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I don’t think we talk about Akali’s traumatic upbringing enough. It’s laid out plainly in Runeterra, given passing mentions in Star Guardian, and likely occurred similarly in K/DA-verse. Her mother really did not love her, and that’ll affect someone in different ways forever.

I understand why people like to headcanon a happier family of hers with Shen and/or Kennen or even Kayn, but I’ve seen maybe one fanart of Mayym ever, and that’s like such an interesting dynamic to explore, I wish it was talked about it more for the alternate universes.

Star Guardian Akali will always be famous to me and I’ll never forgive those who hated her for… not wanting to die and to be with her best friend who is growing distant because of this newfound doomed destiny?? When that best friend has been the one person she has been able to rely on???

The passing mentions to her less-than-ideal home life haunt me to this day:

“‘She barely lets me in the house!’”

“…her mother’s admonishments of ‘useless’ and ‘delinquent’ failed to hit their mark for once…”

“When things at home had gotten really bad...”

“‘We didn’t do this, kid!’ ‘Akali,’ she corrected out of pure habit.”

[from Twin Stars, the prologue story to SG22, which is NOT mobile friendly anymore, if it ever was, luckily the wiki has it too]

Like hello!!! Mayym Jhomen Tethi you are not seeing heaven!

And then I’m sure no one thought that deeply of it, but K/DA Akali being “born into a martial arts dojo,” and then leaving to rap on the street cannot have earned her any approval from her mother. I definitely believe that Mayym detests her career even when she finds massive success.

I think she does a good job of masking the pain from her past, but she clearly always wants to be the best, always wants to prove her worth with her talents.

“More than I like to admit, I do get pretty angry sometimes,” from the Genius interview. Hmm I wonder who caused that to develop?

In conclusion, I think her difficult childhood is an extremely underutilized aspect of Akali’s character that absolutely shapes her personality as she grows older, and more of us (including canon writers) should consider that more often.

#Akali you are more to me than the silly one!!! I will save you from fanon’s reduction of your character!!!!#akali #league of legends #kda #star guardian #star guardian akali #mayym jhomen tethi #like there’s so much potential for good stories to be told with Mayym idk why no one does it #even in canon like okay Akali left - what is Mayym up to now? does she care?#what would happen if they ran into each other again?#lore reference #tanner talks #in which I continue to be the number one star guardian 2022 defender #sorry you could never make me hate it even though my ship got absolute crumbs lmao

What's a favorite lore piece you've read for the sake of writing fics?

V150NLK747CLS000 GLOAMING RESURRECTION AI-COM/RSPN: ASSETS//FORCECON//IMPERATIVE IMMEDIATE ACTION ORDER YUGA SUNDOWN canceled by unauthorize

Oh goodie you gave me a good one here because I love to screech about this one whenever given the chance because I don't think a lot of people have ever noticed this.

This Grimoire card is from the Rise of Iron expansion in D1 and is one of Rasputin's Logs. It's what appears* to be his knee-jerk reaction to the Iron Lords' break in to Site 6 where SIVA is kept.

I reference this lore directly in my Isochronism fics, but it's also one of my absolute favorites regarding Rasputin, Felwinter, and SIVA because of some of the fascinating little details that, so many years further down the road into the story, we can pick out of it. I'll unpack it for us, but TLDR Rasputin is a fucking LIAR.

Rasputin likes to keep his records in some pretty purple prose code so I'll start by decoding most of the terms he uses here, and then I'll back up and loosely translate it for us all.

YUGA SUNDOWN- cancels all protocols for protecting humanity/activates MIDNIGHT EXIGENT

MIDNIGHT EXIGENT - long term counterattack protocol and moral structure change. Essentially allows Rasputin to ignore morals for the 'greater good'

[O] Means the Traveler /ie [O] Energy = Lightbearers

SKYSHOCK - usually there's other qualifiers attached to this but it indicates hostiles of an unprecedented scale

AURORA RETROFLEX - A defense subroutine - presumed to be for when Rasputin is directly threatened

SUBTLE ASSETS IMPERATIVE - Meaning this is in secret/does not escape Rasputin's records

SCRY OVERSIGHT - is an observation protocol but here is used in conjunction with SILENT VELES which means effectively "no oversight"

I'm going to start by pointing out that that very first line indicates SOMEONE gained unauthorized access into a terminal and managed to cancel at least one of Rasputin's protocols (YUGA SUNDOWN). Ballsy AF and imo pretty uncanny that they were even remotely successful. Rasputin immediately reverses this, but I can only assume the only person who would know to do this in the first place, let alone have the capabilities, would be Felwinter, especially among the Iron Lords, who appear to file in next in the very next line.

Rasputin records the arrival of the Iron Lords as a mighty surprise, and responds to them, in this record, as such, and as a threat.

This is incongruous with his admission later to Ana and the Guardian that he deliberately lured Felwinter (and his people) there deliberately. In this record, Rasputin has gone, "oh holy shit what the hell is that turn off all my moral structures I don't know what the hell those things are fire everything purge it all kill it kill it kill it!"

*And also I'm going to turn off my body camera (see SCRY OVERSIGHT + SILENT VELES) and don't ask permission or tell anyone ever (SUBTLE ASSETS IMPERATIVE)

Even though he made sure they found this vault.

This is all 1000% deliberate, premeditated, and a forged record my friends.

Edit: *semi- forged, or perhaps more accurately greatly bending the truth. Sylenth makes some damn good points in the comments that I kind of glossed over on my analysis and kind of took for granted but she’s right and it should be pointed out.

