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callsign-bunnie · 6 months

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Think of this as the fieldguide to my works

"I've never read one of your long form content, where should I start?"

Horror:

Mimesis - My OG horror fic, though definitely not my best Rodolfo Parra goes missing out of the blue one night. Alejandro will do anything to get him back. He'll tear through the Las Almas cartel if he has to. Even if it's just a body in a box, he will do whatever he can to get him back. When the 141 comes to Las Almas and they capture El Sin Nombre, he thinks he finally has his chance but... Valeria is insisting she didn't take him. She wouldn't take him. As he fights harder and harder to find his best friend, he starts to realize that the answer is much darker that maybe Alejandro would like to believe.

Remember Me - A FNAF AU that I took wayyy too seriously. Features Rodolfo, Soap, and Alex as the main characters, mostly Rudy POV. It started with a post on a forum. Rodolfo has spent the last few years of his life doing everything he can to cope with his best friend going missing. Drugs. Alcohol. Sex. Self Harm. Everything. He frequents dark web forums to buy drugs and other things to destroy his life and there, he finds a post about breaking into the Unquatrun Pizzeria. The very same pizzeria his best friend went missing. He shouldn't go. But he desperately needs answers. He needs to find his best friend or at least find out where he went. After all, the guy who reached out just wants a picture and the other one that answered has more than enough ways to help them break in. It'll be easy. Just get in, find answers, and leave before morning. It'll be easy. Won't it?

Romance:

Why Can't I Be More? - My first long form fic for COD, Alerudy Rodolfo and Alejandro have been sleeping around for years. It's meant to be no strings attached but Rodolfo wants more, though he's not willing to admit this to Alejandro. Alejandro wants Rodolfo to open up to him, Rodolfo fears rejection from confessing his feelings. On top of all this, the cartel problem is growing, day by day. They're being slowly cut off from the rest of Mexico. Everyone involved is being faced with a problem that may, one day, be no longer able to be fixed. Things need to change.

ABO:

Love and War - THE regency AU, arranged marriage, blah blah blah Rodolfo Parra, Prince of the kingdom of Artemea, is resigning himself to his fate. He will marry King Alejandro Vargas of the Red Kingdom, even if he is known for being a brute, even if it is made clear, in no uncertain terms that he will break Rodolfo. However, after the marriage, he finds Alejandro is... not what he was expecting at all. Prince Kyle of Drodora knew he would one day marry. He knew that he would not get to marry for love. He was an omega, he'd be a bargaining chip, a way to build alliances. He'd accepted that... Hadn't he? Roach does not want to marry Lord Riley. He refuses to be complacent in a fate he does not want and he hates the Queen of the Red Kingdom. He does not wish to be Queen of Drodora some day, and he does not wish to sit pretty and content with a monster such as Lord Riley. Horangi, an omega disguising himself as an alpha in the kingsguard, has suddenly had a 6'10 and kind of rude alpha dropped in his lap. He doesn't quite know why, but he does know that he doesn't want the alpha. What the fuck is he even supposed to do with him, anyway?

Law Of Madness - Technically unfinished, but had a decent wrap up in CH10. Gets uploaded by Case and not chapter by chapter. Rodolfo Parra is a law intern for Lawyer Kate Laswell. He's been her only intern for close to two years, now, and he loves his job. However, when she picks up a case as a favor, his entire world is thrown into contention by two alphas accused of slaughtering an entire frat at a party. He's choosing to believe they're innocent, even if everyone wants him to believe they're not.

If You Liked:

Regency AU

If you liked it for ABO:

Teacher's Pet - Finished, however open for prompts for the main throuple or any of the other ships Rodolfo and Alejandro have been best friends since they were children. Even after they presented. But... now that they're in college, things always seem to be pulling them apart. Enter Professor Phillip Graves. He's taken an interest in Rodolfo. He's older, but he's more mature than Alejandro. He knows how to treat Rodolfo. And he wants Rodolfo. That's more than Rodolfo has ever experienced, before, and he finds himself falling fast. However, Alejandro has seemed to very quickly get his shit together and suddenly he's practically devoting himself to Rodolfo. He completely turns around and their relationship is much better than it's ever been. So he falls even harder. Rodolfo's friend group soon becomes divided. Half don't want to see him hurt by an alpha who's much older than him and could easily exploit his position of power over him. The other half have suddenly decided they don't want Rodolfo to give Alejandro any sort of second chance. Both alphas also seem to be hiding things. Dark things. Dangerous things.

Phantom Of The Opera - About to be ported to AO3, but basically just another "Why Choose" ABO fic but this time for AleRudyGhost unfinished Chapter 1 - Chapter 2 - Chapter 3 - Chapter 4

Beauty and the Beasts - Also not ported to AO3. Aleghostrudy with Beauty!Omega!Rudy and Beasts!Alphas!Aleghost Chapter 1 - Chapter 2

If you liked it for drama:

An Academic Achievement - Finished, part 1 in a paused saga. Not ABO, College AU Rodolfo Parra, a pre-law major, is not going to college to fuck around. He is setting himself up for his future. He doesn't have time to go to parties in between Debate Club, an internship, 40 credit hours, and keeping with his chaotic best friend, Soap. Whatever, college wasn't meant to be fun. Alejandro Vargas, a business major and star of the football (soccer) team, is not taking college seriously. He happens to enjoy partying and drinking and having fun. College was meant to be enjoyed as the bridge between being a teenager and an adult. Both seem to be polar opposites when they're paired up in a math class, but maybe they're both what each other needs? Or maybe they end up hating each other. Who knows?

If you liked it for multiple plotlines:

Teeth and Skin - Unfinished, another big AU but this one is a Zombie Apocalypse AU The zombie apocalypse went by rather quickly. Those who were immune survived, most of the rest died, in only a couple of months. Now, two years later, everyone is either “immune” or unknown. Of course, the only way to find out is to be bitten. Society will rebuild itself. Someday.

I also have two other AUs that are being built rn that are also big AUs and will have multiple plotlines and content.\

Mimesis

Slasher Fieldtrip - Unfinished, I'm sort of out of ideas so it's on the backburner but has a fair amount of content in the meantime. Soap Mactavish does not have a good feeling about this fieldtrip for his college class, especially considering it's a fieldtrip to Simon Riley's house, who was widely known for murdering his entire family and then disappearing into the woods. And they just go to his house and mess around in it. Soap really doesn't think this field trip is going to end well. And when some girl runs out of the woods with a knife embedded in her skull, he knows he was right.

