Worlds Okayest Dragoon

Consumed by the fog

[thatbeebard]

Estinien really is the realest one out there, immediately down to kill a god with you, the first to sacrifice himself for you, two kids chasing eachother around with worms on the playground ass vibes with the warrior of light one moment and then carrying them off the battlefield cradled in his arms the next. Dweeb. I'm gonna kiss him

[limblesstar]

im going to fucking explode

[silmaspens]

Here’s my first art submission for @tolkienrsb 2022!

I was so blessed to be able to work with the fantastic @forerussake who wrote this wonderful little accompanying fic! Read it here✨

A Ballad of Burning Lungs & Bated Breath

Maglor didn’t ever intend to sail. Valinor is not his home and never will be.

Ages have passed since he threw the Silmaril into the sea, but when his mother appears to him in a dream, when he wakes in the middle of the night with the fire of longing burning in his lungs, when the pain gets so bad he can take it no longer, he steals a boat to meet the ocean. He sets out intending to die, or so he thinks.

Nothing could be further from the truth. Sometimes going home is more difficult than leaving ever was. Sometimes acceptance is complicated, but it is the beginning of all recovery.

In the end it takes meeting his mother and speaking to her the ballad of burning lungs and bated breath he can no longer sing for Maglor to understand this, to understand himself, and for Makalaurë to rise out of the ashes he has always feared so much.

Rating: Gen Warnings: None Characters: Maglor, Nerdanel, Finrod, Original Character Relationships: Maglor & Nerdanel, Maglor & Finrod Word count: 15.589

[the-werewithal]

i have a terrible urge to write silmarillion / ffxiv Heavensward fanfic. Specifically by making Ishgard one of the elven kingdoms of Beleriand in the First Age, complete with dragon grudge war and succession crises. Aymeric exchanging tentative overtures of diplomacy with Maedhros, Thingol trying to argue that Ishgard is under Doriath's rule, naive young diplomate Alphinaud attempts to unite all the elven kingdoms against the true enemy, Thordan's machinations to keep his own power at the expense of all others, the existence of dragons outside of Morgoth's brood, and a war started by elven greed and vengeance that long predates the arrival of the Noldor, but will inevitably spill out and mingle with the grief and turmoil now raging across Arda.

[arcteris]

deja vu

[kiiwaa]

[hoppips]

you will remember me, won't you?

[yozora]

their dynamic is so funny to me

x

[picaroroboto]

WRT the Garlemald portion of EW: I'm sure that for a lot of FFXIV's history players have been wondering what it would be like to reach Garlemald proper in-game, and daydreaming of epic battles, maybe a sense of "conquering the conquerers"

And it is so, so genius of EW to not give you that.

You don't get any glory or revenge in defeating the evil empire, they already self-destructed on their own. You can't really revel in it. If you're feeling particularly vindictive you might look at the rubble and silently think "Serves you right!" or "Good riddance to bad rubbish." but no matter how much you may have hated the Empire in the past it's hard not to pity what's left.

See, the thing about Garlemald is that in their prejudice and conquest they treated everyone who isn't them as subhuman. But in the end you are all human beings, and so are they. The Empire isn't a nameless, faceless evil, it's a war machine created by the beliefs of humans who saw other humans as inhuman. By helping the survivors you are not only doing the right thing, the human thing to do, you are also disproving their prejudice in the process by reminding them that you're all human. (I'm using the word "human" in abstract sense here, not to refer just to the Hyuran race of FFXIV, but all the races of sentient beings, all deserving of rights, respect, etc.)

I'm trying to shine a light on the significance of this part of the story because it seems like some people have conflicted feelings about helping citizens of a facist former empire, but it would be sheer Reading Comprehension Stat: None to assume that that means FFXIV is condoning their ideology. In fact, it would be antithetical to FFXIV's optimistic, pro-humanity, love-and-peace, a-better-world-is-possible -type philosophy if we instead left the survivors to starve.

[vessarkwright]

Another wip of Zenos and Vessari bc I can’t get them out of my head 😔

[kootiepatra]

A Galvus Father’s Day Card

[ilaneya]

happy pride month and beginning of the summer friends ✨🤲

[atozcorner]

[ But then came the light. ]

[berrybooze]

Rough doodle where i was stuck on the colors but well. Anyway I'm back on my Aymeric Got Muscles and Scars agenda

[thornb4ck]

im glad that beating this man up is just a thing we all seem to love doing

[unmovingtroika]

zenos is literally a twisted and maligned product of fascism / extreme child abuse / implied human experimentation so just about almost every person who talks about him online annoys me because they literally missed the entire point of his character and think he's horny. HE'S NOT HORNY . HIS VIEW OF THE WORLD IS DEEPLY BROKEN AND HE'S PROJECTING ONTO THE WARRIOR OF LIGHT BECAUSE NO ONE ELSE IS AS POWERFUL AS HIM (leaves forever) (comes back two minutes later) him acting the way he does towards the wol is literally because he cannot comphrend proper human connection (violence and power is the only thing he is familiar with) and he considers your character his friend because of thematic reasons . ffxiv is literally about the strength of human bonds and shit like that . (points a missile at the ffxiv fandom) FIRE AT WILL

[sad--beep]

Need more scars....