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A 2022 report by RealClearPolitics confirmed what many Europeans had long suspected but could not prove because of data obfuscation by individual governments: Europe has a massive immigrant violent crime problem.

The 10-year data study showed that across the EU, “each one percentage point increase in immigrant population is associated with a 3.6 percent increase in the homicide rate.” In Germany, where police and politicians fiercely guard immigrant crime statistics, an academic study found that asylum applicants were responsible for a massive 10.4 percent rise in violent crime in Lower Saxony alone in 2015 and 2016, an apparent effect of Angela Merkel’s 2015 open-doors migration policy. It is a familiar pattern across Western Europe’s industrial hubs. In the first half of 2022, foreign nationals committed 70 percent of the violent robberies in Paris. Another academic study in Sweden found that in 2017, immigrants accounted for 73 percent of all cases of manslaughter, murder, and attempted murder.

To the residents of Ireland, however, the human carnage unfolding on the continent had been abstract. Traditionally protected from the dangers of mass unvetted migration due to being an economic backwater, the spectacular economic boom of the ’90s and early ’00s spurred a massive influx of migrants to such a degree that now more than 20 percent of the Irish population is foreign-born. In 2022, Ireland had its reckoning with migrant crime. Predictably, the government attempted to cover it up.

A Brutal Murder On the afternoon of Jan. 12, 2022, Ashling Murphy, a talented musician and teacher, was set upon and murdered in brutal fashion. The 23-year-old was stabbed 11 times in the neck while walking along the bank of the Grand Canal in Tullamore, County Offaly. The savage nature of the attack and the fact that it occurred in broad daylight sent shockwaves through the country.

Three days after the murder, The Irish Times printed a piece quoting “an epidemic of femicide” and “a culture of misogyny” in Ireland. Similarly, The Guardian asked if Murphy’s murder would change Ireland’s “culture of misogyny.” National soul-searching had begun, and the narrative that emerged was that Ireland’s men were to blame.

Dozens of vigils were held across the nation, promoted by the Women’s Council of Ireland (NWC). Speaking to a crowd of thousands outside of government buildings in Dublin, the head of the council, Orla O’Connor, stated, “The death of Ashling Murphy must be a watershed moment to end violence against women.” Helen McEntee, Ireland’s minister for justice, tweeted, “I am working to ensure we have a society that does not tolerate this any longer.”

In an official statement, Prime Minister Micheal Martin said, “We have spent much of the past week … questioning our attitudes towards women. Are we doing anything to help? Are we doing enough to help? Are we part of the problem?” Irish men hung their heads in shame as the magnitude and ferocity of their misogyny was hammered home.

But then the narrative hit a speed bump. On Jan. 18, Jozef Puska, an immigrant from Slovakia, was arrested. It would later emerge that Puska was a convicted sex offender in his native country. He had further reportedly been a person of interest in two assaults, one in Prague shortly before moving to Ireland and one in England while living in Ireland. The narrative of misogynistic Irish men should have died on the day of Puska’s arrest. It didn’t.

Blaming Misogyny

In June 2022, Justice Minister McEntee announced a five-year strategy that would update “school curricula to include consent, coercive control, domestic violence and safe use of the internet.” The move was deeply cynical as it was McEntee’s own party that had allowed Puska, the convicted sex offender, to enter the country 10 years earlier. Rather than acknowledge those failings, she deflected blame for Murphy’s murder onto the boys and men of Ireland.

The last part of her initiative, “safe use of the internet,” is particularly important as McEntee is the minister behind the draconian Criminal Justice Bill, or “hate speech bill,” which recently caused an international storm after Donald Trump Jr. called it “insane” and Elon Musk promised legal action to halt it. Not only did McEntee use the murder of Murphy to deflect from government failings on mass migration, but she also used it to sell her highly unpopular “hate speech” laws.

On the one-year anniversary of Murphy’s murder, the Irish Examiner published a lengthy piece shaming the men of Ireland. The paper quoted Orla O’Connor, who resoundingly supported McEntee’s strategy: “[W]e must also tackle the root cause of this epidemic. … We must educate our children about the misogyny that underlies male violence against women. There is a gap left by our education system.” It didn’t matter that Puska wasn’t a product of Irish society or the Irish education system.

The ‘Femicide’ Narrative

The same article pointed out that 2022 had been the worst year for violence against women and ultimately femicide in Ireland in a decade, with 12 women dead as a result. However, the data does not support claims that there is a femicide epidemic in Ireland, much less the idea that indoctrination of the nation’s boys is the cure.

Of the 12 women murdered in Ireland in 2022, five were killed by nonintegrated immigrants. Jozef Puska murdered Ashling Murphy. Romanian Andrei Dobra is awaiting trial for the murder of his fiance, Ioana Mihaela. Romanian Daniel Blanaru is awaiting trial for the murder of his partner, Larisa Serban. German Guenter Lohse is awaiting trial for the murder of his elderly mother, Ruth. Brazilian Miller Pacheco is awaiting trial for the murder of his former partner, Bruna Fonseca. All of the alleged killers needed translators throughout their court appearances. These women’s deaths are apparently the direct result of failed, open-border migration policies.

The nationality of the person who assaulted Louise Muckell, which likely caused her death, hasn’t been made public yet. Muckell herself killed a father of two in 1996 in a drunk-driving incident, and police are investigating a circle of her friends described as having “serious alcohol dependency issues.” Mary Bergin was allegedly murdered by her daughter, though journalists and activists leave out this detail when including her in the “femicide epidemic” in Ireland.

None of these seven women were murdered by misogynistic Irish men.

Other Causes

Of the remaining five female victims, Lisa Cash, Miriam Burns, and Sandra Boyd were allegedly killed by family members. Lisa Cash, 18, and her twin brother and sister, 8, were allegedly killed by their older brother. The Irish Examiner article cynically included Lisa in its femicide list because she was 18 and legally a woman, removing the fact that there was apparently no sex-based motivation. Similarly, including the accidental shooting of Sandra Boyd by her brother is misleading when used to prop up a narrative that there is a plague of intentional misogynistic murders of women in Ireland.

Like Bergin, the Burns murder was also allegedly by a family member, which would make both of those deaths parricide, meaning the murder of a parent by her child. These murders usually take place after a lifetime of family conflict. Including these family killings in an emergency “femicide epidemic” is again misleading.

Of the remaining two murders, Lisa Thompson’s death, like Louise Muckell’s, was apparently substance abuse-related. A man and a woman, alleged drug dealers, have been arrested as part of the murder inquiry, and both were known to the victim, a suspected drug addict, whose apartment was allegedly being used for the duo’s drug storage. Thompson and Muckell were likely not targeted for their sex but because of their tragic lifestyle choices.

This leaves one murder of a woman in Ireland in 2022 that was allegedly committed by an unrelated Irish male. Sean Egan is currently awaiting trial for the murder of Sharon Crean. One woman’s alleged murder by an Irish male is extremely low for a country of 5 million people.

Close the Border

There is clearly no “epidemic of femicide” native to the Irish, and this is backed up by international data. Ireland consistently ranks among the lowest for violence against women in the EU. There is, however, a problem with open borders in Ireland. Almost half of the women murdered in Ireland in 2022 would still be alive if their killers had not been allowed into the country.

Politicians such as Helen McEntee and Micheal Martin coopted the death of Ashling Murphy to cover for their disastrous migration policies. With the help of the Irish press and activists like Orla O’Connor, they gaslit a nation into believing women were in mortal danger from native Irish men. They used this fear to push through radical feminist school curriculum reform and to sell their war on free speech.

The reality is that Ireland’s rate of deadly violence against women could be slashed by up to half through sensible migration policy and even further by mental health and substance abuse programs. The government does not wish to undertake these achievable goals because that would require them to acknowledge their role in the deaths of these women. It’s much easier to preach on the corpses of innocent victims and shame the men of Ireland.

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poguesmaybank · 1 month

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Leverage Episode Battle

The Order 23 Job: Season Two, Episode Three. To get a convicted felon to reveal the location of his stolen money, the Leverage team steals the hospital he's confined to and stages a disease outbreak. Meanwhile, Eliot gets distracted when posing as a guard, he sees a young boy being treated and comes to suspect that the boy's father is responsible for the mysterious injuries which means that the youngster is being abused.

The Boys' Night Out Job: Season Four, Episode Fourteen. While the girls enjoy a night on the town (or so they think), Nate, Hardison, and Eliot must extricate their old acquaintance Hurley (from Season 1's "The 12-Step Job") from his involvement with gangs associated with the Mexican and Irish mobs.

#leverage #eliot spencer #alec hardison #parker #sophie devereaux #nate ford

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masonshaws · 1 year

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minnesota wild players as dog breeds

who asked for this? nobody. who thought of this? me. i made one comparison in an unrelated post and as such. this is happening.

strap in everyone. this is very long so i'm read more-ing so you don't all hate a list of 20+ players with included pictures. so open this one up just to see some cute dogs even if you don't care about the rest.

#2 calen addison - french bulldog

just incredibly chilled out but a jester in his own right. very square head.

#4 jon merrill - irish wolfhound

a calm, even-tempered gentle giant with a love for kids. incredibly social and kind. great hair choices.

#5 jacob middleton - giant schnauzer

i’m gonna be real this one is mostly for the stache but ALSO. smart, extremely protective and loyal, sturdy, energetic. bred both as a herder and a guard dog.

#12 matt boldy - golden retriever

outgoing, playful, loving, loyal, and smart while being also kind of a dope. incredibly popular. floppy with incredibly pettable hair.

#13 sam steel - swedish vallhund

sturdy and no-frills, cheerful and sociable. this one’s really a dart throw sorry guys

#14 joel eriksson ek - kuvasz

big and sturdy and an excellent protector. intelligent and determined and can be hard to train (develop) properly. can be deceptively quick.

