#sarcophagus secondary

[fantastic-fr-scries]

Fae Female

Fog / Heather / Purple , Ribbon / Sarcophagus / Thylacine

Shadow Pastel

[bonusdragons]

March 8, 2024:

Abyss Secondary, Imperial, Sarcophagus.

Diotrephes of Slithr's clan!

[scryingworkshop]

[kerosene-in-a-blender]

One thing (among many) that Midst does incredibly well is that the narrators use character death as a narrative tool expertly. Every death in the series does something and each death tends to have a narrative weight that's proportional to the narrative weight the deceased character had while alive.

Stationary Hill's Postmaster and Agatha Ledge are both minor characters whose deaths, while they are felt by the characters who knew them in universe, mostly serve to highlight the danger the other characters find themselves in, as the Moon Tearror hits Stationary Hill and the remaining Breach members (and Jonas Spahr) are plummeting through a razor-sharp mica field respectively. Meryl Concord is likewise a fairly minor character whose death serves both to mirror her brother Atticus's* (more on him later) and usher in the final phase of the conflict against Weepe by showing the how dangerous the heaving mass of tearror unleashed from his puppeteered body is. All these deaths serve to establish the lethal stakes of the situations each death occurs in, but are ultimately not dwelt upon too long by the narrative. This works because these are minor characters; they had little enough presence that the story can swiftly move on in their absence without feeling like a disservice to them.

Milton Fleit Sr. and Imelda Goldfinch are both antagonistic characters who ultimately die fairly ignoble deaths that the narrative doesn't dwell too long on, largely because, as the finale itself points out in regards to Imelda, none of the living characters we follow care enough about either of them to dwell on their deaths. But despite his both their deaths are heavily symbolically loaded. Milton Fleit Sr. dies in the same moment that Valor dies and the Trust begins bleeding out. Imelda Goldfinch dies in the moment that all her scheming to get Weepe in control of the Trust because she believes the Trust needs a man like him to lead it comes to nothing because Weepe at this point is a dying, broken man aggressively lashing out at everything around him. The narrative spends little time dwelling on the deaths of the characters themselves, and that works despite how important of a character Imelda in particular was, because it serves to highlight that ultimately, both of their lives, spent devoted heart and soul to the Trust, came to absolutely nothing because the Trust died with them.

Atticus Concord, Fuze Peabody, and Kozma Lazlo are important secondary characters whose deaths end up as catalysts for major plot developments later in the story. Atticus, in his attempt to blackmail Weepe and Saskia over the Black Candle Cabaret's role in the Breach route, ended up both murdered by Weepe and providing him with the means to facilitate his raise into the upper echelons of Trust society (in the form of his meticulously documented notes on every Breached employee of the Cabaret). His death is also the reason Meryl enters the story and avenging him is the reason she stabs Weepe and in doing so directly shapes the final confrontation between Midst's three protagonists. Fuze's murder after informing Phineas and Spahr via letter that he had information about the Trust's most infamous murder case resulted in Phineas' attack on Sherman in the Cabaret, Phineas impulsively running off after Tzila in a desperate bid to avoid Spahr saying he'd failed, Sherman selling Lark out to the Trust, and the Trust's focus throughout season 3 on finding Lark in order to solve to the economic crisis caused by Midst's moon exploding. Kozma's death at the hands of Weepe after threatening the Upper Trust is the trigger for the Breach's attack on the Central Vault, which is what ushers in the final act of the story. It is also the moment in which we learn that before he was Moc Weepe that character was a Fold Baron whom the other Barons, spearheaded by Kozma, attempted to murder by throwing him into the Fold Depths in a mica sarcophagus.** These characters were all major drivers of certain aspects of the plot in life, and they remained so in death, with each one of their demises having ripple effects that lasted through to the end of the story. The deaths of all three of these characters were also very heavily telegraphed. Weepe threatens Atticus on their first meeting with death if he's fucking with the Cabaret, Fuze is introduced as a man who is going to be murdered before too long, and Kozma's death is foreshadowed in the episode icon for "Baron", which shows someone's red blood in Weepe's pump apparatus.

