#song mage

[cyndalyssa]

Ballad of the Ringbearers, Pt. 2

In which I have reworked the Muckess from that She-Ra episode into a Ringbearer whose claim to fame was the first Sorcerer’s Quest, the first official Mage Emblem, and stopping the Trollan Civil Wars. On that last one, long story short, in this AU Gorpo killed the other Overlords, and after he was banished (in this version by He-Ro, the Elders, and the Oracle) and the Oracle was trapped on Preternia, factions rose up on Trolla and started fighting for power (among them a certain cult that’ll be mentioned below). 

She’s the only Ringbearer to ever have been an Overlord, mainly because the citizens asked her to be. After her passing, her successors in both roles realized that the jobs should be kept separate. 

As for her husband, Blim, he still exists but he’s a toymaker that just wants to spread joy. The two loved each other very much and had a set of twins. 

Anyway, on to the next Ringbearer:

And then there’s the song mage of the Ringbearers, Ero-Dee! 

Normally song mages don’t do Sorcerer’s Quests, but Ero-Dee did one for kicks and ended up with the Oracle Ring. Naturally, the Unnamed Order (first formed at the beginning of the Civil Wars, was well on its way to taking over until Foosabella came along, and then went on to cause trouble for her and her crew) decided he was a threat and started gunning for him. 

Anyway, he was the first Ringbearer to actually kill a Destroying Angel (Foosabella had driven her off before, but hadn’t figured out a way to get rid of her for good). This is the origin story of the Horn of Evil and the Ringbearer-Destroying Angel rivalry, and he’d end up fighting a few more DAs before his passing. 

He was also interested in enriching and protecting traditional Trollan culture, and passing things down to the next generation. Trollan artists of all kinds (art, music, dance, etc.) found him an inspiration.

Anyway, coloring these things was a pain and a half, but I have two more Ringbearers to cover, so this’ll be continued in the next post. 

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#masters of the universe #motu #orko #trollans #children #song #squonge #foosabella #ero-dee #unnamed order #destroying angel #wars #song mage #overlords of trolla #also i imagine ero-dee with a singing voice like john denver's #I need a tag for this au #AU orko backstory series #lyssa draws

[trashmancer]

I said, oh girl Shock me like an electric eel Babygirl Babygale Turn me on with your electric feel

#drew this quick last night because this song popped into my head #gale dekarios #gale of waterdeep #bg3 fanart #my art #gale being a lightning mage is my jam

[mage-ical-character-person]

I'm sure he's fine. After all, one of his core features is his adaptability.

Unrelated, but he'd like to know what traits you look for in a friend.

#He is sooo hit vocaloid song copycat #Just an image I couldn't get out of my head. Also a bit experimental for me I guess #kinitopet #kinito the axolotl #kinito #Mage’s Doodles and Drawings

[pyxilatezero]

You can’t tell me you don’t get boy band vibes from them

They would totally be REMRK [rEA-mArk] (Rae, Elsa, Malori, Ruby, and Kana) with Himari as their manager:

They’d totally sing “Better Place” by *NSYNC and you cannot change my mind

omfg imagine them doing that in suits

the brain rot is real

edit: GUYS I DID IT HELP

Edit (again): official banner UwU

#i’m in love with the villainess #oshi no ko #the brainrot is real #please bully me miss villainess #mage & demon queen #rwby #whisper me a love song #rae taylor #rwby ruby #ruby rose #kana arima #malori crowett #himari kino #elsa dorothy #boy bands #but it’s girls #whiterose #but it’s implied

[r-aindr0p]

Are there any fae-like creatures in french myths?

I know about the story of a giant black wolf that terrorized France back in the day, but that’s all I can remember.

