there are a lot of stories in exandria of mortals who stumbled their way into feywild and fell in love with an enchanting fairy that they met there.
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From the straight-up "I love you and I will fix this" Laerryn says through the ring of masks to the "Your husband looks afraid" that Brennan describes after Laerryn allows herself to be grappled to "My wife will be right here to save us" that Loquatius tells Nydas as life leaves him...
How divorced would you rate these two idiots?
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If i had a nickel every time it was an act of protecting one's true love that doomed the world in a moment when the natural borders of the world are thinned...
ID HAVE TWO FUCKING NICKELS
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“Remember Cerrit, the Eyes of Avalir, and his bravery.
Remember Nydas, the Dragon, and his sense.
Remember Patia Por'co, Keeper of Scrolls, and all the wisdom she brought.
Remember brave Zerxus and Evandrin, the First Knights of Avalir.
And remember the Architect Arcane, Laerryn, the most beautiful woman in the world…
I'm Loquatius Seelie saying: Seelie you later.”
Final part of my Calamity series! I couldn’t resist making a stained glass version of Loquatius’s final broadcast.
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There is an old folk song that is sung in Exandria. It goes by a lot of titles--In Marquet it’s commonly known as The Liar’s Love, while natives of Xhorhas would know it as The Fey Groom, and the elves of Syngorn’s version has a title that translates to “The Sacrifice of Truth for Love.”
It is a story ballad that tells the story of a fey who journeyed to the Material Plane in search of stories (interestingly, the Dwarvish version here uses a word that translates closer to “truth” than “story” and shares a root with their word for “news”). While there, the fey meets and falls in love with a brilliant woman from a city in the clouds. The two are happy together, until a day that the woman’s brilliance backfires, and the fey, who had left his home out of admiration for the stories created by mortals living their lives, chooses to forge false stories of his own to protect her. The two are driven apart by this deception, until one day the city in the clouds begins to fall. In her brilliance, the woman is able to save it, but nearly falls in the process--until the fey speaks one last truth to inspire her to finish (the version from the Dwendalian Empire has an extra verse where while the fey is able to help the brilliant woman save the city, the two still die shortly after).
The origin of the song is unknown--there are variations from all over the world, and no one has ever been able to determine which version came first. The lyrics’ reference to a city in the clouds has led some scholars to speculate that the song may be referencing events of the Age of Arcanum, but most consider that unlikely. After all, there are many stories in Exandria of a mortal stumbling into the Feywild and falling in love with some enchanting faerie they met there, but there are almost no stories of a fey who came to the Material Plane and fell in love.
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Also just now realizing I never posted my EXU Calamity art here?? HELLO I'm a year late!
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This is now your time to be who you are, knowing [..] there's no accolades here. There might not even be a win.
So who are you in your last quiet moments...
- Aabria Iyengar
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so uh good to know that aabria and sam did not actually plan for one of the most tragic and beautiful romances i’ve seen literally ever to be like that it just happened good to know that the quaver in quay’s speech came from sam’s genuine emotion good to know that laerryn wanted three kids so that she could one-up zerxus and cerrit good to know that laerryn had a thought in the back of her mind about getting to visit quay’s home with him good to know that literally all quay wanted was to be with laerryn and by the end not only did he realize that and realize that he didn’t like the person he’d become but also he got to have it he got the love he wanted they got to be together at the end they were together and i’m fine i’m fine i’m normal about this i’m so normal
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The reason I love @quiddie so much is that she speaks to me.
Like, ugh, HER MIND! Abjuration >>>>>>>>>>>>
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