#nahadoth

[chaos-of-the-abyss]

i might elaborate on this someday but i think the only relationship in fiction i've seen that reaches griffguts' level of emotional intensity in guts hating longing for resenting feeling betrayed and abandoned by griffith while at the same time loving him dearly and helplessly and eternally is itempas/nahadoth from the inheritance trilogy with nahadoth's feelings toward itempas. itempas/nahadoth also has the same type of cataclysmic world-altering consequences that griffguts has! however i will also say itempas is significantly crazier about nahadoth than griffith is about guts. which is impressive

[jameelaillustration]

I'm really rusty on realism but I've been reading NK Jemisin’s Inheritance Trilogy and I just HAD to paint Bright Itempas (the way I think Oree might)

Although he is the god of balance and symmetry,  he wears a three-eyed sun and three golden hoops in his ears to honor his two other halves

[thesebooksaremytherapy]

Y’all if you’re here for pining and longing and heartbreak you cannot get better than NK Jemison’s Inheritance Trilogy.

My god the way Nahadoth and Itempas feel about each other is insane. And about Enefa.

“Nahadoth,” he says, smiling and extending his hands…I shiver. The thing his tongue does to those syllables. He has come to seduce the god of seduction and oh has he come prepared.

“Nahadoth looks utterly demented. But then so does Itempas as he stares down Nahadoth’s rage. There is open lust in his eyes. Unmistakeable beneath the warriors tension. But of course, how many eons did they spend battling? Raw violence giving way to stranger longings? Or perhaps Itempas has simply been so long without Nahadoth’s love that he will take anything, even hate, in its place.”

“I will hate you no less, Tempa,” he breathes, “when you and I are the last living things in this universe”

I went to Naha and took his hand. Itempas watched us like a man dying of thirst within sight of a waterfall.

[katsitsiyo]

I’m still very much in a reading slump, but I’m slowly making my way through The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by NK Jemisin.

I just love the charas and the world aaand so I made Yeine and Nahadoth in this Picrew. 🥰🥰

[lonely-shine]

Recognition (gift)

[Note: click for better quality, I put a lot of detail in this one]

Happy birthday to my sis!! ❤️ Made it in time for once in my life xD

People who've been following me for long enough will know it's tradition that every year I draw something for my sis' birthday. This year, and after much thinking, I went for fanart of a book we both love: The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, by @nkjemisin

Man, this scene gives me so many feelings, I hope I did it justice. Also, for people who have not read the book 1) go read it, and 2) don't worry, this is not as major a spoiler as it seems, it happens at the beginning of the book.

Anyway, onto the drawing! My gosh, did it make me struggle or what? Naha's shadowy hair/cloak was a challenge, so was trying to capture the quality of Sky's walls. I really had fun tho, and I'm actually pretty happy with Yeine's clothes (I don't know how accurate they are to the book's description, but I did my best) ^^

[albumarchives]

Various Artists | The Reliquary of Terror Vol. 2 (2021)

[starling-illu]

Mother's Bane

[featherwurm]

My husband got me into the Inheritance Trilogy by NK Jemisin last year and I really loved it. I'm (you might figure) a visual person so here's my best shot at Nahadoth (who's ever-shifting features I did my best with), Itempas (post second book), and Yeine (who I actually tend to think of with even shorter hair... let's just assume she's due for a trim here... or something). I've seen very very little fan art of them.