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Oni encounter

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Your gift arrived a little late o.o

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Ms Fortune

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Zitiron- a creature with the bottom half of a fish and the top half of a knight.

The zitiron only shows up in three sources that I can find- the Ortus Sanitatis (published in Germany 1491, author unknown), Van der Naturen Bloeme (early 14th c) by Flemish poet Jacob van Maerlant, and De natura rerum (1244 CE) by Flemish writer Thomas of Cantimpré. Van der Naturen Bloeme is actually just a Dutch translation of the Latin De natura rerum, so technically there's only two original sources. The only reason I mention both is that the original De natura rerum- which is sourced from a large number of works by philosophers and writers such as Aristotle, Pliny the Elder, St. Ambrose, Jacques de Vitry, and too many others to explore them all as original sources- doesn't have any illustrations and is in Latin, which I can't read, making it a personally useless source. But Van der Naturen Bloeme does have illustrations- the third image in this post is Jacob van Maerlant's interpretation of the zitiron I assume to be outlined in De natura rerum.

The only other original place that a zitiron can be found, according to the internet, is in the Ortus Sanitatis, a Latin natural history encyclopedia with no known author published in 1491 in Mainz, Germany. It has illustrations, the second image in this post is the author's interpretation. But again, I can't read Latin and it's hard to read the stylized text to put into google translate.

There is almost no information about the zitiron online, which is a shame because it's a really interesting figure. If you can read Latin or medieval Dutch I would LOVE to work together to place the origin of this mythological creature and learn more about it!

For the drawing, I wanted to honor Jacob van Maerlant and Thomas of Cantimpré's Flemish heritage. The helmet, chainmail, shield, and goedendag on the zitiron are representative of what the Flemish forces wore and used at the Battle of the Golden Spurs, a 1302 victory of the French that is a source of pride and celebrated every July 11th by the Flemish today.

TLDR: The zitiron is a little known creature from the Middle Ages or perhaps antiquity, with the bottom half of a fish and the top half of a knight. My drawing is inspired by the Flemish culture of two of the only writers to leave any information about the zitiron.

If you've got the time and can read Latin, could you take a look at the two Latin texts I mentioned? For the Ortus Sanitatis, I was able to flip through the whole thing and find the page that has the info on zitirons. It's on page 730 here- (x). But for De natura rerum, which you can access here (x), I have no idea where it could be. There's a translation project for it ongoing through Kalamazoo College, but I don't see anything relating to zitirons or relevant mythology on their page so far. And if you can miraculously read medieval Dutch, here's the link to the page on zitirons in Van der Naturen Bloeme (x).

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Shiroadmon, Gatomon's Death Digivolution. A zombie Digimon with a remnant of light that makes its eyes shine like headlights. This is one of the Digimons from the video about Death Digivolution, by Karn Ex channel. Karn with digimon artists (I'm one of them) imagined how these Dark Evolutions would be like.

Happy Halloween 🐈👻🖤

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giant modelo shuten, is this anything

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Some lesser known fuckerys of 40k universe

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the garden i tend at work is getting overrun with snails so i thought about a world where we acquired a domesticated a "working dog" breed of hammerhead worm (they eat snails and slugs and worms) that is also. a puppy. Bred to clear vegetation of common slimy garden pests. click under readmore if u wanna see the worm theyre based off of i think theyre really cute

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(POP UP PARADE) First look of Chise and Elias' colored figures!

Source: Good Smile Company

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Al-Qadim this week! As the name implies, Golden Voyages (1992) is as inspired by the Sinbad stories as it is Hollywood’s adaptations of them (particularly Ray Harryhausen’s). This slim box set details the Crowded Sea, its islands, rules for nautical adventuring and a lengthy campaign. There’s a screen jammed in there too. Its a lot of stuff!

The ship rules are interesting. Most TSR-era ship rules (none of which are compatible) consist of ship attributes and rules for knocking them into each other until one sinks. Here, the ship is characterized less like a weapon and more as a combination of NPC and base of operations and even a tool. It’s an interesting, adventure- and roleplaying-focused approach and I like it quite a bit. There’s no combat rules at all — the campaign doesn’t need them, but I still would have liked them.

The campaign structure is interesting. It is very modular, defined by a loose framework of departure/journey/return. Where the players decide to journey determines their adventures. The plot centers on the retrieval of a great treasure for…reasons. Both the treasure and the reason, though, are customizable, with suggestions keyed for a variety of play styles. Thus, the treasures for power gamers clearly increase the power of their characters, and thus the lure of the adventure, and puzzle-focused players will get puzzle-focused prizes. This is one of the earliest examples of an adventure explicitly catering to play style that I am aware of!

There are some cool monsters, too — coral people and giant crab people. As with just about every Al-Qadim product, Karl Waller provides gorgeous interior art that suits the setting well. I’m less sold on the Easley cover, though.

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Lillymon EX1-039 by poroze from the Digimon Illustration Competition Promotion Pack

This gorgeous card that we got thanks to the Illustration Competition, depicts Lillymon's life cycle. It features its (conventional) line from Yuramon, Tanemon, Palmon and Togemon to Lillymon and possible future evolutions into Rosemon, Rafflesimon or BanchoLillymon!

