#lemuria challenge

[knuppitalism-with-ue]

Forgot to post these yesterday here! Our first two constructed ecosystems are coming together for the #LemuriaChallenge. We started yesterday with the coral reefs...

And continued today with the rudist reefs...

Afterwards we laid the foundation for the carbonate platform reef which will be finished today. Also on the menu later tonight: coasts!

We have over 950 entries with several thousand species to choose from, so this will be a lot of work

We continue with these around 9 PM CET

[katborg82]

*SPEC EVO*

Lemuria flocking 6-27-25

Megalognathus, Harbinger Bird, Cervidavtylus, The Last Stegosaur

[arminreindl]

My newest submissions for the Lemuria challenge, both baurusuchids tho with different approaches.

While the family is present on Lemuria due to Pabwehshi, baurusuchids come in two flavours. Baurusuchines and pissarrachampsines. For a while Pabwehshi was treated as closer to Baurusuchus but the most recent paper has it as a pissarrachamspine. Given that all other baurusuchids besides Pabwehshi are exclusively known from South America, its really anyones guess which one should be present. Especially given the big unknown that is baurusuchids in Africa.

Anyways, so that its not just the same animal reskinned I obviously went into different directions. Cuonchampsa I kept on the smaller side and left "naked", something informed by what we see in Pissarrachampsa, which despite being known from ample material preserves not a single osteoderm in its vicinity. Baurusuchids are already light in terms of armour and likely didn't use it to stabilize their gait, so this loss is far from improbable. Still, I did elect to keep it smaller because of that anyways. I also made them group animals, inspired by Pissarrachampsa nesting sites, tho again exaggerating things for the sake of spec.

With the baurusuchine I was aiming for something larger, more robust and gnarlier looking. I kept the osteoderms, tho in accordance with recent papers I opted to hide them under extensive soft tissue, going for a kinda cracked texture of sorts (so not quite the leathery softshell turtle dermis the paper uses as an example). Tho the two wouldn't usually encounter another, I kinda went for a bit of a tiger - dhole energy between the two (also referenced by the genus name of the former).

I also did some rough scaling to highlight the size difference

[he-who-needs-to-be-silenced]

My two most recent Lemuria submissions

A nautilid genus

And a horseshoe crab genus

[harpagornis]

Lemurian Monotremes

Lemuria has about six species of monotreme mammals living in it. They arrived to Marama during the Oligocene, likely due to brief contact with Sahul. As New Guinea was seperated from Australia at this time, it has been speculated that monotremes evolved to fill terrestrial niches in the absence of other mammals. It certainly explains the parse fossil reccord of echidnas in Australia, and the terrestrial habits of the Lemurian species.

There are three species of Lemurian echidnas, under the genus Lemurioglossus. They closely resemble the long-nosed echidnas of New Guinea and likewise populate the forest environments of Lemuria. The relationship with Oceanian echidnas is controversial, some holding this animals to be an example of convergent evolution. They seem to have lost their teeth independently according to genetic studies, and likely adopted a terrestrial lifestyle independently as well. They seem to have gone through a population bottleneck, likely due to the colder and drier climate of the Pliocene, the Elumbava (L. giganteus) splitting during the Pliocene and the Atrava (L. atrava) and Numbal (L. pardus) during the middle Pleistocene.

The Elumbava is the largest of the living monotreme species, measuring one meter and weighting up to 30 kg. It is specialised for the montane forest ecosystems, and it can actually climb trees in search of termites, ants and honey. The other two species occur in the lowland rainforests and feed primarily on worms and slugs. The Elumbava is pale with black dots, the Atrava is black with a brown snout and the Numbal is brown with white stripes. Like their aussie relatives they carry their puggles within temporary pouches, and have four headed penises. Like all monotremes they have tarsal spurs, but they don't produce venom and instead these animals rely on their spines for protection.

