#lumeria de vano

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Here's a sketch i never posted of Lumeria and the Emperor. They're so normal.

#my art #sketches #no energy for proper tagging. but i love them #lumeria de vano #the emperor #before dawn : the age of the gods

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Empress Lumeria de Vano

#art #digital painting #digital art #oc art #fantasy art #fantasy character #my art #break of dawn #before dawn : the age of the gods #lumeria de vano #sometimes getting married to a block of marble has perks like a very cool dress #this was made using symmetry so if you think she looks a little uncanny it's on purpose

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The Emperor and Empress Lumeria

#sketches #art #oc art #break of dawn #the emperor #lumeria de vano #'is she unhappy to be empress or what ?' well #he sort of murdered all her friends on their wedding day. so yes. #she also tried to kill him. which. he is really into that. #god ok now that she has a name and all i should go update my oc list

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Find the word !

Tagged by @isabellebissonrouthier, thank youu :D

Tagging : @jezifster, @ceph-the-ghost-writer, @tales-from-nocturnaliss (with no pressure if you don't feel like it!) + open tag !

Words I was given : Hope, Hell, Hunger, Happy, Hunk

Words I'm giving you : Color, Dull, Sun, Average, Mellow

Okay let's go ! As always I'm just grabbing stuff from wherever. I am 100% sure I won't find hell nor hunk because I don't use these words but i'm going to check just for the sake of being thorough.

HOPE

"Realva guard your steps, may Ninava find you a sweet future.

To them, getting out of the cell was as good as a death sentence. And so those who had not yet been identified huddled together, in their shared anonymity, the last remnant of themselves that they could hide from his might for just a little more time. They sat there, silently sharing the last shards of their broken hope." – Spinning a Web

HELL love how I said I probably wouldn't find it and IMMEDIATELY got proven wrong

"– Unless I am mistaken, she said slowly, you and your twin were Cenaldir’s sons… which we are told in history classes in Vano since we are children… and when you inherited the throne you discovered that not only you had your father’s powers, but also the ability to swap vessels at will… is that not right ?

The Emperor stared at her, as if waiting for the punchline of the joke to come, but there wasn’t any. His eyes then left her face as he tried to understand what the hell she was talking about, until he exclaimed :

– Cenaldir never had twins ! Sons, a couple times, for sure. No, Lohsevaar and Malvern fully were king Erven’s sons." – A New Vessel

HUNGER

"Maran barely realized that to the other one, something seemed deeply wrong. He hadn’t noticed the slow creeping of harshness in his voice, the anger in his smiles, the deep void behind his eyes. Velial still remembered him as a cheerful, kind man – yes, one who rightfully considered the wizard an asshole, but kind nonetheless.

Now the prince looked like he was barely alive, clothes too large for a frame shrunken by exhaustion and hunger, hair too long and matted. He seemed diminished.

– So ? When can we start ?" – How the wizard got a lizard

HAPPY you get two extracts for this one since i don't have the last word at all

"She lowered the gun and he immediately went to follow Alice, all too happy to be away from it. She nonchalantly tucked it away in her large coat before turning to a bewildered Gabriel, still on the ground.

– I thought you were a fire mage ? she asked.

– …getting a history of magic and draconic history double degree. I don’t fight… much." – Gabriel and his roommate

"– I just do that sometimes. It’s fine.

– It’s not.

Next thing he knew, she was kneeling over him, and he wasn’t quite sure when exactly she’d gotten onto his bed. Any other time, he’d been happy about it, but right now…" – Lumeria and the Emperor

NOT FOUND : Hunk

#tag games #i am procrastinating on homework here #i can't focus lmfao #there's a LOT of Valiandra today #the emperor #lumeria de vano #maran of neseah #velial telren #uhhh i dont think i have a general etynda tag nor one for gabriel in particular #before dawn : the age of the gods #the fall of neseah #my writing

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A quiet moment in the Palace's gardens.

#before dawn : the age of the gods #break of dawn #the emperor #lumeria de vano #sketches #art #my art #sometimes... they're soft.

