#false of cogsmeade

[xkaru-karux]

for requests, perhaps empires!false?

the steampunk cooper queen herself :)

[aroaceascension]

GHOST CLEO? GHOST GEM? GHOST FALSE? give me ghost women toastito

I might have mistaken a copy of her

[terminal-gallows]

“But everytime, I would wake up in my own bed, safe and unharmed .. Until, one day I didn’t ..”

Day 8: False Symmetry, Empires season 2

False was such an amazing character I wish we got to see more from her and about her character, Of course I cant help myself but dive into a bit of horror which makes sense because this false..has something odd about them.

[katkat030]

There’s a new building in Cogsmeade. This is a normal occurrence. The sun rises in the East, a budding empire adds a new structure to its grand collection. It doesn’t belong. It fits so well.

Day sixteen of @definitelynotshouting's definitelynottober2024 prompts, The Anatomy of the House.

[a-suspicious-number-of-ducks]

Hermit-a-Day May, day 5: False + cross stitch.

[Image ID: A pixel art of Minecraft Youtuber Falsesymmetry. Behind her is a large, ornate clock face in shades of teal. False is wearing a dark teal overshirt, a red and white striped shirt, and a pair of gray steampunk goggles on top of her head. Her hair is blonde and straight. She has a neutral, thoughtful expression. /.End ID]

Welcome to my first post of Hermit-a-Day May 2025! I've actually half-finished every single day prior to this one, but haven't had anything ready to post until today, so. Here we go. This year, like last year, I will be challenging myself to use a different style or medium for each and every day of the event. Some of those will just be finishing up last year's pieces, since I am eternally full of hubris and am bad at estimating how long projects take. Some of them, like this one, are new!

Today's style/medium is cross stitch. Unfortunately, I didn't actually finish the...cross stitching part of the project on time. I'll be making this in real life eventually, but what you see pictured above is the digital pattern I created for the piece. Details about my process and additional images are under the cut!

I don't really have specific references for this one, other than False's skin and a google images page full of results for "fancy roman numeral clock." I'll take you through my process instead!

I started with pencil thumbnails to get my ideas down, and I settled on a clock background because... y'know, Cogsmeade. I know that's not technically Hermitcraft iconography, but I like it anyway. Then, I painstakingly measured out a pixel art clock in Krita, only to immediately cover up most of it. Here's the clock by itself, in all its glory!

[Image ID: Pixel art of an ornate teal clock face with Roman numerals representing each hour. The clock's hands are elaborate, with spirals and loops along their lengths. /.End ID]

Next, I added False herself. The colors and vibes here are my actual "vision" for the piece--the cross-stitched version is unfortunately limited by what colors of embroidery floss exist and are available at my local craft store.

[Image ID: The same pixel art of Falsesymmetry as earlier in the post, but with slightly different colors. The teal shades of the clock are lighter and more subtle, and the blonde shades of False's hair are more saturated and golden. /.End ID]

Finally, I exported the Krita image to flosscross.com, which is a delightful and extremely helpful tool to convert images into cross stitch patterns, complete with matching the nearest colors of floss available. That's how I got the image at the beginning of this post. Hopefully, before too long, I'll be able to show y'all what this looks like in real life!

(If you read this far, you have my respect and eternal gratitude. Thank you, and happy arting!)

[kippsnaps]

False of Cogsmeade!

Most of my favourite lore and buildings, from empires season 2, was from False. Genuinely one of my favourite perspectives!

[lemonthesh4rk]

Have you noticed who's NOT in the Misadventures crypts?

Okay so I know we've all been crying and mourning the canonized deaths of all the emperors in empires smp, but have you noticed that like, not everyone is there??