The midus or echidna-platypodes are comprised of two genera, Midutherium and Lemuriorhynchus. The former is compromised of two species, the Forest Midu (Midutherium sylvus) and the Swamp Midu (Midutherium malificarum). Both dig underground like moles in search of worms and other invertebrates, with the Swamp Midu also swimming like a platypus or desman. Their toothless beaks are thinner than those of the platypus, but they are otherwise very similar. The Ganiva (Lemuriorhynchus deserti) on the other hand preffers drier environments, digging through the sands of the savannas and semi-deserts. It bears a broader beak, and it is the only living monotreme to still have teeth. All midus have two headed penises like the platypus, and raise their young in a burrow. The two genera are thought to have split during the Oligocene, with the Ganiva having expanded westwards towards drier environments while the other two Midu species split more recently in the Pliocene. All midus are highly venomous, their venom not only causing severe pain but potentially killing elderly and children.

The six Lemurian monotremes are rather cryptic species and have little lore about them, though the Elumbava is featured in highlands mythology as a sort of trickster god. It is also eaten, usually acompanied by gingko fruits. All six species are endangered due to habitat loss.

[nymphaea-blue]

Love and Deepspace boys with a lemurian!reader.

Info : 1.2k+ word count (about 400 per part), fluff, very slight angst in Zaynes part.

Notes : We need more content about lemurians, especially now since it's mermay!

Rafayels part is here!

Zayne

He would be curious about you and how your body is different from humans because of your origin, he would study you a lot and ask frequent questions. It was a bit creepy at first but he has your best interest at hand - he just wants to be able to take care of you in case something happens, so of course he needs the knowledge to do that. He doesn’t say it but he is afraid that you will be in pain because of some lemurian sickness or something will happen to you and he wouldn’t be able to help, or worse - he would harm you further.

Zayne finally realised why you were clinging to him so much. His body temperature was oftentimes naturally cold because of his evol and since cold temperature reminded you of water which was once your home, you of course often migrated to him. He made sure to have ice cream or cold water in his apartment whenever you came during hot seasons to cool you down, though his favourite method to do that was still cuddles.

He was a little unsure of your lemurian form at first, he wouldn’t come too close or talk too much but that was just because he was stunned, you were beautiful. It was shocking to him to see a literal tail instead of your legs but he quite liked you like this, not much changed in your relationship… other than the fact that now he was much more keen to have baths with you after he understood your need for the water, and he would encourage you to change into your lemurian form more to “stretch out your tail to keep it healthy” (he just wants to admire you). He’s also just a little freaked out by your ability to breathe underwater but he gets used to it.

Zayne made sure to keep your secret hidden, he was a supportive boyfriend from the start even if he didn’t know much about you and didn’t fully understand all your quirks yet. Not many people knew about Lemuria, people thought it was just a myth but now he knew it wasn’t and he was dead set on keeping you safe. Need a checkup in the hospital? Zayne would be doing that. One of the doctors thinks your temperature is too low? No it isn’t, you just didn’t wear warm enough clothes, he would say.

Xavier

He would not know for a longer time and he would probably be oblivious to any hints about it too. Once you would tell him though, he would be supportive but it ended at that. Later on however, he would start acting all weird with you. You were sitting down with him, talking to him about what happened at work and then he suddenly gets you a glass of water even though you had a different drink. You visited him in his apartment and he now had a humidifier and a lotion that he would randomly start to apply on you. And more. When you asked him about it, it turned out that he was studying how to care for fishes and other water animals and it said they needed lots of water and a cold, humid environment, and it worked. 

Xavier would find your Lemurian form to be very pretty though you wouldn’t have many chances to show it to him, since your dates were mostly to public swimming pools and he didn’t have a big enough tub, but you did manage to show it to him once and he absolutely adored it. All the shiny scales, your eyes, he loved literally all changes of yours. You were worried he wouldn’t like them, but Xavier reads a lot of comic books so he was used to the image of fantasy creatures, though you were still the prettiest one he ever saw.

