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Concept art for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Art by Ray Lederer
I just think that Legolas with heterochromia
The Evermore Grimoire: Mythology
Freyja (meaning ‘the Lady’ in Old Norse) was the goddess of love, beauty, fertility, gold, war, sorcery and death in Norse mythology. She was also the leader of the Valkyrie, also known as the ‘Choosers of the Slain’ warrior maidens who rode over battlefields on winged horses, taking the souls of warriors killed in battle to feast in Valhalla. Freyja however claimed half of the warriors for her own hall in Folkvang. She also owned a necklace called Brísingamen, rode a chariot pulled by two cats and was accompanied by the boar Hildisvíni, and even possessed a cloak of falcon feathers.
artwork by Ina-Kristen Sunset
The Valkyrie's Vigil by Edward Robert Hughes
Following Richard Wagner's romantic reinterpretation of the old myths, Hughes depicts the dreadful Norse war goddess in an ethereal fairy painting: barefoot, clad in a sheer off-the-shoulder gown, and softly lit from above. Her martial aspects are de-emphasized: she tucks her helmet into the crook of her arm and holds her sword by the ricasso (the blunt section just beyond the crossguard). Of the chooser of the warrior slain in battle, of the scavenging wolf and raven, there is no trace.
Sunlight through this fountain in L'Aquila, Italy, makes it look like it's pouring lava.