Ridley wasn't born a god of death. He carved the title out by literally slaughtering thousands of planets' worth of people.

Devouring, fully erasing another into oneself, ruining and hiding the remains in Flame and Shade.
Corruption, Influence. Both remaining stagnant, like a beast pausing to consume prey or ice freezing in place, and rocketing around like a streak of light or sprinting winds. In both, those around are influenced, corrupted, by the being's presence; being chilled and frozen in stagnation and seared and scorching in brutal motion.
Flowing, never remaining still, always on the move and never breaking for a pause. never giving themself the time to Influence others much longer than a handful of moments. like Wind, only influencing one by brushing against them in movement, or water in motion, only staining those that touch it for some moments.

so i had an idea for what dust might look like to hide itself(perhaps to be handily available to kill off a few of the combatants in the flower thing), and this seems like it'd probably be convincing enough for dust to settle on it https://www.heroforge.com/load_config%3D509034005/

also if you were interested in seeing what i made snake dust look like, i apparently had a second heroforge of that https://www.heroforge.com/load_config%3D508907787/

AshTheAvaricious wrote:

Fun Fact! Dust's entire body, if forced into flesh or something else not made of darkness, it would be absolutely horrific to look at.

Specifically its face, because of what happened to it after consuming the souls of a handful of divine. i'd explain further but i feel like this probably requires, or at least should have, a spoiler over it and i don't know how to do that

 
To do spoilers, put (spoiler) in front of the text but instead of the parentheses put [] and then at the end put that again but with a / in front of the spoiler word part

Echo wrote:

To do spoilers, put (spoiler) in front of the text but instead of the parentheses put and then at the end put that again but with a / in front of the spoiler word part

cool thanks

anyways so dust's face right? fucked up in so many ways, if you don't like bad things on faces being described don't click the spoiler. the sole exception is that none of it looks old or rotting!

Dust's face is barely held together, its mouth is burned so thoroughly that there's hardly flesh left. There's like two strands of its face left to keep its jaw from going slack. where most beings have eyes or noses, dust looks like somebody's taken a spoon and tried to carve it into a bowling ball. if it is made in flesh, it always looks raw and red. as though it just happened. beyond that, there are deep lacerations, welling with its black and vile ichor. All of it looks fresh, despite happening like. years ago at this point.

weren't plans for doing deity meeting happening? is that still gonna happen. i have two, maybe three, characters i can throw in there

if nobody else does a deity meeting in the next week imma do it myself(threat)

the thing is that ash would have perfect reason, and space, to host it. there's other options, like the clocktower people probably wanting to help felix.

also, i think the cds and prospero might want to have a meeting at some point soon, considering the fact that the cds are currently failing to help his people as promised and the cds probably want to manage expectations and figure out what the hell they're doing
 

just realized i don't need to have my characters contained in one thread at a time. i will become unstoppable once i have an idea for thread

like i understand that it's probably deliberate characterization but like. in the introductory thread for critchun he was 100% on board with adding her to the clocktower residency until it let chronos pet them. and then there was a lever shift and he started calling them 'bug' and being utterly disgusted with its existence at the clocktower

had the perfect name for a story about how dust ascended to godhood, but i can't think of enough things to justify its grandiose name.

the title idea was Coronation of Shadows if anybody wants to help with ideas

ough i am so many thoughts about my elden ring playthrough.

firstly, it's really funny that the weapon i ended up using to slaughter the elden beast and fell almost all of the bosses was the fourth one i acquired and kept. i remember when i was powerstancing scimitars(and then falchions) against margit and godrick, and then came the bloodhound's fang and i never let it out of my hands once i got the stats to one-hand it. i definitely considered a few other weapons, namely the blasphemous blade but decided against it once i noticed that it had arms and moved, but they never made it into any boss fights or really past trying them out.

another consistincy was my tendecy to mark myself a servant of the lord of blood, solely to light my blade ablaze in his bloodflame. and then i killed him, taking lordship over my spells along with the sixth great rune. every other spell i used was taken from the slaughter of dragons, or in praise of the ancient dragons and their immortality. which i also struck out of the sky , by killing all who dain approach and entering the eye of the storm beyond time to bathe my blade in the crackling blood of their dragonlord placidusax. all of the spells i used i gained through combat or gathered lordship over by slaughtering their former masters. hells even the stone of gurranq, which i only used against one boss and then really never again, was given to me by gurranq because i had slew keepers of the deathroot, and bested him in combat. and then i killed a weird time-displaced version of him to burn down the erdtree, and smother the capital in not bathing rays of gold but charring ash of the kiln.

yet another throughline was that basically since i went to caelid to reach the chapel of dragon communion, i had worn the banished knight helm. i changed into better and better gear through my journey, and yet i never parted with that old helm garned from the corpse of an exile. Be it by blade or by the obscured and golden eyes of a dragon that my foes knew me, it mattered little. I delivered each and all their end, bathed in boundless blood and flame.

AshTheAvaricious wrote:

ough i am so many thoughts about my elden ring playthrough.

firstly, it's really funny that the weapon i ended up using to slaughter the elden beast and fell almost all of the bosses was the fourth one i acquired and kept. i remember when i was powerstancing scimitars(and then falchions) against margit and godrick, and then came the bloodhound's fang and i never let it out of my hands once i got the stats to one-hand it. i definitely considered a few other weapons, namely the blasphemous blade but decided against it once i noticed that it had arms and moved, but they never made it into any boss fights or really past trying them out.

another consistincy was my tendecy to mark myself a servant of the lord of blood, solely to light my blade ablaze in his bloodflame. and then i killed him, taking lordship over my spells along with the sixth great rune. every other spell i used was taken from the slaughter of dragons, or in praise of the ancient dragons and their immortality. which i also struck out of the sky , by killing all who dain approach and entering the eye of the storm beyond time to bathe my blade in the crackling blood of their dragonlord placidusax. all of the spells i used i gained through combat or gathered lordship over by slaughtering their former masters. hells even the stone of gurranq, which i only used against one boss and then really never again, was given to me by gurranq because i had slew keepers of the deathroot, and bested him in combat. and then i killed a weird time-displaced version of him to burn down the erdtree, and smother the capital in not bathing rays of gold but charring ash of the kiln.

yet another throughline was that basically since i went to caelid to reach the chapel of dragon communion, i had worn the banished knight helm. i changed into better and better gear through my journey, and yet i never parted with that old helm garned from the corpse of an exile. Be it by blade or by the obscured and golden eyes of a dragon that my foes knew me, it mattered little. I delivered each and all their end, bathed in boundless blood and flame.

I see you also wrote lore for your elden ring character

impressive

ThreePunchAxel wrote:

I see you also wrote lore for your elden ring character

impressive

i didn't even really write any lore, that's just genuinely what i did in the game.  i extrapolated a few meanings behind actions, but that's about it.