Time Is Forever Ticking - Tumblr Posts

new tag for labelas related things bcs i yearn for the organization

one thing i remember as Labelas was that i was a huge fucking hypocrite. Despite largely and mostly being allies, I disliked (understatement of the century) how much Mystra relied on mortals. specifically, her involvements with Elminster and using Volothamp as an anchor for the weave. even tho i hated her for it i was like, no its fine when I do it. as a seldarine god, any elves that messed with the continuum got the Bonk of Old (using my Timestave to age them, because i was lowkey kinda vain and having wrinkles was like. the worst punishment i could imagine.) i also very often would pop in for chats with my priests just to see what was up, and by pop in i mean spy on them and by chats i mean spy on them. i was especially partial to kids, and would help them with very minor and random things. i remember i stopped this one kid from getting an infection after he hurt himself by reversing time on the injury. no no its fine when i do it guys. just not anyone else

going back to my relations with other gods, i remember that I didnt like a lot of the other seldarine. no idea why. i also remember that i had a lot of respect for a few of the evil gods, despite being good aligned. specifically Talos, i had a weird amount of respect for him. and Bhaal, i liked how he got things done without meddling in the lives of mortals too much. but of course i disapproved of the whole killing innocents thing.

feeling particularly labelas today

i love discovering the innate psychological reasons for my kintypes because yeah me being labelas is totally just the gifted kid talking

my hair is getting longer and i look exactly how i looked pre-godhood

oh okay apparently i remember my dnd character who is kind of sort of labelas’ son if you squint and. uh. i dont like this feeling. sorry ollie.

man i miss corellon. he would absolutely hate me now but whatevs i miss him anyways. we were besties maybe more than besties

i think he actually low key hated me then, too. i know i got my “i hate mortals grr” attitude from him but i was very morally conflicted and often acted outside of such philosophy. when i made Ollie, a lost-born (elf raised among humans) my chosen, i know Corellon lost a lot of respect for me. but how could i not - after he completed the terms of our contract it hurt too much to see our bonds dissolve away once again.

man i miss corellon. he would absolutely hate me now but whatevs i miss him anyways. we were besties maybe more than besties

sorry for dropping THAT on everyone in the middle of a monday but i got a wave of feelings while i was eating and needed them down and out of my head

finally finished writing that damn one shot lol. something about dm'ing makes me immeasurably happy. i wonder what part of controlling a bunch of lesser mortals and teasing their fates gives me joy. hmmmm

why has no one made a labelas enoreth cleric/paladin bg3 mod. cmon do you all hate me. worship me. let me be the source of your power pspspsps i dont bite i dont bite

As a deitykin I love giving blessings to my friends.

Like yes sure get blessed to skip that boring class just because you gave me a decent enough reason.

I am definitely a very, very responsible deity!

unsure if i can't remember my elf subrace because i dont have all of my memories or if i just pulled an Astarion and was a god for so long i forgot about all of my 'mortal' attributes.

Ask game 3 - canon divergences.

hello! not sure if i've posted here before but I'm Labelas Enoreth from D&D 3e. One thing I'm sure of is that Corellon was much more manipulative than he seems to be portrayed in both 5e and 3e.

The wiki says: While Corellon shared the elven trait of pride that could border arrogance, this never got the better of him. He was a god with an endless willingness to learn from others and acted on it, even including mortals in his sources of discovering new information, methods, and philosophies.

Literally 0% of that is true in my canon. Except for the arrogance part. He and I were very close but moreso in the Sara and Jenny 'end of the line' way. He was Corellon Larethian, first of the Seldarine, father of elvenkind, and i was.... that weird silver elf beside him who always had their nose in a book and sometimes gave people wrinkles if people pissed them off. I think he only kept me around because he looked humble being friends with a less-known hardly-worshipped deity.

Also, GODS ABOVE I HATED MOONBOW. I guess this is something closer to my own canon divergence than hers, but we were not 'the two elven deities that oversaw time' as the wiki puts it. I was the elven deity that oversaw time and she was the bratty little sibling* who was only around because her older sister was important and she also tried to claim my domain when she realized she was useless during the day.

*I use 'sibling' to draw comparisons that people today could understand. She was not the younger sister of Selune, but instead an aspect of her than gained independence after the spellplague.

x

22 & 25?

woah!!! that was quick :D

22 - Are you trying to avoid being kin with a specific character?