The two most plot-central characters to die***, Moc Weepe and Saskia del Norma likewise had their deaths telegraphed to the audience in advance of them actually happening, with the narrators describing Weepe's happenstance first meeting with Imelda Goldfinch as spelling his doom and the way Saskia looks at Sherman, and tells him to go on without her at the end of "Shindig" signalling that something major is happening with her other body in the Highest Light and that whatever it is is not good for her. These deaths also were both given a lot of narrative breathing room. Saskia's death is in many ways the primary narrative subject of not only "Ghosts", the episode in which she has her final confrontation with Weepe before expiring, but also "Shindig", the episode that showed us why she made the choice to shred the remaining explosive beads at the cost of one of her bodies (and eventually her life). This post here is a great breakdown of how key an episode "Shindig" is in understanding Saskia and her motivations at the end. As mentioned above the narrators called Weepe's doom as early as season 1, and in many ways the entire series was a slow build towards his demise, especially after Imelda's actions (and Spahr's inactions) in "Inside" lead to a drastic worsening of his Fold condition. Weepe's immanent death hangs over "Ghosts" as much as Saskia's does, as Mother Trauma says, Saskia doesn't have long, but neither does Weepe. The finale also takes time out of the frenetic pacing of the final battle to have a quiet moment with the last remaining exhausted flicker of Moc Weepe, to show that above all else he is just tired and wants to finally rest. These deaths are given a lot of time to sit and settle because these are central characters, and their deaths have as much narrative weight as their lives do. As well, in Saskia's case, she remains central to the plot after her death, as it is what drives Weepe into the despair fueled rampage that he spends the final two episodes of the show in, and it is in her name that the Stationarians charge Weepe and the Company.

Every character who dies in Midst has their death count for something, in a narrative sense, but how much that death is doing is proportional to the weight the character had in the narrative while alive, and that helps make each death feel appropriate, narratively earned and appropriately impactful.

*Meryl Concord is Weepe's last onscreen victim, just as her brother is his first, and they both die the same way, being horribly dissolved by the Fold strain in his blood.

**The word "sarcophagus" is also used to describe what Lark creates to contain the leaking Fold from Weepe's corpse. Moc Weepe began and ended in a sarcophagus of glittering material, the first which excited Fold and the second which calmed it.

***It's debatable whether or not Lark's fate counts as "dead", as it seems she more became a permanent part of the Fold than anything else. Regardless, the pattern still applies, Lark's acceptance of the Fold and it's acceptance of her has been a part of her arc from the beginning of the show, and the moment where she joined it was another quiet moment in an action packed finale that was allowed to breathe and settle with the audience.

[city-of-ladies]

"The prominence of female divinity in Minoan culture might well have reflected the prominence of Minoan women in daily life. In Shang dynasty China, the authority of goddesses such as the Eastern and Western Mothers was echoed to some degree by the authority of women in elite society and even the army. Fu Jing and Fu Hao, wives of King Wu Ding, led men into battle before being honoured in death with monumental tombs containing the victims of human sacrifice, battle axes, knives and arrowheads. In Egypt, many of the images of Hatshepsut were destroyed or defaced after her death when her name was removed from the official list of rulers by her male successors, who sought to claim direct descent from her husband. It is possible that images of powerful Minoan women were subject to similar mistreatment.

While there is no evidence that Minoan women ruled in the same manner as Hatshepsut, or joined battle like the women of Shang China, the sheer number of artworks depicting them centrally placed and on a larger scale than men has prompted some historians to speculate that Minoan society was matriarchal or matrilineal. ‘Neopalatial Crete,’ writes one scholar, ‘presents the best candidate for a matriarchy – if one ever existed.’ There is nothing to say that the position of Minoan women was in any way secondary to that of men. 

Minoan women were certainly not confined to the weaving room. Sculptures show them playing lyres, flutes and zithers, sashaying in flounced chevron-patterned skirts and raising their arms in the air in ecstasy. In the ‘Grandstand Fresco’ from Knossos the women are more carefully delineated in paint than the men. Each woman has her own identity, her own style. The women appear to occupy the main rooms of the palace while the men congregate as an anonymous mass beyond. Women depicted seated – a sign of divinity or authority – are often being approached by men or animals. A highly enigmatic fresco at Thera (Santorini), for example, features a woman wearing large hoop earrings, a snake in her hair, and a neck-chain of ducks, sitting on a dais with a griffin beside her while a blue monkey pays her court.