He would start to look at you a little more closely, try to see your mannerism, what you liked, what you didn’t want to touch, everything. He wanted to figure out how to make you more comfortable, since he guessed being a lemurian did come with its own challenges but he was prepared to help you navigate them. You felt bad since sometimes you had to cancel dates because you just didn’t feel like yourself but he always understood and just stayed at your place with you instead.

Xavier wouldn’t bring it up too much, it just became something natural for him at some point so he wasn’t even surprised if he would find you sitting in a bathtub for a few hours or if you would start speaking in lemurian after something scared you. He did however like to ask you about your home sometimes, since it was something very precious to you. 

Sylus

Supportive king from the start because he is a dragon! You told him once over dinner and while he was curious, he was very respectful and made sure you took everything at your own pace. He would playfully tease you about it but it was all in love, his favourite way to tease you is to ask you if you still ate seafood if they were technically your neighbors and he would start to call you something like “starfish” instead of “kitten” sometimes just to see the reaction he would get out of you.

Fascinated about your lemurian form, he took it in as if he was looking at the most expensive diamond in his collection and he touched you like it too. He was always careful, gentle, as if he was afraid to hurt you or say something wrong but he would hide it with his confident tone. His pool was big enough to contain you so you sometimes had a chance to transform, but Sylus noticed that it wasn’t really as big as it should be for you to swim around freely so he made it like 5 times bigger. And his bathtub got upgraded to a bigger one too so you would be able to bathe with him while in your lemurian form since he wanted you to feel free to always transform whenever you wanted.

Sylus adores it when you speak lemurian, it’s like the hottest thing to him. He knows many languages but this one he sadly can’t learn since it’s lost to time but it was no issue because now you get to teach him! He managed to pick up some necessary stuff for when you don’t remember words in English or for when you are feeling horrible during one of the many cycles you go through as a lemurian, things like “food”, “need water” or his favourite - “hug me”. He also loves to hear you sing, your voice is one of a true siren and he will gladly fall under your spell each time if it means he gets to hear you sing more.

Ensures that nobody knows except him that you are a lemurian, not even the twins know since as much as they are useful, they probably would make you feel swamped with questions which he didn’t want. One day someone during an auction accidentally heard you say something in lemurian to Sylus and he did not hesitate to kill that guy on the spot. Another time during an auction people were talking about lemurians, their blood especially, and some were trying to gather intel on them, but Sylus quickly shut the whole thing down, because not only he cared about you but also about the very few of your kind that were somewhere in the world.

[a-hermit-pining]

Crown For a Flower

Request: @queenondeezmatatas A RAFAYEL MERMAID AU SET IN THE 1800s WHERE MC IS A ROYAL LIVING IN A CASTLE BY THE SEA OFC AND THEIR LOVE IR FORBIDDEN BUT IT DONT MATTER PLSSSSS PLS PLS PLS let them be happy even if just for a millisecond😭🙏🏻

AN: This turned out to be different but I could not resist this idea. I just love dramatic stories sooooooo much. It isn't 1800s esque but I promise to get to that someday.

Pairing: Rafayel x Empress Reader

Genre: Fluff and ROMANCE

Summary: "It was a wedding unlike any other," the merwoman whispered to her sleepy daughter. "The union of Prince Rafayel and the Empress..." And so, she began to tell the tale.

The Lemurian court waited. Bowed on their knees. The seabed itself trembled beneath the drums that announced the emperor.

The tyrant. He who bled both lands and seas, had come. Invading the quiet bliss of Lemuria to uphold the ancient oath.

Peace had arrived with feet that dragged blood into its halls.

To wed, to form an alliance, the emperor came. And just like that, the court bowed lower, accepting the wedding that promised an end to a one-sided war.

Rafayel bowed with the rest of his father’s brood. The bastard, crouched behind the legitimate princes.

And standing at the altar was his aunt, Talia. The bride. The offering.

Where there should have been shame, there was only relief.

