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Dragonar Fort.

TEHRAN – A recently finished archaeological excavation,on the ruins of a massive fort is southern Iran,reveals the monument was initially used in Sassanid era and later during the early Islamic epoch up to the late Qajar era.
Covering some 20 ha in area, Qale Ezhdeha-Peykar, whose name literary translates into ‘dragon-bodied’ fort, is situated on a mound in Lar county of Fars province, southern Iran, Mehr reported on Tuesday.
The [archaeological] site consists of three ridges on the north, middle, and south, and was surrounded by a defensive wall in which watchtowers were built at regular intervals, the remains of which can be seen today.
The excavation indicates the history of settlement in this area stretches to the Sassanid era (224–651) and then it continued to be inhabited from early Islamic centuries until the end of the Qajar period (1789-1925).
Conducted under the supervision of the Research institute of Cultural Heritage and Tourism, the dig makes the first archaeological season on the fortress, the report said.
The Sassanid era (224 CE–651) is of very high importance in the history of Iran. Under Sassanids, Persian art and architecture experienced a general renaissance. Architecture often took grandiose proportions, such as palaces at Ctesiphon, Firuzabad, and Sarvestan, which are amongst the highlights of the ensemble.
Crafts such as metalwork and gem engraving grew highly sophisticated, yet scholarship was encouraged by the state. In those years, works from both the East and West were translated into Pahlavi, the language of the Sassanians.
The Sassanid archaeological landscape also represents a highly efficient system of land use and strategic utilization of natural topography in the creation of the earliest cultural centers of the Sassanid civilization.
The Muslim conquest of Persia, also known as the Arab conquest of Iran, led to the fall of the Sasanian Empire of Iran (Persia) in ca. 651 and the eventual decline of the Zoroastrian religion. The rise of Muslims coincided with an unprecedented political, social, economic, and military weakness in Persia.
In 2018, UNESCO added an ensemble of Sassanian historical cities in southern Iran — titled “Sassanid Archaeological Landscape of Fars Region”-- to its World Heritage list. The ensemble comprises eight archaeological sites situated in three geographical parts of Firuzabad, Bishapur, and Sarvestan. It reflects the optimized utilization of natural topography and bears witness to the influence of Achaemenid and Parthian cultural traditions and Roman art that later made a significant impact on the architecture and artistic styles of the Islamic era.
Source:https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/490340/Dragon-bodied-fort-in-southern-Iran-dates-from-Sassanid-era
#iran persia#Archaelogy#Excavation#Ancient Persia#Shiraz Iran#Iran Tehran#Dragon-bodied#tourism#ایران#イラン#龍の体を持つ#考古学的発掘#ユネスコ#古代ペルシャ#考古学
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bioware: giggling and kicking their feet like school girls while giving us the most inconsequential bulge slider and nudity toggle.
larian: you will have sex. pick a penis. there are 5. you will see it at least once. probably more. this is a threat.
#dragon age veilguard#dragon age#datv#bg3#baldurs gate 3#baldur's gate 3#dragon age: the veilguard#da4#dont give me a nudity toggle and then LEAVE MY UNDERWEAR ON#TAKE THAT SHIT OFF!!! PLEASE#didnt want to code dick physics#also give me body hair slider pls and thank you my rook is a grown man i need him HAIRY
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another lucanis!
#maaagpie art#illustration#fanart#dragon age#dragon age the veilguard#dragon age: the veilguard#lucanis dellamorte#lucanis#dragon age lucanis#this was a study but. i couldn't resist turning it into lucanis#petition to give that man body hair
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Consider: Post-canon Zuko wakes up in the body of his childhood self, the morning of That War Meeting. Would he still speak against the plans, knowing his fate? What do you think he would do differently the second time around?
"Turned away at the doors, Zuzu?"
"Shut up, Azula," her brother sulked. But sulked weirdly, after staring at her too long and too wide-eyed, not like she'd surprised him but--
But like he hadn't expected her to be there. At all.
He turned away. ...He turned back. "Hey, Lala? Do you think you could help me practice that one set?"
He didn't meet her eyes.
She narrowed hers. "Which set?"
"The one I'm bad at."
She scoffed. Pushed away from the wall she'd been leaning against. "That's all of them, Dum-Dum."
He didn't shout or stomp or yell about the nickname. His lips twitched.
"It's okay," he said. "If you're afraid you won't be a better teacher that my instructor..."
It was the most obvious manipulation ever.
Perhaps if he proved an adequate firebending student, she'd work on his courtly survival skills next. Honestly, it was good that not even Uncle Gets-Cousins-Killed had been fool enough to take Zuko into that war meeting. She could only imagine how terribly that could have gone.
"Keep up," she said, and turned her steps towards the training grounds.
He did. There, and during the katas she ran him through.
Azula kept her eyes narrowed.
"Hey," he asked, "do you know how to bend lightning yet?"
As if he could have missed it, if she'd been able to get more than sparks. "I will soon," she said.
"You will," he agreed, and flowed through his next set. The one she'd only just mastered.
