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[baldursgaysart]

After 3 weeks of working on this piece it is finished.

“Mine” Karlach and Minthara painting. This was one of my favorites and I a have few more I’m working on in this style. More pairings to come too but these are my top!

Look at these beautiful Beans!

I hope you enjoy this painting at much as I do.

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[inaconstantstateofchange]

A Snippet Shared | Minthara x Karlach

There's no real tag game motivation behind this, but I'm proud of this snippet and not sure when I'll finish the larger oneshot it is a part of, so I'm putting it here for now.

Note: Set post-canon, with Minthara and Karlach in Avernus together.

Karlach, gracious in victory – at least this once – doesn’t belabor her point. And she, too, is undoubtedly impatient to take advantage of this potential windfall. “Now, don’t go expecting some grand beacon of hospitality. We’ll be slumming it with the finest dregs Zariel’s legions leave behind them, b-u-t—four walls! That’s basically the Elfsong, at this point!”

Minthara nods, deadpan, as she agrees with Karlach’s determination. “An apt comparison, my love. The music certainly sounds similar enough.”

Karlach nods enthusiastically, half her quick-paced mind already mapping out the path before them as she scans the desolate horizon. Minthara waits for the constant background noise of Avernus – the wails of doomed petitioners forming a melody with the snarls and clashes of distant engagements – to filter back into her hearing. Karlach has proven quicker and quicker to pick up on her little jests, and this one was surely obvious enough—There. Karlach whirls back around, pointing at her accusatorily. 

“You—you! The music is similar, oooh! How many of those little jokes did you slip past everyone back then?”

Minthara smiles, slow and toothy. “More than you would ever believe, dear one.”

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[kudzushadow]

do karlach and minthara have a ship name yet? what about karthara? 👀

#bg3 #karlach #minthara #karlach x minthara

[aprokopage]

Sirumai Pattavanukku | Rajan | Shirleyrajan | Latest Worship Song | Official Music Video| HD

Sirumai Pattavanukku | Rajan | Shirleyrajan | Latest Worship Song | Official Music Video| HD

Song: Sirumai Pattavanukku Kartharae Adaikkalam…. Album:Rising vision Vol I Lyrics&Tune:Rajan Sung by: Shirleyrajan& Rajan Music: Rev. David Livingstone. M Label: music minds Channel: Rejoice gospel communication

Featuring : Shirleyrajan&Rajan

All keys programed, arranged, sequenced, Vocal processed, Mixed and Mastered: David Livingstone. M Studio: Panjharaksha media & StoneS media production Engi…

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Sirumai Pattavanukku | Rajan | Shirleyrajan | Latest Worship Song | Official Music Video| HD

Sirumai Pattavanukku | Rajan | Shirleyrajan | Latest Worship Song | Official Music Video| HD

Song: Sirumai Pattavanukku Kartharae Adaikkalam…. Album:Rising vision Vol I Lyrics&Tune:Rajan Sung by: Shirleyrajan& Rajan Music: Rev. David Livingstone. M Label: music minds Channel: Rejoice gospel communication

Featuring : Shirleyrajan&Rajan

All keys programed, arranged, sequenced, Vocal processed, Mixed and Mastered: David Livingstone. M Studio: Panjharaksha media & StoneS media production Engi…

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#Alagae #Aswathaman #Azhage #Berchmans #En Belanaam #En Devane #En Nesare #gospel songs #hallelujah #hd promo #Jack Warrior #Kaalangal #LATEST #Latest JOHN JEBA RAJ Songs #latest new year song #Latest Worship Songs #music #Music Mindss #new year song #Official #Pattavanukku #Prophetic New Year Song #Rajan #rejoicegospelcommunications #S.J. #shirleyrajan #Sirumai #Sirumai Pattavanukku #song #Swasame

[divinoazul-blog]

