#Ancients and Champions
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Cross and dust staring at the new baby
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Hello, it's been a while since I posted here, so I brought just a little drawing of our beloved Classic Sans. ( :D, I had fun creating this little drawing, an attempt was made TwT) inspired by part of the Ancients and Champions series, "Dressing Up", well that's it, bye.
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Litle Diomedes. I based his appearance on my designs for his older self. I added some beads in his hair at the top, because I thought it would be fitting for Diomedes to have some sort of oath. Like the beads would cover a little braid in which he has braided part of his father's hair, which he will cut off and sacrifice to the gods once he has avenged his father. I thought it would be a nice little detail.
I have another drawing I made of Odysseus as a boy (together with Ctimene and Eumaeus), but I'll post that one tomorrow.
#digital drawing#illustration#digital art#digital illustration#original art#artists on tumblr#original comic#greek mythology#diomedes#the illiad#tagamemnon#epic cycle#mycenaean#ancient greece#Young Diomedes#Athena's Champions
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#transferring recordings from my switch to my computer to make totk gifs is a pain in the ass you better appreciate this JKHGHFG#reloaded a save just to record this cutscene again with link in the ancient clothes#was gonna do the champion tunic for it but i figured this outfit was a bit more iconic for this game JKHGJHF#please appreciate my suffering#also recorded some bits of tulin cutscenes the other day so i miiiight make gifs with those too#anyway light dragon's design is pretty i lov it#loz totk#zelda totk#totk#totk link#totk spoilers#link#zelda#zelda tears of the kingdom#tears of the kingdom spoilers#tears of the kingdom#light dragon
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ANCIENT CHAMPIONS
#my art#sketch#breath of the wild#ancient link#zonai are Mayans so here u go Aztec maya champions#loosely tho don’t come for me#rito champion is like a quetzal#goron champion is like a volcano basically#will draw them more this concept is so cool to me#botw#botw champions
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i am being so brave trying so hard to hold back writing a rant about that 'minimizing narrative noise' comment on totk sage concept art bc its actively flying around in my head like the worlds most annoying fly
#ganondoodles talks#zelda#i have .... thigns to say...............#i need to wait until i get a look at the entire book#and cant go on rants on single comments#then again .... what else is in there .................#i am dreading this thing#like id rather know that there was trouble during development than having a dozen of shitty comments obviously trying to cover up-#-for something- this CANNOT be true#yes narrative noise is a thing that exists- but in THIS game????????????????????????????????????????????????????????#like you basically cut down the already boring plot into its bare essentials that isnt executed well either#and then add confusion and menaingless detailes like the sage helmets “”connecting“” the sonau to the shiekah#when rly it just makes it more confusing bc the hsiekah a prectically gone- the fuck kind of conenction is there#like THAT is what id call narrative noise- weird details that make no sense and arent important#also you cant make a character the equivilant of a blank box and then say 'we wanted them to feel powerful and scary' or sth#BC YOUD NEED TO MAKE THE CHARACTER ANYTHIGN -BUT- A BLANK BOX TO HAVE THEM BE INTIMIDATING#ALSO all the ancient stupid sages do is stand around repeating words like they are puppets- you dont see them fight ever#“intimitadtign” my ASS the useless little knife fake zelda throws at sonia from half a mile away and prob wouldnt even have gotten through-#-her hair is more intimidating than any of the blank box mc sages#youd think they learned their lesson when they made the botw champions DLC bc it fleshed their characters out more and added better-#-shrines BUT NO apparently that was a big mistake huh#maybe thats why every single character is reduced to one boring stereotype or a blank box of nothing in totk#having zelda be anything else but a swooing little damsel waiting for her prince was narrative noise needing to be removed HUH#writing team all fired or what- literally WHAT was going on in there
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You know what I'm impressed by? Corypheus picking up a modern language the very moment he returned to the living. Imagine how badly things would have gone for him if he wasn't a linguistic genius.
And yes, that is aurebesh.
We do our best not to anger powerful, ancient mages over at Patreon and society6.
#champions and heroes#dragon age inquisition#corypheus#samson#Calpernia#red templars#ancient Tevene is old you guys#real old#like older than the Old English we see in Beowulf#linguistic complication is and remain something that I just can't quite let go of#and I wish more stories played with them tbh#Mass Effect should have had side mission where everyone's translators broke is what I'm saying#it would have been fantastic
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Finished uploading my main story
Just uploaded the last chapter for Ancients and Champions.
