#whitebridge

[autotrails]

Scottish Auto Trail-Fort Augustus to Whitebridge, Scottish Highlands

Scottish Auto Trail-Fort Augustus to Whitebridge, Scottish Highlands https://youtu.be/d22JajJrypo This Scottish auto trail explores from Fort Augustus to Whitebridge in the Scottish Highlands, south and east of Loch Ness.

[sorta-responsible-lesbian]

My DM let me multiclass my rouge in our campaign and I went with a shadow sorcerer cause I love chaos. I cannot wait for our next session so I can go nuts

[uwmspeccoll]

(Not So) Steamy Saturday

"The times had brought changes to Whitebridge. Could Jane Weaver, R.N., take up her old life and duties. . . ?"

"'Jane, I'd like you to meet Dr. Boyd Daves. . . .' It took all of Jane's poise to cover her surprise. For the handsome man smiling politely at her from behind the wheel was black."

"A new black doctor had introduced the racial question . . . and Jane found not the threads of her old life but a new challenge to her heart."

Of the 500+ nurse romance novels from the 1940s to the early 1970s in our collection, it is rare to find one with African American main characters, let alone having them depicted on the cover, and even rarer are interracial relationships. In our collection, the nurse romances that do were all published after Civil Rights legislation of the mid-1960s. Such is the case this pulp novel, Homecoming Nurse by Rose Dana (one of the many pseudonyms for prolific pulp-fiction writer W.E.D. Ross, 1912-1995), published in New York by Lancer Books in 1968.

With the novel showcasing many of the social taboos of the time -- divorce, a small New England town forced to come to terms with contemporary racial issues, racially-exclusive country clubs, interracial relationships, mental illness, the village ice queen chasing after a married man -- we thought it would have the makings of a fairly steamy plot. But, alas, its narrative is plodding and pedestrian with barely a wisp of steam. Disappointing. To its credit, however, with the entire town fretting over the potential of miscegenation, the story does culminate in an interracial engagement (between the main character Jane's friend Maggie and Dr. Boyd, not Jane herself). Getting there, however, is tedious and about as exciting as an ice cream parlor on a sleepy New England main street.

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[monoclegraphic]

BLESSED WITH A CURSE, version 11

Red Hawk et Whitebridge, deux villes voisines du Massachusetts, mais que pourtant tout oppose. La première, Red Hawk, est ancrée dans la pauvreté et la tristesse. On ne peut compter le nombre d’articles relatant des faits de violences qui sont devenus le quotidien de la ville. Vols, meurtres, règlements de compte (...) La deuxième, Whitebridge, vit des jours paisibles. Ses habitants semblent avoir été touchés par une bonne étoile. Beaucoup d’entre eux finissent par faire de grandes choses : acteurs célébres, grands politiciens, riches héritiers. Les habitants des deux villes se détestent. Une tension qui est alimentée par chacun des habitants, sans savoir d’où vient cette rivalité. Certains d'entre eux essayent d'enquêter, de percer à jour la vraie histoire entre les deux villes, dans un but de curiosité ou d'arranger les choses.

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[torashisama]

Daes dae'Mar theory: What has been proved so far ?

So, in this post, i'll just add the proof I found that confirms or consolidate some parts of the theory. It won't be as long as the theory itself of course, so no need to worry about as there isn't much to explain just proof to provide.

SPECIFIC LORE SPOILER ABOUT THE WT AND MINOR BOOK SPOILER (we kind of know this already but some might have not picked up on it when Min foresaw it in S1)

Part 1 : Proving the content of Liuan off-screen talk and plan

I claimed that the person who helped Lan with Moiraine's powers was Siuan all along and not Verin like many seems to think is the most logical and probable explanation.

Well, it's true that Verin being trusted enough to know the truth about Moiraine being stilled that them staying with them for the last 6 months makes it hard to imagine anything else.

But,we were wrong, we got fooled by the writers. As we weren't supposed to realise that there were multiple plans unfolding DURING Daes dae'Mar but only after. A lot of us did not even know what to expect or suspect with the title. I for one did not question the ep until after I went on twitter and learned that the title suggested it.

We've been shown this already thanks to episode 8. They did not want us to see the betrayal coming nor did they want us to know that Bayle Domon knew Lanfear as Selene; Knowing this, It is safe to assume that everything that seems to be the obvious answer when it comes to these plans are debatable. They did hinted at the truth throughout the season though, we just did not pick up on them.

