Lorien Patton

Writer • Composer • Artist

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Song: Desert Wind

Song: Desert Wind Album: Quest @lorien_patton #folk #filk #indie #fantasy #medieval #SCA #renfaire #geek #acoustic #guitar #vocal #singersongwriter #music #filk #original #convention #alto #tenor #ballad #rorik #karina #serpent .

Album: QUEST; Track 3: Desert Wind (Part of the Serpent Star Saga, a Fame-song Cycle for Rorik Swerðmaðr & Karina de Elephatide)

© 1998 Lórien Patton

On a starlit night in June Silver clouds against the Moon A gypsy† child with the desert in her eyes Danced before the fire

And a desert wind blows through my heart Where once the snows held sway And desert stars are clear and bright Upon the close of…

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Song: Bio of a Conqueror

Song: Bio of a Conqueror Album: Quest @lorien_patton #folk #filk #indie #xena #fantasy #medieval #SCA #woman #renfaire #geek #acoustic #guitar #vocal #singersongwriter #music #filk #original #convention #alto #tenor #ballad .

Album: Quest; Track 2: Bio of a Conqueror

© 1998 Lórien Patton

Ride like the wind Banner flapping like the raven’s wings Army spreading out behind me And we ride like the wind, like the wind

Take another square mile of land We must defend it, we must defend it Bring another village to my hand It’s for their own good, it’s for their own damn good

Ride like the wind Banner flapping like the raven’s…

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Song: Lady of the Ocean

Lady of the Ocean (Album QUEST: Track 1) @lorien_patton #folk #pagan #lady #ocean #sea #fantasy #medieval #SCA #woman #female #goddess #renfaire #fandom #geek #acoustic #guitar #vocal #singersongwriter #music #filk #original #convention #alto #tenor #ballad .

Album: Quest; Track 1: Lady of the Ocean

© 1998 Lórien Patton

Bless me Lady of the Ocean Goodness knows that I have sinned Wrap me in your endless motion Open up your waves and let me in

Sand all awash in silver Waves etched in crystal blue And the moon casts a river Of light that leads me right back to you

Bless me Lady of the Ocean Goodness knows that I have sinned Wrap me in your endless motion

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Album: Waterline

Album by @lorien_patton: Waterline #indiefolk #folk #filk #medieval #SCA #fandom #singersongwriter #acoustic #scifi #fantasy #sciencefiction #Rorik #Karina #king #queen #convention #renfaire #saga #serpentstar #star #serpent #dragon #hero .

Year 2000 album by Lórien.  Although still geared towards Geek and SCA audiences, Lórien’s sound had matured since Quest. Slightly more complex and modern arrangements, fuller harmonies, and all-original tracks that ranged from Medieval/Fantasy to far future Science Fiction make this a Fan Favorite.

Only a small run of 2000 CDs were pressed, and neither the CDs nor original masters exist any…

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Album: Quest

@lorien_patton Album: #QUEST #music #folk #filk #acoustic #singer #songwriter #modern #Medieval #SCA #Caid #fandom #geek #fanfiction #Bard #Rorik #Karina #hero #star #serpent #dragon #spear #sword #ModernMiddleAges #recreationist #convention

1998 album by Lórien. Aimed mostly at SCA & Fandom/Convention audiences, the album has a singer/songwriter vibe. Simple acoustic arrangements, light harmonies, melody-forward and lyrical.

Only a small run of 1000 CDs were pressed, and neither the CDs nor original masters exist any longer; however you can find the Album on Spotify, and on Sound Cloud.

QUEST by Lórien, 1998

Track 1: Lady of the…

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Four Quarters

'Four Quarters' #Digitalillustration ©2017 Lórien Patton (@lorien_patton) #iPad #Procreate #space #stars #ritual #magic #mystical #void #deep #callingquarters #pagan #scifi #digitalart #art #illustration

Four Quarters

© 2017 Lórien Patton

Digital Illustration

Made on iOS, iPad Pro with an Apple Pencil and the Apps: Procreate, Brushstroke, Fragment, Matter, and Snapseed.

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Morning #sketch for you. Enjoy! #Art #digitalillustration #lotus #spiritual #Mandala, #Procreate #iOrnament #visual, #abstract #ink #watercolor #iOS #rough #rustic #calligraphy #geometric# abstract #symbol #symmetry This morning's sketch for your viewing pleasure: 09.16.2018 Lotus Mandala Sketch

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Red Woman © 2017 Lórien Patton

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Seven Ring Brooch Fantastical jewelry illustration/design. Made with iOS apps Assembly, and Procreate.