Slasher Party - ABO Slasher fic, AleRudy and Soapghost focused. Omega!SoapRudy and Alpha!GhostAle When Rodolfo and Soap go to a party in an abandoned school in the middle of the woods, Rodolfo decides not to expect anything. It's decrepit, it's creepy, it's dark, it's loud, and he doesn't really like parties, anyway. On top of that, there's this awkward tension between him and Soap, his best friend, that it's really not shaping up to be a great experience. Oh yeah, and then two murders start running around.

Why Can't I Be More?

If you liked it for romance:

Why Can't We Be More? - GazAlex, set in the same universe, fake marriage AU Kyle Garrick has never considered Alex in a romantic context. They were little more than coworkers. And Alex was an ex-double agent as well. There was simply no room in Gaz's head for romantic feelings. Until there are and he spirals very quickly into a crush. It starts so simple, too. So stupid. It starts with a mission. A mission where he and Alex are sent to pretend to be married so they can catch a potential double agent who might be able to deliver missile locations to them. However, this mission is... weird. And all four catch onto it very quickly.

Line It Up and Take The Shot - Mercenary Rudy, Alerudy focused, not really slow burn or I don't think so Alejandro Vargas, leader of the Los Vaqueros in Las Almas, has somehow landed himself with a target on his back. Rodolfo Parra has somehow ended up with his contract and the client wants a clean kill. Rodolfo grew up in Las Almas, he knows it well, but he'll need to balance knowing just enough to get close to Alejandro with not revealing just how much he knows. Posing as a military officer, he infiltrates the base and begins his plan. But there's something different about Alejandro. He can see through his disguises and walls. And Rodolfo starts to get dangerously close to him.

In the same universe:

Why Can't We Be More? - GazAlex, a direct sequel, fake marriage AU Kyle Garrick has never considered Alex in a romantic context. They were little more than coworkers. And Alex was an ex-double agent as well. There was simply no room in Gaz's head for romantic feelings. Until there are and he spirals very quickly into a crush. It starts so simple, too. So stupid. It starts with a mission. A mission where he and Alex are sent to pretend to be married so they can catch a potential double agent who might be able to deliver missile locations to them. However, this mission is... weird. And all four catch onto it very quickly.

Grape Crush - GazAlex, sort of a prequel to ^, set when Gaz is a child Kyle Garrick is 15 and a half. It's the summer of 2011 and his family has decided to travel to the states on vacation. While there, he meets a completely gorgeous lifeguard who is too old for him, way out of his league, and just totally not an option. But fuck if he's not falling, anyway.

I'll Do It Myself - Alerudy as kids, framed as Alejandro telling a story Soap discovers Alejandro and Rodolfo were childhood friends and expresses that he didn't know as Rodolfo made it sound like they met in the military. Alejandro tells him why. When Alejandro is kidnapped while trying to meet up with Rodolfo to hang out, Rodolfo immediately goes to the police, where he's basically told they're not going to bother looking for him. Rodolfo decides to take matters into his own hands, since he's not going to let his friend die for no reason. Well, his and his sister's hands.

Some people have expressed that they don't know where to go when they finish one of my fics, so here's a more comprehensive post of my more long form content and where to go if you liked some of my bigger fics. You can always ask me for individual fics and I'll suggest you some of my others

#bunnie speaks #call of duty

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reginrokkr · 1 year

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◟༺✧༻◞ Ruin Machines II: Ancient kingdom guardians.

As Dain said before in "We will be reunited", the Ruin Machines all hail from the fallen land of Khaenri'ah. And these machines are now known in Teyvat as Ruin Guards. By design, they are tools of war for Khaenri'ah. [...] The humans we face in-game, the Hilichurls and the Abyss monsters behave according to certain social dynamics and adapt their behavior according to their ecological environments as natural and elemental organisms would, while the Ruin Machines are automated tools designed and manufactured by the people of Khaenri'ah.

Although they are all classified as Ruin monsters due to different design purposes and functional differences within their respective divisions, Ruin monsters actually have different forms. For instance, for the relationship between the Ruin Guard and Ruin Grader we can think of their design basis as "machines of war built in man's image". By respecting this foundational idea, a distinction is then created when it comes to their form. If there are major differences in their shape, we can think of them as having different design purposes, respectively. Using military units as an example the Ruin Guards most resemble "infantry" whose job is to advance and hold territory while Ruin Hunters are much closer to skirmishers.

When we designed the Ruin monsters, we identified two set points at the Creative Concept and Writing level and the Ruin Machines must satisfy at least one of them. One is functionality "form determined by function" while the other is biomimesis. The combat, art design and presentation of the Ruin monsters basically revolve around these two set points.

—Form determined by function—

[...] The Ruin Serpent is from the underground kingdom of Khaenri'ah and is a piece of engineering machinery designed for civil construction and tunnel development. Similarly, as one of the Ruin monsters its body has also inherited a biomimetic form assembled from parts. Prehistoric giant creatures such as Tyrannosaurus Rex and Pterosaur were sources of inspiration for the Ruin Drake. This is also more in line with the theme of the Ruin machines being strange and ancient

—Biomimesis—

Aside from "Form determined by function" another major part of our design philosophy for the Ruin series is "biomimesis". That is, imitating a living creature in structure and behavior. Khaenri'ah is a nation located underground. In terms of ecological diversity, its nature is lacking compared to the surface. Therefore, among the mechanical engineers of Khaenri'ah, there are some people who are obsessed with the idea of mimesis... In other words, they wanted to create a mechanical ecosystem underground using human intelligence. As for the Ruin Sentinels, the engineers are people who have not seen life on the surface so they drew inspiration from bionic beings in their own imaginations to create war machines. The overall design of the Ruin monsters follows "biomimetic" principles. In addition to considering the mechanical structure, we also had to consider the ecological behavior of the animals they were inspired by.