Here's a list of all the ppl in the crypts (as far as I've seen there could be more and i could be forgetting a few)

Pearl s1 - "The Goddess"

Fwhip s1 - "The Tinkerer"

Fwhip s2 - "The Goblin"

Gem s1 - "The Wizard"

Gem s2 - "The Dawn Princess"

Jimmy s1 - "The Codfish Boy"

Jimmy s2 - "The Sheriff"

Shubble s1 - "The Gnome"

Shubble s2 - "The Witch of Evermore"

Katherine s1 - "The Sheep Queen"

Ren for some reason??? - "The Red King"

Katherine s1 - "The Sheep Queen"

Joey s1 - "Ruler of the Lost Empire"

Joey s2 - "The Pirate King"

Pix s1 - "The King of Copper"

Pix s2 - "The Archeologist"

Joel s1 - "The Mezalean King"

Joel s2 - "The God of Thunder"

Lizzie s1 - "The Queen of the Ocean"

Lizzie s2 - "The Mayor of Animailia"

Scott s1 - "The Elvish Emperor"

Oli s2 - "The Bard"

Now this is probably just because Sausage (since he made it) had limited space or he was just picking emperors that were played by people participating in Misadventures as a fun little easter egg for them

BUT IN THE LORE-

Okay before I start to ramble I want to clarify some more things, the list above is just a list of people who had names on their crypts/were named in their "boss" battle (those being Shubble s1, Katherine s1, and Joey s2, as ppl who became individual bosses/enemies for the person running the crypt to fight). That being said, there is also a phase in the crypt where you have to kill several skeleton sheep, and in his episode Sausage refers the them as Blood Sheep, there is also a larger tomb labeled "The King", where the players can bring raw gold to get more dungeon loot. I'm going to infer through these two references that Sausage s1 aka the Mythland King is also in the Crypt.

Also Pearl s1, Gem s1, and Fwhip s1 all had their tombs in the same room as the "The King"'s crypt, so that is probably a room dedicated to the Wither Rose Alliance, further proving that Mythland Sausage is probably "The King".

Although she does not have a labeled tomb, False from s2 is also likely buried in the crypt, as by looking at Lizzie's mc skin history she has several recent skins with skull heads, likely used as decoration for the dungeon, one of which has False's goggles on it. (in case you're curious the other skull skins were Oli s2 (had his hat), Pix s1 (had his crown), Joey s2 (had his hat), and a 4th one that has some sort of markings on the side which i'm choosing to interpret as axolotl gills for Lizzie s1 although it's not quite clear)

Okay future me here she does have a labeled tomb it's called "Emperor of Cogsmeade" it just hadn't been shown in any of the youtube povs I watched

There is also another few crypts, those being "The Withered Man", "The Vampire", "The Protector" (which might be katherine s2?), and "The Warrior" (and the Warrior's Companion so I don't think that's Katherine as she didn't really have a dog)

So here's the list of emperors who were NOT in the crypts based on everything we've gathered;

Katherine s2

Scott s2

Sausage s2

The majority of this list is s2, which makes some sense

But I think that raises another question

How are Pearl and Sausage from s1 in the Misadventures crypts?

Pix in s2 discovered their tombs in the catacombs in empires s2

It's very possible that they were moved, but STILL

so uh yeah

just something i noticed

This post has been edited as I did leave out some ppl mb

[curseddistinguishedly]

E!False giving herself a title of Grand Architect of Cogsmead would actually be a really important step to healing for her if it wasn’t completely destroyed by an unfamiliar tower, that if anything radiates danger, in her empire. Imagine trying to give yourself a tangible identity only for it to to slip away from you in a matter of weeks because one day a building appeared that perfectly fits in, and yet looks so foreign and wrong, and you know it isn’t yours despite days spent convincing yourself you just don’t remember building it. Someone could just take the title away from you and then who are you without it?

[inbetweenhours]

how would you feel about arting a wizard gem or cogsmead false?? perchance??? (no pressure ofc, take care of urself!!)

How about both! Love these two, got to sneak a bit of my Cogsmeade fanon lore lol.

I'm so out of practice though I have to draw False more she's so cool and interesting.

Anyways here's Falsie absolutely spiraling in a Cogsmeade library. A section with great contributions of old Crystal Cliffs texts, and other magical or supernatural knowledges that are attributed to that area. A portrait of the late High Wizard would find itself quite comfortable in such a place I'd think. Though it's watchful eyes do little to ease False paranoia.

[luigra]

i have a request/idea for a joe hills skin! cogsmeade inspired for the time he spent working for false during the empires crossover, ,no specific design to pull from tho :')

Y'know, like, nyah? Don't hire cat army boys as your security.

