#sw ancient history

[dswcp]

I'm late for Star Wars Day, but here is my tribute to the most iconic gay Sith wedding of all time. It's a straightfoward redraw, though I did color-correct Marka Ragnos' skin to Sith-ly red, and I also gave Exar a bunch of piercings because he's evil and this is the 90s.

I painted this on the blank cover variant of the first edition of Marvel's current "Star Wars" series, which kicks off right after the events of Empire Strikes Back. So turn the page, and you'll find Exar and Ulic's spooky union attended by a miserable Luke, imperial girlboss Ellian Zahra, and Poe Dameron's cool parents. Should anyone present know of any reason that this couple should not be joined in holy matrimony, speak now or forever hold your peace!

This week’s theme: Star Wars OTPs!

As long as we’re talking trashy, evil mlm ships – in Star Wars, it doesn’t get any better than Exar Kun x Ulic Qel-Droma. These panels show their first meeting (though earlier, Ulic had sensed Exar’s existential anguish in the Force), in which they briefly fight and are then immediately married by a Sith ghost. This is, I believe, the fabled gay agenda.

How it started:

My enemies…I am Exar Kun!

How it’s going:

Together we will bring down the galaxy!

… And they all lived horribly ever after.

“Tales of the Jedi: Dark Lords of the Sith, Issue 6: Jedi Assault.” Dark Horse. March 14, 1994. Writers: Tom Veitch and Kevin J. Anderson. Penciller: Art Wetherell. Inker: Jordi Ensign. Letterer: Willie Schubert. Colorist: Pamela Rambo.

[thatwitchrevan]

I just remembered a minor detail and it's time to fixate on it.

So when the Jedi confront Qimir in the apothecary he immediately starts acting like a dumbass and falling over himself and being squirrely, talking himself out of it.

But one thing he says is 'please don't do that Jedi mind wipe thing' which is. Fascinating. Like where did he get that from. We've seen Yord threaten to do a Jedi mind trick once, which scared everybody enough that he didn't even have to actually do it. People are scared of the Jedi.

But as far as I remember, there's no other indications of mind fuckery except maybe when Mae says "they've brainwashed you." I thought she was talking about the manipulation from Sol, but maybe she was being more literal? Maybe Osha's memories were tampered with, and maybe Qimir even knows it somehow.

Or maybe it happened to Qimir. Or maybe he knows that the Jedi have done it before.

[legends-expo]

Calling all fans of Hyperspace, Wizards of the Coast RPGs, SW Insider, Sith and Mandalorian origins and more! We are so excited to announce our next guest, Abel Peña! He will be available to meet with fans, sign autographs, and appear on panels Sept. 9th & 10th at #LegendsCon in Burbank, CA.

Buy tickets now: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/legends-consortium-2023-tickets-541786186067

[radiosummons]

As someone who has yet to actually see a single episode of TBB in full and mostly just scrolls through the tag to see people's reactions, lemme just say this:

HOLY FUCK I WAS NOT EXPECTING A ZEFFO MECH

[communistkenobi]

sorry im at work scrolling your blog its 3 am this is incoherent and u may disregard but anyway ive not seen the acolyte but ur jedi post made me think... like jedi rly dont have a choice in being jedi right it literally isnt a choice. its not even for luke even tho he was an adult when the choice was offered to him bc obi wan kind of manipulated him into alla that like he wasnt offering any other choices. you can be a jedi just like your father (my master coerced your father into becoming a jedi but ignore that). its framed as the only choice. and its so annoying sw actually that they dont explore that maybe they do in the acolyte ive not seen it maybe i should manny jacinto seems to be in it. anyway. sw doesnt explore that the jedi actively supress there being any other choice for force sensitive kids, a way for them to remain with their families and loved ones and not become tools of the state... the church of the force stuff is so intetesting in r1 and its not rly expanded on bc chirrut and baze do seem to still be monks but maybe its a different vibe. theyre clearly allowed attachments maybe its a different philosophy that the jedi seem to have actively steered ppl away from. u have to think about the purpose of all of this as well bc the jedi are so highly militarized so u have to think it serves a political purpose as well as a religious one to tame them away from not only their families but their cultures bc this way theyre only loyal to the jedi and the jedi only answer to the senate! does this make sense. revelations of an addled mind. i think its less useful to think of the jedi as a cult and more useful to think of them as a military police who are based around religion (which is basically christianity im.not gonna get into how i think actual buddhism could be better explored in star wars)

