[thetempleofmara]

The books!

OK! Here’s a link to the Gol Hah Dov books I made for anyone who’s interested.  

A few things: 

This is a non-profit fanwork. Skyrim belongs to Bethesda (Don’t sue me Todd). 

This story was written by 99corentine, you can find the original story here [Gol Hah Dov]. Please do not re-upload, repurpose or rewrite the story without express permission from the author.

The layout and art was made by me (thetempleofmara) please don’t use or edit my art with anything AI related. But if you want to use some of the art/designs to make your own interpretation for a GHD book, go for it! Please show me if you do, I want to see.  

This print version including al art and design is for personal use only. 

I included the artzine as well, I tried contacting all the people who made fanart but either they are not active anymore or they never got my messages. If you don't want your art included in there for whatever reason please let me know and I'll take it out.

The artzine is also for personal use only.

Some more things:

As I said, I haven’t actually had the opportunity to print these books myself so, I’m not sure if there are going to be problems that pop up during the printing process. I followed print guides online as properly as I could but there might be some unforeseen complications that I was not aware of. 

The book margins were formatted according to Royal book size :234mm x156mm so try that size for the best result. 

The file sizes are BIG, don't try to download on your phone. 

Once again if you decide to print and bind it: show me, show me, show me. I am both threatening you and begging you. Thank you.

Uploaded to itch.io just for safety and size reasons and password protected just because I don’t want the books showing up on the store page. THE LINK:

A downloadable book

PASSWORD:  itjustworks

@99corentine

[thetempleofmara]

UPDATE:

Thank you to @auphaniim who sent me the svg file they used for the GHD cover they made here. If anyone wants to use it for their cricuts and such they can find it on the itch.io page as well.

[auphaniim]

first bookbind in a WHILE… whoopsies

This fic was written by the amazing @99corentine !

Read “GOL HAH DOV” here!

And the incredible typeset was made by @thetempleofmara who put so much work onto it along side the stunning art!!

Check it out Here!

I had to change the cover up a bit bcs im bad at math and some letter were too small to cut out

Please send them both some love!!

[99corentine]

Oh my gooosh this looks amazing! That is so ridiculously sleek and polished. The leather cover! The map insides! The silly Skyrim fic I wrote in black and white, and temple's art!!

I can't thank you and @thetempleofmara enough for the ridiculous amount of work you've put into all of this. I am blown away. Never ever in a million years did I think the fic I started because I was feeling sad in quarantimes would get to this point, or be this beloved.

I'll aspire to this level of awesome when I try to make my own binding T_T Though I'm a long way off this level of talent.

[miyeyu]

I'm a designer and I'm professionally redesigning and hopefully binding @thetempleofmara's design of GOL HAH DOV into a second edition! have a sneak peek into the process :DD

if I don't completely eff up the bound copies then in maybe a month I may give one set of the books to somebody who's interested!

top images: test prints for margins and font size (insert the pages inside a real book to test inner margins!)

bottom image: laser-cut book board (I tried with an x-acto first but it was much less clean)

this edition builds on mara's lovely original design and adds a lot of new features like a table of contents, glossary in the back, colophon, raised caps, an "other works by this author" section, and more!

I also typeset the entire manuscript, removing "orphans and widows" (dangling words at the beginning and end of paragraphs/pages). this makes the text much more smooth to read. it's the longest part of the project by far—I had to actively stop myself from trying to read the text; I’ve been saving my first reread for when I have the book in my hands…

[thetempleofmara]

I need a million different versions of GHD spread around the world.

@miyeyu i'm blind and only seeing this tagged post now, thank you for sharing your w.i.p with me

[auphaniim]

first bookbind in a WHILE… whoopsies

This fic was written by the amazing @99corentine !

Read “GOL HAH DOV” here!

And the incredible typeset was made by @thetempleofmara who put so much work onto it along side the stunning art!!

Check it out Here!

