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isn't it funny the effect fanworks can have on us... ever since i saw this fanart i've loved the idea of lae'zel + giant guy with horns so so much. enough to be working on this guy, exhausted old man durge elamshinae, aka drow turned tieflingish thanks to lolth's favor. still fleshing him out but help me, idk what class to pick!
links to the subclass mods i mentioned: zealot / bleak walker
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Happy Worldbuilding Wednesday! Tell me about a famous event throughout the history of your world. How has it affected the world in which your characters live today?
Oh boy let me tell you about a hilarious bit of Lanithon history
Human Pest Control 101, or: The Founding of Vanithea
For those of you unfamiliar, this is what we’re working with:
Vanithea is the capital city, and where the majority of humans in the land live (though it is of course open to all races).
This city is a Big Deal, right. Lanithon’s calendars are set by it, it’s a hub of markets and mail systems and interracial cooperation unparalleled in the land. It was, after all, raised by magic users from every race.
What those magic users didn’t tell them was that they were only agreeing to build Vanithea so that the exploding human population would have a place to stay instead of encroaching on the lands of other races.
Humans, you see, do not self regulate like magical species do. They do not tie themselves to the environment around them, in order to sustain balance; their population grows exponentially. Worse than that, they expand everywhere they can.
Every little village icon on that map is a human town, and there are smaller villages scattered throughout the land and along the coastlines.
Even 1600 years ago from the present storyline, the situation was seen as a problem. So a bunch of elves, demons, fae, and merfolk got together to see what they could collectively do to solve this problem.
Genocide was considered, but war opens up the possibility of humans successfully winning battles and occupying territory in their lands. This was kind of the opposite of the point.
Instead, the races gathered their strongest magic users and bestowed a gift upon humanity: the city of Vanithea. Not only did it provide a more homes and jobs for people of all races, but it also serves as a focal point for humanity’s tireless progress. Humans can focus on building and developing their city, and the rest of the land can function in peace.
The meeting where the rulers of these races got together and decided what to do is infamous to everybody except the humans, and I find that hilarious.
This hot take on an event known to all Vanitheans is written in demonic history books, though, so there’s a chance Ash will find out soon.
#incandescently answered#tieflingish#my worldbuilding#worldbuilding wed asks#inspo: vanithea#inspo: lanithon#lore series#favorite ask
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3, 9, and 10 for Red!
Omg someone asking me about a minor character?! I’m about to DIE OF HAPPINESS.
3. What is their sexuality?
I’ve always imagined Red as being on the ace spectrum, most likely demi. She did fall in love with the Huntsman after they went on their Wolf hunting adventure together, and they did get married. But they had no children.
9. What line best shows who they are?
“When are you going to stop being afraid to live your life?” said to Paige. It’s a line that has a lot of impact on Paige and she’s speaking from past experience. Red was a former lady of good standing, and being her true self expelled her from that society, but in return she got to be with the love of her life and be free to pursue her real dream of owning an inn.
10. What is their zodiac sign?
I picture her as being a Capricorn. A little blunt but ambitious and big hearted.
OC ask game
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Worldbuilding Wednesday! What are some of the things that people might do for fun in your world?
Fun question!
So, I’m going to answer this primarily for Slaeyr, because they were the first culture I started developing, and I still have the most stuff for them. (Oops!) Anyway. A few things they like to do for fun, in no particular order:
“medley” - a musical game where a group of slaeyr hums a tune and one person sings part of that song, and it goes ‘round a circle with different songs. usually children’s or bar songs are used. (this is actually inspired by the medleys Peter Hollens puts up on his yt channel!)
“shield surfing” - self explanatory. it’s very dangerous, but a lot of younger slaeyr think they’re invincible.
another musical game without a title, but it involves trading off line by line or even word by word. sometimes played as a group, sometimes just between partners.