no literally like star wars demonstrates that there are so many ways to use the force outside of the Jedi/Sith dichotomy but the Jedi are also like the ones who gained the most power and prominence throughout most of galactic history (iirc? I don’t know a lot of old republic canon). so like there is clearly something very effective in the way they build and maintain institutional and political power and that is almost certainly tied to the lack of choice that initiates are given when joining the Order. like you systematise recruitment by making it mandatory. it’s like a specialised state-sanctioned version of standardised education. which is coooooool it’s cool I love that shit so much like the debate about them being evil or not is so boring like idc it’s cool that there is this ancient order of force users who basically monopolised the way the force is used in most of the galaxy and this monopoly also led to their downfall when they became a formal military organ of the republic. that’s sooo fucking sick

[aquamonstra]

So I'm on my second Veilguard run and went to pick up Lucanis last night, and something occurred to me...

WHY THE HELL IS THERE LITERALLY NO INFORMATION ON THE OSSUARY???

There's this HUGE MAGICAL UNDERWATER COMPLEX CLOSE ENOUGH TO ACCESS BY MAGE-WITH-A-ROW BOAT FROM TREVISO, and we've just not only never heard of it before, but THERE IS LITERALLY ZERO INFORMATION GIVEN ABOUT IT IN THE GAME???

There's no location info, no history, and any of the codex entries or texts you find there only person to the current Venatori activity???

I feel like I recall someone mentioning it was of ancient Elven build, but if so it was just quick passing banter.

WHY ! DID ! THIS ! PLACE ! GET ! NO ! EXPLANATION ????

Like I'm not even talking as a Dragon Age fan here. I am talking as an Aquaman/Atlantis obsessed, the Gungans were my favorite SW alien, amphibious peoples/species are my #1 thing, ALL THINGS UNDERWATER DEVOTEE here.

Thesas lore and history aside, the Ossuary is HUGE and COMPLETELY ENCASED IN A MAGICAL BARRIER TO HOLD BACK THE WATER. Who the fuck built this and why?? Was it originally a prison? Or did whatever Crow that rediscovered it decide to make it that and fuckin WHY??

Why the hell would you make SUCH AN INCREDIBLY COOL LOCATION and then just handwave it away as "underwater prison, whatever" AND NEVER REVISIT OR MENTION IT AGAIN??? That's not just lazy writing, that's a HUGE disservice to the artists/devs who designed it! WHAT THE FUCK BIOWARE???

Like I know so many people are mad about so many things in this game but fuck it this is going to be my banner I carry in to battle. I WANT ANSWERS ON THE OSSUARY YOU COWARDS. GIVE ME MY MAGICAL UNDERWATER PALACE.

[kradeelav]

there's a few of you SW fans who found my repcomm art (hi!)... i've deleted most of it from tumblr (for unimportant & ancient history reasons) but you can find a few more pieces in the tag via the above link to my archive if you're hankering for some more of the cuy'val dar ;)

[alexsgrimoire]

Samhain Ritual 2024 Excerpt - The Story & History of Samhain

While I'm not leading the Samhain ritual, my coven/circle is leading, I am helping with some sections of it! Notably, I wrote the section about the history of Samhain and how we celebrate it today. I thought I'd share it here like I've done with my other scripts, so I hope y'all enjoy it! (Note: I am not a Celtic pagan, so please excuse me if any information is wrong! I've included the bibliography at the end.)

DO NOT INTERACT: TE/RFS, TE/HMS, SW/ERFS, TRAN/SMEDS, TRUS/CUM, TRANSPHOBIC, HOMOPHOBIC, EXCLUSIONISTS, CONSERVATIVE, NAZI, TRADWIVES, ANTI-BLM, ANTI-ASIAN, XENOPHOBIC, ABLEIST, ANTI-POP CULTURE PAGANISM

Samhain is the final harvest before winter when the veil between the physical and spirit worlds is thinnest. Celebrated alongside Halloween, Dia de los Muertos, and All Saint’s Day, Samhain marks the end and beginning of the Wheel of the Year as we enter the darkest half of the year.

Samhain, as we know it to be currently, originates from ancient Celtic traditions. It was celebrated in the British Isles as the “night between years,” when the dead walked among mortals. The most important of the four Celtic festivals was a time to take stock of crops before the frost and honor the ancestors. 