So..... THAT took a while! For this one I& did the sketch itself ages ago and then just happened to not really have the time to get to the request, BUT!!!! it was such a cool idea that I& couldn't get it out of my& mind!! Here's the sketch I& did for this to figure out the design, since working from reference is much easier for me& when it comes to skins!

And the skin file <3 As usual, no reposting but feel free to use! (P. S., I& posted this on my& PlanetMinecraft! Feel free to check me& out there! Not putting a link just in case so that Tumblr doesn't block it)

[cornercritter]

false, building for cleo: as someone who hasn't ever built a clock tower before...

cogsmeade:

she's either still continuing the lore or just doesn't count it as a tower but.... wah. idk this is making me FEEL THINGS..... i miss you cogsmeade

[eloquentornot]

"Also, who's that?" Two Of Her reference!!! :D :D :D

She doesn't remember her??? At all???

Did she take a memory potion so she wouldn't miss her sister once she was sure she would never see her again?

Or did Cogsmeade False somehow get to her one last time and make her forget so she can't hurt her anymore?

Or maybe she hasn't forgotten really but is just so much in denial about everything that happened?

But what if Empires False... if she came back through the Rift, or if this season is taking place on the Empires world in the future... (Joel making multiple images of Lizzie specifically in Ocean Queen form, the water being weird this season, connection somehow maybe etc???)

What if there was a reunion offscreen? What if they're back to secretly being Two Of Her pretending to be one person, like they were before? What if, to get that old peace back, the False who stayed on Hermitcraft... used more memory potion than ever on the Empires one, made her forget everything she'd done from the first bits of violence to literally all of Empires, and this time didn't leave any gaps for her to realise there was anything she'd forgotten? And...

What if the False who opened the gift... just happened to be... the one depicted on the card she could no longer recognise?

@redstonedust @theminecraftbee

[hmshermitcraft]

False and Gem have marks on their bodies. Not tattoos, no, it's a mark to signify that they're the rulers of Cogsmeade and Dawn. False has cogs that slowly move on her back. And Gem has a sun mark that glows on the back of her neck. The hermits have grown quite fond of these marks, they make sure to show the two just how much they love the marks.

The marks are absolute marvels to observe. It's unfortunate they're often hid beneath clothes, so they make the most of any opportunities they're visible. False and Gem also smile every time they see the hermits watching them. It's sweet.

[breoasis]

for doodle requests... a falsesymmetry perhaps? as a treat? :]

Cogsmeade False my favorite normal girlie, nothing was wrong with her, she was very sane and rational in fact!!!!!! She never did anything wrong

[jayflying]

is New Life, Afterlife or Empires s2 part of the au? I believe they're all canon to Empires s1

As far as I am aware, New Life isn't canon to Empires, so it's not canon in any meaningful way to No Stranger Curses. There is a little easter-egg reference to it though, in that Lord Sausage of Mythland is offhandedly mentioned to have ghast hybrid heritage a couple of generations back in his bloodline. He's not a full hybrid himself, but he does still have a few of the traits: a fondness for perching in high places, a tolerance for high temperatures, and a habit of making ghast noises when very upset.

Afterlife... is technically canon, in the sense that it's a thing that happens, but it's not really plot-relevant. I must confess, this is partly because I'm personally unfamiliar with Afterlife: I'm somewhat aware of how Mythical Sausage made it lore-relevant, but I've never watched it myself and I would not feel confident working it in. The other reason it doesn't get focus is because Empires season 1 massively canon-diverges about halfway through in this AU, and I cannot even begin to work out if or how that would change the plot of Afterlife SMP.

Now, Empires season 2, though... that is incredibly relevant, for reasons primarily named Pix, Sausage, and False.

The last time we see the Empires season 1 crew, Sausage is quite possibly the guy with the most unresolved issues. For many reasons. (Not the same reasons as in canon, but just as emotionally devastating.) And now that his reincarnation is coming of age and beginning to learn just who he is, the Protector of Sanctuary is running straight back into all those problems. And that's without even mentioning the Rift, and the fact he's about to stand face-to-face with the man who founded the empire he destroyed...

Meanwhile, Pix, our primary POV character among this group, has no idea how much worse his life is about to get. The Copper King of Pixandria was always something a little more than mortal, and this Pix is painfully unaware of that. He knows nothing of what went down one thousand years ago, but there are threats creeping up from the darkness that remember him. The question is, will the historian's own history repeat itself?

