#pillars of eternity the white marches

[meticulousfragments]

Excuse me while I start chewing furniture over Abydon and Ondra

#WHEN YOUR FUNDAMENTAL NATURES ARE WHAT DRAW YOU TO EACH OTHER BUT ALSO WHY YOU CAN NEVER BE TOGETHER #PROGRESS REQUIRES BOTH PRESERVATION AND LOSS BUT THEY WILL NEVER SIT COMFORTABLY TOGETHER #THE FORGE AND THE SEA ARE BOTH CENTERS OF DESTRUCTION AND CREATION BUT CANNOT EXIST IN THE SAME PLACE #pillars of eternity #pillars of eternity the white marches #new fave dlc actually

[herearedragons]

According to both Pillars Of Eternity and Epic - when the gods get involved.

(lyrics from Epic: The Musical - “Just A Man” )

commission info

#pillars of eternity #the white march #saint waidwen #thaos ix arkannon #herearedragons art #that frozen skull is my favorite recent thing I’ve painted btw #especially the upper teeth with the icicles #also the Waidwen one was A Struggle #would you believe that ‘two intense lights right next to each other’ is something that is challenging to draw

[adozentothedawn]

If you want to do more voice line compilations, how about one with combat voice lines?

Indeed I do! Since you didn't specify character or situation I decided to be a bit creative. I did limit the ones that are just funny noises but those last two made me laugh too hard to not take them. xD Also turns out Maneha has a whole set of very funny reactions like this one, I might do that one seperately some time.

#pillars of eternity #audio #voice lines #edér teylecg #maneha #hiravias #pallegina mes rèi #devil of caroc #grieving mother #durance #concelhaut #adaryc cendamyr #did have to take two deadfire portraits for this #it continues to shock me that adaryc doesn't have in the white march #did my boy dirty #eventually i'll probably get to deadfire but I don't have that one installed currently so later

[glamfellens]

do u ever cr-

#pillars of eternity #thinking about how this plays at the end of the white march part 2. in a normal way #( <- lying)

[adaryc]

the iron flail command post.

#poeedit #pillars of eternity #pillars of eternity 1 #the white march #i'm lying to myself that these look okay i think but whatever. take em. #also we are all going to pretend these images are the same size. i forgot to resize them. #*

[ampleappleamble]

yeah pretty much the instant they stepped off the boat after getting home from the deadfire

#pillars of eternity #watcher vaargys #vatnir #i fussed so much over getting their (head)canon heights just right #got all ready to post and realized i fucked up the wrong side of vaargys' face #at the end of beast of winter rymrgand whoops his ass so bad that part of his right ear is torn off #and his right eye's iris dilator muscle is rendered inoperable #quite a bit worse than axa's Traumatic Nightmare Haircut just before white march begins #but just as annoying to forget to draw properly #anyway barbie meme wheeeeeee

[modwyr]

can i be honest. this one is what yearning sounds like to me.

#audio #pillars of eternity #sorry going through the white march ost now and god its sooooooooo good. #justin bell is just really good at getting the kind of melancholic tone of the series #without it ever straying to sad or dour ya know #Spotify

[sun-marie]

Also I didn't realize until this morning that even though I've now finished both games, I never actually played The White March. I started Durgan's Battery but then got distracted by the main quest and forgot to finish it 😅

#sounds like maybe I should... replay both games sooner rather than later 👀 #I think both these game's pacing really benefits from player hindsight #bc both kinda have a “act 2 fuck around act 3 find out” vibe lol #and I heard White March was really good!! I meant to play it I just forgor #pillars of eternity #marie speaks

[caernua]

i won't lie i am loving deadfire but i miss caed nua like crazy

#the fact that i can't speak to the steward?? criminal she's such a sweetheart i miss her #'castle or no castle you are still my lady and i will aid you to the best of my ability' what if i cry then. what then #i'm literally switching between replaying the first game and playing deadfire dfjdfgkdfg bc i can't LET GO!!!! #my main girlie is a death godlike cipher...but i want a druid methinks.......i want to turn into a cat and cause damage #you know that post if i were a tigress i could just say 'but i tigress' and then eat people YEA. YEA!!!! #shoutout to keyleth i think that's where i got that particular brainworm from #but also i haven't yet played the white march and i want to so bad bc i heard it's SO GOOD #i don't know when my poe phase will stop bc i am in DEEP i think about it all the time!!! i wanna read the books too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #so sorry but not sorry!!!! my brain is pillars of eternity shaped rn i am so serious!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #.txt

[thereadingaddic7]

I fucking hate the Abbey of the Fallen Moon, like goddamn. There are so many fucking monks in here, I feel like I have to have an entirely melee party because it's basically impossible to have any sort of frontline, every fight just turns into a chaotic brawl, every man for himself kind of deal.

