#Marcus Valerius Falco

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Enrico Marini - Morphea, Les Aigles de Rome, Livre VI / The Eagles Of Rome, Book VI (2023)

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Your Muse in 10 Quotes: Ziv Odiz’ Zee As a OC Ziv does not really has a Quote that defines her beside “Kriff it”, so its just not so random Media here that was used for building her character. Tagged By: @strongfuck Tagging: @sithisms  @mando-of-esverr @lighthouseborn @peacefaithed @envychosen @starfaithed @lessthantwelve @talesgolden @retrocognizantrecreant @cnlyluck @onehell-of-apilot @skysnipsw  @space-hecate @asycuwish @skyler-bane @bewitchingbaker @hopexncarnate   @beskar-himbo   @ofthestcrs @honorhunt  @lady-proudmoore  @savior-of-humanity   @stillfocvsed   @gildedcommander @fallesto @outcaststar @jedilovcd @poewingsdameron @cardinal-carvings    @smertzimy @kyberllcore  @cfmartyrs  @general-kalani  @luminousxbeings  @thaneirstaer @admrl @notsith   @gwiazdowe @lvkexskywvlker @drabbles-n-doodles  @preempire    @ariadne-inthesky @archaeotech @sxbaist @lightfaithed @trueheartofarebel  @protectxthem    @hunters-house   @masterofthelivingforce   @startrailed @bladelancer     @wartornpilot @hosnianleft @rcfekjwtaardby  @sithdestined     @safrona-shadowsun  @stubborn-amphibian   @ncxile  @skywlkrr  @jedixamidala @chromium-siren @aetcrnus  @savesgalaxy  @bountyborn  @memcriaes @2sabers @creaticn @thestupidmeanone @fatewills…and everyone else who blinked today!    

“1. Organize before they rise! 2. They feel no fear, why should you? 3. Use your head: cut off theirs. 4. Blades don't need reloading. 5. Ideal protection = tight clothes, short hair. 6. Get up the staircase, then destroy it. 7. Get out of the car, get onto the bike. 8. Keep moving, keep low, keep quiet, keep alert! 9. No place is safe, only safer. 10.The zombie may be gone, but the threat lives on.”  From The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead  by Max Brooks. 

  “Every so often, the Universe must just get bored and decide to really cut loose.” From Red Harvest by Joe Schreiber

“Will Ossai be well?” “Hmm, He is what the Mosspeople call a ´Unseen´. With the knowledge of the earth, ground and greens he can move through any area without beeing noticed. If he does not want your Clan to see him, Your Clan will not see him. Of all people, don´t fret for Ossai, Laghou, he will be well.” From Neandertal Vol. 3 by Emanuel Roudier

“Ah,I remember you. Sylvanus, right?” “Seianus!” “Hard to forget the last four letters of your name.” From Les Aigles de Rome by Emmanuel Roudier

“It was disorienting. Beeing thausand of miles away from anything familiar was strange enough. But Courtney didn´t even feel she had a Home to return to. She felt like a lost ship after all the continents had sunk under the sea...wondering if there were any other  ships out there on the endless, empty ocean.” From “Courtney Crumrin Volume 4: Monstrous Holiday″ Written by Ted Naifeh.

“So I got to figure out a way to grow three years’ worth of food here. On a planet where nothing grows. Luckily I’m a botanist. Mars will come to fear my botany powers.” From The Martian by Andy Weir.

She looked at him and shook her head. ‘I feel like a hulder.’ He’d heard the word before, in Norway. ‘Aren’t they a kind of troll?’‘No they are mountain creatures, like the trolls, but they come from the woods, and they are very beautiful. Like me.’ She grinned as she said it, as if she knew that she was too pallid, too sulky and too thin to ever to be beautiful. ‘They fall in love with farmers.’ ‘Why?’ ‘Damned if I know,’ she said. ‘But they do. Sometimes the farmer realises that he is talking to a hulder woman, because she has a cow’s tail hanging down behind, or worse, sometimes from behind there is nothing there, she is just hollow and empty, like a shell. Then the farmer says a prayer, or runs away, flees back to his mother or his farm.‘But sometimes the farmers do not run. Sometimes they throw a knife over her shoulder, or just smile, and they marry the huldra woman. Then her tail falls off. But she is still stronger than any human woman could ever be. And she still pines for her home in the forests and the mountains. She will never truly be happy.She will never be human.’From “Monarch of the Glen” by Neil Gaiman.