Legends and stories including wolves are in fact really widespread in european culture since middle age ! But yeah the most well known in France is the Beast of Gévaudan which was described as massive ! (and the one from Le petit chaperon rouge/Little red riding hood)

Concerning other creatures and fairies/faes in french legends and stories, we do have

Mélusine : fairies mentioned a bit everywhere in France, they are mostly described as women with a scaly tail lower body and are sometimes associated with mermaids or vouivres. (far from how they look like in genshin impact)

Vouivre : not to be mistaken with wyverns, vouivres are creatures described as snakes with bat wings, sometimes they are depicted having rear legs and wings (and they look very goofy like that imo). These creatures can be aquatic and in some descriptions, possess a big jewel on their forehead.

Tarasque : a creature from provencal legends, which lived in a swamp near Tarascon and terrorized and ate people. It's most popular description was of a big creature with a spiked turtle shell, six bear legs, horse ears, bull chest, lion head, a human face and a twisted tail. Legend says Ste. Marthe tamed the beast. (I swear they were just being attacked by bowser this is the same creature)

These are the one I depicted roughly in the pic above but there are many more creatures depending on the different regions of France ! (There's a lot of fairies and fantasy like creature in stories from bretagne/brittany) Some others that I find either fun or cool are :

Meneurs de loup : which translates to wolf leaders are people told to be able to talk to wolves and even transform into one, either because they are werewolves or they made a pact with the devil. (it's kinda giving spice and wolf vibes and I love that story sm)

Jambe crue/Came-cruse : Roaming in the Pyrénées at night, this thing is a single leg with an eye on the knee that eats people and runs very fast. (Idk why this one is so funny to me but oddly terrifying as well)

#french folklore #we also have fairies and mages that come from arthurian legends because i don't know how/why but some of the stories took place in france #it is said in France that Merlin used to live at some point in the forest of Brocéliande that is said to be either in brittany or normandy? #and there's that whole lancelot du lac thing as well #idk if I can choose a favorite creature in general french or not but kelpies are cool and rusalkas as well #medieval unicorns that look more like goats are dope as well #most man eating beings or creatures that use appearances to lure people are soo cool tbh #katsura otoko is an example from japanese folklore guy on the moon that feeds on your life essence the more you stare at the moon #if i recall it right.. #Oh ! and Powerwolf did a song in french about beast of gevaudan ! if anyone likes power metal #the whole band’s aesthetic is priest werewolves idk why but hey half of it is right in my alley

[lavleyart]

#vaati #the legend of zelda #vaati the wind mage #loz fanart #vaati fanart #legend of zelda vaati #loz vaati #minish cap #zelda fanart #minish vaati #master of the universe #this fits to the song sadeness part 2 by enigma ngl #spiritual trance magic thingy idk he looks high lol

[h9rd-t6-miss]

#norfolk wizard game #ogre poppenang #this is the artist that does all the music for 0/n and htp and nwg #god damn are they good #this song #im absolutely using it as a main yheme for my own WoD game #its such a good Mage theme though that i cant help but feel it wont be the most appropriate #Youtube

[ceruleancattail]

I’ll offer up Cloche for a duet with anyone <3

God forbid someone rigs the karaoke machine to 一翦梅-

HELPPP WIANKSW AHAHAHAHA- nah we’ll rig it to 學貓叫 for you🫶

我们一起学猫叫、一起喵喵喵喵～

I give you Cinder, and your song is!

ツミキ (Tsumiki) - フォニイ (phony) ft. 可不 (KAFU)

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Cloche:

この世で造花より綺麗な花は無いわ

何故ならば総ては嘘で出来ている

Antipathy world

En Translation:

They say flowers fade

And their beauty can't be weighed with flowers so fake

It's all because the way things are made, live on lies that fabricate

Antipathy world

Cinder:

絶望の雨はあたしの傘を突いて

湿らす前髪とこころの裏面

煩わしいわ

En Translation:

I'll raise, right away, my umbrella that will shade my body from rain

Now dampened by the pain, can't escape, here my bangs and heart remain

All the trouble I face

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#the mage’s hat 🎩 #twisted wonderland #twst #twst oc #imma be real this song just screams cloche vibes ok trust me #and her voice inside my head has this cool #soft tone #that is perfect #perfect I say #for this song