Simple instance of this, that must now seem to stick out like a sore thumb to everyone is that in E01, when Bayle Domon comes and talk to Mo :

When did this come into your possession? [DOMON] Couple of months back. [MOIRAINE] Where? [DOMON] Outside Cairhien. The old moon dial there shattered one night this spring. I know you have men following me. I want them gone, too. I don't take kindly to unwanted company. [MOIRAINE] Your enemies are your own. It seems there's something written on this. [DOMON] Aye. The whole dial was covered in a poem when they found it. Written in blood. Old Tongue. I have a copy, actually. […] Ah, serves me right, I suppose. [MOIRAINE] These men you say are following you, what do they look like? [DOMON] Only caught a glimpse from a distance, once, when we, uh, left the dock at Whitebridge. Two men in black cloaks on horseback. [MOIRAINE ] Did you see their faces? [DOMON] No. Their hoods covered them.

Moiraine's reaction after towards Bayle Domon was an indication, there's a mention of Cairhien which we know is where Rand is, most only realised that something was off with Selene or though that she would be Lanfear (for book readers) but how many made the connections thought that the fades, Bayle Domon going to Moiraine with crucial pieces of information followed by them but never attacked and them only attacking Moiraine once he's left and given her the poem was part of some plan before episode 8 ?

Now that this is established, let's provide the proof.

Remember when I asked that you take a mental or physical note of Lan mentioning the Tower Records ?

Well, this is the show telling us implicitly that he has been working with Siuan, and misleading us into thinking that surely what would explains his knowledge on these matters when he info dumps to Moiraine about the Forsaken was that he worked with Verin, a brown sister with whom he was living with for the last 6 months or so.

It is also a really good way of diverting our attention from the incoherence this assumption would cause, like the simple fact that Lan never learned that Verin knew about the Dragon Reborn before he got separated from Moiraine and that Verin couldn't have known about his and Siuan's plans that most of us thought was about Rand, the Dragon Reborn and not about Moiraine. How would she know (if she was in on it) about something unexpected even for Lan and plan an escape for it in advance?

This lead us to assume that after Lan told Siuan about Mo's stiling she decided to go to Cairhien mostly because of Rand, to meet him and then decided ALONE to finally start following the tower rules after meeting him. No matter that they had showed before that Moiraine and Siuan's dynamic regarding their mission did not rely on having a leader even though dominance naturally oozes out of her and in spite of her position in the Tower as Amyrlin seat.

Even book readers fell for it, outraged and worried that the show was turning Siuan into Elaida. ( still not a book reader, just I obviously constantly spoil myself anything related to Liuane ( Mo, Lan, Siuan) ) but it's normal, even for book readers.

As this little piece of information is a specific Aes Sedai/ White Tower part of the lore of The Wheel Of Time.

To instantly pick up on this you'd have to have memorised it or been obsessed with the Aes sedai's when you read the books and even then, you'd have to be looking for it to catch it. So, obviously, I went looking for it.

After digging into WoT WT laws, customs and systems. I can now assure that the show itself (apart from the writer saying that they planned "a sort of intervention" for Mo in the bonus) already confirmed my theory about Liuan having a plan for Moiraine.

Mo'an in the Sun Palace

[LAN] I have a question for you. And I hope someday you'll forgive me for asking it. ( a single question huh ?) After you were stilled by Ishamael, has there been a time… in all these months when you thought about ending it? [MOIRAINE] Killing myself?

According to what I've found, the WT library has a categorisation system in place that hierarchies information. Starting from "not sealed" all the way up to "Sealed to the flame".

When something is “Sealed to the Flame,” it means that by law, it can only be read by the Amyrlin Seat. “Sealed to the Hall” means that it can only be known to Sitters and “Sealed to the Ring” that it can only be known by Aes Sedai. If something is not sealed, it is open for even the newest novice to know (ACoS, Ch. 12).

Lan, thanks to his time spent with Verin only knew that being stilled was like the most brutal form of violation one could endure and that most women died because of it. So, rather vague and general knowledge. Yet, he later tells Moiraine:

[LAN] I read the Tower records. There have only been two women in history who were cut off who didn't. Most did it within the year.

It begs the question : Which level could Tower Records be at? Thanks to my research I learned that :

By Tower law, the official histories of the White Tower are unavailable to all but Aes Sedai (TWoRJTWoT, Ch. 9).

