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Azerbaijani artist Tunzala Mamedzadeh's Hand-Painted Quran in Gold on 164 Feet of Black Silk

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oc reintroduction, because last time was long ago and I didn't like it very much

Cali

Cali is a human, I'm sure you noticed, which already makes him stand out in the setting. turns out how he got here is no less interesting. but we'll get to that later, not let's talk about Cali as a person.

Cali is young, but not so young that his personality is "a child", though young enough to seemingly be "untainted by the woes of adulthood"*. he's giddy and a bit naive and struggles with expressing emotions correctly. but he also gets really serious when confronted with something that interests him. what is it? history. in any shape and form. Cali loves listening to old folk stories and reading forgotten documents in guild archives. he's an all around history fan and barely anything can stop him.

when asked how he ended up on a random island(where he was found) Cali said that all he remembers is falling for a good while and then hitting his head, not much. according to legend one can travel through worlds if they fall down a well that hasn't been looked into, so that was probably it but personally I don't know how he managed that.

Cali always wears big green rain boots and carries a purse where he holds his notebook and small things he picks up along the road. he has also been gifted a big chainmail shirt from Fean(intro coming within the future).

Idk what more to say, so it's all

*I know this sounds odd but I couldn't find a better way to describe what I see

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lake monster - suggested by @meltedbrains

wanna post something cool but idk what

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wanna post something, do y'all have any recommendations on what you'd want to see?

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wanna post something cool but idk what

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wanna post something, do y'all have any recommendations on what you'd want to see?

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the scruncler

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a great blue heron at dawn and dusk

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i believe it is time to get one sleeps perhaps ?

*slowly melts like wax* noo it summmerrr i don wanna

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How the dinosaurs arrived on land (tale from the Goldshell lands)

Long long ago, when the mountains were young and the rivers were shallow, back when Glasshorn was surrounded by waves, our ancestors lived in the Sea. They lived in boats made of driftwood and in rafts made of leaves for they feared what roamed ashore.

Grand beasts, the Giants*, spirits of the land, towering over the tallest of mountains. They were terrible, blowing away houses of wood and stone like a pile of leaves. Nowhere on land was safe from the Giants...

And this would've continued for eons more, if not for one man - Afavar. Afavar was a brave man, and a powerful one too. He was tired of the Giants reign, so he decided to rid the earth from them once and for all.

By his command a fleet sixty thousand strong amassed at the mouth of Muzon, and descended upon the shore. Afavar led the army deep inland, where no ancestor of our had ever set foot. There they slaughtered every Giant they came across and burned forests in which evil spirits hid. The fighting was brutal, thousands laid their heads fighting against the beasts of the land.

Finally, after 36 years Glasshorn and the lands around it were free from the Giants. The people could finally live on land again! Villages and towns were built all around. And the great Afavar? He settled in the same place where decades ago he and his armies set their foot, the mouth of Muzon. There he constructed a tower of light, that sheared through clouds and oversaw the endless Sea. The base of this tower can still be seen to this day, looming over the imperial city of Laybon.

*a Giant is a local name for the Leviathan

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miniature: the raft people

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artistic representation of the tower of light from the tales of Afavar

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apparently cave art will have to share it's place with a bunch of events that will actually have impact on the rest of the cannon

random thought: i know that the prehistory of hortus is only important to me to define how it sets the scene for future development (writing, language, culture, ect.) but it feels kinda weird to rush to the invention of writing before spending at least some time with the cavemen

all this to say, I'm about to take a detour that will have barely any impact on the rest of the cannon whatsoever

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The Roman Ruins at Schönbrunn (Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, 1832)

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cloudy shores of the southern forest (modern day antarctica)

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since I'm so amazingly artistically active right now/src I decided I'm gonna dig up some more old posts from the time my active audience was 2

:3

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why is it so hard finding palaeolithic art that is not from europe? seeing the same flowy animal pictures over and over is a bit tiring. don't get me wrong they're still cool but like this is more my vibe:

(sistine chapel of the ancients, colombia)

random thought: i know that the prehistory of hortus is only important to me to define how it sets the scene for future development (writing, language, culture, ect.) but it feels kinda weird to rush to the invention of writing before spending at least some time with the cavemen

all this to say, I'm about to take a detour that will have barely any impact on the rest of the cannon whatsoever

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random thought: i know that the prehistory of hortus is only important to me to define how it sets the scene for future development (writing, language, culture, ect.) but it feels kinda weird to rush to the invention of writing before spending at least some time with the cavemen

all this to say, I'm about to take a detour that will have barely any impact on the rest of the cannon whatsoever