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#break of dawn #before dawn : the age of the gods #the emperor #lumeria de vano #sketches #my art

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Sometimes you almost forget he's made of marble.

#sketches #my art #break of dawn #lumeria de vano #the emperor

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Find the word !

Woke up from a post school nap to a tag on the game by @isabellebissonrouthier lmfao

anyway words i have : Feather, Blank, Bite, Scale, Ash

tagging : OPEN TAG i dont remember urls right now knock yourself out if you see it

words i'll give you : Frown, Tower, Wing, Argument, Day

Wahoo let's go as always i'm going to take an excerpt from whatever i have in my files and i'll note the title afterwards

Feather - I don't have one. I have "feathery kiss" somewhere but I don't think that counts.

Blank

"– I wasn’t him back then.

Lumeria’s face went blank, that statement hitting a wall in her brain. Without elaborating on that, the Emperor used the arm that he’d wrapped around her waist to guide her out of the room, apparently taking mercy on the fact that she’d gotten herself lost in the northern wing." – Lumeria and the Emperor

Bite

"Quickly though, the young man caught on and wrapped his own hand over Velannen’s,  and moved to bite down his neck, sucking onto his skin, leaving little marks everywhere." – Festival of Fire (you're not ever getting more context than this one sentence).

Scale - Nothing. Haven't written about Silk as a dragon yet, and even in my old, old flight rising files I can't find a single scale.

Ash

"Ash, smoke, fire and abyssal blackness sparked from her fingers as Wolf saw a disaster start being created. In her panic, Isayah was summoning a shield, a simple shield of soul magic." – The Guild

#tag games #hi im exhausted lmfao #usually when i don't find anything i tend to add more to the other words but i don't have a lot of them for any of these #even bite surprisingly #mainly because i've been writing about Hélianthe in french #so yeah. #uhh #before dawn : the age of the gods #lumeria de vano #the emperor #malvern lohsevaar III #winter's rage #eleanor ridgen

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Most skilled analyst of her time.

#break of dawn #lumeria de vano #my art #sketches

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Find the word !

Tagged by @the-stray-storyteller

Words I was given : Prey, Desperate, Bleed, Haze, War

Words I'm giving you : Hands, Rotten, Storm, Web, Treason

Tagging : anyone who wants to do this... oh and @isabellebissonrouthier while i'm at it since you just said i can tag you in anything.

As always I'll be writing down where the bits are from after the extracts. Also I'm putting it under a read more [i know I'm not ever consistent on whether i do this or not but today is a readmore day]

Prey

"He was nothing.

Prey for a wolf that only wanted revenge.

A body, lifeless, still warm and spilling its blood on the marble floor."

– From a snippet with no name, starring Eleanor as Winter (i really should name that particular snippet)

Desperate

"It had come out as a hiss, and the Emperor flinched away. They both stared at each other for a second. Was he embarrassed ? Intimidated ? Neither of these options made sense, and yet she saw him move. She tried to look for a glimpse of something human in his eyes, his demeanor, trying to understand. But there was absolutely nothing for her to grasp on the desperately smooth, perfect stone."

– From "Lumeria and the Emperor". (had to cheat a bit for this one because the only other places where the actual word desperate was in was nsfw lmfao.)

Bleed

"– So you can’t give me what I asked for, is what I gather ?

– I hadn’t agreed to anything, asshole, he said boldly. I paid you back in full and you’re just trying to intimidate me into stealing for you.

A claw pierced his clothes, going so far as to make him bleed, and he could not suppress a groan of pain.

– You really think you don’t owe me ? Alice, get the book."

– From "Gabriel en PLS (roommate edition)". That's a bit that started as a translation from something i wrote in french, hence the title. in french. Gabriel's in shit

Haze

"Velannen was relaxing at his desk, a warm cup of raspberry infusion in hand, eyes closed half-sleeping, when his office’s door banged open and he was forced out of his sleepy haze. He opened his eyes fast enough to see prince Malvern close the door in a large, angry movement, before rushing to the desk, his hands slamming down on the wood. An inkpot fell, spilling its contents all over the top of the desk, Velannen’s papers, and the prince’s hands."