I can't believe that after two years I actually finished the story.
Feels a bit double but I am happy I managed to complete it and fully upload it.
For those who are unaware, the story:
It is over there. Actually completed and finished!
I am both happy but also a bit sad to actually finish it. it is strange.
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#don't starve#don't starve together#dst#ds#monster#boss monster#Antlion#Bee Queen#Crab King#Klaus#Malbatross#Toadstool#Shadow Chess Pieces#Ancient Fuelweaver#Lord of the Fruit Flies#Celestial Champion#Eye of Terror#Nightmare Werepig#tumblr polls#i love polls#fandom polls#my polls#polls
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Milo of Croton
Artist: Joseph-Benoît Suvée (Flemish, 1743–1807)
Date: 1763
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Collection: Groeningemuseum, Bruges, Belgium
Milo of Croton
Milo or Milon of Croton (late 6th century BC) was a famous ancient Greek athlete from the Greek colony of Croton in Magna Graecia.
He was a six-time Olympic victor; once for boys wrestling in 540 BC at the 60th Olympics, and five-time wrestling champion at the 62nd through 66th Olympiads. Milo kept on competing, even well after what would have been considered a normal Olympic athlete's prime; by the 67th Olympiad, he would have been over 40 years of age. He also attended many of the Pythian Games.
His historicity is attested by many classical authors, among them Aristotle, Pausanias, Cicero, Herodotus, Vitruvius, Epictetus, and the author of the Suda, but there are many legendary stories surrounding him.
Diodorus Siculus wrote in his history that Milo was a follower of Pythagoras and also that he commanded the Crotonian army which defeated the Sybarites in 511 BC, while wearing his Olympic wreaths and dressed like Hercules in a lion's skin and carrying a club.
Hereupon the Sybarites took the field with an army of three hundred thousand men. The Crotonians had but an hundred thousand, which were commanded by Milo the wrestler, who at the first onset put to flight that wing of the army which was opposite to him: for he was of invincible strength, and had courage answerable to his strength, and had been six times victor at the olympic games; when he began his fight, he was crowned with olympic wreaths, wearing (like Hercules) a lion's skin and a club; at last he gained an absolute victory, and thereupon was much admired by his countrymen.
Milo's death became a popular subject in art in late Italian Renaissance sculpture, continuing to around 1900, allowing the sculptor to show his skill in a dramatic anatomical pose. It was a more compact equivalent of the Roman group of Laocoön and His Sons.
#painting#oil on canvas#ancient#greek athete#flemish painter#18th century painting#joseph benoit suvee#european art#milo of croton#magna grecia#wresting#champion#history#pythian games#beats
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I'm out of practice. I draw around 20 pictures . And only 2 are any good
@ancientschampionau
Spoilers under the cut
This sketch could go with a couple chapters
We will say chapter 12
An this one is chapter 66
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While yes, it is disappointing that we won't get to import the hundreds of personal choices we made across three previous games into Veilguard, the reality is that this was bound to happen at some point simply for the sake of telling some form of consistent story. Up to a point, there's no way to feasibly account for even all the major choices made, let alone when the next game in the series takes place in an entirely different geographical region that up till now in the story has faced very little impact from actions taken in the previous games.
Would I love a thousand little kinda insignificant in the grand scheme of things flavor text referencing my Warden or my Champion from years and years ago or the outcome of the Winter Palace? Sure, but practically speaking I understand the choice made bc the sad reality of RPGs that allow for big player choices is that eventually some, if not most of those choices, will have to be disregarded or at the very least curtailed for the sake of a coherent narrative. And it's kinda something I realized a long time ago was bound to happen with Dragon Age not out of lack of care for player decisions but simply because trying to accommodate for three games' worth of several major decisions is not exactly sustainable in the long run.
I certainly understand long-standing DA fans being disappointed. So long as it doesn't pull a Baldur's Gate 3 "Abdel Adrian is the Bhaalspawn" and allows me to headcanon away the lives of my previous heroes, I'll be content and realistic with what I get. Especially if it means a tighter story and greater reactivity for my Rook's personal story.
