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2017-08-26 12:02 pm

[sticky entry] Sticky: Fic Prompts Post

 A dumping ground for various fic prompts. Should any of these receive actual writing installments, they'll be deleted from here and reposted to the WIP Fic Post.
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2021-01-08 05:51 pm
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Skyrim Mod List

A Matter of Time: A HUD Clock Widget
A Quality World Map and Solstheim Map with Roads
Acquisitive Soul Gems Multithreaded
Adopt Aventus Aretino
Almost Everyone is an Adventurer
Alternate Start - Live Another Life
Apocalypse - Magic of Skyrim
Arrow Recovery System Overhaul
Auto Recharge Weapons
Auto Unequip Ammo
Balanced New Spells
Bandolier - Bags and Pouches
Bathing in Skyrim
Beasts of Tamriel
Belt-Fastened Quivers
Better Dialogue Controls
Better Falskaar and Wyrmstooth Map with Roads
Better Fast Travel - Carriages and Ships - Overhauled
Better MessageBox Controls
Better Vampires
Blessings - Altar Descriptions
Blood Magic Spell Pack
BorderSense
Buildable Chests and Containers with Advanced Placement
Calientes Beautiful Bodies Edition
Campire - Complete Camping System
Cartographers Map Markers
Civil War Overhaul
Cloaks of Skyrim
Clothing and Clutter Fixes
Coins of Tamriel
Collect Water from Wells - RND Compatible
Complete Crafting Overhaul Remade
Convenient Horse Herding
Convenient Horses
Crimson Nirnroot Markers
Cutting Room Floor
Dawnguard - Jiubs Opus Quest Markers
Dragon Combat Overhaul
Dragon Priest Mask Journal
Dragon Remains
Dynamic Things - Woodpiles and Barrels and More Oh My
Elemental Destruction Magic
Encounter Zones Unlocked
Exchange Currency
Expanded Skyrim Weaponry
Extensible Follower Framework
Extensible Follower Framework Compatibility Collection
Falskaar
Falskaar Typo Patch
Filled Pots
Fire and Ice Overhaul
Following Mercer - A Thhieves Guild Quest
Frostfall
Fuz Ro D'Oh
Guard Dialogue Overhaul
Harvest Ovheraul
Hearthfire Multiple Adoptions
Heavy Armory - New Weapons
Helgen Reborn
Hidden Hideouts of Skyrim
Hunterborn
Immersive Armors
Immersive Jewelry
Immersive Weaspons
Improved Skill Books
Inconsequential NPCs
Interesting NPCs
Khajiit Merchants Buy Stolen Items
Legacy of the Dragonborn (Dragonborn Gallery)
Living Takes TIme
Loot Later
Lore Styles Hair Set
Lore Weapon Expansion
Lore-Based Loading Screens
Lost Grimoire of Skyrim
Missing in Action Fix
Missing Spells
Modern Brawl Bug Fix
More Giants Toes
Multiple Custom Markers with Notes
No Combat Boundaries - Legendary & Falskaar & Wyrmstooth
No More Block Faces
No NPC Greetings
NPCs Use Ammo - All Bows
OBIS
Organized Books
PapyrusUtil - Modders Scripting Utility Functions
Point the Way
Protect Your Peoeple - Better NPC Protection
Proudspire Manor TNF Beds Plus
Realistic Humanoid Movement Speed
Realistic Lighting Overhaul
Realistic Needs and Diseases
Realistic Ragdolls and Force
Realistic Ragdolls and Force - Increased Fall Damage
Realistic Room Rental - Enhanced
Relationship Dialogue Overhaul
Remove Repeating Overencumbered Message
Roadsigns REdone
Safety Load
Same Walk and Run Speeds
Silver Arrows and Bolts
Simply Knock
Skyrim Belongs to the Nords
Skyrim Immersive Creatures
SkyTEST - Realistic Animals and Predators
SkyUI
Smelters for Riften and Solitude
Sometimes Pick Up Books
SOS
Spells of Tamriel
Stones of Barenziah Quest Markers
Summermyst - Enchantments of Skyrim
Summons of Solstheim
Thalmor Protection
The Choice is Yours - Fewer Forced Quests - Improved Dialogue Options
The Golden Crossroads - Money Exchange
The Paarthurnax Dilemma
Thieves Guild for Good Guys - Taking Care of Business REdux
Timing is Everything - Quest Delay and Timing COntrol
Trade and Barter
Traps Make Noise - More Dangerous Traps
Unlimited Bookshelves
Unofficial Skyrim Legendary Edition Patch
Unread Books GLow
Vidanis Bag of Holding
Weapons and Armor Fixes Remade
Wearable Lanters
Weightless Axe and Reduced Firewood Weight
Weightless Pickaxe
Wet and Cold
Wyrmstooth
aftanith: (willow revenge)
2020-12-18 05:25 pm

