#Gilded Helianthia

[sparkchase]

GRAHJH I FINISHED MY ESMP1 PEARL ART

[hermitshell]

I feel like the art in Gilded Helianthia probably would have been based mostly in realism and the mundane; the way a plant crawls up the side of the barn, the laughter of a person harvesting from the fields, people dancing among fireflies but stepping on eachother's feet etc etc. But after it's destroyed it's depictions in history by other kingdoms become more and more abstract overtime since all traces of it burned. It becomes more a feeling then a reality

[sugarcane-of-helianthia]

The Soap Festival & Soap's Symbolism in Gilded Helianthia | Headcanons

(I wrote a short one-shot based around this! You can read it on https://archiveofourown.org/works/52711750)

Hello! First, I want to say this was inspired off of @.deathricedrawn's (now scrapped) idea for Empires Festivals!! She came up with it back in 2022, I think? Back when I was a Twitter user.

So. What is the Soap Festival? It's a New Year's Celebration held in Gilded Helianthia that lasts 3 days; the first day is made to gather ingredients, such as glowberries and lye and oil and honey and whatever one wants to add to their soap. On the second day, New Year’s Eve, everyone makes two bars of soap with their ingredients in the morning, and leave them to set, while they enjoy fireworks, festivities, and fresh fruit in the afternoon and night. Many also take this opportunity to clean their homes and fields for the new year, as the Soap Festival is about cleansing the old year and leaving room for the new to flourish. The New Year arrives, and in the morning, citizens of Helianthia will wrap one bar in string and paper to gift to someone they love and cherish, as good luck for the coming year, and take the other bar and bury it in their fields, using it as fertilizer. Many will bury it near a special tree or crop, in hopes that it’ll be blessed.

In my own version of Gilded Helianthia, soap has a deep meaning behind it. Before Helianthia was given it’s name, back when it was a Smallholding of people wishing for freedom, the natives to the land had a tradition of hand making soap and washing each other as an act of respect, intimacy, and love. People would gift each other these handmade soaps with the belief that they would purify and heal the person that receives them. Nowadays, soap bars are easier to come by, but gifting someone soap in Helianthia still holds that meaning behind it; especially if one takes the time to make it themselves. Soap is given to children when they begin to come-of-age; as a housewarming gift to new neighbors; for people who are about to take on a new chapter of their life, or simply for good luck. It’s a way to say, “may your sums and your pieces be enough to make you whole”.

That’s the jist of it, anyway!

[emperorpearl-ofthefarmlands]

Intro post !!

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Roleplay blog of e1!Pearl, my main is @justalilpearlie

He/Xe ooc, you can just call me Pearl. I speak esp/eng

This acc will use my own ships and headcanons

Feel free to interact and send asks! Even if you dont have a rp account! You can just sign off or rp as yourself instead of an emperor, just have fun!

I'll play Pearl however I deem in-character, if you have a problem with it you can block me, this is my take on the character, trying to stay as canon as I posibly can.

No nsfw, I'm a minor. I use slurs freely and untagged, tho they're all ones I can reclaim, such as the t slur, f slur and r slur.

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Roleplay info:

She/He/Light/Sun pronouns

Terms Queen & Emperor good!! King & Empress are- not preferred but alright.

Verinix Gendervoid Bigender

Queer/mlm

Pearl is Sausage, Fwhip and Gem's cousin, they grew up together.

Pearl sees Pixl as a father figure of sorts.

Avian with golden wings and pointy ears.

