#malvern lohsevaar III

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Dug up, re-drew, and partially painted an old sketch. Still learning how to draw profiles to be honest.

Sketch under the cut !

Some of the posing has been lost in the redraw but it was Not Easy and i wanted to make the thing more readable anyway. Also I think Velannen should be stiff he strikes me as the kind fo always be just Like That. Totally not because he's going to be Like That all the time as the Emperor later on.

#think his eye is in a slightly wrong place but oh well #not fudging around 5 layers to catch it #digital art #my art #oc art #character art #idk man #the emperor #malvern lohsevaar III

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I generally don't do comics, but I've had this idea laying around for... a while. Had some time this afternoon and needed to relax from extremely stressful stuff, so here it is :) Sketchy and grey-scale.

Context under the cut.

The "teenager" is actually Velannen, the linguist god-of-death-in-disguise.

Lohsevaar III actually was prince Malvern who, with the help of Velannen, assassinated the Queen his mother and framed his twin Lohsevaar for it. Officially, Malvern is dead and Lohsevaar is king - it is in fact the other way around.

Until Lohsevaar III kills Velannen, simply because he knew, and it was dangerous to let him live. Except, well, the god of death, theft, and disasters... is notoriously hard to actually kill. His soul just passes on to another body - another vessel.

So at the end of the comic ? There's no Malvern anymore.

It's Velannen ordering the guards to throw his own corpse outside the palace.

#comic #my art #break of dawn #before dawn : the age of the gods #the emperor #malvern lohsevaar III #if malvern knew! he wouldn't have killed him #if malvern knew he wouldn't have *dated* him either

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- Come on, he should be here soon, said Lohsevaar as he tugged his twin through the royal palace's corridors.

Malvern attempted to protest - they weren't five anymore, his brother couldn't just tug him around like that, but it was mostly for show and he followed Lohsevaar. If he'd really wanted, Malvern could have shrugged off the other's hand and told him to fuck off. However, he was just as curious to see who exactly was there to replace their old professor.

The twins had heard the name, of course. Vannean scholars' names rarely left the northern country, but Velannen Fenarin was something else. He was the go-to example people used when they explained to others what "studying linguistics" was. And despite him barely traveling, Velannen was known all over the place.

The twins finally arrived at the door at the end of the great hall, the one that led right behind the double thrones of the king and queen, their parents.

- Hey, are you-

Malvern got instantly shushed by the other. Now wasn't the time to fret about whether or not they'd get told off by their parents if they were seen. Nor was it time to whisper.

With a sigh, Malvern resigned to follow his brother's movements, and they both peeked from behind the curtains that hid the very far back of the hall. They both exchanged an excited glance when they saw the doors of the palace open, letting in warm summer air, and a silhouette.

The man was dressed in strangely warm attire for the season, yet it looked nothing like Lonnean winter clothes. It seemed like an assortment of heavy, woolen robes, held together by a large, hand embroidered belt. On top of it all was a traveling cloak of pure white, edges embroidered with signs they could not quite understand - Malvern wondered if it was a written spell - with its long fur lining hiding the face of the man.

From who knew where, as it was hard to figure out what was going on under all of this, he produced a letter, that he held out as he bowed politely.

An attending servant took it and gave it to the queen. She, usually, was in charge of her son's educations. She opened the letter and held it so that both she and her husband could read together. After some time, and a silence that the twins found extremely long for the two young men hidden behind the throne, the sound of folding paper alerted them that she was done reading.

- Professor Fenarin, said her warm yet authoritative voice, we are honored by your Headmaster's considerations and their letter. Please, be welcome in Lonna's heart.

Another now from the man, as the king asked him to show them his face so the servants would at least know who they were leading to the room that had been prepared for him.

It was a quick, matter of fact gesture that revealed the man's face, but the twins did not lose a shred of it. His hands lowered the hood with the ease of years of use, and there was the face of the man who would supposedly take all responsibilities in regards to ancient languages.

He was, as expected, yet somehow terribly disappointingly, a completely normal man in his thirties. There was a half, amused smile on his face, and his features were quite sharp, and he was not terrible to look at - but he was not quite like the twins had imagined him. His hair looked like it hadn't been taken care of in a while, loose waves almost damp, likely from being in the Lonnean summer heat while dressed like this.

His voice, too, was just politely cold when he said :

- It will be my pleasure to stay here with your permission, your Majesties.

And, with a promise to speak to him in depth about what was expected of him and a wave of the hand, he was sent to become familiar with his new environment. Which quite obviously meant changing into weather appropriate clothing, and maybe even take a bath while he was at it. His discrete smile stretched out a little, and he obeyed, following the servant that had appeared next to him.