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deus, 🔱🕉 🕉🔱Quem tem um pescoço azul, 🔱🕉 🕉🔱Quem tem um olho diferente, 🔱🕉 🕉🔱Quem é limpo, 🔱🕉 🕉🔱E quem é deslumbrantemente brilhante.🔱🕉 🕉🔱Vamadevam mahadevam lokanadham jagatgurum, 🔱🕉 🕉🔱namami sirasa devam, kim no mrutyu karishyathi. 4🔱🕉 🕉🔱O que a morte pode fazer àquele 🔱🕉 🕉🔱que saúda com a cabeça aquele deus 🔱🕉 🕉🔱que julga de acordo com o mérito 🔱🕉 🕉🔱Quem é o maior deus 🔱🕉 🕉🔱Quem é o senhor do universo 🔱🕉 🕉🔱E quem é o mestre do mundo?🔱🕉 🕉🔱Devadevam jagannatham devesam vrushabhadwajam, 🔱🕉 🕉🔱namami sirasa devam, kim no mrutyu karishyathi. 5🔱🕉 🕉🔱O que a morte pode fazer àquele 🔱🕉 🕉🔱que saúda com a cabeça aquele deus, 🔱🕉 🕉🔱que é o Deus dos deuses, 🔱🕉 🕉🔱que é o senhor da terra, 🔱🕉 🕉🔱que é o deus dos devas, 🔱🕉 🕉🔱e que tem uma bandeira de touro.🔱🕉 🕉🔱Traiksham chathurbhujam santham jata makuta dharanam, 🔱🕉 🕉🔱Namami sirasa devam, kim no mrutyu karishyathi. 6🔱🕉 🕉🔱O que a morte pode fazer àquele 🔱🕉 🕉🔱que saúda com a cabeça aquele deus,🔱🕉 🕉🔱que tem três olhos, 🔱🕉 🕉🔱que tem quatro mãos, 🔱🕉 🕉🔱que é pacífico, 🔱🕉 🕉🔱e que usa cabelos emaranhados e uma coroa.🔱🕉 🕉🔱Bhasmoddulitha sarvangam nagabharana bhooshitham, 🔱🕉 🕉🔱namami sirasa devam, kim no mrutyu karishyathi. 7🔱🕉 🕉🔱O que a morte pode fazer àquele 🔱🕉 🕉🔱que saúda com a cabeça aquele deus 🔱🕉 🕉🔱que está coberto de cinzas em 🔱🕉 🕉🔱todo o seu corpo 🔱🕉 🕉🔱e que usa a serpente 🔱🕉 🕉🔱como ornamento.🔱🕉 🕉🔱Anatham avyayam santham akshamala dharam haram, 🔱🕉 🕉🔱namami sirasa devam, kim no mrutyu karishyathi. 8🔱🕉 🕉🔱Que pode a morte fazer àquele, 🔱🕉 🕉🔱Que saúda com a cabeça aquele deus,🔱🕉 🕉🔱Quem é ilimitado, 🔱🕉 🕉🔱Quem não pode ser explicado, 🔱🕉 🕉🔱Quem é pacífico, 🔱🕉 🕉🔱Quem é o assassino , 🔱🕉 🕉🔱E quem usa a guirlanda dos olhos.🔱🕉 🕉🔱Aaandham paramam nithyam kaivalya pada dhayinam, 🔱🕉 🕉🔱Namami sirasa devam, kim no mrutyu karishyathi. 9🔱🕉 🕉🔱O que a morte pode fazer àquele 🔱🕉 🕉🔱que saúda com a cabeça aquele Deus 🔱🕉 🕉🔱que é a felicidade, 🔱🕉 🕉🔱Quem está além do pensamento , 🔱🕉 🕉🔱Quem é estável, 🔱🕉 🕉🔱E quem concede a salvação.🔱🕉 🕉🔱Ardhanaareeswaram devam parvathy prana nayakam, 🔱🕉 🕉🔱namami sirasa devam, kim no mrutyu karishyathi. 10🔱🕉 🕉🔱Que pode a morte fazer àquele, 🔱🕉 🕉🔱Que saúda com a cabeça aquele deus 🔱🕉 🕉🔱Quem é o deus meio homem metade feminino, 🔱🕉 🕉🔱E quem é o querido de Parvathy.🔱🕉 🕉🔱Pralaya sthithi karthaaram adhi kartharameeswaram, 🔱🕉 🕉🔱Namami sirasa devam, kim no mrutyu karishyathi. 11🔱🕉 🕉🔱O que a morte pode fazer àquele 🔱🕉 🕉🔱que saúda com a cabeça aquele deus 🔱🕉 🕉🔱que cria o estado de dilúvio 🔱🕉 🕉🔱e quem é o deus que fez o princípio.🔱🕉 🕉🔱Vyomakesam viroopaksham chandrardha krutha shekaram, 🔱🕉 🕉🔱namami sirasa devam, kim no mrutyu karishyathi. 12🔱🕉 🕉🔱Que pode a morte fazer àquele, 🔱🕉 🕉🔱Quem saúda com sua cabeça aquele deus 🔱🕉 🕉🔱cujo cabelo é o céu, 🔱🕉 🕉🔱Quem tem um olho diferente, 🔱🕉 🕉🔱E quem recolheu a metade da lua.🔱🕉 🕉🔱Gangadharam sasidharam sankaram shoolapaninam, 🔱🕉 🕉🔱namami sirasa devam, kim no mrutyu karishyathi. 