#◟༺✦༻◞ Fragments of light from the roots of Truth ┊Reference.┊#there is more about this but #that's more technical talk to implement it in-game #this is about what I was most interested #specially the biomimesis part about it #because it always struck me with curiosity #since the first time I saw it and investigated some of it #until the meaning and the description of some items and monsters #including the abyssal woofies #did make me realize #that perhaps in this obsession of imitating real life creatures #there is also the obsession of King Irmin #to plunge everything in darkness #and the fact that the might've known #that if that comes to happen no life could happen #these things are being powered by abyssal energy #as Childe told us in his mission and according to a few drop items #it's also crazy to think of Ruin Guards as infantry #it comes to say how crazy the military was in Khaenri'ah #and once again how strong humans must've been to compensate #one other detail I haven't mentioned is the new Ruin Drakes #and how in some descriptions there is this telling #that Khaenri'ahns were obsessed with the distant past #of the Dragonlords specifically #these people surely knew a loT #anyway rant's over djfhjg

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cygnahime · 7 years

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Kingdom Hearts quadrants! Kingdom s? Does this iterate?

Kingdom [emotions]!

So my Terra & Aqua & Ven tag is “rubbish teen family” but that’s just because “rubbish teens and their moirailbaby” was a little weird even for me. But that’s. Basically how I feel. Terra and Aqua are moirails and Ven is their Child.

Speaking of moirails, Axel>RoxasXion is definitely a thing. Like I feel kind of iffy about the Axel end of it because age gap, but they literally taught each other how to be a people. Some things you just can’t argue with.

The fandom is all about…well if I’m being generous, they’re all about Vexen

Aqua

In troll quadrant terms, Sora, Riku, and Kairi are a teenage mess, honestly. Is it red? Is it pale? Riku tried to go black for Sora at one point, but it really didn’t work out and then Sora kicked his ass. I go red, but honestly, the humanrom red/pale quadrantsmush probably fits them best. Alas.

What else, what else…I’m also not sure if Lea and Isa were red or pale or what, but whatever it was, it went bad. I think pale works best to maintain the “Axel leaves Saïx for Roxas and Xion” aspect.

#thepioden #kingdom cygna #mimesis #don't forget you're homestuck forever #Asks and Answers

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bts-fic-collection · 4 years

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Hiiii do you happen to know some new Taegi fluffy fics? I’ve been dying for them plsss

I do indeed! ^_^

Love to Hate You by saesbyeols

Rating: E

Status: Complete

Word count: 6,718

Summary: “Tell me how much you hate me.”

“I hate you. So much, Kim Taehyung.”

“Good.”

In which Yoongi, as the Crown Prince of his kingdom, absolutely hates Taehyung. And for good reason.

Mimesis by allie

Rating: E

Status: Complete

Word count: 113,517

Summary: One night at the ballet, in the crowd Taehyung sees the most beautiful face he's ever laid eyes on. He paints that face over and over again, but never expects to actually meet the man that face belongs to. He never expects to fall in love with him.

We're Surrounded By Ice, But My Heart Is Anything But Frozen by EyesTheColourScarlet

Rating: G

Status: Complete

Word count: 22,060

Summary: Regaining his breath, cold air stinging his lungs, Taehyung glanced down at the man he had pulled from the water, only to feel his throat close up at the sight, blinking quickly, as though his eyes were trying to trick him. He had to rub his eyes, check he wasn’t hallucinating, check his exhaustion wasn’t making him see things that weren’t real, but the image before him stayed the same no matter what he did.

Where the body of the man he had brought from the water would normally seamlessly melt into hips, legs, the man’s skin instead changed from his pale upper half to white scales, the area his legs should rest a snow coloured tail, beautiful.

Poppy by nagwon

Rating: M

Status: Incomplete

Word count: 11,052

Summary: Yoongi is a literature teacher who lived his life thinking that the books were enough, until he fell asleep and saw what love can really be.

A story inspired by the tale of Morpheus and Isis, the one that never were.

"We are dreams, we are dreams... awaiting the god to tell us where to go ..."

#ask #taegi #taehyung #yoongi #royalty au #smut #artist au #fluff #long fic #mermaid au #college au #Rating: E #Rating: G #Rating: M

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eli-kittim · 4 years

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The Evolution of a Gentile Messiah in the Bible

By Biblical Researcher Eli Kittim 🎓

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Jesus rejects the notion that he’s a descendant of David, and of the Jews, in Matthew 22:41-46.

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That’s precisely why the gospel writers are especially careful to dissociate him from the southern kingdom of Judah and from the Jews by locating his place of origin in the north, in the land of the Gentiles, a place outside of, and external to, the Jewish Kingdom. Btw, strictly speaking, the word “Jew “ means a person from the kingdom of Judah (Ιουδαίος).

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The Figurative Text (Excerpted from Kittim’s book, The Little Book of Revelation, Chapter 5):

In contrast to the “New Perspective on Paul,” which tries to Hebraize the Greek New Testament by giving Paul a Hebrew flavor, Paul himself is adamant that “Jewishness” in the Bible has nothing to do with race or descendancy. Paul gives us an exact definition of what it means to be a “Jew” within the NT context:

“For a person is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is true circumcision something external and physical. Rather, a person is a Jew who is one inwardly, and real circumcision is a matter of the heart—it is spiritual and not literal. Such a person receives praise not from others but from God” (Rom. 2.28-29).

According to Paul’s stunning definition, the biblical term “Jew” does not denote a race or an apparent physical birthright (as the “New Perspective on Paul” would have us believe), but rather an inner essence or, more precisely, an indwelling spirit pertaining to God. This descriptive terminology certainly illustrates a radical new way of approaching, reading, and interpreting the Bible. William Barclay, a world-renowned New Testament scholar, rightly emphasizes that Paul’s message must have infuriated the Jews:

“To a Jew a passage like this must have come as a shattering experience. He was certain that God regarded him with special favour, simply and solely because of his national descent from Abraham and because he bore the badge of circumcision in his flesh. But Paul introduces an idea to which he will return again and again. JEWISHNESS, he insists, IS NOT A MATTER OF RACE AT ALL; IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH CIRCUMCISION. It is a matter of conduct. If that is so, many a so-called Jew who is a pure descendant of Abraham and who bears the mark of circumcision in his body, is no Jew at all; and equally many a GENTILE who never heard of Abraham and who would never dream of being circumcised, IS A JEW IN THE REAL SENSE OF THE TERM. To a Jew this would sound the wildest heresy and leave him angry and aghast.”

