#sow Achillean

[peasthedumb]

I doodled some

Blorbos

[mokusilkani]

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Rough sketch I have going on. Their head looks a little goofy but whatever. Anywho, I felt bored so I was trying to draw simple bases and I found one I really like so I used it for Roku(OC or persona idk) AND I WANTED TO SHARE IT ON TUMBLR (⁠・⁠o⁠・⁠) I'm still working on the lore currently.

PLEASE SHOW ME Y'ALL OCS IF YOU HAVE ANY. ID LOVE TO SEE IT.

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[marsvs-thesun]

SO that's how the tournament went am i right?

I messed up achilean's hair so bad kjvjnv im so sorry. Also Ingressus looks so bad in orange lmao.

[gren-aade]

watched Xunmenglong's fanmade animation of Achillean's death and when Ingressus just cradles Achillean's dead body... Idk if the animator intentionally put in that Pieta imagery but

I have so many thoughts rn i cannot put them into words

i remember some fan said achillean knew he wasn't going to survive this and he gambled on the fact that maybe, maybe his death could bring ingressus out of the primes' corruption im cryign in the club rn ardoni jesus so true

[ask-songs-of-war]

Hey, Achillean, how's the babysitting- I mean being the only adult in the Knights of Ardonia going? - -_-

"Bad. No one here actually knows how to fight."

[findthebae]

Hello, I am an introject of Ingressus Voltaris/Deathsinger from Songs of War. I'd prefer to talk to other introjects, but kins are okay too.

I am looking for anyone from the Voltaris clan, mainly Deltheus, Senn, Lucidius, and possibly Tygren. Any other sourcemates are welcome too, although Pythus, Aegus, and Achillean please IWC.

Bodily I am 18, and don't mind interacting with anyone 16+.

You can contact me on either this blog, our SoW blog @ardonia, or on Discord @ethercollective. Alternatively, interact with the post and I'll reach out.

Hope to talk to some of you soon.

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[kincalling]

Hello, I am an introject of Ingressus Voltaris/Deathsinger from Songs of War. I'd prefer to talk to other introjects, but kins are okay too.

I am looking for anyone from the Voltaris clan, mainly Deltheus, Senn, Lucidius, and possibly Tygren. Any other sourcemates are welcome too, although Pythus, Aegus, and Achillean please IWC.

Bodily I am 18, and don't mind interacting with anyone 16+.

You can contact me on either this blog, our SoW blog @ardonia, or on Discord @ethercollective. Alternatively, interact with the post and I'll reach out.

Hope to talk to some of you soon.

🧋

[findinyourkin]

Hello, I am an introject of Ingressus Voltaris/Deathsinger from Songs of War. I'd prefer to talk to other introjects, but kins are okay too.

I am looking for anyone from the Voltaris clan, mainly Deltheus, Senn, Lucidius, and possibly Tygren. Any other sourcemates are welcome too, although Pythus, Aegus, and Achillean please IWC.

Bodily I am 18, and don't mind interacting with anyone 16+.

You can contact me on either this blog, our SoW blog @ardonia, or on Discord @ethercollective. Alternatively, interact with the post and I'll reach out.

Hope to talk to some of you soon.

!!!!!!!!

[human-antithesis]

Awryeon

Inharmonic Plenum Achillean Xeno Custodial Morphons Unfold Séculaire Envoy Siddhis Untold Laud of Lords

Roll of Theodicean - Die Appliqué of the Liar Ephemeral the Sire Sow of the Figure Reap of the Wry

Coercive Constellate Cognates Glut of Gait Feague Varices Deign Replete & Feed Illustrious Reclaim Tellurians Bleed

Metempiric Substrata in Sympathy Resonata Pre-eminence Xerolutionary Mis En Abyme

[incorrect-ardonia]

Achillean: You can't just go and hit someone because it "feels refreshing"!

Ingressus:

Ingressus: Why not?

