#earth monarch

[badgermolebender]

I so desperately want a massive political history of The Earth Kingdom. If I could have any other thing from the world of ATLA/LOK — book, show, comic, game — it would be that. Bc I am so interested in it.

🚨 Spoilers for every thing — Yangchen and Kyoshi books, ATLA, LOK, Comics, etc. 🚨

The earliest we hear about an actual Earth Kingdom and Earth Royal family is in F.C. Yee’s Yangchen books. At this point, the Earth Kingdom has just gone through a civil war, wherein the White Lotus manipulated the Water Tribes and Fire Nation to sponsor a challenger to the throne, which is wild. The challenger was defeated and the Earth Kingdom entered a period of intense isolationism. There are a handful of port cities where foreign trade is allowed, with incredibly powerful governors who actively manipulate the system to build their wealth at the expense of the citizens. The Earth King is paranoid af, to the point that he is donning disguises and sneaking around to catch plots against him. And some of these governors are actively plotting against him and inventing new weapons of mass destruction (combustion benders) in order to usurp him.

The next we see of the Earth Kingdom is in the Kyoshi novels were it’s a devolved mess of warlordism. Various daofei groups had taken over parts of the inner provinces and the Earth Monarch was incredibly weak. There’s also the whole Wars of Secrets and Daggers scramble for the throne, which is only mentioned.

According to the Wiki, in the online comic Escape from the Spirit World, Kyoshi pressured the ineffective 46th Earth King to adopt a constitutional monarchy in order to prevent further oppression. This occurred in the aftermath of a peasant revolt that occurred after the death of Chin the Conquerer.

Avatar Legends then gives us a King Jialun, who reversed many of the progressive changes of this constitution and murdered the sages who agreed with Kyoshi in “The Night of the Silenced Sages.” The government was recorrupted, but no other successor had the same power as Jialun. So the Earth Kingdom monarchy was corrupt but weak.

Then we next see the Earth Kingdom with King Kuei (the 52nd Earth King). According to the old website, he ascended to the throne at the age of 4, which is why Long Feng — who served as regent — was able to essentially takeover.

But based on what we see in the show, the Earth Kingdom has completely splintered. The Earth King only has power in Ba Sing Se, and that power is only ceremonial. He is unaware of the 100 year war and completely inept to rule. Then it’s Azula and the fire nation takeover.

In the comics that come between ATLA and LOK, King Kuei, without the influence of Long Feng, takes an active role in the governance of the Kingdom. He is willing to go to war over the colonies in “The Rift,” but is also willing to be shown wrong. He was instrumental in the peace after the war and fully restored the monarchy as the full power of the Earth Kingdom government.

Then we get to LOK. Hou Ting is a fairly powerful, incredibly corrupt monarch. She tried to exert more control over the people, especially the outer provinces. She’s then killed by Zaheer. The power vacuum is ultimately filled by Kuvira, a non-dynastic dictator who rules by force and sponsors brain washing and the forced removal of Fire and Water nation descendants. The next dynastic ruler is Wu (whom Kuvira had usurped). He is Hou Ting’s great-nephew, and at least third in line from her. He is the only surviving member of the dynasty and seems unprepared to rule at his coronation, after three years of living in Republic City.

After the whole Kuvira thing is taken care of (Book 4 of LOK), Wu then decides to abdicate and democratize the Earth Kingdom. The post-canon comics (Ruins of Empire) show the struggles and setbacks of this, but ultimately reaffirm this path.

And I am so obsessed with this whole history. There are, according to the Wiki, at least 2 dynasties, the Hao and the Hou Ting. It resembles Chinese history, but doesn’t just follow it. There’s dynastic decline and really interesting incidents that I wish were more fully fleshed out. Not to mention as the centralized monarchy weakens, you see the rise of local powers, like the King of Omashu. I just find the whole thing so fascinating and I wish I had a comprehensive book.

#avatar legend of korra #avatar the last airbender #king wu #prince wu #avatar #avatar last airbender #my theories #my thoughts #earth kingdom #king kuei #queen hou ting #earth royal family #earth monarch

[horse-head-farms]

day 2: Royalty/Knight @mcyt-yuri-week

False, a knight famous for her ability to slay magical beings, was sent by her king to defeat the greatest threat of all - the fae. Here, she enters the faerie realm and is greeted by none other than the queen herself, waiting upon her forest throne.

Having grown up on tales of the fae and their evil trickery, False is surprised by how beautiful and kind the queen is, but isn’t going to let down her guard yet.

