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ohnoitstbskyen · 15 days

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What’s the difference between Ascended, Aspects, Freljordian demigods, Aurelian Sol, and whatever Soraka’s got going on? Are they all just different varieties of League gods?

Hoo boy, okay, so. First of all, Riot have been pretty adamant that there are no gods in Runeterra, every god-like being that exists in that universe is actually a spirit or just a very powerful being of some kind, but definitely no real gods, no matter how much it seems like they are definitely writing these characters to be actual literal gods.

I don't 100% know why they are so insistent on this, but I imagine it has something to do with censorship and ratings agencies, or maybe they just don't want to have to establish any actual theology on Runeterra. Volibear isn't the god of storms for real, he's just a super powerful spirit that can create storms in the Freljord, but not all of them, so please don't ask us whether every single thunderstorm in the Freljord was something he did deliberately. That sort of vibe.

To go through them point by point:

Celestials & Aspects

The Celestials are beings like Aurelion Sol and Bard, which exist as cosmic entities operating on levels of power and motivation beyond human understanding. They came into existence with the universe itself, and tend to busy themselves governing various parts of its operation. They are, again not gods (Riot is very insistent on this), but Aurelion Sol literally made every star in the galaxy, he's functionally the progenitor god of Creation.

Some of them, though, like to interfere in the mortal world of Runetera in various ways, and they tend to use mortal vessels to do it. That's where we get Aspects: Aspects are mortals who are chosen by the Celestials that live on Mount Targon to contain their power and be their avatars in the mortal world.

Leona is the Aspect of a Sun celestial, Diana of the Moon celestial, Pantheon is the Aspect of War (or he was, until Aatrox killed it, but he retains access to many of its powers), and Zoe is the Aspect of Twilight, and so on.

Soraka is another Celestial in mortal form, but she is NOT an Ascended. Rather than possess a mortal, she created a mortal body for herself and poured the whole of her being into it, which is causing her body to permanently burn up from the inside while she regenerates it with her magic. She lives on Runeterra and acts as a mysterious mystical wise guide and mentor to mortals who need it.

Ascended & Darkin

Ascended are somewhat similar in kind to the Aspects, but usually lesser in power. The Ascended are also human beings infused with Celestial magic and power, specifically with the power of the Sun, although as far as I know, that power is drawn not from the Celestial of the Sun who empowers Leona, but directly from the physical Sun itself. This means the Ascended aren't possessed by Celestials and retain full free will, at the cost (or let's be real: benefit) of being transformed into furries, which extremely coincidentally just so happen to closely resemble the gods of the Egyptian pantheon. but again, they are definitely not gods, please don't put it in the newspaper that they are gods.

I don't know exactly how canon Riot considers this anymore, but the lore was that the Aspects of Mount Targon gifted the power of Ascension to Shurima in order to produce Ascended that could serve as shock-troops in the war against the Void, which is a swarm of extradimensional horrors that are constantly trying to eat the world. Whatever the case, the Ascended DID fight the Void, and it traumatized and corrupted them so badly that they degenerated into body-horror blood monsters called the Darkin.

The Darkin fell into civil war and it got so bad that The Aspect of Twilight (not Zoe but her predecessor in the role) decided to use some magical trickery to imprison them all in their weapons, which is where they've stayed for a few thousand years, getting even more traumatized and mentally destabilized by the total sensory deprivation and solitary confinement. If any mortal touches a Darkin weapon, it immediately assimilates them and uses their flesh as a new host, and then goes on a killing rampage about it. That's where you get your Aatrox, your Varus and (eventually, once he devours Kayn) your Rhaast.

Gods, Spirits & Demons

This is the category for Ornn, Anivia, Volibear, The Seal Sister and so on. The Freljordian people worship them as gods, but they are, technically, only extremely powerful nature spirits, manifestations of the nature of the Freljord itself, which draw power from the land and to a lesser extent from their worshipers. There are many, many lesser nature spirits, which might be worshiped as gods by particular tribes or hold power over particular areas, but Ornn, Anivia, Volibear, The Seal Sister and the Iron Boar are the most powerful and most widely revered.

On a similar note, Ionia is absolutely choked to the gills with spirits, because those lands are soaked in magic. They are usually not worshiped as gods specifically, but take the shape of everything from dragons to living trees to sprites and will-o-wisps and which roam fairly freely in Ionia. This includes characters like Lillia, who is the daughter of a magical tree of dreams on whose branches the dreams of mortals grow and mature, and it includes Ivern, who is an extremely powerful and ancient nature spirit formed from the soul of a magical tree.

