dame aylin's whole speech when she kills lorroakan is extremely underrated btw but the part that gets me the most is the simple

"Dame Aylin is watching. She is indomitable"

the emphasis she puts on her name and on "she" is so beautiful. after so long of being treated as an object, called an it by most, lorroakan included, of being the nightsong, a relic, she reclaims her personhood here. her name is dame aylin and you will not call her anything else. she is a woman, not an object. and no one can take that away from her. she is indomitable, and she will never be reduced to a "relic" again

and with her being a woman obviously the extra layers of this. especially since her name also denotes womanhood (dame aylin, not just aylin), both times she is drawing attention to her personhood and her womanhood at the same time. those are tied to each other; personhood, which is so often tied to manhood (mankind, etc), here is expressed in a way that cannot be dissociated from her womanhood. she is a woman, and you will treat her with respect

and she is indomitable

in a world that tries so hard to tame women, make them pretty and palatable and small, to put them in metaphorical soul cages in service of men, which in her case was quite literal, she says she is indomitable. nothing and no one will hold her down, and she will continue to be loud, violent, strong, desire unabashedly, and all the things that are looked down on women

this also makes the "you are broken by its beauty" more powerful to me. because beauty is so often everything that a woman is reduced to; a woman's entire value is often tied to looks in a man's eyes. but when dame aylin calls herself beautiful, it is not in any way a beauty meant to make her desirable and palatable to men; on the contrary, her beauty breaks them. her beauty is in her violence, in her strength, in her wild and indomitable nature. and it cannot be reclaimed to be something that belongs to a man. her beauty is her "unfeminine" traits, it's her refusal to conform, her strength. everything that makes her undesirable to all the gamer men who hate her is what she calls her "beauty" here. not for anyone to admire, but for her to yield. not to be maintained desperately, but an inherent part of her

it's a subtle yet powerful flip of misogynistic expectations of her, and makes me love her all the more

Little ref sheet for Rova

He's got some gloves that give him +2 con and also make him punch things harder

Companion!Tav? On my blog? It's more likely than you think

Tav-Dex Template(or just Tav info card)

It is done! This took was too long to figure out… so after testing out a number of ways to do this with @0illipheist help, we found the best way to set it up was as a transparent pngs.

I’ve made one for each subclass(which is why this took so long) so no one would have to fight editin too much and just had to add text. I’ve categorized them in their classes, so ya aint gonna hunt for none neither, I’ve made a Google Drive with all the classes organized to hopefully make things easier to find then crammin em in multiple posts.

I left a blank one for those who wanna have more freedom or multi class, yal gonna have to work harder cause ain’t no way….i ain’t makin all those nuuuupe. I’ve also added the layout example for those who’d like to follow it

Hope Everyone Enjoys, Go wild, Go messy, and have fun with it~

Blank Layout Example

Drive to All Classes:

*If there are any issues with anything, let me know*

EDIT: I wanted to add I’ll be makin a Tav-Dex blog(in process now) and would love to add anyone who wants their Tav added. I’m workin on some Tav entries at the moment to show what they can look like, but if anyone would like to be added DO NOT ADD IT BY REBLOGGIN IT ON THIS. I’d rather not have this sucker repeated on ever post. Instead use the tag #Tav-Dex so I know who’d like to be added. I’ll post an update on the blog here when I can. For now, I must nap…

Lowkey wondering if the reason why Ludinus went so hard to get the book from Professor Sumal is because he’s highly aware that the other two, Otohan and the Unseelie, are planning on backstabbing him.

He’s not a fool. He’s got to be used to things like this from being in the CA. He probably survived so many coworker betrayals. Ludinus had to have anticipated this. For one, he’s not Ruidusborn so his standing in this group is already shaky. But what would be interesting is if even despite that, he’s actually not lying about being able to speak with Predathos. He was able to tell the level of difference in connection between Fearne and Imogen. So he has something that helps him be in tune with it all. Which personally my theory is he has a Reilora trapped in the necklace he wears.

But this is the first time we’ve seen him make such a big play. And he’s already saying that he’s moving up his plans sooner than he’d like. So I wonder if he has some other back up plan ready for the event that Otohan and the Unseelie backstab him and getting the book is part of it. Because with the book, he has the lost lore and the list of the Ruidusborn. That’s bargaining power for any backstabs but also that’s stuff he can use for his own goals.

