, purple, and blues on clear nights. In the more extreme blizzards, the Eternal Moonlight — a silver glow that covers the rest of the Celestial Realm — tends to fail to penetrate the thick swirling snow. This absence of light casts the land in a twilight. The auroras will become some of the light source, along with the Eternal Moonlight when they are capable of being seen. This guides the Nephilim in winter.

Further south, the rest of the Celestial Realm experiences a gentler winter. This is to maintain its silver-lit glow. Nebulas continue to drift across the heavens. Their colors are undiminished by the seasonal shifts. The Virtue Lands are now cloaked in a soft, frosty sheen, but the Eternal Moonlight continues provide its light. Here, winter is a time of reflection and spiritual renewal. Each Archangel who govern the lands guide their followers / souls to focus on their virtues. Snow falls gently from the skies, accentuating the stars and celestial patterns in the skin. Their light reflects off the frost.

The blizzard-ravaged Frostbond Expanse serve as a testament of strength and endurance while the Virtue Lands offer a sanctuary of meditation and growth.

dividers created by @strangergraphics

[generalpierrotdameron]

There a 2 news Leslye Headland interviews on starwars.com and Collider that are very good.

I love this bit:

Beyond the other film influences, Headland has infused her love of the original films, current books, and Legends lore into the story. “There were certain things that I really wanted to do. You'll see a half Theelin, half human Jedi, Jecki, played by Dafne Keen, which was always a dream of mine,” Headland says. She first fell in love with the species when Rystáll Sant joined the Max Rebo Band in the Special Edition of Return of the Jedi. “There's also some EU lore that I decided to put in because I thought it was so cool and no one told me I couldn't,” she adds with a laugh. The series will introduce a Zygerrian Jedi and canonize one species that’s yet to be seen, Headland reveals. “There are a couple of really big EU ideas that are utilized both early on in the series and later in the series,” she hints.

[oogaboogaspookyman]

Some retake trickster lore and fun facts please? :,33

YOU ACTIVATED THE SPOOKYMAN GET READY HAHAHAHFJGJFHDGS THIS IS GONNA GET LONG BABY

@justafriendlystranger enjoy the food eheheheeee~

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Facts and bits of lore on Retake Trickster!

They're both based on the usual ancient entities like Hades and Kitsunes and a spanish urban legend called La Llorona, in terms of appearance. Also Hog and Scorched, EXEs that have this split personality trope, seen in... Well, the split personality! And also that one time Boiling Potato made that forest deities version of Trickster where she's like... A siren, in a swamp, seen that and went "lmao dead body in a swamp... WAIT I CAN WORK WITH THIS"

Trixie is strictly a pacifist, absolutely no murder allowed in her vicinity, she's literally afraid of the concept and wants nothing to do with it. She will fight but never kill. Enjoy the angst food~

Trickster (the ghost) is selfish, a very egocentric bitch, narcissistic (she doesn't have this disorder, she's like that), overall not the best person in the world. What playing around with god-like magic for years does to a person, amirite? Fucks you up

Trixie, although she seems like a very shy girl... Actually isn't all that much! She's friendly and all, very caring, sorta the mom friend at this point lmao, and also a bit of a gremlin at times. Yes she'll prank you and call you names and flirt for the fun of it because lmao you got a red face cutie hahaaa. She's not shy, whole opposite, just not as strong and confident.

Trixie is canonically a lesbian and can't take compliments despite her confident persona, BRING IN THE FLIRTIN' HAHAHAHAHSHAHAHFJFJFBDH

In light of this, Trickster is canonically pansexual in the retake! She thought she was straight (she died in ye olden japanese days) but there were a few women here and there that really wanted her. Because of this, she convinced the entire japanese area to mind their business because hey who are you to question a god*? Fuck off let her seduce women she can pop your lungs like balloons lmfao

Also this Trickster can take compliments, she's not shy lmao she's the one that lured in guys and gals like metal to a magnet

Their fusion (which i'm nicknaming The Deceiver) is only ever unstable when the two of them are crammed up in the same body, causing them to enter a very feral and angry state

In light of this... I'll just explain via what Trixie thinks of this "fusion" process~ ——— what she feels is a fusion, her soul colliding with mine, but what i feel? I feel her hands grabbing my soul and throwing me away, replacing me, i feel like i dissociate and watch my body cause a bloody mess knowing i can't do JACKSHIT. I want her gone, for good, i really do, i wanna punt her cocky self-centered ass into the fucking SUN.

Adding onto this, Trixie and Trickster don't have a great relationship. As i said, Trixie is a strict pacifist, and Trickster is a shitty bitch that thinks her better than everyone, so you can guess how fast and strong shit went downhill the day Trickster came back from the dead...

Trixie is a bottom unlike Trickster, her confident mischievous persona doesn't match her composure in a full-blown relationship, can't even take little jokes that alude to... That Stuff That Mustn't Be Mentioned But You Know Very Well What I'm Talking About (by Fall Out Boy). Trickster will gladly pin you down lol.

