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Acquired Stardust

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Sweet Seals For You, Always
trying on a metaphor

Love Begins
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
i don't do bad sauce passes

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DEAR READER
Keni
Three Goblin Art
hello vonnie
Stranger Things

❣ Chile in a Photography ❣
occasionally subtle
Misplaced Lens Cap
he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
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asoiaf & wowlover ✶ minors DNI + DDDNE 🔞 i write and draw sometimes
Some of my favorite fairshaw shitposts over the years
Mood.
I will throw this on my art account once I have many sketches to upload a batch, but have this really messy Rommath doodle done with watercolors!!!
in my mind's eye i see this scene clear as day. it's 2026 and the gang all work together. umbric was recently transferred back to the department he used to work at ages ago with rommath except that now they've been bitterly divorced for the longest time and it's just REAL psychosexual for everyone involved, to the point it's affecting productivity. lor'themar gets sick of it and he's like okay i gotta step up as the boss here and salvage the situation. do some kind of team-building exercise or something. so he decides to take everyone to MANDATORY karaoke happy hour except that it's not happy like AT ALL. the only person who looks like he's having any fun there is dar'khan (not with the karaokeing itself, he's just there to watch the events unfold with the fascination of someone watching a car crash). he may or may not have suggested the karaoke idea to lor'themar. halduron exchanges the most nervous of glances with lor'themar when umbric goes first and sings Silver Springs by Fleetwood Mac. rommath had said he was NOT gonna partake in the singing but after THAT he skips the line and picks Shadowboxer by Fiona Apple. they both sing their songs looking DIRECTLY into the other's eyes. you couldn't cut the tension with a knife because it'd actually take an industrial angle grinder. liadrin is cold sweating. astalor convinces aethas (oblivious, too young to have been working there When It Happened) to sing Hopelessly Devoted to You by Olivia Newton-John (you know, For No Reason, It's Just Such A Great Song), who not only happily obliges but also (to his credit) gives it his all & puts on one hell of a performance. nonetheless that is unsurprisingly the last nail on the proverbial karaoke happy hour coffin
can you tell that this gay alcoholic bitch is the Grand Magister of Silvermoon City
"He remembered Tharofar Goldveil. And stole the cynosure."
rombric sketch dumppppp
I abused my Preferential Killing quest to take a look at the quests for every single one of Astalor's Prey targets, for lore reasons. I always get distracted with what he says aloud (this is not my fault!), which is always different than the quest text itself. And the quest text is often more revealing about him as a person.
So if you were looking for little treats to sprinkle into your next Astalor fic, maybe these can help:
Dislikes: stupid people, the outdoors, people who attack (too many) innocents/acquaintances, Death Knights, when enemies have a seemingly unbeatable power (that's his job), overly gory murder (of elves - memento mori perhaps), unreasonable foes, being hunted by an assassin (alone - he makes you defend him), beings he cannot look in the eye, water, drowning, the Void, curiosity, irredeemable research methods (indiscriminate killing), too many ambitious loners in Quel'thalas (he's the one doing things correctly, obviously).
Likes: when people are gushing with anguish, the city of Silvermoon, elven forces generally, beating enemies who act unstoppable, gardening, Farstriders (he keeps mentioning when they've been killed, and he regrets having to hunt one in particular), you (he warns you to be careful when Farstriders have already been murdered, and when you might get recycled into a pocket watch), ambition, talent, rumors.
Further thoughts:
Is he the one offering Lost Theldrin aid? Or it is just "aid"? Losing himself into an anguish crystal drop by drop might not be preferable to being hunted down and ended. But I bet Astalor doesn't think of it like that.
The Farstriders are getting wrecked by some of these guys. They're specifically named as dying in large numbers to a couple, in horrible ways. Halduron should be recruiting as hard as Rommath is! "Thin their numbers" shouldn't go both ways like this.
Astalor mentions having scouts. Unclear if they're his own dedicated scouts, or if he has lured in spies, perhaps among the Farstriders - which would account for him knowing of so many instances when they've fallen to these enemies. He doesn't like going outside, but these folks work outside all the time and are also dedicated to protecting Quel'thalas and its people. Why not employ them in a more direct manner? There are Farstriders all throughout the city, even when they're off-duty. Maybe some of them swing by the Murder Row Sanctum, or just pass messages. It's simply efficient to employ those comfortable in areas he isn't, after all, if he's going to cover all his bases in the defense of Silvermoon.
I like this headcanon. Seems reasonable.
If I were to expand into pure speculation, I'd be inclined to think that when Astalor called Ranger Swiftglade "one of our own," he meant it in the way that this had been one of his killers, who has lost himself to the hunt and become a danger himself. Much like some of the effects from Astalor's early experimentation with anguish gems and the like, anguish may simply have overtaken this Farstrider in particular, when all he intended to do was help keep Quel'thalas safe. Too bad we can't loot his corpse for anguish gems!
Enjoy these Astalor quest details however you like. He's a fascinating, complicated character, and I'm extremely fond of his horrible self.
faith & sacrifice
Who else do you ship Rommath x ____ with other than, Umbric?
no one really but
1) i do indulge in a little bit of one-sided kael/rom from time to time... as a treat
2) i am The Grand Magister Rommath Love-o-tron 9000 so i just repost anything that has to do with him, even if it's non-rombric ship art
3) similarly, i also just repost any art that catches my eye, like in general. i am an art appreciator
think of this account as a shrine dedicated to rommath... the rommath archives, if you will
was wondering why my laptop has been so slow for the past week or so and turns out adobe fresco is hogging like 50% of my laptop storage. ah. that'll do it
Behold. my shimmys
"At the Midsummer Ball, Umbric danced with Tharofar Goldveil and I felt…"
Rommath seeing Umbric dance with Tharofar Goldveil and realizing that he is feeling jealous- it should be him dancing with Umbric