Demons are distinct from spirits, in that rather than drawing on the power of the land or fountains of magic, they draw on the emotions of living things for their powers. The most powerful demons are known as The Ten, who get their power from the most primal emotions that living things feel. Fiddlesticks is the demon of Fear, and Nilah somehow draws her strength from Ashlesh, the Demon of Joy, whom her order has imprisoned. We don't know who the rest of the Ten are yet, but Riot seems to have that worked out somewhere in their internal deep lore.

Swain has a lesser (but still powerful) demon of secrets called Raum bound in his arm through some sort of deal, Evelynn is a demon of anguish and pain, Tahm Kench is a demon of addiction, and Nocturne is a demon of nightmares.

Besides those, there are an untold number of lesser demons, who feed on more and more specific feelings, and thus are less and less powerful because there's simply less of that stuff around to feed on. They are often called Azakana, and may be demons that feed on feelings as niche as, like, noblemen's fear of their extramarital affairs with handsome commoners being discovered. Yone hunts the Azakana and collects their mask, although even he doesn't know quite what for.

Death

This is where we place the Kindred. Technically they are merely Spirits of Death, but more than perhaps any other category of creature, Riot keeps writing them as Literal Gods of death and I don't think it makes sense to think of them any other way.

The Kindred take on many different shapes all across Runeterra, seemingly influenced in large part by the expectations of the people or creatures who are dying, but their most popular visage is that of a Lamb and a Wolf, hunting together. Lamb's merciful arrow ends your life if you accept that your time is up and go gently into that good night, but Wolf hunts you down and rips you to shreds if you resist and fight to your last breath, destiny be damned.

The Kindred are there for every death on Runeterra, they are the mediators (as far as we know) of all forms of death everywhere, and by far the most classically "anthropomorphic embodiment of universal existence" style god in the lore that we know of. Where a god like Anivia only really has power in the Freljord, the Kindred have power everywhere there is life. Only the undead escape them, and even then, only temporarily.

In Conclusion

YES Runeterra has tons of gods, it obviously has gods, you can't walk five feet in that universe without tripping on a god, but they tend to be gods with hard limitations on their power and influence, and rarely have powers on the level of bending reality itself.

Even Aurelion Sol, who literally makes stars, can't snap his fingers and undo causality, for example, or suspend the laws of physics wholesale.

Riot's weird insistence on "no gods in Runeterra" is more of an affectation, a bit of a put-on, than an actual narrative principle, and most of the gods of Runeterra can be understood very comfortably through the lens of various non-Christian religions like Norse or Greek mythology, or the hero/god characters of something like Polynesian myth.

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dreameroftheblue · 7 months

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#was helping sister with animal anatomy for a coloring page commission (she does not specialize in creechurs especially of the beast variety)#so after redlining a seal found that I too would like to draw a seal #here he is #also doubles as a fully accurate representation of my dog #seal #seal pup #sketch #my art #dreameroftheblue

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anorlondos · 4 months

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More Hollow Knight doodles featuring Grimm!!

OH MAN. OH BOY. MORE DOODLES!!! I beat the game yesterday at 108% and around 47 hours, what a journey. Here are a bunch of Grimm doodles I did while going through his quest (which I uhhh accidentally banished him haha anyways), I'm still figuring out how to draw all of these buggy fellas :]

What a beautiful experience...I want to inject this game into my veins. I got 112% earlier today and man...I still wanna keep playing!!!!

Closeups below:

#hollow knight #hk grimm #grimm #sil art #art #fanart #my fav boss is Pure Vessel or Sisters of Battle so far #Sealed vessel music...ouuagh #p5 I'll get you one day

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dirtytransmasc · 5 months

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I need more selkie theon (and asha. I just think that would be a vibe. fuck the greyjoy sigil being a kraken for a moment and let them be seals) content.

like the opportunity to have theon's coat taken by ned when he's made his ward is right there and it is perfect and beautiful and tragic.

and you could build on that depending on the version of the selkie myth/story you're going off of (I personally love the song of the sea version of selkies for story writing). maybe he can't talk without it, maybe he gets sick, maybe his voice has magical properties of sorts.

