#Tiamat theme

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 250

So blame it on me making food-themed dragons, and failing to draw a full-body of the Ennead in the Class Pulls a Tiamat Aus. So Why not combine them- along with a hint of Ghosts are Dragons. 

See, most, if not every, person in Amity Park, and even it’s surrounding areas, know better than to use the W word. It is borderline taboo to use the ‘wish’ word. But somebody got drunk, said a thing they shouldn’t have, and now there’s a bit of an issue. 

Which honestly, they could have dealt with! Easily even! If not for the fact that erm, realms beings can get summoned. Meaning Desiree is well, gone. Gone long enough for the twenty-four hour mark to pass. And they can’t exactly punish a ghost for doing what’s in their nature and part of their very Core. 

So. 

It seems everyone is food themed now. Every ghost and liminal- though at least Amity was already weird and pretty hidden from the Outside nowadays- and even a few undead. 

Honestly, Fright Knight should not look so terrifying with his new coloration and criss-cross patterns across his back. But well, he pulls it off, burnt-looking limbs and all. (Seriously, his flames look more like whip-cream now and he’s still somehow pulling it off- Dash wants to know his secret! 

At least the nine of them haven’t gotten it too bad, probably. And Lunch Lady is pleased, so there’s that, but still. Jazz looks like a dragon sushi roll for Realm’s sake, and- okay that’s kind of funny. Vlad you can’t hide your new fruit-based appearance! 

Hah!

Oh Realms there’ll need to be so much paperwork for th- Oh thank fuck someone is summoning them now. Alright, showtime! Time to be Heir of the Infinite, big scary nine headed dragon! Ignore the food-theme-ish guys! 

[snippydippy]

SEEKING ARTISTS TO COMMISSION

Hey, y'all! My D&D group and I are looking to commission an artist. Our Dungeon Master is moving out of state, and our campaign over a year running is coming to a close.

As a gift to him, a sendoff to the campaign and a reward for all of us, we'd like to get a movie-poster-style piece done of our characters. (The floating head kind that everyone hates, you know the ones lol)

This would include four characters that are full body at the forefront, a half body of our DM looking over the group, and a couple "floating heads" of at least three of our fave NPC's.

I will send full descriptions and references for each character to whoever is interested in taking this job on.

Budget!

We as a group realize that we're looking at well into three digits for a commission like this, and the four of us players are all pooling together to afford the artwork our DM deserves for all the work and love he's poured into this campaign.

I was originally going to be the one to give this a shot, but my skill level simply isn't where it needs to be for a project like this. Maybe one day I'll make a big piece for us myself, but for now we all want to make sure it's the best it can possibly be for our friend.

The sketch on this post is one I did just to get an idea of what we want. It is by no means a guideline, just our Barbarian and I spit balling ideas.

We are looking for a professional. Someone who has examples of other works they've done in a similar vein (group pieces with full color, shading, backgrounds, and good pose work!)

If you would like to throw your hat in the ring as an artist, please reach out to me! My DMs, ask box and the replies to this post are open! I'm also on Instagram as Snippydippyart if anyone would rather message there. Thank you!!

[blujayonthewing]

list of heavily moralizing questions to make my true neutral and deeply exhausted and fucking fed up ranger go berserk and just start tearing out throats

[striderstable]

Dungeons & Dragons - 01 - The Night Of No Tomorrow

Dungeon Master sends the children northward to the town of Helix to attend a local dragon-banishment celebration. On the way they meet Merlin in his magnificentssky castle. The wizard offers to make Presto his apprentice, only if the young mage chooses to leave his friends and stay there for the rest of his life. But is Merlin's once-in-a-lifetime offer all that it appears?

[kumoofthemaken]

[Hmmm... cooking something... Maybe I will change Kumo's vessel-name from Anu to Su'en, to better illustrate his ties to the night, the moon and sleep. Su'en's primary spelling seems to be Sin, but I don't want the accidental ties to Christian theology or FFX 😆]

[vintagerpg]

Well, whatever the problems of the previous modules in the series, H4: The Throne of Bloodstone (1988) has no intention of leaving players wanting. The theme here is “Go big” and, well, it does. The “H” always stood for “high-level” but none of the previous modules earn that classification quite like H4, which has a rating of level 18 to ONE HUNDRED.