“soliloquy” - a game where each person takes turns telling a story about an adventure they have. details are embellished or even outright fabricated. at the end, there’s usually a heated debate about who’s was the best, ranked by either a) how outlandish it was, b) how truthful it seemed, c) how many details were accurate, or d) how entertaining it was. this is an especial favorite after people have been drinking lmao
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Help, In Dreams, Saccharine, Soak
Gil gasped, adrenaline shooting through his still sleep-paralyzed limbs. His heart thundered in his ears as he swallowed past the dream still caught in his throat. Dream. Dream. Just a dream.
Sweat plastered his curls to his forehead, the bed covers and Lia's leg thrown over him stiflingly hot. He wriggled sideways, amazing his panicked panting hadn't woken her.
It had woken Adiran.
He was awake enough now to realize the other body usually spooned at his back was gone, leaving him the space for a clean getaway. Gil schlumped into the the bathroom, splashing cold water on his face, tossing his curls back, ignoring the mirror. He didn't blame Adiran for retreating--the Mind faery would be buffeted by Gil's nightmares almost as clearly as the actual dreamer. One of the many ways faery gifts cut two ways.
Another deep breath--eyes firmly on the floor until he was well away from the mirror--and Gil felt brave enough to go find his equally sleep-disturbed lover.Adiran was in the kitchen, either anticipating Gil's desire to seek out his comfort place, or else wanting the cocoa he was stirring for himself. Gil wasn't sure who all in the house liked the drink for its own sake, and how many of them had picked up the association by habit. Either way, when someone was upset, someone else was making cocoa. It's just how the house worked.
The steaming mug and the heat of Adiran at his back was unwelcome after the oppression of the tangled bedclothes, but Gil powered through both. He wanted to feel better, damn it. He willed himself to be comforted by both.
After long moments of silence, Adiran finally asked "Iason or Erumond?"
"Donia."
It wasn't often Gil dreamed of the brutal faery who had murdered Kyle, only to have her heart ground to dust in Tybee's hands as he revived the once-mortal immediately after. It was more Lia's trauma than his own. Perhaps some trick of sleeping sandwiched between her and their Mind faery beau had done it. Perhaps his subconscious had just wanted to shake things up, tried of the old "big brother tries to drown you" motif. Either way it had been horrible. His dreams had a knack for being disturbingly real. Visceral. He shuddered under the onslaught of memories, washed instantly away by Adiran.
"Sorry," his lover muttered. "Instinct."
"No, thank you." Gil turned in Adiran's arms to kiss him, and bury his face in his lover's neck. "I'm sorry you have to go through it with me."
Strong arms tightened around him as Adiran rocked them back and forth, each taking comfort in the contact, as the horrible dreams started to fade.
" 'It's not a burden. Not to me. Not if it's you.' "
Gil snorted, finally cheered by the goofy meme reference. "You dork."
"You wouldn't have me any other way."
#oc gil#oc adiran#promptly written#ha ha what a joke#this has been sitting in here for AGES#its anything but prompt XD#tieflingish#asked and answered
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Role Reversal AU Tag
Write out what the role reversal AU of one of your WIPs would be like and then tag five people.
Thank you for tagging, @tieflingish!
This is great because I have a reversal AU ready to go for Been There, Done That!
Been There, Done That is the story of Haru, a ridiculously overpowered psychic crumbling under coming to terms with the impossible world-saving expectations piled on his shoulders while his estranged twin sister Tsuya tries to distance herself from the whole psychic cryptid ordeal entirely.
Naturally, in the Role Reversal AU, it’s Tsuya who is born with seemingly limitless psychic potential and goes on world-saving adventures while Haru is brushed to the side and forgotten.
Tsuya would scoff at saving the world like it’s a chore. She has a shit attitude toward life in general and would absolutely go off the rails if she had Haru’s powers. Really, when it comes down to it, Tsuya is the very specific sort of self-insert that lets me sort through baggage in the harmless and fascinating way that picking at a scab is harmless and fascinating doesn’t deserve those powers.
In BTDT, being left behind to grow up in an unpredictable home turned Tsuya sharp and cold, but in this AU, I have a feeling Haru would be just broken. Neither of them cope very well but Tsuya stayed barely functional for just long enough to get away. I don’t think Reversal AU Haru ever moved out.