Assurance that their world would be spared. That the emperor would not strip the very seas of water to slaughter every last one of their kin.

Worse things had been done to the dragons of the West, burned alive with the mountains they guarded. And to the angels, plucked from the skies to amuse the emperor’s court.

So, marriage was a merciful fate.

It would grant them protection, from the emperor, and the monsters he had made of all others.

“All bow to the sovereign of the world,” a guard announced. And the kneeling court bowed further still.

The footfalls of soldiers echoed through the sacred hall. The clang of armor, the hiss of swords that had bled nations.

And yet, within that grim procession, there came a note of sweetness. A chime, delicate as windchimes swaying in spring.

A sound not of death, but of beauty.

“Rise.” The voice rang clear. Firm, but not unkind.

And in place of the tyrant, stood you.

The princess. Now crowned. Now empress.

Rafayel stared from a distance, his view obstructed by the silhouettes before him. But he could still hear the sound, the cheerful chime of a silver hairpin catching the current. Even as the court broke into whispers.

“I apologize,” you said, “but my father did not live to keep his word. So I have come. His heir. I shall complete this alliance.”

Rafayel pushed through the crowd, just in time to see you standing before Talia, your hand outstretched.

“That is, if your heart is not taken by another.”

The tyrant who tormented heavens, earth, and sea, had fallen. Slain by his own daughter, with the same cruelty he had borne unto others.

And now, the savior of worlds stood in their court. Not with demands, but to keep the word of peace.

The word of marriage went out. Of the newest empress seeking her groom. Word carried to every corner of Lemuria.

A simple challenge accompanied it. Issued in the quiet wake of Aunt Talia stepping down from the marriage proposal.

Rafayel stared at the wooden box in his brother’s hand. It was smooth, polished, its grain fine beneath his fingers, like a breath trapped in time.

To win the empress’s hand, One only had to open the box.

But not with hands. Not with keys. Not with tools.

The box was to be opened by its own element. In a way that required no force.

And those who resorted to force, who pried or cracked or cut, had been named. Called out by you directly.

The court had been abuzz with the puzzle. Dozens had tried.

None had succeeded.

Whatever lived inside the box shattered at the touch of violence.

A box that refused to be opened with force…What could slip into the very grain of wood itself?

"May I?" Rafayel asked quietly.

His brother sighed, handing over the box before marching off in exasperation.

Rafayel hadn't been given one of his own. He wasn’t even meant to be a part of the challenge. No one expected anything from the bastard son, barely a prince.

But he had wanted to try. Not for the marriage. Not for a crown.

He just wanted a reason to see you again.

To get a little closer. To catch another glimpse of the hairpin that had snared his attention in the court. It haunted him now. It rang through his sleep. Slipped into his drawings.

It was everywhere. Like you.

And this box… this puzzle… It was the only way to stand in your presence again.

To look at the one who wore the chime in her hair.

The one who was leaving tonight.

Leaving behind the challenge. Leaving behind Lemuria. To return to your empire.

Unless. He could solve it. Unless he could make the box bloom.

He will find you. He will make it so that you come to him

As his bride.

You stared at the block. A blooming weed stared back.

After two months, the answer to your challenge finally arrived from the courts of Lemuria.

Delicate wood had been parted. Split not by blades, nor keys, But by the slow persistence of roots.

A flower had bloomed, and in blooming, revealed your heart. Your aether core within the box.

A soft laugh bubbled from your throat. Not of amusement. But of quiet, content recognition.

A fragment of your soul seemed to glow from the cracks. Your heart, unveiled. Nestled between petals.

"Let it be known," you said, rising to your feet, "that the Empress is eager to be wed, to the one who holds the mind to unveil my heart with such beauty."

You turned, voice unwavering, lips soft with something dangerously close to a smile.

"Prepare for the wedding."

They say he never tried to pry the box open.

While others scorched it with spells, cracked it with blades, whispered incantations to break its seal. Rafayel only placed it in the sun.

