#Halo encyclopedia

[halopedia]

Starship Saturday — Rothen-pattern fireship

Capable of delivering blows far exceeding its mass, the Rothen were committed to long-range fleets and security detail on the periphery of Covenant space. Their crews were often filled by those who committed crimes in the Covenant.

[pedroam-bang]

Nicolas ‘Sparth’ Bouvier - Halo Encyclopedia Cover (2021)

[empresskadia]

My friend is super upset I'm moving to a different shift 🥹

I'm work's resident nerd :)

[covenantfcrged]

The Ancient Past, Timeline. transcribed from the Halo Encyclopedia.

[bloodgulchblog]

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[halo-smashorpass]

Stolt

(The grunt who squares up with Spartans and Elites and wins)

I remember him, he's from that awesome Shadow of Intent short story!!

[nekoprankster218]

I've been getting through the Battle for the Blood-Moon audiobook on YouTube slowly and made a lot of progress tonight and

ORNA 'FULSAM(EE) JUMPSCARE?!

[dougielombax]

Uh oh….

Did I just see a mention of Looms in the 2022 Halo Encyclopaedia?

*I AM NOT INSANE*

[consultingfujoshi]

sorry but the whole "aziraphale keeps a gun inside a hollowed out book" is THE BIGGEST missed opportunity ever to do a LITERAL Chekhov's Gun I'm so mad about it can you imagine if in episode 6 when they're fighting the demons in the bookshop and they run out of encyclopedias to throw and they're completely out of options instead of exploding his halo aziraphale just pulls a pistol out of a book and starts fucking shooting them

[literaryvein-reblogs]

Some Renaissance Loan Words in Middle English

Loan Word - vocabulary borrowings

Borrow - to introduce a word (or some other linguistic feature) from one language or dialect into another

From Latin and Greek absurdity, adapt, agile, alienate, allusion, anachronism, anonymous, appropriate, assassinate, atmosphere, autograph, benefit, capsule, catastrophe, chaos, climax, conspicuous, contradictory, crisis, criterion, critic, delirium, denunciation, disability, disrespect, emancipate, emphasis, encyclopedia, enthusiasm, epilepsy, eradicate, exact, exaggerate, excavate, excursion, exist, expectation, expensive, explain, external, extinguish, fact, glottis, habitual, halo, harass, idiosyncrasy, immaturity, impersonal, inclemency, jocular, larynx, lexicon, lunar, malignant, monopoly, monosyllable, necessitate, obstruction, pancreas, parasite, parenthesis, pathetic, pneumonia, relaxation, relevant, scheme, skeleton, soda, species, system, tactics, temperature, tendon, thermometer, tibia, tonic, transcribe, ulna, utopian, vacuum, virus

From or via French alloy, anatomy, battery, bayonet, bigot, bizarre, chocolate, colonel, comrade, detail, docility, duel, entrance, equip, explore, grotesque, invite, moustache, muscle, naturalize, passport, pioneer, probability, progress, shock, surpass, ticket, tomato, vase, vogue, volunteer

From or via Italian argosy, balcony, ballot, cameo, carnival, concerto, cupola, design, fuse, giraffe, grotto, lottery, macaroni, opera, piazza, portico, rocket, solo, sonata, sonnet, soprano, stanza, stucco, trill, violin, volcano

From or via Spanish and Portuguese alligator, anchovy, apricot, armada, banana, barricade, bravado, cannibal, canoe, cockroach, cocoa, corral, desperado, embargo, guitar, hammock, hurricane, maize, mosquito, mulatto, negro, potato, port (wine), rusk, sombrero, tank, tobacco, yam

From other languages bamboo (Malay), bazaar (Persian), caravan (Persian), coffee (Turkish), cruise (Dutch), curry (Tamil), easel (Dutch), flannel (Welsh), guru (Hindi), harem (Arabic), horde (Turkish), keelhaul (Dutch), ketchup (Malay), kiosk (Turkish), knapsack (Dutch), landscape (Dutch), pariah (Tamil), raccoon (Algonquian), rouble (Russian), sago (Malay), sheikh (Arabic), shekel (Hebrew), shogun (Japanese), troll (Norwegian), trousers (Irish Gaelic), turban (Persian), wampum (Algonquian), yacht (Dutch), yoghurt (Turkish)

Source ⚜ More References: Middle English ⚜ Renaissance

[encyclopediacr]

What fine tender meats are in this dish?

I hope you're hungry because today is the release of the Exquisite Exandria cookbook! To commemorate, there's a selection of food-related articles at Encyclopedia Exandria:

Black moss cupcake, dessert in Uthodurn with an earthy, matcha-like taste

Dyolet fruit, only grows in the Velvin Thicket of Wildemount and can be imbued with healing enchantments

Fusaka, zesty cooking spice in Marquet and the Menagerie Coast used to season meat

GoFiBePo, meat salad of goat, fish, beef, and pork invented by Grog Strongjaw and Varon in Whitestone

Haluh, dessert made of shaved ice and sweet milk popular in the Taloned Highlands of Marquet, based on the real-life halo-halo

Moonlight Glycerin, cocktail that is a specialty of the hag Morrigan and grants darkvision

Pother fruit, grows on a metallic tree planted in Pandemonium and was once used for vision quests and rituals

Sandkheg's Hide, very potent alcohol in northern Marquet created from the acid of a desert species of ankheg

Yuyo, cucumber-like vegetable grown in the underground gardens of Rosohna

Cuisine of Exandria, describing other dishes and drinks found throughout Exandria

[halopedia]

Did You Know Levi Hoffmeier posted several artwork drafts for Offensive Bias and Chakas? These drafts were done to prepare for the Encyclopedia, help set scale, and explore ideas!

