#Tigran

[roughridingrednecks]

Tigran from Ohio

[doveriathegoddess]

As promised in my previous post, I have the lore composed for the Baldur's Gate versions of my DND ocs and I will warn you now that this will be quite a lengthy post so grab a snack or two.

Let us begin!

Tigran:

Tigran is a drow who is Aurora's protective older brother and the party's Ranger, being the most skilled when it comes to weapons such as bows and arrows, crossbows, etc. After finding out that a bounty had been placed on Aurora by the mother of her fiancé, Tigran acted quickly and fled the Underdark with his younger sister in order to protect her. The drow siblings managed to find sanctuary in a small town a few miles away from the city Baldur's Gate, but ended up separated when the town was suddenly attacked by the Mind Flayers and their ship which abducted Tigran along with some of the townspeople. Tigran would get a Mind Flayer tadpole inserted into his head, but would make his escape when the ship got attacked and managed to land in a forest that the ship was flying over.

Despite being in an area completely unknown to him, Tigran was desperate to find his younger sister before any of the assassins sent by her fiancé's mother got to her first. He would spend a day trying to navigate through the dense forest before being caught in a trap, leaving him hanging in the air by his feet. Luckily for him, a tiny being was able to free him...

Buttercup:

Buttercup is the tiny fairy that becomes the party's Artificer, having expertise in upgrading quality of potions and enhancing the weapons of her friends. Being the smallest of the group, Buttercup is able to fit through holes that beings such as mice can enter, and also get into places that cannot be reached by others. Buttercup just so happened to be in the same forest that Tigran had managed to get to after he escaped the Mind Flayer ship, and she was the one who found and freed him from the trap he found himself in. Buttercup would attempt to try to remove Tigran's tadpole with her potions and concoctions that she created, but they would prove ineffective against the stubborn tadpole.

The tiny fairy however was undeterred and after much insisting via hovering over Tigran's face, the drow allowed Buttercup to accompany him to help find his sister. After a few days of traveling and taking out a few goblin camps here and there, the duo ended up crossing paths with Jouxia, Maleficia, and Aurora, and upon seeing each other the drow siblings quickly wasted no time reuniting. However with both Jouxia and Tigran suffering from the effects of their tadpoles (Jouxia's being much more serious due to the amount of fainting and nosebleeds she's been having to deal with-), Buttercup made the suggestion to travel to Baldur's Gate to find a close friend of hers who could be able to help them...

Valedy:

Valedy is the gentle giant goliath being that joins the party as their wizard due to how strong his magic is. Since he was a young teenager, Valedy had lived alone in his giant castle in complete isolation with no one but his books to keep him company. The reason for his isolation is not by his own choice, but as the result of being cast away from his tribe due to his illness aka hemophilia and he had been suffering from his condition since early childhood. He would no longer be lonely once he discovered the party of heroes caught in a snowstorm and brought them to his castle so they wouldn't freeze to death.

Upon hearing the predicament that both Jouxia and Tigran were in with their tadpoles, Valedy offered to use his years of knowledge and magic to see if he could attempt to remove them. The two members decided to give his offer a try and Valedy performed a ritual to try to extract the tadpoles, but this ritual would fail as the amount of magic the wizard was using proved too much for his own body to handle, resulting in him collapsing while having a painful coughing fit as he threw up a good amount of blood. But the ritual succeeded in it's own way as the tadpoles influence weakened, and after Valedy recovered the next day he joined his new friends on their quest so that way he wouldn't be in isolation anymore...

Blitzen:

Blitzen is the eladrin druid/reindeer that joins the party after he had heard about what went down at Baldur's Gate with the Mind Flayers and traveled over there to find his best friend Jouxia since she had left to meet with her colleague a few days prior. He began his journey and traveled for a few days in his reindeer form, often resting in areas outside of towns so that way he could overhear details about the Mind Flayer attacks from the passing travelers who heard about it/were abducted by said Mind Flayers. Despite hearing about people turning into Mind Flayers themselves, Blitzen held out hope that his best friend was safe and had made it to Baldur's Gate. Eventually Blitzen would find Jouxia and her new friends by chance when he jumped in to save them from an owl bear attack, transforming into his true form and calming down the creature (and making everyone else in the party except for Jouxia completely flabbergasted-).

Once Blitzen sent the owl bear on his way, he reunited with Jouxia and caught up with her as she informed him about the events that had transpired the past few days. The druid was stunned to learn that Jouxia had gotten abducted and infected, but his best friend reassured him that once they all got to Baldur's Gate to find Buttercup's friend then there would be a chance for hers and Tigran's tadpoles to be removed. As his best friend was in this new party that had formed, Blitzen decided to join to help out in anyway that he could, and thus the party continued on to the city of Baldur's Gate...

Tommie:

Tommie would be the last party member to join, being a young "human" cleric that suddenly fell from the sky and crash-landed (quite literally-) outside of Baldur's Gate after the party visited Buttercup's friend, who was unable to help them with their tadpole problem. Thinking that a another Mind Flayer ship had crashed, the party set out to investigate and neutralize the possible threat, but once they got to the crash site the party would be shocked to find a young girl laying unconscious in the center of the large crater formed in the ground. The party would take the girl and bring her back to the inn they were staying at, taking turns looking after her while they waited for her to wake up, which would take a few hours until her golden eyes fluttered open. Once the girl had gotten her bearings and was told where she was, she introduced herself as Tommie and explained that she had been battling an entity that she had pursing when she lost the fight and was hurled down to the world. Tommie would go on to explain that the entity was a being known as "The Chaos", which had been sealed away long ago but had escaped at the same time the Mind Flayers began abducting people. To prove that the party members could trust her, Tommie used her powers to completely remove Jouxia and Tigran's tadpoles before transforming them into giant butterfly creatures, with Tommie naming them Lorin (Jouxia's tadpole) and Fiona (Tigran's tadpole). With the tadpoles removed, the party decided to let Tommie join them and help her pursue "The Chaos", thus starting an adventure completely separate from the main game of Baldur's Gate 3...

[columbiachessclub]

#Spassky attacks #Iron #Tigran! #Game 19 of the 1969 #World #Chess #Championship #Accomplished third-grade scholastics player Charlie Jordan presents her take on how Spassky "Tamed the #Tiger" in this #historic game that helped Spassky wrestle the world #title from Tigran https://www.instagram.com/p/Cn7C7dKuf9b/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Dog lover

[anatolykarpov]

Mikhail Tal & Tigran Petrosian playing table-tennis, 1959

[chessismyaesthetic]

Happy birthday Tigran Petrosian (1929-1972)!

One of my favourite chess players who most people haven't heard of, "Iron Tigran" was a Soviet-Armenian chess grandmaster and World Chess Champion from 1963 to 1969. When he beat Boris Spassky to defend his world title in 1966, this was the first time a world champion had beaten their closest rival in match play since the nineteenth century. In 1969 Spassky got revenge and Petrosian lost his title. He continued playing though and continued being a very tricky opponent. In total, was a candidate for the World Chess Championship eight times (1953, 1956, 1959, 1962, 1971, 1974, 1977 and 1980) which means that for EVERY SINGLE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP BETWEEN 1953 AnD 1980 Petrosian was either the champion or the candidate!!

He also won the Soviet Championship four times (1959, 1961, 1969, and 1975) which, given the quality of Soviet players at the time, was no mean feat. This was, after all, the age of Tal, Botvinnik, Korchnoi, Spassky, Smyslov, and Keres!

Art Zeller, Paul Keres and Tigran Petrosian with the Piatigorskys at the 1963 Piatigorsky Cup, 1963

He was insanely hard to beat, virtually unplayable at times, using a style heavily influenced by Aron Nimzowitsch's book My System and makes me think particularly of Nimzowitsch's dictum "First restrain, next blockade, lastly destroy." In the Mammoth Book of the World's Greatest Chess Games, Graham Burgess writes Petrosian invented:

"a unique playing style that oppnonents found very hard to handle. Often it wasn't even clear what they were fighting against, as Petrosian's deep prophylactic play would be preventing ideas that had not even occurred to them. Once his opponent's active possibilities were neutralized, Petrosian would squeeze relentlessly."

To give an example of how difficult an opponent he was, over the ten Olympiads he played in, he had 79 wins, 50 draws, and only 1 loss. In 1969, his final year as World Champion, he didn't lose a single tournament game.

Sam Copeland breaks down one of his best games with Spassky in the video below and you can check out some more of Petrosian's games here.

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Tigran Petrosian and Viktor Korchnoi in 1961

Boris Spassky tells the following story about Petrosian and Korchnoi in an interview that he gave in 1997:

Once he [Petrosian] told me about the time he and Korchnoi visited Pavlov, the then president of the Soviet Sports Committee. Petrosyan sought Pavlov’s permission for Korchnoi to be his second in the match against Fischer. And Korchnoi with his characteristic straightforwardness blurted out: ‘Comrade Pavlov, when I see Petrosyan’s awful, disgusting moves, I don’t want to help him!’

But Tigran was happy: he did not want to have such a second. I came to know Petrosyan very well. He was just an open book for me. He was a hot-tempered man. When he was walking quietly I knew that he was about to jump like a panther; on the contrary, when he was moving like Napoleon it was always a sign of cowardice.

[arutai]

Kayako Higuchi by Tigran Ghazaryan

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Tigran Hovumyan Promenade

[jazznoisehere]

Tigran Hamasyan: The Bird Of A Thousand Voices (Naïve, 2024)

Illustration & Design by Khoren Matevosyan.

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Tigran Hamasyan's new (double) album The Bird of a Thousand Voices is out today; tumblr won't embed a Youtube playlist so here is a link to the full playlist on Youtube.

There is an accompanying video game here.

The original story of the firebird has been orally transmitted over the centuries and cultures. The folk tale requires a multi-layered, transdisciplinary approach to provide an artistic context for this fascinating story. The mystical bird of a thousand voices is a beautiful metaphor of our times: a world in search of connection and harmony, faced with ecological, psychological and spiritual crises. Armenian culture, geopolitically situated between globalized powers such as Russia, Turkey and Azerbaijan, has been under pressure for centuries. Most recently, in September 2023, Azerbaijan took over Armenian territory. Right after, almost the entire population was expelled from the mountainous region of Nagorno-Karabakh as part of an "ethnic cleansing", in the words of the European Parliament. Azerbaijan is now expressly ordering the burning of ancient historical manuscripts in Armenian monasteries. Any form of recognition and new means of transmitting this beautiful music of the ancient traditions of the Caucasus is therefore important and sets the tone for world curiosity and diversity. "The Bird Of A Thousand Voices" is part of this context. Mixed by Nate Wood Mastered by Sander Van Der Heide Produced by Tigran Hamasyan Composed by Tigran Hamasyan Artwork by Khoren Matevosian Artwork direction by Karen Mirzoyan Artwork animation by Raf Tadevossian Produced by Tigran Hamasyan

[doveriathegoddess]

Hello hello I'm returning with the rest of my DND/Baldur's Gate Ocs which are ready be unleashed onto the world with their lore so allow me to not waste anymore time and lemme introduce the rest of my oc party :3 Up first we have Tigran, a drow who is Aurora's older brother and the party's Ranger. He's very protective of his sister and is also really good at aiming with his bow and arrows.

DND Tigran:

Baldur's Gate Tigran:

Next we have Buttercup, a tiny fairy who is the party's Artificer and the smallest one who is able to fit through places that her friends cannot reach. She may be small, but she will become a threat if she gets her hands on any unguarded potions-

DND Buttercup:

Baldur's Gate Buttercup:

Then we have Valedy, a goliath wizard who is a man of few words. He's the tallest of the group but the most vulnerable due to an illness he's had since childhood...

DND Valedy:

Baldur's Gate Valedy:

Our second to last member is Blitzen, an eladrin druid who is usually in his reindeer form for majority of the time but there are occasions when he will shift into his real form. He is Jouxia's best friend and has always traveled with her on her missions.

DND Blitzen:

Baldur's Gate Blitzen:

And last but not least we have the final member to join the group for their adventure, Tommie is a "human" cleric whose own origins are just as mysterious as her powers. While she presents herself as a girl curious about the world, her party members already suspect that Tommie isn't who she seems...

DND Tommie:

Baldur's Gate Tommie:

Since this post is already long enough, I'll be making a separate post about my ocs lore in Baldur's Gate so stay tuned!

[jltejo]

Tigran Avetyan, "Flowers", 2023.

[serpentface]

a bit curious how various characters would present in a modern setting, like somewhat in the interest of contemporary gender/sexuality stuff but mostly because i want to know who would wear stupid t shirts

Ok finally answering this now that I've got two of them.

Note that this is a near-zero nuance take with very little consideration as to who these characters would Be in a modern context and how the different societal pressures would affect them. I've kind of just Removed pressures from their in-universe cultural context.

Couya: exclusively wears t-shirts and jeans. Puts zero effort in her appearance. Owns a lot of 3 wolf moon type shirts and thinks they're extremely cool. Was on T for a while and then forgot to take the doses until she didn't care anymore.

Janeys: Complete and utter prep, pastel button ups and everything, disgusting. Probably has shorter hair and keeps his face clean shaven. Might have a singular matching tattoo with Brakul hidden Somewhere

Brakul: Looks almost exactly the same but might shave his beard differently. Extensive decorative tattoos and piercings. Mostly Wears tank tops and t shirts. Noted Green Bay Packers fan.

Palo: among the more fashion conscious of these people but somehow always ends up looking like a librarian. Probably on E.

Tigran: Looks VERY different due to not being made a eunuch at 11 and not being a monk. Has the glasses he canonically needs. Definite stupid t shirt appreciator.

Faiza: has a well put together perpetually business casual look, silk shirts, knee length skirts, etc. Looks like a politician.

Hibrides: kind of has a casual goth thing going on. Shaved her head on impulse once and doesn't actually like it but sticks with it due to the monumental effort of growing it back out. Probably wears a lot of hoodies. Puts a lot of effort into her appearance but tries to make it look casual. Since the day I birthed her I knew she would be a NIN fan.

[nonesuchrecords]

The solar eclipse is nigh! Whether you're in the path of totality or nowhere near, pop on a pair of paper glasses and turn up The Sun and the Moon, a playlist of celestially celebratory songs by Sam Amidon, David Byrne, Bill Frisell, Rhiannon Giddens, Mary Halvorson, Tigran Hamasyan, Emmylou Harris, Hurray for the Riff Raff, k.d. lang, Kronos Quartet, Audra McDonald, Brad Mehldau, Mountain Man, Sam Phillips, Cécile McLorin Salvant, Vagabon, Caetano Veloso, Wilco, and more. You can hear it on Spotify and Apple Music here.