dravanian:

The Cenotaph

The assistance of Sharlayan researchers living in Eorzea, a way to govern ourselves away from the Old World.

@faerie-apples and myself have put together an IC/OOC discord for Sharlayans. We would like to create an organization that consists primarily of researchers that can come together not just to aid one another but to discuss how to deal with current state of affairs outside the Old World.

What are are looking for:

  • Balmung players! (Only for now.)
  • Specifically Sharlayans researchers. We would like characters who are active in a field of research.
  • Characters that are actively being RPd with. All we ask is that if you have interest that you are active whether in-game or in text. We would prefer not to collect alts who collect dust.

If you would like to join the discord PLEASE contact either myself or Manda via TUMBLR MESSAGE. It’s still rough in the works but we would like to begin organizing slowly!

Looking for Ala Mhigan RP

allthegall:

The potential for deep plots and past connections abounds, but first I’d like to meet and get to know people who also play Ala Mhigan exiles. Bonus if your character is old enough to remember the fall, and/or was involved with criminal sorts.

In spite of his sordid criminal past, Byron is… odd for a highlander. I want to explore possible friction with that, too. Our characters don’t necessarily have to get along. Hell, I welcome conflict.

Get in touch with me here via ask, or find me in game. 😀

Put one of these words in my ask and I’ll write a headcanon about it for my character(s)

inboxideas:

requested by anonymous as a continuation of this meme.

  • Empathy
  • Justice
  • Respect
  • Age
  • Society 
  • Politics
  • Imprisonment 
  • War
  • Darkness
  • Afterlife
  • Seasons
  • Killing
  • (Chain of) Command
  • Family
  • Friendship
  • Rivalry 
  • Education 
  • Morals 
  • Religion 
  • Discipline 
  • Freedom
  • Safety 
  • Honesty
  • Hatred
  • Gain
  • Resolution
  • Holidays
  • Ghosts
  • Home
  • Gluttony
  • Addiction
  • Pride
  • Hedonism
  • Sloth
  • Tradition
  • Lust
  • Ambition
  • Celebration
  • Failure
  • Success
  • Obsession
  • Admiration
  • Punishment
  • Intimacy
  • Innocence
  • Belief
  • Sacrifice
  • Secrets
  • Introspection
  • Consequences

Void Headcanon Post, Part 1

because i need to make more of these, I guess.

Random info about various voidsent that I have been using in RP: 

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Colloquially known as “gnats”, the lowest order of voidsent resemble vilekin with horns and human-like teeth. They come in a range of sizes – mostly they are tiny, about the size of horseflies, but examples have been found that are the size of a fully grown chocobo. Gnats of all sizes manifest more or less spontaneously around concentrations of active void energy.

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Puddings occasionally spring forth from places of immense filth and corruption. Though they have what amounts to a face, they are not sentient. They can, however, repeat sounds perfectly, including voices – more than one unwary adventurer has followed a friend’s cries for help in the darkness, only to find himself face to face with the blank eyes of a voidsent screaming in his friend’s voice. 

Their tasty-sounding taxonomy was coined by an Ishgardian voidmath with an extremely peculiar sense of humor.

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A common subject of the reverence of void cults all over Eorzea, mind flayers must be summoned into the corpse of a sentient being. The corpse undergoes a hideous metamorphosis, its head being entirely consumed and replaced by the mind flayer’s squid-like body, and regrowing any flesh it has lost in the process of decay. In general mind flayers are arrogant creatures – they seem to delight in the adoration of mortals and prefer to inhabit the bodies of kings and emperors. 

The resemblance between the head of a mind flayer and certain kinds of earthly sea creatures is a hotly debated topic among scholars. Limsan academics, familiar with the horrors of the water, have proposed that voidgates open naturally deep within the ocean; an outlandish Sharlayan theory holds that squids and octopuses are simply the detached heads of actual mind flayers, grown feral and beastlike. 

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Atomoi are bizarre beings that appear only rarely in creation. Even among scholars of the void there is much superstition and very little solid information about them. 

An atomos’s gaping maw is capable of swallowing anything small enough to fit inside it, and it is driven by a ravenous hunger that cannot ever be sated. When swallowed, the victim does not actually end up inside the atomos itself – thus its unending hunger. Instead, the atomos’s maw is a gateway to either absolute annihilation, or some kind of strange stasis-universe inaccessible from the outside. Some powerful voidsent use atomoi as living prisons for their most hated enemies. 

It is possible that the phenomenon known as “Ozma”, which the Mhachi used to obliterate the city of Nym, is derived from research into the properties of the atomoi.