I had to change the cover up a bit bcs im bad at math and some letter were too small to cut out

Please send them both some love!!

[thetempleofmara]

Words can not express how excited am I am to see this. I have watched that short flip through video 5 times and I'm going to watch it again later.

It's so beautiful I am in physical pain trying to process it.

Thank you so much for showing me you final work and the photoshoot presentation is 10/10

[99corentine]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Elden Ring (Video Game) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Morgott the Omen King | Margit the Fell Omen/Tarnished, Morgott the Omen King | Margit the Fell Omen/Original Character(s) Characters: Morgott the Omen King | Margit the Fell Omen, Tarnished (Elden Ring), Original Male Character(s) Additional Tags: Enemies to Friends, Then back to maybe-enemies again, Named Tarnished (Elden Ring), Male Tarnished (Elden Ring), Tarnished with an increasing crush on the Fell Omen, Fix-It of Sorts, Touch-Starved, Angst and Feels, Bathing/Washing, Margit lets Tarnished touch the wings, Also Margit: why did I do this Series: Part 2 of Little Flame Summary:

He turns back around and scowls at the water, or more accurately at himself. The grime he can feel is transient, as is this body. He shouldn’t be here bathing at all, when he could be doing more useful things with his time. The whole thing is an exercise in indulgence, and he should know better.

But still the cool water, the breeze between his horns, the scent of flowers and grasses… and someone who maybe, maybe does not find his crooked shape so repulsive. Maybe. Maybe.

There is the slosh of someone kneeling down. “If this is a no silence instead of a yes silence you need only say. Or gesture,” Tarnished intones from behind him, gently.

Margit says nothing. He is weak. But it has been a tough day and a long exposure to poison, and later he will blame that for this foolishness.

The Tarnished has achieved too much, and Margit has let him get too close.

-

I’m feeling enthused, so I wrote another one!

I sort of want to get to the smut already, but Morgott is about as slow-burn as characters get, so it’s a while off yet. In the meantime he gets a bath, because let’s be honest he needs one.

[thetempleofmara]

[99corentine]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Elden Ring (Video Game) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Morgott the Omen King | Margit the Fell Omen/Tarnished Characters: Morgott the Omen King | Margit the Fell Omen, Tarnished (Elden Ring), Original Male Character(s) Additional Tags: Enemies to Friends, Margit being Margit, Named Tarnished (Elden Ring), Male Tarnished (Elden Ring), Tarnished with a lil crush on the Fell Omen, Fix-It of Sorts, Mild Hurt/Comfort, Mild Gore, In the form of a prosthesis, Touch-Starved Summary:

A fetish bathed in golden magic. Shackles were used to bind the accursed people called the Omen, and these ones were made to keep a particular Omen under strictest confinement. Though faint, the shackles still retain vestiges of power — enough to trap the once-bound Margit on earth, if only for a short time.

 It all starts when Margit finds the shackle.

Hi hello, I have been playing Elden Ring and I wrote a thing. I wasn’t sure if any of my usual followers would be interested, but I figured I’d post it here just in case any of you play ER!

[thetempleofmara]

Well well well I told you you'd like Elden Ring and here we are 😏

[linda-likes-to-draw]

[AU] Bad End (and Failsave)

(Edit: I forgot to give proper context lol)

Context: During the Showdown in Apocrypha between Chrysanthe and Miraak, Miraak gains the upper hand before Chry could fully use Bend Will to save Miraak who heavily wounds him, leaving Chry unable to Shout successfully. Feeling betrayed by Chrysanthe after his first use of Bend Will, Miraak electrocutes Chrysanthe to death(before taking his Soul obviously).

However, due to Chrysanthe being the main protagonist (player character) of Skyrim, Chrysanthe's “save file” corrupts after his death and resets him back to the start of the vanilla game (no mods). My idea is that Chrysanthe still has his memories and that's why he looks so shocked, but that is up to your interpretation.