And as for False, the clock-keeper, the Architect of Cogsmeade, the one none of them know... she has perhaps the greatest burden to carry. And Hermit-False is a terribly unreliable narrator. She never had a sister.

Has this happened all before..?

[kayawolfhorse]

HI UHHH can you twll me abt your current fav characters and WHY theyre your fav like why you connected with em

Hiii Pig <3 Hmm I’ve got a few constant favorites but I feel like I talk about them a fair bit—two I don’t yap about nearly enough is the fascinating case of the Falses

They share a lot of attributes, from their appearance down to their very name. It’s unclear what their exact relations to one another are: sisters? The original and her clone? Something beyond any sort of categorizable dichotomy? To know would change precisely nothing and everything.

hc!False came first. She’s lived many lifetimes with the same group of people she’s come to know as family, and even if paranoia threads her nervous system like sinew does her muscle and bone, she’s generally confident in her relative safety and her ability to handle any threat or prank thrown her way (though she will be shaking and sobbing throughout the entire ordeal). She’s a capable fighter and amazing builder filled with unfathomable amounts of quiet love for her friends and a dry sense of humor.

Across these lifetimes, she’s had a few things that follow her throughout. Questionably ethical laboratories are one of them.

When e!False blinked awake, she found that her surroundings were not the only unfamiliarities about—she had no idea who she was. The paranoia was dialed up to a hundred. Any one of the strange people she now shared a world with could stab her in the back at any moment. She couldn’t trust them. She couldn’t even trust herself.

She pilfered a new outfit from a random corpse shortly after establishing the beginnings of her new empire, a quaint steampunk little town that would go unnamed for a long while but would eventually be dubbed Cogsmeade. Her base was predominantly underground with plenty of escape routes, should she ever be hunted. When she slept, she dreamt vividly of a place she couldn’t recall but felt like home nonetheless. Sometimes she woke with schematics in her mind for a new build. The airship, for all its splendor, couldn’t take her to where she truly needed to go.

In fits and starts, life became more comfortable. Her fellow rulers were friendly enough when they stopped by for some iron or just to chat, and Cogsmeade was coming along nicely. e!False had a cat. Even some of her memories had started trickling back through into her head! Nothing identifiable, but still—it was progress.

Sometimes sleep held onto her for longer than she would have liked, and weeks would pass before she awoke again. Signs with cryptic messages in handwriting she didn’t recognize started to appear. Unseen clocks began their maddening tick. Certainly sightly clocks seemed to have hung themselves on her bedroom walls. She could deal with it all.

Life became suddenly much more difficult when a magical rift appeared and spawned a bunch of new, scary-looking people into the world, including someone that looked exactly like e!False, wearing the clothes she herself had first appeared in.

The clocks were one thing, but a new tower that e!False definitely didn’t build suddenly materializing was another. Her head felt like it was full of fog. She hired someone to keep an eye on things. The tower was surrounded by electric fence.

The flashbacks grew louder. e!False’s own voice described her as the unsafe one; the evil one. It pleaded with her to remember. It condemned her to this. There was a lab, now left in pieces. There was a reflection not her own. The clocks continued to tick. hc!False had locked her away. e!False was ready to take revenge.

e!False woke up in her own bed initially unsure of where she was. The day’s sign told her that they were gone, and she was safe. Her head was full of memories that were previously locked away by hc!False’s tampering. Had the home she’s dreamt of ever been real? Was, by shoving e!False into this world hc!False’s way of giving her a chance of life once more? She had been asleep for a long while.

The rift was closed, and hc!False was gone with it. e!False, for all the fear, for all the complicated emotions swirling in her chest, had no way of reaching hc!False. She ultimately decided to look ahead.

Cogsmeade had become home. e!False had some things she’d like to build within it. Knowing where her paranoia had largely stemmed from eased her already lessened worries of the other emperors, allowing her to fully think of them as something close to friends. She could continue to forge her future, carve out her life, as herself. She decided to do just that.

e!False never got a proper finale, but remnants of her remain. hc!False can’t quite seem to escape her face, even two years later. In a way it’s fitting. I miss her forever also