#katabasian mason

[catwyk]

have you heard about our lord and saviour the trawlerman?

#the silt verses #tsv #the silt verses fanart #tsv fanart #tsv mason #katabasian mason #tsv katabasian mason #katabasian mason tsv #the parish of tide and flesh #blue #blue art #semi realism #semirealistic #crab claw #fly fishing lure #the trawlerman #art #my art #digital art #dramatic lighting #digital painting #lineless art #impressionistic #sort of #medibang #medibang paint #huion tablet

[eyesteeth]

lost your appetite, hm?

#tsv #the silt verses #brother faulkner #sister carpenter #or well. her corpse at least. #katabasian mason #<- that tag's more for my personal reference than anything it is not clear that it's him in the back #im once again using my powers for evil. it will happen again #carp n faulk #eyeteeth art tag #i don't think i have to tag this for violence cause it's mostly in the Implications yknow but if it needs it i'll add it in

[malubarroso]

Was it worth it, Katabasian Faulkner?

[ID: A digital illustration of Faulkner from The Silt Verses. He's a thin white young man with longish curly brown hair sitting on a throne made of grotto-like stone, holding a copy of the Silt Verses to his chest with one hand and his staff with the other, wearing a startled expression. He wears a white button down under a brown jacket, blueyish green slacks and brown boots. There's a halo on his head and his hands and shirt are bloody.

Underneath his throne, are the sculpted corpses of Carpenter, Katabasian Mason and Sister Thurrocks, all with gaping mouths. Over Faulkner's head, there's a sword hanging over him. End ID.]

#the silt verses #brother faulkner #sister carpenter #katabasian mason #sister thurrocks #blood // #on the second episode of s3 and excited to see him getting tangled up on his own web

[whod-win-pods]

Who’d win in a chess match between Katabasian Mason and Jonah Magnus?

#katabasian mason #jonah magnus #the silt verses #the magnus archives #whod win #whod win: chess edition

[aregebidan]

i might have missed another usage of "schism" in the podcast but they're rare enough that these are the only ones i've spotted so far. if the word "schism" in TSV specifically refers to a literal splitting of the nature of a god between groups of believers, it would be. very interesting to say the least to see how a potential schism interacts with the trawler-man's already dual nature (and possibly be relevant to his erratic behavior with carpenter + the disciples who were eaten along with the sacrifices?)

#something something it was i who killed katabasian mason and sister thurrose with a shard of glass and lied about them... #the silt verses #tsv spoilers #tbd

[cemeterything]

silt verses tarot assignments:

i. the fool - hembry / sid wright

ii. the magician - VAL

iii. the high priestess - nana glass

iv. the empress - the trawlerman & the promised bride

v. the emperor - katabasian mason

vi. the hierophant - hayward

vii. the lovers - mercer and gage* / devereaux and sebastian if you insist on a romantic couple. this podcast doesn't have many options lol.

viii. the chariot - faulkner

ix. strength - brother wharfing

x. the hermit - roake

xi. the wheel of fortune - katabasian roemont

xii. justice - adjudicator shrue

xiii. the hanged man - the children of the woundtree / the many below & dennis duplass

xiv. death - the cairn maiden & stewardess acantha

xv. temperance - sister thurrocks

xvi. the devil - press secretary carson

xvii. the tower - the wither mark

xviii. the star - carpenter

xix. the moon - sibling rane

xx. the sun - vaughan

xxi. judgement - paige

xxii. the world - the god of penda's slake & charity

(*the lovers is not an inherently romantic card, it symbolises unity)

#🐉 #not 100% sure about some of these but it was difficult to assign everyone an individual card #the silt verses

[misstrashchan]

So... Please tell me I'm not the only who has Thoughts. About Hayward's plan to recruit Shrue and specifically Carpenter's involvement in it because. Adjudicator Shrue has been working to legalise the Trawler-Man's people and was working with Mason and the current Katabasions. Before that they were trying to eradicate them, being the one to hire and send out Mercer and Gage with their own platoon of soldiers.