Plot? Simple. Get the Wand of Orcus. Destroy it. And also Orcus. In his house. The adventure starts with the final confrontation with the Witch King who had been the source of all the problems in H1-3. They then journey to the Abyss and make their way to Orcus’ fortress. The encounters are frankly ridiculous. Demogorgon, Yeenoghu, Juiblex, Graz’zt and more await to be battled or bargained with along the way. There is a city of 100 liches. There is another tarrasque. There are multiple hard to parse mazes that defy conventional physics. Then you fight Orcus. And after all that, you know what you need to do to destroy Orcus’ stupid wand? It needs to be dipped in the heartblood of Tiamat. Sure, no biggie, off to Hell we go!

I don’t think H4 gets talked about enough. It is possible the most over the top, ridiculous, improbably difficult adventure TSR ever produced (the book offhandedly recommends two DMs run the fight against Tiamat, but gives zero guidance on how that would turn out). Everybody is always like “Oh, yea, gonzo old school, like White Plume Mountain,” or “Oh, yea, deadly old school, like Tomb of Horrors.” This thing has both those beat. Handily.

Great cover by Keith Parkinson. Among my favorites. The lads from the band Final Gasp like it too.

[meepetteoneonly]

Raphael and Tiamant (the DND dragon goddess and archdevil) theory

So I will once again refer to all the pieces of the puzzle already discovered and shared by @certifieddilfenjoyer and another layer of theories and questions about Raphael...

(Sorry for spam, I just wanted to add it to my theory collection but I also want to make a separate post, because I am so excited!)

We already know, that Vlaakith made a deal with some devil in order to carry out the coup against Mother Gith, i.e. mother of Orpheus. However, the important information is also what Lae’Zael tells us after we are attacked by Githyanki at Wyrm’s Lookout the night before we reach Baldur’s Gate.

Once we successfuly defeated Orpheus’s protectors and Emperor uncovered himself, Lae’Zael tells us, that what we know about Orpheus is only half of a story and that Gith managed to defeat Illithids because she made a deal with Archdevil Tiamant. Also, she explains that it was Tiamant who gifted Githyankis their red dragons.

Furthermore, she tells us that Mother Gith stayed in Hells and that Tiamant’s envoy helped Vlaakith with her mission to become the queen.

Tiamant’s enovy. A devil with wry charm who did a deal with Vlaakith (according to the disk we find in Astral Prism near Orpheus). I wonder, who that may be… 

Now - who is this Archdevil Tiamant? I didn’t know either, but Forgotten Realms wiki had my back again:

Tiamant was the lawful evil dragon goddess of greed, queen of evil dragons and, for a time, reluctant servant of the greater gods Bane and later Asmodeus.

Do we know how Gortash become chosen of Bane, btw?

Tiamat was a unique chromatic dragon, who had one head for each primary color of the most common species of chromatics (black, blue, green, red, white). Each head was able to operate entirely independently of each other and had the powers of a member of the respective race of dragonkind.

Primary colours are subtle theme that is common to Orpheus’s bubble, the bubble we can see inside Astral Prism for the first or so time we get inside.

Also, „Astral Prism… or Prison“, as Gortash put it in his notes… Prism is triangular piece of glass that disperse the light into primary colours.

Tiamat had three manifestations in Avernus as well, one of which never left the gate to Dis. She also had a lair in Avernus, on the Nine Hells, known as Tiamat's Lair.

Tiamat's Lair was the divine realm and prison of Tiamat in Avernus, the first layer of the Nine Hells, according to the Great Wheel cosmology. The realm was a large cave system within a tall mountain, hidden in the hills of Avernus. It held the only known portal that led to the second layer, Dis. 

Avernus. Here we are. Interesting, isn’t it?

The lair was also inhabited by Tiamat's mates and their descendants. The realm was generally avoided by demons, who were aware of Tiamat's lack of interest in the Blood War.It was, however, occasionally visited by devils offering gifts, hoping to seal bargains with Tiamat.

Do we know anyone who is always up to a bargain?

Tiamat wanted to take control of the Realms, and even as she was thwarted again and again by her enemies, she didn't give up. As of 1491 DR, however, her primary goal was to break free from the Nine Hells.

