#Lord Conquest

[wondyvillains]

[silverskye13]

Trying to draw my Oath of Conquest paladin, take two.....

[oldschoolfrp]

Conquest of the Ring board game by Hobbit Toys & Games, 1970 -- the first board game adaptation of Tolkien's stories. The art style is similar to Barbara Remington's covers for the Ballantine 1965 Lord of the Rings paperbacks. The 4 pawns were packaged in a bag labeled "The Hobbit Game," suggesting a different original title.

[the0verboss]

So maybe someone can answer this for me.

The Absolute Hoax and Souls.

So Withers tells you mind flayers don't have souls. And part of why he gets involved at all is because the other Gods have noticed a change in their followers.

At what point in the tadpoling process does the soul leave? Is it at transformation? Because the mind flayer subsumes it's host? If the tadpole has reached maturity and the only thing stopping transformation is that netherese stasis, is the host still in possession of their soul? Partially Illithid, how's that work?

All of this is to say-

If Durge takes the brain and expands and tadpoles and builds armies of followers not all of which are turned completely illithid- could he build temples to Gortash and compel worship to the point that Gortash in Bane Hell becomes a quasi deity?

Could the Absolute raise up her fallen Chosen, beloved of her current Chosen, to such a pedestal, or does that not work?

[pinkniz]

Everyone knows the stud Raiden scene at the tavern but Im here to unleash the Raiden fucks scene upon y'all like the merciless entity I am

[synchodai]

Not too keen on how the first scene of HotD made show-only viewers think that Aegon the Conqueror diplomatically convinced Torrhen Stark to give up Northern independence because they both believed in stopping a prophesized apocalyptic Long Night because it downplays the brutality of Aegon's Conquest.

Not the show's fault since it is realistic that Cregan and Jace would frame it like an amiable peacetalk given their current goals and circumstances (and they did touch on the intimidation aspect of it). But show-onlies don't get the context that:

Torrhen was the person who started a dialogue with Aegon I, not the other way around.

Aegon didn't fly North to meet with Torrhen. Torrhen was the one who marched south with his armies to stop the man who was burninating the entire countryside.

Because he was marching south, Torrhen saw the utter carnage of Aegon's Conquest. At least three entire dynasties of kings were extinguished at that point. Torrhen was thus faced with the possibility that the entire Stark line would be wiped out like them if he fought.

Aegon and Torrhen exchanged letters at the Riverlands when both their armies were about to meet, but those weren't what convinced Torrhen to kneel. Torrhen had to actively stop his brother Brandon from attacking Aegon's dragons when they got there. The Northern King had already made his mind prior to talking to Aegon that he didn't want to fight.

Aegon's Conquest wasn't him making buddy-buddy with the 6 kings. It was him and his sister-wives intimidating them into submission by threatening to wipe out their families.

[vorochi]

Lord of Change, drawn by me

For my Thousand Sons mod for CoE5

[the-reincarnated-princess]

[hannahwindy]

In my AU, Lord Raiden has his personality from the Mortal Kombat Conquest.

sassy, classy, Sarcastic, wise, and so done with almost everything.

[shamlesspandanerd]

[fumble-art]

Been working on some coloring exercises this week and painting by blocking in shapes and building up rather than my usual convoluted process. Really loving the results so far!

Anyways I bring to you this moody Fortuna for your viewing pleasure

[silverskye13]

I decided I didn’t have enough paladins in my life so i joined another DnD campaign

[gutmicrobiom]

Peter Quill from annihilation conquest

[pinkniz]

We won

[hiemaldesirae]

rough design sketches/doodles of lacri, lord war and lady death

you can tell i was a former mcyt fan bc i immediately reverted to big hat on lady deaths design. i did end up making the hat like sorta weird lil flubby things that kinda flop round on the sides of his crown + veil but err. anyway her design is loosely based off one of my favourite portraits of tsarina alexandra feodorovna / charlotte of prussia (one where she has this bigass fuckin crown and veil on. its so gorgeous and her outfit is so beautiful). lady death is one of the designs where id imagine she sorta switches between whatever form he likes best so i refer to her using whatever prns feel right in the moment

as for war their design is also not at all finalized but i wanted to use medieval armor and also a skeleton somehow.... so, skull helmet

ill make more modern like designs of them later but i needed to get these out the way first

war is named iudex / the salvation, death is named verum / the haven

[fumblingmusings]

Imagining a young Arthur thinking the Normans are irredeemable doomed for hell monsters from the moment they killed King Harold, made the heir Edgar and his sisters flee, wrecked Arthur's language and broke his legal systems, made 10% of his country a wasteland, killed over 100,000 of his people by starving them to death and leaving them freeze... All that horror from William I and II...

But then Henry I becomes King. He was born in Selby, not Normandy. He was a fourth son (like Arthur), set to inherit nothing and isn't trusted by any of his older brothers. He just maybe happens to be there with one of the said brothers is killed in a hunting accident (oh no....) and becomes King. He marries Edith, the daughter of Arthur's last Anglo-Saxon princess, ensuring that Alfred the Great's bloodline lives on. He uses the Anglo-Saxon justice and taxation system because it's still better than anything Norman. He puts Englishmen back in positions of government and the Church. Henry and Edith called their daughter Matilda aethelic when in private and gave their son William an Anglo-Saxon title of aethling... Those imported Norman aristocrats mocked them for it calling them 'Godric and Godifu' - that foolish King and Queen pretending to be lesser than. Playing at being English and not Norman.

But it works. Arthur and England are at peace for the first time in... a long, long long time. Yes northern France is a nightmare but what does Arthur care for that. These guys are stamping out slavery and serfdom... That's pretty stupendous. Plus, his way of life is winning out long term, not the Norman. At least, that's what he tells himself.

And having the thought that maybe his people and culture won't be as wiped out by this King playing politics in order to carve out his own space distinct from his brothers... little Arthur sees a little bit too much of himself in this guy. Only for Henry's only son to drown on a crossing from France back to England (trying to save his sister oh my God) and then it just sets the stage for the Anarchy upon Henry's death because god forbid Matilda is Queen like...

Point is I can see Arthur just going full on fuck it once Henry II becomes King (like what was the point of it all if Matilda's son was going to be King anyway). I like to think of it as the turning point from where he's a somewhat put upon forgotten about rainy droopy island that Vikings keep plundering to a nightmare himself. That desperation to prove himself, to be worth something, to take all that grief and pain and make it someone else's problem. It takes him 100 years after the invasion, but that's the point when the Arthur who used to hide in the woods from Denmark and Scotland disappears, and instead you get the Arthur who's... a bit of a giant hypocrite. And looks the other way.

The forcing a language on a population, the replacing the ruling class with loyal people, the leaving just enough of the old systems of government in place for purely pragmatic purposes, the use of scorched earth tactics if need be. Sometimes it feels like nothing changes.

What happened to him was wrong and yet what does England do to others for so long? I like the idea of an Arthur who learnt the wrong lessons from that invasion and thinks he was weak when it happened. Because to think otherwise would be to realise he'd done nothing wrong, and to realise that he was a victim.

And that's something Arthur just cannot be.