Many of our modern Halloween traditions come from old Celtic traditions. The aos sí (ace SHE), fairy-like spirits, were left food and drink outside to avoid their mischief, such as killing livestock during the winter. People went door-to-door in costumes to blend in with the aos sí and collected offerings, a predecessor to trick-or-treating. Rather than pumpkins, turnips were carved with faces to symbolize the spirits crossing over and ward off malevolent ones.

There were several Celtic deities and entities who were and still are associated with Samhain. The Pooka, a shapeshifting Irish figure often depicted as a dark horse with fiery eyes, roamed the countryside, causing mayhem, and was a bringer of both good and bad fortune. Cerridwen, the cauldron-keeper Welsh triple goddess of the underworld, and The Morrigan, the Irish triple goddess of war, death, and fate, were both commonly associated with Samhain due to their associations with the cycles of life, death, and rebirth.

Samhain has become a tradition among modern pagans and is included in the Wiccan Wheel of the Year. The most important of the four greater Sabbats it’s a time to reconnect with ancestors, such as decorating altars with candles and mementos of loved ones who have passed. Divination, a typical ancient Celtic Samhain practice, is also a modern activity. Samhain is also an excellent time for shadow work and exploring your unconscious self.

In modern Wiccan practices, Samhain is associated with the Crone, the final of the Triple Goddesses. She’s one to go to for advice and teaches us that sometimes we need to let go to move on. The God of Samhain, The Horned One, is the animal that dies so we may eat and survive the winter. Gods and Goddesses not from Celtic lore but still associated with Samhain include Persephone, Hades, and Hecate from Hellenic tradition, Anubis and Osiris from Kemetic mythology, and Freya, Hel, and Odin from the Norse path.

Take this time to connect with the past, present, and future as the Wheel of the Year turns once more.

Bibliography

Gavin, Sophie. “Samhain - Celtic Festival of Spirits and Transformation.” Celtic Fusion ~ Folklore Clothing, Celtic Fusion ~ Folklore Clothing, 6 Mar. 2024, celticfusiondesign.com/blog/samhain-celebrating-the-celtic-festival-of-spirits-and-transformation.

Kiernan, Anjou, and Leslie Olson. The Ultimate Guide to the Witch’s Wheel of the Year: Rituals, Spells & Practices for Magical Sabbats, Holidays & Celebrations. Fair Winds, 2021.

“Origins in Samhain.” 13 Things, www.brown.edu/Departments/Joukowsky_Institute/courses/13things/7448.html. Accessed 28 Oct. 2024.

“Samhain (Samain) - The Celtic Roots of Halloween.” Newgrange.Com, www.newgrange.com/samhain.htm#:~:text=In%20Celtic%20Ireland%20about%202%2C000,allowing%20spirits%20to%20pass%20through. Accessed 28 Oct. 2024.

“Samhain.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 28 Oct. 2024, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samhain.

“Samhain: 13 Facts about Halloween’s Celtic Roots.” OghamArt, 31 Oct. 2022, oghamart.com/blogs/news/samhain-halloween-celtic-roots.

Wigington, Patti. “Ritual to Honor the God and Goddess at Samhain.” Learn Religions, Learn Religions, 8 Mar. 2018, www.learnreligions.com/celebrate-the-god-goddess-at-samhain-2562703#:~:text=In%20some%20Wiccan%20traditions%2C%20by,in%20order%20to%20move%20on. 

[randomspagetti]

Ok so- WatcherCao RoleSwapAu

I got carried away, but anyways-

It's a role swap BUT NOT an ancient swap, after the dark flour war, Cacao realizes the kingdom is too weak to continue to play a big part, worrying that if Dark Enchantress comes back, she'll do what she did to GCs kingdom to his, so he "disappears" for a century, protecting his kingdom on the down low, until nobody who has his face memorized is alive.

He later takes jobs in the citadel, switching up his station all around the kingdom and outside it, every few decades so nobody catches on. Second Watcher is elected as king, and notices something....Odd. About one of their upkeepers.

