#the novice dragoneer

[ttrpgmom]

Updates on Strixhaven!

Party got commissioned with their customized uniforms.

Meet the Honorable Heroes and the troubling making troupe of Strixhaven circa 1520 DR 🥹

I love this dumb first years

Thanks @bunny

#dnd #dungeon novice #dungeons and dragons #d&d #dungeon and dragons #d&d 5e #5e #strixhaven #strixhaven dnd #ttrpgmom

[novice-comics]

Dragon Prince and Hunter AU

#one piece #au #dragon prince and hunter au #sabo #portgas d ace #novice-comics

[r34needfulthings]

#stable diffusion #ai art #ai #ai girl #ai woman #sexy ai art #sexy #seductive #sexy pose #beautiful #sexy ai #sexy content #beauty #fantasy art #fantasy ai #dungeons and dragons character #level 1 #naive #novice adventurer #redhead #red hair #ginger

[antiqua-lugar]

I am definitely not replaying Caradoc any time soon (definitely) but also today I gave up and made his parents in the character creator.

#antiqua plays bg3 #I think they look a bit too young but also they should be in their fifties if caradoc is barely in his early thirties #let's assume it's the make up plus hair dye plus caradoc's mom mindful training everyone in this house keeps up with #also yes the classes are accurate #a random marcenary married a novice monk and they moved to baldur's gate where they fell in love with a beastmaster ranger #and their only child is a wild sorcerer. caradoc is just some guy but honestly that took commitment #he looked at his parents' lives and went NO and applied to d&d ALDI #yes caradoc ranger dad is blatantly based on morrigan dragon age #bg3: caradoc #bg3 caradoc #also his bio parents should be the tiefling ones but honestly they don't know and don't care #because after spending too much time reading tiefling lore I also decided I don't know and I don't care #I am partial to his dads being his bio parents and that being the reason why caradoc has wild magic but he also looks so much like his mom #these are the people morena dekarios now has to hang out with. I think she is delighted

[noras-dc-shenanigans]

Temeraire/Batfamily

So I’ve been reading Temeraire (Naomi Novic) crossovers and I can’t help but wonder what would be funnier:

Dragon Bruce collecting his Human children and keeping them by saying they’re him crew

Or

Human Bruce collecting his Dragon children

Or

They’re all Dragons and just terrorize the world as the weirdos they are.

😆

#Temeraire (Naomi Novic) #DC #bruce wayne #batfamily #dragons #crossover

[ophelia-network]

“What is it to discover you have wings? What is it to be afraid of your wings? What is it to discover at the end of your life that you had wings and never flew? What is it to find out that you were hidden from yourself? What is it to be forgotten? Each day we are forgotten by ourselves through ourselves, For we do not believe, in who we are.” ― Mimi Novic, The Silence Between the Sighs

DRAGONQUEST (1978) by Michael Whelan, Cover illustration for the book by Anne McCaffrey (Del Rey)

#dragonquest #michael whelan #mimi novic #dragons #verse #sky #fantasy art #taking flight #ophelia net #inspirational quotes #wings #self discovery #inner journey #inner healing #inner self #self healing #self love #belief #faith #realisation #encouraging quotes #fly #authenticity #inner power #awakening #conscious #consciousawakening #inner experience

[wearethekat]

May Book Reviews: Novice Dragoneer by EE Knight

Picked this one up semi-randomly from the library. It’s about an orphan girl who runs away to join the DRAGON RIDERS. Which is always an excellent trope, and nearly as venerable as the classic Horse Girl plotline. Ileth is ruthless and hardworking and willing to do nearly anything to claw herself upwards-- which she manages quite neatly by the end of the book, although she still has a long way to go. 

The worldbuilding around dragons is quite nicely done here-- dragons are fully sentient and they talk. But Knight avoids a Temeraire-plotline of dragon independence, because here dragons are full, respected citizens and can even serve on juries (although mostly they don’t bother). They have essentially a treaty with this country, and are willing to put up with running courier mail and so forth because they get fed for free. No small thing when you’re a apex predator presumably weighing multiple tons.

One thing I did not like here is Knight’s assumption that a Woman’s Lot is constant sexual harassments and misogyny. Constant. Which was especially disgusting since for most of it Ileth was 14 or 15. I wasn’t thrilled about this plot element, but I will put up with many, many things for a good dragon story, and this was excellent. Recommended with reservations. 