Which brings us to Faulkner and his murder of Mason and Thurrocks, his opposition to the Katabasions plans to legalise them and let the Withermark and their people be used as a weapon of war, and the story he spins pinning the murders on Carpenter, painting her as a traitor who was working with the legal authorities (aka Shrue) and undermining them:

FAULKNER:

I could never have imagined that the Legislatures could have won her over to their cause.

It was Sister Carpenter who alerted the government’s forces to the location of the Paraclete’s Gulch. 

(With a weary finality)

But they had, and of course her return was no coincidence at all.

It was Sister Carpenter who attempted to undermine our defences from within.

And after their attack failed, thanks to the combined strength of our disciples…it was Sister Carpenter who waited for a moment when the entire Gulch was gathered below in joyful celebration, and she assassinated Katabasian Mason and poor Sister Thurrocks.

(3x01 Something Dreadful Shall Arise)

And we know how strongly Carpenter feels about the idea that she would ever work with the government legislatures against the people who were once her family, how angry she is that Faulkner has written a story that has made that lie true:

CARPENTER:

You think I’d ever make peace with the people who did it? You think I’d work with them against my own family? 

Against my brother, my parents, my grandmother?

You think I wouldn’t have put a bullet in my own skull already if I had that weight pulling me down?

And I think it's important to point out that Carpenter has no idea why Faulkner killed Mason and Thurrocks. She doesn't know anything about Mason and the other Katabasisons plans to legalise their god by proving themselves useful as a tool in the war. But we do know that in the past, when the idea of legalising the Trawler-Man was brought up before in S1 by Paige as a more peaceful way forward, she loathed the idea as much as Faulkner:

PAIGE:

But this is what's absurd, isn't it? We're talking about ancient history. Laws from 50 years back, long dead legislatures.

They're accepting new faiths back into the canon all the time now. You just need to get your god's name on a petition and-

CARPENTER:

Listen to her, Faulkner. "Our god's name, on a petition". Well. Why shouldn't we be reasonable about all this? Now that the Peninsula is ready to hear our case?

Why shouldn't we go through the proper channels? Why shouldn't they be allowed to get away with it?

FAULKNER:

Carpenter, let's keep this quiet...

CARPENTER:

My parents were dragged in shackles to the Saints hydroelectric dam, a year after I was born. They were dragged there, they were sentenced, and they were tossed off the side into the churning waters.

And the last words that they ever heard were that they were to be devoured by something that they did not understand. Because the dam was new, and on unconsecrated, and because a god must feed, and because these false faith renegades from deep in the fens made for the easiest sacrifices.

I will not hear that the world is a better place than it was because there is process. I won't and I can't.

(1x12 And To Fight Is Just to Choke)

And now Carpenter is with Hayward, and are headed towards Adjudicator Shrue to try and work with them so they can help the Woundtree seem more sympathetic and have someone who can better tell their story, as it were.

Carpenter is still being hunted by Faulkner's schism, only being given a break by being in a no man's land, only now she won't be, as she's heading into Glottage.

CARPENTER:

(Staring out of the window)

If we stayed on this road heading south, we’d make it down to Marcel’s Crossing by nightfall.

Another day’s driving, and we’d be at the Paraclete’s Gulch.

(3x06 The Wise Man Knows the Taste of Rot)

So the next time Faulkner hears about Carpenter, it's going to be about how gosh, you were right all along Katabasion Faulkner, that devious Carpenter is working with the same government official who tried to eradicate us and who is now trying to legalize us to use as a tool in their war! (that's not even mentioning she'll be seen with Hayward as well, who as far as Faulkner is aware is the cop who was hunting them down back in S1) And Faulkner is just gonna be like

Wondering if he told his lie about Carpenter working with the legal authorities undermine the Parish of Tide and Flesh so convicingly that he made it into the truth and what's that? IT'S THE FOILING TO VAL AND THE LAST WORD WITH A STEEL CHAIR READY TO BEAT ME SENSELESS-

#the silt verses #tsv meta #wanted to post something for new year and this post specifically before the next episode comes out so #WHOO #brother faulkner #sister carpenter #tsv s3 #tsv theory

[thesiltverses]

does a plot summary of the silt verses exist anywhere? I listened to the last 2 seasons but since have gotten somewhat concussed and forgotten. most of the plot

We put out an audio recap last week in the feed, but a quick written summary of Seasons 1&2 would be (under the cut for spoilers)

Season 1:

Carpenter and Faulkner, two acolytes of the illegal river-god known as the Trawler-man in a nation known as the Peninsula, are heading upriver in search of signs of their fragmented and scattered faith.