Most other fights in The White March are fun even with High Level Content Scaling turned on, but this is just a slog you cheese your way through.

#Pillars of Eternity #The White March

[impossible-rat-babies]

I forgot how much I loved the one Deadfire DLC ;—;

#wael flesh prison with wizards my beloved #it was fun but also deeply unsettling #I should replay Deadfire #tbh with the amount of times I played it I can’t remember a lot of the details #it’s also been like 3-4 years #but I remember the og very fondly #WHITEMARCH MY BELOVED #I guess I remember it so much bc western coerthas is so much like white march #I know eyrie’s homeland has places like white march and I’m gnawing on drywall over it #pillars of eternity Deadfire spoilers #bc I know people have been exploring it recently #ngl I think I would change some of Aoife’s backstory if I replayed #and redid their looks #just a wee bit bc my design sensibilities have changed #I think they would keep their face plating in Deadfire rather than lose it #it’s just my special secret that they have two sets of eyes

[quinttyz]

“Am I the first woman you’ve ever danced with?”

“No…but you were the first woman I actually wanted to dance with.”

#quinttyz draws #quick sketch!! missed drawing in my sketchbook heheh #i drew this on the back of my college schedule 🤡 #anyways its adaryc loving hours again lads #pillars of eternity #pillars of eternity fanart #the white march #pillars of eternity 2 deadfire fanart #pillars of eternity 2 deadfire #deadfire fanart #adaryc cendamyr #adaryc cendamyr fanart #adaryc cendamyr x watcher #the watcher #the watcher oc #pillars of eternity watcher #oc: jinx/tempest withers #watcher pillars of eternity #poe2 #fanart #art #artists on tumblr #deadfire #the watcher pillars of eternity #my oc #obsidian entertainment #pillars of eternity oc

[herearedragons]

lines about leaving someone behind at the end of TWM2 that I feel normal about

(the last three are Edér's, Kana's and Durance's reactions to the Watcher choosing to stay behind)

all screenshotted from this video btw

#pillars of eternity #itumaak refusing to leave sagani..... durance being almost happy to do it...... #'the gods really have it in for you. wish they knew you like I did' famously altered the course of this blog's existence forever #BUT ALSO #kana really just said 'I'll tell everyone about you and Ondra can't stop me' #he said 'I'll keep you alive in my stories and defy a god about it' #also. durance's voice on that last line might be the softest it ever gets? #like? he sounds? genuinely proud/fond of the watcher? #help??? #poe spoilers #white march spoilers

[adozentothedawn]

weird fun facts about your oc(s)

rules: share some fun facts about your oc(s). they don't have to be relevant to their story, perhaps even better if they aren't. the weird ones are the best!

@solas-backpack-mug tagged me for this and I am procrastinating so here we go! I don't have a ton, but I do have a few things. Gonna throw a tag at @adraveins while I'm at it.

Favaen:

So those of you who have read A Death in Your Name might remember this line from Eothas: "Occasionally I... shelter those souls, until they have healed enough to re-join the cycle." This is about something I made up for technically Emblyn I guess. The idea is that sometimes he keeps souls too damaged to survive the wheel and heals them with fragments of himself before returning them to the wheel. Berath tolerates it. But for Emblyn's soul he kinda never did return her soul to wheel until Berath threatened him into it, which means that Favaen is actually her first reincarnation since then.

Following that point, for the first year after Favaen was born Eothas still gave her some attentiion. Mostly cause I thought of a very cute scene of baby Favaen playing with floating ball of light. I started drawing it but never got very far. He stopped showing up soon though so as to not draw the other gods' attention to her, but that sudden lack of something that was fundamental for her soul for 2000 years caused her emotional control issues that took her a very long time to overcome.