(The Letter to the Romans. The Daily Study Bible Series. Rev. ed. [Philadelphia: Westminster, 1975], p. 47, emphasis added).

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It’s not at all coincidental that in the plot of the gospels Jesus becomes the figurative “son of Joseph,” who is himself reminiscent of the great hero that once lived and reigned in Egypt (the land of the Gentiles)!

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Another Biblical clue concerning a Gentile Messiah (besides Moses the “Egyptian”) is the unique reference to Cyrus, who is explicitly called in the Book of Isaiah God’s “anointed” (i.e. messiah; Isa. 45.1). Cyrus is not a Jew! That’s precisely why God says in Isaiah 46.11 that he will bring from a far country the Messiah who will execute his counsel (cf. Matt. 28.18; 1 Cor. 15.24-25). Not only is the Messiah not Jewish, but the elect themselves are not defined as biological Jews. As Romans 9.8 reminds us, “it is not the children by physical descent who are God’s children, but it is the children of the promise who are regarded as Abraham’s offspring.”

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And why do you suppose Jesus is compared “to the order of Melchizedek” (Heb. 6.20)? What’s the point of the mimesis? Precisely because Melchizedek “does not belong to their [Jewish] ancestry” (Heb. 7.6), and when compared to Jesus, it follows that Jesus himself “does not belong to their ancestry” either! What is the New Testament trying to tell us? Just like Melchizedek, Christ is not a Jew!

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That’s why the gospels keep telling us over and over again that the Jews expect a Jewish messiah to arrive from the line of David but are terribly disappointed in seeing a Gentile messiah appearing from Galilee. And, as a consequence, they want to kill him! And, in the end, they do!

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Division of People over Jesus in John's Gospel Because He Does Not Come from Bethlehem of the Jews but from Galilee of the Gentiles:

“Others were saying, “Surely the Christ is not going to come from Galilee, is He? Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes from the descendants of David [Jews], and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?” So a division occurred in the crowd because of Him” (John 7.41-43).

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Jesus Christ (Gk. Ἰησοῦς Χριστός; 1 Cor. 3.11) Defies Jewish Messianic Expectations

John 7.52:

“Search, and see that no prophet arises out of Galilee” (cf. Mt. 4.15-16).

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Furthermore, it’s the Greek New Testament that introduces Jesus the Messiah, NOT the Hebrew Bible!

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And the Greek-New-Testament was not written by Jews but by Greeks! The New Testament was typically written in articulate, refined Greek, not in Hebrew! And it seems that they weren’t fluent In Hebrew because when these NT authors quote from the OT, they predominantly quote from the Septuagint, an early Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible, and not from the original Hebrew scriptures per se. This indicates that the NT authors were not familiar with the Hebrew language. In other words, they were NOT Jews. And most of the NT letters are addressed to Greek communities rather than Jewish ones. This Greek-element——running not only through the “thematic structure” but also via the writing, composition, production, place-of-authorship (which is said to be outside of Palestine), distribution, and dissemination of the text (largely to Gentile communities)——speaks volumes about the NT’s theological purpose, authorial intention, and cultural milieu!

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Conclusion

Unfortunately, we have failed to notice that the narrative of a •Gentile-messiah• is a major theme that runs across the entire Bible! And, in my opinion, the gospels certainly take advantage of this literary motif by showing through various rhetorical devices that Christ is not a Jew!

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amselpick · 5 years

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Turn the volume up :) This is Oedipa Maas - Mimesis A new artist that we will debut in 2019. You are listening to the raw demo mix because i couldn't wait to share this with you. The ep is still a long road and we travel this path with greatest pleasure. #chillrave #ketapop (hier: London, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/BtssR78COvm/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=wzb28mkxc6m9

#chillrave #ketapop

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gurguliare · 6 years

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2017 book list

WOULD REC TO ANYONE, GOD DAMN THEM:

Dream of the Red Chamber

Kingdoms of Elfin

Lolly Willowes

Rosalie Lightning

Cat Country

The Brothers Karamazov

The Red and the Black

The Glass Bead Game

The Last of the Wine

The Mask of Apollo

WOULD REC TO A SLOW-MOVING TARGET:

The Collected Stories (Mavis Gallant)

Romance of the Three Kingdoms

The Charioteer

A Skinful of Shadows

Avi Cantor Has Six Months To Live

The Street of Crocodiles

Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature

Wild Seed

ENJOYED IT A LOT, WOULD NOT CARELESSLY REC:

The King Must Die

Summer Will Show

The Journey of Ibn Fattouma

The Sun King

The Hollow Hills

The Woman from Andros

I SHOULD READ FEWER SERIES:

Thick as Thieves

The Hanging Tree/The Furthest Station

7 of 8 House of Niccolo books, sorry, Clodia

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deepartnature · 4 years

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The Rings of Sebald - Daniel Mendelsohn

"... That odd youthful pastime of mine is no doubt why I was so strongly affected by a certain passage toward the end of a novel called The Rings of Saturn, originally published in 1995 as Die Ringe des Saturn, by the late W. G. Sebald, the German writer who had emigrated in the sixties to the United Kingdom, where he spent the rest of his life and which is the setting for much of his writing. It was in England that Sebald wrote his dissertation, in English, on another German writer, Alfred Döblin, author of the masterwork Berlin Alexanderplatz and a Jewish refugee from Hitler—just as was, for example, the great scholar Erich Auerbach, whose magisterial study Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature begins with an analysis of the looping, digressive style, known as ring composition, that is found in Homer’s Odyssey. Döblin and Auerbach, in fact, died within weeks of each other, in 1957: the kind of near-coincidence beloved of Sebald, as we shall see. ..."

The Paris Review

2011 July: The Rings of Saturn - W.G. Sebald, 2015 February: ‘Drowned in a sea of salt’ Blake Morrison on the literature of the east coast, 2015 April: Patience (After Sebald) - (2010)

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wsmith215 · 4 years

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Ubisoft launches 5th season for entrepreneur lab with 8 startups

Ubisoft has launched its fifth Entrepreneur Lab with eight international startups focusing on social entertainment. Ubisoft’s new startups include Atlantide (France), Axie Infinity (Vietnam), Caregame (France), Immersiv.io (France), Planetarium (South Korea), Sorare (France), Splinterlands (U.S.), and Xaya (United Kingdom).