Destroyer of Worlds - Coyote Kid [lyrics]

lo, I have become death
I don't know what comes with the title yet
it's my first day on the job
but I want to look my best
just show me what you have in black
double extra long and tight across the chest
i need a thirty-seven inseam, twenty-two waist
double-stitched with a five-inch neck
death comes free of charge
but i wanna look the part
eventually everyone comes my way
from the pope to the queen and everybody in between
everyone's dying to meet me
lo, I have become death
I don't really know what that means yet
your first impression should be your best
but mine are always the last
there's no need for shaking knees like that
you're not on my list, yet
but everyone says that you're simply the best at taking grim requests
death comes free of charge but I wanna look the part
eventually everyone comes my way
from the pope to the queen and everybody in between
everyone's dying to meet me
I need something simple and sensible and comprehensible
tall, dark, and brooding just like me
it has to be timeless
a bolt like lightning
'cause everyone's dying to meet me
lo, I have become death
destroyer of worlds and your souls
I am the great equalizer
behold, and know the inevitable

transcribed by me, probably not 100% accurate
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2020-12-11 05:35 pm

Clan Lavellan Survival Routes

Clan Lavellan Survival Routes

So I’ve seen people talking about how difficult it is to keep Clan Lavellan alive and I thought I’d share this thing I made a while ago. It was my first time playing DAI as a Lavellan and I’d heard that this series of missions was difficult so I checked the DA Wiki and yeah, it would be very tricky to get this right going in blind. BTW- starting at Protect Clan Lavellan, there are 24 possible routes for these missions, and only 2 end with the clan surviving.

Anyway, rather than check the DA wiki every time I did a mission, I just made myself a little cheat sheet, shown under the cut. Hopefully this helps someone!

Option 1

Contact Clan Lavellan: Leliana/Josephine (Cullen’s option will not kill the clan but will prevent further missions)

Protect Clan Lavellan: Leliana (continue with this option) /Cullen (go to Option 2)

Investigate Duke Antoine of Wycome: Josephine

Stop Purge of Wycome’s Elves:
Leliana

Protect Clan Lavellan and Wycome: Cullen

Option 2

Break Venatori Hold on Wycome:
Leliana

Restore Order in Wycome: Leliana

Protect Clan Lavellan and Wycome: Cullen
source: here @ [tumblr.com profile] aban-ataashi
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2020-12-11 05:34 pm
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deified brainstorming

Either way, I find the timing very curious. likely a thousand years between the Veil's creation and Andraste. And a thousand years between Andraste and the current time. (not exact numbers, but close enough to raise an eyebrow)

The timing of a thousand years is reminiscent to the timing of global earthquake sprees.

- Orseck Garal Earthquakes: around -1170 Ancient, or year 25 TE (Tevinter Calendar)
-Andraste Earthquakes: between -180 Ancient and -170 Ancient, or between 1015 TE and 1025 TE
- Valta (The Descent) Earthquakes: between 941 Dragon and 943 Dragon, or between 2035 TE and 2037 TE

They all seem to be distant from each other by about a thousand years. And we know both the Garal earthquakes and the Valta earthquakes were caused by a Titan...

source: here @ r/dragonage

I think Andraste was a human born with the soul of Dumat via a Dark Ritual.