Bonus:

As always, GOL HAH DOV by @99corentine !

(P.S. I'm aware Chrysanthe has a custom modded intro (A Warlock's Thrall). This comic is made purely bc I wanted to see Chry in a vanilla Skyrim experience lol)

[99corentine]

A further expansion on this excellent idea: Miraak also remembers everything after the reset because Dragonborn, eternal souls of the Dragon of Time and therefore sort of existing outside it, etc etc, or just because two Dragonborn meeting makes time go Extra Fucky. The next time Chrysanthe marches into Apocrypha to meet him, they both remember each other, and Chry has to find a way to earn Miraak's trust and break the sequence of events, while Miraak is trying to do his Big Bad thing and manipulate the timeline to free himself.

(As an aside Linda, excellent work. The black panels are especially haunting.)

[miyeyu]

I sketched this while listening to RWBY on loop instead of doing work but I don't regret anything. I've been bitten by the GHD bug.

it's been a long while since I sketched comics in my sketchbook instead of procreate. I think I've come a long way since then.

[99corentine]

Wow, this looks great! The yellow tone fo the paper really adds something, I think most especially to panel 3 - makes Chry look like he's made of sunlight which is... honestly not far off how Miraak sees him at this point in the story, I think. The dark shadows behind Miraak are also reminiscent of tentacles - maybe I'm reading too much into it, but I like the implication that Hermaeus Mora's doubt-whispering had a hand in Miraak's decision near the end of GHD, as though he's still influencing his former champion no matter how much Miraak thinks he's not anymore.

All in all, amazing job!

[miyeyu]

(part 2/2) previous part here

"There’s a smile in her tone: You did. In keeping with my greatest tenet, you did. But I have been with you since the start and I will be with you until the end. This is not the end. Then there comes a sigh, wistful and wisp-like: We’re not supposed to intervene. If you’re to die on this island, I should let you die. But if Mora can break boundaries to harm you, I can break them to help you."

excerpt from @99corentine's GOL HAH DOV

:3

[99corentine]

Part two! Again, I think this does a great job at portraying the tide turning from hopeless to determined, and marking the point that Chrysanthe was pretty much cemented as Mara's paladin. Power of love, heck yeah!

[miyeyu]

(part 1/2) next part here

[99corentine]

I'm late commenting, but this is fantastic. This part of GHD was among the most emotive for me to write, and I've never known how to convey it into a visual image, but you've done beautifully. The first panel is really jaw-dropping, great use of negative space and I love the way Miraak's hand can be seen desperately reaching out. And then Mara's hand! Ahh, it's so lovely.

[thetempleofmara]

The books!

OK! Here’s a link to the Gol Hah Dov books I made for anyone who’s interested.  

A few things: 

This is a non-profit fanwork. Skyrim belongs to Bethesda (Don’t sue me Todd). 

This story was written by 99corentine, you can find the original story here [Gol Hah Dov]. Please do not re-upload, repurpose or rewrite the story without express permission from the author.

The layout and art was made by me (thetempleofmara) please don’t use or edit my art with anything AI related. But if you want to use some of the art/designs to make your own interpretation for a GHD book, go for it! Please show me if you do, I want to see.  

This print version including al art and design is for personal use only. 

I included the artzine as well, I tried contacting all the people who made fanart but either they are not active anymore or they never got my messages. If you don't want your art included in there for whatever reason please let me know and I'll take it out.

The artzine is also for personal use only.

Some more things:

As I said, I haven’t actually had the opportunity to print these books myself so, I’m not sure if there are going to be problems that pop up during the printing process. I followed print guides online as properly as I could but there might be some unforeseen complications that I was not aware of. 

The book margins were formatted according to Royal book size :234mm x156mm so try that size for the best result. 

The file sizes are BIG, don't try to download on your phone. 

Once again if you decide to print and bind it: show me, show me, show me. I am both threatening you and begging you. Thank you.