Father didn't notice how weird Zuzu was being. Uncle never noticed anything. Zuko ate dinner and asked a servant for seconds and didn't stutter or flinch or lose his appetite when father asked, coolly, what he'd done with his day. Azula's shoulders tensed, because one mention of how she'd squandered her own training time teaching him--
"Azula hogged the training grounds. For hours," Zuzu scowled, exactly like a petulant thirteen year old.
Exactly like he hadn't been acting all day.
By the time Father was looking her way, Azula had her usual smirk in place. "I'm sure there would be room for both of us," she said, "you're not afraid of a little friendly fire, are you, brother?"
Zuko sulked. And ate his seconds, like he was enjoying each bite. There was something in his eyes, like a joke no one else was getting.
---
Father died that night. A heart attack. There were the faintest of burns to either side of the treacherous organ; the royal physician hypothesized that he'd grabbed at his chest, fingers burning hot in his final moments; so hot they'd only exacerbated the problem.
The royal physician would never have been brought any victims of lighting strikes. Those that occurred in the capital did not generally require a doctor in the aftermath.
Zuzu ate a hearty breakfast.
He didn't order seconds. Azula gave him points, at least, for not being tacky.
---
The sages named Iroh as regent.
They named Zuko as Fire Lord.
"No," the tiny Fire Lord in his perfectly miniaturized Fire Lord robes said, sitting at the head of his war council. "We're not doing that. And I'll be reviewing all recent battle plans, as well. What's this I hear about a division of new recruits being deployed to the front?"
He did not mention how he'd heard of the 41st Division. No one asked.
"Prince Iroh, surely--" one of the generals tried to appeal.
The young Fire Lord's regent was looking as startled as the rest of them, for a moment. Then he sipped his tea, and smiled.
"Your Fire Lord is correct, of course. A change in our leadership--a change the other nations may mistakenly view as weakness--will necessitate a change in our strategy."
"Now," said their lord, "what, exactly, is our overall objective in this war?"
War, the new Fire Lord decreed, was not an end unto itself.
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The new Fire Lord continued to have time, to pretend to be trained by her. Azula watched him. Adjusted her footwork. Did not tolerate, and was not offered, any commentary on who was teaching who.
"What did you do with my brother?" she asked, as they flowed from one set to the next. As her hands, poised to throw fire, just so happened to be pointed his way.
He missed a step. It didn't look like an act.
"I'm, uh. Right here?"
She didn't bother to dignify that.
He didn't bother to look worried about her hands, one movement off from a true attack.
He looked around, then grabbed her sleeve, and tugged her further from any walls that may hide ears. The royal family's private training grounds were wonderfully large, and wonderfully open.
"It's me," he said. "It's still me. Just. More of me? Longer of me?"
She narrowed her eyes. A familiar expression, by this point. "Explain."
"...I found the Avatar," he said. "And this is definitely his fault, but--but I guess it started at a war meeting, when I was thirteen."
Azula listened. It was a very Dum-Dum story.
#Zuko blue spiriting off to kill a man: mom would be so proud <3#Regent Iroh is left to wonder when his nephew learned to brew a decent cup of calming tea#and also managed to develop an impressively fleshed out plan to transition the Fire Nation economy from war to industry#Hakoda looking down at an invitation to meet for formal peace negotiations: why does it say to bring my children#Kya: he's only thirteen. maybe he doesn't know which way he swings yet?#in another timeline Kya would have been killed by the same crew that was instead tasked to carry this message#sssh let's pretend the timing works#Azula: no but really give me one good reason not to tattle on your time-traveling possibly-just-a-body-stealing-spirit self to Uncle#Zuko: you could tattle on me#or#I could tattle on him#Hey Azula. Did you know Uncle left a breeding pair of dragons alive?#egg field trip egg field trip egg field trip#avatar the last airbender#atla#Zuko#Azula#fire lord Zuko#ficlet
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look at my creature
#my favourite..... werewolf.......#jonathan dungeons and dragons#would have put it on the sideblog with my other references but the body/fur texture turned out really nice so here he is#creature design
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You couldn't handle this. Mm, you'd be surprised.
