#forgotten empires

[wordsarelifebookblog]

I got book mail!!

Jeffe Kennedy was amazingly kind & sent me a signed copy of The Promised Queen, the third and final book in her Fogotten Empires series. She also sent these stunning bookmarks 😍

#bookworm #booklr #bookish #bibliophile #Jeffe kennedy #signed books #high fantasy #forgotten empires #twelve kingdoms trilogy #uncharted realms #bookmarks #bookstagram #books #reading #romance #read #words are life #novels #must read #book recs #life is words #book addict #bookshelf

[chromatic-casino]

Another Deer

#house rules || original post #all or nothing || art #i just really like drawing antlers. i May have forgotten the wings. but i did not want to redraw the cape #also a mutual of mine said he liked my messy lineart so! doing that more often #empires season one #empiresblr #i hope thats. the tag #empires smp #empires scott #scott smajor #smajor fanart #also fun fact: i havent finished this season but the more i watch the more i rotate him. ill draw him Again for sure #i was gonna give him something in the other hand but. it is also almost 4am and i wanted to leave this as is

[alloycord]

aw hell nah they skulkied the bear enjoyer

#cubfan135 #hermitcraft x empires #hermitcraft #empires smp s2 #cubfan135 fanart #my art #his ass got SKULKED #shoutout to the song I had on loop drawing this #that I have now forgotten the name of #whoopsie daisies #hermitblr #why do tags

[oldshrewsburyian]

Ah, midsummer: when we’re getting deeper and deeper into the “ohhh, this is a classic horror novel” stage of Dracula Daily. With my historian hat on, I have just one observation to make about our June 25 entry.

The only thing I found was a great heap of gold in one corner—gold of all kinds, Roman, and British, and Austrian, and Hungarian, and Greek and Turkish money, covered with a film of dust, as though it had lain long in the ground. 

Huh, you may be saying to yourselves, that seems like a random assortment of coins. Why Roman and then British and then all the others? Why these coinages, specifically?

Empires. They’re all empires. The British Empire saw itself very specifically as the successor to Rome in the scope of its power and learning (but also with the culture of Greece, because they were, they were convinced, cool like that.) So we have Rome, master of the ancient world as imagined by Victorians. We have Britain, master of the modern world ditto, and it must be said they had a point. Austria and Hungary were, at the time of Jonathan’s writing, a single empire, and had been since 1867, but this was a temporary state of affairs linking two powerful monarchies of East-Central Europe. Greece we’ve covered. And then there is “Turkish money,” the currency of the Ottoman Empire, masters of enormous swathes of Central Asia and Southeastern Europe from the 15th century onward.

And all of this money? All of this power? The “chains and ornaments,” still more obvious signifiers of power? All of this is much more relevant to how the Count lives than furniture. And it tells us not only about his past, but, by implication, about his future ambitions. Dun dun dunnnnnn.

#dracula daily #dracula #COFFIN REVEAL CHAPTER #i had forgotten how deeply creepy all of this is #and how clearly dracula wants to -- uh -- establish a vampire empire #apparently #bram stoker

[redstonedust]

oli telling gem that he is a real bard despite denying it when he joined the server... something something he found his place after being left behind and now hes being left behind again.

#i will oli orionsound angst and you will deal with it #empires spoilers #that man went through hell and got forgotten by all his friends and now theyre leaving again! bro....

[yuri-alexseygaybitch]

As a side note, once you fully understand and comprehend what the United States did in Korea there is no way you will not hear Kill Bill sirens the second a USAmerican starts showing their ass about it.

#tbh i think the korean war is 'the forgotten war' in part because the US wants that shit to stay buried #it's so unfathomably evil and cruel even by US empire standards

[another-rpg-sideblog]

The Northern half of the 3rd level of the Undermountain megadungeon, from The Ruins of Undermountain boxed set (TSR, 1991).

Another repurposed dungeon map, this time from the personal Empire of the Petal Throne campaign of TSR artist Dave Sutherland:

[Source: Unvisible Citadel - Undermountain Map Origins]

#rpg #dungeons and dragons #dnd #maps #dungeon maps #forgotten realms #waterdeep #undermountain #megadungeon #empire of the petal throne

[tomthefanboy]

Fixing something that's bugged me for about 20 years. The human ethnicities of Faerun were labeled inaccurately in the 3e Forgotten Realms book. After some research I have corrected them to match the descriptions instead of just putting the names in alphabetical order.