Uploaded to itch.io just for safety and size reasons and password protected just because I don’t want the books showing up on the store page. THE LINK:

A downloadable book

PASSWORD:  itjustworks

@99corentine

[killerkittenkillua]

Just ordered from a book binding company (LuLu). I’ll send pictures and let you know how it turns out! Thanks for the formatted and detailed pdfs!

[thetempleofmara]

I'm excited to see it!

[thetempleofmara]

The books!

OK! Here’s a link to the Gol Hah Dov books I made for anyone who’s interested.  

A few things: 

This is a non-profit fanwork. Skyrim belongs to Bethesda (Don’t sue me Todd). 

This story was written by 99corentine, you can find the original story here [Gol Hah Dov]. Please do not re-upload, repurpose or rewrite the story without express permission from the author.

The layout and art was made by me (thetempleofmara) please don’t use or edit my art with anything AI related. But if you want to use some of the art/designs to make your own interpretation for a GHD book, go for it! Please show me if you do, I want to see.  

This print version including al art and design is for personal use only. 

I included the artzine as well, I tried contacting all the people who made fanart but either they are not active anymore or they never got my messages. If you don't want your art included in there for whatever reason please let me know and I'll take it out.

The artzine is also for personal use only.

Some more things:

As I said, I haven’t actually had the opportunity to print these books myself so, I’m not sure if there are going to be problems that pop up during the printing process. I followed print guides online as properly as I could but there might be some unforeseen complications that I was not aware of. 

The book margins were formatted according to Royal book size :234mm x156mm so try that size for the best result. 

The file sizes are BIG, don't try to download on your phone. 

Once again if you decide to print and bind it: show me, show me, show me. I am both threatening you and begging you. Thank you.

Uploaded to itch.io just for safety and size reasons and password protected just because I don’t want the books showing up on the store page. THE LINK:

A downloadable book

PASSWORD:  itjustworks

@99corentine

[99corentine]

Once again, I can't stress enough how astonished and grateful I am for all the hard work you've put into this, not only turning this into printable format with lovingly crafted illustrations, but also compiling the zine of fanart so far. Seeing all the love I've gotten for this story over the years made me tear up, I'm not kidding.

I've added links to your post (which will then lead to the download) on GHD's summary, chapter 1 and chapter 50. I hope that lets even more people find this piece of work! @thetempleofmara you are phenomenal. Thank you so much <3

[thetempleofmara]

Thanks to you and everyone that left nice comments and messages for this project. (づ ᴗ _ᴗ)づ♡

[thetempleofmara]

The books!

OK! Here’s a link to the Gol Hah Dov books I made for anyone who’s interested.  

A few things: 

This is a non-profit fanwork. Skyrim belongs to Bethesda (Don’t sue me Todd). 

This story was written by 99corentine, you can find the original story here [Gol Hah Dov]. Please do not re-upload, repurpose or rewrite the story without express permission from the author.

The layout and art was made by me (thetempleofmara) please don’t use or edit my art with anything AI related. But if you want to use some of the art/designs to make your own interpretation for a GHD book, go for it! Please show me if you do, I want to see.  

This print version including al art and design is for personal use only. 

I included the artzine as well, I tried contacting all the people who made fanart but either they are not active anymore or they never got my messages. If you don't want your art included in there for whatever reason please let me know and I'll take it out.

The artzine is also for personal use only.

Some more things:

As I said, I haven’t actually had the opportunity to print these books myself so, I’m not sure if there are going to be problems that pop up during the printing process. I followed print guides online as properly as I could but there might be some unforeseen complications that I was not aware of. 

The book margins were formatted according to Royal book size :234mm x156mm so try that size for the best result. 

The file sizes are BIG, don't try to download on your phone. 

Once again if you decide to print and bind it: show me, show me, show me. I am both threatening you and begging you. Thank you.