Led by Ubisoft’s Strategic Innovation Lab, the program supports startups creating products and services that have potential to transform the entertainment industry. The Paris-based Ubisoft is one of the world’s biggest video game publishers, with brands such as Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry, For Honor, Just Dance, and Watch Dogs.

The Ubisoft Entrepreneurs Lab has worked with international startups since 2017, and is based both in Paris at Station F, the biggest startup campus in the world, and in Singapore at the IMDA Pixel incubation space. Collaboration with this season’s startups will take place virtually.

For its fifth season, the program will focus on social entertainment. Media, especially video games, can serve as a tool to build and maintain social connections. The program will also continue exploring how blockchain technology — the transparent and secure digital ledger — can help gamers and other online communities.

VB Transform 2020 Online – July 15-17. Join leading AI executives: Register for the free livestream.

Above: Station F is a startup hub.

Image Credit: Ubisoft

Ubisoft Entrepreneurs Lab is the interface between Ubisoft’s expert teams, entrepreneurs, and external experts to foster productive collaborations and shape tomorrow’s entertainment.

In an email, Catherine Seys, project director for Strategic Innovation Labs at Ubisoft, said the company does this because it has entrepreneurial roots, and innovation has been a core value. It works with startups and pioneering thinkers to nurture this part of its culture and strengthen its entrepreneurship. The lab is a tool for Ubisoft to anticipate challenges that its teams may face a few years from now.

The company is focusing on social entertainment as the barrier between players and viewers has thinned in recent years, with the popularity of streaming platforms allowing content creators to bring their fans live content with a high level of interaction, she said.

“We want to keep exploring this path for gamers, modders, and viewers of our content,” Seys said. “Together with talented entrepreneurs working across different fields of entertainment — music, video production, live shows — we wish to contribute to creating engaging, creative, and fun entertainment experiences that bring people together.”

The pandemic didn’t affect the choices for the startups, as the themes were chosen before the pandemic.

Above: Ubisoft at Station F in Paris.

Image Credit: Ubisoft

“However, it’s clear that the pandemic has shed light on the growing importance of games as a social space to keep laughing, connecting and learning with one another,” Seys said. “Gaming today is more focused on community, lifestyle, and collective creativity than ever before. Gamers are eager to share with friends and people around the world. The phenomenon is fostered by the development of other technologies, such as blockchain, which facilitates modding communities and cloud-gaming sessions hosting thousands of people.”

Former participants in the Ubisoft Entrepreneurs Lab program include startups such as Mimesys (Belgium), acquired by MagicLeap in 2019, Hugging Face (U.S.) which raised $15 million in 2019, and Azarus (U.S.), which recently partnered with Ubisoft for the Assassin Creed’s Valhalla reveal.

Here are the startups:

Atlantide (France) creates educational games based on history to learn while having fun. The first experience of Atlantide is a geolocalized game that transforms a place into a playground to encourage observation, communication, and immersion. Atlantide’s ambition is to dedust history by making it more concrete, more playful and less elitist, through professional and general public tools. Caregame (France) helps mobile game publishers to reach players like never before. Thanks to the new cloud mobile gaming solution that CareGame built, players can instantly access any mobile game without any downloads. No more smartphone (or storage) constraints: Mobile games can be enjoyed in a click whatever the device, opening doors for better discoverability and wider audiences. CareGame believes the future of mobile gaming deserves to bring publishers and players closer together, being less centralized and showing more solidarity. Immersive.io (France) uses augmented reality to give fans a live experience. Whether watching through their smartglasses or smartphone, they get access to and interact with all the information they need to enjoy a game: video streaming, replays, stats, social feeds, editorial content and more regardless of their location, at the stadium or at home. Planetarium (South Korea) is an ecosystem for community-powered online games that live forever through decentralization. Libplanet, a blockchain core, enables blockchain and a game client to fully share code so that developers can create cross-platform decentralized games in a single Unity project. Game clients based on Libplanet can connect to each other to power an online world together without centralized servers. Planetarium is also developing Nine Chronicles, a fully decentralized role-playing game based on Libplanet which will launch in 2020. To encourage experimentation, this game will be available as open source at launch and updated with support from the community. Sky Mavis (Vietnam) is creating Axie Infinity, a digital pet universe where players battle, raise, and trade cute creatures called Axies. In Axie Infinity, players can experience the benefits of blockchain technology through “Play to Earn” gameplay and a player-owned economy. The game is created by technology company Sky Mavis which specializes in creating products that allow anyone to truly own their digital identity and game assets. Sorare (France) is a global fantasy football game where managers can trade official digital collectibles, compose their teams and compete for rewards every week. Launched in March 2019, Sorare is on a mission to bringing crypto to fantasy sports fans through the most popular sport in the world: football. Sorare’s game has attracted more than 10,000 users with a monthly volume of $150,000 in March 2020. Based in Paris, Sorare is funded by venture investors such as Seedcamp, ConsenSys and Kima Ventures. Splinterlands (U.S.) is a next-generation collectible trading card game. By building the game on blockchain technology, the company lets gamers play anytime, trade anytime, and earn every win. Over 20 million games have been played. Over $100,000 has been awarded to players through tournaments. Thousands of accounts battle every single day. The market has seen over $1 million worth of cards traded back and forth between players in less than two years. Xaya (U.K.) is a blockchain gaming platform designed from the ground up to support complex decentralized games with scalability in mind. Xaya aims to bring the quality and depth of mainstream centralized games into the fully decentralized realm. This opens possibilities such as human mining, a play-to-earn model where games are provably fair, transparent, trustless, and autonomous. Xaya is also developing Taurion, a complex decentralized game. The company is making Taurion, a massively multiplayer online, real-time strategy, and role-playing game where players use skill, intelligence, and teamwork to compete for resources in a fully decentralized player-driven economy and game world.

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Sad Mondays #4b

Author: Magda Wisniowska - Munich, April, 2020.

Does it not seem that alongside the two models, sacrifice and series, totem institution and structure, there is still room for something else, something more secret, more subterranean: the sorcerer and becomings … (Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, 237)

In his essay ‘Strange Ecology in Deleuze-Guattari’s A Thousand Plateaus,’ Irving Goh, discusses the chapter from which the above quote is taken, presenting Deleuze-Guattari’s idea of nature as inherently and profoundly violent. Nature is violent and we are violent towards it. Violence is what distinguishes their idea of nature from the passive or benign version endorsed by ecocriticism and environmental movements, where nature is something we must be willing to embrace, guard, and protect. But how is this idea of nature a violent one? And what does it have to do with sorcery, sacrifice, and totems?