So, I digged a little more as it was too vague to prove anything and looked for something more specific, as I remembered that stilling was apparently something taboo in the Tower ( I read it somewhere on twitter and remembered) I directed my research toward a minimum level of "Sealed to the Hall", as Lan knew specific things about the age of legend and Forsaken but also most importantly he said himself (again a clue we missed):

[LAN] There's a story from the Age of Legends about the Foresaken's powers… a skill that's been lost for thousands of years… to tie off weaves and leave them in place.

I thought there's no way this kind of knowledge is available to any Aes Sedai and so it had to be a minimum of "Sealed to The Hall" to "Sealed to The Flame" and here's what i found :

(About the Keeper of the Chronicles) She has access to the Thirteenth Depository (CoT, Glossary). Included within the Thirteenth Depository are the lists of those who have been stilled and executed (ACoS, Prologue). The Thirteenth Depository, containing secret records of the history of the White Tower, is hidden by law. Even the fact that it exists, and the law that conceals it, are hidden (ACoS, Ch. 11).

So, obviously, if just stilling records are kept in the Thirtheenth Depository, Information about skills that the forsaken used and that most believed to be lost which are actually documented in the Tower Records, surely kept in the Thirtheenth Depository.

If not Siuan, it only could have been Leane as the only other people allowed in there are the Sitters of the Hall, and even then they have to be accompanied by the Keeper otherwise they won't be allowed to access it.

"These are the secret histories, containing information that, by law, on The Amyrlin Seat, the Keeper of Chronicles and the Sitters of the Hall and the librarians who keep the records have access to."

Now that this as been proven, apologise to my client people, thank you.

About me believing she did not need to go back to the Tower to know I just refered to this thing I stumble uppon while researching :

MINOR SPOILER AHEAD (we kind of know this already but some might have not picked up on it when Min prophecised it in S1)

Egwene thinks that Siuan "must have spent a good part of her years in the Tower burying herself in the secret histories," because she "seemed to have every detail at her fingertips" (TPoD, Ch. 16).

Proving that Siuan was the one that made Moiraine gaining her powers possible, also prove that Verin probably turned to the dark at some point, which I believe was when she left with Liandrin but also :

"Compulsion is a weave that forces to do as they're instructed (TSR, Ch. 46). During the War of the Shadow, it was a potent weapon. People were forced to serve the Shadow against their will. Others were converted to undercover agents, to betray the Light at the most damaging times (TWoRJTWoT, Ch. 4)."

Reference :

https://library.tarvalon.net/index.php?title=Tower_Law#Miscellaneous

https://library.tarvalon.net/index.php?title=Thirteenth_Depository

https://library.tarvalon.net/index.php?title=Keeper_of_the_Chronicles#As_Secretary

https://library.tarvalon.net/index.php?title=Compulsion

(Part 2 : Do I really need to prove Lanfear lol ?)

proof : S2E08

[toastandjamie]

So an AU where Mat isn’t Ta’veren and becomes our POV in the Black Tower.

Now the first dilemma I faced was how much Mat should be integrated into the main plot, especially given that the Black Tower isn’t created until book five. So here’s what I got so far input for what this goofy little guy should get up to is welcome.

So after Winter Night, Perrin, Rand, and Egwene go with Morraine and Lan leaving our non-Ta’veren ordinary guy Mat behind. Now Mat, not knowing the details, is quite upset because as far as he knows his two best friends just ditched him to go on an adventure without him. When Nynaeve goes after them Mat tries to tag along but Nynaeve very firmly sends him back home. However, Ta’veren or not this is still Mat Cauthon we’re talking about so he goes after them himself. He spends the rest of Eye of The World having narrow misses with the plot, running into Thom at Whitebridge after the Myrdraal incident and drags that poor man all the way to Camlyn only to discover that he once again missed his friends and now has no idea where they’ve gone.

In The Great Hunt we find Mat traveling with Thom and Dana as an apprentice Gleeman, until they meet up with Rand in Cairihan. Rand tells him about the the horn but leaves out the whole, he’s the dragon reborn bit. Now this version of Mat doesn’t believe he’s a hero but he also has yet to discover Consequences so he really wants to be one, so he immediately insists on joining Rand to find the horn of Valere. Rand tries the tried and true method of being the worst to your loved ones to drive them away for their own good but while it DOES upset Mat, you aren’t shaking him that easily especially since he’s already invited to that party Rand and friends needs to break into. Things end up going relatively the same from their and they all go to Falme, Mat gets a late reveal there that Rand is the Dragon Reborn, we have Seanchen problems and Mat is still the one to blow the horn of Valere.