Before disappearing out of the twin's view, he shot them a glance that froze Malvern on the spot. It seemed like he'd known they were here the entire time, and the calculating cold in his green-brown eyes was terrifying.

When Lohsevaar pulled him away, having seen it too, he seemed just as frightened. They silently retreated away back into the corridors, before they started debating on whether or not that Vannean was going to murder them before classes even started. Nervous laughs, yet real worries.

Weren't Vanneans worshippers of the god of lies and death ?

#my writing #written on the bus not reread or edited #directly in the Tumblr post editor #before dawn : the age of the gods #the emperor #malvern lohsevaar III #lohsevaar #in which i realize i should give some visual identity to both vano and lonna #which is useless bc break of dawn is in 2016. #malvern and lohsevaar are about 20 in this #IF ONLY THEY KNEW.... YES. HE WILL MURDER YOU BOTH EVENTUALLY. #takes him a while but he gets there

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Pride

@isabellebissonrouthier and I challenged each other to write a little snippet, themed around one word. It was "pride" !

Here's mine. 370 words, starring Velannen and Malvern, and it's just kind of sweet, I think.

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– I’m so proud of you, my love, Velannen whispered to his king.

The crowning ceremony and the ensuing day of celebrations was barely over, yet the linguist and the king were already hidden away, having retreated in Velannen’s bedroom. The court was still mourning the queen and the treason of a prince, after all, so of course the new king may not be keen on celebrating his ascension to the throne when no one was truly focused on it.

Without responding to Velannen, Malvern pulled him in for a kiss - long, loving, heart-wrenchingly sweet. He was holding on tight to the linguist, as if he was about to lose him. Even when he broke the kiss to speak, his hands did not leave Velannen’s back, gripping at the folds of his clothing.

– I couldn’t have done it without you, he finally whispered back.

This earned him an amused chuckle from the other, who held out his hand to trace the contour of the king’s cheek.

– That is nonsense. You are the brightest, most hard-working man I’ve ever met and I have every reason to think that…

He got interrupted in the middle of his sentence, Malvern kissing him again, his hands moving ever lower on Velannen’s back.

– You don’t have to praise me that much, Velannen.

The linguist grinned, pressed himself against the king’s chest, delighting in the delicate shade of red that was slowly spreading over his face.

– Why not ? he purred. You deserve all of it, and then some.

Malvern shook his head, trying to hide the smile that was creeping on his face, while Velannen’s hands wandered on the ceremonial attire he was wearing. Layers of silk, furs and wool keeping the king just out of reach, for now. He added in a whisper :

– Not to mention that I absolutely adore seeing you react to it, your Majesty.

He did not need to add anything more before the king pushed him on the bed, kissing him deeply. Slowly, their hands worked together, removing the crown from Malvern’s head, gently tugging away at each other’s clothes.

The kingdom itself may not have been in the mood to celebrate the new king’s crowning, but Velannen and Malvern certainly were.

#break of dawn #before dawn : the age of the gods #the emperor #malvern lohsevaar iii #creative writing #writing #my writing #fantasy writing #writing challenge #i guess ? #genuinely. do mini challenges like this with your friends. it's so fun #couple years back i did something like that with my partner and we went into totally different directions it was wild #i went for 'hehe funny' and they went for 'existential' (and theirs was beautiful) #do i have to tag romance for these guys. considering the whole kissing and stuff

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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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#sketches #my art #break of dawn #the emperor #malvern lohsevaar III #this is the moment where 23 year old Malvern is about to maul his ancient language teacher #bc he's convinced said teacher is a malevolent god #and instead he gets. politely thrown out of his office.

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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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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

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things I'd like to write about Malvern and Velannen, eventually

when Velannen arrived at the palace and how so utterly normal he looked [which, hm, Vano is basically far away enough from Lonna that some people genuinely think gods just Live There. That's Their House. Which isn't wrong specifically for Volieda but that's about it]

Maybe a bit or two right before Velannen gets assassinated...

Cat Time

#i think i need to explore cat time more #what the fuck was velannen up to #the emperor #malvern lohsevaar III

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There's a universe somewhere, I think, where Velannen didn't lie to Malvern. Where he looked him right in the eye and said "You're absolutely right, but I'm genuinely here for One Thing and it's teaching language." Would the prince have broken his arm ? Absolutely. Would it have at least given Velannen the chance to go "look, the goal here is to be a normal fucking person for once, and I'm trying not to ruin it by doing stupid shit like murder." ? Yeah I think so. I do think it would mean Malvern would not really talk to him in a friendly manner again because that's literally an evil god, but like. He'd just go back to Vano after his contract ended. He'd maybe look around and go huh. Well nothing too horrible happened for once.