Deleuze and Guattari begin this chapter, ‘10. 1730: Becoming-Intense,Becoming-Animal, Becoming-Imperceptible . . .’, with a discussion of natural history and the two-fold idea of series and structure with which it approaches the myriad of relations found in the animal kingdom. They argue that in its concern with inheritance—genealogy and filiation—evolutionism failed to address the significance of external conditions in the evolutionary process. In contrast, natural history allows for environmental factors by taking into account the sum and value of differences. In order to register these differences, it conceives the relationship between animals in two different ways. The first way, the one Deleuze and Guattari associate with the series, looks at the resemblances between the species, genera, taxa; the second, which they associate with structure, examines the structural similarities constituting different organisms. Either way, whether mimetically or mimologically, these operate through mimesis: in series chains of beings imitate each other—structurally, we organise by making comparisons.

Deleuze and Guattari argue that this two-fold idea of series and structure impacts how we think other relationships, especially those between the animal and the human. They refer to two thinkers as examples of each approach: Jung and his theory of the archetype demonstrates the working of resemblance in myth Levi Strauss and his work on totemism offers the more structural approach. I like to look at graphs. We currently see one everyday, live, online, its figures changing before our very eyes. This is the graph showing the exponential impact of the coronavirus with its ever rising number of infected and dead. We look for resemblances, at how the situation might compare between China, Italy, and the US for instance; and we also analyse the data structurally, how any measures we have taken might have affected the curve’s exponential growth. We all look in hope of seeing the moment when its awful curve might begin to flatten out.

But there is a third way of thinking about the relationship with the animal, a secret and subterranean way, the only way to think our relation to the coronavirus. Deleuze and Guattari describe it first as a “becoming.” It concerns an alliance made between different species that, despite being productive in the sense that it allows for proliferation, does not produce those kinds of characteristics that can be inherited. It is not evolutionary, but involutionary, as in, it requires a particular kind of mutual involvement, of one animal in the process of becoming another, without ever reaching the point of unity of production. Deleuze and Guattari describe it as “creative” and associate it with the figure of the ‘sorcerer’ or ‘witch.’

It is to this that Irving Goh attributes violence. For it would be a mistake here to think that creation involved in this process makes the relationship somehow benign. It is not a relation we can classify, whether through resemblance in a series, or structurally, in some kind of rational order. Forging it disrupts all structures, not just scientific or the institutions of the State, but also conjugal and oedipal. As becoming cannot be characterised, not even in terms of feeling, there is no subject in becoming, no sense of self. The sorcerer draws an alliance with the animal pack, meaning that the human encounters the animal as a multiplicity, a proliferation without the unity of the ancestor, a contagion. It is this infection that Deleuze and Guattari speak of. In our case, the infection is with the coronavirus. The human and the virus, a combination of heterogeneous terms, is neither genetic nor structural, but a ‘dark assemblage’, an ‘unnatural participation’ (A Thousand Plateaus, 242).

#sad mondays #deleuze #guattari #deleuzeguattari #thausandplateaus #irvinggoh #carlgustavjung #cgjung #archetype #myth #totemism #sorcerer #becoming #animal #pack #virus #magdawisniowska #2020

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#ahmdscience نوع من أنواع الحشرات التي تشبة اوراق الشجر فهي مموهة بشكل كبير لحماية نفسها من اي افتراس .. حتي متعرفش تفرقها عن ورق الشجرة الاصلي... الحشرة دي غالبا بتكون موجودة في دول شرق آسيا واستراليا. الحشرة دي بتقدر تقلد اهتزازات الورقة وهيا ماشية عشان اللي يشوفها يفتكرها ورقة مش حشرة. Phyllium Pulchrifolium.. The family Phylliidae contains the extant true leaf insects or walking leaves, which include some of the most remarkably camouflaged leaf mimics (mimesis) in the entire animal kingdom. They occur from South Asia through Southeast Asia to Australia. Leaf insects are camouflaged taking on the appearance of leaves. They do this so accurately that predators often are not able to distinguish them from real leaves. In some species the edge of the leaf insect's body even has the appearance of bite marks. To further confuse predators, when the leaf insect walks, it rocks back and forth, to mimic a real leaf being blown by the wind. #ahmdaellatif #insect #phyllium #walkingleaf #naturelove #naturelovers #nature #insect #insects #fact #facts #world #savetheplanet #earth #forest #entomology #naturehike #naturelovers #natureisbeautiful #nature #naturewalk #naturephotograph #dayshots #insectsofinstagram #photooftheday #fauna https://www.instagram.com/p/B4FGOhDgUNd/?igshid=1ow5tet9684gp

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A "final stage theme" for a game where Kosuzu Motoori is the final boss, based on the track "The Bibliophile with the Deciphering Eye" from the Forbidden Scrollery music CD, with a cameo from "Charming Domination" from Perfect Cherry Blossom.

Basically: this follows the pattern in Double-Dealing Character and Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom for "the final stage boss is an arrange of a subset of the boss theme"; I wished there were more than two examples so I could suss out a good pattern, but this is fine. This particular track probably wouldn't actually exist in a Touhou game insofar as the two-minute loop portion is more than twice as long as most final-stage themes (i.e. Mountain of Faith's is only 55 seconds), but I figure, sounding good was more important than mimesis, so here you go.

(Final boss theme is over here)

#touhou #touhou music #kosuzu motoori #forbidden scrollery #my music #my stuff

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has anyone asked for KH yet

Yes, but let me scream extra about how Terra and Aqua are Moirails and I wish all the fanfic about them didn’t involve Smooching, because that’s completely the wrong quadrant.

Also let me cry about how I think they may have broken up in Radiant Garden. ;_;

#sorceressrinoa #Asks and Answers #kingdom cygna #rubbish teen family #mimesis

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Camouflaged Animals

It is essential for their survival in the animal kingdom where predators are lurking everywhere. This concealment comes in two forms, one that makes animals difficult to see—crypsis—and one that disguises them as something else—mimesis. This series celebrates the concept of staying hidden in plain sight, something that we have borrowed from the animal world and utilized it for our military during the second world war. While some animals possess the ability to change their colors, others mimic behaviours to blend in beautifully.

