#woodborning

[heartmeadows]

Countryside in Woodborn Cove

[daggerfool]

daggerfall without context

some more disgruntled and possibly deranged daggerfall stuff i edited to help you face the horrors

[animatorweirdo]

Witch shenanigans

(Something I came up with for The Woodborne Witch. I hope you enjoy. )

Warnings: Nothing much just Maedhros wondering about his life decisions.

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Some random elf: The King of Himring and the Woodborne Witch. What a unique and a wonderful pair. You, my lord, must feel lucky to have such a powerful and a graceful partner like Lady (Name). 

Maedhros: Hmmm…

*Before*

Maedhros: (Name), what was that explosion I heard moments ago and why are you covered in ash?

You: *Hair blown up and face covered in black smoke*

You: *Scratching your head with your wand* So, it turns out cooking oil is highly flammable when mixed with fire flowers and electricity. 

You: Also… the lab is on fire. 

***

Maedhros: (Name), what are you doing?

You: *Walking in the river with pants rolled up* Collecting river salt! Salt made in pure running water is ten times more stronger when imbued with magic. Strong enough to even burn orc’s face off!

Maedhros: *Silence*

***

Maedhros: (Name), why are you an owl?

You: *Sitting on the desk in an owl form with a quill in mouth* I was trying to test out my bodily limits and this is far I could get without breaking my bones.

Maedhros: *silence*

You: Also— I’m stuck. 

***

Maedhros: (Name), what are you doing in the dungeons and where is the prisoner?

You: *Holding a jar with a roach inside* Oh, I came up with a new interrogation method. I wanted to see how would they like it when they are at the mercy of their captors, so I turned him into a roach and sealed him inside this jar.

The orc: *With a high pitched voice*  Help me!!!

You: *Shaking the jar* You ready to talk now!

Maedhros: *Silence*

***

Maedhros: (Name), have you seen my –

You: *Holding a hissing pike with feet and legs*

Maedhros:*Staring mortified*

You: I might have repeated my childhood mistake. 

The pike: *Hissing violently* 

*Now*

Maedhros: Truly powerful and graceful indeed. 

The random elf: *Confused*

[llitchilitchi]

I just came up with the biggest fattest Daggerfall lore theory but I feel like explaining it to anyone would just be

[thistle-nightshade]

For those you struggle to see themselves in stories, you are seen. And for those who still don't know who they are, it is never too late to find out.

Heather Nix

[owlart18]

Of the mountains and by the sea~

Some more oc concept art using colour palettes! These palettes were made by @lemonlumens

(Commission info here)

[zerofinite]

Artfight revenge for @laedrin heh

[elderscrollsconceptart]

Lord Woodborne

Art asset for The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall

Art by Louise Sandoval

[heartmeadows]

It's winter already!

[smolebleat]

Hard agree with the monologue thing; like, what kind of villain WAS Alduin really? Compared to Morrowind's Dagoth Ur and Oblivion's Mankar Camoran (Sorry, Mehrunes Dagon), they actually have this sort of build up as villains before you face them. Dagoth Ur is literally haunting you in nightmares throughout the story of the game, and before you fight him you can literally ask him and be asked questions regarding his plans. While Mankar Camoran isn't exactly the same, he at least starts to talk to you regarding his plans the entire time you've infiltrated his Paradise, up to him shouting his master plan when you finally fight him face to face for the Amulet of Kings. During Oblivion's main story you find his Commentaries and can learn how he thinks through the text. What do you get with Alduin? A big, scary black dragon whose final boss fight is the same as any other dragon, except this time you don't get to loot his scales and bones before he fully dies. You meet the guy in a talkative mood I think at least twice; he regards you in Kynesgrove, then again taunts you during your fight against him at the Throat of the World; but it's typical "Ah, you're nothing to me. I am powerful! I am evil!" You don't learn anything about him compared to the other two, aside from how big a dragon he was.

I would love to see your takes at Skyrim someday ngl

okay i've finally got some sauce to lay on this question. The theology around Alduin the World-Eater is half-assed theology and it's ultimately why skyrim is the flop among flops.