#my book reviews #may book reviews #ee knight #novice dragoneer

[kelpiemomma]

God but Fespanarax's whole thing about not paying attention to the dragon dancers and then Ottavia's dancing for three days right before the male dragon took his mate on a mating flight that ended w her bred??? HMMMM. SUS.

#Novice dragoneer #There's a connection being hinted at there #fespanarax said human women were dangerous and that male dragons could be fixated on them #to a dangerous degree #WHY. WHY WOULD THAT HAPPEN #But then he (jokingly!!) mentioned keeping a hoard!! #So we know dragons live a long time and females find the dancing interesting for the art of it #While male dragons are enticed by the scent of it but that only women do the trick for them (ok. I guess. Ok. Whatever) #And that in the old days when fespanarax was young he was warned away from human women #which isn't something the lodger ever brought up as far as we're aware #And why DID the lodger stay underground #I need to write my questions down so I can (hopefully) answer them later

[f0xf0ce]

I’m more nervous for the next session that I’m planning to run for my homebrew Phandelver campaign than I have been to run anything in a very long time. When it comes to Dming, despite my eagerness to create my own worldbuilding and lore, I’ve been extremely hesitant to do the same thing with combat. Creating combat encounters has absolutely been my biggest weak point in the two years that I’ve been running games on and off, and even though my players have been happy with their encounters so far, I still know that I can do better. 

Then recently I saw Matt Colville’s video about running action oriented monsters, and it gave me a whole new perspective on encounter building. With those methods in mind, I homebrewed about half of the creatures that’ll be involved in the boss fight I’m planning, and I tweaked the others to better suit my needs. This is the first time I’ve ever made such heavy adjustments to make something new with a creature’s statblock- before this, I’ve only ever reskinned existing creatures. I’m definitely a Dm who normally pulls their punches, and I’m nervous that the combat I have prepared is too much, but I’m ready to change things on the fly if I need to and see if I can execute the plan that I have in my head. 

#jen talks dnd #c: guardians of phandelver #trials of a novice Dm #I have so many notes that I've organized to hell for next session #have I gone overboard? quite possibly #but am I still excited to see if I can pull this off? absolutely #dnd #Dungeons and Dragons

[ttrpgmom]

So I started a mostly homebrew Strixhaven campaign and JEEZ can I talk bout it

#dnd #dungeon novice #dungeons and dragons #d&d #dungeon and dragons #d&d 5e #5e #strixhaven #strixhaven dnd #ttrpgmom

[tarotwithaundria]

Update 🌸

I know, I promised I was going to be ready to open free readings yesterday 😣

But my s/o came home from Minnesota for the weekend, as he's there for work right now, and we still had fun fall/samhain things to do with our son, like pumpkin patch, carving, getting a costume, etc.

I was just busy with family life!

I will be working tonight again while I watch my "House of the Dragon" Season Finale!

Free readings will be open as soon as tomorrow or Tuesday, so again, make sure you look for my "opening" post!

Free Readings: CLOSED

Paid Readings: CLOSED

Thank you!

Sköl

Xoxo,

Aundria 🌸

#house of the dragon #house targaryen #rhaenyra targaryen #free tarot reading #freereading #free tarot readings #free tarot #free readings #tarot cards #tarot readers #tarot #tarot reading #tarotreading #tarot deck #pagan wicca #celtic paganism #norsepagan #novice witch #norsewoman #norse pagan #norse #wiccan #celtic wiccan #wicca aesthetic #norse pagan witch #norse heathen

[tinynavajoreads]

Finished Reading: Novice Dragoneer by E. E. Knight

Such a good dragon book!!! Ohy gosh, so good!! I loved it, I loved Ileth and her journey to become a Dragoneer for the Republic, a person for rides and cares for the dragons. And these dragons are interesting and you see how they interact not only with their dragoneers, but with those novices and apprentices who are learning how to care for the dragons.

I will basically talk only about the dragons, but Ileth is a wonderful character and she does what she needs to do in order to become a dragoneer. And sometimes that leads to her getting in sticky situations, but it also leads to her getting into some of the best situations all because of her love of dragons.

Highly recommend if you like dragons, and stories that feel like Tamora Pierce's in all their glory.

#novice dragoneer #e.e. knight #dragons #fantasy #book #book talk #reading #booklr #book review

[caliblorn]

I promised to make this post months ago and completely forgot about it until the last few days (a classic!), so here I am now. Making it. And with silly art included. Yay!

