some stuff about the practice of ancestor veneration in velothi households
when a baby is born a grandparent or parent anoints it with ash from the hearth and introduces it to the house spirits by showing it to the waiting-door. the family member presenting the baby might also ask a particular spirit to serve as the baby's cardehn (ancestor-guardian); that ancestor is then expected to keep a close eye on the baby throughout its life and offer guidance, counsel, or protection when needed
on the other hand many families hold off on petitioning a specific ancestor to act as a newborn's cardehn so that the baby is free to choose for itself once it's old enough to decide. many children without an appointed cardehn wait until the passing of a close loved one (usually a family elder) and choose them
after your family's patron god and any very prominent or recently-deceased ancestors your cardehn is the first household spirit whom you're expected to invoke in prayer. when you're old enough you're also expected to take charge of the family's veneration of that particular ancestor by burning routine offerings for them
when a member of the household is dying a simple meal is set out in the room in which they're being tended; after the family member passes on their caretakers and any others who kept vigil at the deathbed eat half of the meal they'd prepared. the other half is burnt as an offering for the spirit or spirits who came to help the deceased "through the fire" (fire, particularly one's hearthfire, being considered a passage between the realms of life and death in the velothi consciousness)
when mourning a loved one it's customary in some families to cut off a lock of your hair and burn it as an offering in addition to the usual offerings of food. cutting and burning all of one's hair is a wild expression of grief that's usually only performed by people who have lost a loved one unexpectedly or parents who have lost a child
Omg thanks for sharing this answer. I was so in awe of your crazy use of color, gave those drawings of elves a really expressionistic / otherwordly (or psychodelic? I guess) feel and I often found myself scrolling the older drawings on your blog :3
You just reminded me that I used to rely on like 10 classical drawings + photos to pick my color palette for my older "wizard in an armchair" drawings, now I got used to skipping this part unfortunately lol. This post gave me so much color inspiration again, thank you <3
im in love with the way you colour so so muchhh😠do yew have some sort of method or just wing it?
thank you! 🧡 well, honestly, i don't think im on the level of being able to just very easily wing it; guess im close but there's some work to be done for me to be fully satisfied w the way i color . however i do have a few methods lul obviously the basic knowledge of color theory helps .. color wheel/triangle , opposite colors and alldat. try to keep those things in mind (the superiority of green-red / blue-orange / yellow-purple etc) if u wanna learn to use colors well i think that using limited palettes always helps ; PRO tip from me is to use the ever living fack of the web colors palette from krita im obsessed w it .Â
here r some palettes picked from my art. i recently have started to try and keep the colors limited to some degree and not go ham on the amount of shades i have in one drawing
this is showing calmer drawings & brighter ones (ones that ‘stand out’ more) but its all about what kinda ‘mood’ you wanna show in the art u make ...and lol ....... another fun thing u can try and do is colorpick older/classical paintings if the colors stand out to you. i have a few palettes that i just colorpicked from older art that stood out to me w the shades but i cannot for the life of me remember what paintings i looked at LMFAO; so have this as an example
Khajro being given a moon amulet by his mum. So that he can always remember his home and the warm sands.
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Why so few arts of this adorable khajiit follower?
There's an old legend about a senile wizard and his apprentice.
One day he took the lad to the forest to give him a profound lecture about everything that grew there. But the lecture was so loooong and boooring that by the end of they day... they both turned into mushrooms :)
Now, everytime you'll see two mushrooms in the fortest - that might be the elderly wizard and the poor apprentice bored to death!
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I sure can turn into a mushroom on some of my uni lectures lol.
I don't have anything else to offer besides this Neloth - take him plz, he's all yours.
I've made this illustration to give vent to my hype over @greyborn2's fanfic - about the early history of Tel Mithryn and... goblins.
Check this fragment out:
As such places generally were, the slave markets of Dagon Fel were a sad little affair. Only the Dres tried to hide the misery places like that held. With mixed success. Mostly this one wasn’t even run by distinguished traders; it was just unfortunates trying to sell themselves or a family member off for some hope of escaping this ashen rock. Quality was an assurance that could not be relied upon without knowing what to look for. It took Neloth a good hour of questioning, and shooing away hopefuls, before he even started to find some that knew the first thing about brewing tea. Even fewer seemed to have the skill… the basic decencies and decorum… he expected of a potential steward.
Isn't it the Dunmer literature in its purest form? Here's the entire work, have fun reading as I did :D
Umm... "Neloth" kinda rhymes with "melon" xD
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I wish for all of you to enjoy the summer like this melon-eating mer :3
Master Aryon, busy keeping "House Telvanni" a house.
An oddball, even among Telvanni: making allies rather than isolating himself and having unconventional ideas - like planting his mushroom tower inside of an Imperial castle (:
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One of my favourite characters encountered in Morrowind.
An average participant of the rat race.
call me Vidvana | she/her they/them meow/meow | demibi? | being slightly deranged is tasteful | https://linktr.ee/vidvana
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