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I went camping over the Labor Day weekend, at an SCA event called Hunter’s Moon, near Albany. Just getting time to sit in the trees and meditate was amazing. Truly I am a forest creature, and no-where am I as real as in the GreenWood.

    photography: iPhone 6 + snapseed by Lórien Patton

Greet the Sun I went camping over the Labor Day weekend, at an SCA event called Hunter's Moon, near Albany.

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The Ship Who Remembered (Ch 10-Epilogue)

The Ship Who Remembered (Ch 10-Epilogue) One of my most popular #Xena / #Gabrielle #FanFiction stories: #TheShipWhoRemembered. #SFW Rated R for #ScfFi violence. Beginning of a #Romance. #Crossover

The Ship Who Remembered

An ÜberXena Fan-Fiction crossover Novella (Safe For Work)

Xena: Warrior Princess (TV – Universal/Renaissance Pictures) The Ship Who Sang (Print Fiction – Anne McCaffery)

Original story © 1997 Lórien Patton. (AKA ~Quest) Aprox 20,000 words

Based on characters from X:WP, set in Anne McCaffery’s ‘Ship Who Sang’ Universe. This story is for non-commercial personal entertainment…

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The Ship Who Remembered (Ch 7-9)

The Ship Who Remembered (Ch 7-9) One of my most popular #Xena / #Gabrielle #FanFiction stories: #TheShipWhoRemembered. #SFW Rated R for #ScfFi violence. Beginning of a #Romance. #Crossover

The Ship Who Remembered

An ÜberXena Fan-Fiction crossover Novella (Safe For Work)

Xena: Warrior Princess (TV – Universal/Renaissance Pictures) The Ship Who Sang (Print Fiction – Anne McCaffery)

Original story © 1997 Lórien Patton. (AKA ~Quest) Aprox 20,000 words

Based on characters from X:WP, set in Anne McCaffery’s ‘Ship Who Sang’ Universe. This story is for non-commercial personal entertainment…

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The Ship Who Remembered (Ch 4-6)

The Ship Who Remembered (Ch 4-6) One of my most popular #Xena / #Gabrielle #FanFiction stories: #TheShipWhoRemembered. #SFW Rated R for #ScfFi violence. Beginning of a #Romance. #Crossover

The Ship Who Remembered

An ÜberXena Fan-Fiction crossover Novella (Safe For Work)

Xena: Warrior Princess (TV – Universal/Renaissance Pictures) The Ship Who Sang (Print Fiction – Anne McCaffery)

Original story © 1997 Lórien Patton. (AKA ~Quest) Aprox 20,000 words

Based on characters from X:WP, set in Anne McCaffery’s ‘Ship Who Sang’ Universe. This story is for non-commercial personal entertainment…

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One of my most popular #Xena / #Gabrielle #FanFiction stories: #TheShipWhoRemembered. #SFW Rated R for #ScfFi violence. Beginning of a #Romance. #Crossover

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Rorik & The Edge of the World Written for Jarl Rørik Sverðmaðr, KSCA. (Steve Rachman) From the album: Quest

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The Nasir al-Mulk mosque in Shiraz, Iran. Photos from Atlas Obscura. 

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Historically Accurate Xena- now in full colour!

Hiccups and delays aside, here it is. Xena is equipped as an early hoplite; (my headcanon is that, owing to her immense, perhaps semi-divine strength, the bronze is between 4 and 8mm thick- too much for any muscle powered weapon to handle from any angle) packing an early Doru, a Boeotian shield, and a Makhaira sword. Gabrielle’s Amazonian outfit is a composite of Scythian grave finds; she wields a composite bow and Akinakes sword, wears an elaborate phrygian cap, and the trousers and moccasins of a culture seriously weird to Greeks. Other avenues are still waiting to be explored! Don’t forget to reblog, and tell me what you think. I’m absolutely willing to defend my questionable use of snarling Gorgoneiona. Fight me.

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i love this illustration… and not just because in my (now scrapped) xena reboot, gabrielle was a scythian!

[snailchimera]

Neat! Though I am curious: why that helmet decoration?

[dgorringeart]

It’s a style of earlier helmet decoration that eventually falls out of use- Xena’s costume/panoply largely sit on the cusp between the Archaic and Classical periods; I chose it because it looks ferocious and ostentatious, and worked in the recurring Gorgoneion motif to reinforce the image of her as a figure of terror and awe. -The forearm protection is another very early element that disappeared as the Classical age wore on; some very early hoplites had complete limb protection, but that didn’t seem to be a very good trade-off of cost vs mobility vs needed degree of protection to do the job.