Evidence: It took the wardens two hundred years to end the first blight, because every time they'd kill the Archdemon, it would soul jump. They had to figure out the secret ingredient in the warden ritual--a drop of Archdemon blood--that would permanently kill the Archdemon. When they finally ended the first blight, Andraste was born that very same year. (From the timeline in World of Thedas.)

I think Mythal perhaps nudged the wardens in the right direction re: how to kill Archdemons, while at the same time performing/getting someone else to perform a Dark Ritual to capture Dumat's untainted soul in a child.

I think Solas didn't physically awaken from uthenara until just prior to DAI, as he says. BUT. The Masked Empire shows that he could communicate/interact with people (Felassan) via the Fade. He could definitely have been influencing Shartan.
source: here @ r/dragonage

In the light of the veilfire, the runes seem to shift, coiling and uncoiling like snakes. A thunderous voice shatters the stillness, shouting:

"Hail Mythal, adjudicator and savior! She has struck down the pillars of the earth and rendered their demesne unto the People! Praise her name forever!"

For a moment, the scent of blood fills the air, and there is a vivid image of green vines growing and enveloping a sphere of fire.

The vision grows dark. An aeon seems to pass. Then the runes crackle, as if filled with an angry energy.

A new vision appears: elves collapsing caverns, sealing the Deep Roads with stone and magic.

Terror, heart-pounding, ice-cold, as the last of the spells is cast.

A voice whispers:

"What the Evanuris in their greed could unleash would end us all. Let this place be forgotten. Let no one wake its anger. The People must rise before their false gods destroy them all."
source: Codex entry: Veilfire Runes in the Deep Roads via Dragon Age: Inquisition - Trespasser

My theory here is that Mythal slew a titan to claim the thaigs and Deep Roads from the titans and their dwarf hivemind, and that this is where the Blight (a presumably red lyrium) actually comes from. How the Titan got Blighted, though... that's a whole other question.

One day Andruil grew tired of hunting mortal men and beasts. She began stalking The Forgotten Ones, wicked things that thrive in the abyss. Yet even a god should not linger there, and each time she entered the Void, Andruil suffered longer and longer periods of madness after returning.

Andruil put on armor made of the Void, and all forgot her true face. She made weapons of darkness, and plague ate her lands. She howled things meant to be forgotten, and the other gods became fearful Andruil would hunt them in turn. So Mythal spread rumors of a monstrous creature and took the form of a great serpent, waiting for Andruil at the base of a mountain.

When Andruil came, Mythal sprang on the hunter. They fought for three day and nights, Andruil slashing deep gouges in the serpent's hide. But Mythal's magic sapped Andruil's strength, and stole her knowledge of how to find the Void. After this, the great hunter could never make her way back to the abyss, and peace returned.

—Translated from ancient elven found in the Arbor Wilds, source unverified
source: Codex entry: Elven God Andruil via Dragon Age: Inquisition

Honestly, my best guess at interpreting this is in the lines "wicked things that thrive in the abyss", "Andruil put on armor made of the Void", followed by "plague ate her lands". I think the plague is the taint, and the "armor made of the Void" is Red Lyrium armor like Samson's, and the Void/abyss itself is a Blighted Titan. Note, of course, that "the Void" is believed by the Empty Ones cult (which worshipped the Blight) to be the place from which the Blight originated; that the taint is referred to as "the darkness" by both the Architect and Corypheus, among others; and that the blight is often referred to as a plague. It adds up.

To that point... could the Forgotten Ones be darkspawn similar to Corypheus and the Architect?

