#Bald Mountain

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JULIANO CAZARRÉ Serra Pelada (2013)

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Travel poster for Sun Valley, Idaho (c. 1960). Artwork by Hal Shelton.

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Bald Mountain

Witcher Sacred Spaces

endless Witcher 3 gifs

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mcneil point, part twelve (hikes of 2023) by Danielle Nelson Via Flickr: The bear grass at McNeil Point was... well, on point. Image made with my Hasselblad 500 C/M.

[kaliade]

Twisted Wonderland Demon!Yuu AU

Once more join me on the Twisted Wonderland train that my brain seems to not want to get off of. 

Bald Mountain is a thing that exists in Disney lore.  Fantasia is amazing and Chernabog has appeared in other Disney media (see House of Mouse). So, let’s make Chernabog and Bald Mountain exist in Twisted Wonderland.  And even more, make it so that our player character (for this AU to be names Yuna and female) be sort of from Bald Mountain.  Below is mostly background information of Bald Mountain as a way to keep my ideas somewhere where I can see them.

Bald Mountain Home of demons, ruled by Chernabog, who is a lazy ass woh sleeps a lot and leaves the running of the hellscape to the 8 Pillars.  Each Pillar is a general of Bald Mountain and controls a specific aspect of life in the mountain.  The 7 Pillars represent the 7 deadly sins.  The 8th is staffed near completely by part-demons, sacrifices, and atavists.  There is a near constant war going on in the depth of Bald Mountain between the demons, condemned souls, and outer realm beings.  Bald Mountain is one of the first lines of defense for the worlds of Disney for keeping beings from beyond/Great Old Ones from invading.

Pillar 1: Sin of Pride General Ez’godath Military Role: Air force

Pillar 2: Sloth Admiral Kagloth Military Role: Navy

Pillar 3: Wrath General Trorkollek (Usually abbreviated to General Trork because they can’t stand the time wasted saying their full name) Military Role: Army

Pillar 4: Lust General Jol’gan Military role: Spies, Scouts, Sabotage, Assassins

Pillar 5: Greed General Ogath Military Role: Logistics/Admin/Strategists

Pillar 6: Envy General Tezrin Military role: Engineers and Demolition

Pillar 7: Gluttony General Vuranoth Military Role: Support (food, medical, transport, etc)

Pillar 8: Unnamed or called the Civvy Branch as a slang term General Yuna Military Role: Internal affairs, Security, External Relations (aka the Diplomat Corps), Police, Emergency Services, Non-Military healers, Research and Development, anything the other Generals dump on them *They end up working closely with the 5th, 6th, and 7th Pillars on a lot of things.*

Bald Mountain has 2 sections. The exterior and the interior. It is dangerous for a non-demon to enter the interior as the space is constantly changing and time isn’t constant. All sacrifices live on the exterior and most civilian businesses are owned by them. 

Sacrifices are people who were offered up for a demon deal by someone else. Sadly, most of them were offered up as children. They do get the option to become a part demon or full demon and gain a demonic parent. Cater is one of these, becoming a succubus after being sacrificed by his mother at age 8 in exchange for power. A clause in those types of agreements state that the sacrifice can at any time call in the penalty clause. Cater is waiting for the best chance to call in his mother’s. 

Yes, I am getting Cater away from his bitch of a mother and his spoiled brat sisters.  The boy deserves so much better than them.  He’s a succubus now, having taken the full demon choice.  He tends to just go by Cater or, if he needs a last name he uses Cater Berg. Berg means Mountain.

Ok, back to Bald Mountain geography.  So, Bald Mountain exists in multiple dimensions at once all linked through the interior of the mountain, which is why it can be dangerous for a non-demon to enter the mountain.  So because of this, it’s not that odd for demons to meet people from other dimensions or go to other dimensions to have kids.  This brings into play the ativists, or people who have a demonic ancestor way, way back in their bloodline and the demonic genes going active out of nowhere.  This is what happened to Yuna.

Yuna lived in an expy of our world with no magic.  It may have had magic in the past, but that’s considered myth.  Her ancestor happens to be Chernabog, making her one of the demon king's many, many descendants.  Her demonic genes go active around the age of 18 or so and she gets kidnapped to Bald Mountain where everything is explained to her.  Having no way home until she controls her new powers, she trains, joins the Bald Mountain military (as I imagine it’s a mandatory thing), gets assigned to the 8th Pillar and eventually goes up the ranks to become general…after about 150 years or so. 

