gwinivid
independent portrayal of the wyrd of iron silk ◞ an original character inspired by dark fantasy, tolkien, asoiaf, elder scrolls, & soulsborne . .
as told by doll.needs.church.
wyrd of iron silk ◞ archmaiden of blighted charmstone◞ the felwyrm’s bitch◞ realmseek◞ iron’s bane◞ priestess of archived ephemeris◞ lady of aeonian torchlight◞ the pallid blood star◞ marrowcursed ◞ dame of augury◞ broodmother◞ mourning star divinatrix◞ witch of strix◞ hallowed blade of decay◞ spellweave◞ veiled visitor◞ auramancer’s effigy◞ lunarhewn lily ◞ rotting pearl ◞ revenant’s antiquity . . . exploring the heroine with 1000 faces across fate.
❝the iron lily blooms once more. you shall witness true horror.❞
the world of oon is placed on the back of dead gods, where elves are born of starlight, & oneiric mists beckon . . themes of aeonian heroines & catharsis through the monster. oft grotesque & macabre. multi-paragraph.
Before you follow . . .
i ask for common adherence to a dni involving personally held beliefs in defense of racism, lgbtqia aggressions and phobias, ableism, zionism, sexism. common courtesy is expected & encouraged. i am block heavy.
triggering content will be present within this prose. gothic romance, the macabre, the grotesque, and the cerebral pique my interest as both an author and a reader, and i am a safe place for exploration of horrific themes.
this prose is meant for audiences and participants ages 24 and above. thank you!
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**minors dni. please read the guidelines before interacting. love to talk homebrew or different verses to put my muse in. no reposting. oon is, by all intents and purposes, the lore of a nonexistent soulslike video game. the heroine is reincarnated with every quest death.
GUIDELINES
DO'S
i do ask questions.
i do use starter inspirations.
i do create moodboards & playlists.
i do request certain themes & motifs.
i do respond in whatever length & prose i am comfy with.
DONT'S
i do not plagarize or use ai.
i do not approach gothic fiction with bad faith.
i find it extremely difficult to write with people who do not proof read their work, as i am easy to confuse without clarity.
i do not coddle, infantalize, or otherwise woobify villains.
i do not fade to black on gore or violence, or sexual content.
001 HOMEBREW my muse's canon lore is a homebrew entirely of my own, that i am dungeon master for in my real life. if you are ever curious about any of the lore you see me write or post, do not hesitate to ask. i do ask that you do not use my lore as inspiration, as my homebrew is deeply personal to me, and it is easy to find inspiration from the same pieces of media and art that i do! 𖹭 002 CANON is welcome to very high powered characters, including gods, goddesses, nobility, myths, supernatural powers that be, magic, and curses. there is nothing too powerful that i am not willing to discuss writing for, including godhood & topics surrounding such. however, i am very happy writing simple, slice of life fluff, too. 003 MEMES are highly encouraged, i am always open and willing to be tagged in sillies or thought provoking mun/muse questionaires. feel free to tag or poke me to discuss!
004 INTERACTION may be initiated freely, but i do ask that there is a discussion before hand with mun about muses. i am more likely to respond to people i am following, mutuals, friends, or otherwise. 005 STYLE i tend to write in varying levels of length, depending on my energy level, but i prefer to write prose centered on symbolism, introspection, and character focus. flowery language will often be present within my prose, and i am verbose with my descriptions - this is what makes me happiest, and if you do not enjoy that style of writing, i do not think we will be a good match for one another as writing partners. 006 LENGTH i do not require matching length of response, ever, and i ask you do the same for me. if some time has passed between responses, feel free to poke me - within reason. i have highs and lows, and may take days or weeks to respond. in return for your patience, i will be happy to wait for you just the same.