[eileensdress]

Slowly learning that gay people are the only people with valid Witcher takes

#read a forbes review so bad it made me want to claw my eyes out #the reviewer was mad that some of the mages are fat and that jaskier kissed a man #oh also that there’s no more nudity in the show #he also only likes toss a coin to your witcher and said the other songs are bad #HE ALSO SPELLED REDANIA WRONG #he also tried to compare something to a plotline from obi wan and completely missed the mark on BOTH COUNTS #LIKE FUNDIMENTALLY UNDERSTANDING ROOT CHARACTERISTICS OF CHARACTERS #the witcher netflix #the witcher #witcherposting

[magebird]

There’s no use in running unless you run like heck

The best things in life we learned from the wreck

[ID: Trigun fanart depicting Vash against a rippled background like sand dunes. Only Vash’s head and hands are defined as he leans forward in a run, his gun held low. The rest of his shape is vaguely defined in smudges of color with streaks trailing off as if in a motion blur. End ID.]

#trigun #trigun stampede #my art #mage art #Vash the stampede #Vash #trigun Vash #Vash trigun #read an art tutorial talking about how poses could be really minimally conveyed #with just head and hands #so I wanted to play with that idea #dunno if I’m in love with it but I don’t hate it yet either #song lyrics are from no hell by cloud cult

[crankybeetle]

Scattered 'cross my family line

I'm so good at telling lies

That came from my mother's side

Told a million to survive

Scattered 'cross my family line

God, I have my father's eyes

But my sister's when I cry

I can run, but I can't hide

From my family line

-Family Line by Conan Gray

@carryon-countdown day 5: Bloodlines

#snowbaz #simon snow #baz pitch #the mage #natasha pitch #carry on countdown #coc 2022 #every conan gray song is a snowbaz song #conan gray

[natsubane]

"yeah, i guess i'll keep living"

(kaisei / clear weather by orangestar, ft. daybreak trio, my own translation, and umikun's cover!)

individual frames (without effects) featuring my keykid zero and his reincarnation spring, my friend mage's design of older ephemer, and my extremely shitty handwriting

other kaisei covers i really fucking like bc i'm normal about this song:

original upload, orangestar feat. ia

megatera zero, possibly one of the best covers of this song ever

amatsuki (he's my fav utaite. give him some credit)

soramachi, with their own band arrange! the mv is good too

fantastic youth, possibly also one of the best covers ever (plus it has rap)

#khux #kingdom hearts union cross #khml #kingdom hearts missing link #player kh #ephemer kh #skuld kh #skulmerayer #daybreak trio #i hope i got all the right tags. wah #disclaimer before anything happens. i haven't played khux. i'm getting there though. i will be there before khml releases (delusional) #mage has just been telling me about these khux guys for months!!! they're the reason why i'm playing every single kh game #god i love kaisei orangestar. the song ever

[raayllum]

Look who's digging their own grave That is what they all say; you'll drink yourself to death Look who makes their own bed, lies right down within it And what will you have left? Out on the front doorstep, drinking from a paper cup You won't remember this Living beyond your years, acting out all their fears You feel it in your chest

#tdpedit #tdp callum #callumedit #mythology #bastille #personal fave #arc 2 #arc 1 #s4 #s2 #my edits #graphics #god this is such a good song #wanted to include ocean at the bottom for symbolic reasons #multi #if there is longing on the mirror of my heart #mage boy #tdp #the dragon prince

[stellorc]

Molioris Crown

A young Gwen enjoying the Summerday at the Circle's grounds. I just wanted to paint her with shining hair. I have a simple taste. I have a long way to go to acquire the ability to balance details, but one day I'll get there. In the meantime, I'll make you all suffer with my attempts. I'm not sorry.