He watered the soil beneath it each morning. Let the dew kiss its corners. Watched for mold, checked the grain.

He tilted it toward the light when the tide shifted, knelt beside it to whisper apologies on stormy nights. Some nights he rested beside it, cheek pressed to the stone, breathing with it as though it were alive.

And when he noticed a single thread of green peeking from beneath the lid, he didn't touch it. He simply watched.

And when the bloom finally opened, delicate and white, cradled in the broken seal, he wept.

Leaf by leaf, he witnessed the box part, not with force, but with trust.

Its edges softened. Its roots slipped into the wood like secrets. He charted the curves of each petal. Studied how they curled. How they clung.

Not for triumph. But for the quiet, impossible sight of your aether core. Glimmering red piece of you that lay in his blooms.

A treasure that refused to yield to force. Had revealed itself under his care.

"It was a wedding unlike any other," the merwoman whispered to her sleepy daughter. "The union of Prince Rafayel and the Empress..."

And so, she began to tell the tale.

Welcomed with gentle waves, the new Empress walked along a path paved in gold coins and pearls.

With a procession of two hundred, the humans came to Lemuria. With drums, with songs, with joy that had been lost for centuries.

Never before had there been such grandeur. Not for a wedding. Not for any union.

With them came the surviving dragons, seeking the calm of the sea to soothe their scorched wounds. Elves from ancient forests. Fae from veiled worlds. Angels, freed from their shackles.

Delicacies unheard of were offered to the court. Treasures brought by every race to honor the Empress who had brought order from ruin.

Peace had come to Lemuria with the promise of this union, but it had touched the entire world. It was as if the whole of creation had paused, just to witness them.

And Rafayel stood at the altar, when he heard the chimes again.

He looked up.

And there you were.

He had to force his eyes away from your hairpin, to allow himself the full, unshaken sight of you. Standing beneath the Cove of Oaths, you wore no crown. Only the hairpin.

And nestled beside it, his flower. His breath caught.

The vow taken by the heart of the ocean.

You stepped closer, alone in this moment. Alone in this oath.

This belonged to no court, no kingdom, no god. Only to you and him.

"You already have my heart," you said, smiling softly as you stood before him. "Yet, I have not had the chance to have yours." You tilted your head, "Is this to your wish? Our wedding, is it more than an oath to you?"

And Rafayel looked at the flower.

"Pilin flowers," he said quietly, "grow only with love."

"They bloom yellow with infatuation... blue with lust..."

His hand rose, fingers trembling as they brushed the white petals resting in your braid.

"And white," he whispered, "with love."

[aberrantologist]

Doodles from yesterday's Lemuria Challenge flocking Paleostream featuring the fictional Megalognathus, Unusqui, Cervidactylus, and Deimaximerror.

[writingescapades]

What if Rafayel was never meant to fall for MC? What if MC was intended to be a sacrifice? What if bride in Lemurian culture and language implied sacrificial being? What if both Rafayel and MC were "brides"? What if Rafayel challenged the notion of sacrificial bride to a person that one loves? Adding Lemuria's highest value on MC, thus placing her from lowest rank to the highest rank??

[blondphobic]

I keep seeing people saying they don't like rafayel because he’s unreliable, “he’s a merman, he’s putting a façade to deceive mc and is rude to anybody else, he condemned his people yada yada” and others surface level half assed reading of his character and man I’m tired.

to the moment we first met him (first first met him, in the forgotten sea myth) rafayel is portrait as not sharing the same disdain for humans as the majority of the lemurians, he calms the storm so the ship mc was in doesn’t sink and saves her from drowning (yes, he fucks with her a little but the intention was to save her), they only met because he snuck out and went where he isn’t suppose to be.

forgotten sea rafayel is playful, carefree and a little naive, he not really fathom the extent of his powers as the sea god until the moment of the coming-of-age ceremony and even then he challenged the deep sea. he didn’t choose mc over lemuria, he lied to save both of them.