TES main quests center around the theme of fate and the nature of the prisoner. It's an open-world RPG but there's a script and there's only so much room for narrative fuckery so they're making the medium part of the message. It's not groundbreaking or anything but I like shit like that.

At the end of Oblivion's story, you have to grapple with the fact that you led a man to his death but inaction would have guaranteed his death and many more. In Morrowind, you're inhabiting the shadow of someone else's life and whatever you do will culminate in relitigating the end of that life.

There's a prophecy and it's going to get ugly and it doesn't *really* have anything to do with you but you can't escape it. At the end of those stories, you can look back at all your decisions and wonder if they mattered at all. Maybe your life is just a piece moved on a track by something large and incomprehensible to you.

In Skyrim, there is a dragon. There is all this intense lore about the dragon but it doesn't have any real bearing on anything. Someone says you gotta kill that dragon, you say okay i'll kill the dragon. Then you do because you're god's specialest favorite, and the dragon doesn't even get to do a long-ass villain monologue.

[daggerfool]

The Daggerfall gang as funny texts I've found on the internet

i did this instead of my uni work, enjoy

More of this stuff here: Part 1, Part 2 Some messages I also made: I. II.

bonus:

[darkwingphoenix]

Queen Iriana Ascendance: Kingdom of Ascendance

This is the Great Kingdom to be added to my @loominggaia AU, and since she herself SPAMS spoilers (Hey, least ya warn us), I'll just put info down here

LORE UNDER CUT

High Queen Iriana Ascendance, born Iriana Liatt of Woodborne, was born to a family of elves. When she turned 16, though, she transformed into a demon. She quickly left her family after that, despite her mother basically begging her to stay back.

She spent her days since then travelling around as a bard/escort, staying in Tabiya for a time with a roshava called Talul Sarfeesha. After he died, she made of with a significant amount of wealth.

Eventually, she was staying in Viersen in 6020 right as Project Starblast occurred and bombed Viersen with ejecta. She managed to survive as two divines, Saraia Hammonspielcrichton (Yes, that's Saraia's last name) and Skylie Evangeline, rescued her as they fled the city dodging ejecta.

After the incident, however, Iriana felt something extremely off about herself when practicing her lute: Unknowing to her, she and all other demons, as well as drau, adhene, kobolds, pixies, hilichurls, and some other monsters had gained a soul as a direct result of Project Starblast. She started to travel with Skylie and Saraia, using Saraia as a way to feed, until they arrived where Damijana had been destroyed, as Iriana had been feeling a massive pull to the location. There, thousands of other monsters had arrived, all slowly realizing they had souls.

Iriana decided to, and convinced the other monsters, that they should create a nation for themselves, as many didn't like monsters all that much, and it'd be a sanctuary for all monsters.

Eventually, with Skylie as a close ally and advisor, the Kingdom of Ascendance was quickly rising, using the ejecta, magic of various monsters and various refugees who heard of Iriana's promise, and sheer determination and spite, with Iriana as the High Queen. However, the kingdom was not yet recognized.

Kingdom of Ascendance: The Monster Kingdom

Ascendance was almost totally ignored by almost every High Ruler due to its seeming insignificance, as it was simply seen as monsters swarming to an abandoned region of the world, soon joined by the remaining Damijani from Slegelse Island, travelling there with no one remaining on Slegelse to investigate, and were soon integrated in.

The only Great Kingdom to recognize Ascendance was the Unseelie Court, as its ruler, Morgause, is a monster herself and as such gained a soul. She happily aided the new nation while struggling with her new emotions.

Eventually, the other Great Kingdoms were forced to recognize Ascendance when Ascendance's military assaulted Oaken Island of Evangeline soil and deftly took over the ruined island after Saraia and Skylie's attack on the island's only economically valuable item: Its siege dragons. Once it was in Ascendance control, the military quickly attacked Evangeline proper, taking Kelvingyard, Greenhearst, and even Woodborne from Folkvar. The army departed, leaving a vanguard behind to defend while the army went to invade Zareen Empire and take the cities of Uman, Elleg, Driza, and Viersen from the Zareen Empire.

