#elthin

[musicwithoutborders]

John Playford / Elthin · Roxane Genot · Jan Pouska ,  Parson's farewell, 2023

#John Playford #Early Music #Elthin

[malglories]

love finding super obscure artists on spotify and seeing the highest listeners are 400 in prague, 200 in paris, 200 in sao paolo. what are you like, person on the other side of the world, who's also listening to a historically accurate medieval music ensemble

#elthin is the band for whoever's curious

[merrymorningofmay]

thanks @greencheekconure27 for another tag! :D

rules: pick a song for each letter of your url and tag that many people (i don't have enough mutuals oops)

M – Meie Din Liechter Schin by Elthin

E – Eg Drikk Din Raude Vin by Unni Løvlid

R – Rusalochki by Go_A

R – Reiar by Myrkur

Y – Your Voice by Les Friction

M – Morning Elvis by Florence + the Machine

O – Of Everlong by The Crane Wives

R – Rún by SKÁLD

N – New River by The Oh Hellos

I – Inkpot Gods by The Amazing Devil

N – Nebo by Odyn v Canoe

G – Gawain Runs And Runs by Daniel Hart

O – Oats We Sow by Gregory And The Hawk

F – Flann for Éirinn by Julie Fowlis

M – Mariula by Vivenne Mort

A – Acts of Man by Midlake

Y – Yonder Lea by Mediaeval Baebes

gently booping: @seiden-spinner @threecandleslit @wintersmitth @saltforsalt @tiger-manya @timid-booklover-in-a-corner @gothiclit @cyklady @will-ruadh @medici-collar but also whoever sees this is welcome to do this and tag me in their post too

#*has to make an effort to not make it entirely folk* behold my diverse taste #i was considering including heilung then i looked them up on wiki and caught a sus vibe so maybe not lol #mari rambles

[norelorn]

On repeat

@havocinthebluebox tagged me, thank you!

Rules: shuffle your “on repeat” playlist from spotify or the music service of your choice and post the first 10 tracks.

Rotting Christ - Grandis Spiritus Diavolos

Alice In Chains - Man in the box

Daemonia Nymphe - Thracian Gaia

Elthin - Saltarello IV

Type O Negative - Wolf Moon

Ophelia's Dream - Lady Magdalene

Opeth - April Ethereal

Unto Ashes - One World (Funeral)

Artesia - Sous la Lune Dansante

Love Is Colder Than Death - Questo Mostrarsi

I tag @the-raven-that-refused-to-sing @sleepyearthbabe @celestialmomma @mercurial-cereal @fayilien if you want to do this

#tagged #music

[bellorserialized]

What is This?

This is a blog created in the style of Dracula Daily, taking the letters from the land of Bellor and putting them generally in sequence and posting them in real time between September and April when these letters are dated.

Now I say generally in time because the letters were vaguely dated, and most were dated to the first few days of each month. So, instead of cramming the first few days of the month with letters, I spread them out and instead grouped them by who was corresponding in that month.

For example, day 1 is the letters between JR of the Quotidian Quorum and Vulkerath Sootscale of the Rahastan Assembly of Tribes, and the next day is the letters between Vulkerath Sootscale and the Headmaster of the Elthin Academy in Al'Daric. And it will continue in sequence until month's end when the next month's set of correspondences begins.

I thought this would be a fun way to consume this content and sort in the new stuff that was recently uncovered. I hope you enjoy it too.

[khadrimxart]

This is Eythil, twin to Elthin, both villains from my novel The Aftermath. Eythil's interests involve being treated like a Queen, having everyone she deems lovely serve her, mind control, and having her sister murder anyone who gets in her way.

#am writing #artists on tumblr #art #fantasy art #anime art #original character #oc art #anime artist #manga artist #drawing #fantasy #design #fashion design #character design #traditional art #oc #draw my oc #sketch #detail

[fiddler-sticks]

Shuffling my liked songs playlist on spotify be like:

#berry's babble #music stuffs!!!! #Spotify

[junkalopes]

I’m doin Swordtember over on twitter and got a little slap-happy with today’s prompt, “ghostly”. Remember, kids, be like Elthin and learn to recognize the signs of annoying side-quests.

