#a great wonder in heaven

[lilgreeneyes71]

A great wonder in Heaven

Revelation 12:1 And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars:

The woman

Isreal is always referred to as the woman

Isaiah 54:6 For the LORD hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God.

Jeremiah 4:31 For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, and the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that bewaileth herself, that spreadeth her hands, saying, Woe is me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers.

The twelve stars on her head are the twelve tribes of Israel

Genesis 37:9 And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me.37:10 And he told it to his father, and to his brethren: and his father rebuked him, and said unto him, What is this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth?

Revelation 12:2 And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.

Isaiah 66:6 A voice of noise from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of the LORD that rendereth recompence to his enemies.66:7 Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man child.66:8 Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? or shall a nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.

Revelation 12:3 And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.12:4 And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.The dragon is the devil see

(Revelation 12:9)

Revelation 12:5 And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne.

The child is Jesus

Psalm 2:7 I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.2:8 Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.2:9 Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.2:10 Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth.2:11 Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.2:12 Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.

Revelation 2:27 And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father.

Jesus was caught up to heaven

Acts 1:9 And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.1:10 And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel;1:11 Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.

Here is why the woman cannot be Mary this happens during the tribulation

Revelation 12:6 And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her (there a thousand two hundred and threescore days). (1260 days ) 3 1/2 years

Jesus was 12 here in Luke there is no scripture that tells us how old Jesus was when they returned from Egypt Herod set out to kill all the baby boy's two years old and under in pursuit of Jesus see Matthew 2:13-21

Luke 2:41 Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the passover.2:42 And when he was( twelve years old), they went up to Jerusalem after the custom of the feast.2:43 (And when they had fulfilled the days), (as they returned, the child Jesus tarried behind in Jerusalem); and Joseph and his mother knew not of it.

Isreal flees to during the Tribulation

Matthew 24:15 When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand)24:16 Then let them which be in (Judaea flee into the mountains):24:17 Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house:24:18 Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.24:19 And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!24:20 But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:24:21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.

Luke 21:20 And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh.21:21 Then let them which are in (Judaea flee to the mountains); and let them which are in the midst of it depart out; and let not them that are in the countries enter thereinto.21:22 For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.

Revelation 11:1 And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.11:2 But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot (forty and two months). 11:3 And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a (thousand two hundred and threescore days), clothed in sackcloth.

Daniel 7:25 And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.

Daniel 12:7 And I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever that it shall be for a time, times, and an half; and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished.

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Its my beautiful wife’s birthday today so thought I’d crank out something before his special day ends

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[swordscleric]

I don't know if anyone's gone through the original Dawn War pantheon* and compared the events of the Dawn War to the events of the Calamity, but it's interesting comparing how Tharizdun acts in the Dawn War to how little we know about it as the Chained Oblivion and might be useful as a theory-crafting aid for how the Chained Oblivion fits with Predathos**.

In the Dawn War, Tharizdun was a normal god, driven mad by extradimensional demons who provided him with huge amounts of power and attempted to force him to open a portal in the Astral Plane to release them. He took this power, and instead of releasing them created the Abyss. He and his would-be masters fought to a stalemate over control of the Abyss, until the rest of the pantheon found out and sealed him away, leaving him chained to a remote part of the Abyss[1].

By contrast, the Chained Oblivion is "something other entirely"[2], "less like a god and more like another world"[3]; it's been categorised as not of the Primes or Betrayers[4], and generally Matt has leaned much more into the cosmic horror vibes (sans a connection to the Far Realm) of the Chained Oblivion. It's a creature of "roiling ink and hungry darkness"[5], and was sealed at the bottom of the Abyss by the Dawnfather and the Knowing Mistress, with support from the Allhammer and the Changebringer[2, 3, 6]. The Chained Oblivion also wants to consume all and end the world and is kept at arms length by the Betrayers[5], and as a result of that plus its association with an unknowable hunger some people have now associated it with Predathos or think it and Predathos are of a similar species.

I think the Chained Oblivion is not Predathos in another form, but I do think that it's of a similar species. Looking at the Dawn War, and assuming (with the full acknowledgement that I'll more than likely be wrong) that Matt will stick as closely to the Dawn War as he has in the past, I think the Chained Oblivion is a smaller and weaker being of nothingness that decided to forge its own path instead of following Predathos' lead. My gut instinct is that the Chained Oblivion, seeing Ethedok and Vordo get eaten, took up Ethedok's mantle of darkness[7]*** and avoided working with Predathos and porentially fought the God Eater in order to survive and work its own odd plans of destruction. The Chained Oblivion makes a lot of plans to try and free itself (see the Angel of Irons or Cognouza), so I wouldn't be surprised if its propensity towards planning was present from the very moment it set foot on Exandria. Does this mean the Chained Oblivion will be let loose to fight the God Eater if Predathos is released? I doubt it, considering that it nearly killed the Knowing Mistress. And we know how the gods feel about family.

Footnotes

*The Dawn War pantheon is the slimmed down pantheon used for 4th edition D&D; can be found on page 11 of the 5th edition Dungeon Master's Guide. Used by Matt for the Primes & Betrayers with the addition of Sarenrae from Pathfinder.

**I'm aware of the pitfalls of using existing narratives and non-Exandrian lore to try and predict what's going on in CR at this moment in time; while there's not a 1:1 overlap between other D&D worlds' lore and Exandria, some of the major relationships do stay the same. For example, Pelor, Ioun and Tharizdun are all linked in Exandria and in D&D "canon" (Pelor, Ioun and Tharizdun all looked into the Far Realm and saw mysterious secrets, secrets which drove Tharizdun to want to destroy the universe as per Gates of Madness (2010). Additionally, Tharizdun is deeply associated with the Abyss across both settings). Bear with me.

***Zehir, the Cloaked Serpent is also associated with darkness; however while the Lawbearer and the Platinum Dragon are associated with order there is no explicit god of order which was Vordo's other domain. The Chained Oblivion is explicitly described as a god of darkness in both the Explorer's Guide to Wildemount (page 27) and the Tal'Dorei Campaign Setting Reborn (page 34).

References

1. Demonomicon (2010), pages 7-9. The wording of how the sealing took place is intentionally vague as it's a plot hook for DMs to expand on in their campaigns.

2. Titles and Tattoos, CR Campaign 2, Episode 84, from 14:00.

3. Explorer's Guide to Wildemount (2020), page 27.

4. Matt's Discord post during Nick Marini's AMA (linked here).

5. Tal'Dorei Campaign Setting Reborn, page 36.

6. The Endless Atheneum, CR Campaign 1, Episode 106, from 1:08:16.

7. Axiom Shaken, CR Campaign 3, Episode 43, at 3:02:19.

[activatebutterflyshield]

The vanished, forgotten, dead, lost, rotting, waiting, wondrous, fascinating, Undersea Doggerland, marvel of the sunken world and protector of wayward things.

[blooming-periwxnkle]

Just watched the scene where black water appears in the audio drama..and it was so good🫠

The voice actors- they're all immaculate, really. Shi Qing Xuan's va was so good in this scene. His horror upon realizing that his Ming xiong never existed, that it was all a lie, and everything else, it was so good...

Shi Wu Du..he really does sound like a stressed single parent here( and to be fair, he isn't wrong in being scared..)

The scene where Black Water questions them for being in his territory, it was so him to be like, "Oh yea, if the time and place favored me, I would've lived up to my name.." he's going to eat his words in the next episode fr😭

And of course, the star of the show, Black Water. I haven't heard He Xuan's lines a lot, but from what i've seen, his va has done a wonderful job as well. I like how anger and rage tend to seep into his voice in some scenes, like the scene at The Terrace of Cascading Wine and the scene at the Rain Master's place I think(?)..yeah, it's wonderful...

Plus, the animatics and the art for each episode, as well as the music, it's so perfect...

They've put in a lot of effort, and it definitely shows..

[elizabeth-mitchells]

i wonder why i was feling like shit today i mean it's not like i had just four cups of coffee and not water at all in all day but- oh wait

[stfuhair]

the roller rink scene is like so sad from wills pov but A WHOLE COMEDY SHOW from mikes pov thats just crazy

[alyimoss]

tweaking... save me markiplier save me

[camping-with-monsters]

and now back to your regularly scheduled Einin posting

I understand there’s some less conventional pieces here but do not make them weird. Please.

Jack of All Trades belongs to @menthum-mint

[warblingandwriting]

I love romanticism in Science Fiction. I love romanticism in dystopia. I love that in spite of the harsh, cruel, world things can grow and people can make connections. I love the unknowable entity that is more sublime than anything on earth but is also kind and benevolent, even if we don’t understand it. Just... romanticism in science fiction.... Yeah

[bmpmp3]

i hope love live can work with KIRA again someday, ka ga ya ki ra ri ra is like, UNREASONABLY good

[blue-lollipops-and-ice-clouds]

Rae - Alyce - Fayth

Wizard (Necromancy) - Sorcerer (Wild Magic) - Paladin (Vengeance)

Dark Urge - Dark Urge - Dark Urge

[voidthescribe]

I don’t usually wish I was born in a different era since I find my era generally fascinating except for the past two days my brain has decided it’s only going to accept early-2000s emo kid music as payment for serotonin, and it’s making me wish I was born just a smidge earlier so I could have been an MCR kid because heaven does it look fun

[sincerecinnamon]

My mom doesn't understand why I'm so cold to me, but I just immediately react colder and less open to people who won't let me express my emotions. If you want me to be open and all puppies and rainbows to you, then don't crush every bit of hope I have because you don't see a point in having it. Don't insult my taste constantly. Don't yell at me for feeling emotions. Don't blatantly disrespect my boundaries to the point where I'm literally in tears just because you think you should be able to poke me! Don't make me feel like although you haven't physically abused me, any day may be the day you just decide to because the emotional abuse hit me as about hard as backhanding me!

Just treat me like a human. Then I'll be open.

Don't treat me like an ai like my classmates. Then I'll be open.

Just treat me like my feelings are valid, unlike pretty much everyone but two people irl and my tumblr mutuals. Then, surprise surprise, I might not hate myself as much as I do.

consider: teenagers aren’t apathetic about everything they’re just used to you shitting all over whatever they show excitement about

[herbertlangethings]

what a remember on these 'legendary' EXO songs here, so have a look on this masterpiece-like live performance, be careful cause, I fainted after about this all, hihihihihihihihihihihihi