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Dark Water Dreaming

@kindlingdusk-blog

FFXIV RP inspiration and journal blog for Kindling Dusk of Balmung.
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My darling Dusk,

I’m writing this but I hope you never get to read it. If you do, it means I’m dead or missing and I imagine that’s upsetting. I wanted to make sure there was something for you, something with my words. I don’t know if that’s stupid or not. I just think of what I’d want and hope it’s the same for you. It’s taken me awhile to even think of what to put here and how to say it, so I hope it’s good enough.

(This is amazing.  Thank you so much.  Dusk better not ever get this letter >.>)

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3000 follower giveaway

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I don’t have too much free time but i decided to raffle a free colored  bust sketch among my followers to thank you for sticking around for my arts/characters while tolerating my bullshit :D Thanks ❤ It means a lot. 

Rules: - Like & Reblog this post ( i will put the whole notifications list to the randomizer so you have double chance to win if your name appears twice -like & reblog-) - Be my follower :) No raffle blogs pls  - I will choose the winner at 5th of June - You can request a colored bust of your character

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From the Journal of Kindling Dusk

Cats are good.  Half in, half out.  They see much that our eyes would miss and their claws seem to posses a special quality that can harm spectral entities.  Nothing I’ve seen extends that ability to miq’ote unfortunately.  Always keep a cat in your home as they can act on a check on the smaller critters that can sneak past wards and cause trouble over time.  Also they eat mice so that’s good for your pantry.

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13. Could you sacrifice yourself for the good of everyone else?

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Dusk frowned severely at the question.  “I would give everything I could to protect those I love.  And I mean everything.  But it’s not my choice to make.  Even if I wanted to sacrifice myself I am not the only entity that depends on me, and the God of Dark Waters would not allow such altruism.  Not even my death is my own anymore.”

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Interview my OC about questions that has no easy answer.

1. Which should be saved – a bus full of innocent lives or a loved one?

2. You meet a man who has killed someone and done time for it before. Does this factor into how you treat him? Will he ever truly escape that sin?

3. If you could jump back through time to save a loved one’s life, would you? Despite what it might to do the timeline? To everyone else? Do you believe it is their fate to die regardless?

4. You have a secret you swore not to reveal. But this secret is the only thing that would prove your innocence in a separate matter. Is it worth risking your own well-being for the secret? Or would you betray the trust given to you?

5. Is it better to hurt others before they hurt you or let yourself be walked all over and hurt by others?

6. If you tell the truth, an evil person gets to walk away free. If you lie, you may be able to send them away like they deserve. Is honesty worth more than justice?

7. You have the key to immortality in your hands. But not for free. If you want it, as a price, your worst enemy also gains immortality. Is it worth it?

8. If you could gain as much money as you want for losing a sense, would you do it?

9. Can people be held accountable for things people close or related to them did or are they innocent?

10. If a lot of people, possibly innocent people, have to die in order to make a real change, is it worth it? Can you live with their deaths even if it helps people in the present?

11. Imagine there is a beast that craves attention. If you ignore it, despite being deadly, it will leave you alone. Could you live like that? Even if it possibly attacked others? Would you try and challenge something that unknown?

12. If someone else stole something and you stole it back is that a good deed, a bad deed or one of equal worth? Are you better than the original thief?

13. Could you sacrifice yourself for the good of everyone else?

14. What of love? Say you discover your lifelong crush on another has finally been reciprocated… but they are currently dating a family member or a dear friend the crush feels responsible to honour. Do you force the break up? Date on the side? Bottle it up forever?

15. Is lying to others to gain their approval more important than being genuine and hated?

16. Have you ever contemplated killing someone? Who and why? Would you ever act on it? Are you frightened you might?

17. Have you ever gotten sheer joy out of hurting someone else, either physically or mentally? To whom and why? Did it scare you?

18. Have you ever done something morally wrong? If it’s morally wrong do you regret it?

19. What is more likely a thought to you – that this world is wrong or that you are wrong?

20. Are there people in this world who, no matter how much time and penitence is given, should never be forgiven?

21. Are there people in this world you simply think the world would be better without? If you could erase them out of existence without physically murdering them, would you?

22. How do you feel about having an intimate relationship with someone you don’t love? What if they love you in return? Does that make you feel guilty?