[ignitingthesky]

The Previous World Mural — a dreamscape transposition of The Next World Mural to somewhere, somewhen else.

The gif compressed the images but I will also post them as a clearer image set, to be linked in a reblog.

Excerpt of accompanying ficlet below. Decided to just post the segment of it I've finalised since I won't have the time to work on it for a very long while.

artblog @chromacandescent

kofi | inprnt 🪻🌷🌹

Excerpt:

You stand on an unfamiliar street, across a familiar mural. The pavement is dimly lit, blue warring with orange between the shadow and light. The streets are populated with faceless shadows. The sky, indistinguishably and eerily hazy, holds the morning moon and the dawning sun distantly together. The world is fading… smearing at its edges.

PERCEPTION — The mural is the only thing you recognise here, depicting featureless silhouettes: one in white paint, engulfed by one in black. They are lovers leaning together, heads meeting in a kiss. A circle of red paint forms a halo around their heads, enclosing that moment of tenderness.

CONCEPTUALIZATION — Despite being close enough to melt into one, the lovers remain distinct, separate, impossibly apart.

REACTION SPEED [Medium: Success] — Like The Next World Mural, from your ledger.

PHYSICAL INSTRUMENT — Wasn't that one about a man and a woman?

Is *this* Grand Couron?

Is this... the next world?

YOU — Is this... the next world?

INLAND EMPIRE — No. A previous world…

PREVIOUS WORLD MURAL — True love remains impossible. We are not new people.

PAIN THRESHOLD — There is no escape.

VOLITION — But you can, and you have started anew.

PERCEPTION — Either way, the silhouettes *are* too ambiguously rendered to belong to the Next World Mural, so…

YOU — "I've never seen you before… have I?"

PREVIOUS WORLD MURAL — Of course you haven't. Look around you... Where were you, and where are you now?

ENCYCLOPEDIA — You have no idea. 

BLOCK ??? — Before you is a towering, utilitarian structure, built to shelve a massive population. This building is one of many, its sequential sign obscured by the mural.

There are 11– no, 12 floors in total, including the ground floor, which has been obscured behind sheet metal barriers.

PERCEPTION — The scent in the air is unfamiliar. Despite the fumes of traffic and paint, the distant cigarette smoke, the wet pavement, the damp grass…

INLAND EMPIRE [Formidable: Success] — There is nothing haunting in the air. No ghosts between the molecules — not for you. The wind is silent of her sighs.

(tbc)

[ihearhercalling]

Because most of my work is based on myths, legends, and scriptures, I wanted to expand my references a bit, and picked up The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets, by Barbara G. Walker. It's been a great resource and a fun read, and inspired a little Morgan le Fay illumination. It was a bit more difficult than the illuminations based on saints, which have convenient symbols, colors, and attributes to use. For Morgan le Fay, I went with some symbols typically associated with darkness, nature, and the feminine: a crescent halo, a raven, and a green dress. A clumsy effort on my part, maybe, but her varying roles as a goddess, antagonist, witch, and queen are all fascinating || Hannah Charlton Arts

[theriverbeyond]

OH YOU'RE PLAYING DISCO??? HAVE FUN :D! what build do you have :0? (like for me, i played started with good purple blue and average red yellow, and had shivers as my crown skill)

some non-spoilery tips, if you want

get the horrible neck tie and wear it primiarily on the third day. you'll get a thought orb (the halo things) when you walk past a certain area that will make certain events down the line easier

next to where the corpse is hanging, there is a set of buttons you can press to contact now-defunct businesses. only one works. keep trying to press it for a special surprise.

fail the savoir fair check to flip of the bartender cafeteria manager again, and then really hammer home the fact that you're injured. he'll lower the cost of debt you owe him

a certain character will refuse to speak to you if you don't have your badge, and will offer a deal instead. if you don't want to do the deal (which is a long but not unrewarding side quest) don't talk to her further about information, because if you find it later she will still want you to do the sidequest anyway.

there are things called thought projects in the game, that offer backstory, characterisation, and skill de/buffs if you equip them. for the most useless (yet funniest) thought project, talk to a guy smoking to the north of the map. he will introduce you to a witness. after talking to this witness, come back to the motel and he will be hanging around. talk to him about...'the underground' and insist about learning about if for yourself. again, this is useless from a mechanical standpoint but is really really funny.

have fun playing :D

ahhh THANK YOU i am taking dutiful notes!! I have no idea what build I am doing. I started as the thinker (?) because that was the one that the selection screen started on and seems fairly (?) straightforward. I have figured out if i fain enough XP i get skill points which I can use on those uhhhhhhh stat characters? which will change how I can interact with things/info I get/check results. i THINK!! I have put a point into encyclopedia so far vecause that seems helpful, but I wish I had higher empathy bc i wanna figure out whats up w Cuno

[bloodgulchblog]

Hello, question! Are there specific stages to AI rampancy?

I think Halo doesn't actually break it down into specific stages anymore. There were some earlier references to Marathon's way of doing things, though. (In particular I remember the Rubble's AI in The Cole Protocol specifically being mentioned as in a grandiose stage.)

The Marathon stages for rampancy were melancholia (the depression of an AI dealing with the limitations placed on its existence), anger (during which they lash out), and jealousy (during which they pursue expansion and power) with a theoretical final stage being metastability where the AI settles down into a stable existence beyond rampancy (which only Durandal, iirc, reached in Marathon).

Here's an oldschool Halo description of rampancy from the 2009 Halo encyclopedia, showing they didn't talk about it in phases back then either:

I always thought the idea of the different emotional stages (like the way we talk about the stages of grief, almost) were cool though.