The Dragon Reborn baby, in order to try and keep Mat safely out of the plot Rand convinces him to escort the girls back to Tarvalon. Now no one but Rand and Perrin know he blew the horn of Valere and at their urging Mat decides to keep it that way, but he quickly finds that when your a man and not Ta’veren or the known sounder of the horn of Valere you very quickly get bored of the White Tower. After spending some time gambling at every tavern in Tarvalon and training a bit with the warders and Gawyn and Galad, the girls give him the letter for Morgause and send him on his way no Armylin permission slip required. Things go pretty similarly as they do in the book, Mat picks up a depressed Thom, discovers a plot to kill the girl’s, gets some fireworks and breaks into the Stone, though he is now slightly less effective without his supernatural luck.

The Shadow Rising finds our boy Mat feeling severely put out and a bit helpless. The girls as usual were less then grateful for the rescue and Rand and Perrin are too busy to talk to him. He still goes to Egwene for advice and hears about the Red Stone Door and still goes through it, though this time he actually gets to ask his three questions before getting kicked out since there’s now only One Ta’veren in there. Mat’s still contemplating what his confusing answers mean when Rand pops out, and things continue from there as planned. This time however Mat does not go to the Wastes and instead joins Thom and Julin as unwanted bodyguards for Nynaeve and Elayne. Hilarity ensues. More importantly however during the Tanchico arc Mat starts considering the possibility of learning to channel. After all, the girls aren’t wrong about him not being much help against the black ajah without channeling. So using the scraps of information he has he tries to teach himself how to channel. But it’s not going so well. However once they reach Salidar he finds a certain someone who might be able to help with that…

In Fires of Heaven and onwards we get more of Mat feeling helpless to protect his friends and using his most powerful weapon, his puppy dog eyes, he gets Logain to grudgingly agree to help teach him though one problem is that Logain is gentled but Mat won’t let that stop him. Egwene shows up, Logain is de-gentled and Mat get’s the bright idea to take the bow healed Logain and head to the Black Tower. Mat proceeds to get tangled up in both the Black Tower sub plot and Elayne’s Succession plot line. He also finds Olver at some point. That’s all I got so far

[nerdymaps]

The Whitebridge is another remnant of the Age of Legends, an impossible construction that stands the flow of time, never-changing, unbreakable... 🌉​💎​🏘️​

You can find many fantasy maps on my store:

[birgittesilverbae]

Top 5 culture shock moments in WoT

1. Elayne's gay awakening on the Seafolk raker

2. Elayne's entire "oh everything I was taught about the Aiel was wrong actually 😬" when she first meets the Maidens in TDR

3. the EF5 seeing Baerlon and going 😮😮😮 because it's such a huge city and then the boys hitting Whitebridge and going 😮😮😮😮😮😮 because it's such a huge city and then hitting Caemlyn and going 😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮 because it's... such a huge city

4. the Aiel and large-to-them bodies of water

5. any time Nynaeve and/or Elayne have Expectations about literally anywhere and they're immediately shot to pieces

[lgbtpopcult]

lgbtpopcult book club

Teaching Hope

American high school teacher Ava Stanford has been betrayed in the worst way possible. So she takes a temporary job at a village school in England. She’s definitely not running away, but even she admits she’s got nothing to go home to.

School receptionist Hope Perkins is hardly at her peak. She’s a single mum, living with her own mother, and battling her ex for custody of little Alice. It’s not exactly the life she pictured in close-knit Whitebridge. Add in a new neighbor, who hates Hope’s cat, and things couldn’t get much worse.

But when a miscommunication results in child-allergic Ava teaching six-year-olds, it soon becomes clear that the only thing standing between her and disaster is Hope. And as irritating, annoying, and downright rude as Hope finds Ava, she soon starts to develop other feelings too.

Opposites definitely attract, and with cats galore, children running riot, interfering mothers and blue-haired bookstore owners, it’s hard to escape Whitebridge unscathed. Because once a town adopts you, you’re there for good. Providing Ava finally lets down her guard enough to let Hope in, that is.