13🔱🕉 🕉🔱O que a morte pode fazer àquele 🔱🕉 🕉🔱que saúda com a cabeça aquele deus 🔱🕉 🕉🔱que carrega o rio ganga, 🔱🕉 🕉🔱que guarda a lua como um ornamento, 🔱🕉 🕉🔱que é o Senhor Shankara, 🔱🕉 🕉🔱e que carrega um tridente.🔱🕉 🕉🔱Swargapavarga datharam srushti sthithyanthakarinam, 🔱🕉 🕉🔱namami sirasa devam, kim no mrutyu karishyathi. 14🔱🕉 🕉🔱Que pode a morte fazer àquele 🔱🕉 🕉🔱que saúda com a sua cabeça que Deus, 🔱🕉 🕉🔱que concede o céu ea salvação, 🔱🕉 🕉🔱que cuida da criação, da manutenção e da destruição.🔱🕉 🕉🔱Kalpa ayur dehi mey punyam yavad ayur arogatham, 🔱🕉 🕉🔱namami sirasa devam, kim no mrutyu karishyathi. 15🔱🕉 🕉🔱Que pode a morte fazer a um, 🔱🕉 🕉🔱Que sauda com sua cabeça que deus, 🔱🕉 🕉🔱Quem pode conceder uma vida de um eon, 🔱🕉 🕉🔱Quem pode o abençoar com uma vida longa, 🔱🕉 🕉🔱Bereft de qualquer doença.🔱🕉 🕉🔱Shivesanam mahadevam vamadevam sadashivam, 🔱🕉 🕉🔱namami sirasa devam, kim no mrutyu karishyathi. 16🔱🕉 🕉🔱O que a morte pode fazer àquele 🔱🕉 🕉🔱que saúda com a cabeça aquele deus, 🔱🕉 🕉🔱que é Shiva, assim como Easwara, 🔱🕉 🕉🔱que é o grande deus,🔱🕉 🕉🔱que dá julgamentos corretos, 🔱🕉 🕉🔱e que é sempre pacífico.🔱🕉 🕉🔱Uthpathi sthithi samhara karthara meeswaram gurum, 🔱🕉 🕉🔱namami sirasa devam, kim no mrutyu karishyathi. 17🔱🕉 🕉🔱O que a morte pode fazer àquele 🔱🕉 🕉🔱que saúda com a cabeça aquele deus, 🔱🕉 🕉🔱Quem assume a responsabilidade, 🔱🕉 🕉🔱Da criação, da manutenção e da destruição, 🔱🕉 🕉🔱E quem é um grande mestre.🔱🕉 🕉🔱Markandeya krutham stotram ya padeth shiva sannidhou, 🔱🕉 🕉🔱Thasya mruthyu bhayam nasthi em agni chora bhayaam kwachith. 18🔱🕉 🕉🔱Qualquer um lendo esta oração, 🔱🕉 🕉🔱Escrito por Markandeya, 🔱🕉 🕉🔱Na frente do Senhor Shiva, 🔱🕉 🕉🔱Não terá, 🔱🕉 🕉🔱Medo da morte, 🔱🕉 🕉🔱Nem medo do fogo e ladrões.🔱🕉 🕉🔱Shathavrutham prakarthavyam sankate kashta nasanam, 🔱🕉 🕉🔱Suchir bhoothwa padeth stotram sarva sidhi pradhayakam 19🔱🕉 🕉🔱Lendo-o cem vezes, 🔱🕉 🕉🔱Em tempos de miséria, 🔱🕉 🕉🔱Vai se livrar dele, 🔱🕉 🕉🔱E lê-lo com uma mente limpa, 🔱🕉 🕉🔱Fará um obter todos os seus desejos.🔱🕉 🕉🔱Mruthyunjaya mahadeva thrahi maam saranagatham, 🔱🕉 🕉🔱Janma mrutyu jara rogai, peeditham karma bandhanai. 20🔱🕉 🕉🔱Oh grande deus, Quem 🔱🕉 🕉🔱conquistou o deus da morte, Por favor , salve-me como estou submetendo a você, 🔱🕉 🕉🔱Desde nascimentos , mortes, velhice e doença, 🔱🕉 🕉🔱E também os laços de Karma que me afectam.🔱🕉 🕉🔱Thaavaka stvad gatha prana thawa, chithoham sada mruda, 🔱🕉 🕉🔱Ithi vignapya devesam, thryambakakhyam japeth, 🔱🕉 🕉🔱Nama sivaya , Sambaya haraye paramathmane, 🔱🕉 🕉🔱Pranatha klesa naasaya yoginaam pathaye nama. 21-22🔱🕉 🕉🔱Apelo ao deus que, 🔱🕉 🕉🔱"minha alma vai para você, 🔱🕉 🕉🔱e minha mente medita sempre em você," 🔱🕉 🕉🔱e então cantar de Trayambaka Mantra *, 🔱🕉 🕉🔱e saudação que Samba, 🔱🕉 🕉🔱que é a alma interna do contratorpedeiro, 🔱🕉 🕉🔱e pray, "destrói Todos os problemas da vida, 🔱🕉 🕉🔱Oh Senhor do Yoga, eu te saúdo. "🔱🕉 🕉🔱Om Tryambakam Yajāmahe Sugandhim Pushtivardhanam UrvārukamivaBandhanān Mrityor Mukshīya Māamritāt🔱🕉 🕉🔱HAR HAR MAHADEV🔱🕉   🕉🔱OM NAMAH SHIVAYA🔱🕉  🕉🔱OM JAI BHOLE NATH🔱🕉  🕉🔱OM JAI SHIVA SHANKAR🔱🕉  🕉🔱OM JAI MAHAKAAL🔱🕉  🕉🔱MAHADEV KI JAI🔱🕉  🕉🔱BAM BAM BHOLE🔱🕉  🕉🔱HAR HAR MAHADEV🔱🕉 🕉🔱OM SHIVOHAM SHIVOHAM SHIVOHAM🔱🕉