When the barber-surgeon peeled the dressing from the wound. Rittersporn groaned pitifully. 'Relax,' Regis said, cleansing the wound. 'It's nothing. Only blood. Only a little blood... Your blood smells nice, poet.' At precisely that moment the Witcher did something Milva would never have expected. He walked over to the horse and drew a long Nilfgaardian sword from the scabbard fastened under the saddle flap. 'Move away from him,' he snarled, standing over the barber-surgeon. 'The blood smells nice,' Regis repeated, not paying the slightest bit of attention to the Witcher. 'I can't detect in it the smell of infection, which with a head wound could have disastrous consequences. The main arteries and veins are intact... This will sting a little.' Rittersporn groaned and took a sharp intake of breath. The sword in the Witcher's hand vibrated and glistened with light reflected from the river. 'I'll put in a few stitches,' Regis said, continuing to ignore both the Witcher and his sword. 'Be brave. Rittersporn.' Rittersporn was brave. 'Almost done here,' Regis said, setting about bandaging the victim's head. 'Don't you worry. Rittersporn, you'll be right as rain. The wound's just right for a poet. Rittersporn. You'll look like a war hero, with a proud bandage around your head, and the hearts of the maidens looking at you will melt like wax. Yes, a truly poetic wound. Unlike an abdominal wound for instance. Liver all cut up, kidneys and guts mangled, stomach contents and faeces pouring out, peritonitis... Right, that's done. Geralt, I'm all yours.' From Chrzest ognia by  Andrzej Sapkowski

  “Yet here I am, Zahara thought now, queen of her own miniature kingdom, after all, duchess of the empty bunks, and our lady of the perpetual stomachache. Involuntary lust-object of a hundred emotionally frustrated prison guards and deprived stormtroopers. Dispenser of medicine, charged with keeping the inmates of the Imperial Prison Barge Purge alive long enough to be permanently detained on some remote prison moon.” From Death Troopers by Joe Schreiber

“Medicine is the opportune application of poisons. Healers and poisoners are folks with similar skill sets and wildly different philosophies. “ From a Tumblr Post answered by Dandelionwitch.

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The Eagles of Rome by Enrico Marini is an example of the great historical fiction comics the European comic scene has to offer. This is my review.

One of the things I love about European comics is the number of great historical fiction titles available. So, I thought I share a review I did of one of my favorites: The Eagles of Rome. 

The Eagles of Rome, by Enrico Marini, is set in the The Roman Empire in the first century AD, during the reign of Emperor Augustus. Rome is seeking to expand its boarders into Germania. Towards this end, a young Germanian prince has been sent to Rome to be fostered as part of a peace agreement with the Cherusci tribe. To his people he is Ermanamer, but the Romans have given him a new name: Arminius. Arminius has been sent to live with Titus Valerius Falco and his son Marcus. The comic follows Arminius and Marcus as the grow into men and join the legion. As they grow, Arminius finds himself increasingly drawn to the land of his birth. Marcus and Arminius are going to find themselves on opposite sides of a great conflict. In time it will be known as the Battle of Teutoburg Forest. 

The Eagles of Rome isn’t finished yet, as Marini writes and draws the comic all one his own. There’s usually a few years wait between volumes, but it is totally worth it. Marini takes his time to ensure a quality comic. The comic is illustrated in gorgeous watercolor paintings, and you can tell Marini puts lots of love and care into his artwork. 

The historical accuracy is rock solid as well. A few events are shifted around to make for better story flow, but otherwise it is all perfectly accurate to the historical record. The biggest bit of artistic license is that Marcus and his family are totally fictional. They’re mostly there to give the Roman perspective on things. Funnily enough, DC did this thing a few years back where they hired European comic writers to make comics based on iconic DC heroes. Marini wrote a Batman comic, and he drew Bruce Wayne almost exactly like Marcus. 

There’s also little details that add to the historical accuracy. Statues and buildings are covered in vibrant colored paint, just as they were in Roman times. We also get to see the seedier parts of Rome and how, if you were poor, living in Rome was like living in a third world country. 

I don’t know when the next issue is coming out, but I can’t wait to see what happens next. Have you read The Eagles of Rome? If so, what did you think? 

Link to the full review on my blog is here: http://drakoniandgriffalco.blogspot.com/2019/07/comic-review-eagles-of-rome-vol-1-5-by.html?m=1

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Have you ever heard of Eagles of Rome by Enrico Marini? I always thought the character Marcus Valerius Falco is what a younger Tullius might have looked like.

//I've never heard of it but yo, that Marcus is a babe and he's even got those super arched brows that Tullius has as well. So ya I could see him looking similar to him

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Five Characters Mar Identifies With

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1. Romulus from  Ben Canes “ The Forgotten Legion” Chronicals        Romulus is a character born as a slave and sold to a Gladiatorschool at a very young age.  Like Mar he had learned from a young age how to kill and fight, he was trained to kill, he earned his livlihood with killing and he was good at killing, only to eventually realize with shock  at the end of his journey  he is simply not able to comit a coldblooded murder.  He shares with Mar this realisation and also his empathy and the love for their friends and family, that is all to wrong and even dangerous  in the worlds they are living in. Both characters try to identefiy with beeing warriors, trying desperately to delete the stigma (Remulus beeing born as a slave and Mar beeing born as a Halforc) that was marking them from their birth, with their Talent as soldiers (With Remulus eventually becoming a citizen of Italia and Mar ...still trying to find her place).