[no1248]

whitebridge

[apocalypticavolition]

Let's (re)Read The Dragon Reborn! Chapter 37: Fires in Cairhien

This picture doesn't depict anything in the chapter, but it does depict things in the chapter several days before the chapter happens, more or less. Don't like it? Take up fanarting! And also beware of spoilers because I am addicted to them and am liable to tell you exactly how this whole series ends right under the Keep Reading, for kicks.

This chapter begins with the rising sun icon because our girls are in Cairhien.

A village was sliding past, or what had been a village once. Half the houses were only smoldering piles of rubble with chimneys sticking starkly out of the ruins. On the other houses, doors swung with the wind, and pieces of furniture, bits of clothing and houseware littered the dirt street, tumbled about as if thrown. Nothing living moved in the village except for one half-starved dog that ignored the passing ship as it trotted out of sight behind the toppled walls of what appeared to have been an inn.

The fact that the civil war is escalating to such scorched earth tactics shows how the social order in Carhien broke down long ago. They've been rotting from within for a long time - at least twenty years - and now it's festering in the open. The grand contraction of humankind continues; without the coming political upheavals, I think Cairhien would have been the next nation that vanished off of the map.

She vowed to learn at least some of what it was they were doing; she did not like feeling ignorant.

Even in a setting where the people around her aren't practicing a skillset that will ever be relevant to her, Egwene wants to learn. Pirate!Egwene AU when?

Andoran soldiers do hold a few towns on the Cairhienin side.

An early echo of the ultimate merger between Andor and Cairhien, this one - and of course another way it's easy to see how Cairhien might have faded away entirely, with everything in their heartlands irrelevant and their towns on the trade network absorbed into an Andor that is itself a generation or two away from admitting to the world that it has no real authority west of Whitebridge.

Trees that made flowers in the spring had them, tiny white blossoms on snowberry and bright red sugarberry. One tree she did not know was covered in round white flowers bigger than her two hands together. Occasionally a climbing wild-rose put swaths of yellow or white through branches thick with the green of leaves and the red of new growth. It was all too sharp a contrast to the ashes and rubble to be entirely pleasant.

Egwene is already too drawn into the current White Tower-centric order of the world to be comforted by the truth of the fact that its inevitable breaking is just making way for new things to grow.

In one dream he had been on a huge stones board, the black and white stones as big as boulders, and him dodging the monstrous hands that moved them and seemed to try to crush him under them. It could have meant something. It very probably did, but beyond the fact that Rand was in danger from someone, or two someones—she thought that much was clear—beyond that, she simply did not know.

The symbolism of Rand as the Fisher King is entirely lost to Egwene because she doesn't know the game. Less justifiably, she also misses the message that at this point Rand is not his own player in the game but just another piece; his promotion will only occur when he finishes crossing from one side of the game board to the other.

She had dreamed of Perrin with a wolf, and with a falcon, and a hawk—and the falcon and the hawk fighting—of Perrin running from someone deadly, and Perrin stepping willingly over the edge of a towering cliff while saying, “It must be done. I must learn to fly before I reach the bottom.” There had been one dream of an Aiel, and she thought that had to do with Perrin, too, but she was not sure.

Most of these are relatively obvious but the dream of Perrin is fun because it's both a short-term dream (Perrin running into the Wolf Dream to save Faile at the end of the book) and a long-term one (he'll promptly ignore the Dream for most of the rest of the series until there's no other choice).

And a dream of Min, springing a steel trap but somehow walking through it without so much as seeing it.

Min sets off the Tower coup but escapes it.

Of Mat with dice spinning ’round him—she felt she knew where that one came from—of Mat being followed by a man who was not there—she still did not understand that; there was a man following, or maybe more than one, but in some way there was no one there—of Mat riding desperately toward something unseen in the distance that he had to reach, and Mat with a woman who seemed to be tossing fireworks about.

I don't blame Egwene for not understanding how Mat is about to reinterpret fireworks in a horrifying way (another dream that is both short- and long-term), but not understanding the Grey Men right away is silly.

Men and women breaking out of a cage, then putting on crowns.

The Forsaken being freed and making themselves the rulers of the world.

A woman playing with puppets, and another dream where the strings on puppets led to the hands of larger puppets, and their strings led to still greater puppets, on and on until the last strings vanished into unimaginable heights.

This is probably Graendal specifically.

Kings dying, queens weeping, battles raging. Whitecloaks ravaging the Two Rivers. She had even dreamed of the Seanchan again. More than once. Those she shut away in a dark corner; she would not let herself think of them. Her mother and father, every night.

