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dragon age inquisition: details [x]

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Brother’s War

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Five and a half hour conversation with Ellie, hbu???

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The world thus far.

About

Eerum is still in its conceptual phase, if you have any suggestions or would like to get involved then I’d be more than happy to hear what you have to say!

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There’s always space for yet another armor tutorial, right? (ﾉ´ヮ´)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

Note that the armor I drew would be worn around 15th century, the more into the future the less and less components knight’s armor had (i. e. in early 14th century instead of greaves a knight would wear long boots only; in 12th century knights didn’t wear plate breastplates and instead a chain mail only). Also the design of armor pattern changed by year and was different in every country (i.e. in eastern Europe armors, while still looking European, were heavily influenced by Turkey). so just make sure you always do research whenever drawing an armor. And one more thing to keep in mind is that armors were expensive, knights wearing a full plate armor weren’t an often sight.

Some links that may be useful:

Armour Archive (I strongly suggest to browse its forum, there is no country or period of which armor wouldn’t be discussed)

Therion Arms (armorer’s page; each accessory is photographed in big resolution and several time so it’s a nice page to use as reference for drawing)

Revival Clothing (another store, but both with medieval clothing and armors; I suggest to read the articles, they’re often supported with pictures)

Basic Armouring:A Practical Introduction to Armour Making (pdf)

Educational Charts (pdf, shows how armors and weapons changed over the years)

Medieval & Renaissance Material Culture (actual medieval resources, mostly paintings. And my favourite subpage - women in armor)

Dressing in Steel (youtube; a demonstration how to dress in armor)

How shall a man be armed? (youtube; another demonstration but with 4 different knights from different periods)

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A second award? Well, this calls for another speech.

This second award means a lot to me. My writing and my speeches have been criticized by many academies and publishers far and wide across the globe, from Oxford University Press to Hachette Livre. These so called 'professionals' believe that they know what true writing looks like – but tonight they are proven wrong.

Tonight I won Kay's Choice award, I thought this would be the end of my luck tonight – but the gods smile upon me today. This second award is unfathomable in my mind, with the competition out there ranging from Thebody1x1's speech to Hotknife's confession of their real identity – Tinkerbell. Somehow, with all these quality acceptances out there, I won. I'm awestruck and the news of this win blew me out of the water.

What does this mean for me? I don't know. I will go on and do what I do best – write acceptance speeches and being people's favourite just for speaking. Some say I paid for this win, and you know what? Fuck you guys. I don't need you, you're all horses, soulless human beings who wear fedoras. But I shouldn't focus on the negatives. To my fans, I love you all. You're great human beings who deserve nothing but the best.

With that all said, I want to confess something. Kay, I love you. I love you with an unbridled, uncontrolled passion which cannot be met by nature or the forces of the universe to any extent. You mean the world to me and I think we should get married, in a castle, all pretty and the likes. It'll be great, we'll have rainbows and unicorns and there'll be pretty flowers – the colour scheme will be white and lilac. Not a fan of that? We'll play with the colour schemes down the line, it's okay. We'll travel the world and when we're old and withered, we'll settle down in the suburbs. We will have a nice little house with a white picket fence and a dog or something, maybe a cat if you prefer cats.

Right now I'm three hundred and fifty seven words into this, and I'm rambling about nonsense because I was challenged to get to an eight hundred word acceptance speech, the Skype chat in the background is really confusing and there's a discussion about child birthing hips, I'm not sure what it's about but this is definitely the longest post on my blog, if you exclude the about that I wrote terribly at five in the morning. This paragraph is literally just me rambling on about nonsense, for the love of all things holy – skip it. With that said, in bold, maybe people will understand that I'm doing this just for the sake of reaching this cap, I'm not the kind to back down from this sort of thing – stiff upper lip and all that.

This speech has been dragging on now, and I know you all want to go home to your families and enjoy a nice microwave meal for one, but bare with me three hundred or so more words longer. So today I listened to 'Rather Be' on repeat, and you might be asking yourself what relevance does this have to the speech? Well, it's a connotation between people giving me a chance within the 1x1 community, and it's clear that Kay here is giving me just that. It's a shot in the dark but I'll make it, know with all your heart that I can't shame you, Kay. When I am with you, there is no place I'd rather be. No, no, no. No place I'd rather be.

Two hundred words left, here comes the filler:

Who do I thank for this? Well, first off I'd like to thank my parents for bringing me into this world and giving me the chance to achieve the world's best achievement that is winning the best acceptance speech. I'll thank my brother for being asleep in the room next to me right now, and honestly I don't know why I'm thanking him, he hasn't done anything particularly worth of praise when it comes to aiding me with this speech, in honesty he's probably been a bit of a detriment. I'd like to thank Ellie, Lex, Kay and Janey for the quality background content, which is practically white noise at this point. Lastly I'd like to thank Tumblr for all of the amazing content I shift through daily for that one post that I actually give a shit about. I'd like to thank you for the nonsensical bullshit which is posted on the dash in regards to hot topics which are spoken to provoke emotion. Suddenly, lesbians. I don't know what that has to do