#Part One of Many

[bizarrelittlemew]

Rhys Darby as Charles in A Series of Unfortunate Events S1:E7+E8 ⪼ greeting the trespassers children.

[suburbanbonfire]

cats wipppp

[phoenixcatch7]

A comprehensive and detailed timeline about the ancient past of totk

Okay I was going to append this to someone else's theory post but it got out of hand size wise and that's a tad rude so I'm making my own.

(Part 1) (long post)

Totk ancient history, let's go!

So! What do we know about the botw timeline, first?

Ancient sheikah! They've existed since the beginning of hyrule, but these lot were scifi. They supposedly took inspiration partly from the zonai before they (the zonai) died out. They built all the tech to fight calamity ganon. (and presumably improve their quality of life, but we don't see much of that)

Calamity ganon. First appearance 10k years ago. Second appearance in botw (technically 100 years ago? Not important, he didn't leave and come back). Zelda (or rhoam or impa) say it gave up its mortal from to be a giant goo pig. Both attacks were foreseen by sheikah seers.

Rito and zora existing together! This is very important! Rito originally evolved from zora in wind waker, so they've never existed together.

Them existing together, along with basically everything else about botw lol, proves we're working with a merged timeline. Gang's all here!

A divine beast (probably) took that chunk out of hebra peak. Lol. Lmao, even. Most likely to be ruta or medoh.

The duelling peaks are split in their artwork (the observatory and sword trial chamber). Rumour (npc gossip) has it a dragon flew through and split them in two.

The sheikah knew about the master sword. Somehow installed... Whatever the sword trials are. Also the master cycle, which, heck yeah, wish totk had that, hand built stuff isn't a fraction as good or cheap.

The sheikah built the shrine of resurrection. Even in botw, it's said it was built over a spring of healing water.

Now, let's briefly cover what we learned in totk.

The zonai! Of course! We learn a lot from the tear flashbacks. They descended from the sky to earth to 'found hyrule' (lmao) with their secret stones that boost powers. Already a dying race at that point. Rauru and mineru are the only ones we ever see. They're guarded and served solely by hylians.

Sonia, a priestess (of at least the triforce if not hylia), blood of hylia. She was one of the people first greeting the zonai, which tells us they descended in that generation.

The rito and zora are already there! The timelines are already merged! We see the ghost of what the sheikah took inspo from with the zonai animal masks.

A gerudo sage! Despite the gerudo still being led by ganondorf... That must have been fun. Likely the ruler of the gerudo after ganon is defeated, which must have been a Trial and a Half in THAT political landscape.

The duelling peaks are... intact. This lends a lot of credence to the dragon theory!

There are no floating islands in zeldas time. This implies either the cloud barrier is intact and zonai still lived up there for a while, or the whole zonai race went to earth and brought their islands with them.

The great plateau walls are already there. Hylian design.

The hero's aspect. A half hylian, half zonai hero. This confirms that the hero can be reborn into bodies that aren't purely hylian (or, well.... We'll get back to that). It also could not be more clear that it's the hero from the calamity tapestry! Even has a pointy face where zelda has flat. Booty shorts/skirt. The red hair is important.

Ganon has been reborn, zelda arrived via time travel, but there's no hero? Rather, the only one to defeat him named link is our totk boy 10k years later.

The zonai temple of time is on the plateau. Where the landmass under it comes from I DO not know.

The zonai temple of time is currently not really very close to the plateau. This implies islands can drift. This isn't relevant but is cool.

We get no explanation for the zonai ruins in the jungle. Which is a crying shame. Rauru never ever goes to the jungle. The best we get is the dragons head quest. Or the labyrinths! Well... I'll get back to that as well.

The depths, the zonai mines, zonaite. Despite being from the clouds, the zonai get their powerful metal, the one named after them, the stuff they make everything out of, from the deepest, darkest depths of hyrule (literally lol). The only other place zonaite can be found is some caves in the sky.

The distinctive swirl of zonai magic above shrines perfectly matches rauru's final spell. The shrines were constructed by/for rauru and Sonia, said to help 'seal the darkness and prevent it encroaching on hyrule'. Underneath each one is an inactive light root, which, when activated, becomes surrounded by the only hylian flora in the depths. Hilariously, you can pick up the actual shrines in pebble form and cart them around.

Unfortunately, one can only install a single read more, so I'm going to make it a new post.

Topics I intend to cover:

How the timelines fused and the state of it currently

Possible origins of the zonai and how long they stuck around

The ancient hero and what it means for the timeline

The relation between the sheikah, the zonai, and the hylian king

The state of hyrule 10k years ago, politically

The original sages being the blood ancestors of every new sage, but using the champion voice actors. Also population statistics

Ganondorf v calamity ganon v phantom ganon v the blights v the depths (there's a lot of ganon)!

