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Assassin’s Creed Odyssey (2018)
#2018#gif#gaming#Assassin’s Creed Odyssey#Assassin’s Creed#Odyssey#Alexios#Kassandra#Sparta#Athens#Peloponnesian War#Aegean Sea#Brawler Set#xiphos
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#alicia c moon#Mckenzie#lucy westenra#xiphos#female superhero#superheroine#heroine#punished heroines#super villain#supervillain#supervillainess#villainess#female villains#brunette#web series#short film#in peril
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The sword of the day is the xiphos.
The xiphos is a short sword utilized by ancient Greek infantry as a backup weapon. A hoplite’s main weapon was their spear, so the xiphos was mainly used when the spear was lost or broken. Hoplites fought in phalanx formation, standing shoulder to shoulder with each soldier protected by their neighbor’s shield. A spear made it easy to attack from this formation, though the swords generally came out once the phalanx broke. The xiphos was mainly used for thrusting, though its leaf shaped blade made it a capable cutter as well.
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Daeran Arendae by Xiphos
Daeran Arendae by Xiphos, also here on @weatherbane3.
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#pathfinder#pathfinder: wrath of the righteous#daeran#daeran arendae#xiphos#weatherbane#Character art#aasimar#pwtor pals
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they’re me if you even care
i forgot to include Lester and Willow but that’s ok
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this was really fun to do
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What's so silly (not really) about being a system is there's multiple alters in denial and then there's others like me who like to give us a ✨ reality check ✨ and remind that, yes we are in fact a system and should probably acknowledge our trauma 😊
-Xiphos
#sandy's random#casual reminder that op is a system#osdd system#did system#plural system#system stuff#traumagenic system#fictive#origins of olympus#origins of olympus fictive#xiphos Origins of Olympus#xiphos
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Lin/Xiphos || 25. [artist’s choice] Snap-out-of-it Kiss
Genesis Campaign Content note: this is not how it happened, but we had met Xiphos (warforged bard, member of the Blades) a few times as an enemy NPC at this point. Our party had killed the warforged lieutenant she was in love with and we all expected to get our asses kicked for it.
Xiphos snarls as your blades cross, as you try to push her away from Argos.
“He took her from me,” she’s saying and her voice is-- her voice--
You can feel blood trickling from your nose and ears with the reverberations of it, but you press forward anyway.
“What am I supposed to do without her? What would she want me to do?” Beneath the magical onslaught of her voice, you can feel just the simple emotions -- rage, grief, absolute misery. The kind of things you felt when you realized Lairit was never going to love you the way you loved them.
With a flick of your saber, you disarm her -- you get the impression she wasn’t trying that hard. You drop your own sword and grab her wrists instead. “Listen,” you blurt, “You don’t have to-- this isn’t-- oh, goddamnit.”
You slide your hands down her forearms to grasp her elbows. You say, softly, fiercely: “Xiphos. You have more to live for than her.” Then you press your lips to where hers should be.
This isn’t so different from kissing someone flesh.The steps are basically the same -- raise one hand to cup her cheek, hold her gently to you, tilt your head to get a better angle. It may have been a while, but you still do know that much. Of course it’s weird not to feel skin under your own, or really much of a response, but you’re distracted from that by how hard you have to concentrate -- by the sheer mental effort it takes to throw every scrap of healing, purifying magic you have into Xiphos.
It feels like a rushing river blasting through you. You cling to her harder, trying to keep from being washed away, and you feel the moment the magic hits her: feel the shock go through her frame, feel her -- maybe -- start to kiss back. Is it working? You can’t tell if it’s working. You’re 85% sure that when you let go of her, she’s going to blast you across the battlefield.
But you have to try. Even if you can’t save any of the other Blades, even if you fail to save this one -- you can’t just leave someone wallowing in a despair like yours without trying to pull them out.
“Linmir?” someone says behind you, in tones of abject horror.