#aerin's art #argonian #the elder scrolls #elthin #local brick shithouse geckoman seen powerwalking away from possessed sword #he is quoted as shouting NAW FUCK THAT I REMEMBER TOUCHING THAT BEACON #more at eleven #swordtember

[bat-roland-universe]

Regardez "Elthin - Fort Boyard (medieval cover)" sur YouTube

#Youtube

[dungeon-warudo]

This IS the “Elthin Bluesteel - Gunslinger” mini (which, I know, is the most comically edgy name EVER, I hope it’s not from anything cool) but I intend to use it for my Arcana Cleric in an upcoming game held at my local store, which is why he looks so fancy. They’ll just have to ignore the cowboy hat.

#minis #miniatures #dnd #dungeons & dragons #gunslinger #guns #npcs

[pkmndaisuki]

pretty much had to doodle my miitopia party, who are based on some old ocs of mine! from top to bottom: elthine the cautious cleric, melora the cool mage, firthis the kind warrior, and zuut the laid back thief, all drawn with their latest equipment! can't wait to transfer this team to the main game!

#miitopia #pkmn drew a thing #ok i'm done yelling about miitopia for a bit. at least until i get the full game that is.

[markoftheasphodel]

ship meme: Briggid/Fin, Quan/Elthin

Brigid/Finn:

Who puts up the holiday decorations? Coin toss.Who eats the others uneaten pizza crusts? I doubt either of them has a problem eating pizza crust but if something gets left over I doubt Finn lets it go to waste.Who always forgets to pick up their wet towels in the bathroom? Brigid.Who talks smack while playing video games? Brigid. Finn strikes me as more likely to do text-based confrontation (without his name attached, of course).Who watches Jeopardy and calls out the answers? Finn. I stand by my (somewhat manga-inspired) headcanon that when he’s not in a position where it might reflect poorly on Quan that he can be a bit of a showoff.Who is more likely to cry over a sad book or movie? Yeah no. Like… we see repeatedly in canon what it takes to get Finn to cry and it’s not movies. I don’t recall if Brigid shed tears in any of the manga but she ain’t doing it in-game.Who sings along with the radio? I totally see Brigid doing this. Who falls asleep on the other? Probably Finn.

Quan/Ethlyn: 

Who puts up the holiday decorations? I’m sure Ethlyn dragoons Quan into helping. He’s taller than she is.Who eats the others uneaten pizza crusts? OK, this is the couple likely to both waste pizza crusts.Who always forgets to pick up their wet towels in the bathroom? Quan.Who talks smack while playing video games? QUAN. But I wouldn’t put it past Ethlyn to join in. These two amplify each other’s misbehavior rather than canceling it out.Who watches Jeopardy and calls out the answers? Hmm. Coin toss because if Quan’s doing it I’m sure Ethlyn wants to demonstrate she can keep up with him and Lord Brother.Who is more likely to cry over a sad book or movie? Ethlyn might. Who sings along with the radio? Quan and his voice is lovely.Who falls asleep on the other? Quan.

#mwritesink #jugdral meta #meme reply #mah other OTP #best canon couple #leonster bias #text post

[mwritesink]

Exalted Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War/Thracia 776, Part 1

Fates | Awakening | Path of Radiance/Radiant Dawn | Sacred Stones | Binding Blade/Blazing Sword | Genealogy of the Holy War/Thracia 776 part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6, part 7 | Gaiden/Echoes: Shadows of Valentia | Dark Dragon/Shadow Dragon 

Rationale and story are below the cut. One of the features in Genealogy of the Holy War and Thracia 776, as that there were characters who had “Holy Blood”, aka people who were descended from 1 of the 12 great crusaders who had been chosen by the Dragons and given power to defeat evil. Now try to tell me like that doesn’t also sound like a certain group in Exalted. These 12 Crusaders were Baldur, Noba, Fala, Naga, Tordo, Odo, Neir, Forseti, Ulir, Hezul, Blaggi, and Dain, and they were brought together to defeat the dark dragon Loptr. Part 1 features the folks that have Baldur and Noba Bloodlines. Sigurd, featured below, does have a wife in the game, Deirdre, but she will be featured in Part 2.