Uploaded to itch.io just for safety and size reasons and password protected just because I don’t want the books showing up on the store page. THE LINK:

A downloadable book

PASSWORD:  itjustworks

@99corentine

[thetempleofmara]

hiii i just saw the book project you did for gol hah dov, i was wondering if you were going to make it available to print to others? all of it is absolutely incredible, the art, the graphics (and the story itself ofc, author never misses haha) and i was was considering making a copy for myself, ihand bind stuff myself and id loveee to make myself a copy with your graphics and art if you’re okay with that :)

Hello!

Yes I will upload it for others as well! I meant to do it like two days after I made that post, but then I immediately got distracted.

It will be available by this weekend at the latest.

(You also have to show me the final book binding.)

(Disclaimer: I also haven't had it printed myself so idk if there are any problems.)

[thetempleofmara]

A bonus third thing

@99corentine

Compiled all of the fanart people made into a "little" artzine.

The cover of this one was also inspired by in-game books.

I had fun making this and got to experience more abstract pattern making for the borders and such, I'm actually very proud of how the covers turned out.

Once again thank you for writing and sharing gol hah dov!

I am off to my own little corner of the internet where I obsess over a man with amnesia and his evil lover...who wears a difficult to draw...pointy...black outfit.....

......hmmmmmm...wait a minute...

[99corentine]

And then, the bonus third thing. DO you know what temple said when they messaged me about this? Like I said it's nothing major but there you go.

Mothertrucker it's EXTREMELY major! The majorest! The most mayoral! A lovingly compiled mini-book of every fanart I've ever gotten over the years, a celebration of celebrations! Seeing all of this stuff in one place made me feel things I can't even describe to you.

Also when it's all laid out on paper, some of you have been PROLIFIC, holy crap. I'm completely boggled by how much @thetempleofmara, @b-lizi, @metallic-scaled-scarf and especially @linda-likes-to-draw (oh my gosh linda) have given me. But that's not to dismiss the rest of you, because seeing everything laid out like this has really brought home just how much I've been given over the years, and by how many people. And then there's all those who have read GHD and taken the time to comment and spur me on to write the next part. I would never have finished this without you.

There is truly nothing I could say that would explain how blown away I am, by each and every one of you.

[thetempleofmara]

"some of you have been PROLIFIC" THAT'S WHAT I SAID. Linda nearly killed me with all the art and I couldn't even include the animations!

Putting all this together was very fun for me and a good challenge. I enjoyed creating the book and zine so much that I will probably continue to do so with my future projects. Thank you for letting me make art from your art and thank you for all the nice words. (ಥ◡ಥ)

[thetempleofmara]

Book project. Part 2 Book 2

@99corentine

Book 2 is supposed to match book 1 but this time Miraak themed!

Key Illustrations for book 2:

Chry has a meltdown over the ear stain :( A very real moment after a traumatic event.

STAY DOWN ( My favourite by far, and I think the only way to really capture the power of what you wrote there is to have it animated or something, but hey I tried)

Odahviing shit talking Miraak is the best thing ever, my only complaint about this story is that it needs more Odahviing. (I will never get over odahviing essentially telling chry he has shit taste in men)

Miraak yoinking Alduin's soul. ( The description was so great but once again I try the best with the art skills that I have)

The end ಥ_ಥ Once again some thumbnails that only I can decipher:

Miraak themed book decal thumbnails:

I played around with Mora and Akatosh themed decals but decided to go with the one that compliments the book 1 decal in design. Using the in game book and mission marker designs once again

Final:

With this one I used the clip studio time-lapse feature when drawing, behold hours of work in 30 seconds!

don't look at my struggling

[99corentine]

AND NOW TO KEEP GOING because this second part deserves as much praise as the first! Look. Just look at it. Have you ever seen anything so beautiful?

Do you ever think about that fact that a bunch of humans made a video game about magical vikings who fight dragons. And I, some random human from a rainy island in the middle of the ocean, played that video game over and over, and loved it so much that I wrote a few novel's worth of story about it, specifically about a fictional man who romances another fictional man, who btw has like 8 lines of dialogue in the game. And then another human, from a completely different part of the world read it, and enjoyed it so much that they crafted a print format version, and lovingly illustrated key moments.