Canon Haru has a bullet ant motif. Canon Tsuya has a paper wasp motif.
I call the Tsuya-has-psychic-powers worst-case scenario the ExecutionerWasp!AU.
Tagging: @sunlight-and-starskies @silas-the-reading-addict @tenacious-scripturient @samanthaaeslynn and @rhiannon-writes!
#bonus: anthem chen is a bumblebee motif. she fluff as hecc. idk if anyone else tho it might just be these three#tag game#writer tag game#role reversal tag#tieflingish
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📖 🎶🔏📝
thank you for asking!!
Send me a “📖” and I’ll write about a book or story or author that inspired me
Transcript: So, I know that it’s cliche to say Tolkien is a major inspiration, but… He is. While reading the Simarillion was a bit of a slog, it’s definitely inspired me to keep worldbuilding.
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Send me a “🎶” and I’ll write a song name (or a lyric) that inspired me
Transcript:
DNA - Lia Marie Johnson
I won’t be like you
Fighting back
I’m fighting back the truth
Eyes like yours
Can’t look away
But you can’t stop DNA
((This one reminds me of Talitha!))
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Send in a “🔏” and I’ll write the first line of my wip
Transcript: Death surrounded her on all sides, and Jezebel had never felt safer.
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Send me a “📝” and I’ll handwrite a favorite writeblr’s WIP title (and I’ll tag them)
Is it cheating to do a duology/series title?? Either way, Entitled Gods by @stardustscribes is such an amazing work :o
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It has been A While, how is Euterpe doing lately?
So putting aside the fact that that game is on pause during lockdown, Not Great!
I honestly don’t remember the last time I updated you, but we just overthrew an evil fey king, which would be great, but we did have to go to the feywild to prep for it, and also we followed it up by making some astoundingly bad political decisions. So Euterpe’s locked into a fey deal with the Unseelie Queen that’s definitely going to make her a target of the Seelie Queen. More importantly, she alignment shifted to chaotic while in the feywild and lied a few times (and also was not considered fully a person by the fey), so she’s till processing that, especially because she’s realizing to have even a tiny bit of political aptitude, she’s going to have to give up her core values.
On the other hand, her rival (the one who initially told her she was a bad bard because she didn’t lie) went to the feywild with the party and told Euterpe not to lie. Also Euterpe’s been bonding with one of said rival’s adopted brothers (a teenage thief), so that’s fun.
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Happy Storyteller Saturday! Tell me about a weakness of one of your characters.
Ah, hamartias! My favorites!
For this one I’ll talk about Xanthe from Fairbone. One of her weaknesses, perhaps her greatest one, would be her own ability--she’s inspired by a banshee, meaning she can see the shadow of death and sometimes premonitions. However, she knows she can’t necessarily change this (whether this is true or not, one will see), which can lead to her own indecisiveness and uselessness when it comes down to battles. It makes her passive, because she doesn’t feel like she has a choice.
Thanks for asking!
#asks and answers#sts#wip: fairbone#tieflingish#ya i love hamartias#ever since i learned what they were they're like#my new thing tm
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Last minute STS! Tell me your favorite thing about your current WIP (or the last WIP you worked on).
The last WIP that I worked on is Morsmordre.
I love, love, love the characters to death. I’m actually 100% certain that if @decantae and I didn’t start writing Morsmordre together, I would not be writing right now. This writeblr wouldn’t exist, and I probably would’ve given writing up as a hobby long ago. I’m so in love with the characters — which is why they’re basically in 80% of my WIPs — and I fall in love with them more and more every single day.
Storyteller Saturday: Come ask me questions next week!
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tieflingish replied to your post: rose-gold-blue replied to your post “the most...
yeaaaaaah as a 29 year old person, Laura gives me more 28 year old vibes
IN NO WORLD WILL I BE OLDER THAN TIFFANY HUDSON. NO!
I think Laura is 20ish simply because that’s probably Ace’s age, but she could easily be anywhere from 20-29. And Tiffany’s actress CAN look young, but the way they dress her is ludicrously old-fashioned. I guess it says something about the Hudsons in general being very Old White Money and they all Look Like That, but ... anywayyyy.
