#bandit attack

[touchaheartnews]

Breaking: Bandits Kill Katsina Governor’s Aide and Wife, Abduct 28 More

In a tragic and alarming development, armed bandits have executed a brutal attack in Katsina State, Nigeria, resulting in the death of a prominent aide to the Governor and his wife. The attack, which occurred in the early hours of [insert date], also saw the abduction of 28 individuals, adding to the growing concerns about security and safety in the region.   The incident unfolded when a group of…

[amygdalae]

oh FUCK *remembers our venerable house, opulent and imperial*

[falmerbrook]

“A teslore post about falmer! This should be interesting and-“

[saucywendeee]

If spawn adventurer Astarion met a non Tav Seraphina after the events of BG3 - New Beginnings AU

[eternally-tired-cryptid]

Y'all would not believe the situations I can put ocs in. Rotate them in my brain microwave.

[nimblermortal]

In an AU in which Daine and Varice swap places, Daine is the caretaker for the emperor's birds. She is a pet novelty, she gets to look after the menagerie as well, but her title is Master of the Birds or some such. She's been frustrated for years about not being able to get similar rights for the slaves who work with the animals; the communism of animals has radicalized her somewhat, though she does have alarming opinions about cannibalism.

Varice is invited to the talks because she's a powerful mage, and it's very nice! She's never been to Thak University before, and there's so many people meeting her at a higher level. But also. They keep trying to isolate her from the people around, and not let her look into the fabric making and the kitchens and all the places where she usually does her work. So she runs into Daine in the servants' halls of the palace, and because Varice believes in friendship, they bond.

She runs into Daine in the servants' quarters later, too, after they've executed Numair and she is flushed with a goddess's power. "Where are you going?" Daine asks her.

"To the graveyards," says Varice. "I'm going to raise the dead and -"

"Oh, you don't want those dead," says Daine. "Come with me," and shows her the halls of the dinosaur skeletons.

[utilitycaster]

I think another element of Orym's involvement in this whole plot that is getting misconstrued or otherwise used inappropriately is Liam's statement that Orym can't be objective about this.

It's true that he can't be objective about the person who murdered his husband! I think very few people would be! But that doesn't change the fact that it is in fact completely and yeah, objectively true that the Vanguard murdered his husband because they wanted to get to Keyleth to test if Vax would show up, and so Keyleth's guards obviously tried to prevent an attack on Keyleth, and not only were they killed for defending her, they were killed in a way that specifically prevented resurrection, to no known benefit.

Orym's lack of objectivity doesn't mean he's in the wrong or that he should have to make himself to see the other side of "maybe the people who killed innocent guards as part of their moon experiments have a point." It just means that, for example, even if Abbadina is very pleasantly and calmly saying "oh I don't have any stakes in the moon thing nor do I know this guy who talked over the ley line broadcasting system, I just think he's right about the gods," he's going to leave the house and sleep outside instead of calmly listening. He's not going to be able to make that more general and detached argument about power and murder that Laudna and Ashton can make (also informed by their past experiences, but a little more removed). This is, for him, extremely personal; but he is still correct.

I think a comparable if obviously much less morally/theologically fraught example would be that Laudna, understandably, gets upset when Ashton talks to her about his own experiences with loneliness. It's a great scene, because both characters have experienced pretty profoundly lonely times in their lives.

Would it be appropriate for someone to say "well, Laudna obviously can't be objective here; she's relying too much on her own past experiences to inform her judgment, so we should ignore her"? I think it's pretty obvious that's an absolutely fucking stupid thing to say; but that's what people are saying when they're bringing up Orym's emotional response. People are still allowed to have pretty strong subjective feelings about things that objectively happened.

[abandoned-quiche]

[Image ID: Onionsan in Deltarune saying "Sometimes... I hear a song at night. End ID.]

I think it's interesting that they specifically hear the song at night. I wonder why that is.

It reminds me of this line from Seam:

[Image ID: Seam from deltarune saying "You should hurry home once you finish your business here. You don't want to get caught when the sun goes down..." End ID.]

[snowfallnight]

POV: toph beifong attends your school

[chromatite]

I wonder what happened to him, for someone who looks so young to have such nasty scars

[acatonkepler]

Im curious, send in my askbox things my art style reminds you guys of (taste/food, art style 'trademark' etc.) I'm curious

A bunch of attacks for 2024 artfight as well! There's a lot be warned lol

@noxvella

Boo_Of_Spadez on artfight

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@psystirene

cheba883 on artfight

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Theres a lot more I've done since my last artfight post but I'm lazy lol

[randomnameless]

what do you of people who think that pointing out how problematic claude and almyra are in the fodlan games is racist?

?

You mean people who think you are racist for noticing that Claude and Almyra in general were written with the worst orientalist clichés from the early 1810s?

As a rule of thumb, I don't believe you can determine if someone is racist or not based on their opinion of fictional characters -

That being said, there's a difference between saying "I think Devdan sucks" and whatever goes down in the chamber pot, using real world rhetoric about "invasive species" and whatnot to throw shade at fictional characters you don't like.

@gascon-en-exil made a Tellius video about Devdan's uh... well, Devdan in general in Tellius and the wtf that was Devdan in a game released in the 2000s, internationally released at that - and fwiw, some youtube comments talked about minstrel shows and how Devdan reminded them of those shows so, I definitely think pointing Devdan's entire existence - down to his concept - isn't racist in itself, you're not committing robbery when you're trying to prevent one.

About Claude and Almyra in general as depicted in Fodlan...

Well, in FE16 the game basically told us that Almyrans - in the Cyril/Hilda paralogue - are people who enjoy senseless bloodbathes (they raid the border for funsies and feast and party if they're able to return home ffs!) and while they might have different values (which is not a bad thing in itself!), they are the kind of people to turn tail and flee even if it means leaving their allies die (what Claude expected Hilda to do in CF!) or their civilian randoms (Cyril was caught by Goneril forces when they raided their camp).

You can't fight anymore when you're dead, so running away isn't always the worst solution, and yet, the way it's depicted (in CF for tears, in VW to shit on Nader) in the game, it's not supposed to be something we see as good/nice/has relevance.

In Nopes Shahid mounts the greastest invasion the Locket has ever known... to show his dad that he has muhrit too and can attack the "cowards" so plz stop mopping about the son who left without writing a letter.

Aka, Almyra sends its troops to invade Fodlan... in a penis measuring contest for the throne.

Yeah.

However, everything falls apart when we play GW's second part.

Now Nader wants to bring "souvenirs" from the war, by - and it's Lorenz who tells us ffs, not Claude, but Lorenz which has all sorts of implications - pillaging the cities they will be conquering.

Claude asks his dad to give him the Almyran Navy - and by ask I mean Nader has him sign the paper while he's half asleep, a bit like what your random kid does when school asks for a parent's written authorisation, you hang the damn paper to your parent while they're doing something else so they sign without really thinking - for his personal fight in Fodlan that consists in...

Killing the CoS? Yes, but also, and more importantly, to get rid of Fodlan's "outdated" values basically by tearing apart the country/its borders.

In a nutshell, in Nopes, FE16!Hilda's racist stereotypes about Almyrans and Almyra are... confirmed.

To sum up, canonwise, Fodlan depicts Almyrans as people who love needless bloodbathes, who prey on the country they're agressing "for fun!" when it's at its lowest point to mount a serious and real invasion to 1/score points in the royal inheritence record, or 2/to effectively bring disorder/kill/remove important pillars of that country because they want to change its "values and traditions" while pillaging and massacring the land as they cross it.

My bad, it's not the 1800s rhetoric about "the orient" it's both this, and a side dose of throwing the worst tropes ever like "invading people to bring them civilisa- i mean, a new set of values".

In a way, Fodlan is worse than Tellius in that regard, because while Devdan is, hopefully, a side character you can forget to recruit, Almyra - through Claude - is a compulsory point to play through when you play the Fodlan games.

Like, the devs - graphic devs at least - really researched and designed outfits, not only based on RL cultures, but to give a distinct flair to Almyra (when they couldn't be assed to do the same for the "mainland fodlan" characters), like Claude's outfits always have a detail (at least one when it's not the barbarossa class!) to tell you that this class/character has ties to this other place, Almyra!

Surely you'd want to know what Almyra is about, right?

:')

And then you learn and wonder, Echoes didn't bother to draw specific outfits reminding the player of RL cultures gor Grieth or the Brigand Boss, so what was Fodlan thinking when they gave those outfits to Claude and Nader? What kind of associations are you supposed to make?

Are we back in the "Kaga said the land of bandits who kidnap to most likely seduce without consent ladies was inspired by Persia? What the actual fuck?" era?

In a way, depicting Almyrans as the "bloodthirsty people who pillage as they go" is, imo, as offensive as Martin's Dothrakis, I don't think you are, or anyone is, racist for pointing it out.

[necro-hamster]

mad bc her bandit group is questioning her leadership again

[ettadunham]

my elden ring character is such a dummie, they'll immediately start worshipping the witch lady with the cool hat trying to destroy death, but then one (1) guy is being mean to us and NOW we gotta attack him with a sword, potentially destroying that entire questline.

[mrsthunderkin]

Slaughtering an entire troop of train robbers, getting shot, and saving a mouthy princess on your way to the capitol city counts as a meet cute right?

[artharakka]

When the antagonist npc your DM created is so hot that you have to hijack a nameless bandit npc to take a bullet for her.

💐 RIP Issa, who died like she lived: loving Areta 🧡💐