007 TRIGGERS i adhere to a general trigger tag, but please do not hesitate to poke me about anything you simply cannot have within our writing, and i will do my best to be mindful of such things. no judgement. that being said, this is a horror muse and i would like to keep it that way. comfort and fluff are welcomed, but i am most interested in writing within the gothic genre. 008 BLOCK i am block heavy, and it is never done with any hard feelings on the matter. in return i offer you the same grace. if you are concerned or have any questions, do not hesitate to reach out. i am willing to discuss with you, especially if a mutual or friend. 009 ROMANCE is encouraged, and this is a multiversal muse interacting romantically or otherwise with multiple different characters and storylines. ooc bleed is never tolerated. 010 OOC chat is encouraged! i love to chat about my muse for leisure, too. sometimes i will be faster about replying to these than active writing threads. please respect that!
STATS
gwin has a nebulous history. a relatively sickly child, her memories are blanketed in an oneiric fog that is hard to wade through. she knows naught of her past, only that with every incarnation of her soul-made-flesh, she is filled with a gnawing hunger, a void unfurling within. fel-light shadow licked at her heel from the moment she descended from the inky black above, a shard of icy starlight distilled into that of kindred. insomnia and night terrors ail her, and yet she is lunarhewn nonetheless. starborne. luminar embedded within marrow, abyssal light, lady of the lake. phylactery of the flesh. the elf that swallowed a star. the child that ate a god. ✧
NAME
gwinivid. NICKNAME/ALIAS
gwin, winnie, nivi. TITLES
winth's hound, wyrd of iron silk, iron's bane, witch of strix, lunarhewn lily . . . AGE
aeonian ; endless GENDER & PRONOUNS
she / it / they ORIENTATION
bisexual RACE / ETHNICITY
elven within most canons.
FLORAL
lunarhewn lilies, grave violets, ghost glovewort, rotten pearl buds & carrion roses . . COLOURS
hazy gray, foggy blues, deep inky abyssal navies, silver bloods and tarnished iron . . PATH
knighted , oathsworn . . . eventual heretic. LANGUAGES
elven, common, spellweave's cant.
APPEARANCE
₊ bony ; bird like ; sickly ; long bodied - mage hand elongated . . . INSECTOID ⭑.ᐟ
₊ aquiline ; feminine & lithe ; sharp edged & bruised [...] ₊ long thin hair ; starlight - white ; the pale star ; the wyrm’s tooth
₊ often veiled — arachnid in movement ; the wraith king’s hound ₊ haunted ; bleeds iron ; ghostly rattle in her breath …
TO DRESS
to dress : ₊ quartz, iron pins, pearls, woven through hair ... blackhole iris ; dark eyed flint-sharpened teeth - wolvish
coif of woven gossamer & iron ; the cocooned nymph.
₊ wisps of silver anima curl around bone — carries a lantern flail ; moon sickle ◞ censor ◞ maiden’s shield - feycross ˎˊ˗ SHE WHO KNOWS
⟢ — gwin as nymph ; archmaiden of blighted charmstone ; knight ... priestess of archived ephemeris. moon blessed ; marrow woven in curse, revenant’s omen . . .
OTHER
scars. luminar embedded into her forehead; shard of starlight, runic scars cut into shoulder blade/spine area, ghostflame scarring on left hand, pearl rot [nacre rot] travels up the arm, eventual arm replacement - sylphen glass. ˎˊ˗
IMPORTANT PORTRAYAL NOTES
endlessly sickly. unable to settle. prone to shutdowns. desire revolves around autonomy, security, fears lack of control, being hurt by others. weaknesses include lack of emotion, violation of her own desires, not-quite-here-nor-there within conversation.
morose, ill, heedless, often frigid, fretful, chimerical, mercurial. sexually averse. stryxling. witch.
GOALS AND MOTIVATIONS. rid of nightmares. rid of the infestation. memory restoration. charm-cure. safety.
INFJ. intuitive, individualistic, odd, prophetic, oath-oriented, malaised. sacrificial; martyred, objective worldview. black and white thinking. MELANCHOLIC. high degree of isolation and paranoia - sometimes perceived as aloof or emotionless.
prioritizes inner world over outer world often. WYRDKEEP ; clumsy. fears herself. fears the future.