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The title of EX-05, releasing August 2023 in Japan, will be

EX-05 ANIMAL COLOSEUM

Animal Coloseum was the 3rd version of the Pendulum Progress V-Pet. Since we already had the Pendulum Progress Ver. 1, Draconic Roar, being adapted to the Card Game in EX-03, we can expect to see at least some of these guys:

Besides quite a few X Antibody Digimon, this roster also included all of the four Sovereigns! Maybe they'll tie into Digimon Survive a little and have the fifth one too?

Of course, I really hope my boy Bearmon makes it into the set! You can never have too many Bearmon, if you ask me!

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Info about Digimon Seekers, posted on Dengeki (translated through google, link in source)

Details about the Web Novel:

The core content for following the story of "DIGIMON SEEKERS" is a series of web novels published on a special page on the Digimon Web.

The serialization is scheduled to start on April 3, 2023 (Monday), and will be updated every day in the first week, and once a week after that.

The amount of text is also planned to be about 60,000 characters or more for each chapter (about 2 general light novels in all chapters!), and the volume is enough to read.

Visual cuts (illustration) will be posted every time along with the update.

"DIGIMON SEEKERS" will be available in three languages: Japanese, English, and Simplified Chinese.

Miyuki Sawashiro, who is the voice of Gammamon in "Digimon Ghost Game", is in charge of reading aloud

STORY:

The Digital World—a land entirely unlike that which humans call the real world. This cyberspace built upon the network is home to digital monsters known as Digimon. The discovery of these AI lifeforms is both a blessing and a curse to human society, which relies on the network to manage everything in their world. Eiji Nagasumi is 19 years old, a "loser" cracker who earns daily money with dangerous work related to the Digital World. One day, Professor Ryusenji of the Tokyo Cyber University, entrusts Eiji with a Digimon Linker, the newest model of Digimon dock—along with a Digimon. ​ When Eiji meets Loogamon, a Wolf Digimon with a mysterious interface on its head, his life is changed completely. JUDGE, a righteous hacker who hates crackers. DIGIPOLICE, Investigative Unit Eleven of the Metropolitan Police Department's Cybercrimes Division whose mission is to stop Digimon crimes. As well as SoC: Sons of Chaos, an extremist crack team led by legendary cracker TARTARUS... ​Ryusenji sends Eiji to infiltrate and investigate SoC. He discovers that they are planning a widescale cyberterror attack. What is the special skill known as Mind Link? What are the answers to Loogamon's missing past and true specs? Will Eiji come out on top in the Digital World and turn his life around...? This is the beginning of a Digimon story steeped in chaos.

Characters:

Protagonist Eiji (Nagazumi Eiji): A young man who works as a freelance cracker to make a living. His encounter with Lugamon changed his way of life after that. He calls himself "Fang" as a handle name.

Leon: A young hacker with the handle name "Judge". He works as a vigilante to destroy crackers who commit digital crimes. He mind-links with Pulsemon as his partner.

Satsuki: Deputy leader of the Digimon Crime Countermeasures Team (commonly known as Digi-Tsu) in the 11th Investigation Section of the Cyber ​​Crime Division of the Metropolitan Police Department's Community Safety Department. She has a passionate personality, and he speaks his mind straight and is even more abusive.

Yulin: Chief of the Digimon Crime Countermeasures Team (commonly known as Digi-Tsu) in the 11th Investigation Section of the Cyber ​​Crime Division, Community Safety Department, Metropolitan Police Department. His excellent skills were bought and he was scouted by the Metropolitan Police Department.

Loogamon:

Level: Child

Type: Monster

Attribute: Virus

Special Moves: Howling Fire, Spiral Bite

Because it has an old-fashioned interface on its forehead, it is speculated that it may have been an experimental "prototype Digimon" before digimon were discovered.

It is said that the data of a demon wolf that appears in the mythology of the real world is embedded in the deepest part of its Digicore, and it sometimes shows violent behavior that is unmatched during its growth period.

At first glance, it looks like a cute puppy, but if you touch it carelessly, you will get a painful counterattack.

It has a tendency to primarily recognize beings that can control itself, and although it is difficult to tame, it can be a reliable partner if a relationship of trust can be established.

Its Special Moves are "Howling Fire", which shoots flames imbued with magical power from its mouth, and "Spiral Bite", in which it bites and rotates with its sharp fangs.

Live Action Trailer:

Based on the concept of "enjoying the same images worldwide", it is made with a movie trailer image in mind.

Katsuta Hanaya, who is also popular as a YouTuber, plays the role of the main character, Eiji, in the live-action video.

a new trailer video will be released on April 3rd.

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Warhammer - Tilea: Tilean Master Swordsman, a useful bodyguard in the Prince’s Guard or at service in the most richest and powerful noble families.

Here a hint for your Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay games, npc or charachters…

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This year’s issue of Almost Real: A Speculative Biology Zine is mythology themed, so I wanted the cover critter to be a weird take on an extremely recognizable legendary beast.

The marsupial griffin is my shot at that, a large flying carnivore with a rear-facing pouch like a thylacine. Its unusual front incisors are continuously growing like rodent teeth, but exposed like a beak— nursing young have a gap in between them, but as they wean into sub-adults the gap closes and the teeth grow to a sharp hook for tearing into meat and carrion. Their thumbed hind feet somewhat resemble a primate’s, but with a set of sharp talons for capturing and gripping prey.

Our cover for this volume was illustrated by @ibenkrutt, who really knocked this design out of the park. If you’d like to support our contributing artists and acquire the zine, you can check out the campaign over here!

https://zoop.gg/c/almostrealvol5

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Alfheim and Asgard by Donn P. Crane (1930′s)