After this war, Iriana simply asked for Ascendance to be recognized as a Great Kingdom, which was quickly granted.

After the Dawn War of Ascendance, the kingdom quickly settled down to repair the cities that were invaded and bolster its own economy, barely interacting with other Great Kingdoms until 6048, 10 years after the dawn War began.

Iriana's Policies

"All of those affected by the Ascendance upon which our nation was forged by were made by powerful beings known as divines. Without them, we could not exist. Therefore, all divines are legally allowed to live - and operate - within our borders without fear of attack."

"The monsters of our nation were once essentially refugees adrift in a world that rejected them. From now on, all peoples who face discrimination anywhere shall be welcomed with open hands, should they be willing to help us grow."

"Magic is a part of life for many people on this world, monstrous or not. There shouldn't be restrictions over which magics someone may practice, so long as they use it responsibly."

"While the Nymph Pact is certainly an easy way to stave off nymph attacks, there's simply no reason we should sign it, so long as we carefully regulate our industrial quarters to not overpollute and send our dirty work to places willing to do so."

Will magic is key for many peoples, commoners and meru cannot use it, and gaians don't always have access to its power. As such, iron tools shall be allowed in Ascendance."

"While many monsters are feeling nausea and headaches while witnessing art or music, there's no way for us to get used to it if it's all locked away. We need to deal with these symptoms so that we may get used to feeling art and music."

"Our population is strongly monstrous, and as such all monsters - Within reason - shall find sanctuary in Ascendance. Furthermore, all have a need to have the food they require, and as such prostitution needs to be legal so that demons may be able to feed without having to hunt for sexually frustrated individuals."

Ascendance Royal Family

Iriana Ascendance

Iriana is the High Queen of Ascendance, and is the founder of the kingdom. Like all monsters born before the Ascendance, she still struggles with having a soul, often experiencing sickness while listening to music or having nausea when looking at art.

She still allows art to be put into her palace, as she believes she'll eventually get used to it.

As a ruler, she's very serious about her policies. She's heavily focused on building an economy for her nation, made up of the rubble of a destroyed city and numerous conquered cities.

Unknown to anyone but herself, Iriana has fallen in romantic love with Skylie, as a result of her new soul. She has no idea how Skylie would react to the information and thus keeps it secret.

High General Skylie Ascendance

High General Skylie, formerly Princess Skylie Evangeline, has since become Iriana's most trusted advisor, as well as Ascendance's High General, responsible for maintaining Ascendance's military. After the Dawn War, the human divine has mostly maintained the same military power as during the war, simply maintaining the numbers and using them to maintain Ascendance's violently gained borders. She is also Iriana's personal bodyguard, using her personal weapon, the Divine Annihilator, and her Archons as assistance in helping the Queen.

She is also openly used as Iriana's food source, for as a succubus, Iriana needs sexual intercourse to feed. She is also fairly certain Iriana has gained a romantic attraction to her but doesn't say much so as not to send her into a panic.

Extra Stuff:

Color: Steel Blue/Blue Grey

Banner: Half Starburst with twinned Swirls above it

Exports: Bureaucracy, Monsters (Safe ones), Mercenaries

Continents: Noalen and Evik (And some small territories on coastal Serkel)

Diplomacy: Allied with the Unseelie Court, Folkvar, Matuzu, and Mogdir. Unfriendly with Evangeline, the Seelie Court, and Zareen. Neutral to Lamai and Yerim-Mor. At war with the Aquarian Alliance.

Military: Most common soldiers are equipped with either spears or staves and a shield, or crossfins, which are crossbow-like weapons similar to Skylie's Divine Annihilator and the chu ko nu (Just add a pair of pistol grips on either end and an auto cock action for shooting faster):

Most wear simple clothing made from monsters forged by Skylie known as Mecko, which create massive amounts of extremely strong silk. Essentially, it allows for light clothing to basically ignore ranged projectiles, especially with a shield. Most have suits that look like this:

(Yes, they're looking like 02 from Darling in the Franxx. Shuddup. Also, the uniform is more of a super dark blue, and this is the women's uniform. The men's uniform just looks the same but minus the waisting, and if we're going off of Ascendance military chain of command, she'd be a brigand, or the lowest level of officer, directly above an entry level unit)

Territories

Ascendance

Built on the ashes of Damijana, Ascendance Capital was the beginning of the Monstrous Kingdom. It's a major commercial hub, especially since the Noalen and Serkel colonies have to mostly go through it to get to the Evik territories.