Basically: Short struggling king x Secretly an ancient hero upkeeper

Some random excerpts from the discord for info:

Cacao: *grabs the souljam and protects SW with his sword*

Soul jam: *lights up*

SW:

He was supposed to have his slow burn office romance and the souljam ruined it 😤😤🤬🤬🤬

-

SW: huh, our ancients souljam reacts a lot when its around you

Cao: huh- that's uh interesting 👁️👁️

_

SW: wow, you know a lot about our kingdoms history

Cacao: UH- yeah- not like I was there or anything 👀

_

Also some interesting stuff:

-Cacao's outfit is from the NPCs in the background during the DCK stages

-By "Upkeeper" I mean he effectively just does maid stuff, while keeping inventory, and looking after the king.

-I call SW "Coffee Roll" just so you know

-Coffee Roll is very tired from all the work all the time, at first he's too tired to care about Cacao's inconsistentces, but when he starts getting closer to him it starts to really make him wonder

-Coffee Roll, while a very good king, definitely feels the weight of not being as good as their ancient. It makes him stressed out at times that he's not doing good enough.

[incognitajones]

Reading meme 📚

What’s up readers?! How about a little show and tell? Answer these 13 questions, tag 13 lucky readers and if you’re feeling extra bookish add a shelfie! Let’s Go!

Thanks for the tag, @lucymonster, this was a lot of fun!

1) The Last book I read: The Sleeping Car Porter by Suzette Mayr, finally, which has been on my radar since I saw her speak in 2022. /o\ I loved the narrator's voice & it lived up to the hype, though I might have some nitpicks about the ending.

2) A book I recommend: Like lucymonster, I have to ask "For who?" and "What are they looking for?" You can't make me suggest something completely at random!

That said, when this was my job, my go-to rec for anyone who enjoyed mysteries and/or thrillers was Tana French; for science fiction/action readers, Martha Wells' Murderbot series; and Kelly Link or Mariana Enríquez for litfic & fantasy folks. 

3) A book that I couldn’t put down: Hild (and its sequel Menewood)

4) A book I’ve read twice (or more): The last thing I re-read was The Worm Ouroboros. It's a strange book and almost indescribable; very much of its time but also written in deliberately, completely antique prose, sort of as if Tolkien had been inspired by Orlando Furioso.

5) A book on my TBR: SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

6) A book I’ve put down: These days I put down more fantasy novels and contemporary romances than I finish; I'm picky about prose and characterization and a lot of them are too bland.

7) A book on my wish list: The Mask of Fear. I'm not a fan of most SW tie-in novels, but Alexander Freed is one of my exceptions, plus I always want more Saw Gerrera and Mon Mothma!

8) A favorite book from childhood: Continuing on the theme of pony books from lucy - I read hundreds of them, but my all-time favourite was Fly-by-Night.

9) A book you would give to a friend: The last book I gave as a gift (to someone who's a massive local politics/municipal government wonk) was How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World.

10) A book of poetry or lyrics that you own: Sadly, I don't actually own it anymore as over the past few years, I've drastically downsized my physical library. But before that, I held on to this edition of Akhmatova's selected poems in translation for decades. 

11) A nonfiction book you own: One book that made the downsizing cut and stayed on my shelf is LeGuin's The Wave in the Mind. Her essays were just as foundational for me as her fiction.  

12) What are you currently reading: Just started The Blighted Stars - Megan O'Keefe is one of the few romance writers whose work I consistently enjoy so I have high hopes for her SF.

13) What are you planning on reading next? One of two books that I have to read soon or return to the library: either the light contemporary romcom (Under Your Spell) or the thick history book (Shadows at Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century) depending on my mood this weekend.

Tagging my reading peeps @englishable @mosylu @glorious-spoon @anghraine @rain-sleet-snow @intellectualcarrot plus anyone who wants to!

[skyscratch-wc]

The Skyfall AU Masterpost

This post will be an archive of sorts for the information posts for the Skyfall AU.

The goal of this AU is to hammer out a solid timeline for warrior cats, emphasize the downfall of Skyclan and the aftermath as key drivers in the plot, and better flesh out the characters and clan culture(s)! Additionally, I hope to address some of the more problematic elements of the canon text to make a narrative that is more satisfying and lives up to the potential the warriors world has. I also want to pin down a setting (at the moment I am leaning towards SW Scotland) for the books in order to make the names and environment consistent and accurate.

This AU will focus primarily on the the time frame from the fall of Skyclan to the end of OotS, since those are the books I read as a kid/teenager and are the books I have the best grasp of. I stopped reading the series consistently several years ago, but have re-read TPB recently. As such, I probably won't do much work on anything post-The Last Hope. Perhaps later, but certainly not anytime soon.