Trixie is in the 7 foot area, prolly 7'3, while Trickster is in the 6 foot area, maybe 6'7. When they fuse, Trickster's height mixes with Trixie's, making The Deceiver... 8 foot~? Eheheheeee enjoy~

[saphs-tales-from-paldea]

I just got off the phone with Professor Maple! Willow had woken up from a surgery! She had a fucking EVERSTONE embedded into her body so she couldn't evolve! And she came to rescue me because I don't know I guess she really wanted to evolve!?

(A photo is attached. A Water/Ghost type feline Pokémon is held by Saph, who's crying tears of joy. Ash the Meowscarada is looking intently at the Pokémon in question.)

She evolved into a Spectide!

[radicalraff]

who: @sntsholloways where: Growden Library

Rafa is, unfortunately, not a reader. He has read one book in the past two years, and that book is "The Werewolf in Lore and Legend" by Montague Summers, back when he thought maybe there was something he could do to, well, fix things. But he does like movies. And the library has them. And Cliffsides' internet just isn't always strong enough to support Netflix. "Ooh what about this one?" He asks Diego, fastened to the front of him, holding up a copy of "The Brave Little Toaster". "Get you good and traumatized early on..." He tucks the case under his arm and travels down the line, but when he goes to turn the corner, he nearly collides with somebody crossing the aisle, jumping back, instinctively steadying Diego in his sling. "Oh, wow sorry!"

[soulstitcher]

Polar Nights

A/N: Prequel to “Summer Dawns!” Also real quick, Kievan Rus is based off Imperial Russia, with a lot of Norse and Siberian influences. I’ve been wanting to use Hekate as an inspiration for ages. And I’m also a big fan of BG3 and the Forgotten Realms lore, which is why the Underdark is mentioned. We need a cave zone Yoshi-P.

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Once Y’shtola had deemed her fit to travel, the Scions’ first line of business was to bring Aegis back to Kievan Rus. The only reason Erenville didn’t accompany them was that Aegis had wanted a separate trip for just the two of them, and everyone had wanted to be there to see her return home. The moment the Enterprise had touched down under the cover of night, and the snow crunched under her feet for the first time in fifteen years, Aegis fell to her knees and wept in joy.

Now, however, after a brief visit to the capital of Karelingrad to reattune to the aetheryte, Aegis was ready to bring her lover to the land of her birth.

As soon as they had packed and taken the animals over to Aymeric to pet-sit and said goodbye to the Scions, Aegis and Erenville set off for Kievan Rus. They teleported to Kugane to avoid the long voyage, then sailed across the Ruby Sea to Yanxia. After a brief stop in Doma to see Hien, they took an airship past Dalmasca and into Ilsabard. It was strange for Erenville to see Viera so far from his homeland, but he figured he knew far less of the world than he realized.

When they touched down in Ilsabard, instead of taking another airship, they decided to instead drive through on Widow. It was exhilarating, driving across the snowy mountains and forests with the wind whipping through their hair. Before long they had to switch to their winter clothes and convert their ride into a snowmobile, and the sky slowly grew darker and darker until the sun ceased to rise.

And within a week, they arrived in Kievan Rus. The land of the tsars.

It was the onset of winter, so the ground was blanketed in freshly-fallen snow. The rivers and creeks had frozen over into roads of ice, and above them tree branches were crusted with frost. In the distance the legendary ice mountains loomed, their life-giving glaciers forever stuck to their sides. And strewn above the land was a shroud of deep black, the hallmark of Kievan Rus’s year: the night that lasted for months on end. Glittering stars were sprinkled all across the folds and wrinkles of the dark fabric, and rippling through them were ribbons and veils of light; the legendary auroras.

This had to be the most beautiful sky Erenville had ever seen.

“Someone looks like they’re in love,” Aegis teased when she looked behind her and saw his jaw slack as he gazed up at the eternal night. She tightened her large woolen shawl around her body and breathed smoke out of her nostrils to keep warm.

“Aegis, this…this is so beautiful,” he breathed, his arms tightening around her waist.

Her eyes narrowed fondly at him as she reached behind her and caressed his jaw with the back of her finger. “Did I ever tell you the story behind the auroras?”

He shook his head, eyes still on the lights.

“Some say that the auroras are actually the spirits of our ancestors coming back to visit us. Legend has it that Hekate sometimes lets spirits leave the afterlife to return to their loved ones, and the colors of the auroras are actually the colors of their souls. Others say that it’s actually the valkyries coming down to earth, the auroras being the trails left in the sky by their winged horses, and it’s a sign of a recent battle somewhere in the world, because they are here retrieving the souls Odin has chosen for Valhalla. Still others say it’s Hekate weaving more colorful threads through her dark tapestry, as a treat to herself,” she whispered, as though noise would disrupt the sanctity of her words.

“I can understand all of those views. What do you think they are, though?” he asked.

