#bitter snow

[zegalba]

Shana and Robert ParkeHarrison: Bitter Snow (2014)

[bestworstcase]

Will Cassandra ever stop using the Morganstern name? Why keep using it after she leaves Corona at all?

she does this

traditionally in saporia full names can be very long bc it's given name + paternal name + maternal name + ternary name(s), and it's not out of the question for someone very devout to be involved enough in all three cults of the ternary to have three ternary names.

(& if you have more than two parents for whatever reason it's not uncommon to have more than two parental names)

(cassandra's rièndoish is a ternary name—that's "boar-heart" in saporian. ternary names from the temple are nine theophoric names only malachian witches are allowed to take, and from the barrow it's things like nicknaming someone bone. sitheach is a ternary name that they use in place of their given name, which they've repudiated, and means "ligament")

and the Way you introduce yourself is not full name (necessarily) but the name you want to be called + the name that best expresses your social position in relation to whomever you're meeting, so cassandra will be cassandra hárohȧm to most saporians but cassandra rièndoish to acolytes of the thorn syconium and might be cassandra ghealȧch in ȧrtois because her mother's family is there. but she is also cassandra morgenstern with a select few people like feldspar bc that's how she knows him and she holds on to morgenstern generally specifically to have a way to express that she still feels the loss of not having grown up saporian. to coronans she's on friendly terms with she's cassandra haroham (<- varian is the only one who can pronounce it perfectly) and to coronans she doesn't like she introduces herself the Coronan Way, which is full name, and watches them squirm. lady cassandra morgenstern hárohȧm ghealȧch rièndoish, coronans tremble before her because she'll give you the evil eye if you say it wrong

[morganali-art]

I decided to sit down and sketch out all my WoLs (not including like, six other joke characters that I have) and I have come to the conclusion that someone should take the character creator away from me.

I got too many lil guys 😵‍

From left to right...

J'rhota Tia is just a silly orange lad - PGL/ROG main, a scrappy little fight boy. Means well, but very head empty. Constantly getting locked out of the Waking Sands, but unfortunately is the only one who can take down Ifrit without getting tempered.

Amelot Greywoode Lost an eye on one of her adventures - couldn't afford a glass eye to match her good eye at the time, so the one she wears under her eyepatch is slightly off colour. (Highlander, GLD)

Parasha Pasha - Tiniest gorl. Min height lala. My god, she's so small. 🥺💕 Ostensibly mains WAR/DRG, but really is a FSH main.

Sami'ra (Sameth/Bunny) Lavellan - ARC/ROG main, previously a Dragon Age Inquisitor. Yearns to keep the stories of his people as a historian, but in the harsh economic times post-calamity, adventuring better pays the bills and provides for his large extended family. Per his name, he is the youngest son in a Keeper family with an oddly large number of sons. Truth be told, not all are family by blood, though are loved just as well. Sam has quite the crush on a certain Lord Commander.

Cessalie Sombreterre was an orphan of Ishgardian birth, and made her way to Ul'dah at a young age to try and make her way in the world, eventually taking up adventuring. Ostensibly a BLM main, though dabbles in roguery and swordplay. Min height elezen. Amongst her people, she's so leetle 🥺💕 Marries into the Fortemps house.

Hazel Rah is my main lad, first boy I ever made. He was born in the Golmore Jungle. Though he misses his childhood home dearly, he was forever restless, and eventually left - spending some time in Dalamasca and other occupied territories, before travelling to Eorzea in the wake of the calamity. Young for a travelling viera, he's about 70ish years old. Before he came to Eorzea, his forest name was Rjel Fith. He loves to garden.

Clover Frith is Hazel's much older sister - she's around 200, though she's not one to keep count. She left the forest when Hazel was quite young, in his 20s or thereabouts. When they met up again decades later, she was taking work as a gleaner in Sharlayan. Though her forest name is long left behind, her last name was Fith.

Blackavar Rehw-Dvre was Hazel's childhood sweetheart. In my headcanons, he does not leave the forest at all until well after the calamity - the general upheaval and unrest making its way even unto the forest, prompting the Rava people to make the choice to send scouts far from home to investigate. As such, though he is confident in the ways of his home, he is very out of place in the wider world and is often mystified by the ways of outsiders. As far as appearances go, Blackavar actually has quite curly hair - so I imagine his hair is more like the catboy hair both J'rhota and Sam have. Alas, there's no perfect bun options 😞

Holly Huorlwesfv is a veena bunny who I created as a retainer and went "aw fuck, I did it again," and had to turn him into a real boy because I liked him so much. He doesn't yet have a lot of a backstory yet, but I named him after Captain Holly from Watership Downs, and so in my mind he looks quite a bit scrappier than he is. Ears are scratched up and tattered. A few more scars. He's a stoic bun, a former guard most like. Definitely a fighter. PLD main iirc.

Bitter Snow is my beautiful, purple, goth Roe. I did not mean to give her the same name as Yellow Moon's paramour, it happened completely accidentally. 👀💦 She's so pretty, I ought to play her more. Pretty sure she's a DRG main, I cannot recall.

[godaweful]

“prayer” by murphy taylor smith // @shaysorthel on tumblr // @thewarmvoid on twitter // caduceus clay on critical role // bitter snow by @bestworstcase // tumblr // “wildflower” by murphy taylor smith // tumblr // WHO PUT BELLA IN THE WYCH ELM? by emerson mae smith

[spooky-activity]

Thinking about @bestworstcase ‘s Moira Caine… the world’s biggest moronosexual

[pancat-n-sausage]

boar-heart (or someone i have always been)

[rendellstreet]

A political and geographical map of Corona and Saporia inspired by @bestworstcase’s Bitter Snow series!

Note the elevation and distance are not to scale, while additional geographical and political features not present in the series itself, just one would assume to appear in a possible in-universe map. 

[gemsofthegalaxy]

Im reading the Bitter Snow series and Cassandra is writing back and forth with a duchess she suspects is going to steal a journal from the palace and i assume shes correct but...

its extremely funny to picture the duchess is 100% genuine, she is so pleased she made a friend from Corona who shares her love of history and offers an interesting perspective, while Cass is like "i cant wait to get you in trouble with our king"