As many of you know, Mannimarco and Vanus Galerion in Elder Scrolls Online are portrayed as 2E contemporaries who mirror each other journeys to leaders, out of the Psijic Order and into their own groups. ESO makes it clear that they're meant to be similar in age as well, and it does so both by de-aging Mannimarco's model for the "Half-Forming Understandings" quest, and by making it say by Vanus himself in Artaeum Lost.

BUT! If you have played Morrowind or Oblivion, you might already be familiar with Where were you when the Dragon Broke?, an account of different people's experiences during the Middle Dawn, the 1E Dragon Break. And oh! Look who it is.

(notice also he says God, not King) The Middle Dawn happened between 1E 1200 and 1E 2208. Time fuckeries as much as you want, but nonetheless, 1E ends in 2920, and we know FOR SURE that Vanus was born the first years of 2E and that he joined the Psijics as a 11 yo. So, even if we took into consideration ONLY the latest period of the Middle Dawn, Mannimarco would have been a... 700+ years old novice when he met Vanus. Very funny to think about, but an old mer having an intellectual rivalry with a teenager doesn't really scream "brilliant" to me.

I'd say the retconning of his age is also supported by Worm Saga, were he doesn't mention at all his period in the Maruhkati and makes it sound like he was either born or taken to Artaeum at a very young age.

Plus, both in Worm Saga and in the Vault's flashbacks and in every other source ever (WRITTEN FOR ESO. AHEM.) we see that his "discovery" of necromancy happened on Artaeum. Like, it's screamed into our ears a couple of times or more in the game itself.

The problem with all of this? The book that implies he lived through the Middle Dawn is still present in ESO.

Which is to me one little example of a bigger issue with ESO writers rewriting/retconning things without taking away/trying to somewhat link the original sources. But I digress, there are different ways to make this work but since some are too complicated to be discussed now, I'll just share with you what I usually go with;

Mannimarco is a great liar. Not only a liar, a politician. A sales man. A guru. He knows how to give himself prestige. What "Where were you when the dragon broke?" is to me is either fake accounts fabricated by the Cult themselves, or stolen accounts (probably from Artaeum's archives!) where his false experience was added and then sent around Tamriel.

If I had to make a TIMELINE for all the pieces cited, I would say the publication order would be "Where were you when the dragon broke" (used as propaganda by the Cult to make Mannimarco's figure important)-> "Artaeum Lost" (disproves what was fabricated about Mannimarco)-> "Worm Saga" (new attempt to give himself prestige with that "aldmer, scion of et'Ada").

#mannimarco #king of worms #god of worms #artaeum lost #where were you when the dragon broke #worm saga #eso #tes #im sweating #feel free to add stuff. There are other sources to cite but i think these are enough to make my point #tesblr #doodles #by the way fuck you Kirkbride this is your fault

[toastandjamie]

Do you ever think about how after a few decades into the fourth age new novices will enter the white tower, and they’ll hear stories of the Battle Armylin, the woman who reforged a broken tower, protected them from Seanchen enslavement, and was key to leading and winning the Last Battle. They won’t know her, they’ll have never met her since she died before they were born. But the novices will reach nineteen years old and learn that the woman who bore the heaviest burden of any Armylin was the same age as them when she reversed baelfire and turned an entire army to Crystal. She was their age when her very body was turned into a beacon of light that destroyed one of the forsaken and helped give the armies of light a chance at victory. Do you think the white tower erected statues in her honor? Or a stained glass window? Or a portrait? Or is the only reminder of her quiet whispered stories in Novice and Accepted quarters, and a stained glass window of a rose behind the Armylin Seat filling a wound left on the tower from a distant memory of an attack on the heart of Tarvalon? Do the Aes Sedai who lived past that day call her Egwene Sedai? Mother? Egwene Al’vere? Do Novices beg Nynaeve Sedai to tell them stories of the Battle Armylin? Do Elayne’s children ask their mother about her in the same breath that they ask about their father the Dragon Reborn? Do the Al’vere’s keep a picture of her up in the common room of the Winespring that remains there long after her parents pass? Does Emmonds Field still talk about the girl from their village who became Armylin at nineteen and saved the White Tower? Is she only the Battle Armylin to them, or is she still that girl from the Two Rivers?

#wheel of time #wheel of time spoilers #major wot book spoilers #egwene al'vere #me having feelings about Egwene? more likely than you think.