Sigurd/Siglud = Cathak Cacek Sigurd, Fire Aspect

Seliph/Celice = Cathak Cacek Seliph, Wood Aspect

Elthin/Ethlyn/Ethrin = Cathak Cacek Elthin, Fire Aspect

Oifey = Cathak Cacek Oifey, Earth Aspect

Quan/Cuan = Tepet Berel Quan, Earth Aspect

Altenna/Altena = Tepet Marek Altenna, Fire Aspect

Leif/Leaf = Tepet Berel Leif, Fire Aspect

The Rationalizations

The line of Baldur I’ve cast into House Cathak, becuase the line that resonates with me from the description of Cathak is that it is the “House of Heroes”. Of course, this isn’t to mean that scions of any of the other houses can’t be, or aren’t, heroic, but that particular phrasing with this house largely informs when I put it as the house a person is from. Baldur being assigned House Cathak is also influenced by the fact that Sigurd is the first hero/“Lord” character that is met in Genealogy of the Holy War. I further made it the line of Cacek, becuase they are noted as being Gateway players, the theoretical application of warfare, which ties to the certain amount of idealism that Sigurd, Seliph, and Elthin operate with. 

the Noba holy line is assigned to House Tepet, specifically for the bad blood between them and their sibling bloodline, Dain.  I can take that stife between them and mimic it as strife between different bloodlines within House Tepet after the House’s legions are destroyed by the Bull of the North’s army. The Berel line goes to the Noba becuase there are a more quartermaster/mercantile line and would have come out of the defeat with more of their people and in a position to gain leadership of their house. There is a reason though why the eldest daughter of the Noba line is “Tepet Marek” rather than “Tepet Berel”, but that will be explained more in the story section of this post and in the story section of the part that contains the other members of the Dain holy bloodline. 

The resident Fire Aspects of this group are Sigurd, his sister Elthin, and Elthin’s children: Leif and Altenna. All of them are passionate, charismatic characters. Sigurd and Leif are the heroes of their games (the first half of Genealogy of the Holy War and Thracia 776, respectively) and I’ve found that being in that role pre-disposes the resulting character to being a Fire Aspect. For Elthin and Altenna, they’re both very bright in personality. Elthin takes a more “spritely” and “light” personality, while her daughter is more ferocious.

Seliph is one of the few main lords (he belongs to the second half of Genealogy of the Holy War) that doesn’t come off as as Fire Aspect to me. I found that being a Wood Aspect fit him better. His arc is strongly tied with rebirth, regrowth, in a way that the other “lord” characters aren’t, and through out the game, Seliph is hailed by others as being a personification of renewal. Additionally, many of the companions you can gain along his arc seem to join more because they are sympathetic to Seliph’s cause, rather than becuase they are impressed by the power of his personality. 

Finally, the two earth Aspects: Quan and Oifey. For Quan I’ll quote @demoiselledefortune, who has been a truly invaluable and nothing of the Genealogy of the Holy War/Thracia 776 posts would have been completed without her input, “He's ambitious, scheming, an extremely reliable friend and loving husband, will go to the hilt for the people he loves, he can be snotty and contemptuous, i tend to view him as a bit schmaltzy, a little bit debonair”. As for Oifey, the strongest characterization that I’ve seen of him in looking around the game is that he is a tactician, and that he has a rather “down to earth” serious personality. 

the stories

For this world of Exalted Emblem, there are a few changes to the canon setting of Exalted that had to happen so that the various plot lines and conflicts from GotHW and Thracia776 could make a little more sense. The first is that the Scarlet Empire has crumbled faster here than in canon. Yes, satrapies are sending back tributes as they should (for the most part) but it’s a little more obvious that loyalties are more residing with one’s House than with the Realm as a whole, and Tepet Fokuf is more obviously just keeping the Empress’ throne warm for her return. House Tepet has fractured even more after their legions were defeated by the Bull of the North, with the lines who lost more scions banding together against the sudden leadership of the lines who did not. 

In adding the place settings, the places of note for the Granvelle Empire become cities on the Blessed Isle. Agustria and Silesia are satrapies in the threshold, representing larger areas than just one city state, and in both cases, the smaller cities have governors who send their tribute to the Satrap in the “capital” who then sends it along to the Empire (in a perfect world). Isaac is an outpost city-state that is allied with/ruled by Lookshy. Verdane is a roving nation/band of disenfranchised people who live on the Blessed Isle. Manster and Thracia are individual city-states that are also Satrapies sending money back to the Empire.

Sigurd’s tale is a tragedy. He is a bright, promising knight who, though well enough in fighting skills and putting together a battle plan, can’t imagine the effect that his actions have beyond their immediate effect. At the end of his story with being branded a traitor to the empire, a power-grabbing usurper making a power base in the Threshold when we know that the Empress will return any day, of course she will. It wasn’t what he was. The path of his life wasn’t anything he could imagine, but he could only go forward, even as his friends and allies are dragged down with him becuase they believe in him, in his innocence, in their view of the Empire. Of any of the stories, Sigurd’s is the one that remains the most unchanged in transferring it from Fire Emblem to Exalted. The largest changes are the nature of the locations, the exact details of how the different places and rulers all relate to each other, and how Sigurd’s actions impact those places and rulers. 

