#preternia

[queenofspoons]

So I finally bought the MOTU art book off Amazon because it was on sale. It’s a fascinating read,there’s stuff that I haven’t seen before in this book and one of those things that caught my eye was this Preternia battle drawing that isn’t explained or has an artist credited.

This may be the most violent piece of MOTU art work I’ve ever seen: a three headed Snake Man being decapitated, Rattlor bitting some guy in the chest and blood gushing out, Spittor bashing some guys head in, and another Snake Man sniping someone while on a Turbodactyl.

And to top it off theirs Giants in the background destroying a whole city with their feet.

THIS IS EPIC!!

[savagepowersofgrayskull]

Vykron, the old champion

[tonifotografias40s]

[swervesfirstblaster]

the way he was preternias babyboy he was their pookie literally

[musicanddanse]

Andra's arc in MOTU Revelation

Having learned through the official art book that episode 4 of Revelation lost its opening scene, something clicked into place for me. Maybe I'm connecting dots that weren't meant to be connected, see what you think:

Now, strictly speaking, none of us knows what that scene is. But what if it was a flashback showing Andra's backstory? The circumstances she mentions in episode 8, of being left homeless after her grandfather died. If so, it would make sense that in Subternia, she, Roboto and Beast Man end up in a barren wasteland fighting zombies. That is HER deepest fear: isolation and death, what she experienced on the streets. That is why she is intensely loyal to Teela, for raising her out of that. Why she accepts being in a relationship with a woman who cannot give her heart as it still belongs to a dead man.

In Subternia, her enthusiasm for tech allows her to use Roboto to defeat the illusions. In Preternia, it's her plan to reforge the sword that ultimately gets Roboto killed and she has to deal with the fact that her enthusiasm for tech can have disastrous consequences.

Episode 6, she faces and conquers the fears of Subternia made real, when she fights and has to put down two undead monstrosities that, a minute or two before, were Teela's former comrades and some of the planet's most celebrated heroes.

[sunshowerr]

spoilers for motu/revelations/revolution

So Evilyn in a power grab succeeds in destroying Preternia which is basically heaven then gets little to no flak for it .But Catra firing the portal is still unforgivable and makes her undeserving of redemption.

[docgold13]

Hordak was also in the 200X cartoon. There he was an ancient warlord from Preternia in where he along with his Evil Horde were defeated by King Grayskull (the ancestor of Randor, Adam, & Adora) & banished to Despondos. He would have some spiritual power however in where he tutored Keldor & eventually turned him into Skeletor.

He would've been the main villain in Season 3 but the series was canceled due to the whole 200X stuff not doing well.

which is the iteration of Hordak voiced by Keith David?

[skeletap]

I've been brooding on the topic of 'Hordak killed King Azoth, and somehow got the thornimps/core to side with him, why was that? and why were they entombed up until now? why is the reaction to Spinal Tap the way it is" and decided on some things.

Put it under a readmore since it's a bit lengthy, discussing: Who Hordak and the Horde are to Prima Materia. King Azoth's death and the Second Great War that ushered the end to 'preternia'. The set up to Prima Materia.

The Horokoth are alien invaders to Eternia, from the planet Prime, and possess parasitic technology (that is , weapons and armor literally attached to them) and parasitic/vampiric magic. They function like the Borg, and assimilate planets into their (partial) hive mind to feed their life source to their parasitic world. They assimilate planets through scouting, discovering vulnerabilities in the inhabitants, and using those weaknesses to possess then assimilate the population.

Pictured above: An assimilated Borg from Star Trek: TNG

King Azoth is the Panacean to Starseed (like the Sorceress to Zoar) and King of Coreternia. Hordak kills Azoth, and pins it on Grayskull, to not only cause a rift between the two kingdoms, but to freak out the Coreternians. Afterall, their close ally apparently killed the proxy, the Panancean, to their god, Starseed. So, this leaves them susceptible to Hordak's influence, and he uses their emotional vulnerability to possess most if not all the Coreternian population. They cannot assimilate them until they contact homeworld, so Hordak decides to use them like puppets to aid his Horde soldiers in conquering the rest of the planet.

Grayskull is a legendary figure for a reason. He leads and wins the fight against the Horde and the assimilated-Core. The Horde troops are wiped out, and Hordak is mortally wounded. However, Grayskull is too mortally wounded. And in his dying actions, banishes Hordak to a pocket dimension, in which time does not move for anything. Hordak is forever dying, on an empty plane, till the end of time itself.

Pictured above: Upper body artwork of Hordak's design for MoTU: Prima Materia. Art by me :)

As for the Thornimps... Grayskull does not know of their (now thankfully lifted) possession. With help from the Council of Elders, the Core is too imprisoned, entombed in the center of Eternia through the Great Seal. To Coreternia, they were betrayed so many times, the destroy their technology and fall into a technological 'dark age'. To Eternia, the Thornimps are traitors to Eternia till proven otherwise.

