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Unlocking the Magic: A Beginner's Guide to Sword and Sorcery Fantasy
Grab your enchanted swords and dust off your spellbooks, as today we’re delving into the rip-roaring world of Sword and Sorcery fantasy. So, buckle up, or rather, belt up—we wouldn’t want your scabbards to slip, would we? What is Sword and Sorcery? Picture this: a rugged hero with biceps like boulders, wielding a sword so big that it’s probably compensating for something. He’s joined by a…
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#action#adventure#Andrzej Sapkowski#beginner&039;s guide#Charles R. Saunders#Conan the Barbarian#Dave Duncan#David Eddings#Elric of Melniboné#Enchanted Swords#fantasy literature#fantasy subgenres#fantasy tropes#fantasy worlds#heroes#High Adventure#Imaro#Jack Vance#Joe Abercrombie#magic#Michael Moorcock#Poul Anderson#quest#Robert E. Howard#Spellbooks#sword and sorcery#Terry Brooks#The Belgariad#The Broken Sword#The Eyes of the Overworld
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This trope would be so funny for them
#enchanted kind of#or that one that’s the Christmas one is it called Christmas Knight?#maybe I’ll have to rewatch that one just for the content#it was super cheesy and Netflix-y but like maybe that’s what I need right now#also Arthur would absolutely stab a bus with his sword#my art#bbc merlin#merlin#merlin emrys#arthur pendragon#merthur
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@hereticcryptid i'm late responding to this prompt, but have a continuation on baxia and hensheng wanting more cuddles than one would normally expect from a spiritual sword!
#we're really channeling some e-ming energy here - let the flexible snake sword cuddle!#mdzs#nieyao#jin guangyao#jgy#nie mingjue#nmj#meng yao#baxia#hensheng#grandmaster of demonic cultivation#he's touch-starved your honour and the swords are going to expose it#my art#look either someone else needs to rec me a fic that uses this prompt or i'm gonna need to write my own#because i'm honestly enchanted by this concept#someone must have done some e-ming style sword silliness in this fandom right? link me goofy nieyao nonsense please and thank yooooou
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I've been thinking about the templars lately. they were promised honor, virtue, told that they would be charged with protection of the innocent... And then those same people are systemically exploited and abused, abuse others because they're taught to regard everyone else as either sheep who need to be lead or potential threats. Never equals, except in their brothers/sisters-in-arms. They act as the guard-dogs and military arm of an entirely different organization that they're only a functionary member of but have no governing say in. Even the chantry aren't their equals- they function as the templar order's supervisors! And all this isolation and closing of ranks ends in disability, addiction, death, and abandonment by the system they spent their bodies in service of.
To top that off, retaliations against them just confirm the paranoia they were taught to embrace. It's probably a long hard road to get out of that hole.
Like, listen. the dichotomy of mage vs templars is a satisfying and easy one, but the system is tearing them apart too. have you ever heard of a retired templar?
at the end of it, mages and templars need to unite against the real threat. the chantry.
#this is an anti chantry post i want that temple exploded NOW#the chantry controls the lyrium; benefits directly from the formari enchanter system; has a financial incentive to make and use tranquil#the templars are breaking themselves in service of a system that functionally does Not care about them in any way except#their ability to hold a sword and counteract fade magic and that messes me up#thedosians need a fucking cross-field labor union NOW#of course the kalna would probably send the carta after any potential organizations of that nature#and the coterie#cant kill em all though!!!#actually that would be a hilarious fic#dragon age#canon dont interact i dont pay attention to discrete facts here we operate on half remembered game knowledge and vibes#if there are any retired templars out there: uhh... enjoy that. happy for you king (alistair)#cullen rutherford fundamentally represents 'no retirement plans' for me#the man is fifteen chronic illnesses ptsd shit withdrawal and interpersonal abandonment in a trenchcoat with fur trim#text it#long tags
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I can't believe we're already halfway through Swordtember!
Day 15- Sword of the Enchanter
Sword- The Faceted Fighter
The handle of this blade is designed to slot in and out different gemstones. These gemstones are enchanted, imbibing the sword with their different elemental and magic abilities. They can be deftly switched mid-battle for an element of surprise.