Queen Stress is rather impressed by this mortal who not only managed to find her way into the faerie realm, but is also brave (and foolish) enough to try and fight her! She has no intention of hurting False, and instead wants to teach her the mischievous ways of the fairies, get her to lighten up a bit and all that. And, well, if she tries to court the handsome knight along the way, who can blame her?

#im not sapphic (bi guy) but the world could always do with more gay women so i was like. might be fun to do yuri week! #i know for royalty/knight its usually a monarch and their protector and that is fun but i wanted to subvert that a bit #and have a knight who is actually sent to defeat that monarch. and also faerie queen stress is just perfect have you seen her hcvh outfit? #most of my art on here is quick doodles to get my ideas down but for this one i really wanted to go all out and create something nice #mcytyuriweekvalentines #mcyt #also this is days late oops but it still counts #fress #falsestress #i am not tagging a certain someone who is a tumblr user #stressmonster101 #hermitcraft #hermitshipping #hermitshipblr #my art #not in this but i imagine iskall is also here as a fairy. he’s stress’ advisor / best friend / guy who does her dirty work on earth

[ivebeentotheforest]

#my gifs #godzilla x kong: the new empire #godzilla king of the monsters #godzilla vs kong #godzilla #kong #kong skull island #king kong #son of kong #cgi #hollow earth #monsterverse #monarch #action movies

[fyeahygocardart]

Granmarg the Rock Monarch

#Granmarg the Rock Monarch #yugioh #ygo #Rock #Can you smell what the Rock Monarch is cooking? #Monarch #EARTH #yugioh tcg #ygo tcg

[bestmothertournament]

#best female monarch #female monarch tournaments #female monarchs #queens #gwen merlin #bbc merlin #queen gwen #queen guinevere52 #4 #queen guinevere #arwen undomiel #lotr #return of the king #middle earth

[tinderbox210]

We’re in their world.

The Titans’.

This is just another part of their realm.

#monarch: legacy of monsters #monsterverse #godzillaverse #monsterverseedit #my gif #hollow earth!!!

[adm-starblitzsteel-4305]

The way Lee Shaw touches Keiko Miura's de-aged face just shows how much he really missed her, and is shocked to find out that she's alive all the time on Hollow Earth...😳

So, are you all ready for the first season finale of Monarch: Legacy of Monsters?

#monarch legacy of monsters #mlom #season 1 #season 1 finale #godzilla #godzilla 2014 #hollow earth #lee shaw #keiko miura #mari yamamoto #kurt russell #legendary pictures #monsterverse

[leotanaka]

has anyone else noticed that every time they show a character going to (or exiting) hollow earth or axis mundi as the show is calling it, that the titan is always present at the exact moment?

#monarch: legacy of monsters #monarch legacy of monsters #mlom #mlom spoilers #monarch spoilers #hollow earth

[ophanim-vesper]

A Collector and a Titan as friends? It's more likely than you think

TOH ending has been rough, so I drew me and my friend @ayyciee as a Collector and Titan! :D

My Collectorsona is called Morning Star, while my friend's Titansona is called Monarch! They've been friends since the beginning of time, and are kind of like personifications of Venus and Earth :3

Monarch is 100% based on Titan Luz. I imagine they're a type of more humanoid Titan faring from another planet in the Demon Realm's solar system.

Morning Star was birthed from the Demon Realm's version of Venus. The first face they ever saw was Monarch's, and they've been friends ever since. As Morning Star grew older, they took on duties of being a collector, but made them and Monarch special charms to remember each other by, even if they're lightyears apart. [you can spot the charms on their hat and collar ;)]

Morning Star collects by trapping objects/beings as drawings in their sketchbook! They automatically become another 'entry' in their journal of archived things :)

Monarch takes on duties on maintaining their planet's ecosystem. They're kinda worshipped as a 'death god', and people pray to them during burials and cremations. Monarch uses the bones of the dead to create new living creatures. It's highly suspected they were the inventor of grimwalkers, but that's mostly a myth... or is it? ;)

#snlandfn I suck at backgrounds #but I wanted to get this done already so uhhh #yeah #toh #the owl house #toh collector #toh collector oc #collector oc #collectorsona #persona #toh titan #toh titan oc #toh titansona #titansona #venus #earth #astrology #morning star #monarch #art #my art #fanart #toh fanart #ocs #oc #my ocs

[motherofplatypus]

At least his evil counterpart knows better than to just wear spandex.