 On a gold ring, a female deity, we may presume, is seated beneath a tree, where she receives flowers from two women. A smaller figure of a man with a double-headed axe over his head hovers between them.  By depicting the man beneath the axe, and on a smaller scale than the women, the engraver of the ring perhaps hoped to convey that he was a divine vision, almost a thought-bubble, originating in one of the female worshipper’s heads. Trees, as Arthur Evans recognised, were sacred in Minoan culture, and were perhaps believed to be capable of inspiring divine visions in those who honoured them. Such artworks contribute to the picture of Minoan women exerting considerable religious authority in the palace complexes and society more widely. 

Minoan women also played a crucial role in ritual. The early Minoans sometimes interred their dead twice by exhuming the bones of their family members and resettling them later in jars. The more usual custom, however, was to bury the dead in chamber tombs or stone beehive-shaped ‘tholos’ tombs, clay sarcophagi or, in the case of infants, under the floorboards of the home. The colourful paintings on a rare limestone sarcophagus from Hagia Triada, circa 1400 bc, show three men carrying young animals and a model boat to the deceased, who stands in front of his tomb, ready to receive his provisions for the afterlife. There are also three women present, the first of whom pours a libation into a cauldron placed between two upright axes mounted by birds; the second carries further vessels; the third – darker skinned like the men and thus possibly of lower social status – has a lyre. On the other side of the sarcophagus the women assist in the sacrifice of a bull on an altar. Other wall paintings show women involved in rituals of their own involving blood.  A fresco from Akrotiri features a group of women, one of whom sits beside a sunken room or ‘lustral basin’ with a bleeding foot. A tree also bleeds. It is possible that lustral basins were used for purification by women during or after menstruation."

The Missing Thread: A Women's History of the Ancient World, Daisy Dunn

[jackalspine]

GhostKing!danny head cannon @tourettesdog ‘s post got me thinkin about

It’s tradition in the GZ for high ranking vassals of the Ghost King to gift a Royal Mount upon coronation. (Oh also secondary head cannon> the long period of time pariah dark was trapped in the sarcophagus allowed for diversification of types and specialization of ghosts) and while the context why the tradition started has been lost to time, the ghosts SCRAMBLE to adhere to it

(they haven’t done this in a L O N G time and aren’t entirely sure what to do about having a king after hundreds of years??? But Horse???? Oh yeah. They can do horse.)

THIS ALL CULMINATES TO WHAT I WANTED IN THE FIRST PLACE. NEW KING NOW HAS SURPLUS OF FUCKED UP HORSIES IN THE ROYAL STABLES THAT HE HAS NO IDE A WHAT TO DO WITH

(feel free to rb with drawings of fucked up spooky ghost horse of your choosing)

[empyrisan]

Flight Rising: Pharaoh/Sarcophagus Genes

Ominous and regal black markings with vibrant accents that I designed for the modern dragon breeds of Flight Rising. This pair of primary/secondary genes was my first set of gem genes that I worked on, and the first one that utilized black markings throughout all colors (like how Piebald/Paint features white splotches), which was really exciting for me!

[colorfuldragons]

halloween special: 1000xRESIST characters, but as flight rising dragons

𝟣. iris: iris/obsidian/obsidian

2. watcher: sapphire/indigo/white

3. fixer: moon/green/fern

4. bang bang fire: fire/silver/white

5. healer: rose/pink/white

6. knower: nightshade/eggplant/nightshade

7. principal: ruby/blood/garnet

8. secretary: i couldnt decide which was better, so heres both [left] sapphire/sapphire/sky || [right] sapphire/indigo/sky

design notes (including some spoilers) under the read more:

design notes

all the clones are pearlcatchers bc theyre clones of iris. iris is a pearlcatcher bc of the worship-looking pose looking like iris praying

𝟣. iris kwan:

iris primary color for her name. petrified gene bc it goes yellow

bewitching ruby grasps for her connection to occupants

the shackled book apparel is pulling triple duty as picture jiao, the yellow occupant device, and representing how shes trapped (trapped in communing with the occupants, stuck in the cycles of abuse, etc)