Does not remember any other SMP (might make another rp acc for life series)

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Ships I will and wont do:

Majormoon ✔️✔️✔️✔️✔️ (main ship)(mlm)

Flower husbands ❌️❌️❌️❌️❌️ (DNI)

Any WRA ship (aka gempearl, sausage x fwhip, pearl x sausage, etc) ❌️❌️❌️❌️❌️ (dni + theyre family in this acc)

Jausage ✔️

Fwhimmy ✔️

Fwhip x Pixl ❌️

Sausage x Pixl ❌️

Joey x Xornoth ✔️

Guns n Roses (fwhip x katherine) ✔️

Literally any other ship is okay as long as its legal and yknow not related ✔️✔️

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#Gilded Helianthia - All posts

#awnsering to the people - Asks tag

#talking to the people - Text posts

#a view of the farmlands - Picture posts

#[title][characters name] - Talking about/Sent by another ruler

#snowy crops - Empires 1 Pearl x Scott

#majormoon - Main Pearl x Scott tag

#my dearest scottsy - about the Elven King

#wither rose alliance - Pearl, Sausage, Gem and Fwhip

#my dearest cousins - about Gem and/or Sausage and/or Fwhip

#my dearest father - about Pixlriffs

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Thats all for today!! Thank you, might update ^^

[blicketdabest33]

Helianthian Meganium line

#0152 Helianthian Chikorita, the Large Leaf Pokemon Grass/Dark type These Pokemon have adapted to life in the sunflower fields of the Gilded Helianthia. The giant leaf on their head gives this Pokemon energy through photosynthesis. Helianthian Chikorita are quite grumpy and cross, much unlike their cheery counterparts. It's not uncommon to find one of these Pokemon picking fights with others, especially those who insult it's size.

#0153 Helianthian Bayleef, the Strange Herb Pokemon Grass/Dark type These Pokemon are revered in the Gilded Helianthia as powerful healers, able to cure any wound. They are known to guide healers to patches of valuable herbs. Helianthian Bayleef, even after evolving, still retain their grumpy nature. They often channel this attitude into fashion, collecting leaves and pretty flowers to adorn themselves.

#0154 Helianthian Meganium, the Queen's Gardener Pokemon Grass/Dark type These Pokemon resemble a large sunflower, able to soak up the sun's rays for hours. They're beloved by the Queen of the Gilded Helianthia and she keeps many in her garden. After evolving, Helianthian Bayleef loses it's grumpy nature in favor of a more stoic and fierce one. Despite their delicate appearance, Helianthian Meganiums are tough and strong, butting heads with anyone who dare challenge them.

Two pictures because one looked better quality, but it didn't have enough info, and the one with enough info had shit quality. Ignore my fingers plz. Gilded Helianthia!!! I have always adored Meganium, despite it's trash stats in-game, so i wanted to give it a make over. The flower design also just would fit so well with Pearl's empire, her whole thing being sunflowers and all that. I changed the gender ratio. Not for any specific reason, just because. Thought it'd be cool. Gilded Helianthia is a Grass/Dark type gym, so that is the explanation for the typing. Next up: CODLANDS!!!

[astraldraco]

A Pearl of the escentmoon variety for my art project! I spent way too long on this but I'm so proud of it :)))

[semicleanblanket]

Is it bad that I’ve started to carry around a single sunflower is the top left corner of my inventory in my Minecraft worlds in honor of Saint Pearl

[relgnira]

The Beanstalk, Gilded Helianthia

Eeee I really love how the beanstalk came out! These greens are so pretty I love working in green :3

[quo-posts]

today I recognized the latin name for sunflowers bc of Pearls Empires s1

and people say you don't learn anything from watching mcyts :P

[farmer-queen-pearl]

Hello everyone,

This is an rp blog for empires season one Pearl!

Other rp blogs, please feel free to interact!

Tag stuff:

Farm lady times: For general posts

Wheat whispers: For Asks

Lady Lore: for lore stuff

And of course ooc: For anything ooc

Pearl is a bisexual cis lady. Keep it not weird and ask any questions you may have!

[asterssunzephyr]

LORE. GIVE.

NOTES AS I GO: 1 I tried to finish this in one night however I have to be up at 5am 8/24. 2 I am watching Shelby Shubble's shubathon for her birthday. 3 If said shubathon is still going when this post is uploaded, go watch it :) 4 It is now 1:56 am 8/24, I am still watching the shubathon and have since showered.