Agatha All Along (2024) The 100 (2014 - 2020) House Of The Dragon (2022 - ) Killing Eve (2018 - 2022) Jennifer's Body (2009) Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997 - 2003) Black Sails (2014 - 2017) Lucifer (2016 - 2021) Once Upon a Time (2011 - 2018)
#Agatha All Along#the 100#house of the dragon#jennifer's body#killing eve#lucifer#black sails#once upon a time#buffy the vampire slayer#byaurore#userzil#usersugar#nessa007#userallisyn#tvedit#userveronika#useriselin#userkam#userrlaura#userzo#userzaynab#userelio#usereena#gay#tuserpris#tuserhan#lesbian#userbecca#useradie#userdiana
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that damn chicken
#myart#dungeon meshi#dunmeshi spoilers#falin touden#everytime i draw chimera fal i think about the kid i knew in like 3rd grade who was obsessed with drawing dragons and how if maybe if i too#some notes i wouldnt struggle so bad with drawing the body so connor colin whatever ur name was shoutout to u dude#dungeon meshi spoilers
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toxic yuri + 🔪🔪🔪
#is it really a toxic yuri couple if they don't try to stab each other (homoerotically) at least once#villaneve#killing eve#fuffy#buffy the vampire slayer#jennifer x needy#jennifer's body#lottienat#yellowjackets#rhaenicent#house of the dragon#agatha x rio#agatha all along
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Ghilan'nain, Mother of the halla
#ghilan'nain#dragon age#evanuris#dragon age: the veilguard#da:tv#the horror of hormak#so many limbs to paint#can't wait to meet her in da4#artists on tumblr#cw body horror
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Advisors
#reg art#I'm really enjoying giving them funky shapes ahhh#wish I could do that to full extent like getting them cartoonishly wonky#we're getting there! it's a long way from same body type syndrome 👌#dragon age inquisition#josephine montilyet#cullen rutherford#leliana
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sometimes a family is rook his boyfriend and his boyfriend's son he steals every night
#laz thinks hes the favorite dad after this (hes wrong)#my art#my oc#lazăr#rook de riva#dragon age#dragon age veilguard#veilguard spoilers / i guess???#davrin#lazdav#double posting in one day bc they have possessed me body and soul#assan#I FORGOT TO TAG THE BABY#davrook#how did i also forget the ship tag??????
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I (might have) found the in game subtitles font and I'm going insane using them.
This tweet is also always on my mind too lmao.
#dragon age#dragon age the veilguard#veilguard spoilers#i guess????#solas#dragon age solas#mythal#dragon age mythal#dragon age shitposting#ten bucks says it was Elgar'nan who greeted him once he got a body and went “yo you gotta try this out!” and kicked him right in the nuts
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...Turns out gay sex actually was the solution.
(This is basically a redraw, come read the real deal over at Tiger Tiger)
#tiger tiger#jamis arlesi#arno#I like to think Arno meant that as an inside thought but it came out as an outside thought. He's rolling with it though.#He did cause a Catastrophic Yaoi event though.#Jamis my beloved. You have the heart of a maiden. The body of an Ox. The brain of a loyal dog.#This is a guy who's okay being attracted to another man but *NOT* aware he's in love or that he's bisexual.#We love him for this. My god. This man is crafted so perfectly. I need you all to at least give Tigers a chance for *him*.#I'm tricking you a little bit because you will actually also fall for Ludo and Luck and Remy and Honeyfoot and-#okay you get the point. There are so many amazing characters in this comic.#I just.. my joke comic of 'gay sex is the solution' feels so ominous now knowing a few weeks later that was going to be canon.#I feel like a jester and a prophet. I don't know if I should tell anymore jokes in fear of what I may predict.#I am putting my hands together for Ludo to get a good smooch in with [redacted] in dragon form.#Also predicting something very spooky is going to go down with the diving bell. We shall see!
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Rook being a very physically touchy person and Lucanis avoiding touch at all costs from built up trauma from childhood, his work as a Crow, and the Ossuary. Them always asking for Lucanis' permission to touch him, and before Tearstone Island, they hug him and he still flinches but he holds them tight
As Rook is taken into the Regret prison and they see a vision of Lucanis' body on the ground, they scream his name out of concern and fear but all Lucanis hears is them screaming for him to help, and then they're gone. They're gone. He thinks they were screaming his name, begging him to save them and now they're gone.
Weeks into Rook being taken into the Regret prison and now a man who couldn't be touched without reflexively drawing a blade is craving the warmth of his partner who he thinks he'll never see again
Lucanis pulling Rook out of the prison, knowing it's them right away because of their hands. He missed their hands, he missed their touch, he missed their warmth, he missed them.
When Rook gets back, Lucanis' touch is slow and soft, almost unbelieving. Weeks of stress and torture and pain and guilt and regret, and now they're here. Once they're finally together, he feels as though the world is in their arms and if killing a god is the only way to stay there, he will do what a Crow does best and fulfill this contract
#dragon age#the veilguard spoilers#veilguard spoilers#dragon age veilguard#dragon age the veilguard#dragon age lucanis#lucanis dellamorte#lucanis x rook#lucanis romance#rookanis#and he gets them screaming his name in a *different* way you know what I- (is shot)#just thinking about how my Rook cant go to sleep with touching her partner in some form#doesnt matter if its a toe a shoulder an elbow#as long as she has some sort of contact with her partner's body she can sleep well#not sure how i feel about that last line :/#I'll find something better later#probably#maybe
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Constantly picturing Emmy having to jump into the water to retrieve Rook after he falls in for the umpteenth time. 💀
Esp since I drag him everywhere.
#dragon age#dragon age the veilguard#DAtV#Emmrich volkarin#da rook#xren ingellvar#EmmRook#my art#lmao I had this in my drafts for a while#decided to just post it shdidhd#love how none of our protags can swim#companions all collectively sighing#Emmy having to watch rook fall into a hole or water body every quest#since I drag him everywhere#and I have a bad habit of not watching where I step when I’m exploring#woops
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