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dukeofdogs · 1 year

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Crach an Craite

Chest 1: Due to the havoc wrought by his fleets in the Empire's coastal territories, Crach earned the moniker "Tirth ys Muire" – the Wild Boar of the Sea. Pleased with the new epithet, Crach decided to sculpt the bow of his drakkar into the likeness of raging boar's head. According to legend, they harvested the wood from Gedyneith, the sacred oak of Ard Skellig. The drakkar instilled fear into the hearts of enemies, for whenever they rammed into an enemy vessel, the wild boar's eyes would glow blood red...

Chest 2: Crach an Craite fathered two children – his son, Hjalmar, and his daughter, Cerys. When asked whom he would wish to see as heir and successor, he could only sigh, conflicted by his thoughts. Hjalmar reminded Crach of his younger self – ambitious, valiant, hungry for glory. An impressive warrior, yes... But a jarl? Cerys, on the other hand, possessed all the qualities required of a capable leader. But were the islanders prepared to follow the word of a woman? Only time would tell...

Chest 3: As a young man – his beard a rich auburn, his smile broad, the famed vanquisher of the Nilfgaardian armada – Crach stole the gaze of many women. Why, even the famous Yennefer of Vengerberg was enticed by Crach's charm. According to rumor, he asked for the sorceress' hand in marriage. In response, Yennefer smiled, kissed him on his brow... then opened a portal and disappeared from the Skellige Isles for nearly three decades.

Scroll 1: At a young age, Crach was foretold that he would one day clash with a foreign ruler, an enemy to Skellige, on the Isles' stormy, coastal seas. For his entire life, the head of Clan an Craite waited for that fateful day...

Scroll 2: Convinced the prophecy referred to the Emperor of Nilfgaard, Crach constantly urged his fleet to remain watchful for black sails bearing the Golden Sun. He eagerly awaited the emperor's arrival, to look him in the eye before wresting the crown from his head.

Scroll 3: Years passed, then decades... Crach sank dozens of Nilfgaardian galleys, yet the emperor's feet remained on dry land. Apparently, he was troubled by matters more important than the taming the rocky isles.

Scroll 4: Crach became convinced the prophecy must have been misinterpreted. Resigned, he ceased his search for the great sea battle that was written for him in the stars. That is, until on Skellige's shores appeared the Naglfar – the ghostly drakkar commanded by the King of the Wild Hunt himself.

#gwent: assets #gwent: lore #gwent #crach an craite #sk

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fangirleaconmigo · 2 years

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Crach and Craite in Tower of Swallows, paraphrased

Yennefer: Crach, who are those two women and why do they look like they want to kill me?

Crach an Craite: Oh, they are my wives. They think I want to have sex with you. It's nuts! Can you believe how crazy women are these days!? Unbelievable!!!

Crach not one chapter earlier:

Yen, wanna have sex?

No, Crach.

You sure?

Yes, I'm sure, Crach.

But, are you really, really sure?

(typical fuckin behavior on display here by the Jarl of Skellige lol)

#the witcher books #yennefer of vengerberg #crach an craite #thinking about the witcher books yet again

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ophierian-vp · 1 year

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#tw3nextgen #the witcher 3 #the witcher 3 wild hunt #the witcher #the witcher 3 nextgen #crach an craite #CD Projekt RED #his death was one of the worst part of the game #it made me so sad when i first play it and still does too #today on tumblr #photomode #virtual photography #Gaming Photography #gamingedit #my gaming photo

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fantasyoftales · 1 year

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An Craite

#witcher 3 #witcher 3: wild hunt #witcher #skellige #An Craite #crach an craite #hjalmar an craite #cerys an craite

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bookcalanthedaily · 9 months

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the princess' eyes were often lowered, but when they were not, they were the most striking shade of emerald green. she was said to be able to fluster with her gaze even the most bolsterous young lads, such as king bran's own nephew, crach an craite. simply another thing princess pavetta inherited from her mother.