You open your eyes to discover that sometime in the last -- thirty seconds? thirty minutes? -- you instinctively dipped Xiphos, supporting her back with one arm while the other still cradles her jaw. She’s looking at you with an unreadable expression. Hysterical laughter bubbles up in you and you bite it down. “Sorry,” you whisper. “Sorry.” Then you set her carefully on her feet again, and wait for whatever consequences are coming your way.
#Linmir did end up kissing her but under vastly different circumstances#op#kiss meme#prose#genesis campaign#linmir celemariel#xiphos#genesis was about wlw paladins and bards kissing To Me
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Swordtember Day 20 - Leaf
Based on the “leaf shaped” xiphos from ancient Greece, today’s sword is the Megali Pendata. A sword blessed by 5 different deities. It’s shadows edges have a surprise for those who can wield its might.
#swordtember#swordtember2022#dungeonsanddragons#dnd#dndart#dndartwork#dnditems#dndmagicitems#wotc#wotcmtg#mythicodysseysoftheros#theros#heliod#erebos#nylea#purphoros#thassa#xiphos
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"This is Sparta!"
Frank Miller’s 300 (1998)
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#alicia c moon#Mckenzie#lucy westenra#xiphos#female superhero#superheroine#heroine#punished heroines#female villains#super villain#supervillain#supervillainess#villainess#brunette#redhead#in peril#defeated
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This #Greek Xiphos possesses a tempered and sharpened #blade of 420 stainless steel. The grip of carved and polished hardwood is dual-pinned to the thick blade tang. The pommel is also #wood and is capped on its end with a steel disc. The sword comes with a stitched leather scabbard with an integrated riveted belt loop.
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A few days ago, I stumbled across this album (bless @kebriones), titled "Xiphos: The rise and fall of Athens", which basically narrates the lives of nine individuals who have been associated with Athens, and since the whole premise reminded me of "Six: The musical" (which I loved), I ended up falling in love with this one as well! Both of them present their historical figures in a positive light (even the most controversial ones) and each character's song has a different "personality" to help the listener identify them (for example, Themistocles' song sounds like a ballad, Cimon's is accompanied by war trumpets, Pericles' leads to an epic climax etc).
Here are the songs in order:
https://youtu.be/r0lmZJsfN5Q
https://youtu.be/bSh2w_KiU6w
https://youtu.be/9XyGZRVMi1g
https://youtu.be/bceX4Xjnzw8
https://youtu.be/T9Zvpx70ZP0
https://youtu.be/M0UDgpqdnjU
https://youtu.be/L6v1mpEDqRI
https://youtu.be/SR_7grysgRo
https://youtu.be/xtzzuHjknRk
https://youtu.be/DXVuaLtGtTU
https://youtu.be/sILhE1zdf18
And here are the lyrics in case you have trouble understanding them:
https://xiphos.bandcamp.com/album/the-rise-and-fall-of-athens
You do realize the potential of such an idea! We could have an album/musical about the Byzantine emperors (though they are far too many, though we could focus on the important ones) or about the heroes of the Greek War of Independence! Wouldn't that be awesome?
Ah, okay here's my honest opinion, with both the positives and the negatives. I started with the intro, which is instrumental, and it got me in the right mindset, Ancient Greece (if not exactly Athens tbh) and all.
So then when I moved to Theseus, for some reason I expected fewer lyrics and them to be in Modern or Ancient Greek, so when I heard this loooong flow of impeccable English speech, I admit it was alienating to me, because the English language, which I love, is sooo vastly different from Greek vocalizations and aesthetics.
In any case, Cimon's was my favorite song with lyrics but I preferred the instrumental intro.
It's still a beautiful and passionate work and I am sure people who love Greek history and culture but do not speak Greek will find it very enjoyable indeed. And of course those Greek speakers who don't have the same pet peeves as me!
Also, yes, the potential art that could be created if someone cared to do so would be immense...
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I bought a sword
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