#15 mason shaw - schipperke

sturdy, lively, curious, mischievous, energetic. very protective. loves his people.

#17 marcus foligno - chesapeake bay retriever

not strictly a guard dog but does well in the role if need be. intelligent, upbeat, high-energy, with an independent streak. incredibly loyal and affectionate to his people.

#18 jordan greenway - great dane

i guess he could knock you over if he tried. bighugeboi but also kind of a layabout.

#21 brandon duhaime - bull terrier

absolute comedian and rascal. high-energy, tenacious, playful, devoted, with an independent and stubborn streak. robust and muscular with a distinctly-shaped head. obsessed with “fun and games”.

#24 matt dumba - bulldog

loyal, courageous, easygoing, tenacious. playful and affectionate. extremely sociable and good with kids. used to be a lot tougher and stronger than he is now for reasons out of his control.

#25 jonas brodin - puli

some snippets from the akc page: “agile and light on their feet” “acrobat of the dog world” “do not suffer fools lightly” “no problem humiliating you in public”. the dog version of brods’ exceptional skating and willingness to use it to absolutely stonewall everybody. incredibly intelligent and loyal.

#26 connor dewar - manchester terrier (standard)

keenly observant and intelligent. loves a challenge. affectionate to its people. active and particularly quick - akc calls out the breed’s motor and “muscular caboose”, which. well.

#29 marc-andré fleury - weimaraner

incredibly active, friendly, and affectionate, and probably too smart for his own good. an icon.

#32 filip gustavsson - great pyrenees

big, gentle, quiet, but bred to be a guardian. a big cute loveable softie and defender.

#33 alex goligoski - bedlington terrier

lanky fellow. versatile, energetic without causing trouble, loyal, loving to family.

#36 mats zuccarello - west highland white terrier

strong, tough, and courageous, especially for his size. playful, energetic, independent, incredibly smart. beloved everywhere he goes.

#38 ryan hartman - staffordshire bull terrier

stocky and fearless. instinct to fight can get him into trouble. unfairly maligned. loyal, playful, and affectionate to his people.

#46 jared spurgeon - miniature poodle

small and delicate-looking, but wickedly smart and athletic. affectionate and companionable. underestimate him at your own peril.

#75 ryan reaves - rottweiler

big, muscular, sleek, and strong - playful, loving, and incredibly gentle to friends and family but knows how to protect and by god is he willing to do it. calm and confident and incredibly sociable.

#89 freddy gaudreau - border collie

incredibly smart with an inexhaustible energy and work ethic. playful and affectionate with loved ones.

#97 kirill kaprizov - siberian husky

deceptively strong, and used to the cold. extremely friendly and social, and can be prone to whining, although it’s very funny when they do so. boundless energy and seemingly never tired of work and play. (the siberia bit was indeed happy coincidence btw)

bonus: dean evason - boxer

you know why. strong, protective, deeply funny without even trying. prone to throwing the body around at anyone in sight.

bonus: bill guerin - chinook

smart, patient, calm, confident, outgoing. very mellow when not in work mode. a blend of strength and speed.

#today on posts i made to pass the time at work #minnesota wild #mn wild #nhl #wild #op #dogs

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The Terrible Alfred Spožek exhibit of the Museum of Modern Hurt opened today. I took my wife and her children to see what all the fuss and bluster was about. A guard stopped us at the entrance and told us the exhibit was full and there would be an hour wait, then handed us a restaurant pager and showed us to an empty exhibit by one Giulia Bhoulârd. It was a series of crayon and lard paintings of naked men gripping their cock and balls in one hand and eating a variety of sandwiches in the other. Needless to say I didn't cover the kid's eyes, because I couldn't give a shit about the little bastards.

After about 20 minutes, our restaurant pager buzzed, so we shuffled back out into the main hall. The guard took our pager and led us into the exhibit, which was shielded by a pair of thick blackout curtains. When our eyes adjusted to the dark, we realized we were surrounded by hundreds of knives, and before we could turn around, the guard had already piled more people in behind us. We were about 40 adults and 10 children, and the room could hardly accomodate a party half that size. I was immediately separated from the kids, which provided a small sense of relief in the odd atmosphere.

Eventually, the curtains' rhythmic parting ceased and the room was full. The murmur of the crowd died to a chill hush as a spotlight shown above us. Mr. Spožek was sitting in an extremely high chair, much like the chair of a lifeguard, in the center of the room. He began to speak through the microphone clipped to his sweater vest.

" Ladies and gentlemen, today it is my great pleasure to present to you my latest piece, commissioned and sponsored by the museum's board of patrons. It is the sole piece in my exhibit, and I assure you all it is unforgettable. Without further ado, let's begin." Suddenly, I noticed the pair of construction-grade noise protection ear muffs on his head, and I instantly developed a very unpleasant sensation in my chest, much akin to the time I ate a vegetarian hoagie that gave me food poisoning. I never trusted a Subway™️ again.

With his rather vague introduction concluded, umělec a malíř Alfred Spožek snapped his fingers, and 100 trillion knives shot out of the walls and directly into every single person in the room. Not a single human being, save for the man in the high chair, could possibly escape the trajectory of the projectiles. We were trapped like hogs in a slaughterhouse pen, and the machines were hungry. I felt my muscles and sinew twist and rupture as the mass of my flesh was split and pushed aside by the cold stainless steel of the cutlery. The unceasing projectile fire of the wall-cannons shook the entire building.

My first, piercing thought upon feeling the sensation was of the time in high school I roasted marshmallows on the beach with the foreign language studies club to commemorate our exchange students' final day in the country. My best friend of 12 years, Alex Stewart, had just pierced my cheek with a red hot poker after trying to feed me his burnt marshmallow. After a drunken half-assed attempt to treat me with the first aid kit in his glove box, we made out for 40 minutes and I never saw him again. I saw my dumb wife's stupid face twist into shock as the knives struck her and all I could think about was Alex's dick and how much I had wanted to see it. Last I heard he was working for an Irish indie game studio or some shit like that. I couldn't believe I had missed out on that entire package just for this dumbass wife who didn't even know you have to keep the fridge closed or the milk will spoil, or her shitty kids who asked me over and over how an RC car works, even when I had already explained down to the excruciating detail how RF waves work and why I won't allow them in my household. I'm glad I was separated from them in this moment. They'd probably ask me how knives can fly.

After about 5 minutes of utter carnage, Alfred Spožek slowly climbed down from his wooden high chair, and rubbed his fingers over the slash and claw marks that had accumulated over the day. He sighed and waved at the guard. "That was the last batch for the day. Tell the waiting guests and notify the crew for me, would you please?" He turned on his heels and stepped directly onto my penis as he walked out.

I hope Alex never comes to this stupid fucking museum.

#By the way did I mention I like playing PlayStation?#writing

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howlingday · 7 months

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My idea for a potential DEATH BATTLE! #4

2023, October 11, 12, 13, 15

Link to the third post:

Master list:

https://www.tumblr.com/donotmindme1/731003687600881664/mind-what-you-do?source=share

Achilles vs. Cú Chulainn (Greek Mythology vs Irish/ Mythology)

Let their anger be known and all warriors shall fear them!

Fighter 1: Achilles, the legendary warrior of the Trojan War.

Fighter 2: Cú Chulainn, the guard dog demigod of the Ulster Cycle.

Wiz: Mythology has given us heroes, monsters, and gods with amazing power.

*insert clips of Marvel's Thor on a Warrior's Madness, Clash of the Titans, God of War's Kratos, Asura's Wrath's Asura, and Troy 2004,*

Boomstick: Yet no one seems to get the memo: do NOT anger them, even if they're human! Chances are, they are NOT just human! He's Wiz and I'm Boomstick.

Wiz: And it's our job to analyze their weapons, armor, and skills to find out who would win... a Death Battle.

PREFACE: I am really, REALLY sorry for the late post. I tried to make PCBs for a project but for some reason or another, my attempts failed. I got super obsessed and stressed over it and because of it, I lost a night's worth of sleep. Add to it the fact that I've been struggling with my other STEM classes, and I haven't given myself the time to flesh this out. Not only that but starting next week, I'll be taking tests for two weeks. Safe to say that I'll be busy for a long time, so sorry again...

WHY:

Connections:

1. Cú Chulainn's association as "the Irish Achilles".

2. Both were born to a divine-like parent and/or royalty. Achilles was mothered by the sea nymph Thetis and fathered by Peleus, king of the Myrmidons. Cú Chulainn is the son of the god Lug (Lugh).

3. Both have done great deeds but at the cost of their very short lives. This tends to be one of the greater points of comparison between the two.

4. Both are known for their anger and fury. Achilles' most famous bout of anger stemmed from finding out that Patroclus died and Cú Chulainn is known for his battle frenzy (ríastrad, sometimes called a "warp spasm") in which his body becomes contorted and attacks anyone indiscriminately.

5. Both are super strong and are so skilled that they are deemed to be one of the greats of their respective myths. Achilles was said to be necessary for the conquest of Troy and Cú Chulainn was said to be the greatest of the Knights of the Red Branch.