As a counter to all this, a place called "the raw Fade" is visited in both Origins (when Sloth traps everyone in their dreams) and Inquisition (when facing Nightmare). Solas specifically refers to it as "closer to the Black City than he has ever seen". Following along the logic that the Andrastians seem to believe the Void is either part of or the same as the Fade, could it be that the raw Fade is the Void and/or the Abyss? (A DA book called Until We Sleep refers to the raw Fade as "void places, gaps between dreams". So could that be the Void/Abyss? Parts of the Fade that exist without the touch of sentient minds? In any case, the terms Void and Abyss are definitely heavily associated with the Fade, but so is lyrium, which makes the titan theory not entirely impossible; the titan's body in the Descent, after all, is described as "the Uncharted Abyss".)

Following along that logic, there is a Staff of the Void in Inquisition that has a carving of Andraste at the tip and is described to bear the inscription, "There is strength in absence. Absence of weakness, and of limitation. Absence of caution, and of mercy. The Void has always been within." I'd say this could be interpreted in two ways: A) the Void is the Fade, which is actually a collective unconscious within the minds of living creatures, and so can still be "inside" a titan, or B) the Void has something to do with Tranquility. (See: the theory that Mythal's removal of Andruil's knowledge of how to enter the Void was the first Rite of Tranquility, and the possibility that Andruil's boughts of madness after hunting in the Void might not be a slow descent into blight madness but instead similar to the periods of emotional instability that Cassandra describes as occurring after Tranquility is cured.)
The Empty Ones were a small and short-lived cult based in Nevarra and known for worshipping the blight and, by extension, the darkspawn. Some confuse the Empty Ones with followers of Tevinter's Old Gods—a reasonable mistake since Archdemons are said to be tainted Old Gods. However, it is clear from the histories that the Empty Ones did not worship Dumat and his ilk, but the blight itself.

Following Andraste's death, many of her followers fell into a deep despair. They believed that the Prophet's betrayal and execution marked the beginning of the end of the world and that the Maker's wrath would soon come upon them. The most fatalistic of them all gathered together to prepare for their doom. They called themselves the Empty Ones, for they saw themselves as worthless husks, ready to be swept away by the Maker's hand.

It is unknown what passed then, but over time, the Empty Ones grew to believe that the blight was to be the tool by with the Maker would end all of creation. They preached that it came from the Void, a place of nothing, and that returning to the Void was something to be celebrated because it meant an end to all pain and all suffering.

Some mistakenly take this to mean that the Empty Ones worshipped evil, but that is an oversimplification. The Empty Ones believed the world to be beyond redemption, and that it was the Maker's will that it be destroyed completely. There are tales of Empty Ones scouring the Deep Roads, searching for darkspawn, whom they saw as the blight's prophets in order to assist them in bringing about the next Blight.

Predictably, the beginning of the Second Blight saw the end of the Empty Ones. The entire cult made its way to the Anderfels, where they stood in the path of the encroaching darkspawn and, singing in praise of the oblivion that was to overtake them, were consumed.

--From Before Andrastianism: The Forgotten Faiths, by Sister Rondwyn of Tantervale
source: Codex entry: The Empty Ones via Dragon Age: Inquisition

So, like, the Empty Ones wanted to do the same damn thing that the Architect actually did (and the Wardens later tried): seek out the Old Gods and either accidentally or purposefully start a new Blight.

We are here
We have waited
We have slept
We are sundered
We are crippled
We are polluted
We endure
We wait
We have found the dreams again
We will awaken
source Note: Whispers Written in Red Lyrium via Dragon Age Inquisition

I think it's 100% sure that this refers to the Titans ("we have slept", "we have found the dreams again", "we will awaken", almost certainly "we are polluted", and quite possibly "we are sundered" if the Fade is part of the Titans in some way), though I suppose it's possible it refers to something else. Other candidates are the Old Gods ("we are polluted") and the Fade/Evanuris ("we are sundered").