I have this one concept in my head that I don't have the time to write, but it goes something along the lines of theon getting sick after years away from his coat and the stark kids have to find his coat and drag his slowly dying ass to the bay of seals (cause y'know bay of seals and theon's a selkie so he'll turn into a seal... I thought it was creative).

also, in a lot of versions of selkies, when they get sick, their hair turns white, which is on brand for theon. they're also pretty, their stories are typically soaked to the bone in tragedy, they're normally held captive/tortured, amongst other things, which are also very on brand for theon.

and maybe you get some selkie to selkie telepathy of sorts, so when theon finally enter the water a seal again, asha books it to come find him, cause its been years since she's been able to feel him (I'm soft for them, I will create the most improbable and ridiculous scenario's to bring them together and for them to have soft sibling moments).

all and all, theon being a selkie is something I need more content of, please and thank you.

#theon would be a harbor seal and asha would be a leopard seal. I don't make the rules.#I think theon being a selkie would just be cool #like. it would make him being a ward all the more interesting. there's the potential for him to be stripped of his *skin* and his *voice*#and to keep him from the sea would be even more cruel #then there's the different ways you could give him magical properties. he could be enchantingly beautiful. his voice could be magical. he-#could bring good luck to ships. he could have a song that held a specific power of sorts.#there's just so many possibilities and I have many thoughts #also just imagine the starklings. at the very least robb and jon (who barely wants to be there but went for moral support) stealing theon-#and going on a 'roadtrip' to the bay of seals. theon's looks about ready to keel over. robb's panicking. jon's sulking.#the whole of the north is currently hunting them down. cause y'know. the heir to winterfell suddenly dissapeared into the night with the-#ward and the bastard. it would be chaos.#and asha reuniting with her brother in their seal forms. it'd be cute. cause they're chubby little blops and they'd boop each other.#and theon having to decide if he wants to stay with his found family or escaping back to pyke with his sister now that he has the chance.#someone write this. take the idea. just tag me so I can read it #theon greyjoy #asha greyjoy #yara greyjoy #house greyjoy #throbb #vaguely. the potential is right there #got #game of thrones #asoiaf #a song of ice and fire #selkies

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witchstone · 8 months

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well, i've finally finished the crochet blanket i started months ago, but you're not getting any pictures until alice relinquishes the claim she immediately made

#on the other hand: the feline seal of approval means everything #the only other blanket she cares for is my sister's larney woolies blanket #cats #alice #crochet #fieldnotes

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art-fries-87 · 2 months

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So i was thinking to myself about RTN Hinata and I was like “Lol, wouldn’t it be funny to place her in the og world as Hinata’s sister?” and i gave myself a pat on the back as I thought of crack headed ideas of what to do with her before I actually thought about it seriously involving Hyuga clan bs.

#guess who’s rtn and who’s our hime!/j #road to ninja #hinata hyuga #naruto fanart #I’ll lore dump:#Basically they’re twin sisters (Hinata’s the eldest) and following the canon events with Hanabi RTN Hinata and OG Hinata had to fight #Due to RTN Hinata being all that and she wins the fight but like Hanabi she loves her sister and due to them being a lot younger-#RTN Hinata doesnt fully understand the consequences of her win #Like canon Hinata doesn’t get sealed but she gets disowned and sent over to Kurenai as her new gaurdian #eh I should probably give RTN-nata a name but Hitomi is all I have at the moment #Still debating on wether we bring in Hanabi or not and her role if we do bring her in

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imminent-danger-came · 9 months

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continue being a little mean to toh fans please it is really irritating how some act like its got the best writing of any modern cartoon

Daawwwww I don't have it in me. TOH fans love it for a reason, and there are legitimately good moments! It's just not the most complex or well-written show out there—which it doesn't need to be—but I also totally get your exhaustion. It gets tiring seeing people praise it so highly over and over again when it's just like...fine. It didn't do nothing but it also didn't do something, you know? It's main couple is cute and queer, but that's pretty much all there is to them. It has a fun cast of characters, but they all tend to fall into archetypes. Luz is a sweet main character, but she doesn't have any real flaws and kinda takes a back seat to Hunter and Eda (the white people lol). Her foil with Philip was interesting...but then they kinda backed off and went the "you and Belos are nothing alike" direction.

((I'm also going to answer this anon with another: ))

And It's not that an unsympathetic villian is bad, or that Belos would even be sympathetic with added backstory, it's just that...there were a lot of interesting things to explore with his character that were left hanging.