“Me? I know that they are actually caused by solar flares colliding with the magnetic field surrounding the star. But…I like to think it’s one of Hekate’s gifts to the Rus. She gave us shadow and ice to hide in and defend ourselves with. Why wouldn’t she give us the auroras to let us see the people we love again?”

Erenville noticed her far-off gaze and silently hugged her and kissed her hair, resting his cheek on her head above her horn.

“I wonder how Kievan Rus is in the summer? When eternal night gives way to eternal day for four months?” he said, distracting her.

“It’s a sight in itself, I assure you. And you haven’t even seen the Underdark yet!”

Aegis started the engine again, and the Hallows journeyed further into the land of eternal night.

[maple-memories]

I knew Trill was fired and stripped of Champion status for Pokémon abuse, but why'd he join Team Arctic?

PC dive done... there's a Pokémon that I didn't think I'd ever see in his team. A Mapleon.

That shouldn't be possible with his treatment of Pokémon though. Not unless he did something extremely unethical.

He did. I'm taking his Pokémon to a center first to get the damage assessed.

And the damage here is insane... no wonder I saw a Sylveon throwing Trill at a wall. He knocked out a Mewtwo with something.

[bisluthq]

My unpopular opinion is you don’t need to be exes to waltz back into rekindled flames if your relationship has been on and off life support for 18 months (still a committed couple, but a dying relationship). Like when you get to that point that it’s fizzling out and you both want it back, the rekindling can be magical and you’ve got butterflies again and it’s with someone you know so well, so it’s all very safe and cozy, there’s none of that fear of falling in love with someone for the first time because you’ve woken up next to them for years and know how they take their tea or coffee and know their habits and tells. It’s safe.

It’s like everything described in Labyrinth - that feeling like your relationship is crashing and they show up just in time and make you fall in love with them all over again. It’s beautiful when it happens and feels like a relief.

But it needs consistent effort and momentum and not just a few gestures, or the plane just goes right back down again. And I do think the Joever was ripping off a Band-Aid and just had to be done after a while.

I go back and forth over the muse of loml because it can apply to Joe or matty in how I perceive the story being told. But I also think it can be about neither one specifically too. Was it safe to pick matty who may have said he’d marry her within a year instead of being starry eyed with Joe, even if the stars are from the past when their rs was better? Or is she referring to tatty 1.0 and even though she was starry eyed for him then, as she mentions in Chloe & co, he was a lot and she couldn’t watch it, so she chose not to be with him and be “safe” instead (metaphorically for her heart and also literally with mental health knowing when to step away from someone if you can’t handle their life).

If we didn’t know any of the lore and this was her debut album about normies as muses, I think the interpretations could be different. We have some context, but I just find it interesting from a writing perspective that it could apply to multiple men from her past with hints of them in there, but nothing screaming a defining characteristic or situation (compared to SLL or TSMWEL which seemingly have clear baby daddies).

She also tends to personify a feeling a lot, which helps make her songs relatable even with Uber specific details. So the “I’ll see you until I die” could even be her talking to her grief that was so crushing she thought she’d die multiple times. More likely she imagined growing up and dying alone and being on her death bed seeing one particular face, sort of like if the prophecy and fortnight collided, but that’s what’s so cool about her, she doesn’t hold back and she isn’t afraid to say exactly how she feels OR embellish it and compare herself to a woman gone mad who will fantasise about killing her cheating husband and dumping his body in a swamp in Florida, or killing her soul mate’s perfect wife, or comparing herself to legends or characters in ancient mythology to express herself. Obviously I’m a fan, but she’s such an interesting writer it’s hard to think anything she says is ever at face value, even when it’s something like a line from invisible string where the grass was green which is very much a face value lyric lol

okay I agree with this and love this take! I never thought about the rekindled flames as that moment when things actually go well when generally they’re going badly and I still don’t know that it’s that just based on the rest of the song lol but you’re absolutely right, that’s a fair feeling and perhaps there are deeper ways of looking at that song that I’ve been missing!

[soleclypse]

I want to write my poem just like how they wrote their legends

Every frickles of my pen have a slight tilt of wonders inside.

Rows of letters, tellings of whispers in the night. The news brought by the wind blows.

Those tellings of celestial beings above our heads, or old tales of those who have been travelling alongside the Davy Jones.

Stories of 'what ifs' the stories of 'almosts' and the stories of 'always'.

Mighty beings with powers to shaken the universe, having the mountain lord bows to their knees.

About ocean's rage when they've taken her children out of her hold, and her weep leaving everyone drown in her tumble.

I woven my words brings out mystics to every sentences, in hope to entrance whoever dares hooked their eyes upon my stacks of lores.

I let my wonder and hunger get the best of them.

How it collides and coalesce in each other. How it brings the feelings of giddy and mirth to the surface.

And when I feel it, I won't trample the pride when it arises.

Not this time around. As It deserves the rightful place in where it stand.