Seliph’s story in the transfer of setting is also largely unchanged, especially since his story is, in effect, healing the rifts his father inadvertently made while also taking out a great evil and setting the lands to rights again. At the same time he is also being given lessons from other characters s that he will not repeat the same mistakes that brought Sigurd to his death. 

The main portion of Leif’s story in Thracia 776 deals with his attempts to liberate his home from the evil empire, for translating this, it is less a liberation from an empire than it is putting a portion of it to rights. I confess that I don’t know a lot, if anything, about the exact plot points in Thracia 776, where I now more of GotHW, so I can’t add a lot here. 

The story with Quan, Elthin, and how their story impacts that of their children, I’ll address in a more full manner when I get to the Dain holy blood characters, becuase of how closely they are intertwined.

#M splatters ink #ink spills #Exalted #Fire Emblem #fire emblem genealogy of the holy war #fire emblem thracia 776 #Exalted Emblem #long post under the cut

[bellorserialized]

September 2: Rahastas and Al'Daric

Following along the Rahastan correspondences is this next one introducing us to the Headmaster of the Elthin Mage Academy and leader of the country of Al'Daric.

Along with this is also a communication between Vulkerath and the Speaker, an important religious leader in Rahastas discussing Vulkerath's concerns with Al'Daric and the Quotidian Quorum from yesterday.

Here's the link for the Al'Daric communication

And here's the link for the Speaker correspondence

And the plain text link for both:

Al'Daric

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gR3ybkKMYyFMM2jOfE2NIncXR5AfGCd6/view?usp=sharing

Speaker

https://drive.google.com/file/d/15enEdumncRqw8P2s2p0miK_v6DbU-5-O/view?usp=sharing

#zampaniosim

[khadrimxart]

Going through a style change again? Elthin, one of my villains from The Aftermath. Her likes include torture, hunting, and bathing in the blood of her enemies (which are everyone except her sister)

#artists on tumblr #art #fantasy art #anime art #original character #oc art #anime artist #manga artist #drawing #fantasy #design #fashion design #character design #traditional art #oc #draw my oc #sketch #detail #am writing

[thirsty-writes]

RPG MEREDITH VII

Upór, zwykły upór nic więcej, Ale to Meredith potrafiła łamać, naciskiem, słowami, nieraz nawet samym mieczem. Teraz jednak pozwoliła magowi odejść, ignorując jego prośby i słowa w elfim języku.

Zawróciła alejką w stronę mijanych poprzednio krzewów.

Jakaś mała klinika w dolnym mieście obsługiwana przez braci i siostry Zakonu. Z templariuszami do pomocy czy ochrony. Coś stworzonego wspólnie z miastem - dla miasta. Ale bez udziału magów w tym projekcie.

Magowie, nie wszyscy oczywiście, zależało to od jednostki, byli nieprzewidywalni, szczególnie gdy w grę wchodziły ludzkie życia. A mag, którego kolejnego ruchu nie jesteś w stanie odgadnąć jest niebezpieczny. Wybuch magii, kula ognia czy demon, były ostatnimi rzeczami, które Komtur chciałaby widzieć w lecznicy. Nie ważne czy mieściłaby by się ona na dziedzińcu Katowni czy w Dolnym Mieście. Chęć ratowania życia nie by była warta takiego ryzyka. Nigdy.

Meredith nauczyła się już dawno temu jaką cenę muszą płacić ci którzy ufają słowom magów. I od lat jej obowiązkiem było zapobieganie podobnym pomyłkom. Pomaganie tym, który zostali przez magię skrzywdzeni.

Zacisnęła palce na drobnych, żółtych kwiatach. Aksamitnych w dotyku.

Mogłaby wybrać się do Górnego Miasta, Zakonu, i wspomnieć Elthine o tym pomyśle. Oczywiście bez udziału magów. Kapłanka z pewnością by się zgodziła, zawsze chętna do udowodnienia, że ma nad wszystkim pieczę, choć nie opuszcza murów świątyni. A Dumar sam by wszystko sfinansował, wystarczyłoby jedynie postawić go przed faktem dokonanym.

Uśmiechnęła się do siebie i zostawiając krzewy, opuściła ogrody Katowni.

#ten paskudny rpg