#datv#dragon age the veilguard#dragon age discourse#my disappointment exists but it is minimal and so long as my warden and champion aren't “rewritten” so to speak then i'm good#the nice thing about veilguard taking place in another region altogether is that it's pretty separate from the geopolitics of the prev game#this decision does not shock me as in the long run it probably was going to be inevitable#at some point the decisions made in the previous games will essentially be ancient history#or at least distant enough that the finer points don't matter so much in later installments
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framing the disappearance of sheikah tech in totk as a tragedy that no one is willing to acknowledge because it just made it simpler to discard, and purah robbie and the other researchers' endeavors as a desperate bid to not be discarded as well makes me go a little insane every time I think about it
#i love their relationship with the hylians its so inherently abusive to me#STOP simping for them!!!! they will discard you the moment you arent useful to them!!! GRAAAAGH#I really need to get creating a champion but if rhoam really was the one who brought the sheikah out of exile#you know. to excavate all that ancient tech for them#im going to go feral im going to DIE#just proves me even more right . they have such a right to be scared.#and the little. blurb. in purahs bio. serving the royal family her whole life like yeah I knew that already but GRGGRGRGRHRGhgRHGHRGHRGHRGR#WHY DID YOU PUT THAT DETAIL THERE GAME#DO YOU LIKE TORTURING ME#glider rambles#keep trying my lovely friends they will never love you as much as that BITCH link. //throws link across the floor like a beanie baby#(I mean this jokingly i love link. you know this.)#totk
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Backgrounds With Class: Simic Scientist
I'll be honest: Ravnica has always fascinated me. I was a high schooler when the first set came out, and I was immediately consumed creating characters for the setting. Now that we've actually received my long-awaited crossover, I thought it would be nice to write a love letter to the setting in the form of another Backgrounds with Class series. After all: some guilds have natural class choices tied in, from a conceptual standpoint. Boros and Fighter, Izzet and Wizard, Selesnya and Druid. But guilds aren’t class-restricted, and so I wonder what it would look like if you paired every class with every guild background, even the ones that seem at odds, like Izzet and Barbarian, or Gruul and Artificer. So I thought about it, and this is what I came up with. Some character concepts for each class, and each Guildmaster's Guide to Ravnica background for each class.
The Simic Scientist Artificer was always a practical sort. Enamored with the surgeon’s art from his youth and with a fast friend of decades working in the Izzet League, he’s found ways to adopt the other science guild’s technology for medical use on a number of occasions, particularly their chemistry. The reverse is also true- unbeknownst to those around him, he’s been trading insider secrets for his colleague’s aid. He doesn’t view this as a betrayal- to his mind, it’s a crime that there isn’t already an exchange of innovation in the regular course of things. Surely their fields would advance much more quickly with the aid of other points of view.
The Simic Scientist Barbarian is an experimental direction for the Guardian Project, a soldier with adaptive talents flexible enough to change specialization on the fly or between engagements. Trained with weapons and spliced with at least a little sluiceway scorpion, she believes wholeheartedly in the assurances of her experimental overseer that she will one day no longer need armaments of steel, as her hybrid traits and experimental mutagenic adrenal glands grow into full maturity.
The Simic Scientist Bard has a job as an educator, putting her keen understanding of biology and biomancy to work in the classroom imparting wisdom to her students. Adept at teaching by multiple avenues to suit different learning styles, she is always conscientious to mix the practical and hands-on with deep concepts, and takes the careers of her students very seriously after graduation. In her off hours, she works as a consultant for other matters, both in the lab and on the street, and has started to make a name for herself as one of the public faces of the Combine.
The Simic Scientist Cleric kneels at no altar that the people of Ravnica would know, but many of her peers would understand, if not condone. The Simic Combine is not a religious organization, but surely they can see that knowledge itself is a thing divine no less than the Worldsong of the Conclave or the Orzhov’s Church of Deals. While her colleagues view this eccentricity with bemusement and even occasional suspicion, she is more than welcome in the lab, as her work has an uncanny prescient feel to it, often making breakthroughs just when it would be useful.
The Simic Scientist Druid is an oddity even among Simic Biomancers. Originally a Guardian Project volunteer, this druid is technically a krasis rather than a hybrid, as the ratio of hermit crab to vedalken is too high to qualify her as a simic hybrid. Still loyal to the combine that reforged her into a clumsy new shell-bearing body, the druid serves the Hull Clade, her defensively-oriented mind an asset to guardian squads in the field and biomancers working with shell, carapace, and scale in the lab.
