HaligtreeDream

Side blog to @squaretablehold. they/them pronouns for mun. 23. m*hgm*q shippers are blocked on sight.

[haligtreedream]

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“Can dreams not be more than hope and naivete? Could they be a declaration of intent?”

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[faemothra]

st. trina

[woundsmell]

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[woimdoodles]

don’t worry about it

[crybaby-tarnished]

@haligtreedream

[baerryjj]

Some pre-shattering Miquella and Malenia for the soul cus I just want them to be happy o(-(

[sileni0]

Imagine waking up without choosing violence and pain. Malenia & Miquella fanart

[alyruko]

fearsome empyreans

[haligtreedream]

Do you have good memories of yoru father at all?

"Of course. One does not spend so long with another person without finding at least a morsel of pleasantness, and my father and I shared more than that. If there is one thing I can say about my father, perhaps his greatest strength and weakness both was his dedication. So bound to his principles was he that he became as ridgid and inflexible as stone. Even when the life of his own daughter lay upon the line." Miquella adds the last sentence with a deep and abiding bitterness.

"But perhaps thou art looking more for a story than an assessment of character. I do still fondly recall long hours spent in the archives of the Fundamentalists, studying and debating incantations, philosophy, and golden geometry with my father. He was perhaps one of the few that truly respected my scholarship at the time, so long as it strayed not from that accepted by The Golden Order. 'Twas one particular night when I was particularly absorbed in a text and spiteful over the terminology used to encourage my rest, that we engaged in a war of attrition in the library. He thought to outlast me and carry me to bed as he would when I was but a child, but he neglected to observe that the leaves I'd taken to chewing where camellia and did wonders for helping me keep long hours into the night." Miquella gives a cheeky smile at this.

"I still remember the ink stained look on his face when he woke up around noon the next day after drifting off in the wee hours, only to see me working diligently as ever. The stomach ache and heart palpitations where worth it for that alone."

[haligtreedream]

📚 Who do you think would be the best choice for Elden Lord?

"I believe the position of Elden Lord, like much of Marika’s reign, is flawed in its base concept. 'Twould necessitate the reinstitution of my Mother as Queen Eternal, whether that means providing her once again with power over the Lands Between, or continuing to allow her to languish as no more than a crumbling vessel for a dying way life, either option would only prolong the stagnant suffering of the world."

"'Twould be a cruel thing to do on either count, and a cruel thing to ask of anyone. If thou art looking for a particular endorsement I'm afraid I cannot offer one as answer to this question for the best option for Elden Lord is no Lord at all."

[allknowingofnir]

Ask My Muse Some Questions

Send me a 📚 + question and they will have to answer honestly!

[haligtreedream]

I think that the mystery of  why Miquella and Malenia very conspicuously don’t have Shadows despite both being Empyreans is very neatly answered by the ending of Blaidd’s quest line.

They both went mad when Miquella and Malenia renounced the Greater Will and killed their own Two Fingers, most likely using Unalloyed Gold instead of The Fingerslayer Blade.

If anything their absence points to that being the case in my mind, and so does Malenia’s epithet of “the Severed” because plenty of other characters, even other demigods (looking at you Golden Lineage), have lost limbs, so it makes way more sense to me if it was referring to Severed Fingers and the idea of her being severed from the Greater Will. It would also pair better with Miquella’s “the Unalloyed” title as a way of showing them both being separate from The Golden Order.

[fellweather]

my flesh was dull gold, and my blood, rotted

[nerbos]

goddess of rot

[miquellas]

as a small aside, the symbol the haligtree knights and banners use (left) is different to the one directly used for miquella’s miracles (right). it’s stripped down and the branches are replaced with rigid structures, likely more representative of the city of elphael and the brace of the haligtree. the fully branched version seems to be more associated with miquella himself, and is only really used to symbolize his direct influence. in the case of the cleanrot, for miquella’s miracles they instead use the fully grown haligtree that malenia and their heraldry uses.

[raviollies]

“Like a lullaby, or a quagmire, its light-purple haze irresistibly draws its victims down into sleep. Sweet dreams.”

[killjo-q]

Close up:

Malenia and Miquella

[haligtreedream]

You eat your sandwiches without the crust.

"Tis true enough, though I am not one to waste. I detest leaving an unemptied plate, so I oft add a touch of butter or honey to the removed crusts and eat them as their own."