It says something about the human condition, how it appreciates and celebrates things. I don't exactly what it says, but it's something.

The fact I could get these printed and have them on my shelf (and absolutely will, when I have the disposable income to do so) is just mind-boggling to me. The work you've put into this, the thought, the love, is beyond awesome, beyond anything I can convey with words alone. But I hope you all enjoy looking at this creation as much as I have.

[thetempleofmara]

I actually think about this frequently! I think about it when I read old books and fanfiction, or when I look at art and play games. I'm not poetic enough to describe whatever that feeling is but I'm pretty sure it's as close as you get to magic.

[thetempleofmara]

My Gol Hah Dov book project!

@99corentine

I have an enthusiasm for hardbound books and decided I want to turn Gol Hah Dov into a physical book.

I wanted to share with you the final project as well as my design inspiration and thoughts:

Cover design I wanted a hardbound book, with cloth and foil inlay like the mockup I made below. I modeled book 1 after Chrysanthe and drew a chrysanthemum for the cover as well as a blue and gold colour scheme.

The inspiration for the border comes from the skyrim artbook as well as the in-game "book of the dragonborn" The dovahzul in the frame is Miraak's quote from the dlc "The first Dragonborn meets the Last Dragonborn at the summit of Apocrypha" (or at least the first few words because I ran out of space, but it's the thought that counts.)

I chose some of my favourite parts of the story to use for key illustrations.

They are:

Chry meets Miraak in Apocrypha for the first time and a mute Miraak slams the wall while Chry is looking for him in the dark (I need more romance to be introduced as horror, thank you)

Chry meets Partysnax, I think you wrote him very true to character (and maybe I just wanted to draw the old boy)

Chry sets Miraak free by using the gol hah dov shout on him and beats Mora's ass with the rueful axe, I loved how all the little plot points came together for this one. ( the shout breaking mind control, the axe cutting a daedric prince, the hints of Mara assisting Chry, you are a genius)

Storm call dragon fight! I always thought storm call is such an OP ability if it would exist irl and is one of the shouts that really shows the power of a dragonborn. And you made them do it twice, such a great moment.

Chry communicating with Mora underwater. One of the best moments, and also my favourite drawing. Also just for fun here are the horrible thumbnails of the art:

Each chapter also has a Chry-inspired decal. I used chrysanthemums for him as well as using the design for Mara from the game, and the main mission quest marker from the journal:

The thumbnails:

The final ones used:

Each chapter has the number in english and the name of the chapter in dovazhul just for fun.

The sketches through the book I initially wanted to make in the style of skyrim concept art, like so:

But the style of the concept art and the style of the book was a bit too different and I felt it didn't look good with the use of red colours so I ended up with a more loose b+w style like the Teldryn one.

For the chapters where you had translations at the end I wanted to make a little dictionary design:

I based this design off the in-game miscellaneous quest markers.

[99corentine]

So. This is. Absolutely ridiculous.

I have been gifted many beautiful things from @thetempleofmara and other, equally wonderful people. But this. This is a whole ass book. It's two books! Temple literally sat down with book-compiling software and turned my dumb (if gloriously so) Skyrim fanfiction, about a fictional man from a 2011 game DLC, into two books. They've got mock covers, they've got fancy chapter headers, they're got full page illustrations.

And those illustrations were just chucked in for free! Part of a larger whole, as though each of them wasn't individually its own masterpiece. I can't even pick a favourite, they're all that good!

You also picked several of my favourite moments from the story - I still go back and read chapter 4 for the first touch between them sometimes. I need more romance to be introduced as horror, thank you - yes, now if I don't write a horror romance I feel like I'm missing something T^T

My praise will continue in part 2!

[thetempleofmara]

What can I say...