[ari-shipping-stuff]

goes apeshit over in-universe epithets/titles vs real names and the implications of who use them and who don't

[leviadarling]

I made many but with Songs Of War character’s AU, i tríed to do Ingressus and Achillean in human form uwu i tried

picrew shenanigans

I don’t even need to explain this cringe, come embark on this journey with me:

https://picrew.me/image_maker/399481

[marsvs-thesun]

SHIT I WOULD WANNA SEE IN A SOW REWRITE: a non exhaustive list in no particular order

(read more for length and generally being critical of SoW)

• give a name to more story relevant weapons. Voltar is cool, but I wanna know what are the names of Ingressus' kickass flame blade, and thalleous' sword, and Achillean's staff! Mostly cause I wanna refer to them more easily for Symbolism(tm)! ALSO an opportunity for Senn&Ria bonding over naming her spear!!

• SPEAKING OF SWORDS give thalleous' sword to Ria. NO HEAR ME OUT; she starts the story with her spear, sendaria burning, killing Tygren ect. When Tygren dies SHE gets the sword instead of Senn, and gives Senn her spear (from her point of view, she's giving back a weapon she trusted to protect herself, she's now protecting him and signaling that she trusts his craftsmanship. Subtextually it signify the rift that forms between them as she gets more into hunting Voltaris down and Senn gets closer to his heritage). She keeps using it throughout the story, culminating in attacking Senn with it when he surrenders in Northwind, which he deflects with the shield song like in canon. Anyways, Senn comes back from Hailstone, rejoins the group and Ria is happy but doesnt trust him the same until the Final Battle(tm). Some random element (doesn't matter what, were doing symbolism here) makes it that she loses/cannot use Thalleous' sword, at which point Senn gives/throws her her spear because PLOT TWIST: THE REAL SOLUTION WAS TO LET GO OF AN ARBITRARY SYMBOL OF STRENGHT AND INSTEAD PUT FAITH IN LOVE, TRUST AND FAMILY ALL ALONG, Pythus gets eviscerated, happy endings all around

• speaking of Ria, you might guess it from my last point but GIVE MY GIRL A CORRUPTION ARC. Gimme women's wrongs! Let me watch her go from 'i wanna be just like Thalleous (the cool ex-soldier with awesome stories)' to 'i wanna be just like Thalleous (the guy who threw a kid off a cliff)' and find herself on the way! I've heard people find her overpowered and honestly,,,, yeah kinda but idk how to fix that (also power scales aren't really real to me). You know what's real? CHARACTER ARCS. Plus free Senn angst and frankly I love that. SUBPOINT: could Herobrine be like,,, a character? You're telling me two major characters made a soul pact with a demon entity from another realm and that never paid off? What is Herobrine even gaining from this I MUST KNOW

• MAKE THALLEOUS A VILLAIN PROTAGONIST 2024 okay ik he kind of already is, and ik im basically Thalleous' number 1 hater, and ik this is my complicated relationship with my own father speaking BUT REGARDLESS. Have him do shady stuff before season 3 and just sliiiightly more often pls. Let him be a bit manipulative! Let him lie a bit more! Let him kill a disarmed opponent or strike someone in the back! Let him even be outwardly prejudiced a bit more openly. I'm not even gonna argue his responsibility in the Great War cause thats no the point but you can't tell me he isn't morally grey. Let that little bastard man shine! Honestly im (more than) a little disturbed by the narrative expecting me to a agree with a guy who preached genocide, after all we've seen him do (once again, the child yeeting wasn't great). Please just have someone tell Thalleous to fuck off. Please.

• ALMRAK SHOULD BE USING CRUTCHES OR A WHEELCHAIR INSTEAD OF A CANE. A CANE IS ACTUALLY MOST OFTEN USED FOR BALANCE ISSUES. THIS IS AN ABSENCE OF LEG ISSUE. That's it that's the point.