#D&D #forgotten realms #faerun #dnd #fantasy ethnicity #It still bugs me that the Mulan people originated from Earth humans who worshipped the gods of literal Egypt #But we abducted by an ancient empire Stargate Style #but look NOITHING like Egyptians

[forgotten-bharat]

Maharani Durgavati

Durgavati was the daughter of King of Bundelkhand, married to Raja dalpad of Gondwana, in Madhaya Pradesh.

Soon, tragically Raja died and Queen Durgavati with her 5 year old toddler stepped up to the throne. She managed the whole kingdom exceptionally well, as recorded by Akbar’s historian. The kingdom did not suffer any major setback even after their king died.

Gondwana was a rich kingdom, with a beautiful queen which became the target of the Mughals. They didn't wanted to simply take the kingdom under their control, the commander Asaf Khan also “wanted to touch the beauty of Gondwana”.

In 1564, Asaf Khan marched with 10,000 cavalries towards Gondwana, Rani Durgavati marched with 5,000 men to the battlefield.

She led the army well and killed about 500 enemies, she came out victorious by the end of the day, later she purposed to “surprise attack” the enemies or “Gorilla Attack” but none of the council members agreed to that.

By the next morning, Asaf Khan’s army was in a much better place and the fighting continued for 3 exhausting days. By that time only 200 of her men were left but the thought of giving up never once crossed her mind. Her bravery and courage never wavered.

During the battle, one arrow pierced her temple and another pierced her neck, causing her to lose consciousness. When she opened her eyes, the inevitable defeat was clear.

Instead of falling in the hands of men that had nothing but lust for her and would eventually throw her in Harem with other women, that previously were queens of conquered kingdoms that Mughals kept as sex slaves, she took our her dagger and killed herself to save her honor and prevent invaders from doing heinous things to her body, her martyrdom day (24 June 1564) is commemorated as “Balidan Diwas”.

The Mughal army then marched to the fort to loot it's treasure. They found staggering amount of gold pots full of gold, jewels, expensive stones etc.

When they opened a room, it was full of burnt bodies of women that commited Jauhar upon hearing the news of Rani’s defeat. These women committed Jauhar to save their honor and to prevent the Mughals from taking them as sex slaves, unfortunately 2 women were still alive, stuck behind a large wooden block that saved their lives. These two women were then taken to Akbar's court and predictably put into Harem.

#rani durgavati #india #mughal empire #gondwana #indian queen #indian history #madhaya pradesh #forgotten bharat #female warriors #women warriors #queens of india #hinduism #pseudo secularism #hindu kingdom #mughal invasion

[rawliverandcigarettes]

One year ago, day for day, Halfway Home, my Mass Effect fanfiction that took me seven years to complete from start to finish, began to be released on Archive of Our Own. I have dusted off a drawing of Shlee I had never managed to finish for the occasion, and finally completed it to celebrate!!

It's my little space frog and he's having Problems!!!

Truth be told, I wanted to do approximately eight billion things in regards to Halfway Home, and I have finished barely three in that very long list (one of them being: I made printing tests for the cover of the book and it looks way better than I feared!!! so when I do eventually move forward and make a physical copy, it will look good at least.)

To be quite honest, I think I needed a break from Mass Effect and this story in particular, and so I allowed myself to step away for a while. But! I have been (tentatively, and wayy less efficiently than I had hoped) making slow progress on the sequel, The Empire of Preys! It hasn't reached first draft stage yet, as it is an incredibly long and stupidly complex story --but we're getting there eventually. It may just take a little longer than I first anticipated.

Anyway: happy birthday Halfway Home!!!!! Happy birthday longest project of my life that taught me how to write and did so many good things for me in general in spite of being a story about wallowing in the Horrors!!!! Happy birthday!!! Happy N7 Day ten days too late!!! Woooo!!!!