the rafayel we meet at the sea of golden sand, the one who seems to have assumed his position as a lemurian leader (kinda) and is in fact trying to retrieve the heart by deceive mc is the most “sober” version of his character, he acts like people expect him to act like a sea god but can’t help but falling in love with mc again and again tries to save both her and his people by erasing her memories and trying to rewrite the tome of the sea god.

rafayel cares deeply about the lemurians, he has a fucking bounty on his head for going after people who are involved with ever and their experiments on merfolks, before we met him on the main story he already gave up on us (think of that one scene where talia ask him if he thinks about his marriage and he just answers ‘no’), he’s focused on protecting the remain lemurians, it’s only when mc goes after him at his studio that he decides to come with the bodyguard thing so he can be closer to her.

he’s stuck in this eternal conflict between his obligations with his people and his love for mc, the man (merman?) he believes lemurians want him to be, who’s a leader and makes sacrifices vs. the man who comes to the surface when he’s with mc, who can be carefree and even vulnerable, who plays in the rain and dances around in puddles with her, who gets excited about things that look insignificant to most of people and is passionate about everything he does.

I keep seeing fans saying that “rafayel is for the girlies who need to heal their inner child” and I think it goes both ways, rafayel is his most sincere version when he’s with mc and that’s scary for him, in his cards he seems to be always fighting for control but never with mc, he’s fighting himself.

rafayel loves us but he’ll give up on his happiness over and over again if he thinks that is the best for mc, he’s very skeptical for someone who is a literal god and deep down I think the only thing he truly believes is that mc will always find her way back to him.

[lavender3312]

LOVE AND DEEPSPACE BOYS PLAYING MINECRAFT WITH YOU

Xavier

• It's canon that he really likes video games and it’s a really good player.

• He has played Minecraft before but this is the first time he has played with someone.

• He’ll make sure to protect you against any monster.

• His main purpose is killing the Ender dragon.

• Not really interested in mining or exploring.

• He is not a fan of building either but if you want a pretty house he’ll happily help you.

• He’ll like to add mods that’ll make the game more challenging, and definitely horror mods so he can protect and comfort you when you need ❤️

• He would usually stop playing after killing the dragon, but he will continue playing just to spend more time with you and do whatever you want next.

Rafayel

• He plays video games too but he’s not really passionate about it

• He hates that everything is squareat first but once he realize how much he can do he gets over it

• He loves to build, he is not satisfied with just a house, he’ll materialize anything that comes to mind

• He’ll use very odd blocks too, anything that’s pretty enough deserves a place in his little projects

• Definitely will build some underwaters construction too, he won’t tell you but he’ll try to recreate Lemuria

• You’ll be in charge of getting everything he needs, he’ll boss you around a lot (lovingly)

• If you two decide to add some mods he’ll want one where you two can get marry ❤️ (and anything that can improve his constructions)

Zayne

• He is not very interested in video games but agreed after your insistence.

• He never played Minecraft before (or any other game) but learned pretty quickly and became good at it

• Although he doesn’t enjoy it a lot at the beginning he loves sharing a new activity with you ❤️

• He does everything you ask:

- If you want to build a nice house, he will get you everything you need.

- If you want to go after the dragon, he will help you get ready.

- If you are afraid to fight monsters, he will try to kill them for you.

Whatever you want or need, he will do it.

Sorry for any grammar mistake, English is not my first language, hope you liked it!!

[hoaxghost]

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20 lucky contestants will be chosen for a once in a life time journey aboard our airship for a cruise of the skies. Luxury, entertainment, food, and memories to last a life time will be found! However- we cannot promise how long that life time will last....

