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[ntn-arts]

A study of a disgruntled nerd.

[writingmoth]

tortillon, a sunday afternoon, and cricut for the ask game 〜↗

for rowan:

tortillon: does your OC "blend in" with the people around them? Physically? Metaphorically?

no </3 rowan is very much an outcast in his village. kind of, i guess. people talk to him and they depend on him somewhat, but he is just Not Welcome since they believe he brings bad luck. physically, the only thing that separates him from everyone else are the marks the god of the forest's magic left on him when they saved his life, that is, discolored hair and eyes, and "crack" lines around his nose/cheek, etc. metaphorically... he is the first forest's invasion, basically. the first forest claimed him, never got him, but technically he still belongs to it.

fantasy romance wip:

A Sunday Afternoon…: pick one "little moment" from this fic. How representative is it of the fic's tone and story as a whole?

this is actually one of my favorite scenes bc it is a little moment but it translates (imo) well what fantasy romance wip's setup is:

No one sees him. He avoids the street, making his way through the sleeping wooden houses until he reaches the woods. The smell of rain and winter is stronger here, the bony black trees rising around him like a mural of  spiderwebs, the ground humid but hard, almost frozen over. The first forest inside his chest rattles against his ribcage in faint awareness - these woods belonged to them, a long time ago, and the roots under his feet remember their old masters. Their longing swells on the tip of his tongue, mixing with the first forest’s eternal, desperate hunger. He shivers.  The altar waits for him atop a small pile of stones, positioned almost carelessly by the trail as if forgotten by someone on their way to the village. It’s a small thing, a square of wood above rocks, the symbol of the god of the forest - curled antlers sprouting from a half mask, eyes nothing more than two holes roughly carved out with a knife - resting precariously above it. A few offerings are already placed at the altar’s base; Rowan recognizes Moira’s small cakes and Lorna’s flower crown, still looking fresh, and other, older offerings, untouched by anything other than time. The god never accepts them - they never did, not even before they saved Rowan’s life only to disappear never to be seen again - but that never stopped the villagers from offering a bit of what they had every week. For protection, and comfort. Reassurance. “I brought you this,” Rowan whispers to the altar, placing a chunk of bread and cheese beside Moira’s cakes. His breakfast. He takes a deep breath. “Something is not right. I can feel it. I…” He pauses, mouth going dry, heart beating inexplicably fast. The stillness settles over him, anxious, waiting.  Hungry. “Keep it away from the village,” he asks finally. “Keep Ada safe, if you are still out there.” Rowan rolls his shoulders, swallowing past the mess of thorns in his throat, and waits. The woods’ eerie quiet is a hollow answer that sinks deep into his bones, a feast for the first forest hungering inside his chest.   There is no response.

aka the god of the forest is gone, ppl still believe in them, rowan very much wants them to show up and fix whatever the hell is going on, but gets no response. loifa (said god of the forest) quite literally plugged the phone off the wall, they are Not Here For it. they get pulled into it anyway.

Cricut: are there any characters you've had to "cut" from a story? Are there any moments/chapters/stories you've had to "cut" entirely?

for fantasy romance wip? nope. fantasy romance wip came into existence from the idea of "i will do what >>i<< want just the way >>i<< want and i don't care if anyone reads it, ever" so i'm not cutting anything from this story lol so far at least. i havent had a reason to, to be honest. i'm being very self indulgent. it does create some problems. i don't think the book will be very marketable (it's in the idea, i know). i call it fantasy romance wip and by the name it should be a queer romantasy but it is so old that it predates the popularity of "romantasy" as genre (or my knowledge of it, at least) and does not fit within its conventions that well. i dont know if i will even try to self publish it. time will tell!

so nope, nothing i like is getting cut from this story if i can help it

thank you so much for the ask!!

[skyderman]

how does magical pathfinding work?

hmmm i’m going to assume you mean like, sensing the right way to go etc.

Bright Magic: since this is such an abstract concept, Bright Mages would really struggle to do that. Bright Magic is very direct and precise. you might be able to create a like beam of that connecting you and your destination, but anything beyond that isn’t really possible

Shadow Magic: now this is where Shadow magic really shines. pathfinding would work very similarly to divination, in that Shadow Mages would just be able to intuit where to go. Shadow magic also functions primarily on belief, so a very subtle way that a Shadow Mage could accomplish this would be to just believe that they wouldn’t get lost, and maybe imbue an object with that belief, and it would work. a less passive way to do this would be to create an enchanted object to act as a guide, or recruit a spirit to guide you.

Witch Magic: this is an area that Witch magic would also struggle with, because Witch Magic very immediate. i think a Witch would be able to commune with nature to tell them if they were going the right way, but they’re only as knowledgeable as the area around them. that being said, they can sense the land within their majrils (from magic circles) very well since they are attuned to it! they could also use their familiars for reconnaissance hehe

ask me about my magic systems!

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