What this means for age of calamity...

My best attempt at covering everything from the fusion of the timelines to the events that start breath of the wild, sticking as close to canon and as far from headcanon as possible.

[jetlaggedben]

MELBOURNE | DAY 1 | PART ONE

[morgansmornings]

The Umbra

Also called the Spirit World, the Shadow, or the Velvet Shadow, is a realm existing alongside and yet separate from the material world.

(Above, the Garou Glyph for the Umbra)

umbra: Latin: shadow. A complete shadow (as of the Moon) within which the source of light (the Sun) is totally hidden from view. The term "Umbra" is generally used, particularly by werewolves, to refer specifically to the "Spirit Wilds," or Middle Umbra. However, there is more to Umbral cosmology than this.

Some, like the Void Engineers, consider the Umbra an alternate or parallel dimension, universe, or reality, despite it being, technically, occupying the same physical space as the Earth.

Earth- The material world, also known to Garou as the Gaia Realm and to wraiths as the Skinlands, is the world of everyday life with which all humans, vampires, mages, hunters, and werewolves are familiar.

[nomilkinmyteaplease]

Adam Nagaitis in Gold

[redchikittymeow]

[this-nightmare-doesnt-exist-yet]

Improvised Bastard D&D Fight

[starridge]

puppet hour was brutal

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Hey now, Let her cook!

[quillswriting]

Adventure 1, Chapter 1 of Shifting Worlds

The players, Masterlist

Amon Drakerock, the dwarven card master.  Anton, the halfing wizard.  Zephyr, the elemental demon absolute healer.  Ghita Skarsgard, the Shadar-Kai rogue that mutliclassed into barbarian.  First Portion: Dug, the alchemical automaton artificer.  Second Portion: Mayis, the tielfing gunslinger pirate.

Chapter One: Artificum

The story started with Amon, Anton, Zephyr, Ghita, and Dug meeting each other at a skyport station following the same job posting - a call from the Empress of the Rulum Empire to meet with her at Hellsfenn Palace. They meet with Captain Jassan and go with him on the Alchemical Dragon airship to meet the Empress in the heart of the empire, the city of Artificum. Also aboard, the group meets Head Artificer Medrash Classenfair - the artificer responsible for the creation of the Alchemical Dragon. 

In Artificum, they meet Empress Lerissa Hellsfenn, her brother Lord Commander Malil Hellsfenn, and her daughter the Princess Creed Hellsfenn. In a meeting with Empress Lerissa and Commander Malil, they’re made aware of the details of their mission, to investigate the so called ‘Cursed Mountain’ in a new region that recently joined the empire as a ceded region and investigate the mounting number of disappearances in the region. Princess Creed is to join the expedition as an ambassador for the empress directly.

The adventuring party is forced to stay the rest of the day and the night in the palace when it’s discovered that three cadets in the Royal Fleet overheated the delicate engine of the Alchemical Dragon while docked at the palace. The cadets are Prince Aelar “Eli” Goldenfenn, Prince Donnar “Coop” Scalefenn, and Prince Taklinn “Coal” Hammersfenn - the eldest sons of each of the Empress’ rulers and generals in the farther regions of the Empire. Because of their mistakes and the potential danger of the mission the crew of the Alchemical Dragon was about to undertake, the trio are ordered to stay at the palace. 

In the early morning hours of the next day, the crew of the Alchemical Dragon take to the skies toward their destination - one that is several days of constant flight away.

[hinamie]

I don't want to regret the way I lived

[enityscreation]

What about the narrator? (PT.1)

And that my friends is how Rapunzel got her happily ever af- “Don’t mean to interrupt Mr.Narrator '' You…can hear me!? How is that possible!? “Well honestly I’m not sure but aren’t you tired of reading everyone’s happily ever after while you don't ge-'' SHUT UP! “A bit rude” I DON'T CARE! YOU DON’T SEE HOW MY LIFE IS AT STAKE! STOP BREAKING THE FANTASY WALL AND PLAY YOUR PART FOR EVERYONE’S SAFETY! “And if I con-” THAT’S IT! I’M TRASHING THE BOOK AND REMAKING IT JUST FOR MY LIFE! “Wait i-” …is that thing gone? I don’t hear it…time to remake ANOTHER book. Why do they keep breaking that wall? My life has been on a thin line EIGHT times now just because of their selfishness! Should do a new one while the other book recreates…Ahem!