Process gift under the cut, enjoy :)

also i never really introduced her here. She's a circle mage from the Trevelyan House and is best friends with my beloved Hecate Hawke. I'm usually a bit scared sharing dragon age stuff, mainly because i like both Sebastian and Anders. Anyway, I shall return to my cave. goodbye <3

#i don't know what to say what a Shock #usually i don't shut up here but my mind is blank today #fun fact this is a redraw of a piece i did two years ago #a '''''redraw'''''' bc the original was in a different angle and composition #and had an atrocious lighting execution #but i'm still fond of it #I listened to the opening song of outlander so many times while painting this #never watched the show tho nor read the books #gwenevere trevelyan #beloved mage lady #dragon age #argh i want spring so badly #my art

[brekkie-e]

I love your inquisitor so much! May I ask what happened to her left ear though?

Great question, I would love to tell you. (Also I’m sorry this took 10 years to answer. I really wanted provide visuals because this was already a topic I had planned to post about, and unfortunately I’ve been in a complete art block since January ish.) There is a TLDR at the end if needed.

To understand what happened to my darling little Nira’s ear a few things about her family need to be explained. Now, Nira is Dalish™️. But her mother was not born so. She grew up in Antiva city, and only joined the clan when she was about 19/20. Eloped with a dashing craftsmen, it was very romantic. She left family behind in the city, and Nira grew up visiting them on a semi-regular basis. My personal clan Lavellan is a really large one that has kind of commercialized itself to survive. They’ve found success setting up outside human residential areas and putting on shows and fairs where they sell “novelty” items as a way to make ends meet. So it wasn’t uncommon for them to be in the vicinity of the city, and it afforded them unusual freedom in trading with it’s inhabitants.

Nira also had a few cousin’s that lived in the city. And despite the exorbitant amount of siblings I have given this character, her dearest friends during her childhood were her cousins, Tara and Islene. Fraternal twins. And being girls from the mother’s side of the family, still descendent from the Ghilan’nain priestess who received the magical bloodline trait. Due to this, Islene was born a mage like most women in her family. (Luckily the city elf side had for the most part been able to keep this under the radar of templars.)

Much of Ama’nira’s story is defined by this trio and their overall narrative.

For all that Nira was allowed to visit her cousins in her childhood, most of the time was spent almost exclusively with the clan because the Keeper and her mother did not want to tempt fate by letting a young child gifted with magic run amok in the city without intense supervision. Also she was notoriously fussy as a child due to sensory needs and having pretty strong preferences about food and things like that. Her mom even early on liked to keep a close watch over her because of this. But after a few years of begging, Nira was finally allowed to spend the night at her aunt and uncle’s house during a visit when she was about seven.

Everything started out okay, normal fun childhood sleepover type stuff. Nira was sent with some hearth cakes to bring for dessert. They played cards as a family. It was a lovely evening.

But as bed time drew near things started to veer off course. The girls were tucked in and put to sleep like normal. But shortly after the parents went to bed, Tara popped her head up and said they should go to the vhenadahl. “Maybe it will work if all three of us try it, and not just two.”

Nira had no idea what they were on about, but she was excited to be included as her sisters often left her out (they were much older than her.) So the little group make their way out of the house and down to the alienage center where the tree of the people is. The girls explain to Nira that according to legend, a spirit of Love lives in the tree and if someone manages to run around the it 3 times while only one moon is covered by a cloud and the other isn’t, the spirit will bless them. They tell her how they’ve tried and tried a thousand times, but no matter what they do they can’t get it to appear.

Naturally, the girls start giving it their all. They run around the tree dozens of times, tripping more than once because they were staring up at the moon while doing so. Giggling and squealing as they ran into eachother. This was not an uncommon thing for children to attempt in the alienage, so at this point most people tended to ignore them. It was basically a childhood rite.

However, most children that tried this weren’t also mages. Now, seeing as how there never was a spirit in the tree to begin with, luckily no demon summoning happened. That didn’t stop Tara from suggesting her two mage friends should try to “touch the fade” so it knew they were there. So for a few laps, Nira and Islene ran with their arms in the air, reaching out with their magic in whatever way they could to see if they could do what Tara was saying. As they had no idea what “touching” the fade even meant. Of course, this was a very ill advised thing to do, but they’re babies. And babies do dumb things.

