#roman trade

[thesilicontribesman]

Replica Roman Wax Writing Tablets, Lancaster City Museum, Lancaster

[poodleinblack]

I finally finished my drawing for @thousandsonny !! It was really nice for me to draw it, it's just a bit of a problem with the brushes. I have accumulated ideas, so I will try to give my best on the weekend >:)

And little sketches of how I planned them

[serpentface]

Retconned Wardi firearms- a basic handgun, a highly decorative ceremonial handgun (belonging to Faiza), and a lance-gun.

Gun tech has officially been nerfed down to hand cannons (press F) (this has been a long time coming but I'd been fallacy of sunk costs-ing myself out of retconning).

Handguns are held similarly to a shotgun, with the butt pressed into the user's shoulder, one hand gripping under the barrel, and the other free to ignite the gunpowder. These represent the most advanced firearms in contemporary usage, both in make and in their use of uniform iron projectiles built to match the gun's bore for greater range and efficiency. Lance-guns are the more basal form, usually larger and mounted with the pole held over the shoulder, and are most effectively used by two people (one to hold and aim, one to light the gunpowder).

The spread of firearms is currently mostly limited to the Eastern Inner Seaway peoples (with some additional distribution via overland trade), and actual manufacture of hand cannons and gunpowder at Significant scale is limited to the region's core powers.

The reason for this limited spread is partially due to specific elements of the technology's history. Gunpowder was first synthesized by Burri alchemists and considered to be the discovery of the legendary divine weapon + solar fire of the deity Inanariya, and its formula (along with techniques for ideally refining its components) remained a closely guarded state secret. It was used predominantly in priestly contexts to generate flame and explosive sounds (in conjunction with earlier practices of generating multicolored flames with use of other chemicals), then integrated into combustible weaponry in the forms of fire lances, which would eventually develop into early handcannons.

The treatment of gunpowder as a guarded sacred or semi-sacred substance continued with Wardi adoption, where knowledge of its making is considered a closed rite. It's name (inya tsatsul or just tsatsul, a derived adoption of the Burri iñazatsūya) still reflects a divine solar association (the Burri word means 'sun's thunder', the Wardi 'inya' invokes the sun, 'tsatsul' is an adapted loanword and has no meaning independent of the substance itself), though its priestly use is now predominantly associated with the firearm'ed Odonii (rather than priests of the solar Face Inyamache). The composition of gunpowder can no longer be regarded as a Secret by any means, though efforts to obscure the methods of its creation are still moderately successful and has kept knowledge of gunpowder manufacture more limited than the total sphere of firearm usage itself.

The actual strongest limiting factor of firearm usage is the rarity of natural saltpeter deposits necessary for making gunpowder. The practice of actively producing saltpeter via nitraries has not been developed anywhere in the setting, and all is instead obtained via natural sources. These sources are rare and limited within the current spread of firearm technology, and result in gunpowder being a limited and expensive substance to produce. The weapons themselves are also very expensive to manufacture (a good quality steel SWORD is far too material-cost prohibitive for most people to own), particularly high quality firearms designed for use with standardized ammunition.

These guns are also very basal, and logistical difficulties in their use (weight, very slow loading and firing speed, high visibility, Relatively low reach and accuracy) along with the restrictive cost of production has kept firearms far from rendering conventional weaponry, armor, and projectiles obsolete (even within the societies that have access to them). They are still, however, very devastating in use within their contemporary context, particularly in that high quality guns have a longer range than the best arrow-based projectiles, and utterly negate most contemporary forms of armor at close range.

[thegoldenduckie]

Dark side Roman!!! Hes probably pride or something like insecurity

For an art trade with @blackoutbugza !

[nesushii]

I WANT THE LOGAN BLIND PLUSH SO BADDDD

[jstor]

Is it getting hot here, or is it just these trading cards from 1889? They're just six from a set of 51 images of the "Goddesses of the Greeks and Romans" series from the Metropolitan Museum of Art collection on JSTOR, which includes nearly half a million open access images for everyone.

[romegreeceart]

Wool merchant Titus Aelius Evangelus

* Ostia Antica

* 2nd century CE

* Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm

Stockholm, November 2023

[halfhissandwich]

That was targeted as FUCK

[hauntedppgpaints]

a comp of all the insane trades art ive done so far

[oddlyhale]

I miss them.

[arctic-hands]

You ever be totally immersed in a story and then you come across a line about a subject and you realize you know more about this subject than the author and what the author wrote down was completely wrong and it's not even that the author didn't do research so much as the author didn't even think this was something that even needed to be researched? And it drives you absolute cuckoo bananas?

[nottodayjustin]

March 5th 2024 best hockey tweets(s) of the day

[blackoutbugza]

how fair, this prince ~

for an art trade with @starshard17 !

[vroomian]

Does Hazbin Hana even have a soul??? Or is that something else she left behind in the dark?

(Hana was not made by the god of the Hazbin universe. She’s basically clawed her way out of a double death I think. that probably has consequences!)

(Hana: what I got the bullshit secondary gender but not the bullshit immortal soul???

Hana: can’t have shit in this reincarnation :/ )

[that-weird-skeleton-bastard]

my half of an art trade with @thegoldenduckie ^^

it's pretty rushed, but i think they like it!

[sarafangirlart]

“Perseus is the only hero to get a happy ending”

Megapenthes son of Proetus: