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dnd spell: vicious mochrie – summons an enraged balding canadian to improv melee damage at your enemies (roll for comedic effect)

if you have a bag of holding you can give him two items to use as props. 

Can he use Hoedown as a cantrip?

only if you’re fighting drew carey

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Triggered by another post I didn’t want to hijack:

Excalibur.

In the legends, Excalibur comes out of a lake (although some versions have Excalibur as the sword in the stone, those are later…the sword Arthur pulls from the stone breaks and he goes to get a better one).

From the “Lady of the Lake.”

Here’s the thing.

In northern Europe in the Iron Age all the way through to the early Medieval period, most iron came from bog iron. It was hard to smelt, because it was a rather low grade ore, but you didn’t have to mine it and it was a renewable resource (in about twenty years you could just come back and get more, because it formed constantly).

Meaning that the iron used to make a sword came…out of water.

In most fairy stories, fairies don’t like iron. So the vision of the Lady as some kind of fairy or elf? Not likely.

The idea of her as a druid? Maybe.

But what’s far more likely is this: The Lady of the Lake was a smith.

But….but…

The Celtic deity in charge of smiths and ironworking was Bridget, a goddess. The mystical associations with the Lady would fit with her being a priestess of Bridget…and thus, a smith.

IOW, Arthurian people, maybe we should not be visualizing the Lady of the Lake  as a slender, graceful woman in a gown…

…but as a jacked smith in an apron.

Yes PLEASE!

@magitekbeth

This had never, ever occurred to me. But after careful consideration: YES PLEASE.

I can’t believe I got to my forties without thinking of it myself!

i like this, but i think it’s more likely that the lady of the lake is an echo of the primarily female water pilgrimmages that happened across the north from the late stone age up to, quite possibly, the 1400′s or so. still water, particularly the black water of bogs and the unlit water of caves, symbolized both death and birth. these women may have been shamans, or they may simply have been spiritually motivated people, but whether they were magicians or not they were very probably midwives and physicians.

so rather than a muscular smith, i visualize a wise but gentle elder who has brought souls into the world and seen them out for many years. the sword she provides comes out of the water of birth and death; that is to say, it has a soul.

related thought: the lady of the lake was said to be ‘clad in white samite’. samite was a silk cloth from the east; people who would have access to it in england were royalty, and those who had traveled as far as the silk road. like, say, a doctor and holy woman who had taken the water pilgrimmage through the caves of eastern europe.

yeah, the more i think about it the more i like my shaman/midwife headcanon.

Jacked af shaman who can also smith.

aro-ace-from-outer-space22:

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frodoes:

aragorn’s instagram consists of aesthetic nature stills and legolas’s instagram consists of blurry photos of aragorn taking the pictures

aragorn’s instagram is only horse pictures

you are, of course, correct and i was too much of a coward to say it

Boromir’s Instagram is Faramir

elrondfucker69:

I’m a little entranced by the idea of a Feanorian managing to have a child. Watch them grow, crafting jewelry as easily as forging armor. The blood of a High King crawls in their veins.

Maybe they were borne in secrecy, and they never know of their bloodline, but they prove to be masters at their craft, and the word ‘Feanorian’ echoes through their minds from time to time, but they never know what exactly it is. Elf mixes with Man, and through the generations, the power is never diluted, but it continues to hum in their blood.

Feanorians have mastered the skill of word and hand. Their blades come to glow with an eerie light. Their words can allure, influence thoughts, change minds. The power of their forefather lies within them, it answers when it is called, in fact, it grows stronger. They live through Arda, through generations, through new worlds.

What is this power, someone asks.

“Fëanor’s-” he says without much thought, though he stops. The name is foreign to him.

“Force?” the stranger asks, having misheard him.

“Yes. The Force.”

rubyleaf:

Rereading LOTR has really reminded me of two things: 1) I still adore Book!Legolas (although I love his movie version too), and 2) there’s not enough content of this version of him. So, just because I can, have this Book!Legolas appreciation post about my favorite traits of his:

• Absolutely LOVES his friends. We all know about his friendship with Gimli, but there’s more. To elaborate:
• Affectionately calls Merry and Pippin “the merry young hobbits” and stresses so much when they’re kidnapped that he almost doesn’t let his companions rest on their pursuit of the Uruk-hai. When they find out the hobbits are safe and turn from their pursuit together with Gandalf, he seems genuinely disappointed they might not see them again.
• Declares he’ll go with Aragorn before the latter has had a chance to say where he’s planning to go (which he doesn’t know himself yet, but it turns out to be the Paths of the Dead).
• Doesn’t want to translate the Elves’ songs about Gandalf because he still isn’t over his fall; at his return he’s the first to recognize him and the joy in his reaction speaks for itself.
• Would prefer to go to Minas Tirith but says he will follow Frodo to Mordor if that’s where he wants to go.
• For that matter, also tries to come up with ways to help his friends a lot. In the situation above he first suggests a vote so Frodo doesn’t have to decide by himself, for instance; when Gimli doesn’t want to borrow a horse but can’t keep up on foot he lets him ride behind him so he doesn’t have to worry about either; and so on.
• Laughs way more than his movie counterpart, especially around Gimli. Pretty playful and prone to poking fun at his friends and the differences between them in general, featuring the occasional nicknaming.
• More humble than his movie version. Treats the body count battle at Helm’s Deep as more of a joke and doesn’t care about Gimli winning because he’s so glad to see him safe and sound; later proceeds to brag about Gimli’s body count to Treebeard as an argument to let them both travel Fangorn. Later on he all but fanboys over Elladan and Elrohir after seeing them.
• Tries to comfort and cheer up his friends when they’re not doing well, like when he comforts Gimli when he’s sad about leaving Lothlórien or when he asks Aragorn to tell them what’s bothering him after he looked into the Orthanc-stone.
• Really excited about cool forests and beautiful nature and stuff he only heard about in songs. Prone to running ahead and calling to the others to follow when excited about a place, but also prone to doing something impulsive.
• Basically just a super cool person. 20/10 would befriend.