#salarians #salarian oc #mass effect #halfway home #writing #salarian #my art #fanfiction #shlee #shlee t'selvi #my little guy ;; #I like him a lot I had forgotten how much I like him and then I drew him again and was like oh.................. baby #if you are interested in the fic I HIGHLY suggest you look for the content warning list #as it is a rough ride #drawing him again got me excited about the arc he goes through in the sequels #as we have left him in an extremely unhinged and destructive place honestly #but first!!! #the empire of preys #the problem is that one cannot work on teop casually #I need to refamiliarize myself with several political systems an entire timeline a financial crisis and aaaa #it's a lot #love this story but it's a lot #I know I have never made the post about how I feel about the story #I think I will eventually #but I needed time to digest it all

[haaaaaaaaaaaave-you-met-ted]

Forgotten Realms: Lost Empires of Faerun - Ahjuutal Rising by Ralph Horsley

#Dungeons and Dragons #Dungeons & Dragons #D&D #Forgotten Realms #Toril #Faerun #Lost Empires of Faerun #Ahjuutal Rising #Fantasy #Art #Ralph Horsley #Wizards of the Coast

[lesbiancassius]

People in my classics course will talk abt the internet discourse THEY see and I’m like wow. I live in beautiful ignorance of all of that. Mostly I just see drawings of Alcibiades and Socrates making out

#june.txt #Emily Wilson dischorse I have not seen it. I do not care to. #Roman empire trend. I’ve already forgotten. #not that I haven’t seen takes that range from bad to holy fuck that's racist on this site but I tailor my feed for maximum uncaredness

[vinlynn]

A Memorial for a Forgotten Face

#suzies art :] #empires #empires smp #empires season one #ldshadowlady #i have been. on a empires s1 brainrot #Specifically with Joel Lizzie and Jimmy #again #i really like thr headcannon that Joel built a stature of Lizzir after she dissappeared #and that her face and name was forgotten to time #with only her statue and the remains of Mazealia were left #i think about this often

[bugflowered]

This burning cat storms closer, and Inkpool lets her; she is a little echo of her mentor, who’d approached Glassflower in the exact same paw-stomping, teeth-gnashing manner before Inkpool threw herself in his path.

3 year redraw of this… burning cat still burning @forgotten-elegy

#1 fake death 1 murder 1 divorce 2 kids and 2 arcs later i return. to this same gotdamn scene #empirical ​evidence of the grip rubys writing has on my brain i think #anyway something something pinestorm haunting the narrative #warrior cats #wc #warriors #wcrp #oc #art #forgotten elegy #martenstorm

[redwinterroses]

thinking about how every single thing pix does validates my preexisting lore ideas for him. this time specifically how do you know it's a heretical machine, pix? if no one wrote down anything about it, whom is it profaning, pix? do you think an empire that honors the dead would have any love for such a device, pix? do you think that an empire that clings to the dead would have any use for such a device, pix?

So this has been sitting in my inbox for two days and I only JUST finally got a chance to watch his ep and O.O

YEAH.

YEAH, PIX. We have questions.

This ancient explorer, a friendly sort of immortal who doesn't hesitate to scare you to death and then leave a gift anyway, who comes across this piece of machinery, and he doesn't... he doesn't remember it? Not properly? But he knows it's dangerous. He knows it's unnatural.

And... he uses it anyway. He takes its strength, its energy, and makes it his own. He's already a paradox -- what's a little more? Just for flavor.

#my kaleidoscope au hc for pix is that he's a forgotten god of memory -- which is obviously hugely ironic #and dream resetting the universe so many times is what caused him to be forgotten and the forgetting basically glitched out his powers #his very existence even #and during the time of s1 and Pixandria it started returning to him #that shrine in the desert... how had he known to find it? how had he known what to do with its power? #and now the machine... is it profane if an immortal -- diminished but even so -- claims it as his own? #the god of memory who was forgotten #the god of 'death' in the terms of remembering those gone who claims a machine that brings literal death #...there's soooo much there #empires s2 #empires spoilers #empires smp #pixlriffs #kaleidoscope au #< tangentially #redwinteranswers

[dougielombax]

Just leaving this here.

Forgotten history and all that.

Feel free to reblog.

Edit: No you may NOT reblog this if you intend in turn to spread islamophobic bigotry and/or antisemitic conspiracy “theories”.

I’m simply raising awareness of forgotten history. If you are one of those terminally divorced, conspiratorially minded middle aged mediocrities and other such chumps what thinks that the Jews orchestrated the Armenian genocide (as opposed to the CUP, Young Turks and Ottoman Empire as a whole what actually did it) then kindly fuck off and die.

#dougie rambles #political crap #news #forgotten history #history #turkey #middle east #Asia #levant #europe #caucasus #armenia #genocide #hamidian massacres #1894 #armenians #feel free to reblog #indigenous #indigenous people #ottoman empire #fuck Erdogan