Okay!! Im so sorry has taken me forever, I did not have the energy when you sent this last night. ANYWAY...

I tried to finish this in one night however I have to be up at 5am 8/24

You were very loose with this, I hope youre aware, so I will start at the most basic, with the gods I have bc I have NOT figured everything out for all the empires. This is a WIP au at all times of the day. All of this lore, at one point, does tie into the Crystal Cliffs: Academy for Magic (CC:AfM) au lore! Specifically with Scott and Xornoth.

Rivendell - The easiest

Rivendell has two canon gods, and one original god I made. This, ironically, reflects the royal family. There's Oytix - Goddess of Stars, Aeor and Exor - Twin Stag Gods. This reflects the royal family with three children being born since Alinar and Cohnal. They had a sister – Naexi. In this lore, Naexi was considered the champion of Stars, while Alinar the champion of Aeor and Cohnal the champion of Exor. Naexi lived the longest of the Riven siblings – being the one to live on and provide for the next generation of Rivendell royals.

This is seen later, in Scott & Xornoth's generation with a sister as well. In this au, Lauren (LaurenZSide) is canon to the empires universe. She's the older sister of Scott and Xornoth – as well as the champion of Oytix.

The Overgrown

The Overgrown has one god, which is The Spring – God of Fae. This is a nameless god, preferring to be known as "Spring" to everyone around them. Spring went into a slumber after the death of Alinar and Cohnal. The Spring that Katherine talks to in s1 is their concious, who wants the best for their land and leads her to the right answers no matter how cryptic they are. Every ruler of the overgrown has been handpicked by The Spring, regardless of how theyve behaved in the past.

Grimlands

The Grimlands has two gods in technicality, sharing one with two other empires. Sol - Goddess of the Sun and Diana - Goddess of the Moon. Theyre not related and Sol has a . . . complicated relationship with Exor. I can and will explain if asked about it. The grimlands also refers to Sol as the Goddess of Redstone (Grimlands corruption).

Crystal Cliffs

In the ancient days, the Cliffs once worshipped Diana, the goddess of the moon. As many people began finding logical and magical explanations, they ditched the idea of godly intervention for basically everything. Some people remember, but Diana is not worshipped like she once was in the cliffs, much less taught about in the Academy. Gandalf the cat remembers the most, he's been in the cliffs for just over six hundred years - he will not disrespect Diana, and he says goodnight to her when he goes to sleep if he can see the moon. The Cliffs doesnt get very cloudy, so he seems the moon almost nightly.

Gilded Helianthia (why isnt there a yellow on desktop?)

Gilded Helianthia has always and will always worship Diana, goddess of Moon. You'd think the farming queen and her empire would worship Sol, or A goddess of Harvest1. They worship the moon, Diana, because with out Diana and the moon then they would not sleep. If they do not sleep, then they do not have harvest days or a way to provide as they'd be consumed with fatigue. 1 The land of Gilded Helianthia becomes the building blocks of Sanctuary, where the Harvest Goddess - Madre de Girasoles (Later referenced as Santa Perla)

Mythland (look I only have so many colors to work with)

The start of Mythland worshipped one deity, the god of war Fern. Is ironic that a god of war is named after a plant? yes. Do I care? No. Up until the canon appearance of Xornoth, Fern was the only god in mythland worshipped. While people of Mythland considered Xornoth a god of corruption, he is not and they were worshipping Exor. Fern did not like the division of his people, much less did he like Exor. He has a rocky relationship with Sol, due to her relationship with Exor. Often times, Fern would butt heads with Sol, Exor, and Oytix.

