#acient arlathan

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Young Solas and his jewelry. The Vallaslin version is below the cut. I recently saw a post @cryptid-catt with this drawing (look at the image, it's wonderful) of Solas with a hair comb. I thought it was a really cute idea, so I made this sketch. (If you find it unpleasant, I'll delete this sketch.)

It's unlikely that Solas wore the same hairstyle for all the millennia in ancient Arlathan. And hair combs are very beautiful. And of course, wolf symbolism should be present in everything.

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Andruil. Great huntress. Goddess of sacrifice. Blood and power of Elvhenan. Lover Ghilan'nain.

Crafted a spear and bow of unimaginable power, which she used to hunt even in the Abyss.

According to Solas's frescoes, she was the third participant in the Elgarnan conspiracy. She participated in the murder of Mithal.

As the annotation on her theatrical mask reads: "She is the hunt itself: both the hare and the hawk."

I continue to paint the series "The Golden Age of Arlathan". By Tag #Golden Age of Arlathan can see the rest.

Week @evanurisweek become my month evanuris.

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Falon'Din. Guide of souls into the fade. Soothsayer. God of dreams. Possibly experimented with time manipulation. Conqueror of the deep layers of fade. The Dalish god of the dead.

I think Falon'Din was a dreamer. If we look at the text of his mask and the ancient Elven song about him, we can see that it speaks of deep journeys in dreams. And apparently, the song lyrics speak of those who have passed into uthenera.

Mask lyrics

"In narrative, he's the unfamiliar that precedes change. The willing sleep that calms or changes desire. Endings were different in the time of immortals.

Notes

"He would become Death, but used to be more."

Song lyrics:

"Lethanavir, master-scryer, be our guide, through shapeless worlds and airless skies." "

I think Solas, Dirthamen, Falon'Din, and most likely Sylaise there were Dreamer.

Solas says that Falon'Din drenched the land in the blood of his servants because he wanted greater worship. And his hunger and desire for more united the evanuris, and they attacked Falon'Din. Even Elgarnan hated Falon'Din. Cole says of the nightmare demon that he was once compassion and wanted to help, and took away fears, but then he was not enough, he wanted more and changed. He became a nightmare. Isn't this what happened to Falon'Din? Wasn't he compassion before he took a body? Dirthamen and Falon'Din were kindred spirits before they took bodies (that's why the Dalish remember them as twins). Apparently, the spirit split into two halves. Or they were born as a pair, splitting from a greater spirit. Why shouldn't knowledge and compassion exist, as kindred spirits ? Knowledge without compassion is dangerous. As is justice without wisdom.

I think Falon'Din got bogged down in blood magic and stopped being a dreamer. Blood magic interferes with the connection with the shadow. And a blood mage doesn't have lucid dreams.

I think blood magic wasn't popular among both the ancient elves and the Dalish. I also think Andruil practiced blood magic.

Week @evanurisweek will become my month evanuris.