2. watcher:

filigree tert for all the small white bits on her outfit

sky crystal to represent secretary

the outfit in the dressing room link includes the orca necklace for the whale plushie

3. fixer:

chorus primary for fixer's song

sarcophagus secondary bc it looks like her hair highlights. thylacine tert for that but also her post-timeskip eye scars

4. bbf:

cinder primary bc shes got fire in her name. firefly tert for how the projections of the dead members of the 50 are drawn to her light

the new hunter's harness apparel was so perfect for her, and was what made me decide to go through with scrying 1000xr fandragons

5. healer:

scales tert to look like her mask. bonus pearlcatcher whiskers looking like the tubes coming out of the mask

i really tried with her apparel but by god there are so few pink apparel pieces in flight rising. staff please give us more pink/bright colored apparel

6. knower:

peacock tert bc they look like eyes. i know watcher has the eye symbolism with her name and all, but knowers gotta observe things to know them yknow?

i used the azure jaw enhancement instead of charoite since the metal on the azure one is darker and knower's mask is black. tbf her mask has a bit of blue on it sometimes

7. principal:

her primary is specifically ruby tapir bc of its blue accent color – its intentionally hidden on the outfitted dragon, but if you take off the mask/gloves/leg guards, you can see the blue. this is, of course, a reference to her former identity as the youngest (blue-colored)

principal has the same secondary gene as iris, since she has a strand of iris' hair

miasma crystal to represent vice

8. secretary:

crystal primary since theyre kind of crystal/glass-like

[fae scry] firebreather for a large central glowing area, like his "eye"

[aether scry] aether since theyre alien-coded. starfall like the occupant ring/zip points in communions

[antaresr]

A few days ago I saw a poll about whether Atem and Yugi were the same soul or something like that or not.

So I took on the task of looking for an explanation for the physical resemblance between Yugi and Atem and Bakura and Ryou (since they are in the same bag).

So welcome to my talk:

PS: this does not mean that people who believe otherwise are wrong, this is just the explanation that I could find to justify the similarity.

Atem & Yugi

After the Memory World arc we know 2 things:

1. Atem and Seth are direct cousins through their parents.

2. Seth was Atem's successor after his death.

In this way, the only one who could have preserved Atem's memories for his future return was Seth and he had to entrust it to someone so that it would be preserved after his death.

If we go by the traditions of ancient Egypt, Seth had to marry to leave offspring, there are only four options in this case, Seth married the priestess Isis, Maná or a third noble woman who was not presented in the manga or anime, or even having had the three or more under a harem as his wives.

In this way Seth has heirs to the throne but at the same time someone who will preserve the memories of Atem and commission the prophecy of the return of the nameless pharaoh.

With pure conjecture we can theorize that Isis was a secondary wife of Seth or married someone else and started the tradition of tomb keepers keeping the pharaoh's memories secret by staying underground and keeping records of spells, stories and etc.

In the second instance, Seth marries another woman, Mana or an unknown noblewoman. He may have had more than one son or one of his descendants had more than one son and some of those sons left Egypt for a marriage with other nobles from other countries or escaping attempts to usurp the throne by traveling to other lands in true Sinuhe style and marrying and having children.

In this way, the genes of the royal family would leave Egypt and begin to spread around the world until reaching Japan millennia later, with the genetics diluted.

So we can theorize that the Mutou family is descended from thousands of generations apart from the royal family of Atem and Seth and that is why Yugi is so similar to Atem, after more thousands of possible genetic reconfigurations someone was born with the same appearance as the pharaoh (of In the same way we can think of Seto as a distant relative of Yugi to some degree).

But is it a coincidence that Yugi looks like the pharaoh? Well no.

According to the mortuary records of ancient Egypt, when people were buried, their soul was divided and a part returned to the mummified body, so after being disemboweled with the organs kept in the canopic jars and bandaged with oils, their sarcophagus (in the case of the royal family), more specifically his face, had to be sculpted as close to the face of the deceased before dying so that the part of his soul that would return to the body would know that that specific body was his.

With that in mind we know that Yugi is Atem's sarcophagus or at least the vessel that his soul could recognize as correct to be in.