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#fantasy#dream#amazing#enchanted#fairytale#knight#sword#fantansy art#heroic fantasy#halloween#beautiful
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#disney#books#snow white and the seven dwarfs#pinocchio#cinderella#sleeping beauty#the sword in the stone#the jungle book#robin hood#the many adventures of winnie the pooh#thumbelina#treasure planet#chicken little#enchanted#the princess and the frog
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The problem with a lot of traffic life interpretations in my opinion is they don't understand character foils or don't employ them in their writing. Grian-Martyn and Scar-Ren are genuinely pretty good character foils for a series that is not really scripted or planned out like a book is. I could go on and on about how they parallel each other and the similarities between them. Even the smaller details between the four usually match up
leaving the rant in the tags so I don't have a huge block of text again ueueue
#jamies bad posts#like a simple example grian is an “unwilling” (though we all know thats bs) bodyguard/protector of scar#while martyn is a willing protector of ren#but i was just watching rendogs first episode and he says that his plan is to first go around attempting to trade with everyone#and it just. it STRIKES me how similar scar and ren are#they both have tempers when called for they both go around playing a friend to all and trying to trade#fuck it in the first few minutes of rens episode hes chasing rabbits around the desert#like ren and scar are two sides of the same coin in the context of third life#thats what makes the dogwarts/monopoly mountain arc so INTERESTING#because they both have goals good and bad and when you watch the others povs each side looks so... intimidating. so different#its only when you get really up close you realize theyre the same type of person#like martyn and grian idk just watching them interact is fun. its really fun#the way martyn gave grian a diamond sword in third life to protect him versus grian doing that w etho secret life#i can mostly think of just the little details but like. come ON#GO WATCH THEIR VIDEOS. ITS SO UNCANNY.#ren and scar genuinely drive me insaneee it drives me insaneee#ok like rendog makes a business out of enchanting and do you know what scar goes insane every season afterwards trying to get#the FUCKING enchanting table#if u like watcher lore u also get the yummy fact that grian and martyn were BOTH on evo#like....#the watcher/listener parallels. idk#third life#3rd life#trafficblr#traffic smp#life series#grian#gtws#goodtimeswithscar#gtwscar
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What it is about kind male video game companions that male gamers absolutely HATE?
I've seen it happen with Dragon Age's Alistair, Mass Effect's Kaidan, and even lowkey KOTOR's Carth Onasi (emphasis on kind, not necessarily nice, cause dude had a bit of an attitude in the beginnning). Now I'm seeing it with Gale of Waterdeep from Baldur's Gate 3.
Men hate him! Admittedly, many women seem to also hate Gale (Though from what I'm observing, it seems to be because his romance is bugged in a way that doesn't recognize when you've rejected him, so to many it comes off as not taking no for an answer -- but that's the fault of the game, not the character). The other reason I'm seeing from women is that he supposedly doesn't respect boundaries, citing his relationship with Mystra, but... were yall listening to him at all?
1. This goddess took interest in him as a *child* prodigy, became his mentor, and then his lover??? That's sus as hell.
2. It's not like he and Mystra had personal boundaries set specifically for their relationship, and he decided to cross them, it was that Mystra has general magical limitations for magic users in general, and Gale thought he would be an exception because she treated him as special, and because his reasons for pushing his magical limitations were to restore a part of her she'd lost. I've also seen people say he downplays that as a simple mistake made in his youth, but from the actual conversation with him, it's very clear he regrets that so?? I don't get it. (maybe I'm misremembering or missing more of the story, I'm only at the beginning of Act 2)
But this post is a reaction-rant to seeing too many male creators on tiktok hate on Gale so badly it's becoming obnoxious. And their reasons are so weak, yet fuel hatred so strong. They just find him so annoying, and I guess to each their own, but I don't get why, and I don't get why men always seem to find those kinds of emotionally available, kind for the sake of being kind, male characters annoying.
#baldur's gate 3#gale of waterdeep#alistair theirin#dragon age#kaidan alenko#mass effect#carth onasi#kotor#men also hated on anders because of accidental gay romance which is telling but I don't think that's the reason for disliking gale#the dude on tiktok was listing gale's 'crimes' as reasons for his beef with him#and apparently gale needing 3 subpar enchanted items from him was just too much#and survival wasn't a good enough reason to take them#....did you miss the part about the nuke in his chest bro. if he doesn't survive neither does the storm coast buddy#my post#maybe i shouldn't had made this post. I haven't even triggered his romance yet and I don't want spoilers#bg3 spoilers#FUCK i just realized i said storm coast instead of sword coast. dragon age brainrot never goes away
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La Belle Dame Sans Merci, by Maena Pailette
#knight#chivalry#plate armour#longsword#cavalier#knights#armour#sword#lady#fae#faerie#lake#stars#night#water#magic#witch#enchantment
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Fire Summoner by Matt Cowdery
#fantasy art#fantasy#concept art#digital art#art#dragon#gray dragon#black dragon#volcanic#lava#warrior#armor#black armor#pyromancer#magic weapon#enchanted weapon#magic sword#enchanted sword#matt cowdery#woman warrior
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Hervör retrieves the sword from Angantýr by Christian Gottlieb Kratzenstein Stub
Hervör awakens her father Angantýr's ghost from his barrow on Samsø to demand the cursed magic sword Tyrfing
#hervor#angantyr#art#barrow#burial mound#christian gottlieb kratzenstein stub#hervarar saga#waking of angantyr#poetic edda#norse mythology#samsø#tyrfing#tyrfingr#magic sword#sword#shieldmaidens#shield maiden#heirloom#cursed#germanic heroic legend#sagas#scandinavia#europe#european#northern europe#haunted#enchanted#shieldmaiden#history#medieval
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Remembering how Squeem mentored Gorgug as an Artificer over the summer really makes the premiere of Junior year hit that much harder
#who could better teach gorgug than a being made of crystal#the things he could enchant#he turned a phone into a sword#squeem#dimension 20#d20#fhjy#fhsy#d20 fhfy#fantasy high#fantasy high junior year spoilers#fantasy high summer break
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Ashrahi, of Flame
Mark Jarrell
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Ponderous Edge
I like the idea of the Storming Edge, with its slightly shorter reach but faster, more agile strikes. But wouldn’t it also be cool to have a massive greatsword form with extended reach and powerful wide-area attacks?
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