Having once been an archfiend living on Avernus, Tiamat was loosely allied with Bel and lent him many Abishai to fight in the Blood War. She resented Mammon for converting some evil dragons away from her. She helped Asmodeus forge his Ruby Rod.  She developed an enmity with Asmodeus and the archdevil Bel after they betrayed her.

The crafting of the rod required the shard of evil and a huge ruby to be soaked in the blood of a thousand sacrificed mortals, quenched in Tiamat's acidic saliva, and polished with 777 angel tears.

That’s a little weird but I guess it is better to have a ruby quenched in super-powerful dragon goddess’s saliva than to have no ruby at all.

Also, Orphic hammer is decorated with red gems as well. And infernal chains binding Orpheus and Hope are attached to some red rocks. Rubys, prehaps?

Finally, Raphael doesn’t seem to be someone into crafting and forging, so there has to be someone who forged the shackles and muzzle for Orpheus and Astral Prism. Given that Astral Prism was probably created at the same time Tiamant was doing business with Gith, maybe it was her… Or maybe she helped Raphael? 

As regards the blood of secrificed mortals, I wonder, was Mephistopheles up to something similar with the Rite of Profane Ascension? 

Ok, let’s continue… 

The church of Tiamat was regimented by a strict hierarchy of ranks and titles. Her clerics were occupied by the twin tasks of acquiring an ever-increasing hoard of wealth for the faith and sabotaging the faiths of other deities. As a result, they occupied most of their time with an unending series of thefts, assassinations, acts of vandalism, and arson. In Unther and Chessenta they were primarily concerned with seizing as much power as possible, while in western Faerun, the cult's agents were focused on subverting the Cult of the Dragon.

Which is interesting. The Cult of Dragon attacked Baldur’s Gate and when Wyll came to the rescue, he end up being tied to Mizora. If you speak with Wyll about the event, he tells you that Mizora didn’t care for the city, but Zariel sent her for some reason.

The Forgotten Realms wiki provides: … However, to avoid disappointing Asmodeus again and to prevent a conflict with Bel, Tiamat refused, instead offering to be Asmodeus' champion and devouring all who opposed him (and offering covert aid to Zariel to prevent Bel from becoming too powerful). So, did Zariel sent Mizora to help Wyll with Cult of the Dragon to do Tiamant some favour? 

This was everything I managed to put together after I rushed to research this Tiamant lady right after Lae’Zael spoke about her in the game. 

So my theory is that Raphael somehow serve Tiamant (or served) or that he has some kind of bargain with her. But the only weak proof is that Tiamant’s envoy helped Vlaakith and that this envoy had wry charm… That’s not much.

I also found this super cool fanart of Tiamant by an artist Jexion and in my opinion, I could see Raphael on his knees for someone like that...

[commsroom]

Hello. It occurred to me recently that Hera is the only character of the main cast who is not named for an engineer/physicist/mathematician. Do u think this has any significance regarding her role on the team and her character, or not really?

(Also, the wiki says she's probably named for the Greek goddess Hera which has interesting connotations if it's true. There was also a NASA probe called Hera at some point I'm pretty sure, but I don't know which is the more likely namesake. I just enjoy the names in W359 because I am a physics student and it's fun to hear character names in all my classes.)

hi! i think the answer is kind of... yes and no? like, gabriel urbina has said his process of naming characters is first to choose a category to pick surnames from, to narrow down the options (so, in this case, famous scientists), and then to find given names that he thinks sound good with those surnames. so i don't think symbolism is the purpose, and i don't think it needs to be. but hera, obviously... doesn't have a last name. and so the way she was named (both in and out of universe) is different, and i think that does represent something.

first: hera is the mother program of the hephaestus. the hera of greek mythology is the mother of hephaestus and cast him out of the sky. the allusions are obviously intentional. (as are other mythology names in the show, but that's another topic.) second: a lot of real world things relating to space are named for mythology, and clearly cutter agrees that's how it should be done. but also: goddard's AIs share the same naming scheme with their spacecrafts. hera, rhea, eris, enlil, perseus, hyperion vs. hephaestus, hermes, tiamat, urania, valkyrie, sol. in one sense, this marks them as company property, people who are treated as equivalent to technology.