Bakura & Ryou

With Bakura it is a little more complicated because we have to make many theories and conjecture many others.

Bakura is characterized by enjoying things, food? Of course, jewelry? Hell yes, sex? We can't say no.

The average lifespan of common people in Egypt was not much, there is a record that with the way of life the oldest person would probably have reached 40 at most (while the royal family lived up to 60, what the hell class difference huh?), so Bakura had between what? 17-20 years? The perfect age for an individual's sexual discovery.

Thanks to the manga we know that Bakura used to eat in taverns and stuff himself with food, however some of those places also served as brothels since this was not frowned upon in Egypt, so we can think that sometimes Bakura not only ate and drank but also had sex.

If it was one or more we cannot know precisely, we can theorize that at least one prostitute became pregnant by him, in this way his genes would prevail in some way and in the same way they would probably have migrated from Egypt to other places and probably the child or Bakura's children would remain with their father's name as "child, son of Bakhura" until it was diluted and adapted to the pronunciations until reaching Ryou Bakura and in the same way that Atem's soul knew that Ryou was the correct vessel for him given the similar to what they had

But the question arises, why was Ryou's father not suitable if they would also be related? I can only think that Mr. Bakura was already too old, an age that Bakura never reached and could not identify him as his sarcophagus/vessel, on the other hand Ryou was a small child, probably Bakura's soul found him suitable because he was an age that he could identify in himself and use it for his purposes.

Thus we can conclude that the four are not the same soul but are related by blood to some degree.

Thank you for coming to my crazy midnight talk.

If you have another theory or want to add something, do it below. 👇🏻

[mephitic-lair]

PLAGUE SUBSPECIES: REVENANTS

What would you sacrifice for a glimpse of your goddess?

Deep in the Scarred Wasteland, there exists a secretive ritual known to few draconic scholars. It is whispered that these dragons, seeking enlightenment beyond mortal comprehension, undergo a perilous journey beyond the mortal realm. 

After a lifetime of questing for the corrupting powers of Plague, they undergo a Ritual of awful power, calling on the Plaguebringer to teach them the true power of Plague. The dragons are torn from their corporeal forms, delving into the unknown depths of exaltation. They are said to meet the Plaguebringer herself, keeper of secrets and harbinger of eternal truths. Those few who return are forever changed.

Ideal Genetics: Sarcophagus / Pharaoh, Bee / Stained, Soap

Ideal Primary Colors:  Camo - Moss

Ideal Secondary Colors: Hunter - Moss

Ideal Tertiary Colors: Tomato - Carmine

Ideal Eyes : Any Plague

Ideal Breed : Any

The Rites 

A journey for knowledge of the power of Plague is undertaken, a search leading to corrupting ancient knowledge, a quest to unlock the mysteries of the ancient rituals. This pursuit leaves an indelible mark on their minds and bodies, forever changing them as they strive to commune with the Plaguebringer herself, yearning to hear her whispers of wisdom. Their scarred bodies crack and glow with infectious power.

The Ritual

When a dragon has delved deep enough into the ancient rites, they undertake a profound recitation that can span days. The power unleashed during this ritual, the culmination of their accrued knowledge, is so potent that it tears them from their mortal form. It is said that in that moment, they face the Plaguebringer herself, who gives them knowledge of the true essence of the Plague.

The Return

After facing the Plaguebringer, few dragons return from their exaltation to the mortal realm. These dragons bear the unmistakable mark of her truth, forever changed by the revelations they have received. Though they may endeavor to share their newfound wisdom, few can truly comprehend the enigmatic beings who have returned from the realm of the Plaguebringer.

[flightpolling]

The ULTIMATE Flight Rising Gene Survey - Sarcophagus

[fantastic-fr-scries]

Undertide Female

Oilslick / Saffron / Amber , Crystal / Sarcophagus / Sailfin

Fire Glowing

[bonusdragons]

August 27, 2024:

Lead Secondary, Bogsneak, Sarcophagus.

Runa of JadeDragon18's clan!

[scryingworkshop]

[mithsrising]

Big 'ol list of scrying tips

Putting them under a readmore bc oh boy is this long:

A lot of the fest genes in general are both great to use and often dirt cheap on the AH, provided you have the right ancient.

