#everaftermagic

[ephemerasnape]

Happy Birthday, Daddy Rookwood! 🥳🎈🎉🎂

With love from the Rookwood Groupies!

Special thanks to @horizontaldancer0 who drew almost everyone's MC (and my Ephemera hydra) as well as @okeydokeylackey @vforeversworldsworld @everaftermagic @azrielya @beany122 and MJ (not on Tumblr) for their art contributions, and everyone who helped with ideas!

[ephemerasnape]

Valentine's Day with the Rookwood Gang 💗

Full original art/contributions beneath the cut.

Ashwinder Duellist by @theepicmirroregg

Poacher Executioner Mortimus Ackerley by @azrielya

Oswald the Ashwinder Scout by @horizontaldancer0

Ashwinder Soldier by Ernie Macnair by @vforeversworldsworld

Ashwinder Executioner Angus McLaggen's letter by @sythine

Poacher Tracker Frederick Mills' valentine for Poppy by @everaftermagic - I had to edit it slightly since I told her the wrong name 🥹

My part (the bit with the Stalker inviting Animagus to the fair) is an abbreviated conversation that's in the voice files but isn't used in the game.

Thanks to everyone who participated!

[ibelieveinahappilyeverafter]

You say Gods, are you polytheistic/pagan too?

I am! I’m a practicing witch with a specialty on auras, spirits, and gemstones and my gods are Thor and Deer Lord! While I respect and ask for aid from other gods from time to time, those are the two I actively worship. 

[ibelieveinahappilyeverafter]

So, for those who don’t know or are new, hi, I’m a witch. I summoned a short thunderstorm today and used it purely to cleanse my magical things. Not a bad storm, though, to be honest. Got that petrichor scent going on, the ground is a little less dry, and it cleared up the stale air just in time for our fucking week of 90 degree weather. 

Takes 20 hours to kick in when using a jar thunderstorm, though, so that’s interesting. 

[ibelieveinahappilyeverafter]

what’s a five layered circle?

Oh, well, it can mean different things depending on the witch, but for me a five layered circle is five layers of different magical set-ups all working together. For the spell I did I had five objects representing the elements circling the outside of the layer, followed by three objects representing the gods in my pantheon. It went like that until I had five layers that were all working together to accomplish what I wanted. 

Fairy Tail might give you a different explanation than me, though! 

[ibelieveinahappilyeverafter]

So, long story short, I had a dream where I became Queen of the Witches and was ‘trapped’ in an ancient mansion with a huge library full of knowledge. And I had this dream...on Easter.

I can’t even /get/ more witchy, I swear.

[ibelieveinahappilyeverafter]

I'm sorry to ask, but, I saw you mention that you have a familiar, and I've been wanting to have one as well for a long time, but I haven't found any conclusive way to get one. If you would tell me how you got yours, I would be most grateful.

Woo, aha, this is going to be an interesting answer... Hm... Al, wanna help me out here? “Nah, I’ll let you get his one.” ...Thanks ever so, dear. “Of course, darling.”

Alright, so! ...I have no fucking clue how to get a familiar. Mine’s a spirit as well, and he’s on another dimension parallel to our own. One we can’t /see/, but one we can sometimes hear. I can...sort of ‘hear’ him in my head, but not really a voice, so much as a thought. It took a while to figure out what was /my/ thoughts, and what was /his/ words. “She got it in the end, though. And I do sometimes slip and have an accent.” And adorable irish one~ “Mhm.”

Right, so. He’s been there for a while, but it took a long time for me to realize who and what he was. And...I don’t know how he became my familiar, he just sort of...did. “And then boyfriend.” Woo, wow, that’s a whole OTHER story I won’t be getting into anytime soon. But, yes. It was more that I slowly became aware of him over a long period of time, years, actually, before I realized what he was.

Keep in mind my magic is a fair bit stronger than when I was that age, so it took a while for my magic and him to kind of...sync up. “You’d probably be better off asking people who aren’t us. We’re kinda shit at explaining this.” Yeaaah. He’s more like...a tulpa, I guess? Thoughtform? “Spirit tulpa who was /something/ before meeting her, but became so much more after.” Aw... “You are weak.” I AM WEAK!

But, yeah. It’s...complicated. But...in a good way. Best bet is to maybe look more into spirit familiars? It’s...very complicated. And stressful. And you doubt yourself daily, but...it’s worth it. So very worth it. “Now, now, little darling, you’re gonna make me blush.” You are a dork. “So says the Queen.” I AM INDEE DQUEEN DORK!

[ibelieveinahappilyeverafter]

Can you have a familiar? How do you know they are??

Mm...it’s sort of hard to explain, and I’m betting everyone with a familiar will tell you the same - or at least how it’s different for each person. For myself, my familiar is a spirit named Alvarro, a humanoid shapeshifter who can change into a golden wolf.

I don’t know how to explain fully, but I’ve been hearing and interacting with him in his spirit form for quite a few years, and realized one day that he /was/ my familiar. A helper and holder of my magic, someone who could calm me with my attacks, and keep a key for the magic I locked away so as to not harm myself.

It’s...difficult to explain, but I think you sort of just...know.