#crach an craite #crach #crach x pavetta #pavetta x crach #pavetta #pavetta of cintra #pavetta fiona elen #princess pavetta #the witcher #the witcher 3 #the witcher 3 edit #the witcher 3 mods #tw3 #tw3edit #wiedzmin #wiedźmin

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hanzajesthanza · 6 months

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it really does matter so much that fringilla vigo is nilfgaardian, beauclairoise, for many reasons, but let's start here:

her entire role is that of an illusionist; one which she would not be were it not for her family lineage, rooted in beauclair:

There was a corridor in Beauclair Palace, and at the end a chamber, the existence of which no one knew about. (...) The corridor and the chamber, disguised by a powerful illusion, were known only to the palace’s original elven builders. And later–when the elves had gone, and Toussaint became a duchy–to the small number of sorcerers linked to the ducal house. Including Artorius Vigo, a master of magical arcana and great specialist in illusions. And his young niece, Fringilla, who had a special talent for illusions.

and since her talent in illusions is well-defined in the series, as it is her who grants geralt the very silver-mounted chrysoprase amulet which saves his life in the final fight against vilgefortz:

Geralt clenched Fringilla’s medallion in his fist. The bar fell with a clang, striking the floor a foot from the Witcher’s head. Geralt rolled away and quickly got up on one knee. Vilgefortz leaped forward and struck. The bar missed the target again by a few inches. The sorcerer shook his head in disbelief and hesitated for a second. (...) ‘I didn’t know …’ Yennefer said at last, scrambling out of a pile of rubble. She looked terrible. The blood trickling from her nose had poured all over her chin and cleavage. ‘I didn’t know you could cast illusory spells,’ she repeated, seeing Geralt’s uncomprehending gaze, ‘capable even of deceiving Vilgefortz.’ ‘It’s my medallion.’ ‘Aha.’ She looked suspicious. ‘A curious thing...’

that talent is something which cannot, by far, be separated from her character. and returning back to her lineage, it is again her familial relations which place her in beauclair.

she was positioned there, ready to intercept geralt, as early as the autumnal equinox in september, by which time geralt had barely just left the town of riedbrune:

The world over, the autumn Equinox was a night of spectres, nightmares and apparitions, a night of sudden, suffocating awakenings, fraught with menace, among sweat-soaked and rumpled sheets. Neither did the most illustrious escape the apparitions and awakenings; (...) In the huge castle of Montecalvo the sorceress Philippa Eilhart leaped from damask sheets, without waking the Comte de Noailles’ wife. The dwarf Yarpen Zigrin in Mahakam, the old witcher Vesemir in the mountain stronghold of Kaer Morhen, the bank clerk Fabio Sachs in the city of Gors Velen and Yarl Crach an Craite on board the longboat Ringhorn all awoke more or less abruptly. The sorceress Fringilla Vigo came awake in Beauclair Castle*, as did the priestess Sigrdrifa of the temple of the goddess Freyja on the island of Hindarsfjall.

* Slight correction - As explained in Chapter 3 of Lady of the Lake, Beauclair is not a castle, but a palace.

and she's only invited to beauclair in such a capacity because she is a relative of the duchess:

‘I’m in Beauclair because the largest, best-stocked library in the known world is here. Apart from university libraries, naturally. But universities are jealous of giving access to their shelves, and here I’m a relation and good friend of Anarietta and can do as I wish.’

(whom, you may note, she stands by and jointly receives geralt with at their first meeting, and participates in the festival of the vat with)

and therefore, she was in a perfectly strategic position to delay geralt, keep him captive:

‘(...) Please at least tell us … has the Witcher calmed down now? Are you capable of keeping him in Toussaint at least until May?’ (…) ‘No,’ she answered at last. ‘Probably not until May. But I’ll do everything in my power to keep him here as long as possible.’

because fringilla is not just an illusionist literally, as in the magic she is naturally gifted at, but 'illusionist' is her entire identity as a character.

and as her family hails from beauclair, this specific identity is compounded with the fact that beauclair itself is the center of illusions, a dreamland, a fairytale:

‘There’s something bewitched about this place, this fucking Toussaint. Some kind of charm hangs over the whole valley. Especially over the palace (...) no two ways about it, there’s something bewitched about this bloody Toussaint.’

fringilla is an illusionist because she is beauclairoise. she not only hails from a long line of illusionists, but hails from, is related to the ruler of, the very city of illusions and dreams.

she is the illusionist not just in a literal sense, but in the entire narrative role of casting an illusion over our hero, because it is the illusion of love which keeps her and geralt in beauclair. (the tricky trick is that geralt, taking a page out of yennefer's playbook of seduction, cleverness, patience, was able to cast an illusion upon the mistress of illusions herself, free himself from the witch's spell, awake from a pleasant dream to face the harsh reality).

(sighs) and even if you want to forget fringilla's beauclairoise identity and erase her entire positioning as the illusionist which poses a threat to our heroes, entices them to complacency, her role as nilfgaardian in the sense of her academic identity and imperial service also defines her.

because it is also fringilla, the illusionist who casts the wool over people's eyes... who blinded yennefer at sodden hill.