[baldursgaysart]

Almost finished with my study practice with different brushes and styles. I would really like to start showing my drawing process with a Timelapse soon. I need to find a good app to do this. Hope you like it so far.

#baldur's gate 3 #baldurs gate fanart #baldur's gate iii #minthara baenre #baldurs gate karlach #digital art #karlach #karlach bg3 #minthara #minthara bg3 #nightwarden minthara #bg3 art #baldursgatefanart #karthara #karlach fanart #digital painting #painting study

[baldursgaysart]

Sooooo yeahhhh i romance these two and I wanted to sketch out Karlach cooking food from Minthara’s home since she misses it (with Gale’s help that is) Karlach has cuts from trying to hunt and Minthara will make a comment about “it doesn’t compare to the food from home but this will do”i can hear Karlach yelling “she likes it!!” Its a super fast sketch that i wilp color eventually.

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[maniculum]

Bestiaryposting Results -- Narngreg

All right, time to look at this week's critters. (Sorry it's a few hours later than normal, it's been a busy few days and I'm behind on everything.) This one is not only breaking the bird streak, but it's also one of the handful of animals that gets a color scheme. The entry our artists are working from is here, if anyone wants to check:

As per usual, the art is under the cut in roughly chronological order.

@silverhart-makes-art (link to post here) has again demonstrated their ability to create these with an impressive turnaround time: this went up the same evening I posted the entry. I like the design -- the high, muscular back there gives it a good silhouette and a threatening appearance, and the way the black fur is patterned looks really cool -- but what really caught my attention was something in the linked post's description of their design rationale. Apparently binturongs smell like buttered popcorn?? Learn something new every day.

@sweetlyfez (link to post here) has given her Narngreg an interesting low-slung design, like if you built a hippopotamus on a crocodile frame. (She's also provided her own alt text, thank you.) We can see the characteristic claws, and also the fun decision to give the creature an extra-large mouth for its scented breath.

@coolest-capybara (link to post here) has again done some fantastic medieval stylization. I really like the decision to go literal with the "eye-shaped circles" description -- makes me wonder if this fur pattern just coincidentally looks like eyes, or if it's meant to ward off predators. Which raises the question of what this friend-to-all-other-animals, dragons-are-scared-of-it beast is trying to ward off. Also, if you check out the linked post, in addition to discussing design decisions, coolest-capybara has another version of this art where a number of the other beasts they've drawn for this project are indeed gathered to follow the Narngreg's scent -- except for the Choglaem, which is hidden in a cave in the earth.