The issue is... they were proven otherwise. People discovered a half century later the Thornimps were possessed, after much looking into the Great War and the remain of the Horde Ranger Fleet either on the surface or ships starved to death, eaten by their armor and weapons, fallen as burnt up remains from their atmosphere.

Pictured above: The planet Eternia

But, Grayskull has been lionized by now. The 'forces of good vs evil' are always something Eternians were so fond of, weren't they? To suggest Grayskull was wrong, and that the Council, which by now is the transitioning governing body to what would be later Eternos, might have damned an entire civilization to die. So, the Council of Elders did damage control. What remained of the Thornimps was confiscated and locked in the Council (later Eternos Royal) Archives. The history of the Thornimps and the Core is twisted over the next four centuries into an almost Arthurian tale, traitors to Eternia for the lion Grayskull to defeat, but also never existing at all. Fairytale creatures, like an Earthling Atlantis.

So now, in present day Eternia, you have this man, a direct descendant to King Azoth, who's people have been believed to be both traitors, dead, and never existing for 500 years prior. He has spent 27 years being abused/medically tortured by his sister so she could pretend to be Panacean, while he really is.

Pictured above: Starseed as it appears in the filmation series. In Prima Materia it is a large sentient crystal structure at the center of the planet, a god like Zoar, rather than an artifact. Like it's original lore, it is the heart of Eternia.

Spinal Tap is brought to Eternia against his will, transported by faulty Horde-tech, after surviving an attempted murder. Skeletor, thrall (independently but still so) to Hordak, recruits him to the Evil Warrior knowing his people's still present disdain for the Grayskull kingdom/Eternos. Skeletor grows a fondness (understatement) towards Spinal Tap, brings him on his first missions.

But, the Council of Elders cannot let a Thornimp, let alone the Panancean, exist on the surface. Now it has been 500 years, can you imagine the damage it would do the now rapidly expanding Eternos?

But, this is He-Man and the Masters of the Universe. So do not fret, while they're antagonists to the story (Skeletor is the protag to Prima Materia), He-Man is He-Man.

Not to mention, they'll all have a worse thing to worry about.

Hordak, and the Prima Materia.

[swordince]

rotating the thought of how. adam died in a way that left absolutely nothing of him behind except a scorch mark in ancient stone. that's not how most people end up dying. but it's how adam went, & he spent months in preternia, in heaven, valhalla, however you wish to call it, his great reward. he was just a soul there, affirmed by grayskull noting that everyone gets to choose their appearance in preternia. teela & the rest entered preternia through the gate in subternia, as solid, living bodies. when they returned to eternia, adam was the only one doing so without a breathing body to bring, in fact without a body to return to at all. he had to come back odd, if not wrong. rotating this thought…

[fancyfade]

McFarlane revealed some new figures at a NYCC panel today. Some figures you might be interested in:

A Garth Aqualad (in his Tempest outfit I think) thats supposed to be out this winter.

Also, there's gonna be a Power Girl Figure out next year too. We're getting more female characters even if he's being slow about it.

Apparently there was a fan vote at the panel to choose one of four pre-selected characters for a figure. Jade (from the Green Lanterns) won! Remains to be seen on how long that'll take to be made. (You can find pictures of the vote from Toyark's coverage of the panel. Preternia on twiter also discussed and confirmed this.)

That last one in particular was funny, given two of the 4 choices already had figures and were likely gonna get another even without a vote (Bizzaro and Eradicator).

oooh nice! I am gonna have to get the power girl figure!

For garth aqualad it will depend how he scales :P lately i've been modding 6 inch figures to make teenage characters to go with my 7 inch adults. like all these guys (link) are cheap marvel legends or other figures i got from ollies (except tim, who i already had but modded in a different outfit, and impulse who was sold like that)

who is jade fro mgreen lanterns?

Anyway ty for info anon! Sounds like they've got some fun stuff

[clarenecessities]

8/2/2024

trying to get back into these. uh, let's see.

i've been putting together a summary of the MOTUC bios, but i just hit 10k and we're not even out of the Preternia era yet so like... 5000 years to go!

we've been doing pandaria remix shit and i'm like. man. it's so fun dude idk how i'm gonna go back to regular wow after this

idk. thoughts. emotions. summaries of my day. what do i write in these usually

[urbancobrastrikeforce]

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[swervesfirstblaster]

