After the warm hills of the Hidden Forest, we climb higher and higher until the raindrops become snowflakes. When a cold wind blows in our face, we will see stunning views of the most developed region and the cultural capital of the ancient kingdom - the Valley of Triumph.
Life on the cold cliffs, where winter takes up most of the year, seems impossible, but the inhabitants of the mountains had their patron, who stood between warm-blooded people and winter blizzards. Ognivo.
One of the most important holidays held in honor of Ognivo was days of fortune. The inhabitants of the mountains believed that once a year, Ognivo dies out and is reborn in a new body. This day was considered the beginning of the new year and was celebrated with a big festival. In this way, people demonstrated their gratitude to Ognivo for their patronage by creating masks symbolizing the new appearance of the deity. All the appearances of the Ognivo included various animals, which were repeated, making up a cycle. This cycle was depicted as a golden ring and was similar to the zodiac known to us. According to it, they also made a kind of horoscope and believed that the year in which you were born affects your personality.
In the Valley of Triumph, writing appeared before everyone else, and therefore, the myths about Ognivo were re-read from generation to generation. It can be said that Ognivo were not just a god. They were the national hero of the Valley. They were a friend and relative of any inhabitant of the mountains, from young to old. But with no one did they have such a friendship as with Elder Priestess. When the future elder appeared in the Valley, of course, she found out about the Ognivo. Not every deity could boast of such love. Priestess, being a semi-divine entity, could see inhabitants of limbo and, accordingly, Ognivo themself. Ognivo was wary of the guest at first but soon realized that Praistes is a pure soul who loves the Valley with all her heart, just like them.
It can be considered that the union of Ognivo and Priestess is the opposite of the confrontation between Teth and Dryad. The Priestess ruled the people, leading them to the Megabird, and Ognivo ruled the valley itself. After all, why should they divide something if together they will bring much more benefit?
One day, everything changed.
The cult of Ognivo lasted much longer than the other gods of the pantheon. That's because when Daleph and Alef arrived in the Valley, the Priestess refused to get rid of Ognivo. "They are part of the Valley. They were here, even before me. We have no right to drive them away." Aleph was not happy with such an outcome. He did not want the cult of the Megabird to compete with any other. But he did not argue with Priestess. Time passed, and Ognivo outlived the pantheon, seeing how the Four of the Isle, Prismix, and Dryad fell one after another. Alas, even Ognivo were destined to go out forever at one moment.
It was a great joy for the whole Valley when the elder had children. But it was also a great shock for the Family because no one thought that such a thing was possible. The mischievous twins won the hearts of the inhabitants of the mountains, and everyone was waiting for the moment when they would rule the Valley on an equal footing with their mother. But unfortunately, this was not destined to happen. After the birth of the twins, the Priestess's core received too much damage and began to gradually lose strength. Priestess did not die in a bang. She've been fading away for a long time, year after year. Until her inner star has completely outlived its light.
Ognivo was inconsolable.
The orphaned twins were too young to rule the Valley on their own. And while they were mourning for their departed mother, the Family assumed responsibility for the mountain kingdom. They decided to get rid of the Ognivo first. It's not like the old deity had the strength left to fight. They were not defeated. They were imprisoned in their own altar. After that, at the state level, people were forbidden to celebrate the days of fortune. However, Alef soon realized that the days of fortune were not just a celebration in honor of the deity but an important event for the people themselves. It was a celebration of family unity, folk festivals, and gift exchange. It cannot be so easily erased from history. For this reason, the prince appointed a new holiday - days of feast. The meaning is exactly the same, but the date is different, and all mentions of Ognivo have been erased. And so the last god of the pantheon fell ingloriously.
Recently, those new crystals from the Vault have become popular among skykids for recording messages. But I hope that despite this, we will not forget to periodically leave candles on Ognivo's altar. After all, they actually read them.
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ok i’m still On Break do not take this post as a sign that i’m like. Actively Tumblring again yet because i’m still not, 4 the most part, but i have had my ear to the ground for special interest things, of fuckign course, of course, bcuz i’m me, and i. just. i am .i’m so fucking sorry to all the new SM2099 comic fans who are only just now realizing just now how dire the straits are, here, LMAO. it has been this way for Years. earnestly and from the bottom of my heart i love spider-man 2099 so much and also nobody on the goddamn planet Cares About Him At All or can even fucking write him half-decently unless every single celestial bodie in the fucking milky way galaxy comes into perfect fucking syzygy, i think, i think, i think. why did u think we (me) had a psychotic episode after that fuckin movie dropped. fucksake. lord above. because it’s all always “ohhh being yourSELF and telling your OWN story your OWN way” until you Look A Certain Way and ARE A Certain Way and Have Symptoms That Look Frightening and Don’t Move Around Like ‘Normal’ People Should Move, fuckin’ freaky-ass creature beast-thing, and so on and so on and so on, Christ all-fuckin’-mighty. gets tiring. but. anywaygs.
it is far easier to be destructive, than constructive. so. ahem. sorry. refocusing. it seems quite simply that just yet another goddamn story missed the point that 90s future spider-man is a story about very plainly and simply loving each other as people. it’s a story about a severely depressed, miserable, cynical little man who finds new reasons to live in every kind person he meets, and there is an open earnesty to that, if nothing else, that no movie can take away 30 years later. anybody can decide to try and be a better person than the one they were yesterday, and that is goddamn important. to portray anything otherwise was an unfathomably cruel decision, on sony’s part, and as soon as we got trailer evidence that they were leaning into his more “intimidating” features back in ~dec. 2021, i.. pretty much Knew it was what they were gonna be doing with him. why wouldn’t they? i mean. who actually even cares about this obscure nobody, right? c-listers are the tried-and-true adaptational chameleons, anyways; they sure suckered in dumbasses like me, who still took blind hope in hook line and sinker, thinking he’d be important to the film, or at the very least portrayed sympathetically to his 30 years of established comic history as a character who is consciously aware that he is an adult survivor of fucking child abuse. but. c’est la fucking vie, i guess.
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hi i got comm'd to make the origin companions' fursonae.
some reasoning under the cut for everyone
the only one specifically requested, and the easiest choice of all time, karlach the mahogany golden lab! shes puppy. one ear is missing to mirror the missing horn.
astarion is an oriental longhair. specifically, based on pangur the kitty. if you look at any picture of her, you'll know why. also because, yknow, he likes and respects cats, and hes just... kitty.
gale is an otter! ...theres not a lot of design process here, otter just fit. ...ignore the slightly incomplete belt, it's covered in the full picture, it's fine.
shadowheart as a jackalope went through stuff like d33r, elk, sh33p, and hare before we got to jackalope. moon connection, spiky, prey animal that can still defend itself, hunted by wolves. you get it.
lae'zel the dragonfly! less common fursona choice, alien compared to the others, githyanki ride dragons, and dragonflies are top tier insect predators. almost went the reptile route but i like this more.
last but not least, wyll the dire wolf. however i put way too much thought into it- he was originally a livestock guardian dog, specifically a sarplaninac. mizora turned him from something protective into visibly a dangerous predator. also in older dnd dire wolves were spiky ::33
halsin is a bear, minthara would probably be a spider, you dont n33d me for those. unless you want to pay me.
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yall, yall im
yall im definitely so normal right now
im totally not screaming and spamming a friends dms rn
guys have you SEEN the new transformers 1 trailer
its
oh its beautiful
oh its so beautiful
theres so many little references
i am so unwell right now
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