#good lord did they even learn anything from Kitty Noire's design? #gotta admit that spike ball is a really nice touch #but man what on earth is this? #still not as bad as Monarch tho so that's a point #miraculous ladybug #miraculous #mlb #ml leaks #miraculous adrien #adrien agreste #claw noir

[pols-doodles]

"there are a few warriors amongst us" "..old.. warriors"

#the hobbit #middle earth #balin #balin the dwarf #balin son of fundin #dwarves #Artistic nudity #my art #the hobbit art #the hobbit fanart #it’s a reflection on that he’s seen far too much war n just kinda Tired of having to fight for his life n home as he does 4 times in his ti #he should be able to live happily n comfortably as a dwarven monarch

[kingwuko]

in secret zaofu is referred to as not part of the earth kingdom but isnt it? like yeah it's isolated from the rest of the mess but It's still part of it.

Interesting question! As I've always understood it, Zaofu is autonomous in its governing. Su runs the city herself as the 'Matriarch', refers to herself as it's leader, calls it her city, openly trash talks the queen, and the wiki refers to Zaofu as an "Autonomous City State". So geographically it's within the Earth Kingdom, and I'm sure before Su bought that plot of land, the empty land itself may have been technically under the sovereignty of the Earth Queen, but apart from when Kuvira invaded, its government has always been separate from the Earth Kingdom. And I think once Kuvira was defeated and Wu took over, he would have just handed Zaofu back over to Su. But, it's not a democratic city, Su is in charge.

So what I was mentioning in Secret, is that Su would be very intrigued by the fact that Wu is doing exactly what she was trash-talking Hou-Ting for not doing: Abdicating and reforming the Earth Kingdom to help it evolve with the times. And with that in mind I think Su would be curious about the progress of the democratization and consider reforming Zaofu in a similar way, and then joining under the umbrella government for the Earth Republic or Democractic States or whatever they're going to end up calling it.

#prince wu #suyin beifong #king wu #Zaofu #answered ask #anonymous #if i've misunderstood Zaofu's deal I'd be eager to hear what i've missed #but I'm pretty sure in canon they do not answer to the earth monarch

[dailydccomics]

multiversal warriors  Countdown: Arena (2008)

#superman #wonder woman #batman #dc comics #countdown arena #monarch #red son #Amazonia #green lantern #jay garrick #johnny quick #blue beetle #apollo #starwoman #superwonderbat #dc #earth 30 #earth 16 #earth 2 #earth 3 #earth 9 #earth 34 #earth 18 #earth 21 #earth 5 #earth 19 #earth 12 #earth 31 #earth 39 #earth 32

[ivebeentotheforest]

Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024)

#my gifs #godzilla x kong: the new empire #godzilla king of the monsters #godzilla vs kong #godzilla #kong #kong skull island #king kong #monsterverse #monarch #hollow earth #cgi #action movies

[mostly-mundane-atla]

Don't tell me about fire nation royalty, tell me about their dyers' guilds mixing things like safflower and cochineal and madder and lac and cutch and adding acids and bases to make all those red dyes and the mordants to get the right effect and the fixatives to keep it washfast

#there are so many red dyes and they're cooler to read about than absolute monarchs #don't even get me started on earth kingdom dyers and all that goes into producing lovely green textiles

[minie-mastermind]

In Convergence Crimes Syndicate #1 2015 we see an Earth 3 incarnation of the Rogues known as the Rogue Hunters. We can assume they are some semi-governmentally controlled or bounty huntering based team. We can assume that they were initially formed to take down Johnny Quick and we know the leader is some incarnation of Leonard Snart as he is referred to as Lenny In the panel below.

What we don't know is their titles, we can maybe assume they could be similar or the same as the Renegades on the main Earth. They are a group of futuristic law enforcers modeled after the Rogues and they are named Commander Cold, Mirror Monarch, Weather Warlock and Top. There is no Captain Boomerang on the Renigades and thats leads in very well to be gender swap.

I do not believe this is George Harkness's counterpart, I believe this is a counterpart to Owen Mercer. His son on the main earth simply born with the opposite gender, could be a sign that the mother was different or another way that Earth 3 is the opposite. We can maybe find from the naming conventions of for Renegades that she could be called Commander boomerang.

In the story itself the only role they play is to keep the powerless Crime Syndicate from breaking Superwoman out from her execution and they succeed in that goal.

#comics #dc #dc comics #earth 3 #crime syndicate #superwoman #captain cold #commander cold #the top #weather wizard #weather warlock #mirror master #mirror monarch #captain boomerang #owen mercer #the roughs #johnny quick