The Simic Scientist Fighter is a typical product of the Guardian Project: a disciplined, careful, and tactically gifted elf with latent mollusc traits. Trained for both long-range and short-range combat, he is being groomed for a position as a squadron leader to field both terrestrial and aquatic threats- a true amphibious soldier. This flexibility is reflected in his mindset- despite his participation in the Guardian Project and aggressive skillset, he is a Holdfast advocate, claiming it’s far more important for the Combine to ground themselves than to expand aggressively; overreach is a mistake.
The Simic Scientist Monk is an experimental departure from tradition. Raised deep underwater as a potential Deepsage, their tradition of unarmed combat has met with modern biomancy and medical knowledge to produce a warrior with a literal healer’s touch. Mastering the flow of vital energies and fluids through their own body and those of others, they are as skilled a healer as a bodyguard, equally adept at setting bones and force-healing contusions as bringing death with a touch.
The Simic Scientist Paladin follows an uncommon tradition among elves, a holdover from his time among the Selesnya growing up. While he’s firmly an Upwelling adherent, confident that change is the way forward for the Combine, his own magical tradition is among the oldest on Ravnica, as he swore an oath to life itself to be a light in the world. Many of his colleagues shake their heads at the juxtaposition, but he’s not dissuaded by their confusion- after all, Upwelling is a resurgence of old matters and ways, not an act of genesis.
The Simic Scientist Ranger is a field researcher, a lab assistant who, after his amphibian hybridization, seeks to assess the results of his guild’s work in the field. From chill ocean below to lofty aeries above, he ranges to see that the Combine’s work finds its niche, and observe how the web of life on Ravnica changes to fit. He’s also one of the hunters the Combine turns to when they have need of samples from exotic wildlife, or when a krasis proves disastrous for its environment and must be euthanized.
The Simic Scientist Rogue was part of the Combine’s covert troubleshooting force before the inception of the Guardian Project, and remains so to this day. Usually dispatched as an investigator or recovery specialist, as the guild has ramped up its preparations for wartime she has found herself more and more involved in guerrilla action against threats preemptively. Always a proponent of striking harder sooner, she is keen to do whatever she can to keep the Simic at its best.
The Simic Scientist Sorcerer, as a prospective member of Gyre Clade, often finds herself involved in the less physical of the guild’s pursuits. Be it assessing the mana currents of the hidden oceans or seeking strange weather phenomena to observe the dispersal of energy, her apprenticeship has been anything but dull. It’s helped to give focus to her talents, though, which run toward the stormy, and often leave her struggling to pay attention to things if she’s not confronted with novelty now and again.
The Simic Scientist Warlock came up from the zonots with the second generation of merfolk to grace the surface. Having long ago made peace and pact with a great beast of the deep, she quickly found her talents for team support in high demand among Guardian Project strike teams and Crypsis Clade scouting missions. She’s very protective of the fine abalone necklace she wears loose around her neck; it’s both a mark of her pact and the only thing she brought with her to remember her parents by.
The Simic Scientist Wizard is, by all accounts, brilliant- surgeon extraordinaire and transmuter-scientist of the Fin clade, it seems there is little he cannot do if he sets his mind and hands to it. Of the two, the surgeon’s path is far more important to him, as he would rather save lives with tools and expertise than work at biomancy- so much so that he’s rejected or missed opportunities for more profitable apprenticeships in favor of earning his surgical license and trying for a private practice. Unfortunately, the money’s run out, and he’s recently had to turn his mind from clean, sterile lab work to the rough conditions and uncertain developments of field work.
#D&D#Dungeons and Dragons#Dungeons & Dragons#Character Ideas#Character Designs#Character Concepts#Ravnica#Alchemist#Beast#Lore#Knowledge#Land#Champion#Mercy#Ancients#Hunter#Thief#Storm#Fathomless#Pact of the Talisman#Transmuter
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He hears them sometimes.
A cacophony of hollow, rattling wails bombard his ears and practically smother his brain with the sheer volume alone.
He can never make out what they're saying. They're always calling out to him, but they always drown each other out.
They are always angry. He knows why.
