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netherstray

The Twisting Nether

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Evil fel magics

fawke

Late night doodles sometimes spiral into bigger things XD

azerothian-details

Aesthetic || Burning Legion

charminglyantiquated

so if there’s one single trope i’m always down to fight it’s the animal bride (folklore motif 402??) which a lot of you are probably familiar with as the selkie - the fisherman either falls in love, steals her skin to trap her on land/gain power over her, or they fall in love and THEN he steals her skin to keep her from leaving, and either way she spends a lot of time gazing sadly out to sea and then she or her child finds the skin and never returns again. and that’s awful on a whole lot of levels - it’s not love, it’s control.

BUT. but the thing is. you how selkies/seal women was a pretty common variation of this? another really popular one was swans.

i just want you to think about that for a moment. swans. like…I get it, they’re pretty, graceful birds, certainly it’s easy to imagine them magically becoming pretty graceful ladies? but have you ever fought a swan. swans are awful. swans are the devil’s geese. imagine seeing a pretty magic lady and being absolutely enchanted by her, and stealing her magic feather cloak, and then you go up and say ‘hey i’m in love with you, let me make you my queen, it will be great, we’ll be so happy’ and she just looks at you for a moment and…

you know i was going to say maybe she just shouts for her sisters and suddenly you’re realizing you’ve made a terrible terrible mistake bc you’re surrounded by big fucking birds who are all hissing. but honestly if this swan lady is as aggressively down to brawl as any other generally unhappy swan, then she’d straight up fuck you up on her own. she’d just deck you roundhouse, honestly. you don’t fuck with swans. why does this trope exist

roachpatrol

okay but consider this: a woman walks to the park every day and feeds the swans and watches them paddle gracefully around the lake, sighing to see how beautifully they swim.

finally one day, a swan comes up to her and says ‘why don’t you come and swim with us? you always sigh so wistfully to see us on the water, and you would be most welcome to join our company, for you have always been a true friend to our kind’

and the woman says, ‘i can’t swim’

and the swan says, ‘we’ll teach you’

and the woman says, ‘literally i can’t swim, my husband stole my sealskin and should i venture into deep water i would surely drown’

and the swan says ‘your husband fucking WHAT’

the next morning the woman’s front yard looks like this.

and neither the woman nor her husband are ever heard from again, though for very different reasons.

naamahdarling

@elodieunderglass

tagged for imaginary swans doing the lord’s work

drferox

A++, two thumbs up.

It may also interest someone to know that swans can projectile poop.

hellenhighwater

I know a real-world mama swan who got shot in the wing and walked four miles overland to get back to her babies and dad swan, with her broken wing bleeding and dragging the whole way. She just kept going. Don’t mess with lady swans.

Also? Swans don’t have a lot of obvious physical markings that divide the males from females. So some idiot might be like, “damn, that’s a sexy bird, I wanna marry her” and then like. It’s a dude swan. You just transformed thirty pounds of angry aggressive bird into 200+ pounds of angry aggressive adult man, who will totally kick your butt. (Also I’m pretty sure that if you turned a lady swan into a human, you would not get a willowy little 5′0″ girl. You’d probably have a 6-foot amazon with biceps the size of your head. Swans are heavy birds and it takes a LOT of muscle to get them into the air. They are among the baddest bitches in the bird kingdom)

And when a swan decides to beat you up, it is not with fancy martial arts. Swans are brawlers. They have bone clubs built into their wing joints specifically for beating people up. A human swan is gonna come at you screaming and spitting and just keep punching you in the face until you regret every decision you have made ever in your life and also some of the ones your parents made too.

aetherine

I-

It just-

Goddamn nature, you scary.

shithowdy

tehd shoemaker honestly saves this expansion

aetherine

dying plz send help

Walk in the Park: Part 3 - Take Me to the River

The forests around the city of Suramar are home to beautiful flora and fauna, as well as a dizzying amount of breathtaking vistas. Yet this beauty and variety hides a dangerous threat…

Danger in Suramar! Azeroth continues to deal with the fallout from the encounter at the Nightwell and the defeat of Grand Magistrix Elisande. With forces being sent across the Broken Isles to combat the Burning Legion as it lands on the Broken Shore, temporal anomalies and mysterious ley-energies disrupt key magical reinforcements coming out from Shal’Aran. Dawnwatch is called on to investigate, and ultimately solve this problem once and for all.

#dawnwatchwra

Walk in the Park: Part 2 - (Wild) Wild Life

The forests around the city of Suramar are home to beautiful flora and fauna, as well as a dizzying amount of breathtaking vistas. Yet this beauty and variety hides a dangerous threat…

The Legion arrives! With time running out to set things right for Suramar and the rapidly approaching Legion fleet descending upon Azeroth, Dawnwatch must fully map the wayward time-displaced ley-line in Suramar in order to protect the integrity of the local telemancy network. But will they be in time?

#dawnwatchwra #Hamathiel Sunsheer

Enjoy, babes.

I’M SCREAMING

HELLO KJ

KJ could get it.

But real talk, I hate how much this trailer has made me want to get even more into Legion like I’ve JUST started raiding again and actually giving a shit about my Artifact Power and running mythic dungeons ugghhhhh continue to take my money Blizz you drug pusher

aetherine

KJ answers his scrying basin after hanging up on Sargeras earlier: "ey yo new fel phone who dis"

We will build a wall, and we will make the Amani pay for it!

King Thoradin

#World of Warcraft #WoW #Warcraft

Walk in the Park: Part 1 - Life During Wartime

The forests around the city of Suramar are home to beautiful flora and fauna, as well as a dizzying amount of breathtaking vistas. Yet this beauty and variety hides a dangerous threat...

Post-rebellion! After addressing other threats while the majority of the Alliance and Horde forces focused on reclaiming the Nightwell and Eye of Aman'thul, Dawnwatch is asked to investigate a newly discovered ley-line in Suramar.

Armed with survey equipment specifically tailored for such endeavors and a roster of combatants to keep safe in the Suramar wilds, Hamathiel Sunsheer and his allies must plot the ley-line and identify what force could possibly have created new font of power in the ancient forest.

#dawnwatchwra #Hamathiel Sunsheer