That was 100 years ago.  Now she’s been forced on vacation by her second, Cater.  She goes back home.  No time has passed and she still looks like she’s 18.  Demon genes mean aging is really slow.  Then, while going on her morning run, she encounters a black carriage and is dragged to Twisted Wonderland.  And this is where our story starts…

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Living a Tradition of Solitude as I Head for the Mountains by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: A setting looking to the west while taking in a view down the Loneliest Road in America (US 50) while standing at the Nevada and Utah state line. My thought on composing this image was to get close to the highway and capture an image looking down the road. I decided on a focal point that was nearby what did close down a little on the aperture to have some more distant objects a little in focus.

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[crassula23]

I went to the Bald mountain again. It was sunny outside and I couldn't sit at home.

I saw new places and looked at wild animals (I will write about it in future posts). It's all close to my house ❤️

This time I took a lot of photos. And now I will start with a photo of flowers on Bald mountain.

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Bear Mountain State Park, NY

Easy accessible without car with direct Shortline bus from Port Authority to Bear Mountain or by Metro-North Hudson Line to Manitou train station and something like 2 miles walk to the park.

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Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest, Utah

It had been a while since I'd been up a little peak that was a simple trot along a well established trail. That's what this is.

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Velen in colour palettes

Bald Mountain

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The Night On Bald Mountain sequence was cut from the film when originally released on video. When the sequence was shown in 1940 the studio was overrun with calls and letters from parents who complained that the sequence scared their children. It has since been restored to its original place in the film on subsequent home video releases.

NIGHT ON BALD MOUNTAIN | FANTASIA (1940) | dir. Wilfred Jackson

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FANTASIA (1940) “Night on Bald Mountain”

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TWST Demon AU- Cater

So, I’ve made more adjustments to my Demon AUs version of Cater from before the story opens at Night Raven. Told as a list to keep my thoughts in order.

1. He was sacrificed to a demon at age 9 by his mother. 2. Before that his mother did not treat him well, thinking him as more a burden than anything.  He was an accident.  She never wanted to have more children beyond her 2 daughters and Cater suffered for it. 3.  His sister were spoiled rotten brats who could do no wrong in their mother’s eyes.  This lead to them blaming a lot of their wrongdoings on Cater and getting him into trouble. 4. His father was a busy man working as an investment banker and this led to him not being home often. 5. His fathers name is Jules.  His mother is Teresa.  His sisters are Claudia and Ruby. 6. Not that they come up often, not with how Teresa sacrificed him and no one, not even his father, looked too hard for him. 7. He was adopted by the Succubus, Di’natha.  Referred to below as mother, as she was more a mother to him than Teresa Diamond ever was. 8. At the age of 16 he decided to partake in the ritual that would allow him to become a full blooded Succubus.      A. This is the most extreme form of the ritual and he had to have counseling for over a year before it to ensure he was in the right mental space to make the decision.

9. Upon becoming a full demon, he started to live with his mother’s clan, and thus ended up in the internals of Bald Mountain where time and space do not flow like the worlds outside.       A. What I’m trying to say is that Cater is, by the time of the story proper, in the middle of his second century.  Around 247 years. 10. He joined the military, as all demons do, and was put in the 3rd Pillar (the Army) at first.  Then he was transferred to the 4th Pillar after 5 years.  11. Then, after an incident that left him on downtime recovering from a injury, he found he enjoyed classes at the Diplomatic School run by the 8th Pillar.  This led to him discovering a talent with diplomacy. 12. Soon after he recovered from his injury, he requested transfer to the 8th, which was granted after a long discussion between his commanding officer and the then head of the Diplomat Corp section of the 8th pillar. 13. He took several classes and was certified as a Diplomat.  This is also when he first met Yuna, who hadn’t yet become a general. 14. There was another incident that caused the 2 to team up together and discover they were really good at the whole fighting together thing.  Their superiors noticing had them trained up as a Hunter/Killer duo who hunted down demons who fled the Mountain and caused trouble in the outside world. 15. The doesn’t go on for long and Yuna gets promoted to the General of the 8th Pillar.  She appoints Cater as her aide and makes him the one in charge of the Diplomat Corps.  16. Finally after several decades of working, Cater gets some time off (like several months worth to decompress) and decides to live on the external part of the Mountain in his World of Origin (Twisted Wonderland).  There, he finds he is invited to Night Raven University (Yes, I’m making it a University rather than the equivalent of a high school.  I think it flows better that way).  He accepts, mostly to get an idea of what is going on in the world and applies for an educational sabbatical.  Yuna’s sad to see him go, but it’s only 4 years.  17. Cater’s majoring in Public Relations and Magic Theory

Then Yuna ends up at Night Raven 3 years later....

Plus I have more ideas for what his first 2 years in school were like.  

I have 2 idea for how Cater looks as a demon. 

Not Fighting

Armored (and concerned about his squad members nearly getting killed)

Both made with on DollDivine.com with the Mega Fantays Avatar Makers by Rinmaru Games.  (Link)