The kings dying include those of Arad Doman and Amadicia, the queens weeping include Morgase and possibly Tylin, and the battles duh. The rest is pretty straightforward and like Egwene herself admits, her dreams about her family are only caused by homesickness.

The servants said Mat had been right about the civil war in Cairhien, and what it had done to prices. To Egwene’s surprise, Elayne had pointed out that Brown sisters wore wool more often than silk.

Nynaeve trusts Mat enough to at least test his claims, which is sweet, and despite Egwene being starstruck by the Aes Sedai, Elayne has enough sense to pay attention to what the women are actually wearing. Egwene is definitely being a bit myopic.

“I can ignore it because I do not want to think of what the people are going through, because I cannot do anything about it, and because we have to reach Tear. Because what we’re hunting is in Tear.”

Boy does she have leadership traits though, good and ill.

If the fighting is as bad as what we’ve seen on the banks. . . . Well. You cannot feed a people for twenty years and feel nothing for them when they must be starving.

Elayne also has leadership qualities, but more well-rounded ones.

“Do not be so hard on yourself,” she whispered back. “Perhaps it does mean that, but I did not see it, and neither did Nynaeve.”

Counterpoint, maybe all three of you girls are fools! What is the point of infodumps if you refuse to retain the info???

“You blind worm of a farmer!” he roared toward the man in the bow, who was clinging to the rail to keep from falling the rest of the way over. “You dirt-grubbing get of a goat! Haven’t you been on the river long enough yet to recognize how the water ruffles over a mudflat?”

I need to remember to add these to my repertoire.

Nynaeve appeared at the head of the ladder that led down to the passenger cabins, still straightening her skirts. With a sharp tug at her braid, she frowned at the knot of men in the bow, then strode to Egwene and Elayne. “He ran us onto something, did he? After all his talk of knowing the river as well as he knows his wife. The woman probably never receives as much as a smile from him.”

Nynaeve continues to be the best, even when she's ridiculously judgmental.

She drew a deep breath, but her voice grew tighter. “Have I explained my reasoning fully enough? Do you need more?”

Nynaeve is NOT used to Egwene being basically her equal, but she's at least trying. This is why Elayne's playing peacemaker of course, because she knows that as hot-tempered as Nynaeve is, Egwene's clearly trying to take over the party.

“We will reach Tear,” Egwene said. “And sooner once Nynaeve realizes she is not the Wisdom any longer. We are all”—she did not say Accepted; there were two many men hurrying about—“on the same level, now.” Elayne sighed.

Egwene's right to chafe under authority that doesn't actually bind her, but again Elayne is actually the barometer we can use to judge the others by. If she's tired of Egwene's shit, it's because she has reason to think that Egwene is starting fights for the sake of fighting.

Nynaeve’s mouth thinned. “If need be,” she told the air in front of her, “we can frighten off any brigands the way we did those Whitecloaks. If we can find no other way.”

Nynaeve is willing to do what it takes to survive, but note how she is clearly respecting Verin by not wanting it to be the first move they make.

A figure in brown and gray rose from behind a bush standing by itself almost in front of them.

Oh thank fuck, it's Aviendha. Elayne finally has someone to talk to who isn't insane! Well, mostly not insane. Or uh... compatibly insane with her?

Next time: Aviendha introduces herself! Also probably other stuff, it would be a short chapter otherwise.

[cityandking]

☩💉🔥💞 for dai, minah and eniko!

ty!!! // more & more headcanons

☩: Do they practice any sort of religion? If so, is it the same as their family’s?

DAI — yes, he is... pelorian?? oh I don't like that at all. anyway yeah he follows pelor like his dad, whose dedication to the order was a big inspiration for dai growing up. dai has branched out a bit since then, and gone through his bouts of uncertainty and doubt, but that's mostly just made his faith all the stronger MINAH — minah's a lapsed andrastian. her family was pretty devout and so was she growing up, but her family isn't around anymore and these days she Doesn't Like The Chantry ENIKO — nikö isn't religious and has no plans to be. his parents weren't religious (as far as he can recall) and neither was sir. temples or worship make him uncomfortable, to be honest; if there are gods out there, he's pretty sure they've abandoned the world, and thinking of them and the concept of worship makes him feel small and bitter and afraid

💉: Do they suffer from any sort of chronic illness or bodily fragility?