but, third: from a writing perspective, gabriel urbina has also said he only started getting a sense of who hera was when he started writing for michaela swee in the second episode; there's such a difference in how she's written just between those first two scripts. you can even see in the first recording script that her name was stylized HERA, as if it stood for something, like a much more standard AI character might have been named. which goes so far against what her name actually ended up representing that it retroactively becomes an in-universe microaggression.

and so, fourth: despite all of that, the real thing that makes hera's name stand apart is that it's a chosen name. it's offered to her, but not the way a name is given - it's a bribe, with the understanding it can be taken away from her. rachel says she can see what else is available if hera "has a problem with the etymology or any of the allusions," which is kind of interesting. but hera chooses to be hera. i don't think it's a stretch to say she has a deadname and a chosen name: that she has to introduce herself every time in a way that amounts to "i prefer to be called hera" and that her name is treated as optional and conditional, a reward for good behavior. if hera wanted to take a middle or last name, she would be choosing those, too.

i think ultimately names in wolf 359 are less about categorization and/or symbolism and more about identity. names are symbols that represent and contain the people who claim them. how people are referred to, when, and by whom - as well as how people refer to themselves by name as an act of self-determination, a reclamation of identity, or in defiance - is all central to the themes of the show. and, from that perspective, i think how hera is named (and what her name means to her, how she has had to construct and fight for parts of her identity that others are given as a default assumption) is significant, but i don't think it really sets her apart from the others when their names are treated in similar ways thematically.

[astra-ravana]

Working With Tiamat

Primordial Goddess Of Dragons

Other titles: Primordial Goddess Of Creation And Destruction, the Salt of the Sea, the Mother Goddess

Colors: Blue, green, red, gold, white, black

Herbs: Seaweed, dragon's blood, lavender, rose, sandalwood, frankincense, datura, sage, honeysuckle, marshmallow, bindweed, nettles, willow, lotus, dulse, bergamot, basil, holly

Crystals: Amazonite, dragon's blood jasper, larimar, ocean jasper, corundom, phenacite, malachite, red coral, aquamarine, garnet, jade, serpentine, obsidian, herkimer diamond, apophyllite, topaz, quartz en hydro, emerald

Element: Water

Planet: Saturn/Neptune

Zodiac: Scorpio

Metal: Gold, tungsten, pewter

Tarot: The World, the Empress, the Tower

Day: Friday, Saturday

Animals: Dragons, snakes, whales, sharks, predatory fish, eagles, condors

Domains: Creation, destruction, motherhood, fertility, revenge, chaos magick, shape-shifting, empowerment, magickal strength and ability, vampyric magick, confidence, sea magick, shadow work, primal awakenings, baneful magick, kundalini activation

Offerings: Sea salt, driftwood, shells, fish, fish bones, sea glass, anything from the sea, red wine, blood, flowers, dragon/snake figures, oroboros themed items

Symbols:

[bitchesgate3]

I will never be a fan of Larian's soft reimagining of the lore behind Gith.

It was Gith's undying anger that made her stand up against mindflayers. What inspired a disempowered populace of shriveled bodies and dominated minds to rise up against entities that were controlling every aspect of their mind, body, and personhood.

Every squick aspect of mindflayers that we encounter in game, where mindflayers can warp your understanding of reality, gith ancestors experienced for millennia - irreparably changing them into what they are now. Vessels of anger. Even the Githzerai possess this inherited anger, going to great lengths to control this inner "chaos" through monasticism and mind mastery.

In the heart of every Githyanki, however, is an echo of Gith's creed "To never be made a slave again." The promise was so intense, it consumed her.

She was no angel with a messiah son. She brought Hell.

The Githyanki have red dragon mounts because she was willing to go to Hell for it.

The allegory is that she lost her soul in doing so. Unbound Rage corrupting into Soullessness. Betrayed by Vlaakith and Tiamat. Soullessness corrupting into Greed. Vlaakith, high necromancer and potential lich through all the reigns, makes a deal with the Goddess of Deception, Greed, and Envy. Some lore speculated that the deal made all gith souls go to Tiamat when they died. And Vlaakith's cleverness and desire for godhood made her seek to consume these souls before Tiamat could get them. So in the end, Gith damned not only her soul but the souls of all gith because of the extreme lengths her rage went.