I hope to tackle DotC at some point, since I got about halfway through that arc before stopping reading the books.

This project is roughly broken into a few categories that are subject to change:

History of the Clans and Timeline Work:

Timeline from The Skyfall to Modern Day [DRAFT]

Clan Culture:

Skyclan's Cultural Evolution

Clan Ranks and Structure

How to Become Deputy by Clan

Plot:

Skyclan's Downfall

Thunderclan Civil War (aka The Skyblood Conflict)

Disbanding of Skyclan

Characters:

ThunderClan Cats

ShadowClan Cats

RiverClan Cats

WindClan Cats

Ancient SkyClan Cats

Modern SkyClan Cats

Rogues, Loners, and Housecats

Family Trees:

Power of Five

Skykin Foundations

ThunderClan

WindClan

RiverClan

ShadowClan

Modern SkyClan

Clanmew Posts:

SkyClan Ranks in Clanmew

Geography and Ecosystems:

Flora and Fauna of SW Scotland

The Forest Territories

Allegiances:

Into the Wild: ThunderClan

Into the Wild: ShadowClan

Into the Wild: WindClan

Into the Wild: RiverClan

Skyfall Asks + Responses:

Can Clerics have mates/kits

Will I write this?

Goal of the rewrite

This AU is inspired not only by the canonical warriors books that I read as a kid/teen but also by the work of @bonefall and @cryptidclaw, both blogs I absolutely love reading through because the ideas in their respective AUs/rewrites are superb and get the creative juices flowing. In particular, I plan on using the clanmew language system developed by bonefall and @troutfur and drawing from the clan culture bonefall has numerous posts about. This is also inspired by other animal fantasy books I read in my childhood, including Tailchaser's Song, Guardians of Ga'hoole, and Wings of Fire.

[cantsayidont]

April 1979, October 1979, and August 1980. These novels by Brian Daley were not the first STAR WARS tie-ins, but they were the best of the early phase, and a strong influence on later SW media. The creative success of these exciting, frequently very funny books, which chronicle three adventures of Han Solo and Chewbacca prior to the first movie, had a lot to do with Daley himself. According to Daley's friends and his partner, novelist Lucia St. Clair Robson, Daley was Han Solo, or close to it: a brash military veteran with no love of authority, a fondness for sports cars and motorcycles, and a notoriously sarcastic sense of humor that concealed a heart of gold. Ironically, Daley, who genuinely loved STAR WARS, would have preferred to explore the history of the Jedi, but Lucas declared that off-limits, and imposed many restrictions on what Daley could and couldn't use from the films. For that reason, the novels take place on the fringes of the Empire: The first two books are set in the Corporate Sector, a region administered semi-autonomously by corporate interests with their own ruthless Security Police (an idea that clearly inspired some of the plot of ANDOR), while the third is set in the Tion Hegemony, a remote principality.

HAN SOLO AT STARS' END has Han and Chewie roped into aiding a group of people whose relatives have been "disappeared" by the Corporate Sector Authority, which is quietly rounding up dissidents and sending them to a secret facility called Stars' End. After Chewbacca is captured by the Security Police, Han concocts an elaborate, harebrained scheme to rescue his friend and the other "lost ones" from the galaxy's most closely guarded high-tech prison. Naturally, things don't go quite as planned, leading to a spectacularly ludicrous finale. (Spoiler: Han accidentally launches the prison complex into space.) This novel was subsequent adapted for the STAR WARS newspaper strip by Archie Goodwin and Alfredo Alcala, although the adaptation unfortunately isn't a patch on the original.

HAN SOLO'S REVENGE finds Han and Chewbacca, desperate for cash, taking a job that turns out to involve transporting slaves. This is a line our heroes will not cross, so after dealing harshly with the slavers, Han agrees to help a Corporate Sector Authority auditor named Fiolla of Lorrd track down the ringleaders of the operation, one of whom is her once-trusted assistant, Magg. Meanwhile, Chewbacca is forced to contend with a stubborn skip-tracer called Spray, who is determined to repossess the Millennium Falcon over Han and Chewie's unpaid bills!