Sometimes he sees them too.
Hundreds of faces that at one horrific and recent point in his life he would have considered reflections. Anguished souls devoid of skin and flesh surround him, and Joe's only comfort is the knowledge that he did not end up like them.
#fossil fighters#fossil fighters champions#joe wildwest#ff joe wildwest#cw eyes#cw eye contact#cw horror#I already mentioned this on my blog before but I can't stop thinking about the previous majestic vessels#the ones of ancient Caliosteo#they never got their bodies back but they should still be here in modern day right? Like they probably don't age when they're skulls#but not one ancient caliostean MV is present in modern Caliosteo#the implication being that they all were killed (probably by a paranoid zz)#I imagine they would haunt or watch over Joe and Rupert the moment they too become skulls#they are very angry at Joe for releasing zz#some of them might even be jealous that he and Rupert got their bodies back while they didn't#Rupert is probably not faring that much better than Joe#zesty's ramblings#my doodles
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i talked about why i find the argument people love to use as an excuse as to why shiekah tech is all gone in totk that "they destroyed it bc they were afraid of it" dumb before many times so i wont go over my past points in detail again
- i was just reminded of that and thought of new points to rant about going from that, no evil intentions in mind just when sth is mentioned again after some time i think about it again and can come up with more stuff-
(past points being- how?? shiekah tech seemed pretty indestructable, especialyl the big structures; it seemed like it was a literal holy thing for alot of people in the game; that it would be pretty damn stupid to spend so much energy and probably endanger people to dismanlte it since that time and energy would be better used rebuilding important infrastrucutre instead; if it stopped working why wouldnt you just kinda .. leave it there; why in hells name would you get rid of the shrine of life .. and i guess monk miz kyoshia with it???; shouldnt they be MORE afraid of sonau tech then??)
new thoughts
wouldnt it be logical to research and develope shiekah tech MORE so you can make sure it cant get corrupted again, like a security measure idk anti virus if you will lol
on the specific idea of zelda using it ... shouldnt she be the BEST person to use it bc she could, if it somehow got corrupted again, cleanse it/instantly deactivate it more easily than anyone else??
on the point of people not beign afraid of sonau tech ... that is still like the biggest problem for me with that argument bc .. i get beign afraid of shiekah stuff going haywire again, but then if suddendly alien tech from a literally fully unknown group of people started to appear out of nowhere at the sAME TIME AS MALICE COMES BACK BUT WORSE in the form of miasma shoudlnt that ring your alarm bells and make you flee for your life?? i wouldnt trust that shit after knowing what happened to the tech that we DID know shit about
i know theres like researchers for it but also they really all meddle and play with it immediately like its for them just as much a toy as it is for us the players (also a point that made me feel weird about it ngl), they build businesses around it, made minigames out of it with civilians, use it for transportation with no thought or concern about it, its really weird when this is supposedly takign palce after BOTW where FAMOUSLY ancient barely reasaearched tech got corrupted by evil goo and nearly destroyed the entire land of hyrule (man are they LUCKY gan suddendly has zero interest in ANY tech)
(and i know theres the possibilty that sonau tech is somehow not able to be corrupted but it just seems so dumb anyway bc the people cant KNOW that for sure right of the bat??? and it DOES get possessed with the broken construct too, like .. wouldnt the possibility alone .. esepcialyl with waht had happened in botw make you NOT want to use that alien tech like a toy?? especially with WORSE malice being around suddendly too?? that just smells like a recipy for disaster)
(... man totk realyl is just botw but worse ... the more i think about it the more it feels like that)
#ganondoodles talks#zelda#totk#ganondoodles rants#shiekah tech BUT MORE ANCIENT AND COOLER#ancient gone people BUT COOLER AND MORE ANCIENT#malice BUT COOLER AND MORE DANGEROUS#the champions BUT COOLER AND MORE MAGICAL MCGUFFINY#zelda rescue BUT WORSE BC SHES A FARMABLE GLORIFIED STONE PEDESTAL NOW#shrines again BUT SONAU THIS TIME WEE#tragic loss of family and friends but of COOLER FAMILY AND FRIENDS#zelda character dev- .. oh wait nvm that got undone entirely#.. also how zelda gets the role of the stone pedestal while rauru gets the role of keeping gan in check#talk about downgrade
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