Lost Empire

Zaerus, the god of pride and life. While the only one who has an official title amongst the pantheon. He loves his land, and has always done whatever it takes to save his people and the royal family. Zaerus will go to whatever lengths he must, including siding with Exor if he must. This caused issues during the first Prophecy, as Zaerus refused to let the then emperor help Alinar, as he prophesized that in doing so, the empire (one of great wealth and many people) would be lost to time. The emperor helped Alinar and Aeor anyway, which caused Zaerus cursing his bloodline and the empire to become lost within the jungle. The bloodline is now the one we canonically see as the Tiger Blood Prince and Princess.

Pixandria

Rhamus, God of Prophecy. Rhamus was the one to originally prophesize about Alinar and Cohnal; about Exor's betrayal to the pantheon. Although he knew virtually nothing about the betrayal, he knew Rivendell twins would have to pick a side - Aeor, or Exor. After the prophecy, Rhamus began to have scribes, or oracles, for his prophecies. The one to repeat the prophecy Rhamus had was the great grandfather of Pix, and after his great grandfather, he became the scribe of Rhamus. He knew the prophecy of war, and of the rapture.

Oceanic and Swamp Empires

This is the second easiet empire to work with, because Lizzie and Jimmy are gods themself, in technicality! Theyre the children of two gods, their father being an Axolotl and their mother being a Cod.

Kingdom of Mezalea

Also one of the easiest empires, as Mezalea as no gods. Joel himself becomes a god, but thats not until the end of season one and the start of season two. Mezalea has no gods, as they have no faith or souls to believe in gods. Other than Joel, Mezalea is simply an empire of dolls.

The Undergrove

Gnomes have strict belief in their deities, however as Shrub is away from her family and with the empires more they adopt the deity of the Wolf Spirit and eventually, under the guise of the wolf spirit when facing Xornoth, Joey and Sausage, the pantheon accepts Shrub as the wolf spirit - This leads to many confusing dreams for Shrub, as they are spoken to from the Pantheon during sleep. Shrub has not mentioned these "dreams" to anyone, and yet Pix knows. The Wolf Spirit is seen as a deity, whether or not Shrub is one.

[tinapaysmp]

Empires smp Headcanons

Been having all of these in mind for a LONG long while. Many of these have been built up over the past months after reading different headcanons, fics, and content, along with my obsession over world building and fictional politics. So I feel like I need to make my own set of headcanons and AUs especially with a (maybe) future project related to this world.

So first I'm gonna lay out the basic politics in this world, starting out with which emperor is and isn't mortal. Why is that important? Well let's see,

(Important to note that I haven't watched every pov so there might be some holes and inaccuracies to canon here and there)

First of, most of the empires and nations could be categorized as either ruled by mortals or immortals/semi-immortals.

Mortals are typically the rulers of Pixandria, Mazelea, Mythland, Gilded Helianthia, the Lost Empire, the Crystal Cliffs, and the Grimlands.

Meanwhile Rivendell, The Codlands, The Overgrown, The Undergrove, and The Ocean Empire have semi-immortal rulers. Semi-immortal meaning that they live longer lives compared to the average human.

However, this is different from the Ocean and Codlands. For example, the merlings of the ocean empire and Codlands aren't as immortal as their rulers (Lizzie and Jimmy) but only have longer life spans in comparison.

Historically there has been 5 nations that have major political, cultural, and magical influences on the continent, Rivendell, Mazelea, The Ocean Empire, The  Lost Empire, and Mythland.

The Grimlands however has gained prominence for the past couple of decades due to their exports on gunpowder, weaponry, and technology. Primarily a farming nation, today people of different nations would travel to the Grimlands just to study advance redstone tech.

The Crystal Cliffs used to be an autonomous region from the Grimlands. They were given independence by the Grimlands peacefully after an agreement between the Count and Head Wizard. Most of the residents are of Grimland heritage, however the region has heavy Elven and Fae influences.

The political affairs of the Crystal Cliffs are handled by the Head Wizard, who is chosen by Gandalf (an immortal cat) in a ceremony. It is important for the Head Wizard to find a balance and intervene between the mortals and immortals. This typically leads to the Crystal Cliffs being neutral in most conflicts.