‘We’ve already met,’ Yennefer spoke again. ‘I don’t recall,’ Fringilla said without looking away. ‘I’m not surprised. But I have a good memory for faces and figures. I saw you from Sodden Hill.’ ‘In which case there can be no mistake,’ Fringilla Vigo said and raised her head proudly, sweeping her eyes over all those present. ‘I was at the Battle of Sodden.’ (...) ‘Occasionally one happens to see another person for only a split second, right before going blind, and one takes a dislike to them instantly.’ ‘Oh, enmity is considerably more complicated,’ Fringilla said, squinting. ‘Imagine someone you don’t know at all standing at the top of a hill, and ripping a friend of yours to shreds in front of your eyes. You neither saw them nor know them at all, but you still don’t like them.’ ‘So it goes,’ Yennefer said, shrugging. (...)

fringilla's (proud!) participation at the battle of sodden is a crux of the lodge, because she alongside her good friend, the scholarly assire, they are nilfgaardians who, owing to their nationality, find challenges meshing with the northern sorcereresses. the lodge brought together representatives of magic across nationalities in the midst of a raging, bloody war between them all.

and it's so integral to fringilla's character that she has imperial biases, that she approaches even the international lodge with an imperialist view.

with no factual basis, she initially exotifies and sexualizes the northern sorceresses, despite her own prior denial of these base stereotypes:

Fringilla Vigo was putting on a brave face, but she was anxious and stressed. She herself had often reprimanded young Nilfgaardian mages for uncritically yielding to stereotypical opinions and notions. She herself had regularly ridiculed the crude image painted by gossip and propaganda of the typical sorceress from the North: artificially beautiful, arrogant, vain and spoiled to the limits of perversion, and often beyond them. (...) Her untrammelled imagination offered up images of impossibly gorgeous women with diamond necklaces resting on naked breasts with rouged nipples, women with moist lips and eyes glistening from the effects of alcohol and narcotics. In her mind’s eye Fringilla could already see the gathering becoming a wild and depraved orgy accompanied by frenzied music, aphrodisiacs, and slaves of both sexes using exotic accessories.

she even has a difficult time understanding why the northern sorceresses are upset about the nilfgaardian invasion, believing it to be a boon to their society. only through their discussion does she just barely begin to grasp the meaning of "invasion" and why she wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of it:

Some were clearly anxious about the close proximity of Nilfgaard. Fringilla had mixed feelings. She had assumed that such educated people would understand that the Empire was bringing culture, prosperity, order and political stability to the North. On the other hand, though, she didn’t know how she would have reacted herself, were foreign armies approaching her home.

all of this indoctrination into imperial beliefs, at the same time that she is an educated woman, and herself, as an imperial sorceress, known for being rebellious and an upstart within her own culture:

‘Stop staring,’ Assire said, touching her bouffant and glistening curls. ‘I decided to make a few changes. Why, I just took your lead.’ ‘I was always taken as an oddball and a rebel,’ Fringilla Vigo chuckled. ‘But when they see you in the academy or at court…’

this is such a chaotic rambling post, but all i want to say is that fringilla's character, like most of the minor characters in the witcher series, was not invented through random generation, a roll of the dice, a spin of the wheel. her specific traits - such as her nationality, lineage, talents - all relate back thematically. everything is relevant, specifically chosen to create a specific character.

if once changes her backstory (e.g., to place her at aretuza... though i don't know who would do such a thing for no reason) they would change her entire character, the series' commentary on imperialism, and because of her role she takes later on, even the entire ending of the story.

#fringilla vigo #c: fringilla #the witcher books #book: lady of the lake #listen i don't enjoy her character as in i don't think about her 24/7 but i am begging my fellow fans to not just throw her #entire character out because they don't like her or what she does or they think it's just a matter of preference if she goes to aretuza #because these specificities define her entire character which define the entire stay in beauclair which define the assault on stygga castle #which define the entire ENDING of the saga which define the MEANING of the saga #these little guys (fictional characters) are like dominos or jenga blocks. if you move one little thing it changes everything #like there's so much meaning and symbolism to the wintering in beauclair it kills me to see people throw it out the window #bro they were caught in a dream a pleasant dream #and you also know what. the way we see beauclair. is FROM a dream. from condwiramurs' intentional oneiromancy #it's literally a dream about dreams #AUGH i lose my shit over the fakedeepness of lady of the lake #also her name is the latin for chaffinch. she's a little bird: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fringilla #which i am... guessing... relates to the wintering theme... perhaps...#analysis

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zoeysdamn · 7 months

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||The Witcher tarot | Queen of Swords | Cerys an Craite||

[Other cards of the Witcher tarot can be found here and on my Instagram art account]

[DO NOT REPOST OR REUSE WITHOUT LEGAL AND EXPLICIT AUTHORIZATION]

Cerys was the first character who made me break the “canon only” rule. I can’t help it, she’s a very interesting character, and honestly could be canon. Given I intended to draw Hjalmar and Crach anyway, I figured that she could join too. Plus, I’m always putting her on the Skellige throne in my TW3 runs.