• ACTUALLY IM NOT DONE i find Almrak's entire character,,, strange. So the only visibly disabled character in the show is Voltari. Cool! He's the only Voltari portrayed sympathetically (Ingressus does not count, he's the main villain). Less cool! It's heavily implied the reason he's sympathetic is because he's disabled and therefore cannot fight (debatable. Give my man a crossbow). Pretty bad! I'm not physically disabled (diagnosed) myself but I am a Sufferer of some kind of chronic pain and autistic (and the mental Horrors), so idk how relevant my commentary is but there's a bunch of things I don't like here: 1) a disabled character can be optimistic for sure, I love that actually! I dont love how tied those two things are tho. Almrak is the only optimistic Voltari we meet, and while I like the trust he has in his people, his behaviour is oddly reminiscent of those inspiration porn video about how incredible it is that disabled people can be *gasp* happy. This also has the unfortunate implication that the only way a Voltari becomes trustworthy is by becoming/being made harmless? Which is kind of a reach but also tracks a little to much for comfort 2) his death (HE LIVES IN MY HEART, AND SO DOES DELTHEUS) but in canon he dies. And he does so without even really defending himself? Just lays there waiting for the sword? Not only does that seem weird at all (you have a CANE baby BEAT EM UP) it seems out of character for The Only Not Depressed Voltari to just,,, accept death. Mostly the narrative seems allergic to giving him agency. 3) he was created specifically to prove life for the Voltaris was hard (it's somewhere in the supplementals). First, do you think accidents don't happen in other Clans? Thats stupid. And second, ew. This, to me, shows that I'm supposed to look at Almrak, a character living his best life, hopeful for the future, reaping the benefits of a close knit community supporting and respecting him, and feel what, sadness? Pity? That seems incredibly disrespectful. And I say all that as an Almrak lover, he and Deltheus are among my fave. Now, thats a lot of issues but I feel like they could easily be fixed in 3 easy steps: 1) more rep. Just by adding a sprinkle of disability rep to the cast, Almrak stops sticking out like a sore thumb because he's disabled, and starts sticking out because he's a genuinely interesting character with a unique worldview. Wild i know. 2) LET HIM LIVE give him agency in this. Im not saying he should fistfight a Netheran, but let him try to flee or something. 3) now, disability can absolutely be caused by a hostile environment, there's nothing wrong with that. So my solution here wouldn't be to avoid that, but to show some other hardships as well? So it's not Just That? Like, idk, Deltheus remarking how much better the food is in Hailstone because Humans can stockpile and the Voltaris were starving before? Mentions of lacking medicine? Offhand mentions of dead family like they did for Thalleous and Galleous? Idk man, just dont let disability be the Worst Fate in your story. Please.

• Either more of the Necromancer Arc, or none at all. Listen, I love my cat girl necromancy as much as the next guy and Xaria is one of my favorite characters, but, as is, it feels disconnected from the rest of the show and not in a good way. I love the idea of having a more down to earth/everyday pov of the SGW but this Arc doesnt feel different enough to work for me. The characters arent in more danger or difficulties then in any other arc, they arent more developed (actually, kinda less. Why was Lucan in jail? why is Nikaa so anti necromancer? what even was the catalyst of the necromancer movement starting? i guess well never know those important character motivations), they don't really explore more down to earth stuff (human politics! survival in Ardonia during the War! maybe explore WHY people join factions like the Necromancer or the Legion!!) and, because SoW as a story is so focused on individual actions and heros, and the Arc offers neither those nor its own flavor, it ends up feeling pretty redundant, which is a shame. I guess a way to fix this would be to actually lean in to it's separate aspect and maybe focus on the building of a revolt against the Nether (and mayyyybe link that with what the necromancers had going on? maybe? Who am i kidding they'll never give my blorbos the love they deserve. Xan, Xaria, no one gets you like i do)

• I do not know how to fix the K'arthen arc. I do not know if the K'arthen arc can be fixed. To whomever is out there trying to fix the K'arthen arc: you are an endlessly brave individual and i send you power on this journey.