Slegelse

The prison island of Damijana, Slegelse has become the primary naval power of Ascendance, and it is where most of Ascendance's ships are built, military and civilian.

It is governed by King Ventrus, a drau, although he is part of a minority in a territory mostly inhabited by merrow, mermaids, and other Aquarian people who are not part of the Aquarian Alliance.

Oaken Island

The former home of Evangeline's siege dragons, Oaken is now the primary location where new saraians are born. Most wind up in service to the kingdom as beasts of burden, and the waters around the island are flush with leviathan young, as the adults usually abandon the island to go elsewhere. The others are shipped off the island before they're too large. Globeholders are also bred here as well.

Oaken is ruled by King Merrell, a merrow.

Kelvingyard

Kelvingyard had already become defunct due to High King Cobalt abolishing slavery a few years before the Dawn War, although Kelvingyard became a major center for military programs. Many saraians from Oaken arrive here to be trained for the military. It is ruled by Angror, a drau who killed the leader of Kelvingyard.

Greenhearst

Greenhearst was once the primary farming territory of Evangeline, and now it is the breadbasket for Ascendance. Many boulderbacks and world turtles go to Greenhearst for farming purposes. While Greenhearst has the vast majority of world turtles and thus farming. It is ruled by Kiliburl, a hilichurl, and a smart one.

Woodborne

Woodborne is the least significant territory, although it is still vital for its massive lumber industry. Skylie also used to live in this territory. The drau Lilith rules this territory.

Uman

A former Zareen city, Uman is the primary industrial city of Ascendance, although it is less powerful in its industry power against before it was taken by Ascendance. It is ruled by Taura, a succubus.

Driza

Driza, after being captured by Ascendance, was repaired after Project Starblast almost destroyed it. It is still mostly empty, but is ruled by Marius, an incubus.

Viersen

The other city heavily affected by Project Starblast, Viersen managed to survive better against Project Starblast, but it still got heavily damaged. It is the only city ruled by a non-monster, by a human named Emma Viersa.

[dontmixpaintinyourcoffee]

Spoilers for episodes 24 and 25 of Dandies in Danger Arc 4!!

Also, cartoon gore warning

Alright, so I don't really draw animals, let alone whatever fucking NIGHTMARE is going on here with the entity in the wardrobe, so I'm in the process of collecting references and inspiration. Here's what I have so far-

Notes from the narration:

Translucent, glistening skin

3 pairs of tusks. Pair 1 sprouts from the center of the nose and curls back into the skull. Pair 2 grows from the lower jaw, one pointed up and one pointed down. Pair 3 is placed like normal boar tusks, with one curving back into the neck and the other "carving forward menacingly". Each intersection between tusk and skin bleeds profusely.

The blood is made up of writhing, screaming boars.

The Things I'm Looking at for Inspiration!

Babirusas

Glass Frogs

The cursed form of Emperor Belos (The Owl House)

The Boar God Nago, especially his skeleton (Princess Mononoke)

The Nowhere King (Centaurworld)

The Beast (Over the Garden Wall)

Mora (The Queen and The Woodborn)

I basically ended up with three categories: Fucked Up Quadruped with Skull, Real Animal, and Nasty Collective of Tortured Souls

If anyone can think of anything else that would be useful to look at/reference let me know, I want to gather as much as I can because I am WAY out of my depth with this one haha. She's just too fucking cool to not draw

[diakiraiart]

Break from character redesigns to do a bit of work on the different species in the world I'm developing. I wanted the world to have a veriaty of species - like in D&D - but I also didn't want to lift the species from D&D, as well as have races that each of the four main characters could feasibly have been mistaken for throughout their lives... for plot reasons.