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[talonabraxas]

Archaeon Haniel and Archeia Maryllisa, the Lady Radiant. Talon Abraxas

Archaeon Haniel is Chief of the Virtues and Chief of the Principalities. He may also be known as Aniel, Hamiel, Anafiel or Anael. His name means "He who sees God". Haniel is a master of the lessons of polarity and duality and of synchronicity, who brings together friends and lovers and then supports them in their relationships. He also rules all matters of peace, beauty, grace and art and brings harmony and inspiration to our lives. He is ruler of the month of December, the astrological sign of Capricorn, and thus may be associated with Saturn. He is closely connected with the planet Venus from where he and his twin flame originate, which is illustrated by their luminescent white skin and hair. They came to Earth long ago with a large team of Ascended Beings and Angels to serve with Sanat Kumara and Lady Venus Kumara in their endeavours to return Earth to the Path of Light. Gautama Buddha and Sananda (Jesus) both also originate from Venus and it is said too that Venusians were early Earth settlers in the times of Lemuria.

Depicted by some as wearing an emerald green robe and carrying a lantern, he showed himself to us wearing a ceremonial cloak of feathers in the Aztec style. This brings out his associations with the Aztec ruler and God, Quetzalcoatl, as whom he incarnated many years ago in what we know as South America. He has had other incarnations, another one of which was as one of Gautama Buddha's first pupils and his affinity with the principles of Buddhism remain an important aspect of his teachings now. Haniel also works closely with Sanat Kumara, the Maha Chohan, Hilarion, Uriel and Metatron. He helps us utilise star energies, especially when we use them to make or charge healing remedies or energise crystals. His Archeia, the Lady Radiant, is known as Maryllisa for the flower "Amaryllis Belladonna" — a play on the words meaning "a Mary lily: beautiful lady". They have a retreat on Earth called ETAE, which means "and always". This is situated both on the surface and in the ethers of the highest of the mountain ranges of Puno, north / north-east of Lake Titicaca in Peru.

Haniel works with the White ray of Purity and the Orange Ray of Logic, Reason and Knowledge. This ray has the depth and thrust to get right to the "heart of the matter" and is the ray to move us away from living life solely through our emotional body where we are constantly reacting to events that have already happened in our lives, to a life where we are taking the initiative and actively shaping the life we want to have. It is the ray of the researcher and the scientist, but on a personal level it encourages new ways of thinking, supports expansion of all our senses and challenges us to extend our boundaries or change our perceptions. Haniel is also a teacher of the theme of illusion and expectations — he shows us what our expectations are (of ourselves, others or situations we find ourselves in) and then shows us which expectations are justified and appropriate and which are not. He thus teaches us to have realistic expectations of ourselves and others. This guidance may help us recognise our inner feelings and identify patterns of behaviour more clearly. Haniel said: "In order to stand for your truth and speak your truth, you need to know your truth. And to know your truth you need to know yourself. And that means looking within, to examine and question each and every part of your existence — to truly understand your own feelings. Many peoples' issues are clouded with the beliefs they have about themselves that they hold to be true, but which simply are not! Those beliefs may have been given to them through others' opinions or words; or from their own emotional reactions to things that have happened in their life; or the belief systems that have been an integral part of their lives — past and present. Few people have the ability to see through to their very core: to see themselves as they truly are. Find yourself first — and then find your truths." Haniel also helps us to live in the present — to be consciously living each and every waking minute, without wasting time and energy over what has happened / is going to happen. Living in the present helps us flow through life, with faith and trust.

