I would like to introduce my Dungeons and Dragons character Tenrek!
She is a Dragonborn Fighter who likes to swipe the most random of things. Like a claw full of a kid’s ashes and the head of an enemy that stabbed her one time!
She never backs down from a fight and is very headstrong. She absolutely hates it when somebody runs from battle. Especially an enemy, she will chase them down in bloodlust calling them cowards until they have been killed. She will only take orders from those she considers family, those being Lavenza the Halfling Bard/Sorcerer and Sinister Shade the Tiefling Monk/Rouge.
She loves meat and will trust anyone who gives her such! An old family friend once made her breakfast that was just entirely meat when they saw each other after a long time.
She also had become somewhat of an adoptive mother to two young Cobolds who have been named Ruby and Lapis. Both love to cause mischief and play!
I may post more about Tenrek in the future, some being her backstory but I think this is good for now!
Durge asked Bhaal's forgiveness for liking Gortash, but what about Gortash abd Bane?
Like, there only one person here has shinshilla sibling (and also cobold siblings, dragon sibling and do i have to continue?) and that person is neither Gortash or Bane. I wouldn't like my Chosen to have crush on somebody who's father literally slept with shinshilla, I have standards
little bust of my drow dnd chara, one day ill post all the concepts i did but they way too many i need to reorder them 😸.
lil intro, his name is Elkzar third child from house Everhv'aal, illusion mage w a charlatan background, exiled since he was 13 from his House,spared only thanks to his sister, after learning a prohibited spell and surface spells. Still loyal to Lolth, now living on the surface after many long years in the underdark only with his familiar cobold :]. Aspires to become archmage and reclaiming his place in his family. Makes a living conning rich patreons selling himself as a very powerful wizard only selling them fake magic rings and artifacts.
now I won't claim to understand every name, but some of them are like adjective-farmer, and "rud" is a suffix used for farms that were abandoned after the Black death. (source: me, hi I'm Norwegian this is taught in like fourth grade)
variations include (via wikipedia)
fjøsnisse - fjøs: house for "fe" which means like, cows and similar, sheep, pigs etc. (google translate just lied to me so please tell me the English word)
skipsnisse - ships (boats)
kirkenisse - church
hagenisse - garden. (see also: cobolds, garden gnomes, dwarfs)
in Norwegian jul tv you'll find most fjøsnisser, such as in "jul i Blåfjell" (jul in Blue Mountain) - a jul calendar tv program. I think also most cozy jul books too, but please prove me wrong.
translations & equivalents include:
tomte - sweden
goblin, gnome - England
Wichtel, Heinzelmännchen, Kobold - Germany
jólasveinar - Iceland
Contexts of "Nisser" in Norway
national-romance, because the period was about making a national identity it's not surprising they pulled up with nisser. Ibsen wrote plays with them. (via wikipedia)
the era of enlightenment. Wergeland portrayed nisser as bigoted and ignorant, as opposed to elves. (via wikipedia)
(pagan/heathen¹) yule times (jul), from as early as year 900 in icelandic & Norwegian culture it was for example tradition to set out porridge with butter for nisser, if you didn't they'd be pissed. (via NRK)
1. I think it's pagan/heathen, though 900 was during the Christening of Norway (year 850-1100) (sources: store norske leksikon, norgeshistorie)
(and cause apparently it's not common knowledge, "christmas" (originally "jul" or "yule" (which it still is called in Norway today)) does originate in Norse mythology and Nordic tradition, with supernatural spirits and animal sacrifice (source: store norske leksikon), and beer (ref that NRK article)) (and no I don't care if you ""disagree"" with history unless you are an actual historian). (and I don't care about christian aspects of the holiday today, bother someone else).
As someone who's mostly been lurking in the shadows on reddit, like a little cobold, observing people from a dark alley, looking for interesting treasures they drop while passing by, quickly scurrying outside to pick up whatever it is I spied and disappearing back into the comforting darkness, tumblr makes me feel like I have to leave the safety of the shadows. Like I'm running after the people who drop what I want to see and instead of putting little anonymous sticky notes saying "Me like this" on their back unnoticed, I'm taking what I found, holding it up in the air for everyone to see, shouting at the top of my lungs "I freaking love this, has everyone seen this, this is awesome and I want more" at every poor soul who comes too close to me and shove it in their face.
Final Fantasy 14 Update:
With a little help of Minfilia, all the leaders came to a conclusion. We will fight against the garlean empire! And thus a plan was formed!
But before I did that, I looked up quests for the wild folks, because if the sylphs and the ixals had quests, the others surely have too? And I was right, I found quests for the amaal'ja, the sahagin and the cobolds.
And then it was time to go through with the plan... first step is to beat one of the leaders of the empire... and I failed! I almost did it, but I managed to get hit by one of the mega attacks while already low on health and arghl... I will have to redo this fight.
It is pretty hard, but it already is really cool to have such a duel to the death where you have to use all the skills of your class.