– From "Velannen".

War

"The painting was, strangely, perfectly preserved. A quick look with the Eye confirmed that the spell that was supposed to protect it against age was still intact - why this, of all things in the northern wing ? She approached. It was a family portrait, life-sized at that - four people, dressed in ancient lonnean fashion, two of them crowned, the two other young and looking almost exactly like each other if it weren’t for their clothing. Her brain attempted to provide her anything it could remember about Lonna’s history before and at the beginning of the Empire. The wars that the Emperor started. His childhood - his childhood ! The twin sons of Cenaldir !"

– From "A New Vessel".

#tag games #hi yes the reason i never tag anyone in these games is that i don't know if i'm bothering people #hey stray if you're reading this can i tag you in games #i have cheese holes for brains but i can try to remember that #my writing #ok now character tagging time. #eleanor ridgen #the emperor #lumeria de vano #malvern lohsevaar iii #...gabriel doesn't have a specific tag and i don't remember if he has a last name let me check. #god i haven't worked on the story he first appeared in. in years #ok he has a last name #gabriel ulpyr #i have no idea how to pronounce that.

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"Do you... have a name ?"

The Emperor looked up from his book, eyes wide. Lumeria was sitting near him, on the covers of the bed, and had clearly interrupted herself in the middle of writing something down. She seemed kind of elsewhere, and maybe he'd imagined the question.

"I'm sorry ?"

When her eyes found his, there was that little twinge of fear he never quite managed to get rid of. That he would likely never not see. She smiled, a bit precariously, shifted.

"I don't know. I've just been wondering if... there was ever anything else than the Emperor, I guess."

The end of her sentence was whispered, muffled under the nagging worry that she'd offend him. She looked away again, her hands folding the same piece of paper over and over again. He put down his book with a sigh.

"I have had names. Although I do not remember them all."

She nodded, slowly, and for a painful few minutes they both stayed silent. She still did not pick her pencil back up, but eventually, the Emperor went back to reading.

Until Lumeria moved, and he assumed she would be leaving, wishing him a good night as she usually did the rare nights she stayed a little while with him. When he looked where she was though, she was laying on her back, covering her face with her hands, and muttering something he couldn't parse.

"You know you can ask questions."

"I know you're annoying when you're upset."

"First, ouch. Second, do you really think you can upset me by asking me about what names I had in the past ?"

She shot him a look that meant yes, obviously, for so many reasons, several of them unrelated to you. He just shrugged.

"Just ask."

"Why not keep the name of Lohsevaar III ? Is it like having a body, did that make you too human for us losers ?"

He blinked in surprise.

"...right. I forget that... well. I wasn't Lohsevaar for very long. A couple years at most. That's not my name, in my mind."

He paused a little bit before adding on :

"As far as I'm concerned, it's really just my ex's name."

Lumeria's mouth opened, and she stared at him for long enough that he just went back to reading again, without any further explanation.

#he's being a cryptic idiot for nothing #the emperor #lumeria de vano #break of dawn

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Lumeria

From the coldest part of the continent, basically living in a place that's kept alive through magic and prayers

Analyst of the University of Vano, a university that is quite literally run by the god of Teaching, Writing, Knowledge and so many other little things (Volieda, the Headmaster).

Spider theming : her god of preference is Cenaldir, the Spider God, in Vannean lore the god of Luck, Death, Thievery, Lust, Disasters and to some extent Romantic Love, if you're really desperate for someone to listen to you. She wears spiderwebs at her wedding, specifically because to her knowledge, Cenaldir and the Emperor fucking Hate each other despite being father and son. Or maybe because they're father and son. Apparently when I write her lying, i sprinkle in some good old fashioned spider related words, too.

Has a knack for observing everything around her and trying to figure out what's going on with people, sometimes even without talking to them. Once she becomes acquainted with the Emperor's court, she knows all of the drama without being involved in it, and she knows she could use it against others if she wished.

