The Language of the Lords reflects everything the ruling class holds dear: triumph, treasure, and the elite status of the demonic race. Poems and stories are shared through the oral tradition of performance and writing is usually reserved for "historical" documents, grandiose retellings of events that may or may not have gone down quite as recorded. For this reason, the demonic writing style does not lend itself well to quick note-taking or casual texts.
The demonic script is made up of glyphs featuring imagery important to demons; angel imagery is usually reserved for phonetic symbols or less important elements. The script contains several different types of glyphs: heads, slabs, flags, pillars, and banners. Each serves a different phonetic and grammatical purpose.
Heads are used to indicate important words like nouns and verb roots. A single head represents one syllable; words comprised of more than one syllable are made up of multiple heads in a row biting each other. The head is made up of four parts: the eye (initial consonant), nose (vowel), mouth (final consonant), and the ornamentation.
The Language of the Lords has a limited number of syllables and features many homonyms. To avoid confusion, context is given through a head's ornamentation, indicating to the reader which category that word belongs to. For example, fa could mean "rib", "spruce", or "nail"; by using the body, plant or tool ornamentation respectively, the intended meaning is clear. While the category of word is often omitted in spoken conversation, it is always included in writing. If a word is made up of multiple heads, the ornamentation is placed on the final head.
Left: madlas(shi), "snow
Right: hebdod(be), "oil substance"
You can read more about the Language of the Lords here!
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in episode 5 when red guy makes his observation about the tv show duck is watching, that really sums up what the entire horror and concept of the series is, no matter what goes wrong, who they meet, or what lessons the trio learns it always goes back to how it was by the end of the episode
except for episode 5. theyre lost theyre cold theres something horrifying and unidentifiable just off screen but the next episode starts the same way it always does. theyre back in the house and going about their day as if nothing happened
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"how did the guy with no friends win?"
except, he did have a friend in the end
Pearl, a past winner who was also all alone the entirety of DL and went mad because of it
Pearl, who won because the person who betrayed her at the very start atoned for what he did by sacrificing himself and giving her the win
("I guess I forgive you after all...")
Pearl, who after healing from that betrayal went on to open her heart to alliances in the end (Nosy Neighbors + Grian et. al.) and eventually did find one she could call...family (The Mounders)
Pearl, who was the ONLY one to extend that invitation to the friendless villain ("I guess you found your family after all, Scar")
Because she was the only one who knew what it was like to be all alone, like him
But also come back from that dark place and reach out to someone who suffered just like her
And in the end they became a duo, she even tried to sacrifice her life for that fellow 'undeserving' lonely person, and only didn't because he wanted a 'fair' (for a given definition of that word) fight
Even at the end, Scar's "I'm gonna get you Pearl!" loses just...a tinge of the angry, bitter bloodlust he'd been baring throughout the session, and sounds almost playful
And then "she's dead scar. you won."
He killed the only person left who considered him a friend because she, in a sense, gave her life to him
It didn't start with the duel. It started with her hand of forgiveness.
but also because Scar really did become so much better at pvp like dang his red kills were vicious
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OKAYYYYY i think it’s done
nerevar for @nerevar-quote-and-star‘s pin up challenge for the prompt “sun-kissed”, redressing after a fun little dip in the ocean of resdayn. sparkly banana elf just seemed perfect for it i don’t know why. now the challenge will be NOT drawing nerevar for every prompt LMAOOOOO
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guys you don't get it!!! regulus is doomed because he's never been the universe's favourite!!! and james is doomed for the opposite reason!!! because he's always been the universe's favourite!!!! they exist in extremes!!!! regulus is never loved enough while james is loved too much!!!! but at the end of the day it's the same!!!! they're both the same!!!! what was supposed to save them (keeping everyone at arm's length vs relying on others) still became their undoing!!!
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