Along the way, they discover friendship, kidnap a disillusioned office worker from the neighbouring nation of the Linger Straits (Paige), and are pursued by Hayward, a hangdog police officer.

Carpenter decides she needs to quit the faith. Faulkner confesses his ambitions of becoming a great leader of their shared religion and drops some of the frenzied zealotry.

In the end, they uncover the Wither Mark, a powerful prayer to their river-god, which has been used to obliterate an entire town.

Cornered, they call upon the river's wrath and are swept apart in the flood.

Season 2:

Returning to the Parish of Tide and Flesh and relaunching himself as 'prophet of the river', Faulkner quickly becomes a thorn in his superior Katabasian Mason's side and is sent out on a dangerous mission.

Carpenter, waking far to the south, is introduced to the Cairn Maiden, a god of death who appears to have taken a special interest in her. She, too, is given a dangerous mission (PARALLELS) - to carry a moaning, screaming corpse back to the White Gull river.

Hayward, having fled to the Linger Straits, meets up with Paige and joins her crusade to create a new god of martyrs that sacrificial victims can use to protect themselves.

This goes, perhaps, a little too well, and after one terrorist attack against a prison, Paige and Hayward find themselves fleeing back to the Peninsula, leaving behind them one deadbeat, dead dad.

In the capital of Glottage, a politician by the name of Shrue recruits a pair of god-hunters, Mercer and Gage, to track down the Parish's people.

(Along the way across both seasons, it becomes increasingly clear that war is imminent between the Peninsula and Linger Straits. At the end of the season, it breaks out.)

Carpenter and Faulkner end up reuniting to try and defend the Parish's people against the government's forces - an attack which is unexpectedly called off.

As Carpenter buries her corpse and comes to terms with the possibility of a peaceful life and an end to her struggles, Faulkner is heralded as a hero of the faith.

It turns out that Katabasian Mason has negotiated with Shrue to legalise the Parish, using the coming war as leverage.

Furious at having his dreams of leading the Parish as a prophet and a war hero stolen from him, Faulkner murders Mason, and in desperation blames Carpenter for the deed.

Carpenter flees. Faulkner remains a hero. Paige and Hayward wash up on the Peninsula's shores. War is here.

#tsv spoilers #there's also some stuff with giant spider-crabs #sea-shanties #really nasty catering gigs #and theatrical monologues

[magus-incognito]

Transformative Prayer to the Trawlerman

Ease away my grateful skin, Trawlerman. I will rejoice at skin reshaped in silt, and my fragments will swim in the currents of the abyss.

Fill my eyes and throat with thick and choking mud, Trawlerman. I will exalt in the death of sight, sensation, and noise.

Bear me down to black depths, Trawlerman. I will forget my pain and the name I once wore.

Rise like a dark river in my throat, Trawlerman, and my drowning lungs will sing of tides and flesh.

—Katabasian Mason, TSV 1: Let Me Speak First of Revelations.

#the trawlerman #prayer #the silt verses

[podcastsexyman-battleroyale]

Art Request

Hi folks! We’ve got a large number of participants for our little tourney! Since these are podcast people, most of them don’t have official/free to use art. So, especially since we have multiple characters from the same podcasts, I need your help!

Below is a list of characters. If their name is not crossed out, that means I need art! Please dm me your art (and how you would like to be properly credited if it differs from your blog handle). Do not send art that isn’t yours unless you have explicit permission from the artist.