Hmm. There is one heart type that I’ve been dancing around due to being close with someone who identifies as that character, but if anything I will just avoid posting about said heart type. Many of my hearts get neglected anyways lol. Sorry Riddle sorry Link sorry Childe i have more important spiders to meditate about.

In terms of sources I’ve been trying to AVOID genshin impact because i already have two hearts from there and one link type and jesus christ where is the melanin. i feel terrible about identifying with such a vile center for cultural appropriation so i tend to neglect those hearts. yes yes involuntary i know but thinking about the real people who probably saw their culture but not themself in a game actively profiting off of their food, clothing, music, etc makes me ill. Autism strong sense of justice or something

25 - favorite image of kintype?

This one. The guy on top - that’s me.

This photo was also the inspiration for that one drawing i did. This is the only drawing/photo of me that I feel represents who I was. Especially in relation to Correlon. Silently lurking in the back, minding my own business, while he makes a spectacle of himself.

Also, this is one of like four options. No i’m not exaggerating. The very first image on google ISNT EVEN ME!!! IT’S A PRIEST OF ME!!!???? WAAAHHH.

21?

21 - Favorite character in source material?

Hmm. That’s an interesting one because my source material is,,, all of d&d. So maybe Drizzt Do’urden? Classically famous drow. Very popular among some of the Seldarine for being a good drow and very unpopular among others for being… well, a drow. If you mean ones I personally know, Bhaal was unironically pretty chill. Yes yes I wasn’t supposed to be around evil deities (esp one of the dead three) and Corellon would’ve had my head if he found out but I needed something interesting in my life or I would’ve gone bonkers. Or - if you mean across any and all modules - Flapjack the flumph from the Light of Xaryxis module. OR — do video games count? Maybe that one guy from the tutorial of Neverwinter Nights. Wait that opens up all of BG3;;;; Astarion? Gale? I can’t choose.

TL;DR: the answer is ‘yes’.

Most wonderful afternoon, Labelas! 6 (perhaps pertaining to Mystryl, or any other God you happen to remember?), 9 and 14 for the ask game!

Afternoon to you as well!! This was insanely fun to write

6 - Memory with [Mystryl]

While my knowledge of my doings before the spellplague is limited, I remember Mystryl. For a specific memory, when we created the Time Conduit spell together. She was sick of time travelers, I was sick of time travelers, we got together and with my mastery (or, at that time, more like loose grasp) of the continuum and her mastery of the weave we created a spell to prevent mortals from screwing with my domain. Unfortunately this did not pertain to gods, as I would shortly find out. Fuck you Moonbow.

I remember that the time of our collaboration was one of the first that I had been respected as my own deity instead of an extension of Corellon and for that I am immensely grateful to her. As the goddess of the entire weave and then some, her opinion of me carried heavy weight that thankfully carried past that of her passing. I never got close to Mystra, unfortunately, as by the time she had rose to power I had become a bit more bitter than I would like to admit.

9 - If you could change anything you did in canon / go back and do something you didn’t do, what would it be?

Oh! I quite literally just talked about that. What a fortunate transition. One of the things I would do is try harder to reject Corellon's influence. As the father of elvenkind he had a harsh grip on all of the Seldarine and wanted to mold most of us to his image. Now - I make him out to be much more malicious than he truely was. I was naive and vulnerable and he simply rubbed off on me too much. His influence, by none of his will, turned me from a stoic yet gentle god to a bitter and somewhat harsh one.

If I had never undergone that transition, I would have probably been more acquainted with Mystra, but Corellon convinced me that I was above the doings of mortals and so for a goddess so devoted to ensuring her domain was secure to the point of collaborating with mortals - well, I wasn't a fan. Wow that was a long sentence. This sentiment goes for many gods, actually.

Even though the two are directly related and I had to go back and only change ONE action, I would never have abandoned Ollie how I did. I had originally created him as my own vessel but his resemblance to a drow made me see him as unfit. I can't blame Corellon for that one - it was my own hatefulness. I could have used him as my vessel, or I could have, at the very least, raised him to be his own god, however that would have worked. He was destined for so much greatness and the moment I sent him off to mortal parents I threw it away.

14 - What was something you loved in your canon?