As a note unrelated to any of that, Valta denies that what she does at the end of the Descent is magic; meanwhile, the Templars claim that their lyrium abilities also aren't magic; and, most importantly, Cole refers to templars as "blocking magic" and "reaching for that other thing" (i.e., the thing they're "trying to connect to", i.e., titans), and "magic has no room to come in [to a titan]". (This last bit Cole describes as "like when I listen to Varric", which I assume refers to Cole adhering to Varric's attempts to make him less spirit and more person. Is there something there? Titans and dwarves and templars are magicless and living, while elves and mages and spirits are magic and the Fade? Does that make any sense???).

Note that Cole also says, "They made bodies from the earth, and the earth was afraid. It fought back, but they made it forget." The Dragon Age wiki thinks that this is in reference to the titans, but I think it might actually be the opposite;it could have something to do with the origins of the Creators and/or the Forgotten Ones and/or the Forbidden Ones, especially if any of them are, as theorized, demons/spirits that have taken their own humanoid flesh (as Cole did).
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2019-02-22 05:12 pm

New Harry Potter FF Idea

Canonically, Voldemort asks Dumbledore for the DADA job in 1967; he is turned down. The Marauders, Snape, & Lily attend Hogwarts from 1971 - 1978.

Give me an AU in which the Mauraders, Snape, & Lily attended a Hogwarts at which Lord Voldemort actually was the DADA professor.
aftanith: (daenerys fire s6)
2019-01-13 03:01 pm
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50originals tables

Notes, Rules, Etc.
  • The challenge can be found here.
  • The tables are for original fiction, but I may or may not appropriate them for other things.
  • Fills should have a minimum length of 500 words.
  • At least forty-five prompts per table must be filled by newly written fic.
  • Up to five prompts per table may be replaced with a prompt of the author's choice.
  • Multiple prompts can be used for the same work, so long as there is no more than one prompt used per chapter.

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aftanith: (daenerys & missandei sailing)
2019-01-13 12:57 pm

A Year In Writing

Found here. The idea behind this community is to give the readers an insight, a glimpse per se into the lives of numerous individuals. These short stories should only be about 100 to 800 words in length; don’t try to make it any longer than 800 or shorter than 100. Claims can be an individual character or a couple, and they may be original characters, other author's characters, or even rpf "characters".

The mod doesn't mention OT3+ character groups, and has specific sanctions against "offensive material", which she defines as rape and incest; but no one's posted since 2009, so I'll just go ahead and write whatever the hell I want.
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2019-01-13 12:55 pm

villainy-100

Found here. Claim must be a villainous (or at the very least dark) character. Stories must be drabbles.

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2019-01-13 12:00 am

50harlequins | Parabellum - Sparrow/Frost(/Galen)

Found here. Claim can be a character, pairing, threesome/moresome, group of characters, or fandom.

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aftanith: (darth cersei proud)
2019-01-13 12:00 am

50alternates

Challenge found here. Claim can be a character, pairing, threesome/moresome, group of characters, or fandom.

Honestly, I don't think I'm interested in the historical prompts. But here they are anyway.

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2019-01-12 11:58 pm

3sentence | Parabellum - Sparrow/Frost/Galen

Found here.
Do you like [livejournal.com profile] 1sentence, but always wanted to claim a threesome/moresome paring? If that's the case then this place is for you. The rules are basically the same, write one sentence for each theme, but here you claim threesomes/moresomes instead of a two-character paring.

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aftanith: (cersei first of her name)
2019-01-12 11:58 pm

500themes

Found here. Claim anything--any character(s), pairing(s) or fandom(s). Fills must be at least 100 words in length.

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2019-01-12 11:56 pm

30-forbidden

Challenge located here. The overall theme is forbidden fruit; below are the specific prompts.

1. bitter 2. sweet 3. love 4. hate 5. black
6. white 7. forever 8. never 9. past 10. memory
11. forget 12. remember 13. hidden 14. dark 15. unknown
16. amuse 17. fear 18. escape 19. watch 20. afar
21. wait 22. happy 23. numb 24. lonely 25. forbidden
26. taste 27. touch 28. want 29. need 30. close