2. Marcus Valerius Falco from Marinis “Les Aigles de Rome”

  Atai, About Marcus: “Not bad for a roman boy...” Other Slave: “In his veins runs babarian Blood.”

 Caught between two cultures as the son of a roman Soldier and the Daughter of a Chieftain of one of the tribes beyond the Rhine, Marcus is orginally a boy who  suffers under his fathers strict military upbringing to whichs exceptions  Marcus can not live up to. Marcus loves poetry, playing Harph,woodcraving and seems to have a strong connection to his mothers orgins since she thinks he had inherited her Mothers second face. When Gaius Julius Arminius/ Herrmann of the Cherusci tribe is given as a charge to his father Marcus find another connection to his “barbarian” orgins. Eventually Marcus choses to cage away every flicker of the “weakness” his father hated so much and following the strict military philospohy of the world he is living in. However when Arminius gathers the tribes for rebellion (just search Varusschlacht/  Varusbattle for the actual history of Arminius), Marcus is once again caught between two cultures. Marcus and Mar both share the fate of beeing caught between two cultures who they both could never fully belog to  because of their Halfblood status and the realisation that both sides bear goods and bads they could themself not fully represet as their own . They try to dwell fully in one culture, but fail. They both follow the stict military philospophy of the people around them, even thought they both are not made for it and are actually too sympathetic and compassioate to properly flourish in the strict military world around them, so both of them throw themself in a almost suicidal longing into battle to come up to their cultures expection, but when they do they can find no joy in it.They both long for  a more peaceful and happier life, but they are holding duty and loyality in a too high terms to give in to that longing. Mars surpressed talent for shamanism was inspired by Marcus subliminally Second Face.  Also Mar pretty much got her sass from Marcus = “Loknar! Get lost and search yourself a knothole to blow off steam!” / “Oh I remember your name, Sylvanus yes?” -”Seianus!” - “Hard to forget the last four letters of  your name.”/  “They call me Calvadurus, because I drill my soldiers by hitting my head against theirs [...]” *Marcus after hitting C. down with the hunch of the others own shield - “I confirm: A hard head.”

3. Mana from Emmanual Roudiers “ Neandertal” Utterly loyal to her family/Tribe, but also harsh on fist encounter, Mana accompanies the Maincharacter Laghou to the Mosspeople to find a cure for the sickness that her tribe is suffering from and that killed her infantdaughter and her Brother. Mana is a realistic and very down-to-earth person (Laghou, smiling “Look, Mana! Bearcubs!”= Mana, promptly knowing when there are bearcubs there is also a Bearmother” Oh no...”), who willing seeks for knowledge in other cultures even thought knowledge is carefully hidden i the different tribes (just like Mar who let a orcish blademaster teach her during her time in Northrend).

4. Nävis  from  Jean-David Morvans and Philippe Buchets “Sillage“ Stubborne to the bone, a genius in combat but also utterly compassionate Nävis was originally trained as a agent by Sillage because as a “human” she is not psy active. Nävis find joy in combat and is a fierce character, but because of her childish naivity (since she is in the first volumes a child) she does not understand that she is a mere pawn. Eventually she realizes and has to find her own goals to prevent Sillage from using her as a tool. She shares with Mar her characterfeatures and also the rather late realisation of beeing eventually nothing but a good trained tool for the battlefield, eventually they both become “freelancers” to free themselfs of that pawn status and follow their own goals, following their own moral compass that makes them suprisingly weak for manipulation since they are both very compassionate characters under a layer of stubbornness and sass. Nävis is the only one of her kind in the beginning of the story, comperable to Mar who had always had the outsider status as a Halforc while growing up. Also Mar got Nävis green eyes and Mars human family got their medi

5. Garona Halforcen Probably every Halforc fan character in Wow is inspired by Garona, but thanksgod Mar had become  a individual character.

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Enrico Marini - Morphea, Les Aigles de Rome, Livre VI / The Eagles Of Rome, Book VI (2023)

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Enrico Marini - Morphea, Les Aigles de Rome, Livre VI / The Eagles Of Rome, Book VI (2023)

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Enrico Marini - Les Aigles de Rome / The Eagles Of Rome (2020)

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Enrico Marini - Les Aigles de Rome, Livre IV / The Eagles Of Rome, Book IV (2013)

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Enrico Marini - Les Aigles de Rome, Livre IV / The Eagles Of Rome, Book IV (2013)