@karthara (link to post here) notes that big cats are probably the sort of beast that can hold their own against dragons, and they fit the physical elements of the description, so here's a big cat species for you. I really like how the coat pattern turned out; the stripes on the end of the tail are a nice touch. Excellent cats all around.

@cheapsweets (link to post here) has taken an interesting (and very cool-looking) direction here. (And has also provided alt text, thank you.) In their explanation of their design decisions, which is quite detailed and worth checking out in the linked post, they explain that a lot of the influence on the design came from trying to reconcile "gentle animal" with "dangerous claws". What kinds of animals have large claws but aren't predators? Well, there are a few, but the ones they are primarily drawing on are the extinct chalicotheres and ground sloths -- large herbivores that nevertheless possess sharp claws. I think it's a clever direction to take. Additionally, I appreciate the stylized eye spots. And the mane-plus-goatee situation. They've also included some previous Beaſts following the Narngreg's sweet breath, and the Choglaem hiding from it in the upper right there. And, of course, Stylized Plants that they made sure to point out to me. :)

@pomrania (link to post here) had a similar thought to cheapsweets: what creature is gentle but has large claws? a sloth! And since there's no mention of it being arboreal, it can be a ground sloth. (Ground sloths are cool and I like that they came up more than once here.) This little guy is frankly adorable; I love the ear tufts and mane. I can see why other animals would be friendly to it -- it just looks like it would be pleasant to be around. There are a number of non-sloth influences happening here, which pomrania lays out in detail in their post, so go see that.

(P.S. Pomrania: I have no idea what, if any, pattern there is to whether the bestiary authors cite sources for a specific fact. I kind of suspect that the difference is "whether they know where that information came from" and possibly "whether they think a particular source is prestigious enough to be an impressive citation".)

@strixcattus (link to post) is also of the opinion that the Narngreg is clearly a feline, or at least similar to a feline -- they also note the "sleeping in caves" thing as inspiration for the "feline equivalent of bears" approach they took, so we might be drifting back to the binturongs again. Anyway, let's all take a moment to enjoy the incredibly cute scene here. Now, go read the linked post. Strixcattus's practice of turning the bestiary entry into a realistic modern naturalist's description of the animal is on point as always, and you owe it to yourself to read this and the other entries they have written. They're fascinating, especially in the context of the Bestiary Telephone situation.

They also express a suspicion that the cave thing is a Biblical allegory, and... ding ding ding!

On the third day the [Narngreg] rises from its sleep and gives a great cry, emitting a sweet odour, just like our Lord Jesus Christ, rising again from the dead...

Granted, bestiary authors turn pretty much everything into a Biblical allegory. You may also be interested to know that dragons retreat from it because the dragon represents the devil.

Anyway, the Aberdeen Bestiary version, which I have to say is particularly nice this time around:

Yep, this artist had the same idea as coolest-capybara and cheapsweets: the drawing should show other animals following it and a dragon... um... hm. Let's just assume that dragon is supposed to be hiding in a cave.

(I assume the critter is blue in this image because painting it black would make all that shading more difficult, so we're using a dark blue to indicate "black".)

And everyone who thought "feline" was indeed correct, because this is the panther.

Some of you may be thinking, "hey, I don't remember learning any of these facts about panthers."

Some others of you, who are up on your taxonomy, may also be thinking, "hang on, panther isn't a species. what animal did the medieval bestiaries think they were talking about?"

I am delighted to inform you that the answer to that question boils down to Bestiary Telephone! See, classical authors wrote about leopards, as you might expect from people who were kicking around northern Africa and southwestern Asia back when there were still leopards there. But Latin had two different words for "leopard", and as a result people from Europe assumed those were two different animals and panthera must be a separate, non-leopard thing. (How would they know, after all? It's not like they have any Leopard Experience.) The confusion created by this simple mistake continues to reign even to this day: the existence of a "panther" as a distinct species of big cat remains a common misconception, and I bet at least one person reading this was in today's lucky 10,000.

(This is not the only etymological absurdity that comes out of medieval Europeans dealing with What Is Big Cats, but we'll get to that when we get to it.)

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