Crystalline is the king of tert savers. The ice is all clear and faded, so it dials down the saturation of the color a lot. It can even make some colors like driftwood look white.

Trickmurk is another good option because of the darkness, but the color’s a little more obvious with that one.

Rockbreaker can also be a great gene, because it changes drastically depending on the color.

Greenskeeper looks great with a lot of colors too!

Another way to see if unsalvageable colors can be saved is to look at genes with more than one color. All colors have one main secondary color that shows in genes like blend. But that color can change depending on the gene. For example, lemon fade gives the dragon red accents, but lemon noxtide gives blue instead!

Some genes can introduce different accent colors than the typical secondary, and radically change what the color looks like. You can take advantage of this by matching accents to main colors, or accents to accents to tie the whole dragon together.

Sailfish and marlin tend to make things paler with accent colors.

Boa/saddle gives these big spots of color that can be very striking.

Metallic and alloy can make things much darker.

Poison and toxin can have a lot of dramatic color changes, with the bonus of being cheaper than most genes if you have the brewing resources.

If you’re willing to try it, then mosaic usually has more unique accent colors.

And sometimes flair can make a color go absolutely insane, like with iris.

If you have the gems, iridescent and shimmer can drastically change the color. Just remember that since the gradients are hand drawn, the effect changes depending on breed.

Black and white go with every color. So piebald/paint and pharaoh/sarcophagus could be useful. If gem genes are on the table and you have a dragon with a primary and secondary that are close but just don't match like you want them to, then pharaoh/sarc can create the illusion of a double.

Harlequin and jester in general just go nuts with colors.

Of course there’s always stained and spines, but a lot of people consider that the easy way out. You could also try soap since it dyes the body like stained, but also gives a tinge of color in certain regions. That, and it's pricey.

Most of the eyespots on Peacock are taken up by the secondary color, which is useful if you want to obscure the main tert color.

Capsule is a great one since, like irishim, it has a gradient that can completely change how a color looks. Plus it's a baldwin gene, so if you have the mats then it's cheap to get. Opal too, for the same reasons (except price).

One I discovered while making this is that for some colors, orb/weaver makes only a small gradient the base color while the rest is a secondary. Orchid weaver makes the wings almost entirely blue, for example.

There are a few “special” colors who have unique effects on genes.

One of the most famous is radioactive, which will make a lot of genes look like lisa frank grew up and became a scene kid. Tons of eyeburners get a lot of mileage out of this color

Magenta (and to a slightly lesser extent fuchsia) and orchid are also very eyeburner-y colors. They both introduce intense blues, pinks, and purples.

Banana gives genes like pinstripe and flair a very cool rainbow effect.

Orca makes almost everything stark black and white, and imo orca tiger is a good look at what tiger should’ve been.

Metals pairs gold and silver for a lot of genes, like wasp.

Lapis really likes to include yellow with its genes, like with boulder and myrid. Gives it a starry night look.

Sunset likes to include a lot of purple and red gradients.

Obsidian gives red accents to a lot of genes.

The accent colors of Rose, fuchsia, and pearl are great for lesbian, bis, and trans flag dragons.

Don’t always give in to new breed hype. Sometimes the staff will give you a pair of eggs when a new breed releases, so you can have two of that breed for free. And a lot of people will only scry them as that breed. So often times if a color combo doesn’t look good with the genes that breed has on launch, the dragon will be sold off at a lower price on the AH.

My favorite example is dusthides. I have a dusty that's ultramarine/carribean/driftwood, and the best I can do with her as a dusthide is stained, spines, and maybe veil, wavecrest, or pachy.

So I scried her as an auraboa, and guess what? She’s stunning.

And the dragon was 60 freaking gems, with matching eyes. She would make an incredible water rep (if I didn't already have Riptide).

Auraboas in general are basically a cheat code when it comes to scrying. They have incredible genes that can completely change how a dragon looks, plus a lot of tert savers. Boa, mochlus, paradise, I can go on.

And the number one rule: never, ever scry as an imperial. You'll just make yourself sad.

[lets-make-a-dragon-tournament]

SECONDARY GENE POLLS ROUND 2 SIDE 2 POLL 5

Genes shown under the cut!

PEREGRINE

SARCOPHAGUS