Personal reasons: I can say with little if any hesitation that Season 9 giving us Heracles vs Sun Wukong was a shock to the system. No longer was DB! limited to pop culture's versions of ancient myths as they focused on the original texts and accounts, giving us what could honestly be one of the show's greatest analysis sections. Inspired by this, I thought up a matchup: a three-way battle between Achilles, Cú Chulainn, and Sigurd/Siegfried (I thank Persona 5 Strikers for introducing me to the last two, especially Cú Chulainn) because of how similar they at least appeared to be. I was pleasantly surprised when I found out that Cú Chulainn was sometimes called "the Irish Achilles", but I couldn't find any solid connections between Achilles and Sigurd other than the fact they obtained their invincibility from a divine source only to leave a single spot uncovered (Thetis dipped Achilles as a child in the waters of the River Styx, by which means he became invulnerable, except for the part of his heel by which she held him and when Sigurd bathed himself in Fafnir's blood, a leaf had fallen and stuck itself on his shoulder). However, I encourage others to idea up MUs using Sigurd, Gilgamesh, Beowulf, Rama, and figures from Aztec, Mayan, and Native American mythos. We need more myth matchups that aren't just Greek figures. I have at least one more matchup for the Greek itch. I had a different matchup that could likely be Halloween-themed, but it's unique, to say the least, and would require a very different analytical lens due to the source material. Not only that, but the source material could be to the disinterest of some, even if unlikely.

THE FIGHT:

Art and animation: This one will likely be a 2D sprite fight like Heracles vs Wukong. It would have an aesthetic like that of a storybook or tapestry to separate it from HeraKong's scroll and brush aesthetic. It would be best to not have a narrator again, or at least to not have the ending spoiled by the narrator if there is one.

Possible setup:

Both heroes are on their paths to glory, having emerged from battles with nary a scratch. Cú Chulainn is riding on his chariot, thinking of his lovely Emer, but Achilles is still mourning his dear Patroclus. They see each other and prepare for battle. Warriors need no reasons to fight other than glory and survival. On their chariots, they charge into battle.

FIGHT! :

1. Both warriors used their spears to slay the charioteers and horses and were successful. They leave the chariots and start using their spears, resulting in parries and attempts to use their swords as well.

2. Both warriors slowly pick up their paces, but Achilles is able to successfully parry and even disarm Cú Chulainn. Cú Chulainn then attempts to strike from afar using his slingshot. Achilles uses his shield, but Cú Chulainn is able to get some shots in, including near his heel. Achilles slightly staggers, and Cú Chulainn takes notice, but Achilles only lets out an angry war cry and lunges forward like a bull.

3. Achilles closes the gap by throwing his spear and impales his enemy. However, Cú Chulainn lets out his own war cry and becomes horrid and deformed. Achilles is not taken slightly aback by the monster, and attempting to hurt the warp-spasming warrior is hit very hard and launched backward. Achilles could've sworn he heard his armor slightly crack. The deformed destroyer grabs boulders and hurls them at Achilles who is able to dodge all but one and is knocked down.

4. Cú Chulainn calms down, remembering his beloved Emer. He removes the spear with which he was impaled and notices something: his opponent does not seem to be too injured. His armor and his skin do not seem to be scratched. "Could it be a magical set of armor? Is he invincible?" No. His new nemesis faltered when hit in the heel, so he should try to use the Gae Bolg where his enemy seemed to be weak.

5. Achilles recollects himself and draws his sword again. His enemy can seem to mutate into a monster and become vicious, but becomes violent, almost to a mindless degree, putting a lot of force in his strikes. He should strike afar from with his spear and evade his opponent's spear and slingshot. "He's strong, but it looks like he can still be hurt with my weapons. He struck my weakness, but does he know of it?" With his plan in mind, Achilles raises his shield and charges, evading Cú Chulainn's projectiles. Cú Chulainn even throws Achilles' spear back at him which Achilles catches.

6. They start to clash swords, spears, and shields again, striking any exposed skin they can. Cú Chulainn cannot seem to injure his opponent and his armor is very sturdy. However, he is able to graze Achilles' weak point, and Achilles pushes him away. "Aha! So he IS weak there!". Using his shield, Cú Chulainn parries his attack and attempts to get another strike in, but Achilles, using his spear, keeps his adversary away. "He seems to know. I must keep him at bay." Achilles, using his own defensive techniques, is able to momentarily fend off his rival.

7. Cú Chulainn now knows what needs to do. He needs to end the fight soon, or else he'll never see his dear Emer again. "For Emer." With his dear love in mind, Cú Chulainn warp spasms again, and assaults Achilles, trying to hit his heel. Achilles attempts to rush his foe, and he is able to injure him, but Cú Chulainn flat-out launches Achilles away, leaving his weak point exposed.

8. Achilles knows his enemy is weak and desperate. Why else would he mutate like he did? However, Achilles still feels a bit of pain in his heel; his opponent has hit his weak spot and he knows of his heel's vulnerability. He grabs his weapons and prepares for one final clash. "For Patroclus." He meets his foe's eyes again and both let out one final war cry and charge.

9. Achilles wins by tiring out Cú Chulainn. The monster gets angrier and angrier, but Achilles dodges, and taking advantage of his foe's seeming mindlessness, slashes off one of his arms. The monster staggers, and in a short time, Cú Chulainn returns to normal, panting and bleeding. He ties himself to a stone using his own entrails and meets Achilles' eyes once again. Achilles throws his spear and successfully impales the now-normalized foe who lets out a shout of anger, seemingly not one of anger.

10. Cú Chulainn wins by keeping Achilles at a distance. Still in his ríastrad, Cú Chulainn is able to smash Achilles' armor so hard it starts to crack and break. The adversary attempts to rush him, but Sétanta knocks him away. He starts to calm down, knowing he only has one attempt to win. Seeing that Achilles' heel is exposed, he readies his weapon and throws the Gae Bolg with his foot. It successfully lands on Achilles' weak heel. The weapon then opens up into thirty barbs, causing Achilles to shout in agony and fall.

11. Both retrieve their weapons only after a raven lands on the corpse's shoulder. They pay their respects to their adversary for a great battle, entomb the other as a sign of respect, and depart the battlefield. Home is a long journey away, and without the horses, even longer.

12. KO!

RESULT:

Strengths and weaknesses:

Achilles:

+ Has divine armor from the god Hephaestus as well as his invulnerability from bathing in the Styx and/or the ambrosia he was fed as a baby.

+ Arguably the more experienced warrior due to his time in the Trojan War and his training under the centaur Chiron.

+ Is capable of killing powerful and skilled warriors like Hector, Penthesilea (Queen of the Amazons), and Memnon.

- The only weak point is his heel, but it was only exploited because of the god Apollo.

Cú Chulainn:

+ Actually favored by the gods of his pantheon.

+ Is likely the greater warrior as he defeated Fer Díad and Aífe. Fer Díad and Cú Chulainn were trained under the legendary Scottish warrior Scthach, and Aífe is said to be Scathach's rival and stated to be equal to Cú Chulainn in skill. Cú Chulainn also single-handedly fought Queen Mab's army and even harmed Morrigan, said to be a goddess of battle and war, though not in direct combat.

+ His anger is more dangerous due to the ríastrad.

+ Has a ranged option in a slingshot.

+ Likely has a healing option as when he met his father in a dream, his father healed him.

+ The Gae Bulg allows for an instant kill...

- ...assuming that Cú Chulainn can pull it off in time and Achilles doesn't avoid it.

- Can still be killed like a normal warrior, but that was because he broke his oaths which weakened him, and was killed by a magic king-killing spear.

- His healing was done in a dream, and Achilles doesn't tend to leave opponents in just a sleeping state. Even then, the healing doesn't seem to be instant.

Ending puns:

"Setanta just couldn't exploit his opponent's Achilles' heel."

"Achilles should've said 'Cú-dbye'." (Cú + goodbye)

MUSIC:

Name: "Face My Fury"

The title makes reference to both combatant's anger.

Art: The art would depict Achilles' shield being pierced by the Gae Bolg, but the spear would be chopped by Achilles' sword.

Sound: Grand and orchestral again, but it would be faster and even have some metal elements in it. The orchestra is for the mythological aspect and the metal is for when the two get angry.

THANK YOU AND I HOPE YOU ENJOYED THIS!

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First and foremost, amazing work.

This would be an amazing fight to see. However, I might be a little rusty in my folkloric knowledge, because I must have missed the "warp-shift" (and to be honest, I'm not as familiar with Cú Chulainn as I, a huge myth fan, should be).

I also find the references to their bonds pretty interesting, since I don't think we get a lot of internal dialogue in either references.

"Face My Fury" is pretty good for a track, so...

FACE MY FURY

#submission #death battle #ideas #achilles #cú chulainn #greek mythology #irish mythology #celtic mythology #my submissions #my thoughts

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anoncat6 · 11 months

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PETRICHOR | sihtric x oc | part twelve

part one

12. tidman, thyra, and a fire

They had rowed back to Coccham, retaking Gisela’s hall and home without a shed of blood. The Bishop Erkenwald was now leaving for Winchester, and upon Uhtred’s orders they were to join him, pretending to act as a guard. He and Osferth would follow soon after they killed Skade, and minus one curse.

Arriving at Winchester, Steappa had allowed them to enter, though not before a tedious delay. Sihtric, Finan and Ghylena now stood at the stables.

“Is that Aethelwold the sword-Dane I see?” Finan mocked, “Looks like you’ve mislaid an eye.”

“I see you perfectly, Finan. Though I do not see your master.” “Unsurprising.” Ghylena muttered.

“Uhtred. Where is he?” Aethelwold’s face was marred and grisly, but Ghylena thought he looked just as ugly as he always had.

“Standing at your blind-side, perhaps.” Finan threw, and Sihtric huffed a laugh.

Moving on towards the steps to the palace, Ghylena moved to approach the Bishop Erkenwald.

“Bishop!” She put on a sickeningly sweet voice, “Bishop, pardon me, but I heard from the men that there is to be a wedding?” “Edward is to marry, yes. A sweet girl, like yourself.”

Ghylena smiled wider, hoping to hide the disgust in her eyes, “Yes, of course. Only it is that I love a good wedding— I myself have found great peace in my marriage. I was wondering if it would be acceptable were my friends and I to stay a short while? Just long enough to enjoy the celebrations, Lord, that is all.”

The Bishop nodded, falling for her supplication, “You are welcome, Lady, I’m sure, as are your people.”

“Many thanks to you, Bishop.” Ghlyena smiled as serenely as she could as the man walked away.

Finan and Sihtric approached behind her then.

“Laying it on a bit thick, weren’t we?” An Irish accent lilted.

Ghylena’s bare grin dropped, her cheeks aching as she snipped, “Do you want the plan to work or not, Finan?”

Sihtric stood in front of her now, a small bouquet of pleasant flowers in hand. She sent him a questioning look, but his only reply was to reach into her hair and place the delicate flowers throughout her braids. She stared at him in awe.

“Awk, ye wee sap.” Finan feigned disgust, before being jumped by the unforeseen arrival of Osferth.

“Walk with me, Lena. We are not needed for this part.” Sihtric suggested, tucking the last bloom behind her ear.

Still entranced by her thoughtful husband, Ghylena about managed a nod before he smirked— enjoying his effect on her— and dragged her away by the hand.

They had been walking and talking for most of the evening, and now night had come, and still they basked in each other’s presence, content in their brief peace.

Emerging from a side street back into a main line, Sihtric was the first to spot Aethelwold and his men as they strutted towards Beocca’s house.

Turning to look down at her, Sihtric kissed Lena’s forward before ushering her forward, “Go, follow them, go!”

Nodding, Lena dashed after them, throwing a look behind her to see Sihtric running to alert Finan and the rest of their men. Resting her hand lightly at her stomach, Ghylena followed Aethelwold’s band through the roads until they came upon Beocca’s house.

Pyrlig appeared then, standing between the horde and their target.

“If it is not the disgraced, yet forgiven Lord Aethelwold, sword drawn. You have stopped, I see, outside this house. ”

“You should show a little respect, Father Pyrlig.” Aethelwold simpered.

Pushing through the cloaked men, Ghylena stood herself beside Pyrlig.

“I believe it is you who should show some decorum, Lord Aethelwold. Or did Alfred take your manners as well as your eye?”

“You would let a woman stand with you as an equal, Pyrlig?” Aethelwold simpered.

“I would let this woman stand for me any day, which is more than I can say for you, Lord.”

“Father,” Lord Sigebriht spoke now, “There is an outlaw walking free.”

Pyrlig pretended to be afraid, looking from side to side as he replied, “An outlaw? Who?”

“It is not your place to ask.” Aethelwold looked away.

“And it is not your place to raid someone’s home, Lord.” Ghylena declared.

Soon after this, Beocca came out of his home, with Aethelwold surrounding the house with his men before Sihtric arrived with their back up. Thyra exited the home then, settling the dispute by allowing the men to enter and search.

“Beocca, I have been listening. If these men wish to look inside our home, then we should allow it. We have nothing to hide, nothing at all. Please, come inside, Aethelwold.”

After searching the building and coming up with nothing, the men left; Uhtred hidden under the floorboards in an emergency ditch built by Thyra.

Father Beocca spoke as Aethelwold left, “Where in God’s name is he?”

A man had harassed Thyra in the streets, she came home crying, and Hild had been the first to notice. Not soon after, Beocca had exploded into the streets, Uhtred and his warriors following close behind.

Beocca was red-faced, enraged and chewing at the bit.

“TIDMAN! I’m looking for a rat named Tidman!” Beocca yelled, “Are you Tidman? I asked, are you Tidman?”

Aethelwold appeared then, always popping up where he’s not wanted.

“Father Beocca, good morning. And Uhtred, free man of Wessex.”

“I’m looking for a man named Tidman. Does the coward belong to you?”

“He does not.” “I am not a coward,” the lump on the bench spoke then, a great big shit of a man who’s mouth was too big for his jaw, “What is it you want, priest?”

Eyes lit with excitement, Ghylena couldn’t wait to see the priest hit him.

“What I want, oaf, is for you to heed my warning. Speak to or go near my wife again and I shall beat the shit from you! It is a promise.” “I called your woman a Dane, is that… is that not what she is?”

“Have you not understood me?” Beocca leaned closer, “You don’t appear to be the cleverest of men.”

“Do you speak to me as a man or a priest?” Tidman’s teeth were yellow, if not brown.

And then Beocca pounced, head butting the man and roaring “Does that answer your question!? DOES IT?!”

Ghylena laughed, wide-mouthed and whole-heartedly giggling with joy at the sigh of Tidman’s comeuppance. She stood behind them all, leaning against the wall now with her hands on her hilts, watching the magic unfold. Since Osferth’s news of Skade’s death, Ghylena felt lighter and more alive, as if the clouds had finally parted on a crisp winter morning.

The men moved to pull Beocca off Tidman, but Ghylena could see Sihtric smiling, unable to hide his mirth at the shock of a priest beating a man.

When Beocca lied and claimed to be calm only to lunge for him again, giving Tidman a bloody nose and straw-covered back, Ghylena felt herself glowing with pride and satisfaction.

Good, she thought, Show them that Thyra is not unprotected.

Alfred died the next day.

Being that Beocca had to be at the front of the hall, performing the funeral rites, Ghylena had offered to kept Thyra company and as such, was now stood beside her friend, enduring the same intolerable pestering as she from the rat Tidman.

Shoving into their backs, Tidman kept his voice low, unwilling to create a fuss. It was only for Ghylena’s respect for the dead that she did not turn around to break his nose.

“You Danes should not be here.” He hissed.

Seeing Thyra’s anxiety, and feeling extremely uncomfortable herself, Ghylena took her by the hand and silently led her from the hall.

Once outside the doors, she spoke, “Let’s just take you home, hm?”

Smiling in thanks, Thyra still seemed unsettled as she replied, “Yes, that sounds like a good idea.”

When they had come within sightline of the home, Tidman made his presence known, throwing rocks and insults at their backs. Unwilling to frighten Thyra more, Ghylena simply grit her teeth and ushered her to the house.

“Come Thyra, get inside and I will handle him. Bolt the door, hide.”

Rushing to the house, Ghylena managed to push Thyra through the doorway, right before turning around into the stinking presence of Tidman. She hadn’t realised how close he had been behind them, gasping in shock and instantly regretting it whenever she inhaled a lungful of his sweat and stench.

Schooling her expression, Ghylena turned her head up to look him in the eye, and felt her stomach roll at the hungry look in his eyes.

He was so close to her that if she lifted her arm in front of her it would be touching his chest, and she felt trapped. Having just been at the palace, she was weaponless, forced to leave her daggers outside the hall before entering.

Tidman clearly had secured his own weapons before stalking them.

“Come no closer!” She couldn’t help the waver in her voice, realising that no-one knew where she was and that she might need help.

“Little Dane wants to play hero, does she?” Tidman snorted.

“Little Dane would drop you to your knees in the square, shit-stain.” His insults had gotten to her, raising a flare of her temper in defiance of her fear.

Suddenly, he shot forward, invading her space and forcing her to back into the door.

He smirked, and his rotten breath stank. “Not so feisty now, are we?”

Ghylena steeled herself, tilting her head before suddenly punching him in the gut and trying to run under his arm.

She nearly made it, 2 paces behind him before he reached around and caught hold of her hair, still with Sihtric’s flowers braided through it.

A yelp of pain shot from her as he yanked her backwards, fisting his fingers against her scalp before throwing her to the ground.

Wincing from pain and gasping for air after being winded, Ghylena took one second too long to recover, and then he was on top of her. A growl of frustration left her as he held her arms down, legs on either side of her waist and pinning her with his weight.

“Bastard!” She yelled, spitting in his face with precision.

Her saliva dripped from his eye now, and apparently she had finally broken his inflated ego, making him give up on trying to harass her.

Using his grip on her hair to slam her skull into the floor, he brutally knocked her out before climbing off of her.

Spitting on her unconscious body, he turned to Thyra’s home, and left with one hushed promise.

“I’ll come back for you after I’ve had the redhead.”

The heat and noise was what roused her.

Ghylena slowly dragged her eyes open, head pounding and confused as to where she was.

Searing flames roared around her, and the yells of desperate men rang into the night.

Pushing herself up from the ground, Ghylena steadied her feet beneath her before moving away from the burning house as fast as she could.

What in holy hells happened? How did I end up here? She thought.

Fumbling away from the smoke, Ghylena heaved clean air into her lungs as her hand raised to her head, confused by the sticky feeling on her skin.

She winced, pain splicing her head as her fingers came away bloody.

Staring at the red, her memory came rushing back to her in that moment.

Tidman.

Thyra.

Was Thyra alright? Was she still in the house? Ghylena turned to the fire again, face growing in horror as the building was engulfed, and began to crumble.

Still dizzy, and with a thumping headache, Ghylena didn’t hear Sihtric when he first ran to her. Only when he turned her by the shoulder to face him, looking her in the eyes and shaking her from her horrified stupor, did she hear him.

“Lena! Lena, what happened?! You’re bleeding?” He was frantic.

Shaking her head, she could only choke out one word, “Thyra.”

Finan came running then, joining the men who were desperately trying to fight the blaze, but it was hopeless. The thatched roof of the porch dropped to the ground then, as Finan asked for Thyra’s whereabouts. Lena started to cry then, helpless dread eating at her stomach.

Thyra was still inside, trapped in a death that Ghylena helped create.

The fire only burned hotter.

-> up next: 'ambush in the forest'...

Tags: @travelingmypassion

#sihtric #sihtric kjartansson #sihtric x reader #the last kingdom #uhtred #finan #sihtric x oc #osferth #arnas fedaravicius

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rosemaryandarsenic · 2 years

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do u have any hc's for domestic life w/ gareth ..?

DO I! Oh my god, too many haha. Both fluff and NSFW HC’s to follow so minors, this is your warning lol.

- firstly, Gareth radiates dad vibes. He’s always watching for deals on new tech, I feel like he’s the kind of person to get an in home computer and he’s SO EXCITED about it.

- he absolutely has a VHS collection that turns into a CD collection. Even as they lose popularity he keeps those CD’s and tapes, still has a huge stereo even though he could just use Spotify.

- he hates mowing the lawn, def a cool weather kind of guy. Loves the fall and winter, enjoys going out and shoveling the driveway then sitting outside with a mug of coffee or tea.

- goes all out for Halloween and Christmas, wouldn’t be caught dead with Easter themed anything. It took him awhile to get into Valentine’s Day but now he buys you flowers every year in excess. I could see him getting you one of those lego flower sets so you can save them.

- can’t keep plants alive to save his life. Literally manages to kill everything except one pot of violets his sisters got him one year. He guards them with his life. They froze one year and he literally cried and has never forgiven himself for letting them die.

- drinks black coffee, prefers tea to coffee though. A big fan of Irish breakfast tea. Thinks Starbucks is a waste of time. Secretly goes for pumpkin spice season though. Will deny that like his life depends on it. I just know he’s the kind of dad that would take his girls though, wouldn’t let anyone call them basic.

- speak of dad, he’s def the dad that has the treat tax. Like he gets his kids treats and surprises all the time but he always gets a piece of their candy or a bite of whatever. Yknow that meme where the dad is reaching back while driving? That. The dad tax.

- owns a frankly ridiculous amount of socks, none of them match and he doesn’t even know which ones are his at this point. Like, you’re at the store and he tosses a pack in the cart and you’re like, “again?!” And he’s just like, “listen-“

- he’s def messy but if there are dishes in the sink or coffee mugs on his desk he will freak out. ADHD clean if you know what I mean.

- hates typical sports, will not watch them and will not play them. One of his kids asks to join the football team and he’s like, “why don’t you take a dance class instead?”

- he’s the kind of husband who signs you both up to learn salsa and then proceeds to nearly break both of your legs because he simply cannot dance. It’s okay though because he tries so hard and it’s fucking adorable.

- enjoys slow dancing with you whenever possible. When you two started dating he’d play Top of the World by the Carpenters or Our House by Cosby and swirl you around his parents kitchen. His mom caught you one time and nearly cried because it was so precious.

- this man loves his mother. Like, would do anything for that woman. When he met you, it was exactly the same. Huge family guy but has daddy issues so male authority figures are not his fav. If you’re family though, he’d guard you with his life.

- got bullied a lot in HS obviously. If Eddie came back alive he’d tell him about what Jason did and apologize profusely for spilling even the tiniest bit of info. Eddie forgives him completely but Gareth never really lets go of it and feels horrible about it to this day.

- if he ever found out one of his children was getting bullied he’d literally lose it. Like, irrationally angry and has to go smoke in the garage to calm down so he doesn’t kick some 12 year olds ass.

- teaches his kids D&D.

- always wanted kids, but never wanted you to feel pressured. If y’all got pregnant anytime, teens or later he’d literally drop everything to prep for being a dad. Gets scared alot about not being able to provide for you.

- I feel like he’d take up piano as well as his drums, so he would have something he could practice quietly. Finds peace in creating things whether it’s music or art. Literally gets lost in the rhythm.

- so many good flannels and sweaters

- can’t sing for shit but likes to sing to you

- doesn’t know how to do “manly” things because his dad was not around so he asks Eddie to teach him how to fix cars and build shit. He’s really good at sewing and mending things, likes to cook too. Can’t bake for shit but he’ll try if it’s important. Ended up getting really into cars and bikes, never owned a motorcycle though.

- big breeding kink. Like. Aggressively into it lol.

- he rips your underwear a lot because he’s needy and just pulls them off lmao

- has broken two bed frames of yours, once in college and once in your first apartment. Now you just have one of those box frames with drawers that holds the mattress because he can’t be trust haha

- fucks your on top of the dryer while the kids are asleep, or sneaks you into the garage to smoke and fuck in the car.

- begged you to get some type of pet like a cat or a dog when you finally have your own place

- has always wanted a pet snake

- major pediatrician or English/history/music teacher vibes

- took him three years after high school to go to college because he wanted to just find his own way and HS really burnt him out.

- stops drinking around 25, just not into it. Says he likes being more present. Maybe would have the occasional beer or glass of wine on special occasions but really hates hard liquor.

- played with the band into his 30s! They have a couple albums and quit after Eddie had his second kid.

- Jeff and him are life long friends, they still play video games together once a week even if they’re 60 and retired lmao

- does not like being outdoors much but is really good at camping and swimming. Has a big connection with nature when he’s in it, it’s just not very often.

- takes you to drive ins all the time

- gets headaches a lot

- steals your clothes. Like you’ll wander into the kitchen in the morning and he’s wearing your sweatpants that say Juicy or PINK on the ass with rhinestones. Will also wear dresses with you and skirts. A fashion icon really.

- he takes up the entire bed when he’s sleeping, steals all the blankets and talks in his sleep.

- the kind of guy who lifts up his leg when he farts and laughs at it, idk what to tell you about that one

- he loves bubble baths

- literally cannot work blinds for the life of him. Like, he’s always pulling the chord wrong and then getting really mad when they come down lopsided and he has to come to you begging for help because he just can’t do it.

- opens pickle jars on the first try every single time

- smells really good, somehow always sweet but in a natural musky way.

- hates the sound of people chewing but also chews really loudly himself

- one time during sex, you were on top and he grabbed your boobs and yelled, “what’re thooosee.”

- makes jokes at the wrong time, all of the time.

- people think he’s angry all the time but he’s just quiet until he trusts you and then he talks your ear off and gets so fucking loud

- watches TV at full volume with no awareness of his surroundings like a heathen lmao

- collects comics

- will not go within 10 feet of spiders

- constantly dehydrated, chugs water all the time and it’s still not enough

- he’s really good with animals. Y’all have chickens, and he always wanted to work on a farm. Teaches your kids 4H stuff, but doesn’t like the idea of scouts because it “encourages kids to romanticize the military instead of helping the community”

- he loves rock collecting

- buys lots of crystals

- superstitious as fuck

- really good at running but hates working out, he only does it so he can perform on stage and keep up with his kids.

- really into yoga and Pilates, but can’t meditate at all, gets distracted too easily.

- he’s a causal enabler, if you want something he buys it then and there and if you’re debating something he just does it for you. Can’t say no to his partner or his kids.

- he goes to therapy on and off again, practices coping mechanisms and reads a lot of workbooks. Hates the mass produced self help books but wants to stay self aware so he’s always looking things up or calling his therapist to talk about it.

- still has his stuffed teddy from when he was little.

#gareth emerson #gareth the great #stranger things #gareth x reader #rosemaryandarsenic rants

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princesscatherinemiddleton · 1 year

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The Princess of Wales’ Stats - First Quarter

In the first three months of 2023, the Princess of Wales completed 35 engagements, averaging around 11.6 engagements a month. Her work rate was fairly steady, completing 12 engagements in both January and February and 11 in March. She also appeared in four released photos, videos, or statements in both January and March, while she did so 7 times in February - many of which were linked to the launch of her Shaping Us campaign. In January, Catherine was spotted four times. As well as this, four unusual photos of Catherine have appeared during this quarter - a photo of the Wales family at Winter Wonderland (taken in December) surfaced on January 1st, while a photo of Catherine from Halloween 2022 was released by an acquaintane a few days later. Similarly, two wedding photographs appeared - one from the wedding of Catherine's step-sister-in-law Laura Lopes and one from her brother James Middleton - both appearing to show Catherine in the background. All three months have been fairly quiet for the Princess of Wales.

Of her 27 patronages, she has visited or completed work for 5, totalling 18 engagements in total. In January, Catherine completed nine engagements on behalf of her patronages. 8 of those were for the Royal Foundation of the Prince and Princess of Wales, while the other was for the Rugby Football League. In February, two of Catherine's six patronage related engagements were for the Royal Foundation, while she also completed one apiece for the Rugby Football Union, The Irish Guards, Polar Preet's Polar Mission, and the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club. In March, four of her engagements were related to the Royal Foundation, while two more were related to The Irish Guards.

Of her 35 engagements, 16 have been solo while another 16 were when she was accompanied by her husband, the Prince of Wales. Two engagements took place with the Crown Prince and Princess of Norway, while Catherine also undertook one engagement with the wider British Royal Family - Commonwealth Observation Day.

All of her engagements have taken place in the UK, in England (31) and Wales (4). More specifically, 15* of her engagements took place in Windsor, the first time her most common UK-based engagement site has not been London. She also halso undertaken 5 engagements in London, 2 in Leeds and 2 in Cornwall. She also undertook engagements in Liverpool, Birkenhead, Luton, Surrey, Derby, Slough, Cardiff, Salisbury, Llanelli, Port Talbot, and Rhondda Cynon Taf. NOTE: A number of her engagements were meetings and could have taken place in either London or Windsor. A number of the Princess of Wales’ meetings were confirmed to take place in Windsor Castle, I will be counting these as taking place there until informed otherwise.

With the launch of the next phase of her Early Years Campaign - the Shaping Us campaign - many of her engagements have linked to the Early Years, with fourteen engagements falling in that area specifically, with another one engagement linked to mental health and one further related to children and young people. 4 of her engagements have linked to both the military and sport, while 3 engagements have been focused on diplomatic natures. Two engagements were on the theme of culture. She also undertook one engagement specifically linked to the outdoors, as well as one linked to the Commonwealth. Four of her engagements did not fit into the theme headings I have created.

Clotheswise, her most worn identified designer has once again been Alexander McQueen, followed by Burberry, LK Bennett and Roland Mouret, although she has worn sixunidentifed looks. Her most carried bag designer was Mulberry, followed by Emmy London. Her most-worn shoe designer is, again, Gianvito Rossi, althought she has worn her Blundstone shoes four times. In terms of jewellery, she has predominantly worn Shyla London pieces, although 8 of her accessories have been unidentified. or pieces inherited from the late Princess of Wales (with 5 wears each), She has also worn items from Daniella Draper and Spells of Love with 3 wears each. When it comes to hats, Catherine was seen in five hats, each made by a different milliner/brand - Inverni, Juliette Botterill, N Peal, Sean Barratt, and Jane Taylor.

#mine #kate #statistics #docquarter

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maturemenoftvandfilms · 1 year

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Pat Shortt Born: December 12, 1967, Thurles, Ireland Physique: Average Build Height: 5′ 8″

Patrick 'Pat' Shortt is an Irish actor, comedian, writer and entertainer. His role in the 2007 film Garage led to him receiving the IFTA for Best Actor. Shortt is known for Killinaskully, The Guard and Father Ted.

Pat might be my new favorite irish daddy... behind my ginger daddy Brendan Gleeson. And since I'm in lust with him, he's married and has two children. Now if you'll excuse me while I go look for some more stuff with him in it... to j/o to.

RECOMENDATIONS: Frank of Ireland (2021) - Ep. 01x01 - Nude, Butt, Shirtless Dark Lies the Island (2019) - Shirtless

#Pat Shortt #mydaddywiki actors #mydaddywiki #irish actor #actor

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aikoiya · 10 months

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LoZ: Wild - Ealiyah Town & the Highland Gerudo

Ealiyah Town is a Gerudo settlement situated in the Gerudo Highlands in Risoka Snowfield. Part of why they chose Risoka is brought up by Patricia, “Risoka Snowfield rests upon the shoulders of the eighth heroine.”

They were founded by Gerudo who wished to stay with their husbands & not have to send their daughters away, as men are forbidden from entering Gerudo Town & vaivïn (girls, plural) are supposed to be sent away to Gerudo Town once they start becoming more aware of the world around them; around 5. Then, those girls are forbidden from seeing their fathers again until they're adults. That's like 12-16 years!

As such, Ealiyah is inhabited mostly by Gerudo, Hylians, Ovelians (humans with regular-ass ears), & even the occasional Sheikah & a race that I call Búralupáns. (For a better understanding of what Búralupáns are, go here.) As a result of not being so thoroughly segregated from male figures, Ealiyan vaien (women, plural) tend to have a far better time of getting married. Their success rates being much higher.

However, this also results in their desert sisters getting a tad competitive with them.

Interestingly, Highland Gerudo seem to show a trend towards preferring Hebran & Ordonian humans, both rounded & pointed ears, especially Lupán ones. As they tend to fall more towards being taller, stronger, & more traditionally masculine, which much like western women IRL, the Gerudo tend to find much more attractive than the shorter & more delicate Hylian & Sheikah men of Central & Eastern Hyrule.

Hebran Búralupáns being some of the only Gerudo-compatible men that can manage to reach heights equal to & even sometimes taller than the average Gerudo on a decent basis. Which, as you can guess, tends to turn more than a few vaien's heads.

As a result, there tends to be a fairly large number of Viking-adjacent men living in the Highlands. Quite a lot of them being blonds & red-heads with green, hazel, or blue eyes too. With the occasional brunette & brown-eyed folks.

Culturally, the Ealiyans are something like Tibetan/Russian-flavored Gerudo. As such, their main language remains Gerudo, though with definite Hebran & Ordonian influence. (Which, Hebran is mainly old Norse with Russian & Welsh influence while Ordonian is very Irish Gaelic/Celtic with a bit of Welsh as well & a definitive southern US drawl to it.)

Like this:

(Not my art, but I love how it looks. However if the original artist wishes for me to take it down, I will do so.)

Over the millennia of living in the Highlands, the Eaylian Gerudo's aquiline noses have become more upturned like the Hebrans so as to heat the air that they breathe in. This makes them more readily adapted to their environment than their desert sisters.

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They have become something of a farming village that cultivates hearty foods. Particularly Tabantha Wheat, Tundra Potatoes (Spicy), Hearty Radishes, Bloodberry Grapes (Chilly & Hydrating), & Endura Carrots.

A few Sheikah men also brought over Snowdrift Buckwheat (Snowdrift), Mountain Furberries (Freezeproof; Kiwis),

They also raise Highland Yaks, or Bōsa, for Bōmïchaa (Yak Milk) & use it to make Bōchurkha (Ealiyan Cheese) & Bōsudrï (Yak Butter).

Not to mention, Bighorn Sheep that some shepherds brought with them from the desert, or Ranqarn Ghanam. They tend to use a lot of Bōsoof, yak wool, & Ghansoof, sheep wool (specifically Merino wool), in their clothes which retain heat much better. They also produce milk, Ghamïchaa, which the Ealiyans use to make butter & cheese as well, Ghasudrï & Ghachurkha.

Because of this, whenever a recipe requires dairy, they tend to use local Bōsa or Ghanam products.

Many have become fierce hunters & have traded their claymores for longbows & arrows to better hunt for Tabantha Meese. They still do quite well with spears though. The guards also use Moonlight Scimitars, Mah'let Shim'tarren, & Shields, Ïkemen, much more often than Desert Gerudo.

And due to the Highland Gerudo having access to higher quality metals than the desert, they use the traditional Gerudo method of pattern welding known as Dawallaham with the Dawasaaq steel of the Highlands to make even better, more powerful & durable weapons. Thus, greatly improving on the Moonlight Scimitar's design. Dawasaaq steel being the Hyrule equivalent to Damascus steel.

And their hunting companions are typically the Fïwa'gàtï or Snow Cats. Which are tiny, snow white or light gray felines with darker gray spots resembling the pelt of a miniature clouded leopard, but with thicker, more fluffy fur much like a Maine Coon or Ragdoll, larger, broader ears, & long claws.

These cats are the cousins to the Gel'gàtï, Sand Cats, of the Gerudo Desert. Instead of white or gray, Gel'gàtï are light yellow with white underbellies, brownish or blackish spots, & short hair. Though, they keep the large, broad ears & long claws.

(Just with Cheetah spots instead of stripes.)

Both species are known for their stealth, hunting, & tracking abilities as well as for being terrifyingly fast & excellent, very affectionate companions. The Gàtï are small, even compared to most house cats, but extremely vicious. They are basically domesticated attack honeybadgers. They will fight the gods given a good enough reason & will not even hesitate.

Sassy little stinkers, but, again, extremely affectionate. The fact that they are positively miniscule when perched on the shoulders of such giantesses as the Gerudo, just makes them all the better. Both species tends to burrow as wild ones build their own dens.

The Fïwa'gàtï came to be when the 1st Gerudo broke off from the main Gerudo society to live in the Gerudo Highlands around 30,000 years ago by the time of BotW/TotK & brought their little hunting buddies with them.

(It's very possible that the Gàtï way have a common ancestor in the Remlit.)

Anyway, the Ealiyans also have immediate access to Cool Safflina, Chillshrooms, Ice Fruit, Wildberries, Nayru Pears (Freezeproof), Frostbite Mint (Biting), Freezia Gardenia (Freezeproof), Stamstalk Stevia (Energizing), Frostbane Blossom bushes (Spicy), Gleam Ginger (Sunny), Ice Roses (Freezeproof & Amorous; extremely rare), & even a small amount of Vital Sage (Enduring). Vital Sage being great for flavoring meat, which the Highland residents tend to eat a lot of.

The caves around the Highlands also grow quite a lot of Cavern Sorrel (Dark/Warding) which is good for making soups & stews.

As a matter of fact, Ealiyans are quite adept mushroomers as the caves around the Gerudo Highlands tend to be very good for cultivating a variety of mushrooms. They are also the perfect places to brew alcohol, some of them even being set aside specifically for just such a purpose & referred to as Brewing Caves.

Not to mention the Snowcoat Foxes, Cold-Footed Wolves, Tabantha Meese, Grizzlemaw Bears, & Snow Pidgeons that live around there, thus they have quite a lot of Prime & Gourmet Meat & decent quality Bird Meat in their diets. Plus, the furs of these animals make for such excellent, warm clothes, perfect for guarding against the frigid air of the Highlands.

They also have the benefit of relatively easy access to 2 Satori Trees, 1 in the Gerudo Canyon & the other on Satori Mountain, which gives them a good amount of Satori Cherries (Hasty) & Satora Blossoms (Hasty & Amorous) during spring.

Ealiyan grocers tend to hire workers to go hike to Gerudo Canyon to gather things such as Sunshrooms, Warm Safflina, & even Fire Fruit & Shock Fruit, & the village itself has a strong trade alliance with Gerudo Town where they trade them a large variety of booze, Cool Safflinas, many different types of mushrooms (especially Chillshrooms), Bōsa (Highland Yak) products, textiles, dyes, & other things in return for Warm & Electric Safflinas, Voltfruit, Moonblooming Arguses (Dusky/Dawning; flowers that grow from Voltfruit Cacti), Shock Fruit, Oasis Honey (Recovery), Sàbaar Fruit (Recovery), Hydromelons, Zapshrooms, ect. Though, only after TotK Ganondorf was sealed away & they stopped performing Feminization of the Enemy upon foreign men. Not to mention abolishing slavery & freeing the Vo'màzren (male concubines) that they kept captive for the purposes of breeding.

Of course, that doesn't mean that all the men left, a handful remained due to their own issues. Either as horndogs themselves or just with their own senses of self-worth telling them that they don't deserve better lives. As such, the sex industry still lives on, but at least now the men aren't slaves & are actually paid. All other Surré Qasrehsen (Pleasure Palaces) have been dismantled, leaving only the one in modern Kàra Kàra Bàzaar, which is swiftly growing into Kàra Bàzétto. Bàzétto being the Gerudàn term for Market Town or Martown.

