#Sleeper's Tomb

[midnightcrows]

“Ninth was my name,” said the new arrival. “Ninth was my hearth, and my homeland. Here have I come at your calling. None may return from the River unless he be bidden by blood-rite; tell me, why have I been drawn here?”

Art print store here!

[wubbelwubbwubb]

Don’t wake the Sleeper

Thank you @theriverbeyond for letting me use your cosplay pictures as a reference, and for creating such an awesome Wake cosplay! The moment I saw it, I knew I had to draw it.

[cosqf]

a battle between legends

i rarely see people drawing nonius and the sleeper so i Took it upon Myself. share any artworks of them... i wanna see other designs :]

[corvidtime]

just realized that ortus gets thrown head-first into the harrow nova au and simply... plays along?? this grown man finds himself in a new costume opposite the reverend daughter, who is now decidedly dressed as a cavalier, and just decides to roll with it?? "yes, harrow, but my father would kill me!" my guy, none of this is real and you know it.

leave it to ortus to be chucked into a strange alternate universe in harrow's mind palace and decide "well, i've always wanted to do improv!!"

[ruby-lith]

[dorkfruit]

asked for requests of underrated characters in the locked tomb fandom. so here's the sketch page i did! oh and a babs for someone who asked for him didn't know anything about these guys so i had to look them up and found ... not much ! who wouldve thought that when i asked for underappreciated characters i would find nothing to reference LOL

[katakaluptastrophy]

Wait...wait...I've just realised something about The Sleeper.

So obviously there's the whole joke on the name Wake (as Ortus himself accidentally points out: "Perhaps a better name would have been.… the Waker") but...I think there's also (yet another) classical reference here.

In Aeschylus' Eumenides, Orestes is pursued by the Furies for the murder of his mother, Clytemnestra. The Furies in question are Tisiphone (“avenging murder”), Megaera (“grudging”), and...oh yeah...Alecto (“unceasing”).

To give Orestes a respite, the god Apollo puts the Furies to sleep, but they are woken by the ghost of Clytemnestra.

Now usually when ghosts turn up in ancient Greek plays/poems/etc it's to complain about not having been buried properly. Clytemnestra turns up asking for vengeance. (The Furies then track Orestes by the scent of his mother's blood on him, and then it all goes a bit Judge Judy with the goddess Athena, but that's getting past Clytemnestra...)

Anyway, Clytemnestra's ghost turns up and says to the Furies: "Sleep on! Aha! Yet what need is there of sleepers?"

So apparently the River bubble is just niche ancient Greek ghost references all the way down...

[frolicwithfelix]

‘Ninth was my name. Ninth was my hearth, and my homeland.’ - Matthias Nonius

Still working on this cosplay (need the proper weapons and to make knucklebone prayer beads) but I’m digging it so far 🤙🏻 Gosh I love TLT.

[wvelyn]

Milf. Would.

[jbm04]

Makes me wonder:

[midnightcrows]

Matthias Nonius, the greatest swordsman of the Ninth, vs the Sleeper

Inprnt store here!

[hug-kiss-marry-kill]

[forlorngarden]

no but really ianthe is the embodiment of 'you want me so bad it makes you look stupid'. she's doing everything to appear nonchalant and way ahead everyone without trying. and when she talks about harrow she misses that mark, just so. not very obviously, but still she loses her balance. it's peak entertainment to watch. my chalant prince <3

[claudiatherelentless]

*smh* I dont know how Anyone took Wake seriously with this business card.

[fortjester]

undoubtedly someone's made a post abt this before, but at work today i was thinking about this

[squints at him] what do you know?? what do you know, ortus????

[bb-enablefreebuild]

HTN described a portrait of Wake in the shuttle Camilla arrived in so here’s my interpretation lol