Like, while he's definitely not at all a good person, it's intriguing that he would bother to recreate his brother over and over again knowing that each time the grimwalker was going to betray him. It's intriguing that he was even willing to kill his brother to begin with (though Caleb was super underutilized in general). Like, you can give a villain depth without justifying or victimizing them (hi Finnegran from tdp, I'll also add Spider Queen & LBD here). So it just feels like a missed opportunity all across the board. It's still surprising to me that we got a confirmation on the Wittebane backstory through an unrelated background character, rather than Philip himself (who had literally possessed a main character, and mindscapes had already been well-established....the pieces were all there me thinks).

And obviously it's like, people can love something despite it's flaws, and they can cherish it for the good it has, but they still don't need to praise it as an ultimate form of media, you know? We don't need to pretend toh was this dark and complex story—it was just a story a lot of people liked and resonated with. Which I'm glad it's there for those people, and I'm glad there are options when it comes to queer pieces of media!

That said the show with the best writing of any modern cartoon is The Dragon Prince (streaming on Netflix).

#Monkie Kid while very good is still not that good. I'm sorry lmk. I give you 2nd place. In my heart <3 #Though we'll see. If s5 (or beyond) brings back some stuff from s1 the writing might just be that tight #(aka the skeleton key being given to MK in 1x08 & also the 1x01 seal)#Anyways I feel like I've been too much of a hater recently #but gahhh. toh just did not get that deep. it's like fake deep #Let me explain my thoughts:#Lilith cursed Eda. Spent years trying to force Eda into the coven system to undo her own mistake.#Only to then learn that Belos was never going to heal her sister. And does this impact Eda and Lilith's relationship in any way? Not really #Like yeah sure their relationship improves after Lilith leaves the Emperor's coven.#But I can't help but feel like that situation got boiled down to ''Lilith had a good reason for it so we forgive her :p'' and I'm like NO #WHERE'S THE DRAMA #THAT WAS KINDA SUPER FUCKED UP OF LILITH. A LIFE LONG CURSE THAT SHE GAVE HER SISTER. AND WE'RE GONNA LIKE #GLOSS OVER THAT????#tis not story telling for me. At least not any more at this stage in my life.#asks #toh critical

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yuridovewing · 21 days

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trying to conceptualize asc protag designs with picrew.

#not in the mood or position to draw cats so picrew #these are like. kinda razorverse i guess? idk? halfway? made it with them in mind but idek if these guys will make it into razorverse #uhhh frostpaw has the seal point gene from the bluestar family. shes got a fucked up family.#i was thinkingggg she and splashtail were siblings but now im considering that theyre first cousins through curlfeather and havenpelt #so its more similar to canon but theyre like. diegetically considered family #nightheart is following the ''hes the newest cinderpelt reincarnation'' change so no more firestar angst #but while i did wanna give him some orange i didnt wanna give him too much for the sake of recognition #so hes got a little bit aaand fucked up blue eyes that he loses when he breaks the cycle #sunbeam..... has nothing. i just kinda followed canon. i have no idea what to do with her. she doesnt interest me rn #maybe when i eventually get to asc in my challenge ill change my mind and suddenly she'll be my blorbo but rn i dont care abt her #besides making jokes that she should fuck nighthearts mom. or sister idk idc either one of them

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obstinatecondolement · 6 months

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I have a lot of fondness for clunky Hallmark Christmas romance movies with rock bottom production values, vaguely established and extremely contrived plots, dodgy dialgoue, often questionable line readings, and child actors playing a kid who seems either three years younger or older than themselves. Hallmark have not undermined themselves with glib, self aware irony or attempted to "elevate" the delightful low artform that they excel in. Refreshing, honestly.

#netflix could never #they are incapable of that level of earnest storytelling #for this specific kind of story at least #because they think they're better than it #hallmark knows that none of us are too good for a movie about an autistic marine biologist #who thinks her best friend's brother ghosted her after they hit it off at the friend/sister's wedding #and *tells him* that repeatedly to his face instead of not addressing it #and he's like 'I definitely replied ot your email! you ghosted me! but let's let bygones be bygones. It's The Holidays' for the whole movie #and the resolution is that it got saved in his drafts #amazing #what other studios are delivering this level of banal miscommunication #what other movies have b-plots about learning how to be good at talking to interns as well as seals?#where little kids read poems they wrote at a christmas parties that sound *exactly* like a little kid wrote them?#and not in the 'kids who haven't internalised cliche yet can write some beautiful lines' way #mystic christmas: would recommend to a friend #there are no supernatural elements btw #that's the name of the town #which literally could have been named anything because it doesn't seem to be important to the plot at all #and no one makes any plays on 'mystic' that relate to its literal meaning

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antidotefortheawkward-art · 2 years

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One must wonder how Yuding Zhenren feels during the events of Lotus Lantern...