Gith being fury and anger is so important to what I like about Githyanki lore. Imagine a mother figure who gets mad on your behalf and is willing to fight about it. That is the root of Githyanki arrogance. Why they venerate "Mother Gith".

You were worthy enough for Mother to start a war.

And this theme trickles down to every female Githyanki. They are bitches and hotheaded and fiery because of this motif. Aren't you jealous of how passionate they can get. Don't you envy to have that passion placed on you? Don't you seek to be worthy of that fire?

They themselves are an army. They will not settle for less than they feel they deserve. They are not afraid to fight you. Not afraid to start a war.

And that is very important to me.

[megarahmoon]

Name change!! And I am so happy with it. You already know my BP as Monty, but I've decided to name her after one of my most loved goddesses, Tiamat. This is going to be a bit long winded because I'm obsessed with ancient goddesses (and goddesses in general) and I love to share their ancient history because not many people in this modern world know too much about goddesses and gods.

In Babylonian mythology, Tiamat is a primordial mesopotamian goddess of the ocean and personification of chaos. evidence of Tiamat is the oldest known. It dates back to 2000 B.C.E. from Sumer and Babylon. At the beginning of Tiamat’s story, she personifies young and fertile motherhood, giving birth to a multitude of deity offspring. During this stage, Tiamat is described as calm and loving, she gave birth to the first generation of gods, but when her offspring turn murderous, killing her husband Apsu, Tiamat enters her second phase — her anger transforms her into a vengeful monster with five independent heads. Ultimately, this stage is Tiamat’s undoing, as her need for revenge and her formidable power leads her into battle with the storm god, Marduk, who split her body in half, the top portion of her body becoming the sky and the bottom became the earth and her tears created the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. She is considered the Mother of All and all Babylonian gods are her descendants. As described by the New World Encyclopedia:

“The entirety of the material creation was thus generated, with half of her body as the sky, the other half as the Earth, her ribs (or thigh bones) as the vault of Heaven and Earth, her monstrous udder as the mountains, her weeping eyes as the source of the Tigris and the Euphrates and her poisonous spittle as the earthly moisture (clouds, winds, rain, and fog).”

Tiamat’s multiple personalities represents the many stages of in a woman’s life, as well as prescribed gender roles relating to power and sexuality. Society negatively stereotypes older women, ultimately punishing them for their independence and ambition. Tiamat’s violent end is identified with the often complicated role powerful women face, both in ancient and modern times. Tiamat has the appearance of a dragon or a serpent. Sometimes, she is multi-headed, due to the modern influences from the Dungeons & Dragons, though there is no image dating to Mesopotamian times which has been identified as depicting this goddess. She is the elemental powerful force of chaos, the Mother of Everything, the self-procreating womb, the source of all life and all manifestation. Tiamat’s themes are history, change, spirituality, fertility, birth and creativity. Her symbols are reptiles and seawater.

I've always wanted to name my own snake after Tiamat and I should have just changed her name years ago after my brother gave her to me ✨

[laurelnose]

Forgive my desperate urgency but you are The Person whose opinion I must have on this topic-- I don't know very much about D&D and especially not about dragonborn, I am only in the BG3 fandom for Vibes, but this came up as of course it did because I'm me--

DO DRAGONBORN HAVE GIZZARDS

please we must discuss this

A VERY IMPORTANT QUESTION DESERVING OF SERIOUS CONTEMPLATION

So dragonborn are descended directly from chromatic/metallic/gem dragons in some way (the exact way is a point of theological contention). The difference between those three dragon types is, to the best of my limited knowledge, not germane to the discussion. I will consider dragons as a single category.

Dragons are definitely not reptiles. They are warm-blooded and they act like cats. I do not actually think the cat thing is relevant to them being reptiles or not, Forgotten Realms wiki, but thank you anyways. So they are not like crocodiles, but are they like birds? Probably not. Although they did evolve from proto-dragon species which were among the few survivors of the cataclysm that killed the dinosaurs. Much like birds! (Or maybe they were created by the gods. Whatever. I’m not getting into a Faerûnian creationism debate. Anyways, in this context only, por qué no los dos.)

Dragons are preferentially carnivorous, but functionally omnivorous, with an emphasis on the omni. They can eat and digest just about anything, including inorganic materials. This ability is because of their “innate elemental nature”, which kind of makes me think dragons don’t really have digestive systems as we know them. They’re more like great primordial engines. I think this precludes gizzards in the dragons themselves — how would they get stones in their gizzards if their digestive system can break down stone? What would they even use them for? So if dragonborn have gizzards, they did not get them from the dragons.

Dragonborn do not seem to usually be capable of regularly digesting rocks, so if they swallow inorganic matter it should stay where it’s put. Baby dragonborn are born toothless and are fed by a lactating parent (dragonborn → monotremes??) until they grow teeth, and then are graduated through soft foods up to regular food (consisting of much more meat than your average humanoid). They are capable of digesting non-meat foods, but it doesn’t look like they have the dentition to chew non-meat foods. Which is why birds of just about all diets have gizzards — they don’t got no teeth! I’m going to go with either dragonborn have trouble eating vegetarian meals, as they have no grinding molars, or they do have gizzards. Courtesy of whatever primeval force or deity created them, maybe.

I also considered whether, if dragonborn are normally gizzardless, the Dark Urge specifically might have been created with special dietary capabilities, but you don’t need a gizzard for, say, osteophagy. (Notably, the only primarily osteophagous bird, the bearded vulture, has lost its gizzard.) And I feel like the other things animals use gizzards to digest are not quite On Theme, as it were. However, they might possibly, like bearded vultures, have a hardened, partially keratinized digestive lining for dramatic osteophagy (involving sharp broken-off pieces of bones).

On a different hand, dragonborn manifest draconic abilities at different levels, ranging from different or multiple breath weapons, dragonfear, or abilities from Bahamut or Tiamat. I wonder if some dragonborn, maybe those with particularly strong breath weapons (since the breath weapons are formed from elemental energy produced by dragons’ unique diets), might also manifest the ability to Just Eat Fucking Rocks. Not a glamorous ability! But very fun I think! Possibly more fun for dragonborn which do not natively have gizzards, as having a sort of elemental furnace in their belly instead of a stomach would then enable them to more comfortably eat food like salads.

On another totally different hand, polymorphed dragons (or not polymorphed, if you’re not a coward) are supposed to be able to hybridize with most of the humanoids, producing children that may take after either or both parents, and aarakocra and kenku are Right There. I mean, not in BG3, but, y’know. Half-dragons and dragonborn are different, but still interesting.

Also, dragons in the Forgotten Realms taste like turkey. I don’t know what you can do with this information but I feel like you would enjoy knowing it

[animentality]

Durgetash is beautiful because like. Take this from the the canon dragonborn Durge perspective for instance. There’s nothing in game that suggests Gortash decorated his whole outfit with dragon motifs, complete with medallions that literally look like Durge’s profile, on purpose. In honour of his love or even as a way to keep him close after he loses him, but there’s equally nothing in the game to say that ISN’T the case either.

The game just presents you with this guy decorated head to toe in dragons despite not really having a dragon theme outside of that, whose dragonborn business partner who was canonically his nearest and dearest. And you could lose sleep over what that could possibly mean if you want, but we’re never getting an actual answer, because there probably isn’t one that the devs actually thought about.

And yeah maybe Gortash just thinks dragons are cool in the most insignificant not-deep sense, or maybe it is just an exaggeration along the lines of Bane’s specific fondness for black and green dragons. Totally reasonable explanations. It could just be a huge coincidence that the only genuine friend of Gortash’s that we’re aware of in the entire scope of the game is a dragonborn.

But the fact that it’s so easy to connect those dots if you want? That’s the beauty of it. The delusion feeds itself!!!

Anon, listen.

I'm holding your face in my head and pressing my lips to your head and hugging you close to my chest so you can match heart beats with me....

Gortash technically CAN'T be wearing Bane symbols if he's gonna be a weaselly politician. You're not supposed to be worshipping Bane. But that begs the question.

Why dragons?

Cuz he just thinks they're neat?

Or is he boning one

I'm just saying. If he was supposed to be more vaguely Bane ish, he should be wearing green and black, which is certainly an evil color scheme.

But why red?

Maybe because his boyfriend is red?

But seriously, it does bother me. Like he doesn't worship Tiamat or some shit.

If it's supposed to be Bane iconography, why would he wear it at all?

Plus it isn't green...

Maybe he just got it commissioned when he was thinking of the Dark Urge.

Maybe he thought of them as fearless, and he was happy to be their equal.

to wear iconography bearing his likeness, to give himself strength.

just think about it, anon, then get back to me.

[elendsessor]

blabbing about vengeance again because i need to gush about more of the details

first major boss fight is hydra (technically fucked up dog in vengeance but still hydra). when it loses heads, the remains of the heads aka the necks are red and cracked

when fighting tiamat, getting her down to the point where only her main head remains leaves the other three heads red and cracked

both are multi headed serpents

could probably be argued that these are coincidences if it weren’t for that crack detail because no other boss has this effect on them.

i love the parallels in this gameeeeeee

anyways more details:

-after the first bench convo with koshimizu, vkun always sits on aogami’s side

-when going for tne, nuwa outlives yakumo, while in canon of vengeance, yakumo outlives nuwa

-this one i’m not 100% sure about but i did remember seeing a couple comments mention how a couple of the instruments/beats in eon phase 2 are similar to luci’s theme in nocturne???? again not sure but i’ve seen it mentioned enough that if anyone can confirm that would be nice given the amount of references to nocturne, fiend spawn order, etc. i wouldn’t be surprised.

-actually like in nocturne, the horsemen first talk to the protag collectively before splitting off

-there are points as tsukuyomibino that seem to be koshimizu dominating in terms of actions, such as when nearly stabbing dazai. for each pair in both coc and cov, there is a “dominate” member. coc shows this best as their nahobino designs derive from that dominant person, and some of the dialogue they have further carries this implication. to have koshimizu taking over the tsukuyomibino despite vkun being the “dominant” one is pretty interesting but also adds to the characterization of the new form. there’s only one instance koshimizu ever asks to take over, too, that being in the khonsu and miyazu subquest. just something i noticed.

-oh and yoko’s skills while she’s a guest party member tend to be single target while tao’s are multi-target. yoko’s more offensive while tao is support.

[gunkreads]

My one big hint to the end of The Expanse is in the titles: there's a mythological figure, entity, or group in the title of each book. Leviathan Wakes, in the early series, sounds very much like "Leviathan" is the protomolecule, but as the series goes on, you realize more and more that the protomolecule and its makers weren't, like... biblical-demon scary.

So my working theory is that the mythological figures in each book title are talking about humanity.

Leviathan=humanity as a whole

Caliban=the hybrid humans

Abbadon=the people who go into the slow zone

Cibola=the "cities of gold" left for humanity on each of the planets

Nemesis=Marco

Babylon=Earth

Persepolis=Laconia

Tiamat=Saba/Naomi's resistance.

So... "Leviathan Falls"...

Now, "fall" could mean a lot of things, and I'm leaning toward an interpretation that humanity comes out the other side of this unrecognizable. Permanent fundamental change is a major theme of the series, and I'm hoping it concludes along that theme.

[psychic-type-t]

Hey there assholes of Rotumblr! I'm Tiamat, and this is my blog!

Featuring:

Babs the Duosion!

ZiZi the Natu!

ChiChi the Jirachi disguised Mimikyu! (no idea what type it is but I really hope it's psychic!)

A shuppet egg.

And The New Guy!

PSYCHIC IS THE BEST TYPE AND I WILL BITE YOU ABOUT IT!

Also Magic Anons, Pelipper Mail/Malice, and Union Circle is on! Because it's cool and neat!

ooc under the cut or whatever:

hi there! mod here, and I decided to join Rotumblr because it seems fun! pronouns are she/her/it/its/?/?!, and I am a minor.

tws for swearing, Tia being a jerk, cult themes, isolation, and generational trauma

anyways yeah! hope we can get along!

EDIT: pretty much realized immediately that I should probably update this, lol. lore time.

Tia is 13, it's just getting out into the world for the first time. it comes from a family of psychics, and her family is... definitely something. (not technically a cult because it's exclusively family, but still.) It's actually the first of her family to start on a pokemon journey! It got her first two pokemon from its mom and dad, and just kinda found the Unown a week or two ago.

anyways. yea :)