#krotumir

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A collaboration with @ego-osbourne for @metallic-scaled-scarf! Ego did the lineart and I did the coloring! For those who don’t know, this is Nonvul and his dragon, Krotumir.

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You know what time it is.. Dragon Priest! Chrysanthe AU time.

Context is linked as always, but by now if you're here you probably know what's up.

Links: Here, Here, Here, Here.

AU based off of @99corentine 's GOL HAH DOV on ao3.

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This time we have an assload of Dovahzul + another Krotumir sketch.

With some close-ups of course..

A few notes before your lore:

This page, if you'll take notice of the dates, was drawn far before my most recent posts. (i say far but they're all within days of one another) Why? Because I never got around to posting it and ideas were coming too fast to take a break.

This was the first concept art for Krotumir, and this page was supposed to be dedicated to him. It technically is, but more to his speech and a word wall than anything else.

I'm aware the word wall doesn't have an on-page translation, you'll get one.

Lore under the cut, I feel like being nice to the poor sods who find my posts on their dashboard.

Let's do this one piece at a time, shall we?

The Word Wall.

Shown above, this word wall didn't exist until after the Dragon War. No great feat had even been accomplished in Sedinbildrun deserving of a wall, no great hero had made his legacy. While a large and beautiful city, Sedinbildrun wasn't well-known to those who lived outside of that area.

The word wall says:

“Daar vahrukiv fin fahliil Sonaak wo krif erei dinok wah spaan fin Bron do Sedinbildrun wah vul lo.”

Which translates to:

“This commemorates the Elf Priest who fought until death to shield the Nord[s][Atmorans] of Sedinbildrun from hopeless deception.”

*quick note before you notice the discrepancy: yes I made a mistake with translating. I get vocabulary words wrong sometimes, happens to everyone. The 'gran' shown in the picture above was supposed to be 'krif' as shown in the translation above. I apologize for this mistake.

Nonvul and Krotumir were praised even after their death for how they gave everything to fight and protect the city from invaders. Because of their sacrifice, Nonvul's in particular, the people of Sedinbildrun crafted a beautiful word wall with carvings telling the story. Statues were erected, one of Nonvul and another of Krotumir, then mounted on(Krotumir) or near(Nonvul) the wall.

The Phrases.

From his curiosity about mortals to his borderline-delicacy with his priests, Krotumir was far from the ruthlessness generally expected of the Dov. His interest in mortals and mortality in particular was confounding to the other Dovahhe, but being a Serpentine dragon he was used to their judgement. When observing or speaking to his priests or acolytes, Krotumir curled around them as if they were his treasures.

Perhaps they were.

If Nonvul were to make mistakes– large like misplacing a sacrifice or small like misspeaking during a sermon– Krotumir would look into why the mistake is made, seeking to stop it from happening again rather than attempting to beat it out of his Sonaakke.

The phrases above in the concept art portray some draconic ways of comfort that Krotumir provided.

The first is..

“Fen ni krosis do dii Sonaak.”

which translates to..

“[I] will not [make] sorrow of my Priest.”

And the second is..

“Fen neh beyn Sonaaki fah joorahiil.”

which translates to..

“[I] will never fault [my] Priest for [his] mortality.”

Final Notes.

Keep in mind that spoken Dovahzul cuts out pronouns and 'unnecessary words.'

Also, I spliced 'joorahiil' together because there's no word for mortality.