saerdha:

klynk-klank:

Starlight Celebrations

We first started talking when you sent a tumblr message (complete with typo) and it’s been so much fun roleplaying and chatting since, even through a character change. 

Your character is amazing and beautiful, a joy to interact with and to draw finally. Happy Starlight and thank you for everything.

Just to reiterate what I said in discord:

HOLY fucking SHIT this is beautiful. Someone scrape me off the ground pls I’ve been floored.

Voidsent Headcanons, Part owo

this has been sitting on my desktop for ages waiting for more but I’m just gonna go ahead and post it

AHRIMAN
One of the most familiar voidsent in Eorzea, owing to its frequent use as a minion by thaumaturges. Ahriman have an obscure and complicated life cycle, beginning life as tiny bat-sized creatures no smarter than a cat, but they grow exponentially larger and more intelligent through consuming aether. The oldest ahriman are massive beings of nigh-incomprehensible intellect. The fact that they begin life so tiny and tractable means that they are a safer summon, relatively speaking, for the aspiring voidmath; they are so common and their methods of calling and binding so well-studied that they are even permitted as familiars to members of the extremely conservative Ossuary – provided, of course, they do not overfeed the demon and cause it to grow cunning enough to give its master the slip. There exist thaumaturgical rituals to temporarily increase an ahriman familiar in size without making it corrospondingly more powerful so they could be used as mounts, but it has long since been lost – and most scholars in Eorzea today seem to agree that they wouldn’t make very good mounts in any case…where would you SIT?

Ahriman who are not summoned into the world by magicians come about in a most gruesome fashion – they possess the eyes of the recently dead, causing the eyeballs to sprout tiny limbs and tear themselves out of the sockets to fully manifest some minutes later. The conditions which cause ahriman to be able to appear this way are not well understood; the Ul’dahn practice of laying silver coins over the eyes of a corpse, ostensibly in honor of the Trader, is thought by some to have originally been an attempt to prevent the deceased from playing host to an ahriman.

The Thavnairian habit of closing one eye, or covering it up with your hand, to bring good luck (similar to the Isghardian tradition of crossing one’s fingers) is related to the fact that a great many ahriman, for whatever reason, seem exceptionally delighted by gambling and games of chance. A number of folk tales feature quick-witted heroes tricking their way out of a monster’s clutches by exploiting this idiosyncratic quirk.