DAI — no dai is immune to poisons and disease and a demigod. he is the hardiest little guy you ever did see MINAH — physically she's in good condition, though her knees get a little creaky sometimes and she's got a handful of dancer/aerialist aches. most of her fragility is of the emotional and psychological variety ENIKO — sometimes when it gets really cold or dry the scars on his back get stiff, and it's hard to ease that without someone else to help. he pushes through, though, because he always pushes through.

🔥: What’s a place that left them motivated in some fashion?

DAI — every place he's ever been and seen something Unfair or Cruel happening has motivated him, but I think wiztopia was the biggest offender—not because it was worse than anywhere else, just because he was so incredibly powerless to take care of the party or get home or do the job he expected of himself, so he leaned hard into taking down the corrupt CEO ruler guy. this, as we know, went super well and didn't leave the planet worse off in the slightest MINAH — ummmmm well the tirashan has left her motivated in the fact that she is Cursed and Haunted and wants to Not Be Those Things. does that count? ENIKO — I don't think place has ever been a motivator for enikö. it's always been people (or money) (or need) (or fear. lots of fear.)

💞: What was their first love like?

DAI — he was a slightly older and more experienced soldier at the garrison where dai was stationed for his training. dai liked him well enough but they were pretty much just work associates until the guy got them stuck worlds away from home in a desperate bid to save the party from a fight they were outmatched by. it was in that time working together to protect the party and get everyone home safe that dai properly fell for him. MINAH — he was a childhood friend whose parents were close with minah's parents, and it was a foregone conclusion they'd grow up and get married and live happily ever after. he was familiar and comfortable and a bit dashing, and handsome as he grew into himself, and minah was sure they were going to be together forever. it didn't pan out. ENIKO — he was a student at the university in whitebridge, kind and curious and bright and good in a way enikö didn't know people could be. he was in the wrong place at the wrong time and ended up in the middle of one of enikö's jobs, and enikö didn't realize until afterwards when he caught a glimpse of a familiar face among the bloodshed. it was one of sir's lessons, and enikö never forgot it. he was 15 at the time

[gemini-forest]

QUICK COTTAGECORE LEONARDO LORE BITS

He lost his arm due to the Krang(16)

He got his prosthetic a year later due to Donnie.

The vine design was by Mikey

The Hamato Clan retired being heroes the same time their usual foes moved on (Hypno n Warren married, Foot Clan disbanding, Meat Sweats working for Big Mama, etc)

They moved to WhiteBridge Kansas(made up town). A small town that recycles and very farm friendly. They moved in when they were 19-24 years old.

Leonardo lives outside of the main town limits (30 mins) and runs a dairy and egg farm. Not very big but comfortable.

Leo has been living in peace and still recovering from the trauma of the Krang. He is living his best life

[sweebread]

ref for Paula

[undyingmedium]

have LOST and INJURED too c:

send LOST for a scene from my muse's past in which they felt lost, literally or figuratively

"Wait wait wait. We're in the Plane of Magic!?"

Young Anika couldn't hold back curiosity and excitement as she watched everything morph and change around her; she had to reach inside her backpack to find the branch that the Fox King gave to her so long ago, a token which granted three wishes with the use of its leaves, she had to try and plant it back there! It had been unused for long, but what if the whole plant grew again from it? What if she could meet the friend from so long ago again through it? It seemed like it was working!!... until she turned away, only to find herself somewhere completely unrecognizable. And the branch was no more.

It wasn't long until she realized to be unable to navigate such nonsensical lands alone. Unfortunately for her, not even the Deep One had ever entered such a plane of existence, therefore couldn't help her. She gulped as she started wandering forward, but it seemed like forward was anything but a straight direction... she would have been lost to that labyrinth in no time if, after few hours, she didn't meet some friendly locals and one peculiar visitor from her same country in Maera.

send INJURED for a scene from my muse's past in which they sustained a significant injury

She couldn't remember well what happened, but it was certainly during the early times of her previous party... probably Javen was already gone, but Wreathia was still a holy warrior and Ferenir was by her side.

Some poison-spitting creature in the swamp by Whitebridge managed to catch her in mid flight, delivering a devastating blow that had her fall to the ground by the feet of a tree - maybe a wyvern. Not much beyond the searing pain scarred her mind enough from that fight, but she certainly remembered the dragonblood standing above her; roaring, ready to strike, and yet shielding her with his body despite his blinding fury against their enemy and not leaving her side.

Despite it all, she felt a sense of safety, even as she fought with death...