#medieval fantasy

[sidecast]

tfw your hopeless crush turns into a hopeless lesbian crush

[haematinon]

Hauteclaire of Arcadia - Created for Ergo Cosmos

Here is the final work; I might post details in the future if you are curious! The time spent on this piece was obscene, so here is the deal: either you ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS, or I will never do something similar again ahah

[hymyarts]

Portrait of a knight (oc Lugh)

Referenced from Sir Galahad by George Frederic Watts.

I originally intended to make a simple, black and white study of the painting in question with one of my Tyrnan characters, but the urge to play around with colors won me over in the end.

[camilieroart]

Art I made for a contest ! The theme was medieval fantasy.

Let me know what you think !

[failedgrailknight]

My biggest angel hot take is that I prefer the bird wing ones to the biblically accurate wheel guys, like don’t you find it incredible and horrifying that something so unknowable could look a lot like you

Very inspired by this artwork (which I’m obsessed with)

[steampoweredwerehog]

It’s time for Knight Posting

When mages keep creating homuncului out of dead knights, they’re eventually gonna become their own whole species, & someone’s gotta take care of ‘em. That’s where the Knightrearers come in!

Knight Bite Ratings based on this

[ur-daily-inspiration]

[sirobvious]

“You just wrote your medieval fantasy setting to have medieval gender roles and homophobia and prejudice because you secretly fantasize about being able to be sexist and homophobic in a land with no PoC without any pushback! It’s fantasy, there’s dragons and wizards, it doesn’t have to have prejudice unless you, the writer, want it like that! In *my* D&D setting, there’s no sexism or homophobia, so that gay transgender women of all races can be holy knights fighting to protect the good kingdom from the endless hordes of the evil dark race that has threatened its borders for a thousand years!”

[daily-spooky]

[hazelwoodhandmadeuk]

[nuotare-in-cielo-aperto]

Love between knights and women in pre-raphaelism.

@danilades.artist on insta - your support means the world to me.

[haematinon]

I have always used colors as the driving force in my work. I am creating Ergo Cosmos in black and white to free myself from this habit, alternating ink and painting in values as a tool to hone fundamentals. I know this might result in hit-and-miss sometimes; not every piece will be perfect, but perhaps the readers will enjoy the imperfections as a sort of testimony of my struggle to express as clearly as possible the surreal tales of my book (that's the hope, at least).

If you are curious to read a preview, a free chapter is available!

[vyrosk]

|Blood To Bood|

[writers-potion]

Writing Weapons (2): Knives and Daggers

Dagger vs. Sword

In many situations, daggers might be more plausible than a sword fight.

Dagger are eaiser to carry and conceal, lighter, faster, good for spontaneous action, suicide bids, self-defense and assassination.

Dagger vs. Knife

No clear distinction; terms used interchangeably

Dagger is more for thrusting with 2 sharp edges

Knife is more for cutting (slashing) with 1 sharp edge

Concealment

Carried in a leather sheath on the belt

Can be concealed under a cloak, in a bodice (sheath sewn into the bodice), in a boot, behind hari ornaments

Bodice daggers (popular in the Renaissance) had no cross guards.

Connotations

Beside its combat value, the dagger has lots of emotional and sexual symbolisms.

The closeness need to attack with a dagger creates intense personal connection. They are often used in fights where emotions are running high: gang warfare, hate crime, vengeance.

Due to its shape and the fact that it's usually worn on a belt made it a symbol of virility in many cultures and periods.

Sometimes it was the hilt rather than the blade: like in the case of bollocks daggers with two...balls on either side of the hilt.

Fighting Techniques

Stabbing:-

The dagger with long, thin blades are made to stab a vital organ like the kidneys, liver, bowel, stomach or heart.

Stabbing directly at the chest seldom works, since the blde may glance off the ribs. Position the dagger below the ribcage and drive it upwards, through the diaphragm and into the lungs. If the sword is long enough and your fighter is a professional, you can get to the heart.

If no professional, just keep going for the stomach and you'll get one of the vital organs eventually.

Slashing:-

When describing a slash wound, show a lot of blood streaming, or even spurting.

Slashing dagger fights are bloody - show your MC's hands getting slick with blood, grip on the weapon slipping.

The aim is to cut the opponent's throat or cut tendoms, muscles, or ligaments to disable. Slashing the muscles in the weapon-wielding arm is the most effective; insides of the writst or back of the knee is also critical.

Assassinations:-

Show good knowledge of the humna antatomy

Use a stabbing dagger

A single, determined, calculated and efficient stroke, probably below the ribs.

Self-Defense:-

Disable the attacker by slashing their weapon-wielding hand (elbow or wrist)

Quick, multiple stabs wherever the MC can get the blade to land; the attacker won't give time for careful positioning

If the blade is too short to do any significant damage, maek up for this by stabbing so ast that the pain and blood loss distracts the opponent.

Vegeance and Hatred:-

Someone who is motivated by raging emotions will stab the victim repeatedly, even after he is already dead.

The attacker may stab or salsh the victim's face, disfiguring it.

Contemporary street fights and gang warfare usually involves these.

Duels:-

If both fighters are armed with daggers, include wrestling-type moves as they try to restrict each other's weapon hand.

Show them trying to disable each other by slashing insides of writes, elbows, the back of the knees, etc.

Dagger + Sword

If the character is expecting a fight, they can hold a sword in their right hand, and a dagger in their left to fight with both

Sword + mace combination also common.

Blunders to Avoid:

Direct stabbing at the chest wouldn't work.

Hero cannot cut his bread with a stabbing sword

adapted from <Writer's Craft> by Rayne Hall

[praparuru-ume]

Book one Daenerys design

I suppose sort of like a reference sheet, so I know how to imagine her. She still has no piercings here and overall looks a little younger.

Vest is heavily inspired by @/shebsart's design