[ID: A monochrome purple comic. In the first panel is Yuding Zhenren from the shoulders up, resting his head on his hand while reclining and looking up with a cold, angry expression, saying "Yang Jian." In the second panel is Erlang Shen from the shoulders up, looking down at Yuding Zhenren with a detached expression, responding "Shifu." The third panel zooms out to show Yuding Zhenren reclining on a mat while looking up at Erlang Shen, who is standing a few feet away. Yuding Zhenren says, "My... How you've grown." Yuding Zhenren and Erlang Shen both cast reflections on the pond beside them. While Yuding Zhenren's reflection looks largely unchanged, where Erlang's reflection should be, are the image of him and his sister as kids, crying and kneeling in front of Yuding Zhenren. End ID]

#my art #lotus lantern #investiture of the gods #fengshen yanyi #chinese mythology #erlang shen #yang jian #yuding zhenren #oguhjhgdjfkdfk not entirely satisfied with how this looks but i think i am rusty #'yang jian- i went gray over you and your sister. do you know how hard it is to start greying when youre of my cultivation level.'#yuding zhenren definitely didnt disown or banish erlang shen bc heavenly politics and bc he's still attached to erlang #but #ough things were definitely different between them after erlang shen sealed sansheng mu away #'你还有脸认我这师父？you still have the face to recognize me as your shifu?' type vibes #also i love the idea of messy brash swk having the most uptight dignified sifu while the put-together erlang has a messy shifu #yuding zhenren's design partially inspired by huang yaoshi of condor heroes (2011) but mostly just the general 'drunken immortal' aesthetic #also this is purposefully paralleling the dialogue i did for that swk puti reconciliation comic <3 bc foils <3 #patriarch puti was cold and detached when he banished swk but i think yuding zhenren would throw shit at erlang and yell '你疯了吗!?'

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kaissauce · 8 months

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Jamba cult moments

#changed up my hyness gijinka. basing it more off of the proboscis monkey rather than an elephant seal #three mage sisters #hyness #kirby gijinka #sauceart

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seveneyesoup · 9 months

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not to sound transgender but i think it would be cool if your body just kept changing forever. like not even in an aging way though that is a thing but like you just sort of slowly change into whatever over the course of years and maybe it’s another arm or maybe like an exoskeleton or gills or whatever and like it would hurt bc your body has to Make all the stuff and you wouldn’t have any way of knowing what’s going on under the skin but knowing Something is happening forever is a lot better than knowing nothing ever will

#this is a sister post to the vampires and stasis one btw #on one hand you have the comfort of a body you know. a body that will stay that way #but it Will stay that way. in every detail forever #on the other you have a body that you don’t know and can’t ever fully know but eventually you can wait out anything about it you don’t like #but it’s equally possible that your eyelids will seal up and your eyes get absorbed into your face #and you end up relying on electronic sense like a shark or something for ten years until your body gives you eyes back yk

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bat-connoisseur · 7 months

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Hello have you heard about the new minecraft bat model

I SURE HAVE. HOOOLY SHIT.... THEY'RE SO CUTE. I wasn't sure at first glance but no. I love it. They're total cuties. I havent seen the new animations yet but I am sure they're just as good. The wings are a better shape, the ears and nose are ADORABLE, they're a massive hit with me. The one thing I'm not sure about is the eyes, they look cute from the front but having the whites on the side looks a bit odd to me, but I'm willing to overlook it.

They're pretty long eared bat-esque, which is what I think they were going for in the first place, just executed better. Makes sense since those are kind of your Quintessential bat. The older model looked more flying fox-ish (its the smaller ears) and changing that is much more fitting considering uhh everything about the mob lol.

One worry I have is that the kind of mousey quality of the model could speak to a misconception as to what a bat is (SO many people think they are rodents its not even funny), and it might perpetuate that misconception just with how round the ears are, rather than being pointy, but that could just be me imagining issues where there are none.

Overall, though, they're good. A win for bat lovers everywhere.

#Now they just need to add seals. for you.#ask #anser-crystallan #you sent this ask immediatley after i was tagged in a post about it and I was so busy watching finnona and cake with my sister i missed bot #good series btw

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nat-seal-well · 4 months

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A collection of my favorite photos from the weekend: