#blood and thunder

[actual-haise]

[cgbcomics]

[taddymason]

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Hi, ty for the ask! You get a WIP of Blood and Thunder, so Skybound Angst! Hopefully I'll post the first chapter once I'm done studying for finals:

Jay didn't respond, holding his gaze even as his hands began to betray more than a treacherous tremor. Out of his reach, always out of his reach.

"It won't even be that hard; break you," he whispered with a rotten yellow smile, sunken eyes fixed on his movements. "People like you always end up sabotaging themselves. Like a snake eating itself."

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[swordwizard]

“Break your backs and crack your oars, men, if you wish to prevail!”

[digital-meat]

“Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls windshields split, as a general thing.” ― Robert E. Howard

[itscauseimbatman]

What remorseless emperor commands me

I no longer govern my soul

I am completely immersed in darkness

As I turn my body away from the sun

[radiomonkeys2]

Valley of the Godbreaker

Drawn by the great TrollFeetWalker

Also known as the Valley of the Starbreaker, Valley of Batzor, and Tath vos Satvagarath (lit. Yeren for "Valley of the God/Starbreaker")

He whose strength shatter'd the stars

The Thunder-Voiced Lord of War forever stands tall before a procession of warriors. Down unto the crags of Kollidor, deep in the wastelands of Subotai, there is an immortal mega-statue of Batzor, the legendary warrior of Yeren mythology. On the path to his might, eight immortal Yabans raise their scimitars and tails in a fascistic procession: four nagois, four bollois, all mighty warriors. The titanic constructs are beyond belief. Just one of the Eight Immortals of Satvyanism stands as tall as the Statue of Liberty— Batzor dwarfs them all, for the tip of his scimitar reaches above the clouds, not unlike the height of the pile of bodies he left behind in life.

Just viewing the raw might of the Godbreaker inspires aggression and bloodlust.

Batzor's sword is raised forever for war and ruination. Go! Fight! Kill! Kill! Kill! Spill blood! Die proud! Die angry! Give Getavara his fill! Tear the heart of Heaven itself! Let chaos reign!! Reign in blood!!

The constructs are often destroyed and ruined by fights and skirmishes wrought by Yaban bloodlust, but the god Getavara always renders them standing and renewed. He will never let Kollidor be laid to waste, for the ultraviolence of His insane creation is too eternally amusing to Him. So swords may crumble, bodies may crack, and limbs may fall, but know that it's but a temporary ailment.

Batzor was a particular fearsome freak, and he was meant to be an answer to some jokes I used to hear about Saiyans:

"Did Saiyans have their historical war heroes?"

"Do Saiyan babies drink blood instead of milk?"

"Do Saiyan mothers survive childbirth much?"

Batzor inspired the concept of a "Batzorian Birth" among Yabans: the fact that bollois and yenois have such incredibly short gestation periods (only a month or two, max) meaning Yaban babies grow very quickly, led to the obvious conclusion that a fetus that develops too long will want out, and thus some Yabans would inevitably be born by literally ripping and tearing their way out of their own mothers, meaning they may actually kill their mothers deliberately rather than by accident in childbirth, kind of like a Xenomorph (naturally, yenois tend to fear such a thing, but for bollois, dying this way would be the most badass way out and they often ritualistically punch their wombs during gestation to get the fetus to grow stronger and hopefully trigger it to try to rip its way out as a literal born-murderously crazy warrior).

Batzor could provide the archetype, hence "Batzorian Birth," and such a grossly edgy and ultraviolent birth could only be used as the basis for a crazy violent person that naturally the Yabans would adore as a hero.

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Visually taken from the great filler episode of Dragon Ball Z about the Illusion Saiyans

Perhaps to tie it more to Judas Priest than Trunks's attack, I've been considering it more "Valley of the Starbreaker" for a good while now Visually inspired very heavily by the Valley of the Dark Lords from Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. In fact, directly by the Valley of the Dark Lords. I'm fairly sure that the idea for the Valley of the Starbreaker came from a bored daydream I had some point in the early spring of 2018, of playing through Knights of the Old Republic and going to Korriban and seeing the Valley of the Dark Lords again and thinking "Man, you know what would've been cool? If something like this was on Planet Vegeta."

Well, we never got that opportunity, but I can at least put something like it on Planet Kollidor, eh?

[goosetronaut]

Paused blood and thunder because You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch came on the radio

Now back to

White whale, holy grail

White whale, holy grail

What remorseless emperor commands me

I no longer govern my soul

I am completely immersed in darkness

As I turn my body away from the sun

White whale, holy grail

White whale, holy grail

Split your lungs with blood and thunder

When you see the white whale

Break your backs and crack your oars men

If you wish to prevail

This ivory leg is what propels me

Harpoons thrust in the sky

Aim directly for his crooked brow

And look him straight in the eye

White whale, holy grail

White whale, holy grail

[jetfuel-08]

"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, Is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of the infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far."

I took inspiration from Mastodon's album Cover

"Leviathan" and decided it would be neat to put a nice lovecraftian twist on it, taking's more inspiration from Bloodborne's Ebrietas and Darkbeast Paarl. I'm really proud of how the boat of all things came out! The monster itself is was an.... interesting experience to make. I tried to make it look like some sort of faux whale that unleashed the humanoid head from its face when prey was close, but it just ended up looking like corn lmao.

[cgbcomics]

[azazelsazaleas]

Saw a clip on the old Insta of Scott Ian and his kid jamming out to Blood and Thunder and I wanted to nerd out to one of my all time favorite metal bands but everything on the Mastodon tag here is about the social media platform so here’s some metal.

[naradoesart]

Commission of Xulk!

[shinugodda]

mastodon

[beheworthy]

@giftober 2024 | Day 1: Broken

Thor Odinson in the Marvel Cinematic Universe

[radiomonkeys2]

~David Haire/TrollFeetWalker

On Kollidor, Yulaan found her apotheosis, a living embodiment of the Will to Power. She was more than a warrior; she was the very spirit of the wild, untamed and untamable. Her battles were not fought for glory or recognition but for the sheer, intoxicating thrill of existence at its most raw and visceral. Yet this was not an indulgence of primal instinct. It was her conscious decisions, her ability to master her impulses and the external threats that both sought to destroy her, her bellicose capacity of dynamic growth beyond material infancy into martial acts of perpetual rejuvenation— mastery of herself and her fate through her own will— that defined what she was. How she wished to inspire great men of unrealized potential to reach to achieve these same. Though the nexcidious impulse of violence screamed in her blood, it was through her own conscious decisions to thrust her skills and strength against these foes in mortal combat that brought her to the current peak of her existence. And as always, as she stood upon this peak, cutting down the dinosauroids and feral Saibamen and goblins, she needed only look up and see another peak ever higher, ever closer to the valhallic halls of Kabatha.

Sol Yulaan on Planet Kollidor, doing what Yabans do best— getting thrill from fighting. In this case, she's slaying some bloodlusted Kegarin goblins. It's a savage fight by a savage bolloi against savage goblins.

Yulaan's home continent of Subotai is a primeval hellhole, perfect for a species so savage as Yabans.

Style is meant to evoke pulp fantasy art. Especially those old testosterone driven blood and thunder fantasy stories. Considering how macho Yulaan is, it fits too well.

Best part about all this? In Yulaan's native language, "Yulaan" literally means "Skullcrusher."

And I should probably also mention the two elephants in the room. Why is Yulaan shirtless? Well, from nearly the word go (and I mean literally December 2017 or so, days after I actually started the Yabanverse), I had made the choice that one aspect of it was that, if the newly-created and as-yet-unnamed female not-Saiyans were going to be in the thick of it a lot, I wasn't going to go out of my way to ignore the inevitability of battle-damage and decided then than, since this wasn't going to be a particularly "kid friendly" series, the bollois would not be against fighting shirtless, just like men do.

Of course over time, it went from "bollois don't get bashful fighting shirtless when they take battle damage" to "you know that thing men do where they'll outright take off their shirts to fistfight? Bollois do that too"

[z3phyr4s]

we are the same, you and i.