Characters are ordered by show (shows listed alphabetically) and not by bracket listing. Brackets will be revealed after preliminary rounds.

Alice (Alice isn’t Dead)

Rat/Jacob (Archive 81)

Aava Arek (Campaign Podcast)

Amos Faraday (In Transit)

Kayne (Malevolent)

Kellin

Hastur/The King in Yellow

Collins/The Butcher

Wallace “Andrew” Larson

Isaac Prince (Mayfair Watcher’s Society)

Queen of the Summer Sun (Mistholme Museum of Mystery Morbidity and Mortality)

Bryony Halbech (Red Valley)

Barret Racket (Rusty Quill Gaming)

John Hunger (TAZ)

Kravitz

Roger Kaplan (The Bridge)

Mark Bryant (The Bright Sessions)

Nyathi (The Secret of St Kilda)

Sid Wright (The Silt Verses)

Katabasian/mason

Elias Bouchard (TMA)

Oliver Banks

Gerard “Gerry” Keay

Michael Shelley/The Distortion

Tim Stoker

Mike Crew

Mikaele Salesa

Jordan Kennedy

Peter Lukas

Sasha Wire (TPP)

Ty (Woe.Begone)

Marcus Cutter (Wolf 359)

Eric Chapman (Wooden Overcoats)

Kevin (WTNV)

Earl Harlan

Kasper Rodes

#alice isnt dead #malevolent #archive 81 #campaign podcast #in transit #kellin holeman #taz #the adventure zine #rusty quill gaming #mayfair watchers society #the mistholme museum of mystery morbidity and mortality #red valley #the bridge #the bright sessions #the secret of st kilda #the silt verses #tma #the magnus archives #wolf 359 #wooden overcoats #wtnv #fiction podcast

[catwyk]

2 fresh wips!!!! baby carpenter w her first victim (i am forever GAGGED by her wondering if hes wearing the same hessian sack she wore when she was almost sacrificed) and an extremely unfinished katabasian mason because im in love with the square watercolour brush

edit 2 add a link to finished mason

#i only started on mason last night #i just really like it and thought it would be nice to show a super early stage of my art :) #the silt verses #tsv #sister carpenter #tsv carpenter #tsv mason #katabasian mason #mallory glass #tsv mallory glass #wip #wips #wip art #digital wip #digital art #art #my art #medibang

[mintytea-exe]

notre dame by paris paloma reminds me so much of The Silt Verses so I MUST write about it

‼️spoilers for the entire series so far‼️

This reminds me so much of Paige and Hayward's position in Season 3. They didn't choose to be the leaders of a cause, Paige says so herself in Chapter 32 that their intention was to create a weapon that could be used by victims and martyrs. Instead their faith has become an international movement, one neither of them could have imagined. They created a god that shakes the concept of faith in the world they inhabit. Yet Paige is isolated by it. She's the prophet of a god she created, one that reflects the turmoil over her mother's death and directly results in her father's death. She trusts Hayward but disagrees with him. She's become less of a participant in her own faith and more of an observer, and she's deeply unhappy. Hayward, in comparison, has found both hope and meaning. He's still lying, but he's lying for a cause he believes in. He's charismatic and likeable, a natural leader where Paige is not. He doesn't revel in the choices he has to make, but understands they're necessary.

Any line about exile automatically makes me think of Carpenter. She is an exile multiple times over. She believes herself to be exiled from her own humanity, but due to the guilt and shame clearly expressed in her interaction with the Sorrow-And-Shame (Chapter 24) it's clear that she is incredibly human. Exiled from her family, partially imposed upon her by their deaths and partially self-imposed by her choice to change her name. Exiled from the Parish of Tide and Flesh when she loses her faith and defects at the end of season 1, and by Faulkner pinning Mason's death on her at the end of season 2. She found meaning in acting for the Parish, and going on pilgrimages when she was 18. She found meaning in the Cairn Maiden, but it is not her calling. She helps Paige and Hayward because it gives her life direction. She's spent her whole life running, yes, but she's also spent her whole life searching for meaning.