#art #design #graphic design #illustration #photograph #photography #beauty #nature #animals #animal kingdom #camouflage

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Original Sin, Rene Girard, and the Crucifixion

A little over four years ago, I speculated that Original Sin -- the figurative consumption of the Fruit of the Knowledge of Good and Evil -- could be best understood as a direct consequence of knowing good and evil.

A limited human being who knows good and evil, I reasoned, would inevitably believe themselves to be inadequate and insufficient, and their attempts to hide that inadequacy and insufficiency would inevitably result in sin (i.e. failure, error, "missing the mark").

I was reminded of this because I'd been reading about Rene Girard's theories regarding mimetic desire and the scapegoat mechanism, and it seemed like the two concepts could synthesize together very well.

For Girard, imitation is critical to human behavior:

"There is nothing, or next to nothing, in human behaviour that is not learned, and all learning is based on imitation. If human beings suddenly ceased imitating, all forms of culture would vanish."

While humans, like other animals, possess appetites and instincts, those elements alone explain very little about human behavior. Even the means by which we fulfill our appetites -- say, the foods we eat -- are largely determined by the ways in which we understand our peers to fulfill them.

Why do we copy others so much? According to Girard,

"[A person] desires being, something he himself lacks and which some other person seems to possess. The subject thus looks to that other person to inform him of what he should desire in order to acquire that being. If the model, who is apparently already endowed with superior being, desires some object, that object must surely be capable of conferring an even greater plenitude of being."

Essentially, we copy the desires of others in an attempt to define ourselves, because others appear to have the sort of stable identity which we ourselves lack.

Or, in other words, we don't, in fact, "know good and evil." We just copy others who seem to have a better handle on things in an attempt to fulfill a desire for being -- for identity -- that such mimicry can never fulfill.

Instincts and appetites can be satisfied. The desire for being can't, at least not by anything within this world. But still, we imitate others in hopes that, by doing so, we'll finally find a way to fill the black hole of inadequacy and insufficiency we feel as a result of our lack of being.

To make matters worse, imitation, which can be harmless or even good under other circumstances, becomes dangerous when aimed at a human model. We don't simply want stuff because we think stuff will fulfill us (though that's still a problem, both because it doesn't work and because there's a finite amount of stuff to fill an inherently limitless need). We are specifically drawn to the stuff other people already want:

"In all the varieties of desire examined by us, we have encountered not only a subject and an object but a third presence as well: the rival. [...] [T]he rival desires the same object as the subject. [...] [T]he subject desires the object because the rival desires it."

We can't just sit in our own corners collecting stuff that might give us temporary satisfaction if not ultimate fulfillment. Our instinctual drive to imitate others constantly drives us into conflict with others by manufacturing scarcity where none previously existed. In rejecting the (infinite, loving, non-rivalrous) model we were made to imitate and imitating other humans, then, violence becomes inevitable.

"If two friends imitate each other’s desire, they both desire the same object. And if they cannot share this object, they will compete for it, each becoming simultaneously a model and an obstacle to the other. The competing desires intensify as model and obstacle reinforce each other, and an escalation of mimetic rivalry follows; admiration gives way to indignation, jealousy, envy, hatred, and, at last, violence and vengeance."

And, according to Girard, our human tendency towards imitation both makes violence itself contagious and tends towards a rather horrifying resolution:

"When scandals proliferate, human beings become so obsessed with their rivals that they lose sight of the objects for which they compete and begin to focus angrily on one another. As the borrowing of the model’s object shifts to the borrowing of the rival’s hatred, acquisitive mimesis turns into a mimesis of antagonists. More and more individuals polarize against fewer and fewer enemies until, in the end, only one is left. Because everyone believes in the guilt of the last victim, they all turn against him -— and since that victim is now isolated and helpless, they can do so with no danger of retaliation. As a result, no enemy remains for anybody in the community. Scandals evaporate and peace returns—for a while.

"Society’s preservation against the unlimited violence of scandals lies in the mimetic coalition against the single victim and its ensuing limited violence."

Society can’t allow itself to recognize the true nature of its scapegoats, however. Everyone has to believe that the last victim is guilty, so myths arise to confirm the guilt of the victim and the necessity of the murder to avert the judgment of the gods.

This, then, is the depravity that lies at the heart of human nature -- that the kingdoms of this world can only be maintained through the ritual slaughter of the scapegoats whose blood purchases a temporary peace for the rest of society, and that we lie to ourselves about this murder in order to ensure that future coalitions against scapegoats will remain complete.

In Girard's interpretation, then, the Crucifixion of Jesus can be understood in an entirely human context. While it's possible to squish it into the scapegoat mold by saying, "Jesus might not have been guilty, but he accepted punishment on behalf of those who were and therefore satisfied God’s need for justice," doing so robs it of its most critical insight:

"Instead of blaming victimization on the victims, the Gospels blame it on the victimizers. What the myths systematically hide, the Bible reveals.

"This difference is not merely “moralistic” (as Nietzsche believed) or a matter of subjective choice; it is a question of truth. When the Bible and the Gospels say that the victims should have been spared, they do not merely “take pity” on them. They puncture the illusion of the unanimous victimization that foundational myths use as a crisis-solving and reordering device of human communities."

In other words, we were "ransomed from the futile ways inherited from [our] ancestors" not by God paying off a figurative or literal kidnapper to free us (as if He had to!) but by Jesus offering a much greater ransom than the system could possibly sustain. The brutal and unjust death of an innocent man-who-is-God who thereafter refuses to stay dead irreparably damages the scapegoat mechanism; such a ransom is given for the express purpose of consuming the captor.

And, if that's the case -- if injustice is built on scapegoating (perhaps not all-on-one but rather majority-on-minority) and the Cross exposes scapegoating for what it is -- then the Cross might be one of the most powerful tools against injustice at humanity's disposal. You can't victim-blame a victim who a third of the world sees as the omni-benevolent incarnation of God. You can't write off scapegoating as the realm of primitive religion when the Crucifixion was carried out by the agents of an empire whose own motives had nothing to do with their religion.