In a unique sense, the Crystal Cliffs is ruled by both a mortal (the head wizard) and an immortal (Gandalf the cat).

Gilded Helianthia used to be under the Empire of Mythland until they declared independence from them. This revolution was supported by Rivendell, the Overgrown, and the Codlands.

Rivendell saw the revolution by the Helianthians as a good way to cripple Mythland’s expanding influence from the northwest, and by extension, the Blood Sheep’s influence.

The Overgrown, headed by House Blossom, aided in the conflict because of the good relations between the Fae and the Helianthians. Helianthia had a culture and religion that closely respects nature, something that the Fae favored.

The Codland emperor meanwhile just did not like Mythland. They’ve been in conflict for centuries and Jimmy jumped on the opportunity to own Mythland somehow.

So Jimmy had his people fighting on the north, warding off Mazaelean forces from aiding Mythland.

His sister remained neutral during this period, however gave aid by sending troops to Codland in guise of Codlanders returning from the Ocean pilgrimage.

Important to note, all of this event happened two generation before Scott’s time period. So this would include Katherine, who avoids conflicts at all cost.

During this period, Mythland’s empire stretched to the west of the jungle, a territory that used to belong to the Lost Empire.

Mythland didn’t wanted to let go of the Helianthian region due to the fertile soil from the flood plains. The region produces majority of the wheat and other food products that Mythland heavily relies on to feed their populous and armies. This has been Mythland’s advantage over several nations and many nations also relied on Mythland for this.

Mythland in this conflict was supported by the Grimlands and Mazaelea. The Grimland was in a centuries long alliance meanwhile Mazaelea had a treaty with them.

The produce from the Grimlands aided Mythland in the war when they lost access to Helianthia’s farmlands.

This made the Fae and Elven armies advance to the southern jungles of the collapsing Lost Empire, intercepting Grimland exports to the north.

The Lost Empire was primarily neutral to the conflict. The rulers found the advancing Elven and Fae armies alarming and asked a meeting with the leaders of both nations.

They signed a treaty with them that the region will be given back to the Lost Empire if they allowed their armies to cut off the Grimlands' exports of potatoes to Mythland and Mazaelea.

This led to a great lost in Mythland, eventually giving Gilded Helianthia its independence.

The surrender also had Mythland give up a region of the jungle back to the Lost Empire (these territories did not lasted in their hands for too long due to internal politics and went back to Mythland within 20 years) along with disputed territories with Codlands.

For a long period after the revolution, Helianthia had hostilities with Mythland. This eventually mellowed out over a few centuries and nowadays the two nations are political allies that do regular trade with each other.

At one point in history, Mythland had a queen consort from Helianthia. This Helianthian queen helped Gilded Helianthia eased into the Wither Rose Alliance, allowing the nation to gain more trade and military benefits from the Grimlands.

The Wither Rose Alliance is a centuries old ally ship created mainly by the rulers of the Grimlands and Mythland before the Crystal Cliffs separated from the former. The alliance was created due to having a shared enemy with the Cod empire and to strengthen trade and military support.

The Crystal Cliffs originally was not a part of the alliance after their independence due to the nation’s desire to stay neutral. The nation only joined 5 decades after the Helianthian War of independence.

[not-a-vegan3]

you can do this with season 2 Glimmer grove and Dawn wool is ALWAYS needed for clothing and medical stuff, and honey was used to make medicine plus the wax for candles

My favorite thing about translating season 1 of empires into a slightly less Minecrafty setting is that the instant you start applying any kind of vaguely “realistic” rules to it, Gilded Helianthia becomes an absolute political powerhouse.

[emperorpearl-ofthefarmlands]

Hello, Pearl!

-@elvenkingsmajor

Why hello there, Scott! How's it going?

Everything chill-y? ❄️

[shortfeather]

what is it about hermits in other series having a thing with sunflowers and the most insane heartbreaking stories in the world

[semicleanblanket]

i miss season 1 of empires