HAN SOLO AND THE LOST LEGACY has Han and Chewbacca agreeing to help Han's old buddy Badure, Badure's friend Hasti, and an academic named Skynx locate a legendary lost starship, the Queen of Ranroon, the fabled treasure ship of an ancient tyrant called Xim the Despot. (The skull on the cover is Xim's emblem.) Although this sounds like it was influenced by RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK, the book was actually published almost a year before the premiere of RAIDERS.

Although the novels make clear that Han is not overly fond of droids, the books give Han and Chewbacca a pair of droid companions: a laconic old labor droid called Bollux, and a small, extremely sophisticated, disconcertingly enthusiastic computer probe called Blue Max, who "lives" within a compartment in Bollux's chest. Here's how Alfredo Alcala depicted them in the comic strip:

Daley also includes some delightful aliens, including the skip-tracer Spray, who's a Tynnan — basically a sentient beaver with the dexterity of a raccoon — and the Ruurian academic Skynx, a sentient caterpillar who's determined to complete as much of his research as he can before entering the next phase of his life cycle and becoming a chroma-wing who'll have little memory of his former identity.

A useful companion for the first two books is Michael Allen Horne's HAN SOLO AND THE CORPORATE SECTOR SOURCEBOOK for the West End STAR WARS RPG, published in 1993:

Aside from the inevitable game statistics and some quite decent illustrations of the novels' characters, the sourcebook fleshes out Daley's conception of the Corporate Sector Authority, explaining how the Corporate Sector functions and its relationship to the Empire. This is narrated in part by Han Solo himself, which is presented as excerpts of later interviews with an Alliance historian named Voren Na'al (a common conceit in the WEG game books that works especially well here). The sourcebook is best read after the novels, since it explains their plots in detail, but it's a worthwhile supplement. Unfortunately, a planned followup describing the Tion Hegemony was never published before West End Games lost the SW license.

Brian Daley's other major contribution to STAR WARS lore was scripting the NPR radio adaptations of the first three movies. STAR WARS originally aired in the spring of 1981, THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK two years later. Daley also wrote the later adaptation of RETURN OF THE JEDI, but he died of cancer in early 1996, at the age of 49, so the final drafts were completed by John Whitman.

[hayden-christensen]

While I have my ups and downs with the Acolyte, just seeing a live action SW show that takes place 100 years before the Skywalker saga makes me happy. We finally get to see more ancient history of the Galaxy in live action!!!

I’ve got no issues with it so far haha it’s still so early on but yeah I love seeing more of the jedi and especially of old and how they operated in the galaxy then

[huluppus]

hi, everyone!

after a long break from here, I’m back and eager to connect with people who love writing as much as I do. I’m hopeful to make some friends and pick up some readers along the way ♡

more info ↴

about me

call me lou! I'm in my early 20s, pronouns she/her. somewhere on the ace spectrum. I've been writing ever since I was 12 but a recent battle with cancer made me wanna get serious about it

I'll write anything once, though I'm focused primarily on speculative fiction. I have a few wips that I'll share soon, plus bits of poetry here and there... I plan to write some essays as well so stay tuned for that if you like to see others yap

I have a degree in media & communications and am studying to become an actor, but l'd also love to work as a screenwriter (ofc) or producer. I'll prob share some of this too if anyone finds it interesting ;)

my tastes are kind of all over the place really but I really enjoy buffy, sw, asoiaf, spn, hannibal, lotr, iwtv, phantom, and horror movies (specially slashers). other interests include ancient history, mythology and folklore, musicals, ethel cain, and mortuary science

if any of these sound interesting to you, please let's be friends! asks are always open and are welcomed. I can't wait to get to know y’all. until next time xo

[claira-stars]

I think we should take the "a long time ago in a galaxy far far away" part of star wars more seriously.

By which I mean: all the lore inconsistencies and widly different fan interpretations are a whole lot funnier if you pretend this is like... a series of histories from some super ancient far off place and we are a series of resurchers with the world's messiest collection of primary and secondary sources. Every single peice of SW media was written by some unreliable narrator several thousand years ago. No one knows what atually happened because everything is a collection of fragmentory myths and legends. It's a fun way to cope with retcons and also incorporate any real life biases the creators of spusific media may have.