Aight that's it for now :) there's way more (i havent even touched my beloved abbigail!! barely touched on the voltaris!!) but im trying to stick to canon. feel free to agree/disagree/add your own stuff!! i havent read the script in a while too, so i most likely forgot stuff

@minecraftfanatic your turn ;)

[gren-aade]

It’s 3 fucking am in the morning last night and I wondered about songs of war plot in my head about how why there are no fucking civil war in ardonia when Rendor stepped down as a supreme king of ardonia. Like that shit happened every time in a normal political gap when absent of absolute ruler create power vacuumed. And also how other species reacted to this especially the ardoni. Do they always under ender knight controlled? They seem to have rule over themselves but what about their interactions with other species? Also the nether should attacked after enderknight disappeard right? Then how other kingdoms govern themselves. Do they have a group of senate? Or there are king of their owns. Why tf can’t we have the first Great War as a main story it’s 10x more interesting than the entire canon ender arc god damn it-

also long time no see gren. I love you

-old songs of war fan, currently rookie writer.

Hey there! Sorry for replying so late! School's been bothering me lately. I'll try my best to answer your questions, apologies in advance for any lore-related errors :D

"why there are no fucking civil war in ardonia when Rendor stepped down as a supreme king of ardonia"

Yeah, I do agree with your first question. How did the kingdoms not fall into civil war when their people rebelled against the End Monarchy? Wouldn't the power vacuum presented be literally ripe for the taking???

Btw If there was a Civil War then the Nether would've exploited this instability and attacked the Overworld sooner hgdsfgdshjs. A civil war that ended right before the Nether invasion could also explain the kingdoms' ill-preparedness

"how other species reacted to this especially the ardoni"

I don't know much about SoW lore except Ardoni lore so I'll answer the Ardoni part.

The Ardoni probably remained more or less the same due to the End's loose grip on them. I'd like to imagine that the End Monarchy probably let the Ardoni do their own thing so the Ardoni aren't displeased with their dictators. With the Ardoni being one of the oldest and most important inhabitants of Ardonia (given that the entire continent was named after them), losing the Ardoni's favour would mean losing the political legitimacy of ruling over Ardonia, given that the Ender Monarchs are humans iirc.

Moreover, as the Ardoni do possess Songs, which are extremely dangerous and versatile magic powers, an Ardoni rebellion would be extremely hard to quell. That's why I think the End Monarchs would be more lax to the Ardoni compared to the humans.

It seems like the people rebelled, in the end, so I guess the Ardoni were unhappy with their Ender dictator.

Are they always under Enderknight Control?

In the production files, a rough timeline of the plot is found, which puts the event of End vs Nether before the beginning of Ardoni civilization. I don't know if that's related to the Overworld? The question of when did the End began to rule over the Overworld remains unanswered.

The rest of the questions require a lot of brainpower to answer so I'll just answer the final one since it's the least demanding XD Maybe another day I'll take on those political questions you raised :')

Why tf can't we have the first great war as a main story it's 10x more interesting than the entire canon Ender Arc god damn it-

Soooo trueee!!! The First Great War had vibrant, legendary characters like Achillean, Ingressus, Galleous, Thalleous, Vulcannus, Pythus, Chronos, Rendor etc.... While our MC Senn's just... Here? (No offense he still has his struggles and an arc). Heck even Abbigail's more interesting! I wish we got to see more pre- and during First Great War content TwT

My final comment on SoW:

That's it for tonight! Hope we can get to chat again Anon! (Hopefully I can get to know who you are so I can reciprocate your feelings XDD) I wish you good luck with your writing endeavours ;)

[marsvs-thesun]

went back to working on that No Longer You SoW animatic and Herobrine and Ria are having the TENSEST moment meanwhile the KoA is just doing whatever in the bg

HERO: yea your friends are gonna die, your objectives are in vain, you'll never be the same person again lol

RIA: YOU FUCKING PIECE OF SHIT ILL KILL YOU

Achillean, Hubris and Senn:

Herobrine in the middle like 🧍

[gren-aade]

Ingressus: i’m a voltaris master, i’m on alert even when there's no danger.

Achillean: gress, that’s called ptsd