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14! (and why)
14. which character’s name do you like the most?
i’m loving cally’s name! her full name is calliope adrianna baird, but cally fits her really well because it’s sort and has this kind of bouncy happy air that i’m a fan of. cally is very young at only twenty three years old, and dealing with a lot at the moment. it becomes quite hard for her to push through all that she has to go through, but she’s trying her best to tackle it all with a smile. cally as a name just has that sort of vibe for me.
thanks so much for the ask, @tieflingish!!
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Happy Storyteller Saturday! What are your favorite plot beats to write (inciting incident, dark night of the soul, climax, etc)?
Will the hero’s journey never stop following me
My favorites are probably inciting incidents, because once I figure them out they’re a true pleasure to get right, and climaxes, because by that point I usually know exactly where I need to go and the words just flow out.
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Happy WBW! Talk to me about festivals and fairs and things in your world! What do people celebrate with festivals and fairs in your world? What do those look like?
Firstly- what an AWESOME username! Tieflings are the BEST!
Secondly, to answer your question- oh man, the Andavillans will have a festival for EVERYTHING! Crops good this year? Party! Prince Leo came home after a long time travelling? Party! Someone is getting married two towns over? You bet your butt they’re going to PAAAAAAAAARRRRTTTYYY!!!
They’re a vibrant, magical culture full of life and energy, they love colour and all things bright and they LOVE a good song and dance. They’re the opposite of the generally reserved Eilbians- my MC is Eilbian and their culture sure is a shock to her! But in a good way :D
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Happy STS! Do your OCs have any siblings? What's their relationship like with them?
Hi Howdy happy STS! You come to my blog and talk about siblings? What do you think I am, a middle child in a family of five? /cries/
But yes!! OCs do have siblings, there are four that spring to mind:
Collateral wise - Theo has a brother, not that he knows it. Cain also has a brother, not that he knows it. Get pranked, they’re technically each others twin but they’re very much not aware of it. I don’t think anyone in the entire story is aware of it. Nobody looked at these identical lads and went ‘hey maybe they’re related’ everyone just went ‘eh, freak force of nature, who cares’. It’s never mentioned in canon.
Their relationship is extremely strained, due to Theo hating Cain for ‘stealing his look’ and also being a criminal, and Cain is constantly paranoid about what Theo could do with their shared image.
In terms of DIAS - Ant has a sister whose name is Alice who I love, and they also love. They get on like a house on fire most of the time, and when she moves away, they’re very upset about it. Upset to the point that when she cancels her visit home, they decide to walk hundreds of miles west to visit her. Nbd. She was the first one who they trusted with their secret of being a Silvertongue, and the one who helped them test it out until she went deaf.
And Leon! Has! Siblings! Two brothers and a sister. They’re never mentioned at all in the book, but I know they’re alive and in England. He was one of the middle children, with the other being the sister and because first girl, she got more attention and he was kind of ignored. He liked all his siblings, of course, they’re close in age and got on well, but none of them did a lot when he was kicked out of the family house, so that put a bit of a damper on their relationship.
#sts#asks#tieflingish#I think this is the first time I've considered who is actually part of Leon's family#I know they kicked him out for being a gay lad#and I know he tries very hard to cut all ties with them#to the point of moving to america and going by his middle name rather than his given name#but i never considered who was actually in his family#I don't think his siblings are at all homophobic really#but his parents were and none of them really knew what to do when he was kicked out#I imagine in later years he might get back in touch with them again#hm#also first time I've admitted theo and cain are related to each other yeet
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Happy STS! What would your OC's idea of a happy ending be (regardless of whether that's what happens or not)? Does that change over time? (Also I got your ask and I promise will get to it, I am just very sleep deprived atm and it requires thought.)
So, a few hundred years from now, Rhia is going to take over The Court of In Between. She’ll decide Tybee served it very well in its infancy but now its time for him to retire. When that happens, I imagine he’ll stick around (it’s his house) and keep doing what he’s been doing, which is a whole lot of glorious nothing :P
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