Good liar, has honed that skill her entire life and keeps using it all the time especially around the Emperor.

She lies to him. To his face. And sometimes does it well enough that he believes her.

Physical appearance : thin and tall, long blond hair with cyan eyes. Yes literally the eye hurty color, cyan. Tendency to wear dresses with many layers, although I haven't yet found a historical aesthetic i want to draw from when thinking of her.

Colors : Gold, silver, blue, green to some extent (that's for Cenaldir).

Elysia

Ice magic that she uses when she needs to hurt or physically restrain others, but also uses for creative expression in her spare time. Incredibly skilled and dangerous in a fight. Extensive ice theming with Vincent, another ice user, who she initially dates because he's from Lonna and she'd like to become that region's Master for reasons.

Shield magic that she uses incredibly regularly, with the ice.

Comes from the Sky City's Academy, the only place where an Anomaly can even hope to have a good future, the only place where Dawn has decided she could make magical soldiers loyal to her and her only, the only place where one may get the training required to become Master of a region, the highest ranked pawn in Dawn's ideal hierarchy. She is a teacher there, for a time.

Speak to animals ability : she knows everything about everyone if they even so much as live near animals, including insects. She uses this to blackmail and force people to obey to her all the time. That's how she figures out secrets, that's how she can get pretty much anyone expelled from the Sky City's Academy if she wishes to. That's how she learns where things are hidden and how to find them.

Incredible liar and manipulator, she bends entire character arcs to her whim using these skills, on top of the general intimidation factor of her fighting prowess. Drives a good portion of the later parts of the plot through the sheer... well. webs she has spun.

She lies to Dawn. To her face. And Dawn believes her.

Physical appearance : thin and tall, long blond hair with cyan eyes. Perfectly tailored shirts and waistcoats with a vest and pants to match.

Colors : Grey, white, ice-blue and gold.

#break of dawn #elysia evans #lumeria de vano #pondering.

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Last Line Tag !

Tagged by @isabellebissonrouthier :]

As always if you want to participate, consider yourself tagged by me !

This bit is from something I've been working on the past couple of days, about Lumeria and the Emperor

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"– I won’t… do this to the next vessel, if that reassures you.

He wasn’t actually certain he was telling the truth. But maybe saying it would stop him from destroying it this time.

– It would, she whispered back."

#break of dawn #original writing #my writing #tag games #lumeria de vano #the emperor

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Last Line Tag

Tagged by @isabellebissonrouthier !

As always if you want to do this, you can consider yourself tagged by me.

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"Lumeria's mouth opened, and she stared at him for long enough that he just went back to reading again, without any further explanation."

(Yes, this is from one of my posts from the last couple days. Yeah that's also literally the last thing i wrote. lol. actual post here)

#tag games #my writing #break of dawn #the emperor #lumeria de vano

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The wedding ceremony happened to Lumeria like a fever dream.

She barely listened to anything being said, barely paid attention when it was time to kiss her new husband, the cold stone not even waking her from her thoughts. Her mind was entirely bent towards her friends, the hope that she could save them, if only she could stall for time and make the Emperor love her...

She hoped him accepting her proposal was because he was not as smart as people believed he was. But this was just an underlying current to her main thought : if she could convince him to let the others go, too, the rebellion would be safe.

It was at dinner, where she barely picked at her plate, that the rebels were brought in. Casting a glance towards the Emperor, she saw he only had the same face of vague disapproval that he'd also expressed when they were caught. Lumeria slowly put down her fork, and her eyes turned back to her friends, whose eyes were covered and hands tied up in their backs. Not that it mattered when near the Emperor.

- Tonight should be a celebration, the Emperor declared to the people assembled for the wedding. But there is still a shadow of a doubt in my mind, and I believe that a blank slate is what we need to start on good terms.

