#evandar

Oromis’s favorite color is white (Gaedr is very irritated by this)

If Eragon was introduced to the modern world, he would call CPR necromancy

“BUT THEY WERE DEAD! NOW THEY’RE ALIVE?!!”

“What do you mean they don’t use magic?!?”

Once he understood how it worked he would immediately want to learn to do it himself

He would hang the license certificate in his bedroom :)

Eragon also likes to paint

But he likes to paint with his fingers like a 3-year-old

Saphira and Arya both have framed fingerpaint drawings from Eragon and won’t let anyone criticize them

While elves don’t really “sleep” they sometimes don’t realize their bodies relax completely

Eragon was very apologetic when he woke up and realized he had laid his head on Arya’s shoulder

Arya has fallen asleep standing up at least twice

Eragon is very ticklish

Saphira is not but she likes to laugh at Eragon when he gets tickled

You would lose your hand trying to tickle Arya or Saphira

Saphira sometimes get food stuck between her fangs and Eragon has to pull it out

Arya was was a very rambunctious child and liked to climb out of windows as opposed to using the door simply to spite Islanzadí

Evandar met Blagden before he courted Islanzadí, so Blagden would get really jealous when Evandar spent time with Islanzadí instead of him

Blagden was really attached to Arya when she was a baby

Islanzadí and Evandar had to remove Blagden from her crib more than once

Arya liked it and was very gentle with Blagden’s feathers and cuddled with him but would get fussy when her parents took him out of her crib

My first #elf portrait. Made back in October, it’s of King Evandar - lord of Du Weldenvarden (realm of the Elves in Alagaësia. Not much is known about him other than:

- He was the husband of Queen Idlanzadí and father of Arya.

- His life was saved by Blagden, a raven who he blessed with knowledge (and accidental albinism) after the bird scratched up the faces of attacking Urgals

- Evandar later was killed in action after leading a charge against Galbatorix and the Forsworn. Blagden survived for the rest of the series, even protecting Islanzadí during the Battle of Urû’baen.

Recently I’ve been looking at late-Roman models produced by Wargames Atlantic. I don’t like the look of their spears, I don’t like how they decided to cut the arms (they’ll be more difficult than they IMO need to be to look good, as-is), and the shields are rounder than I’d like them to be. The main selling-point for me is that they’re sculpted with one of my favourite weapons of all time: the Roman lead-weighted war-dart that replaced the pilum-style javelins in the final centuries of the Roman Empire, the plumbata.

And that got me thinking, a lot. On my LotR sideblog I finally got what Tolkien might have been aiming for when he has 1st Age elf Eöl try to murder his son with a “poisoned dart” that he smuggles into a secret city, and that sparked the idea... what if IC elves used thrown weapons of some variety?

IRL I think the reason they faded out of common use has to do with more, better and more thickly padded armour becoming more common as the technology developed, but that wouldn’t necessarily be a concern for the elves. As strong as they are I think they would definitely still have a place in the elvish armoury - if Arya can impale multiple fully-armoured Imperials by throwing a normal spear (IE not designed to be thrown), what exactly would an elf do with a sling? A javelin? Or, as it happens, a war-dart? Particularly a weighted one? I don’t know if they’d use lead, considering how toxic it is, but copper and silver are also quite dense heavy metals, quite soft metals, and depending where you live, moderately common - especially for elves, who can trade for it or just suck it out of the ground/water with a handy spell. Same applies for gold honestly, though gold is considerably denser heavier than even lead. I don’t think an elf would have issues with ridiculous throws even with gold-weighted darts, though.

Just... Imagine charging an elvish ramshackle “army”, more a mob really since they don’t march or even fight in formation and everyone seems to rock up with whatever kit they’ve got like ancient Greek or Italian citystates did it, and then there’s just... an absolute hail of supersonic balls of lead, copper and so on whizzing through multiple men if they’re enchanted against deforming, or absolutely exploding the guy they hit if they’re not (since soft metals deform easily, they’d mushroom in the body...). They’d be quick to reload as well, since you just put another ball in the sling and spin it a few times before letting go - absolutely broken, in elvish hands.

As for the darts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfgMfSZiQSU This guy has another video where he remade them with longer shafts, but even the short ones punch right through though bits of pork and have no problem lodging into wood.