23. Could you ever become your own hero? Is that a role you can fulfil or is it something you look to others for?

24. How do you feel about tears? Are they cowardly and weak? Do you cry? Would you consider that shameful?

25. What is more important to you? An idea of yours being used and appreciated or the credit for that idea beings yours and yours alone?

26. Is your personal happiness more important than anything else in the world? Than fame? Than the happiness of others?

27. How far would you go to achieve a dream or ideal? Does it matter who suffers? Does it matter if you suffer?

28. How long would you wait for the one you love? A year? Fifteen years? Forever? Could you honestly be loyal to an unfulfilled love?

29. Is genius equal to hard work? Does a genius deserve praise for doing well without effort? Are they above us?

30. Do we live in a world of parallels? Can there be no hope without grief? No happiness without suffering? Or is a utopia possible?

31. What is more important to you? Being respected and praised by your elders or being looked up to and championed by those younger or of the same age?

32. If you could choose to remove certain feelings such as anger, confusion, sadness, would you remove them?

33. If you could wipe certain memories from your head, would you? Why would you? What memories?

34. What path appeals to you more? An exciting dream that leaves you possibly penniless and alone or a drab existence where you have steady success.

35. Is every person in this world wholly unique or can they be categorized? Can they be grouped and mentally dissected? Are you just another sheep in another flock or are you the sole unique soul?

Actually I wanna do this.

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From the Journal of Kindling Dusk

You will see many things if you go looking in the dark.  Strange things.  Wonders that you will excitedly tell your friends about the next day.  Perhaps even things that put a chill into your bones and fear in your heart.  Never forget the purpose of fear.  It is put into us to protect us and keep us safe.  Listen to it.  Respect your fear and understand it.

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From the Journal of Kindling Dusk

Magic is much like cooking.  You need to understand how to go about it for the goal you’re trying to accomplish.  For some things it’s okay to wing it and let your instincts guide you in your working.  For other things it is critically important to be as precise as possible and for the love of all if there is a warning or a caution about doing a thing listen to it.

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1600 Follower Giveaway! 

1 like + 1 reblog = 1 entry New followers welcome! 1st Place - A full body full color picture  2nd Place - A half body full color picture  3rd Place - A full color bust Winners Will be announced in a week on the 12th Thanks for all of the support you’ve given me so far!

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Seven Items - Kindling Dusk

1. Obsidian Ritual Dagger

Born more out of the cruelty of necessity than any out of affection for the object the obsidian ritual dagger that Dusk carries is the most concrete manifestation of her servitude to the God of Dark Waters.  Wickedly curved, the blade is notched and jagged and the hilt wrapped in thorns that demand a blood sacrament even when simply grasping the dagger.  It is her most powerful, and most hated, possession.

2. Horned Mask

Dusk came to this item on the guidance of her mother’s spirit.  A journey into the Black Valley where death and life forgot their roles was required to retrieve it but even after the trials taken to obtain it no clue as to it’s function of nature has yet been uncovered.  Dusk keeps it close and has taken to wearing it when working with her company in the hopes that some event would spark a revelation about this item.

3. Silver Knife

A plain, double-edged straight knife with a blade made of silver.  It is Dusk’s favorite working item and she uses it quite often.  The hilt is heavy and she enjoys the weight of it in her hand feeling that it keeps her steady.

4. Bag of Bones

A small bag on Dusk’s belt filled with small animal bones.  Dusk will on occasion empty out the bag and attempt to divine a proper course of action by review the spread of the bones and how they lay.  She is not a particularly good diviner however so she tries not to use it unless the need is dire or the outcome of the choice is harmlessly trivial.

5. A Piece of Red Thread

Given to her by a former co-worker as a reminder that every meeting happens for a reason Dusk uses the thread as a hair tie.

6. Medical Bag

Though Dusk is not primarily a healer she is an accomplished chemist and keeps a small store of potions and poultices in her medical bag.  Healing potions, burn ointments, anti-infection creams and the like are on her person at nearly all times.  

7. Green Quartz Coeurl Figurine

Dusk found this curious item in the swamps around her home when she was first studying with the coven.  The figurine is small enough to easily fit in her palm and when the spine is stroked with a gentle charge of aether the figurine transforms into an actual living coeurl covered in shaggy green moss.  Dusk has no idea who made it or why but she would be the first to say that yeah, it’s pretty neat.

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