Then his face turned to her, a cruel smile appearing on it. Lumeria just tried to remain calm, even as her eyes flicked from person to person. Her guts were turning inside of her, the silence that had followed the Emperor's announcement made her much too aware of just how vulnerable they all were. How she, too, could be killed with a flick of the finger.

Fighting herself, she turned to him.

- Please, they...

He shushed her, a cold marble hand on her lips, and made her look at the poor rebels she once gave hope to.

- Look at your friends, Lumeria, he whispered in her ear. They heard you. Look who thinks you will plead and save them. Look who knows you've betrayed their cause.

She couldn't even refute that last sentence without it being obvious why she'd married him. Tears started welling up in her eyes, and he let her go.

Her vision was blurry long before the first scream.

#original writing #my writing #break of dawn #the emperor #lumeria de vano

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Find the Word

Tagged by @isabellebissonrouthier :)

Words I've been given : Wing, Claw, Fang, Breeze, Heart

Words I'm giving you : Marble, Gold, Void, Stare, Daydreaming

If you want to do this, consider yourself tagged !

As always I'll add what the bits are from after the extracts.

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Wing

Nothing !

Claw

"There was a massive hole in the ground, dug by the long, monstrous clawed hands of the spirit. Ripping chunks of the earth away, staining the perfect icy white with the dark brown of dirt, scarfing them down her throat like one would to to raspberries. Winter's teeth barely even chewed the ripped up ground and scarce bits of grass as she swallowed the dirt.

After watching her for a full minute, in utter fascination and bewilderment, Nathan finally asked :

– What are you doing ?"

– From a snippet named "DIRT.", starring Nathan and Eleanor (as Winter).

Fang

"Queen Elandra was dead.

Her hands were claws, her teeth fangs, her eyes and body a deadly mist seeping through the prisons, looking for a way out. A growl, a movement of the hand, and she was free.

Slow.

Cold.

Deliberate.

Winter walked, to what had once been her castle."

– From a snippet with no name, starring Eleanor (as Queen Elandra & Winter)

Breeze

"– Since when am I someone you think of when you get lonely ?

– I don’t know. Maybe since you’re the person I talk to the most besides Melina, because I can’t stand your court.

– But you can stand me.

Truly, he was looking at her as if she had gone mad while he wasn’t paying attention, and she couldn’t hold back a bout of laughter. A light breeze came over them, chasing away the sun’s warmth ever so slightly, and the Emperor’s worry did not leave his face."

– From "Lumeria and the Emperor"

Heart

Since I couldn't find anything for the first word, you get TWO bits for Heart, as an apology of sorts :^)

"– Beg again, General, said a voice he had not thought he would ever hear again. Beg and maybe I will consider freeing you.

His own words, thrown back at him a thousand years later. His words that he knew had been lies back then, that he knew were lies now, but he begged anyway. The wolf’s half open mouth twitched, grinned, a nightmare of teeth and cold, and let out a laugh, garbled parody of warmth and humanity. His ears hurt, icy pressure building up, until the sword plunged into his chest, narrowly missing his heart, filling his lungs with blood."

– From a snippet with no name, starring Eleanor (as Winter).

"– I think you might need to rest, your majesty, said Velannen in a tone that sounded very much like stone. Clearly worry has taken a toll on you.

The prince opened his mouth to respond, but nothing came out when his eyes encountered the linguist’s glare, completely at odds with his normal demeanor, with the kind smile, the softness, and the glint of delight he was used to. Still, Velannen very gently pushed him out of his office.

– Do not be late to the next lesson, was the last thing he said before he closed the door and prince Malvern’s heart shattered in a million conflicting pieces."

– From a snippet with no name, about Velannen and prince Malvern.

#tag games #my writing #:)! #i have a problem with characters who have a bajillion names (stares at Winter and Velannen) #anyway #here's the character tags #hopefully i can make myself USE a tagging system #eleanor ridgen #nathan stormbreaker #lumeria de vano #the emperor #malvern lohsevaar iii #kinda want to tug at malvern and velannen again btw. see what they're like together. #like i know velannen #i know this bitch #malvern is kind of a mystery still to me