Haha not to sound like a broken record but, so sorry I took this long to respond! My academic life currently is pure chaos lol.

Some Evandar headcanons!

We don’t know much about Papa Elf! But will that stop me from bullshitting my way through this ask? Of course not!

His duty as king is the most important thing to him. Arya gets that from Evandar.

Arya gets a lot of her core personality traits from her father. She may look like her mom (minus the eyes), but that’s where the similarities stop.

As implied, I think he had Arya’s green eyes.

He was a really great, loving father! I always have thought of Islanzadi as like, a manipulative helicopter mom, and Evandar... not.... like that lol. A chill dude.

He loved Arya more than anything, and all he wanted was for her to grow up in a world that was safe and peaceful.

Super loyal and strong moral compass!

Really solid in the swordsmanship department but Islanzadi and Arya could both easily kick his ass if he had lived past Arya’s childhood.

Had a lot of stereotypical female hobbies! Flower growing, artsy fartsy stuff, etc.

Great sense of humor but also gave no fucks. He knew how to be lighthearted and have a good time, but also did what he had to do. People learned fast not to get in his way.

The bird who’s name sounds vaguely like Bagdad genuinely loved Evandar and was super sweet to only him. When he he died Not-Bagdad really struggled.

So, I know in the books it’s emphesized that Arya and her mum look incredibly alike. Same black hair, similar facial features, ect. However, and I’m quite surprised at this, apparently Islanzadi’s eye color is never explicitly stated, though I’m only guessing that because the wiki doesn’t have an eye color listed. I think at some points it’s stated as ‘dark,’ and Arya’s eyes have been explained as a very dark emerald to the point of almost being black (I think?? I tended to skim over Eragon getting creepy/puppylove staring), so I’ve just been assuming that Izzy’s eyes are green due to that and also how it seems to be a common eye color for elves. 

Part of me wants to give Izzy a hazel eye color (it wouldn’t even show up on the page because the eyes are so small), and let Arya get her eye color from her dear old Da. Evandar gets so little recognition, despite him apparently being a part of Arya’s life that she cherishes (the farith of him in her room, giving all of herself to the people of Alagaesia like her father did, fighting against Galbatorix who likely killed him, ect), and I want to let him get this tiny bit of love.

this ask is 7 months old im so fuckin sorry

-Honestly, I’m not really sure what Islanzadi would be like as a child.  I’d like to imagine that elf children have some degree of personality, but the only description we get from the book establishes that they 1) are magical 2) are creppy 3) like to stare at people from a distance.

-Though I can imagine a young Islanzadi being excellent at all 3.

-She truly loves Evandar.  They got to know each other before Evandar became king and the relationship that they built before hand helps them weather the difficulties that come with his strenuous position.

-In general, Islanzadi would defer to her mate when he would make decisions about the elven kingdom(? nation? idk).  She would alway give her thoughts if he asked, but she knew that he constantly received advice from countless elven lords so she never started political arguments with him unless she considered it of the highest importance.

-But she was always listening, thinking, and learning.  By the time she took over his rule, Islanzadi was just as capable and intelligent a ruler as Evandar ever was.

-Her grief at his loss blinds her though.  It affects her relationship with Arya a lot.  The fear of losing her daughter after losing her mate drives Islanzadi to be very possessive of her.

-I’ve mentioned the way that Islanzadi immediately dismisses Arya as dead after she learns of the urgal attack before, but I think that that really has to do with her grief over Evandar.

-His loss is so fresh to her that it prevents her from maintaining hope for Arya, out of the fear that it will be destroyed again.  She abandons her out of desperation to process her grief as quickly as she can.

(A/N: A young Arya attends a very important event. This memory is eventually to be used in a future story series. I didn't reread this but I'll probably be doing edits over time.)

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MODERN INHERITANCE: A REQUIEM

The sun was shining. For all things, it was a beautiful day. Golden beams lit the edges of floating forget-me-nots and set the throats of white lilies along the path burning with resplendent fire. 

But the birds did not sing. The insects that buzzed and hummed were silent. The only creature daring to bring noise to the forest was Blagden, a mournful, keening melody rising and falling as he perched atop the Menoa tree.