Iris, my Azem and the creator of the Elpis flower, an ancient form of pictomancy, and able to manipulate her own dynamis. She might be a horrid liar but she makes up for it with her sincerity in all she does.
"So Notus, are you prepared to be introduced to the convocation as my successor?"
"Oh yes, I just can't wait to see the look on the face of the most honorable Emet-Selch when he sees me"
"Try not to give him too much trouble ... even though I know you will."
"You know me too well, Venat. I'm more worried about their reaction to your announcement."
Anthea, Creationist of Elpis // Constantinos, Assistant to Emet-Selch
Deimos, Word of Lahabrea // Iris, Creation Follow Up
lore below the cut
Hi Hello and welcome! Have a little lore and details to my four ancients and where they started!
Anthea
They grew up on Elpis and followed, mostly, in their parent's footsteps in creating and researching concepts, where they differed was picking flora over fauna. Anthea had many a great idea and wanted to so desperately make something perfect worthy of the star but never could get their creations exactly how they wanted them and even when they could it could never be replicated in the exact same manner. It was an attempt to create a flower with rainbow edges that a stray thought gave birth to what would be dubbed the Elpis flower, the most life changing flora they had created.
Constantinos aka Conner
With a passion in the application of plants to the body in various forms, it was a surprise he wasn't sent to be a Word of Halmarut. Instead he found his post to becoming the assistant to the newest appointed Emet-Selch, though metaphorical guard dog was a more apt description at times. While not ideal Conner embraced the role and found his skills and detail orientated brain worked well with the seemingly random data brought up from the Aetherial Sea. It was through this job that he would meet all manner of people of the utmost importance to their society....and he never finds out that he was placed there as an attempted prank by Emet-Selch's brother Azem.
Deimos
Born and raised in Amaurot not far from his cousin Hades, Deimos was always a bit of an odd one. Always over excitable, had to be moving, and always had a million questions for his older cousin Hades. The two were raised closely to a point it was just easier to call one another brother, especially when Deimos' natural talent in magic and intelligence led to him skipping enough grades to soon share a classroom with Hades wherein soon the boys were always associated with one another. Once they were out in the world as adults, Deimos set to work on setting himself apart from his brother, finding a passion in the creation and process of doing so among the Words of Lahabrea. Still eccentric as ever Deimos would run the other Words that mentored him, when Lahabrea could not, ragged. It was after his latest suggestions on adding "cuteness and more fighting features" to someone's little fluffy transformation familiar that the Words pushed him onto the current Azem that was looking for assistance on their adventure. His out of the box thinking and fearlessness impressed Azem and had her taking him under her wing to become the next Azem.
Iris
She was always the honor student it was no surprise that she would end up in a class with a young Hades who was relieved to have a class without his brother or his best friend Hythlodaeus. As assigned partners though these two both had their own opinions on how things should be done and couldn't get along to start....that is until she defended his harshness of another student with a subtle harshness of her own that the two found they had much in common. Getting closer in the classes to follow where Hades was without his other two companions, they started a bit of a relationship that came to an end with the end of required schooling. Iris had a thirst for adventure and had always set her sights on following up on the creations released into the world, that Hades never wanted to stifle and she didn't want to stifle him and his plans that he had for his life. Staying in touch the best they could over the years it would take an AU for them to end up together.
Please allow me to introduce two Ancients of wealth and taste:
The first image is Lycoris Anados, Head of Concept Validation at the Bureau of the Architect and a close friend (occasionally more) of Azem's. She is direct, no-nonsense, and dependable--much like a certain sorcerer of Eld I could mention. What can I say? Talia has a type.
The second is Ajax Telamonian, a man who, by the time of the Sundering, holds the distinction of being one of the longest-tenure Words of Azem alongside his friend Solis. He is kindhearted, shy, and loyal to a fault--which ultimately proves to be his downfall.
The FFXIV Swap Discord proudly presents Ancient May, or, more colloquially, #Mayncient! On the discord, many of our members have ancients that are not Azem, and I know that goes for here on Tumblr as well. So we wanted to make an ancient OC based month that would not feel limited to only Azems. Azems are of course welcome, but not required, as are any OCs that hold other seats, or are even just normal people trying to get by in the pre-Sundering world. We want to see all your Ancients!
Mayncient is open to all types of art, be it gpose, drawing, writing, anything you can do is welcome for Mayncient! And we're posting nice and early so everyone can have a chance to participate, even if you need to prep before May.
We hope you have fun, and we're excited to see all your beautiful and unique Ancients!
Edit: Please don't think that you can't participate because your only ancient is Azem, Azem is still welcome! We just wanted to be inclusive of all Ancient OCs, not only Azem. :3 So bring your Azems! All Ancients are welcome, including Azem.