Managed for all but Earth, but there are also plot reasons why he gets a solid pass.

Anyway, if you're up for a lore dump, heres hte demographic distribution (based on a multi-culture city that all species are confortable to live in):

Humans - 45% Most numerous, well adaptive to most climates. Have the variety of IRL humans.

Woodburn - 23% - Second most common, skin developed with patterning that makes it easier for them to hide in forests and woodland. They have similar visual variety to Humans but with green tones.

Scalekin - 15% - Best suited to warmer climates. are more numerous everywhere due to a natural disaster hitting a city with a large Scalekin population. Range of reptilian scale colours, most commonly yellow and greens. A little bit taller than Humans or Woodborn but not my much.

Coldblood - 10% - Best suited for cold climates and prefer living in mountainous areas. Coldblood have the least variety in their visual appearances, if the greatest variety between masculine and feminine presenting (females tend to have less hair across their body due). skin can go slightly darker and lighter, however eyes can be many colours, however always a bright contrast. Tallest people by about a foot.

Fishfolk - 5% - Adapted to living under water, and have a civilisation underneath the waves. They are not insular or distrusting of land-folk, often seen as traders in cities. Whilst they have a vast variety in colours and frill placement, they have the least variety between their masculine and feminine presenting persons. Shortest species, their average height being around 5ft3 for both biological genders.

There are fluxuations depending where you go - south woull see more Scalekin and north more Coldblood, ect. Theres also a "Kith" species that I'm debating weather or not to keep in, thus the slight discrepency in the numbers.

[loominggaia]

When the Hollow was destroyed and everyone lived in Woodborne, how did Tojum survive if kobolds are killed in Folkvar?

Good question! I think there are multiple reasons Tojum survived:

1 ) The anti-monster laws aren't always enforced very well. Many kingdom officers are lazy, cowardly, or underpaid, so they can't be bothered to start a violent altercation with a monster if it's not actually causing problems. They'd rather pretend they didn't see it and kick the can down the road.

2 ) Tojum and the other refugees mainly stuck to the slums, an area that's neglected by officers anyway. That area is full of criminals who don't like police creeping around, so crimes rarely get reported there. The mentality is like: "You saw a monster? No you didn't! Mind your business, otherwise officers will come and we'll ALL be in trouble!"

3 ) Tojum has been hiding from police her entire life, and she's gotten pretty good at it by now. Seelie officers are infamous for bullying kobolds just for fun, it's like a sport to them. So, she has learned how to lay low by disguising herself under a cloak, only going out after dark, staying off main roads, etc.

4 ) The other villagers/FGG protected her. If an officer did try to get shitty with Tojum, her friends and neighbors wouldn't stand for it. They'd all gang up on that officer and scare them away. The Folkvar Guard doesn't get paid enough to tangle with angry mobs over a single harmless kobold, so the situation likely wouldn't escalate beyond that.

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Questions/Comments?

Lore Masterpost

[eritvita]

❝ knowledge is a weapon. ❞

@okruchlodu

"A most studious and beautiful Creation thus which to tender," confirms Roland, as he stands, still as a brokered tree, in the middle of Aretuza's library. A myriad of books, olde and weathered and craggy with their torn seams and bent spines, hover without flinching nor wavering around his-now marble'd personae, as he dallies with another tome opened within his palms: careful as the perfume'd petals of the most perfect rose upon Roland's Woodborne fingertips.

"Of how sharpened is thine own Weapon, Yennefer?" inquires he, as his head turns to watch her. His handsome eyebrows dost bounce in thrice. "Art thou bound for the intermediate whetstone as oft as the changing of potted soil? Hast thine blade grown new shoots and ready for that sanctified burst of the Father Sun? Art thou practiced in thine movements, as thou art borne for fluidity in battle?"

And he snickers to himself without misgivings of personal insult, and continues to read, the hovering tomes moving clockwise around him as he finishes passages and goes to others to confirm of his theorems of Certain Suspicions.

asoiaf: a feast for crows .