Favaen went to multiple different temples to train for priesthood until she eventually decided to return to the Eothas temple she spent much of her childhood in and become an Eothas priestess. From all her apprenticeships she has some mark, from the Magran temple she has a burn mark on her hip, from her time at the Galawain she has a small arrow tattoo between her shoulders on her back, from Ondra she has a small scar on her neck at the height of her ears where they cut her hair off (and also her habit of wearing her hair long to cover it), and from Abydon (where she stayed the longest and has the fondest memories of) she has her ear piercings, which were the first thing she ever smithed herself (this is also where she learnt to wear her front hair in braids). The exception is her few hours at a Rymrgand temple that disgusted her so much she immediatly left after being introduced.

Hildraed

Hildraed was 22 when she fled Readceras during the Waidwen uprising. She went to the Deadfire with about half her crew while the other half stayed in Readceras and joined the coup. Though she was already a pirate captain for the last 4 years that didn't really impress the Príncipe so she had some trouble at first integrating into the existing system until Mad Morena took her in as first mate for a while.

#pillars of eternity #asks and tags #thanks for the tag! #the link is to a fanfiction in which Favaen tells her story to Edér after the white march dlc happened #it was the first longer fic i ever published actually #longer as in it has like 8k words not as in literal long fic

[therisingphoenixden]

So, I was feeling kind of rough at the end of last week and decided to dip into my stash of comfort video games.

What did I pick?

The first Pillars of Eternity game.

Longish ramblings about why I love this game under the cut!

I feel like I have very weird tastes in comfort games because Pillars of Eternity is not at all what I'd call a cozy or comforting game. In fact, it's quite bleak in a lot of places. But it has amazing depth to its lore and story that grounds you while also pulling you in, wonderfully written characters that make the world of Eora feel alive, gorgeous music (if you watch Critical Role, especially during campaign 2, you'll recognize a lot of the music in the game), and several very unique races to use as your player character in addition to the usual standards of dwarves, elves, and humans. The dialogue system lets you shape your character even further with race, class, stat allotment, and your reputation and personality scores opening up different paths to pick from.

The story also deals with questions surrounding faith and religion, the nature of the soul, and features heavy reincarnation themes. If you know my love of Morrowind, you know that this kind of stuff is my catnip.

Combat-wise, I play on story mode because I'm a story-first kind of player. I'm also usually very exhausted and am up very early in the mornings on weekdays. But even story mode can be a bit of a challenge when you prefer to roleplay as a character and not what the "best" race/class combos and builds are for Path of the Damned mode. Granted, I'm overleveled for where I am in the story (both in base game and in White March 2), but it's still enough of a challenge for my permanently exhausted mind to enjoy. You still have to think tactically so your party isn't overwhelmed, which tickles the part of my brain that grew up playing rts games.

I'm currently dawdling with completing act 2 on my fire godlike cipher, Xiuhitl, just because I missed playing around in the world of Eora so much and I'm not ready to hit Twin Elms and proceed to the endgame yet. I'm taking options that I haven't before and discovering quests that I completely missed in my first few playthroughs of the game. It's almost like playing it for the first time all over again, especially since I haven't played in a while. I remember some of the major story beats, but not all of them, and I'm not ashamed to admit I got lost once or twice because I think the last time I played was during lockdown. But I prefer to say it's a testament to the game itself where I get drawn in and turned around because I wanted to read the ambient dialogue or listen to the bard in Stalwart sing.

The real adventure is the journey - not the endgame. And in a world that's still very magical while maintaining firm and believably realistic roots, why would you want the adventure to end so quickly?

#phoenix rambles #pillars of eternity #i will never stop saying how much i love this game #pretty sure i bumped this up a few slots in my podcast partner's to-play list just from my gushing reviews of the personality system alone

[meticulousfragments]

Between the entire White Marches plot and all of the Ondra stuff in Deadfire, it is very fun to me to play Pillars of Eternity as a moon godlike.

Like you’re marked by a goddess from birth, maybe you believe you’re chosen and maybe you feel it’s a curse. And then you meet her. And keep meeting her. And it’s always tangled up in secrets and temples and life-or-death choices. And she never really acknowledges you as Hers even though everyone you’ve ever met assumes that’s what you are. And maybe you do her bidding and maybe you go against her but either way does she ever care for you beyond the role you play? Do you want her to?

There’s so much potential to develop a character, I really need to write more.

#pillars of eternity #pillars of eternity Deadfire