Why dose this spusific account say this when another book says that? "They were written at vastly different time periods and both authors interpreted the source text different, unfortunately we can't ever know what the truth was, yeah that historical figure sort of became a culture hero and as such a vast amount of regional folklore and legends were incorporated into their backstory"

Why do some people see this charecter as a hero and others a vilan? "Yeah historians can't agree what their overall role in the conflict was, and even primary documents about them disagree on weather or not they were helpful or harmful"

Are thease charecters lovers? "They wrote some very intimate letters to eachoter but no one can tell if "my love" was platonic or romantic and historians feel like giving it a lable under the current cultural understanding of love and romance would be an oversimplification"

Is that guy 50 or 500 "no one knows, some sources suggest their species could eaisally live to be 500, while others claim their planet of origin mearly has a widely diffrent method of counting years"

Why dose this account shower that charecter in praises while another seems to dislike them "well see, one was written by a friend of theirs and another written by a historical rival so..."

[magpie-sherlock]

Oh gosh it is the evening and I realize I never told you about High Fantasy Star Wars like I said I was going to

Okay SO

Some exposition: It's January of this year. I'm about halfway through my Clone Wars binge with my brother, rewatching it in its entirety for the first time since I was like, eight. I also happen to be a Heroforge addict, having already made several Legend of Zelda-themed miniature sets. I decide to apply my love of Star Wars to my addiction, and then decide that since Heroforge has way more options for fantasy than science fiction, that I will lean WAY into the whole "Star Wars Is Just A Fairy Tale Set In Space" thing.

Things get WAY out of control, and instead of a simple "Here's all the main characters of The Clone Wars in a miniature set", I wind up with a whole AU.

A lot of the story and stuff can be found under the #hfsw tag on my main blog, or by going to my (somewhat; I'm working on it) dedicated AU sideblog, @high-fantasy-sw, but since those are kind of chaotic at the moment, I'll also have a brief rundown here:

The main body (and by that I mean the fic adaptation that I'm writing) of the AU focuses on the Prequels, The Clone Wars, and the Original Trilogy. However, me being the Star War-crazed nerd that I am, I also do have stuff for Rebels, The Bad Batch, Tales of the Jedi/Tales of the Empire, and sometimes the Sequels (the first three are canon to the AU even though they aren't part of the main story; the Sequels are not, but I still like to mess around with them a little).

The plot remains nearly identical to the canon universe, just tweaked to fit the Fantasy worldbuilding.

Because I liked the idea of needing to travel long distances on ships to reach other planets, I decided to not make the setting a single continent with each of the planets being a country on the continent. Instead, the world is set in an archipelago on a great sea, with each of the planets as its own island or chain of islands.

(Side note but one thing I'm very proud of is that each character fights with a distinct weapon, and even each Jedi's individual lightsaber is unique to them.)

I haven't really posted much about this either under the tag or on the main blog, but as I am a sucker for symbolism and motifs and what not, there are several distinct fantasy... "subgenres", I guess you could call them, in the AU that are supposed to symbolise what a character or organization or what-have-you represents. To name a few, the Jedi are heavily influenced by Arthuriana (because holy monk-knights and the ideals of chivalry), the war-like and highly-traditional Mandalorians are inspired by Ancient Rome, Padme specifically has a very classic-fairy-tale motif because of her high ideals and hope for the future, and the Empire (and the island of Coruscant, to an extent) is represented by a very grim version of steampunk, because of its desire to dominate and control through mechanical means.

I do have to put a disclaimer on this work: I never claimed historical accuracy in this AU. My whole thing is, "If I think it's a cool idea, in it goes", and so while several aspects of the story and worldbuilding are drawn from history (especially the Jedi and the Mandalorians), it's more of an inspiration than a strictly accurate thing. If historical accuracy is your thing, I would suggest going and checking out @/an-old-lady's Medieval Star Wars AU, which was a huge inspiration on my own idea, VERY cool, and with much more historical authenticity than my story.

Oh gosh I hope I wasn't overstepping with this infodump, and if I was feel free to ignore. But if you enjoyed this rant, I'm so glad! I hope you have a great day :D

ahsjfkfbbdnfkejnfkekrnd I LOVE THIS

I need to go to bed but i am most definitely looking into this more tmr bc YES I AGREE

and ur so real for the “if i like i add” thing. frfr

the archipelago idea is EXQUISITE. and i love the arthurian addition to the jedi

you did not overstep at all! i love infodumps, and i am currently eeting this one. feel free to infodumo any time friend!