Long ago in a place called Arendelle there lived two parents and their two beautiful daughters named Elsa and Anna. Elsa was born with magical powers that linked to ice and snow while Anna had none. The parents did not worry..yet…on one night while the sisters were playing with Elsa’s powers it got a little out of hand. “ANNA WAIT!” As soon as Elsa said that she accidentally hit Anna making her sister fall to the ground in pain. Their parents heard the commotion making them worried so they decided to check it out. “I-I didn’t mean to hurt her!” Elsa cried as she held her unconscious sister’s body, making her mother gasp while her father took Anna from her, both of them knowing who they needed to see…the rock people. “Please help our daughter!” Anna’s father begged while one of the rock people gently took her away from her mother, softly putting her on a flat rock, letting the powerful one take a look at her.

Elsa was waiting for her family until she looked u-, “I’m sorry to interrupt but you have a soothing voice” T..thank you I suppose but may I go back to reading? “Of course” Ahem..Elsa was waiting for her family until she looked up to the sky and prayed for her sister's safety, she truly never wished to hurt her little sister all she wanted to do was play with her but she was too fast for her to catch her! She knew that she’ll wear gloves and spend her time in her room alone because her parents will worry…so maybe she can just spend this time alone looking at the sky with a little softness and peacefulness for now even if she knows the outcome will happen.

And they lived happily ever after..even if they have chaos following them. “Um mister? Or ma’am..can we talk more please? I understand if not” Ah Elsa…I suppose so since I did finish the book. “Thank you sir, what is your name?” My name? Well…it seems I do not have one other than the Narrator. “How about I name you?” That would be very sweet of you. “Hm…how about Magnus? If you don’t like that then how about Madhu?” Hm…Madhu sounds good. “Madhu it is! Suits you a lot!” Please, you don’t know anything about me other than I am the Narrator. “Yet you seem like a good guy! So I’ll stick it out till the end!” Such a stubborn girl you are.

“Isn’t that the best part of me?” I suppose so since your stubbornness did make you a great queen to your kingdom and mentor to your little sister, you do what’s best for those around you…but I was hoping you’d kick Hans. “It was tempting but Anna wanted it” Makes sense, he played with her heart and tried to kill her last living blood family..never understood why he didn’t wait. I do not mean to be rude but logically, he could’ve waited until he and Anna married to then reveal his plan. “True..but the snow curse” Wouldn’t work, I know I know but still!

[unforth]

Y'all have got to stop virulently hating men. Like, I'm sorry, I fucking hate the patriarchy too, but the patriarchy isn't just men and saying it is just exculpates complicit women. I am the mother of a young boy, and I look at this precious, empathetic 8 year old boy I'm raising and I don't know where online is safe for him. Places like this will say he's evil just for his gender, and other places will say "we'll be your friend if you hate with us," and still others will radicalize him in other ways. Where is he supposed to go? Why are we saying the radicalization is the fault of the kids just trying to find a place to hang?

Like this is seriously getting urgent. You have got to fucking stop conflating the patriarchy and men. 53% percent of white women voted for Trump. Men aren't the problem. White supremacy and Christian patriarchal structures are two examples of patriarchy-reinforcing structures that aren't solely couched in maleness. Men aren't the problem, and pretending they are drives more men into more welcoming extremist spaces and also ignores all the parts of this that are forwarded by people who aren't men.

What I see happening all over is scared, depressed, lonely people looking for someone they're allowed to hate automatically, unquestioningly - someone they're allowed to place all the blame on. Fascism says people of color, non-Christian people, queer people, etc., are the ones they're allowed to hate.

And way too many of yall answer that no, it's leftist to hate men instead. You are doing *the exact same thing they are.*

Fucking knock it off.

The answer is we're not supposed to hate anyone automatically based on their immutable personal characteristics. Hate the specific people who've hurt you. Hate the self-reinforcing systems that let them get away with hurting you. Hate the strangers who prop up those systems. Hate the fascists. Hell knows I hate Donald Trump, but it's not because he's a man, it's because he's a piece of shit.

Hate the pieces of shit, not the gender.

But don't hate men just because they're men. That's unhelpful, stupid, insane, and entirely counterproductive. Fucking. Stop.

[magicicephoenix]

i finally finished reading I see you, Sundrop! by @shirajellyfish and IT'S SO GOOD I CAN'T BELIEVE IT TOOK ME THIS LONG TO FINISH IT RAAAAAAA

i will be gushing about it in the tags but here's a lil animation i made based on the below paragraph in chapter 6 that gave me such a strong mental image that i had to make it real :)

[beastwhimsy]

some pieces I've done for my exhibition! do not repost or reupload without my permission. image descriptions in alt text