The Crucifixion is, effectively, a divine act of protest designed to convict the collective conscience of humanity and push us to create a society that isn't founded on the blood of scapegoats. In a lot of ways, it's been successful. In a lot of ways, we've sought to bury it to protect our own interests. But a civilization that exists in its shadow can't help but be affected by it... or by acts of protest that hearken back to it.

It’s frustrating that some of the loudest voices claiming to speak for Christianity are oblivious to much of the scapegoating that exists in our society. Even so, the Crucifixion offers a common point of reference that can be used to convict them.

Rene Girard was pessimistic about the future of humanity. He thought that, as soon as the scapegoating mechanism was revealed and hence broken, unanimous rejection of mimetic desires became the only way to avoid apocalypse. But I'd argue that revealing the scapegoat mechanism was not, in fact, a fatal blow to scapegoating, and much of what’s wrong with the world today is the result of better-hidden scapegoating. As such, there are a number of things we can do to combat continued scapegoating that that would make this world a better place.

My generation may no longer find value in an omnipotent Cosmic Santa Claus, but there's no reason to throw the baby out with the bathwater. This world will always need the witness of an innocent victim to put the lie to the assumption that the people whose blood we use to lubricate the gears of society deserve what they get... and it will always need an infinite, non-rivalrous model to imitate for those of us thus convicted.

#Christianity #Rene Girard #Original Sin

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‘What If’ World Building - Lorule

Lorian History: Late Tribal Era

Those of us Legend of Zelda fans out there (and specifically those who played ALBW) might be interested in ‘what if’ Lorule was more developed? What if we had distinct towns, regions, and history behind Lorule– like Hyrule has? What if Lorule was a kingdom part of a bigger land mass– like we know Hyrule is? What if we could make this strange and cryptic dark world deeper and more fascinating to us as players?

Wonder no more! I am here to share some world building ideas. Note that these are not fact or any kind of official material, but they are inspired by and based on the canon lore and design of the game material.

Feel free to borrow and use ideas from this map and worldbuilding in your own creative works. A simple credit or shout out will be appreciated!

NOTE: This is part of a series of worldbuilding pieces that stem from this timeline source. Please follow along in order to get the most out of this writing!

As the Valley Tribal Era ends, it is marked by a complete unification of Lorule. The previous separated and battling tribes are now joined together in a kingdom that spans the entire country, from eastern mountains to western mountains. Northern Snowhead Mountains to Turtle Bay. But being a land that had been ruled by tribal leaders for so long, it was still governed in sections. Feifdoms, if you will.

Major developments during this time were the mixing of languages. There were three tribal tongues spoken in different regions: Araya (Woods and Swamp), Ghen (Plains and Bay), and Sjone (Mountains and Valley). These spoken tongues marked different regions, but the regions were tied together by the international trade tongue (one that had existed for centuries earlier, even before the Triforce’s destruction, when trade took place across the mountains, in the foreign lands beyond). With the refinement of the languages, and expanded use of the international trade tongue, came the development of written language. Since Lorule’s dominant power laid with the mountain and valley regions, their runic alphabet and writing system began to dominate, creating a universal rune alphabet to match up with the universal trade language.

The biggest, and most important development, though, was the development of different religions. Having been without the presence of the Golden Goddesses, or a Triforce, for about 400 years, Lorians began to find new Gods and deities in the world around them. The world began to change at this point too, with shallower rivers, stronger storms, and more aggressive animals. With changes taking place, new legends are invented, new religious practices begin.

Each region, the woods, the plains, the swamps, the bay, the valley, and the mountains, were led by their regional chieftains. Those regional chieftains then reported to and swore fealty to the Prince(ss) Chief of Lorule. This Prince(ss) Chief was still stationed out of a royal castle in the Valley Tribe region, making the Prince(ss) Chief both a Royal Lorian leader, as well as the regional tribal chieftain.

In the beginning of this era, legends of the Four Giants begin to spread more widely. They are told to be regional deities who protect the compass directions, and lay sleeping underground. Believers say that when earthquakes happened in Lorule (only on small occasions at this point), it was one of the Giants rolling over in its sleep. But during this time period, such legends are simply that– legends. They are treated as stories.

The new religion that begins to spread during this time was the Masked Tradition. A religious practice of donning masks to engage in mimesis with the pantheon of spirits and Gods. The masked tradition was less of a formal religion that spread, and more of a method to worship. It started with the old beliefs in the Golden Goddesses but then began to expound upon them. Creating masks and deities for fairies, demons, a Sun God, a Moon Goddess, animal spirits, and monsters. The pantheon expanded, and the Goddesses Nayru, Farore, and Din began to dwindle as this pantheon grew and became more prominent in symbolic representation and masks.

The Princess-Chief Vhinehild was the first Lorian royal to begin worshiping the four giants. She saw them as more than just stories. Finding comfort and reason in the natural disasters and mountain formations being the cause of deities who were very present in their world, Vhinehild sanctioned festivals, harvest banquets, and tourneys in the name of the four giants. Being a Princess-Chief who endorsed the practices of the common folk, she was well liked by the people, and the different religious beliefs began to spread more rapidly. Supporting and believing in the masked tradition, Vhinehild became a Masked Priestess of the Sea Order before she died.

At the end of this era, the idea of tribal leaders began to disintegrate into nobility. Tribal chieftains were given estates by the monarchy, and titles to go with them if they were good. But as Prince Hrafnhildr began to call himself a ‘King’ he rewarded those who were loyal to such a dominance. If a former tribal leader refused to accept a one true “King,” who was said to have the divine blood of the sun god in his veins, then that tribal leader would be punished, and Hrafnhilr would find a new, more loyal, subject to appoint lands and title to.

Common literature for this time period was the hand-written spreading of new religions. The fairy tale story of the Four Giants became popular to tell, but only a small margin of people thought of it as more than a tale. However, written lore and mandates of the expanding pantheon represented by masks was a huge part of the poetry and philosophy at the time. Essays that questioned identity, and tied in the fluid nature of gender, self, and humanity with the mimesis of the Gods. These written works spread, and it commonly became believed that, during religious ceremonies, when one wore the mask of a god or a spirit or a demon, then one would become them. Gods could not exist without humans, and humans could not exist without Gods.

#loz #legend of zelda #albw #a link between worlds #lorule #lorian history #world building #what if world building

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