This section just reminds me of the world building of The Silt Verses as a whole. In a world full of so much inequality, suffering is inevitable. It's what makes Paige and Hayward's creation of the Many Below/Woundtree so powerful, and such a threat. So many people have been wronged by the system that the Linger Straits and the Peninsula have both been built on and that sorrow can only last so long before it turns to anger.

I think this is equal parts both Faulkner and Carpenter. Of course, Faulkner could very well be described as a sinner but he is looked up to as a Katabasian and Prophet of the River (albeit due to his manipulation and charisma). In many ways he does belong, or at least he strives to belong. But he's an outsider to the faith, constantly having to prove himself worthy at every turn. In comparison, Carpenter should feel belonging - her family were extremely influential within the Parish. Except she doesn't belong either. Both of these characters struggle with their own identity and belonging, although in very different ways.

Faith genuinely seems to give people in The Silt Verses comfort (the Children of the Woundtree, the Parish of Tide and Flesh). The final line fits a number of characters: Acantha, Carpenter, Faulkner and Paige. Acantha buries the dead, she exudes so much kindness in her worship of the Cairn Maiden. She provides peace to the desperate, who can no longer find it in anything other than a restful death. Carpenter, but acting for the Cairn Maiden, and with her inclination to help save others, is similar to Acantha. She's far less patient, and much snarkier, but she has a genuine passion to care for a look after others. This is even sometimes to her own detriment (Chapters 19, 29 and 34). Faulkner believes himself to be a prophet, he perhaps has an elevated sense of his own importance and acts according to it. But he's very capable of acknowledging when his actions have doomed others (chapter 28) and when he has failed. He has confidence in his own skills as a leader. Paige is the most unwilling in her position in "looking down". She has had this role thrust upon her, where others look up to her for guidance. Her god's role is to help the desperate and hopeless. Again she is an observer of what she has created, and has very little control over it.

#the silt verses #tsv podcast #paige duplass #hayward tsv #sister carpenter #brother faulkner #stewardess acantha #wow minty is actually doing some media analysis??? #the silt verses spoilers #paris paloma

[serenity-the-firefly]

rip katabasian mason but at least he died doing what he loved (monologuing smugly)

#tbqh a little disappointed that we wont be getting more of him #like im thrilled he got brutally murdered but i was kinda hoping it would happen later yknow #the silt verses #the silt verses spoilers #thoughts

[babeluda]

OK I'm in a live blogging mood but I won't spam any further. Collected observations it is!

Roemont loved Mason. Evil high katabasian romance and heartbroken mad grief, calling it now.

I love the dual storytelling from both sides of the schism by Faulkner and Roemont

Truly vexed at the Carpenter erasure in the battle retelling, but that's because I would defend her to the death of course

Roemont, those are Hamlet levels of stressed out plans for murder. Grenshaw has stratospheric levels of patience behind his curtain

Oh I loved that confession. Game of Thrones like rhetorical fuckery

#tsv #the silt verses #Faulkner #Roemont #ok gotta go meet my mum now part 2 later

[notbecauseofvictories]

katabasian mason installing himself (via calmly and politely delivered threats of violence) as puppet master political advisor to an administrator who’s been shown to be well-meaning but naïve, something of an empty suit---

a present for me??

#when he said ''or I can kill you to make myself feel better about not getting what I really want''? #yes. thank you. excellent. #and the absolute second thurrocks asked for the wither mark I knew she was mason's creature #sorry @ all the other characters in the tsv you simply are not playing at mason's level #you are trying to ''make the world a better place'' or ''ensure innocent people don't die'' he is choosing violence #the silt verses #tsv spoilers

[nana-glass-chillhop-radio-hour]

TSV s2 finale spoilers

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For as much as Faulkner hated Mason by the end, pinning a double murder on the Trawlerman's preferred whipping girl is actually an astonishingly on-brand grade-A Katabasian Mason move. Faulkner truly speedran that corruption arc. Terrible boy. The only difference is that Mason wouldn't have felt bad about it at all.

#the silt verses