#neddas

[purplecladmerchant]

Neddas, god of wisdom and starlight.

@boxonthenile has only correct opinions. And they told me about Neddas freckles moving and reflecting the stars.

[boxonthenile]

Sometimes you gotta write some really weird crossovers, like Trinyvale X BG3

Neddas has no idea how long they have been chained when they hear the prayer. A desperate, stuttering, begging prayer, preceded with a string of names Neddas does not know and ending with please, anyone, help me. Neddas grabs it with a similar desperation, the line of faith gossamer-thin, and holds. The petitioner is terrified and hopeless, sobbing for mercy, and Coin’s demiplane prison holds them so distant that Neddas cannot reach them.

They cannot reach, but they listen. They hold the prayer obsessively, even as it changes from pleading for help to pleading for death. They turn it over and over, the words of it a mantra long after the prayer ends and Neddas begins to lose their own selfhood. They chant it when Coin rips magic from them, flesh peeling from their bones and reforming as godhood does not let them die. It anchors them in agony, reminding them that there is life outside this shining silver cell. That there is someone hurting as they are.

[mysticsybilmakes]

This project is finally done!  (I had to shrink it down a lot to make it able to upload, stupid max image size restrictions. CLICK THROUGH TO THE DEVIANTART LINKS FOR BIGGER)

The Nullar piece came fully formed to me in a great vision while I was re-listening to Trinyvale. So obviously I had to draw it. And OBVIOUSLY I couldn't JUST draw ONE of the three gods of Trinyvale. Obviously I had to draw all three of them. In a sort of pseudo-Alphonse Mucha Art Nouveu-esque triptych. Obviously. (What is WITH me and overly-ambitious podcast fanart that noone asked for?) just Nullar : www.deviantart.com/mysticsybil… just Neddas : www.deviantart.com/mysticsybil… just Liandt : www.deviantart.com/mysticsybil…

[boxonthenile]

Hi, not the anon who originally complimented you, (but I do love your fics) but I did see your reply about the Trine, and I would love to hear any thoughts you have about them. Your depiction of them in Time’s a River was so poignant and compelling and I genuinely cried a little bit the first time I read it. If you have the bandwidth and desire to talk about the Trine more I would really love to hear/ see it!!!!!

ps: possibly unwanted opinion, but the way you presented ideas about the difference between godly appearance or gender and their now mortal appearance or gender really stuck with me, because the idea of losing some part of yourself that you’ve grown used to, even if you knew you would change, like losing fangs for Liandt would be comparable to losing teeth when you’re a child, because it’s off putting and you can’t remember your original toothless state. You grow used to having teeth and the absence of a tooth is alarming at times and strange at others. That really resonated with me for some reason, and I wanted to mention it.

First, thank you! Time's a River means a lot to me–I'm slowly bleeding out some religious trauma and the Trine has been a wonderful outlet. I talked a little about that here.

Not an unwanted opinion at all! I think a lot about the differences between gods and mortals and what it would mean to switch mortal-god-mortal again.

(Liandt’s eyes are green after relinquishing godhood; she knew her eyes weren't always red, but she doesn't remember if they were green before.)

(Nullar scrambles to relearn polymorph so he can be a dragon again. He's not ready to give up flight.)

(Neddas isn't fully sane after 200 years of isolation. I haven't fully decided how it manifests yet, but they probably hallucinate periodically.)