No spirits were there to listen, but Templars on city watch were and arrived at the scene shortly after. The magical night that the girls were having crashed down around them as they turned to see the knights. Tara, being the scrappier one of the bunch, shouted at them to run. And they did. But Nira tripped on one of the cobblestones, and was nearly over taken. Islene seeing this turned back for her cousin and pulled her off the ground, pushing her forward. In the process, she was grabbed instead. Nira ran with everything she had.

The templars upon realizing that a frenzied, terrified, and untrained mage was fleeing into the city, and they were about to lose her made the call to attempt to “neutralize” her as a last ditch effort to ensure she could not become an abomination before they found her again. So arrows were loosed as she ran, and one pierced right through her ear. Nira, in a state of complete panic and terror, grabbed it and ripped it off- causing the missing chunk that she bears to this day.

Tara was able to make it home without being caught and in a state of shock explained to her parents what had happened. Her father left immediately to try and get Islene back from the Templars, but was beaten terribly and returned home empty handed. They ran to the clan and told them of what happened as soon as possible, and search parties were sent out for Ama’nira whilst also packing for an emergency move because they did not want the Templars to turn on the clan in their hunt for the young girl. They were forced to leave before finding her.

Nira meanwhile ran blindly through the city, stopping only when there was nowhere left to run. Which happened to be the docks. She found a barrel underneath a pier and hid in it for two days in a state of complete shock, not even noticing how much time went by. When her senses eventually came back to her, she managed to sneak her way around the city before hitchhiking in the back of a wagon and sneaking out the gates. She was too terrified to go back to the alienage as that was where it all happened. Unfortunately, the poor thing had no idea how to actually get to where the clan had camped, and to begin with they weren’t there anymore. So when she eventually saw some woods, she jumped out of the wagon and started wandering. In a complete stroke of luck, one of her brothers who had not given up the search had been heading back to the city and was able to find her and bring her home.

To wrap this up, the event left Nira deeply traumatized and she would continue to struggle with using magic for many years afterwards. She only truly is able to break through her barriers with it once befriending Dorian. It left Islene in the circle, and she is made tranquil only a few years after. And it would lead Tara to grow up in what would quickly become a broken home, her mother leaving to prevent the templars from discovering her magic and her father descending into alcoholism to cope with what had become of his family. Few people foster as much hatred towards Templars as Tara, she blames them for everything bad that’s ever happened to her and her loved ones.

Nira and Tara actually start Inquisition as a pair, with Tara becoming her pseudo enforcer during the course of the game. When Ama’nira was chosen by her keeper to attend the Conclave, a decision aimed at allowing Nira to find closure and give her the opportunity to grow outside of her mother’s influence, Tara decided to go with her as a guide/protection. The pair hoped to find Islene at the Temple and discover what had happened to her.

TLDR: Her ear was injured during an altercation with templars in her childhood where cousin was taken to the Antivan Circle. It is the foundational event that ties Nira’s story with her cousins which is very important to the overall arc of my canon Inquisition plot.

#dragon age #dragon age inquisition #Lavellan #inquisitor Lavellan #oc: ama’nira #dai #mage rights #brekkie asks #also thank you thank you thank you for asking this #when i saw it (which was admittedly much later than you asked) I was giddy #this one of my favorite bits of her story #Tara and Islene and her have me on my knees #their theme song is carried me with you by Brandi Carlile #dalish #dragon age elves #oc: Tara #oc: Islene #i am so sorry for how long this got i am not a succinct person

[kassical]

it's official im one of the npcs who can't stop humming along to the aged man

#enderal #the bard songs are good and unfortunately catchy #that and the wild mages song keep rotating in my mind #.txt #now i know why jespar can't stop singing it either