This is due to a recent change in Desert Gerudo policy. While men are still not permitted inside Gerudo Town proper due to it being classified as a vaidina or sexually segregated town where only women are allowed entrance; however, men are more than allowed to stay in Kàra, which has led to the husbands & fathers of many Gerudo to take up residence there.

Several even taking up positions as venders, store owners, & even guards. This, along with an effort to produce their own food in the form of Hydromelons, Shock Fruit, Fire Fruit, Dazzlefruit, Voltfruit, Safflinas, Zapshrooms, Wildberries, & Spicy Peppers by one Dālia (now an adult), who along with her Gopongan husband, has discovered new agricultural practices, including the introduction of hydroponic gardening in Gerudo Town itself & the strawgrid planting method in Kàra. Which has allowed the Desert Gerudo to begin producing their own crops. This has resulted in rapid growth for them as a culture.

The things that they are now able to grow there that they hadn't before, includes Tabantha Wheat, Hylian Tomatoes, Stambulbs, Sun & Fortified Pumpkins, Swift & Endura Carrots, & Hearty & Big Hearty Radishes.

As well as the things that I've made up for the purposes of fleshing out the desert, Shadow Yams (Dark/Warding; grows in shade), Càrïtàn Beans (Toxic; for bathing products & caring for Everlost Silkworms, not for eating), Zonai Cocoagranos (Spicy & Amorous), Zonai Cofégranos (Energizing), Zonai Corn (Mighty), Desert Queen (Chilly; Mangosteen), Faron Pineapples (Spicy & Hydrating), Pyre Beans (Scorching), Brushberries (Sanddrift & Hydrating; evolved from Wildberries), Amorous Figs (Amorous), & Bloodberry Grapes (Chilly & Hydrating) that are, likewise, able to survive easily in the desert. Then, there are the 4 Cactus plants I made up, such as Prickly Peaches (Chilly & Hydrating), Desert Aloe (Chilly & Recovery), Boltshield Houseleeks (Lightningproof), & Sàbaar Fruit (Recovery; Agave Fruit). As well as a few flowers, herbs, & spices, such as Rainfall Pansy (Hydrating), Paradise Bird flowers (Aerodynamic), Wave Saffron (Gills), Hoy Mustard Greens & Seeds (Spicy), Gleam Ginger (Sunny), & Sand Cistanche (Vitality & Amorous). As well as Cavern Sorrel (Dark/Warding), though they only grow in caves.

There's also Arrōyorice (Sanddrift) which is a type of Farrow, but this is actually Tabantha Wheat that has fully adapted to the desert. It's a very new discovery, so it's still being learned.

Not to mention Water Cabbages (Gills & Hydrating), Bayou Bellpeppers, & Freshwater Cucumbers (Rapid & Hydrating) that can only be grown in water. So, they are grown in the oasis itself.

Which the Ealiyans will also gain access to via trade.

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Anyway, Sunshrooms are always appreciated as they are one of the only mushrooms that Eaylians can't grow in their mushroom caves.

Due to Stamstalk Stevia (Energizing) growing in the Highlands, Ealiyans simply don't use Cane Sugar in their cooking, instead replacing it with Stevia.

Highland Gerudo also don't tend to use Cool Safflina or Chillshrooms in their cooking as the effects are pretty counterproductive to living on a block of ice 24/7 &, in fact, tend to make you freeze quicker. Instead, they tend to sell them to Gerudo Town, who has much more use for it, or make the Safflina into alcohol & then sell it to Gerudo Town.

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Living in a colder climate, Ealiyan Gerudo don't focus as much on jewelry as their desert sisters. They do wear some, but it usually has a simple elegance to it & is functional, such as a simple pair of ruby earrings to help keep the cold away.

Some also enjoy light, if modest, makeup or even in some cases, none at all. Usually just a touch of brown kohl to give their eyes a nice smoky look. The same shade that Riju features.

And while they don't wear much, if any, makeup, on special occasions it is common practice to wear a type of rogue made from dried Wildberries. The color is considered to be sultry & intoxicating, while still managing to be very refined & tasteful.

What isn't diminished, however, is their love for textiles & vibrant colors, which is every bit as present in the mountains as it is in the deserts.

As a result, despite not having many in the Highlands, they have a great love for bright, exotic flowers, which they use to make lovely dyes that they ship to other villages.

Along with this, much like their desert sisters, a lot of Ealiyan Gerudo have a very well-developed instinct for brewing & mixology. Thus, they have an appreciation for herbs as well.

A Highland Gerudo actually invented the technique used to make daiquiris & other frozen cocktails by using Ice Fruit.

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Some of the dyes they are well-known for are Wildberry Burgundy from Wildberries, Frostbite Mint-Blue from Frostbite Mint, Cobalt from Cool Safflinas, Freezia Sky from Freezia Gardenias, Blossom Red from Frostbane Blossoms, Truffle Brown from Hearty Truffles, & Pear Green from Nayru Pears.

These are all made from the local flora & are common colors to find people wearing in Ealiyah.

Pear Green is actually a favored shade for Desert Gerudo lipstick & the Cobalt for kohl. Cobalt, on the other hand, is the favored lipstick shade of Riju.

The Highland residents also regularly trade with Lurelin, Ordon, & Gerudo Town for other flowers & fruit to make dyes with. Such as Electric Safflina to make Electric Yellow, Warm Safflina to make Brick Red, Lovely Roses to make Rose Magenta, Sweetheart Pink from Sweetheart Orchids, Voltfruit Fuschia from the hulls of Voltfruit, Silent Princesses to make Maiden White, Thunder Chartreuse from Thunder Buttons, Light Indigo from Swiftsail Lavender, Hyrule Herbs to make Herb Green, Hydromelon Orange, Sunrise Orange & Pink from Valiant Gladiolus, the hulls of Desert Queens to make Royal Purple, Violet from Swift Violets, Amethyst from Armoranth, Sunshine Yellow, Sunset Orange, & Gold from Sundelions, & more.

Not to mention Sunshroom Orange from Sunshrooms. Also blending Truffle Brown & Brick Red to make that lovely Smokey Brown that Riju uses, which is also the preferred kohl shade in Ealiyah.

(If you'd like to better understand the flowers, herbs, fruits, vegetables, ect. that I just listed that don't appear in the games, go here.)

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It's still tradition for Ealiyah Gerudo to leave the village to find a husband once they come of age (though, it's possible for them to have already found one in the form of another Gerudo's stepson or stepbrother or even half-brother & in such cases, they are allowed time to figure out if the relationship will work out), the only difference here being that they're not expected to leave their husbands behind when they & their daughters are expected to return to Ealiyah. In fact, it's encouraged that vaien bring their husbands & their stepchildren (in the case of a widower) along if they so wish.

Any stepchildren that come to live in Ealiyah are treated no different than the Highland Gerudo vaivïn born there & are even allowed to train in the ways of the Gerudo. Regardless of sex.

Ealiyah, despite its location, is a very warm & loving community full of happy families & stalwart, hearty, hardworking personalities. Part of the reason for this being that one of the ideas that Ealiyah was founded on was the idea of keeping families together rather than separating them as has been tradition for the Desert Gerudo for generations.

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Whereas the Gerudo of Gerudo Desert worship the Goddess of the Sand (al'Geru'è Vallah, referred to by the proper title of Vah Gela when her name is used) & her demi-goddess daughters, the 7 Heroines (al'Zaf Vahshô'làran), & it's debated as to whether there even was an 8th at all (some even regarding the speculation of there actually being one as sacrilegious), Ealiyans worship the 7 as well as the 8th definitively (the 8th & the 1st above all the others), who was actually a lesser Hylian oni god of heroism, a Kishin or as the Highland Gerudo referred to him, a Voh'lawàr (look up the Buddhist Pāla), who'd once worked as a retainer for the late Fierce Deity. He was on a pilgrimage to find his new life's purpose after his master had willingly given up his immortality in order to act as Hyrule's Legendary Hero in a never-ending cycle of reincarnation with his wife, twin sister, & their sworn enemy. On this pilgrimage, he made it a habit to aid those in need.

As a result, while traveling, he came across the Gerudo who were being besieged by some great strife & went out of his way to lend his aid to the 7 Heroines. While the Heroines had been doing extremely well on their own, it had been his wisdom & military expertise from having spent years at the Fierce Deity's side that ultimately tipped the scales in the Heroines' favor.

This resulted in the Gerudo tribes being saved, but he was still forbidden from entering Gerudo Town due to being a man. The Voh'lawàr himself was understanding of their traditions, if a bit stung by their rejection.

This all takes place around 10-20,300 years after Ocarina of Time as the "no men" rule became an official law around when the next Centennial King, after the 2nd Ganondorf (FSA), was born. At that point, they were only just beginning to transition away from a life of thievery & banditry. (Keep in mind that it was specifically said that there had been no male Gerudo leaders in centuries, not that there were no male Gerudo at all.)

It was soon after this that the Gerudo Tokens turned from a simple membership card into a sort of visitor's pass for certain men who had proven themselves trustworthy.

(I hc that Wild Link is given one after BotW even though that didn't canonically happen.)

Anyway, it's because of this that the 7, or at least the 6 younger Heroines, are sometimes (often) regarded by Ealiyans with a certain degree of harshness & even hurt & bitterness, as a result of what is perceived as betrayal & ingratitude.

