i think i do need to come up with some kind of facepaint design for mererid... i miss that aspect of mihri's design on her but i want something different than. the ffxiv one.

Well-maiden, waken with care
Do not cry, yet ply your prayers—
In your dreams she gleams, she'll lose
Elf-witch's stitches still choose.
Your path ends, tale penned, to prove
With your gift, you wished, you wove
A new Weft. Hearts left harmed in
Your absence, which once were one
With your own.

i did hit a sudden flurry of creative energy wrt writing and worldbuilding for twilight gest with the result that now everything is loosely 10th century instead of 8th-9th, and also i couldn't justify mererid having an extremely expensive mail shirt, plus it makes her later armor more significant if she's just using a padded vest to start with.

realistically i know that 1. it is good that i am finally making real progress on twilight gest again after feeling creatively blocked for months and 2. i can change literally anything i want ever for any reason right up until i start publishing and then i need to stick to like. continuity and shit but there are still the anxieties (being annoying by talking about things, betraying my initial ideas etc). anyway i might either respell elaine's name as eleyn (found in a 16th century welsh document) or change it to eurgain ("golden and fine" bc she's the spiritual successor of a woman named nia goldenhaired). i do feel like her name needs to be more specifically welsh bc it predates my narrowing down the specificity of the setting.

also backstory character amraut silverhand is now straight-up medraut silverwheel to get in both mordred and ariahrhod. orphne then gets the adopted byname "of the silver wheel."