Given her nickname is the sparrow hawk, I’ve decided to draw one perched on her hand too. If I took a lot of liberties with some other women’s outfits, I decided to stick to her game one.

#fanart #the witcher #the witcher fanart #the witcher tarot #Cerys an Craite #Cerys fanart #the witcher books #artists on tumblr #zoeysdamn art

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murfeelee · 2 years

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TW3 Skellige Set Pt1

This set includes 15 items converted from The Witcher 3:

Drakkar Front & Rear (found under Lawn Ornaments)

Drakkar as Sailboat (ISLAND PARADISE EP REQUIRED)

Dragon Decal (found under Wall Art)

Hanging Knotted Net (found under Wall Art)

Hanging Fish Net (found under Misc Decor)

Hanging Deer Rack (found under Lawn Ornaments)

Dead Deer as Bottomless Dog Bowl (PETS EP REQUIRED)

Antler Chandelier (HIGH POLY)

Cauldron as Firepit | Cauldron with Spherefish’s Mod (REQUIRED)

Brazier as Firepit

Totem as Radio

Signpost as Teleporter (found under Misc Vehicles)

Skellige Knot Pattern (found under Abstract)

Plus 4 TW3 Terrain Paints:

Roots (found under Misc)

Rocky Grass (found under Rocks)

Forest Grass (found under Grass)

Grassy Soil (found under Misc)

And 3 extra items NOT from TW3 that I threw in just cuz I felt like it:

TS2 to TS3 Katvip Planks as Rug

Straw Patterns 1 & 2 (found under Weave/Wicker)

Enjoy!

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Descriptions & preview pics under the cut:

Drakkars (dragon longships)

There are 2 decor Drakkar pieces for the Front & Rear. I enabled them to float on water to look like ship wreckage. (I used them with OMSP resizers in the Gedyneith pics.) Fully recolorable, found under Lawn Ornaments.

The Drakkar as Sailboat REQUIRES the ISLAND PARADISE EP, of course. The sails and rigging are frankenmeshed from this Taxi-boat replacement at Simszoo, so credit to them; I just really like their sails better.

Fully recolorable,` found under Boats. I added different variations with stencils from only 4 of the 7+ main Skellige clans: Blue: Tuirseach (King Bran); Black: Brokvar (Udalryk); Purple: Drummond (Madman Lugos); and Red: An Craite (Crach & Cerys).

The Dragon Decal has fully recolorabvle variations, and is found under Wall Art. The Knot Pattern is found under Abstract.

Hunting Clutter

The Hanging Knotted Net is found under Wall Art, the Hanging Fish Net is found under Misc Decor. The Antler Chandelier is a ceiling light (it’s like 6k IIRC?).

The Hanging Deer Rack is also high poly IIRC. There are 4 variations, recolorable-ish. The Dead Deer as Bottomless Dog Bowl REQUIRES the Pets EP.

The Bottomless pet bowl is a hidden Lifetime Reward, but I recat it to be found with the other Dog stuff. I’m not a fan of the sparkles that come out of the Bottomless Bowls, but oh well.

2 (more) Cauldrons

The Cauldron with Spherefish’s Mod (REQUIRED) is another Spherefish-modded cauldron--get used to these; I have a few more I wanna do.

The Cauldron as Firepit is a slightly larger version of the modded version, with the same variations:

And here’s a Brazier as Firepit for anyone who cares:

The Totem as Radio is pretty self-explanatory.

Like the Bottomless Pet Bowl, the Signpost as Teleporter’s a hidden LTR I recat under Misc Vehicles. I made it 2x bigger than the decor version I uploaded.

Terrain Paints

TBH the only one I cared about was the Roots terrain (found under Misc), before I got carried away with the rest and added the three Grass & Soil terrains.

And that’s that!

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Enjoy!

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#sims 3 cc #Sims 3 conversion #sims 3 the witcher #Sims 3 Medieval #sims 3 transportation #sims 3 appliances #Sims 3 pets #sims 3 foodstuffs #sims 3 lighting #sims 3 patterns #sims 3 terrain paint #sims 3 wall art #sims 3 decor #sims 3 mods #dragons #did i mention dragons

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