Because we know that the Ruby Vanguard wants to unleash Predathos to kill the gods, but is that what Otohan and the Unseelie want? The Unseelie wouldn’t really give a fuck about what happened during the Calamity. They were safe on another plane. Otohan hasn’t expressed anything but a sense of superiority in being Ruidusborn. It seems like the plan of killing the gods is more Ludinus’s goal than those two. I would bet their goal is more to bind Ruidus to all the planes so the power gained from it will increase. And make more Ruidusborn

There’s a big possibility that Ludinus’s goals are not aligned with the other two’s and that’s why they are trying to remove him. But what if he’s already removed himself. What if the first failed attempt with the Moontide crown had him already making a secondary plan? He’s smart enough to see that if it was so easy to halt their plans just by stealing one object, then this plan is already on hinging on nothing going wrong.

So what I’m thinking is what if his true plan is to tether Predathos’s power to himself? Because if say he’s already been able to bind a Reilora to himself, he could feasibly be able to bind a bunch more to himself to gain power on par with a true Ruidusborn. Because the one lets him see how potent the seed is in another. What could gaining more do? And the book he stole specifically had the list of the other Ruidusborn.

Now how is he able to do this? Well Ludinus also was studying the Beacons. A artifact that is all about preserving the essence of another and putting that in something else. Is dunamis truly the only thing Ludinus learned from the beacon research? Or has he figured out how they are able to store a soul and redistribute?

What if the reason why Ludinus is letting Otohan build her army of Ruidusborn is because he wants there to be a stockpile of tethers he’s going to snatch? That’s why he invited Imogen to the North, fully knowing she wants to stop them. He doesn’t care. As long as hoards of Ruidusborn show up there on the Solstice, he’s going to get his power, either through the god eater itself or by taking everyone else’s.

The ultimate false prophet

Fate Touched

bestie moment !!

BOLO FROM AEOR???

HAVE YOU SEEN THIS?!

IT IS PERFECT!

Anybody can make lights. Little sparks of possibility.

Ok, listen up movie and tv people.

What we need 0 of: sexy Dracula, Mina as Drac’s reincarnated lover, Lucy being blamed for her murder because she’s ‘too sexy’ and ‘she wanted it’, blatant Jonathan erasure, blatant Quincey erasure.

What we need 100 of: the Harker Supernatural Detective Agency.

Starring:

Mina ‘I’ve got a typewriter and now that’s you’re problem’ Harker, following the paper trail of every monster that dares to step into her country.

Jonathan ‘Everyone I’ve ever met is my friend’ Harker, buying beers and chatting with all the witnesses to gather up more clues.

Dr. Jack ‘I’m supposed to be the smart one but I’m weirdly good at break-in’s’ Seward, the one who can do whatever science /technology/ B&E that is needed but loses his glasses when they’re on his head.

Lord Godalming, Arthur ‘The Bankroller’ Holmwood, giving them the funds to travel, send wordy telegrams, and buy sexy new all-black vampire-killing outfits each episode.

Quincey ‘The Muscle’ Morris, here to politely tip his hat at passers by and then pop into an alleyway to curb stomp Jack the Ripper or something.

Lucy ‘Everyone would die for her, how does she always end up in these messes’ Westenra, who is the sweet and beloved friend of everyone in this office but somehow remains blissfully unaware of the supernatural nature despite being targeted by nearly every monster of the week.

Guest Starring Prof/Dr/Esq Van Helsing (his title changes every appearance) who rushes in to lore drop and dunk on Seward, smile lovingly at Lucy, then rushes back off to Amsterdam.

And if it absolutely has to have a reincarnated character, then it’s not Mina; Van Helsing is the reincarnation of Dracula’s ex-spouse who constantly rolls in to ruin his plans whenever he shows up.

And Dracula has a mustache, damn it!

when cat does leg thing

Dreamer. Imogen Timult!

everyone is always so into "it's what the cast wants" until Taliesin decides that Kingsley is a character who exists and whom he's interested in playing, then suddenly "it's selfish and mean to the table / audience for taking away what everyone deserved" and "it casts a shadow over the two-shot because now the premise is false and illegitimate, ruining everything for fans"

head empty, thoughts full of the idea that the integral thing to Vandran and Fjord's relationship, even before the sinking of the ship, is (of all things) the sword, the concept of The Sword

that possibly the defining thing between them and the core basis of their relationship is Vandran took the time and patience to teach Fjord swordsmanship, that possibly those lessons laid the groundwork for everything that Fjord came to be grateful to Vandran for teaching him, that perhaps those lessons specifically came to stand for everything Vandran gave and invested into Fjord and everything that ever happened in that relationship

just the way that Fjord says to him, among the first things he says when they are reunited, "You should know our lessons, the sword has, well, it served me well. [...] I've never forgotten what you taught me."