The 8th is referred to by the Ealiyans as the Forsaken Hero (al'Mà'trook Voh'lawàr) & regarded as the God of Unsung Heroes (Nàreq'lawàren'è al'Vollah). So, to remedy this fact, they sing his praises & praise other such unsung heroes. It's due to this fact that Ealiyans have a Library of Myth of sorts filled with an abundance of extremely old legends depicting heroes that have been largely forgotten by other societies. Including decently detailed stories of the previous Links (though, not their names; that seems to have almost been entirely scrubbed from history, which Ealiyans see as suspicious) & the Legend of the Birth of Hyrule via the 3 Golden Goddesses, who had been largely forgotten since before the arrival of the Zonai. And even a very vague folktale of the war between Hylia & the Bringer of Demise. Though, only Hylia's name is remembered.

They also have a small Shrine of the Unsung Hero (al'Nàreq'lawàren Devïdán'è) in town that is treated similarly to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in America. It always has a guard standing there guarding it with an extremely strict patrol protocol. And when the guard changes, they go through a routine that is very different from the Unknown Soldier, but is no less important. These guards are a known part of the Shrine Guard (Devïdàn Mèdja or Dán'ja for short). Every Shrine Guard is strictly a volunteer & to be accepted for the position of Shrine Guard for the Unsung is considered one of, if not the, highest honors.

So admired is the respect given to such unsung individuals that Hyrule had a shrine of their own built in Hyrule Castle Town before the Calamity destroyed it 100 years ago. It's architecture is directly inspired by that of the Shrine of the Unsung Hero, though Hyrule's is mostly for honoring soldiers who've died in battle. It is protected & treated with similar diligence, honor, & reverence as the Shrine of the Unsung, just in a different way.

As a result, Ealiyah tends to produce numerous Àliqologists, which are like historians, mythologists, anthropologists, archeologists, record keepers, & librarians combined.

(Which tends to be why Ealiyah gets a decent number of researchers visiting.)

And if anyone were to notice the pattern of the Demise-born Centennial Kings, it'd be an Ealiyan Àliqologist.

In fact, it was an Àliqologist who made the discovery that the Gerudo kings most likely to become tyrants have always been born under the sign of Khinzïr, the Boar.

Anyway, it's because of this that Ealiyans have grown to become natural storytellers.

In fact, Ealiyah has a decently-sized town square where there is a large stone fire pit, inside of which is a bonfire that is lit every night. This pit is surrounded by a stone amphitheater that's recessed into the ground. Beyond that, along the edges of the actual square are little stalls that sell goods. During festivals, they sell foods & snacks.

And bi-monthly, the residents, especially children, come out to settle into the amphitheater with blankets & hot drinks to listen to the elders tell fables, legends, myths, parables; any sort of story you can think of. Whether actual history or a work of creative fiction. So long as it's acknowledged as such at the beginning, you can tell whatever story you wish. Acting & the theater having even become a large part of their culture.

They are also known to weave splendid, vividly-colored tapestries that depict these same stories, which are regularly used by storytellers as visual aides. Though, those are more for home use.

Theater costumes are also a decent industry there.

At the same time, this also tends to produce elderly folks who are... a bit long-winded & chatty. Even a bit gossipy, but normally not in the mean way. The kind of elders that always have a story or lesson up their sleeves. They will lore-dump on you real quick!

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Despite their patron being the Forsaken Hero, they are also known to pay special respect to Vah Kàvtrïna, the Goddess of Love, Passion, Pudicity, & Family, as well as the Home. As well as the Hebran deity, Hebrogar, who also has many domains of his own, some of which being family & fatherhood.

Which, as discussed before, are all very central & important concepts to the Highland Gerudo as a culture.

Of course, the Highland Gerudo have also taken on several aspects of Hebran theology & even a handful of Ordonian ones as a result.

In particular, the idea of the gods preferring self-reliance in their followers. Meaning that the gods are more likely to help those who help themselves, tending to see incessant praying without action as whiny. This being a particularly Hebran belief that meshed quite well with the Gerudo's own self-reliant tendencies.

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Ealiyah's interior style tends to be very Bohemian-Tibetan-Russian, being very colorful & eclectic. They are also known for their mosaicry, weaving, knitting, & crocheting.

They also tend to have a liking for organized clutter.

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It's said that the original founders of Ealiyah were Gerudo who were disgusted with the injustice visited upon the Forsaken Hero & thus broke away from the Gerudo Culture in order to found a settlement where he would be properly exalted. At least partially.

Anyway, while the Desert Gerudo simply assume that the 8th was a woman just like the other 7, the Highlanders know the truth, but don't go out of their ways to correct the mistake.

Now, admittedly, part of the reason why this belief became as such was due to it simply being the style. Much like it was the style in ancient Egypt to portray Pharaohs with beards even if the Pharaoh happened to be a woman.

The Desert Gerudo simply portray all heroic warriors with breasts. (This wasn't the case before the female-only curse, but thousands of years of only female heroes tends to cause certain habits.) However, the Ealiyans realized that this leant itself to inaccuracy & began to change this trend in the Highlands. While tradition is important, if it is a detriment to a society, then those traditions should be adjusted.

In my hc, the 7 Heroines are the daughters of Vah Gela, the Goddess of Sand (al'Geru'è Vallah), who birthed them from her many mortal concubini (male concubines) or Vo'màzren.

(However, the facts surrounding these individuals as actual deities have largely faded from desert theology.)

This reflects how IRL sultans would have multiple wives, concubines, or a harem. Gerudo women, especially back in their thieving era, had multiple slave men who they'd kidnapped & forced into sex in order to have as many daughters as possible. It was believed that the stronger the man, the stronger the daughters.

As such, the men of other cultures were both coveted, as well as seen as less than to a degree. This is another reason for why the ancestors of the Ealiyan Gerudo broke off from the Desert Gerudo.

Thankfully, this practice has long since been abolished, but it remains a black spot upon the Gerudos' history.

As mentioned above, the Forsaken Hero was just a lesser Hylian god & a retainer of the Fierce Deity, who wished to help & in the end, he & the eldest Heroine ran away together (along with their followers) to marry & help found Ealiyah. As such, Ealiyah's Chief is always the vai descendant of the eldest demi-goddess Heroine & the Forsaken Hero. (Though, the fact that they have the blood of deities is more so a rumor by now.)

Examining the timeline, if we follow my hc, we know that this takes place after the Gerudo-Hylian War that resulted in the Gerudo's women-only curse (al'Sûl'si Nàshàlay'è, the Curse of Castration) that took the lives of all their voen, which itself takes place not long after the Bringer of Demise was finally defeated in Skyward Sword. However, it also has to have taken place after at least the 1st Ganondorf made his attempt on Hyrule.

It was between a hundred or so years after the 1st Ganon's death/sealing/victory & the 4th Ganon's sealing, which is a 30,000 year range.

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Aside from leaving to exalt the Forsaken Hero & to get away from a culture that exploited men, there were many who also left due to having found the social expectations of the Gerudo traditions stifling. Not necessarily the need to find a man, as such was essential to the continued existence of their people & culture, thus making it a tradition founded on necessity; but more so the strictness of needing to break up their families to keep their daughters separate from men, including their own fathers.

Many felt it unnecessarily cruel & a holdover from a misandristic bias & a rather extreme attempt at overcorrecting after 4 of the Centennial Kings (Ganon from OoT, Ganon from FSA, Ganon from HW, & Ganon from TotK) grew to be psychotic warlords hellbent on "ruling" Hyrule. (Read as destroying then salting the earth so that nothing can grow there again.)

Which inevitably ended in renewed prejudices towards the Gerudo & left the desert amazons to pick up the pieces & deal with the consequences themselves. This nurtures a bit of internalized, generational resentment towards males of their own kind which, unfortunately, can somethings spill over onto the men of other races as well. (They are most definitely getting better, but they still have a ways to go.)

As a result of this bias, a lot of the Mafzīnàla Voe'attàren (Centennial Kings) are often either culled as soon as they're born or grow up hermits & outlaws of the Desert Gerudo. This is a secret that not many Gerudo below a certain rank even know. The few who do tend to be very high ranked & keep the secret with their lives. Buliara specifically has kept it a secret from Riju to give the girl plausible deniability. It is the secret that the Gerudo are most ashamed of.

Luckily, Gerudo mothers who do not wish for their sons' lives to be cut short, will often travel to Ealiyah Town to take refuge there among those who've allowed themselves to move on from that old hate & hurt. There are still whispers & some wary looks, but no outright hate.

Others will instead choose to move to other areas or, in desperate situations, will even leave their sons with their husbands before returning to Gerudo Town to make a show of having lost their child. Either through miscarriage or stillbirth.

As a result, many Centennial Kings tend to live much more humble lifestyles than those of the distant past. Some are even lucky enough to be born Ealiyan. On extremely rare occasions, they are even born to the Ealiyan Chieftain.

Unfortunately, politics still play a part, so it isn't uncommon for the next Chieftain & a Centennial King (so long as they themselves aren't also related to the Chieftain) living in Ealiyah to marry. Fortunately, most have resulted in long & at least pleasant marriages rather than misery.

It's only recently that the Desert Gerudo have managed to pinpoint that the tyrant is always born on the 21st of February, under the Sign of the Boar, the Khinzïr constellation. Thus, those who are aware of the trend have begun to refer to them as the Vōton al'Khinzïr'è (Sons of the Boar) or the Mafzī'àlfankha Sûlfetànïren (Myriennial Tyrants).

(I sort of hc that TotK Ganondorf was the son of an Ealiyan Gerudo & her Ovelian Hebran husband. TotK Kōme & Kotake are worshipers of the Bringer of Demise who sought him out specifically because they are some of the few out there who know in intricate detail when exactly the bearer of Demise's hatred would be born. So, they kidnapped him as a baby & killed his parents. He doesn't know, if he did, he would've killed them himself. In fact, all Ganondorfs are kidnapped by Kōme & Kotake. Thus, making him an unknowingly tragic figure.)

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There's more, but I'm still figuring it all out.

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