Haniel helps us accept our true Light and know that we function on many levels of consciousness, even those we may not yet be aware of. He can accordingly help strengthen our perceptions on the etheric (psychic) levels. By truly knowing ourselves, our talents and abilities and seeing and understanding our true Light we are encouraged to live our lives fully, trusting in ourselves and what we can accomplish. His pure and clarifying light falls on us to help us see the truth and reality at the heart of ourselves, showing us without artifice or illusions so that we know who we truly are. His energy puts us into the spotlight, enabling us to see what our true abilities and talents are. Once we accept our qualities and value ourselves and our capabilities Haniel then gives us the courage to live them and walk our path in the Light of Truth. He gives us the self-belief and strength to show others what we do, how we live, and what our ideals are — and to be proud of it. He will help us dissolve any feelings we may have of not being worthy and give us the confidence to "walk our walk" and "talk our talk". This frees us up to show ourselves and others exactly what we can do and not be embarrassed by it, ashamed of it or be troubled about others reactions to it. By living our truths openly and by being seen to do so, we may hopefully encourage others to do the same. Haniel had this to say: "In these days there is a need for people who are prepared to stand up and say 'This is what I believe in: This is what I find works', even at the risk of feeling foolish, and even if what you say goes against what is regarded as conventional truths or wisdom. Throughout history there are always forerunners; those who have perhaps brought ridicule upon themselves for their strange concepts and new ideas. But in the end those new ideas have been accepted as truth, and believed, understood and accepted by others as a consequence. And that is also what we need today — more people prepared to stand up for their truths and to be counted and who are prepared to make a difference in the world as she moves forwards toward the end-times."

MESSAGE FROM HANIEL:

If you could see yourselves through my eyes, you would know how beautiful and wondrous you truly are. Ever changing and evolving patterns of Light, constantly moving and rearranging in the language which spells out exactly who and what you are. In your pure energetic forms, the forms you have for most of your existence, your story may be read. No masks or artifice - simply YOU as you ARE. And there is no shame in this exposure, no need to hide, no need for excuses or apologies. For all is revealed, and all IS as it IS. And as such you see all others too as they are. And in this way all exist openly and proudly, knowing "This is ME" "This is who I AM". There is no judgement, no competition. Each one of you is as important as the next, and each one is loved for what they ARE, and not what they think others want them to be.

In truth there is no such thing as imperfection, for all of you at heart are pure sparks of energy. So be not afraid to stand up for yourself as who you are, as how you look, and as what you do and what you stand for. Those who matter will see past the surface to the truth that is you, and some may be impelled to take a closer look, to find within you that which they have been seeking for themselves.

It takes but one voice to make a difference and one torch bearer to light a path for the many to follow. Take my hand, and take that step.

I salute you all for your courage and companionship as fellow travellers on the path back to God.

May many Blessings light your ways.

[local-twat]

ive been lurking on this damn app for too long but im gonna say it (also ignore the fact that i type like i have no idea how to use this app cuz i dont, this is my first post in the 5 years i had this account qwq)

WHERES THE SYLUS VS RAFAYEL, X READER FICS

like the potential for rivalry on who wins MC's heart is there. its always xavier and raf & sylus and zayne. NO I WANT THOSE TWO FIGHTING

heck its literally in canon (or implied idc i need some more lore disjehd) that Rafayel and Sylus may or may not have beef (tho if they dont fine but i still want them fighting). not to mention that one dialogue of Sylus mentioning something about fishing.

UGH GOD I WANNA SEE THESE TWO FIGHT SO BAD

anyway where was i... THE ABSOLUTE CONTRASTS THESE TWO HAVE. ive been thinking about it for a while so here's a list of what i thought of so far:

• red vs blue (yes wow how observant)

•being straightforward (sylus) vs putting on a metaphorical mask (rafayel)

•sylus wanting to challenge gods while rafayel is a LITERAL GOD OF THE SEA (the fantasy au fics of this would be fire)

•a ruler who has everything vs a ruler who lost everything

•fREAKIN FIRE AND WATER (referring to that one flashback of sylus and rafayel’s lemuria life)

aaaand the one other thing they got in common aside from being loaded, they desperately want her to remember (again im sticking with how they acted in the story)

yeah thats all i could think of BUT DO YOU SEE THE VISION

tho if i made any mistakes or misinterpretated anything wrong do correct me thx

[he-who-needs-to-be-silenced]

(← runs a spec evo game) how the hell is Lemuria getting so many people on board like that. What are its advertisement methods

didcore

[harpagornis]

My submission to #lemuriachallenge