#nadalia

Well, it’s not perfect but I TRIED for my dear friend @katyspersonal who wanted to see pre-transformed Nadalia, Bride of Ash from Dark Souls 2! I would like to try designing her again in the future!

Happy Birthday (one day late) Katy <33

Thank you for the ask, anon! Any excuse to yap about Raime (my beloved) will be taken >:)

So as we're told in game, Raime came to Brume Tower in search of greater strength after his exile from Drangleic and defeat at the hands of Velstadt. After being forced to leave his home, I think Raime will have travelled to many different places to train and get stronger, emphasized by the fact the description of his baneful bird ring says "he reconsidered his way of life and was born again as a stalwart warrior". He was actively seeking more strength, both so that he could return back to the Kingdom he loved and so he would not feel as weak as his defeat had made him feel.

Throughout his travels he learns of a dark force, a black fog that surrounds the abandoned tower of the Old Iron King, and those who have ventured to the tower seeking to plunder its vast amounts of iron have never returned. Raime figures that if he's able to expunge the black fog from the tower- we know he had the ability to do so- and perhaps take the power for himself, he'll be able to return home and set things right.

So he ventures to the tower, with the intent of slaying whatever lies within.

As he descends the tower, he becomes privy to the whispers within, and the overhanging feelings of loneliness and sorrow- Nadalia was the fragment of Manus' solitude, after all. She more than likely attempts to entice him into her service as she has done to many before, but Raime remains stalwart in his goal and steels himself to face a dangerous foe.

Though the lower he descends into the tower's depths the deeper these emotions stir, and Raime feels himself.. resonating with them. They more than likely speak as Raime continues his path downward, until he reaches lowermost floor, where the voices tell him that they await.

Stepping into the dome that would later become his boss arena, and down the ashen stairs, Raime comes face with not a threat, but the corpse of a forsaken, heartbroken woman. The whispers introduce themselves then as Nadalia.

She tells Raime how she sought a King, but when she arrived, she found that the king was gone and his kingdom left in shambles. How in her despair she split her soul apart and clung to his old relics to soothe the unending loneliness in her heart- a loneliness she could sense that Raime understood all too well. He'd lost his own King, the man who he saw as a father. He'd failed in his own task, just as Nadalia had failed in hers... And though this darkness was the same he'd felt around Nashandra, Raime could tell that unlike her, Nadalia was no threat. Just a broken woman in need of a blade to protect her. Someone to understand her.

So rather then expunge the black fog, as he'd journeyed there to do, Raime chose to embrace it and become Nadalia's protector.

Abandoned as he had been by a regal father, Nadalia opened her arms (not literally of course) and offered him the embrace of a mother, an embrace that would soothe them both.

Y'all know the drill by now.

hi hi, i still have all these asks! havent forgotte, just busy, and now switching to CSP for my sketches :)