(also, worth noting, that REPLICATE.ELIMINATE.IMMUNIZE imperative sent to SIVA that is recorded here is different than what is recorded elsewhere also)

#ask #destiny 2 #destiny #destiny lore #Warmind Rasputin #Destiny SIVA #rise of iron #Felwinter #iron lords #makowrites #my FanFiction #lore reference #lorewhore

Bestiary of Thedas

From bird to insect, fish to land animal. Every creature mentioned in Dragon Age, blighted and non-blighted, spirits and demon, created and possessed creatures alike are listed along with their breeds, subspecies, or variations.

If you want a more specific list, check out the post for Real World Animals in Thedas

Updated: 2023/11

Dragon Age Origins + DLCs Dragon Age Awakening Dragon Age 2 + DLC Dragon Age Inquisition + DLC Dragon Age Inquisition Multiplayer Dragon Age: Last Court Dragon Age: Official Cookbook: Tastes of Thedas Dragon Age Tabletop Core Rulebook Dragon Age Tabletop Blood of Ferelden World of Thedas Vol 1 World of Thedas Vol 2 Dragon Age: Asunder Dragon Age: Masked Empire Dragon Age: Last Flight Dragon Age: Tevinter Nights Short Story: The Riddle of Truth Short Story: Varric Dragon Age Origins Armor: Clamshell Armor Armor: Dalish Gloves Codex: The Bow of the Golden Sun Codex: Bronto Codex: Deepstalker Codex: The Frostback Mountains Codex: Meditations and Odes to Bees Codex: Nug Codex: Rat Codex: The Vaterral Item: Fox's Pendant Item: Golden Mirror Item: Lamb Bone Item: Micah/s Lucky Deer Foot Item: Ox Bone Item: Rat Poison Item: Uncrushable Pigeon Weapon: Cat Lady's Hobble-Stick Dragon Age 2 Armor: Rat-Nibbled Gloves Codex: Broken Dowsing Rods - No Refunds Codex: Carta Bronto Codex: Pride and Rider Junk: Stuffed Parrot Quest: Redblossom Special Weapon: The Tiger's Tail Last Court The Acerbic Dowager The Applewoods The Arrival of the Divine The Boastful Neighbor The Cheery Baron Choose your quarry The Dowager Steps Forward Enlightenment Glass Glassblowers' Anger Graffiti A Life of Toil A Meeting with the Outlaw A Plea for Sanctuary River Herring The Sealed Chantry A Swift Stream Sylvian Raid An Unofficial Meeting The Well-Read Pig-Farmer You have cornered the bear You have the hind in view Dragon Age Inquisition Items and Codex Codex: August Ram Codex: Andruil's Messenger Codex: Bear (Inquisition) Codex: Constellation Tenebrium Codex: Correspondence Interruptus Codex: Crate of the Live Death Watch Beetles Codex: Cretahl Codex: Dirthamen: Keeper of Secrets Codex: The Folly of General Not-Shertan Codex: Ghilan'nain: Mother of the Halla Codex: Hard in Hightown Chapter 15 Codex: A Horsemaster's Notes on Mounts Codex: The Hunt of the Fell Wolf Codex: Journal of Gurd Harofsen Codex: The Lion of Orlais Codex: Moldy Journal Codex: A Nutty Affair Codex: On Avvar Cuisine Codex: The Perendale War Codex: Ram Codex: Scout Lace Harding Codex: Surviving the Western Approach Landmark: Crestwood: The Guide of Falon'Din Note: Charred Note Note: Sera's Cabinet of Wonder Whose it Was Valuable: Carved Cricket Charm Valuable: Cut Crystal Lion Valuable: Eagle Feather Charm Valuable: Falcon Crest Valuable: Glass Fox Valuable: Golden Ladybug Charm Valuable: Grouse Feather Charm Valuable: Raven Totem Valuable: Silver Dragonfly Charm Valuable: Vulture Feather Charm Valuable: Wooden Mabari Figurine Wartable Mission: A Present for Bianca Wartable Mission: Smash

#dragon age #fauns of thedas #da ttrpg #lore reference #writing reference #da writing reference #da worldbuilding #dragon age reference #fauna fridays #long post #creature: birds #creature: insect #creature: spider #creature: fish #creature: horse #creature: dragon #creature: hart #creature: nug

today’s lore musings in my continued hobby of drawing comparisons between real world history and that of Runeterra:

#I love learning things about the real world because I care a decent deal about league of legends lore #now the real question is which champion deserves a gun the most? discuss #league of legends #lore reference #tanner talks #noxus

Scientifically Justifying Why Kai'Sa's Eyes are Purple, and Why I Think Her Blood is Too

preface: I wrote this starting in reference to K/DA-verse Kai'Sa, but these justifications also work for her base Runeterra form. I'm also not a scientist or anything of the sort.

I started with trying to determine if purple blood was possible, and then went down the rabbit hole ->

#another episode of tanner thinks way too much about league of legends and has too much time on their hands #league of legends #kai'sa #the void #lore reference #tanner talks #i really hope this was worth reading i'd love to know what other people have to say about it! hopefully nothing is straight up wrong #i know so much about how eyes work now lmaooo the things i do for my favorite character

Dragon Age Tabletop

So, I reached out to the publisher of the Dragon Age Tabletop RPG (ttrpg), Green Ronin, last month. I asked for some clarification in the canon status of some aspects in the ttrpg for my lore projects. If there was anything specifically crafted for the ttrpg and if any part was BioWare canon. I wanted to know for my own lore projects since I wanted a more definitive answer than what I found on that was vague and ambiguous.

Luckily I received a response. Though still a bit vague (and delightfully acknowledging BioWare’s own allergy to continuity), it is pretty straight forward.

The email is going under the cut because this got long. But tldr:

BioWare provides the lore, approves the stories, and the canon state of any information provided by BioWare is dependent on BioWare themselves.

So in essence, the tabletop is a valid lore source except when new lore contradicts/phases out a bit of the lore.