Or it could snowball into something Even Fucking Worse because if I were Malvern I'd be worried he'd try to kill my entire family just because of my finding out about this. And I'd try to figure out a way to get rid of him.

#the emperor #malvern lohsevaar iii

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Out of all the Emperor's iterations and all of the supporting cast right now, it's Velannen and Malvern who have decided to rotate in my brain right now.

I forget how stubborn the prince is whenever I stop writing him. I think he knows that dating Velannen in secret is a terrible idea (I don't know, I mainly write from Velannen's POV), but he doesn't consider it important. This is the guy he wants and if there's even the slimmest chance of getting him, he will.

Velannen is Having A Time. I think I broke the poor man

#the emperor #malvern lohsevaar III

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Heads up, seven up !

Tagged by @isabellebissonrouthier

Tagging : @the-stray-storyteller and anyone else who wants to do this!

This bit is from The Festival of Fire, a story that I haven't worked on in a bit but have been re-reading, for Pondering purposes.

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Silence stretched between the two for several seconds, but the linguist’s drunk brain was completely incapable of providing him with sensible topics of conversation. In fact, it currently only had two desires : either go to bed and sleep, or do something completely inappropriate that he definitely should not even be thinking about, no matter what he thought of the prince’s looks.

He was unfortunately thinking about it very hard when he felt the prince’s hand cup his face and their eyes met for a brief second. Velannen looked away, not fast enough to hide what he’d been thinking, and the next moment he felt the prince’s lips touch his, almost shyly. He inhaled sharply, his hands grabbing the wall behind him, and prince Malvern looked at him questioningly.

– This isn’t a good idea, your Majesty, he whispered.

– Why not ? the other asked in the same tone.

#tag games #'pondering purposes ? what ?' maybe i'll be compilating a bunch of stuff around the Emperor. #maybe. #i've been thinking about it a lot lately. #but there's things i need to finish writing first #character tags : #the emperor #malvern lohsevaar iii

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Big Long OC List because I rarely talk about the blorbos from my mind and I have so many. Going to sort them by stories i guess ? Under a read more bc it'll take space on dash lol

List is subject to change because I can never remember all my idiots at once. Nor all my works, really dkdkkdnd

A lot of them don't have last names listed because I either can't remember them right now or haven't given them one

The 4 idiots in the forest + supporting characters

Rya

San Nerelles

Alan

Darlok

Eli

Gabriel

Ael de Sombrebois (he's so underdeveloped lmao)

Hélianthe and Atropa (vampire romance novel that also happens to be mostly political drama probably)

Hélianthe de Bréguémar (AKA Nielle de Fumeterre)

Atropa Meria

Anne de Monthaut

Vladimir de Monthaut

That one story where a photojournalist finds some druid's girlfriend for her

The Journalist

The Druid

The Lumberjack (none of those three have names for now oops)

Miscellaneous Eshda characters

Erik de Bréguémar

Arya

Aiden

Ether de Bouchemer

Florian de Bouchemer

Azelin de Bouchemer

Paulina de Bouchemer

Miscellaneous Etynda characters

Salia Enars

Alistair Enars

Elvul Aden Etynda

Maar Cherenyel

Meleria Ravenlia

Luki Ravenlia

Ainsel

BREAK OF DAWN

Elysia Evans

Vincent de Vano

Val [The Emperor]

Mark [The Mage]

Ava [The Adventurer]

Mélyane

Claire Derlynn-Witchmann

Alexander aka Alex

Kyle Witchmann

Perceval "Percy" Witchman

Sandy Witchmann

Sacha de Vano

Ether Brooks

Dawn

Dusk

Pre-Break of Dawn, but still in the same place

Lumeria de Vano

Realva

Volieda

Prince Malvern/King Lohsevaar III

Elder Scrolls OCs

Drunovshul (last dragonborn)

Ji'sharra (LDB)

Maeri (Hero of Kvatch)

Chaosia (both LDB and HoK because fuck Logic)

Benadryl (Nerevarine, HoK, LDB, this old man had a lot of bullshit happening to him)

Tivandryn aka Titi aka Tiv (Nerevarine)

Medrel/Merelia (before/post reincarnation. Reincarnation happens to be LDB)

Alyssa (LDB)

Miscellaneous

Nyhm (technically exists in both Sky City and the fantasy one)

Caldan (same as Nyhm, although ze's less present)

The Six (the Fabric of the Universe used to be people)

Svetlana (Symbaroum TTRPG character)

Myth-Anar (Symbaroum TTRPG character)

Sci-Fi setting (aka third known galaxy to host life)

Ath

The nephew

The fish (ship pilot)

The robot (maintenance guy)

#my ocs #oc masterlist #to be updated later