YALL MOTU REVOLUTION WAS CRAZY

just finished it and im so mad it only has 5 eps like I MORE CONTENT AFTER SO LONG

gonna list my fav things and the bad parts here so spoilers

thank god they made the destruction of preternia a big deal and didnt forgot about it like in the end of revelation, teela and lyn working together to try to fix it was a nice sub plot (but i still feel like they didnt know what exactly do to with Lyn at this point)

hordak snorting was too funny, motherboard and him being annoyed by skeletor speaking was funny af also skeletor bringing that present box was great

really liked adam and teela characters, THEY FINALE KISSED LIKE AJAJSJWJSJ it was cute to see them being all flirty and embarrassed, all of their scenes together are adorable, i liked how teela could experience new things. The only thing that bothers me is how good at magic she is in such short time but ok! glad to see more adam but i feel like they could have done a little more with his personal thoughts especially related to his family secrets drama and skeletor being his uncle all this time, also he acts a little bit too innocent and naive for someone who fights skeletor for years now

i thought orko and gwildor was gonna be annoying at first but they had a fun dynamic to me

and as always the animation is beautiful and carries the show LMAOO

what i disliked

the focus on randor was a bit annoying, and they missed the opportunity to make adam conflicted about his dad hiding a big secret like he also did before, skeletor being part of his fam, their final battle was boring...

motherboard deaths was too easy just to get the fight between hordak and skeletor quicker, she deserved a little better after being show to be strong and smart

"keldor" saying he wants the crown then 1 minute later saying he doesn't want it was so?? lmaoo, adam and marlena didnt even discussed if this guy was for real like just trusting him with the kingdom like that...and everyone ok with that? NAH

lyns and granamyr romance thing was so unnecessary for both characters omg

unfortunately, the show is again rushed bc they want to focus on like 5 characters and in an adventure and the others characters need to act stupid and stay silently

[alaffy]

Masters of the Universe:  Revolution, Ep. 5 – The Sword and the Staff (spoilers)

Of all the things to happen in this series, I honestly didn’t expect for it to go Shoujo.  Even if it was for just a minute.  There isn’t going to be much of a recap here.  This episode felt like 5 minutes of plot and 15 minutes of kids playing with their toys.  And I don’t mean that in a negative way.  It literally reminded me of the stories kids would come up with while playing with toys, even how they might bring in other toys just to make it more epic.  It was fun to watch.

As for the series itself, it’s not horrible, but it was disappointing.  And, again, I really do think that this was probably planned to be another 10 part story, like the first one, but Netflix cut it down to 5. And, by doing that, it really just hurt the story.

So, Teela is loosing control of the power, but Orko arrives just in time with the sword.  Adam is able to get to Teela and, again in what is a clearly a Shoujo based moment, calls upon the power of Greyskull and both of them transform into more powerful versions of themselves.  And then they kiss.  Moving on.

Now, they have to save the planet.  He-Man is going to cure all the people and defeat Skeletor.  Andra and Duncan will fight the forces of the Horde.  Teela, who’s now the Tri-Sorceress, is going to bring back Preternia.  Orko and Lyn will protect her while she does so.

Anyway, He-Man saves the people and we have the fifteen minute fight.  During this fight, He-Man realizes that his sword can absorb Skeletor’s powers.  Skeletor raises the, I’m sorry but these are clearly based on Angels from Evangelion, and people fight.  The Dragon comes and sacrifices himself.  Teela brings back Preternia and the ghosts of all the heroes come and fight.  This includes Duncan.  The Horde is defeated and so are the Angels (I don’t care what they called them, they��re Angels).  The heroes go back to Preternia and Duncan is about to follow, when Skeletor uses magic to grab ahold of him.  He swears that he’s going to send Duncan back to Subternia.  And I have to ask, I know we saw the Sorceress interact with Teela, but they were in a magical castle, so…does Duncan know what’s been going on?  Like does he know Skeletor is Kaldor or….?  Anyway, He-Man is able to free Duncan and then stabs Skeletor in the stomach.  However, he isn’t doing this to kill him; but to absorb all the magic from his body.  This leaves a very much alive and naked Kaldor on the battlefield. 

The next day (I’m guessing) we see that Kaldor is in a cell in Greyskull.  Meanwhile, in front of the ruins of the place (and the damaged city next to it), He-Man gives a speech.  And, I shit you not, the great hero of Eternia takes a look at all this destruction and then at the people who never once said that had any problems with the government of Eternia and decides to dissolve the Monarchy.  Because Eternia shouldn’t be ruled by a bloodline, but by the people.  Which is not a bad thing, but maybe a transitional government at least?  Like dude’s literally like “you’ve got this” and goes to shack up with Teela at Greyskull. 

And then we find that Lyn is off world as she’s being given a chance to join….honestly, this scene was so random that it took me by surprise and I don’t remember what they called themselves.

Afterwards, we see Hordak in a tank.  And a woman in a mask comes up and tells him she’s going to get him healed and then they’ll have revenge.  We don’t see the woman’s face.  My guess is that it’s going to be Adora, so long as they can convince Dreamworks into letting them use the character, but they don’t show her face.  This way, if they can’t use her, then they can call her something else.