WORLD NOTES
| inspirations and muses that inform the world of oon . . . |
|---|
| elden ring |
| tolkien |
| a song of ice and fire |
| elder scrolls |
| dark souls |
| bloodborne |
| greek mythos |
HISTORY
IN THE BEGINNING . . . ✧
the primordial three - elspet, máedók, wulfnoth, the first scholars of wyrd - great beasts of flight, made of shadow and light, bone and blood, sylph and beast. gifted life by the wyrd, the ancient ever changing shift within the magic of the world around them. the wyrd is all. creation, destruction, order, chaos, arcane, reality, illusion, life, death, fate. the wyrd knows all from the very first breath oon takes to his last dying light. the wyrd knows of everything that ever was, that ever is to be, that ever would be. every reality is shaped within the wyrd. doing and undoing in a constant cosmic landscape of wilting evolving tearing suckling magic. to meet the wyrd is to call from-and-to; beyond what is tangible, to know. and to know is a deeply heavy burden.
THE PRIMORDIAL THREE. . . ✧
the first scholars act as ferrymen, scholars of the wyrd; all knowing of the wyrd’s machinations. a means to an end, behind the veil, weaving the fabric of the gossamer veil long before it was the lost lands. each of the three . . gave pieces of themselves to create oon, the first worldly god. .
OON . . . ✧ oon was cerebral, discovering within its primordial body the desire to create. using cosmic space dust from the beginning, it creates three stars. scholars come to know these as the iron star, lightbane, and oathen pearl. the creation of the three moons greatly exhausted the primordial god, and in the ultimate sacrifice, oon gives its remaining energy to the protection of itself, and falls into an endless slumber. a world is born on the back of a god.
ANCIENTS. . . ✧ the primordial soup of oon lends itself to the natural evolution of the ancients, - beasts of flight - akin to eldritchian dragons. these beasts live on oon for eons, a dark world shrouded in the great fog, the breath of the ancients casting the world into a foggy haze of suffocating, inky darkness. this fog blocks out the three stars until there is a death of magic, and with this dead magic, comes the starvation of the ancients. with no starlight left to feed on, they begin to cannibalize their own. this event is known as “the desolation” to scholars.
ONEIRIC REALM . . . ✧ traversing the gossamer veil that spans across oon is no small feat. gwinivid, naturally inclined to the wyrd, the magic oon gifted the stars of its own creation, feels and sees as if such veil has been lifted. oneirium, or dream stones, can be found across oon in small pockets where the veil is at its thinnest. gwin's grief lies beyond the veil, manifestations of different fate threads that have yet to become. . .
OTHER REALMS
vampire the masquerade
status non-canon
fandom vtm
availability closed
affiliated with none.
in which gwinivid is a salubri healer desperate to achieve glocanda.
GOTHAM
status non-canon
fandom batman
availability selective
affiliated with none.
in which gwin becomes renaissance a gotham villain hellbent on medievalism.
elden ring
status canon
fandomsoulsborne
availability closed
affiliated with none.
in which gwin is an albinauric huntress with a large direwolf companion.
world of warcraft
status non-canon
fandom warcraft
availability closed
affiliated with none.
in which gwinivid is nivi, a soulkeep ferrying the dead off to the afterlife.
final fantasy
status non-canon
fandom ffxiv
availability selective
affiliated with none.
in which gwin is voidsent, feeding off aether as she becomes more mutated.
warhammer 40k
status canon
fandom warhammer
availability closed
affiliated with none.
in which gwin is a 40k navigator, traversing the sea of souls within the warp.
HOOKS
oathsworn
rumours accumulate of an elven knight, mercurial in both skill and desire, oathsworn. visions of a sylph like being haunt the bloodstained earth in which you find yourself. in desperate need of healing, you call out, flesh singing with blood.