Reading. I loved reading. I was an archivist, so naturally I documented the doings of both mortals and the gods. Because I was so against meddling with mortals, my only exposure to the mortal world was books written by them. I mostly read those written by elves, but I did read some academic papers from all over Toril. I quite enjoyed reading about Drizzt a few years after that ordeal had started - the idea of a 'good drow' was very novel to me. It was also one of my only pastimes. When I wasn't having an aggressive staring contest with the continuum or dealing with some mortal who time-fucked a bit too close to the sun I was reading. When I reconnected with Ollie, I swooped him into my domain for hours-long tea parties where I shared all of my favorite books with him.

Labelas, go one post without mentioning Corellon challenge. Level: Impossible.

10 and also 11, if it suits you!

10 - Something that reminds you of your canon?

Trees. I have no idea why. Maybe my tower was surrounded by oak in Arvandor. I just know that the feeling of bark on a cool, wet day has sparked too many memories for it to be a coincidence.

11 - Was there someone you wished you had gotten to know better? If so, who?

Ollie, my creation, or in less clinical terms, my son. I had created him as a vessel but ultimately abandoned him and sent him off to go live a mortal's life. Eventually started keeping an eye on him and forged a contract with him, as his adoptive father had gained immortality and I needed to put a stop to that. After the terms of our contract were fulfilled, I made him my chosen. Our bond danced the lines between god and chosen, boss and employee, father and son, friends - Corellon had asked me once if I had taken a mortal lover "or something". That was horribly awkward.

Not attached to the ask game, but: tell me about time! Was time itself a semi-tangible material for you to manipulate? Did it have a look/feel? Or was it just a sort of invisible concept? So on and so forth.

-from a humble spider friend

Hmm… hello spider friend hehe. This is actually something I’ve been looking for an excuse to talk about, so thank you.

I wear an eyepatch - I traded my left eye for the ability to see through time. I also wield the Timestave - A gift from Corellon (dammit, not even two paragraphs in and challenge failed) upon my ascension to godhood. He gives one to every new Seldarine - In my canon, at least. Not sure if that’s canon lore. The quarterstaff serves as a proxy for my manipulation of the continuum. I can use it to concentrate or spread the flow of time. Of course, I can do that without my staff. My timestave just makes it easier!

Now for how I actually see it - I can summon a glass tube filled with running sand. This sand represents the continuum, and I spend most of my time watching over it. When some of the sand gets clogged up, or moves incorrectly, this is how I know someone - whether mortal or immortal - is fucking with my shit. Small clumps can be things like immortality and minor time travel while larger occurances such as the Spellplague caused larger clumps. I learned the hard way (tried to show Ollie) that only I can see this physical manifestation of the continuum. Oops.

Fun fact! I am (mostly) the reason that time didn’t stop when Ao told us all to piss off (the Time of Troubles).

bruh why do i remember bhaal and why did he look exactly like gortash. what sort of mindfuckery is this.

O Lord of the Continuum, I have a question for thee. In your opinion, was Corellon an Overgod proper? As this is still a hotly debated topic amongst theologians, I'd adore to know your uniquely qualified thoughts on the matter.

Hiya Gale! What a nostalgic greeting Short answer: Corellon was, in fact, an Overgod.

Long answer: Corellon's sphere was obviously the Seldarine, since he isn't exactly quiet about being the father of Elvenkind. From what I can remember, before the Time of Troubles, Corellon was one of the only known Overgods (by mortal scholars, I mean). However, when Lord Ao cast most of us out of our domains, Ao became well known as the Overgod due to the panic among commonfolk. This caused the definition of Overgod to shift a bit, and since most people have a hard time comprehending that both Ao and (comparatively) lame Corellon could be in the same rank, it called into question whether the definition of Overgod fit Corellon, as with many other Overgods like Asgorath and the Lady of Pain. I had honestly thought that the misconception got cleared up within a few years, but we all know I wasn't one to care either way. Very interesting.....

As Corellon's platonic side hoe overgod nepo baby closest ally, I was often let in on the doings of the Overgods, to which I remember him often being criticized for being boisterous. So, pretty ironic that the loudest of the Overgods is the one being debated on by theologists. I do specifically remember that Corellon was pressured into making me his vice (stand-in incase he up and dies so the fellowship doesn't shatter) since I fit the aloof personality of the Overgods much more LMAO.

Thank you for this! I'm always a bit sad that I missed so many years of history among the non-elves, so getting let in on what scholars were thinking is always exhilarating.