#Sybilla

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Perioddramaweek 2023

Day 3: Favorite Costumedesign

Kingdom of Heaven

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Purse by Sybilla, 1980s

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The Grand Mages, my version of The Major Fairies in my Winx rewrite.

The reason for the term Mages instead of Major Fairies is that they weren’t all Fairies throughout history and it isn’t a requirement that they be fairies either. The reason for them all being fairies now is that they’re simply the most common group of magic users left on Earth currently after the great scourge of death and purging magical beings experienced on the planet.

The Grand Mages are chosen by The Grand Council, the delegation for magical beings on Earth, which is now on Tír na nÓg presently.

The current Grand Mages are as follows, some with a lot of info (mainly Sybilla) and some with simple brief descriptions, including so e job descriptions, personal histories, believix info and general lore below the cut:)

Nebula, Grand Mage of Peace. Her title is kept all throughout her history, not changed like it is in the series to war, for peace comes as the end goal, and to that with the Grand Mage title, if war is needed to achieve that, then so be it.

She is the second youngest, older than Aurora by about 900 years, born around the year of what we would call 400 CE. She is around the same age as Morgana, only a few years younger.

She would be classified as one of the Picts in the eyes of humans, born in what would later become known as the area of Scotland at the time before the Celts. As I mentioned in my first ask with her, I know there are issues of debated anachronism regarding The Picts and blue war paint, but it fit her color palette and I thought it looked cool on her so we’re going to say it was indeed a thing in this version of history, but as a result of the magical beings there mainly being the ones who utilized it.

As also mentioned in my original ask with her, she doesn’t always use her magic to treat her wounds, taking certain pride in her battle scars, showing them as a way to say “you see? No matter how many times you try to beat me down, I cannot be quashed. You cannot best me, I will always retaliate and I will always come back and so long as I am alive, I will win.”

Aurora is The Grand Mage of The North, a title given to the being who guards the Lovix transformation. She is the youngest of the current Grand Mages, being only 700 years old. It is her job to preside over the domain that Lovix is connected to (the areas of what are labeled as Fennoscandia) for if the connection to the areas the transformations were birthed from is severed or lost, those transformations cannot be accessed anymore. Her dedication, quick wit, and drive to protect and honor the land her master, The Grand Mage of The North before her guarded, is what lead to her being selected as the next one despite her relatively young age when compared to the other magical beings who served under the previous Grand Mage. This retired Grand Mage now lives at the small community that is located in what we would call Northern Sweden in the wilderness that she and the other followers dedicated to this cause call their home. This area acts as their headquarters of sorts.

Aurora is in change of overseeing all areas of Earth’s Northern Hemisphere and doing what she can to ensure general harmony with the energy of the planet and its environment, with her main focus being on guarding that area Lovix is tied to. Her primary way of combatting any serious issues humans intact on the environment and any disruption they cause is through the use of environmental influence, such as extreme cold, blizzards, long winters, early frosts, etc, causing things like famine, poor harvests, or direct death from the elements.

Diana is The Grand Mage of The South, her main location insulated to where she was born in what is referred to as modern day Bolivia. Sophix is connected to what is known today as The Amazon Rainforest, and this area must be protected with regard to the transformation for the same reason as Lovix. Much like Aurora, she is also in charge of doing what she can to ensure general harmony with the nature and environment of the southern hemisphere of Earth’s planet.

A strong warrior and combatant, she has resorted to more direct force as a tactic to deal with the issues humans have been enacting on the planet, doing what she can to still stay as hidden from them as possible while attacking, or leaving no survivors. Her and Nebula are close, a love of sparring and battle strategy being a large basis for what they choose to do in any of the spare time they manage to have together.

She is the second oldest of The Grand Mages.

Sybilla is the oldest of The Grand Mages.

Her wings are present here, but she doesn’t usually have them out, simply not seeing a need to most of the time.

Lady of Justice is the title given by those of the order of Tír na nÓg, and this was the title given to her by many, magical and non magical, even before all magical beings were either sequestered away to there, killed, fled, or managed to blend in with the non magical beings.

She is much more elusive than the other Grand Mages and despite her very present record in that of history, she isn’t one to be easily reached, only deciding herself if it is worth it, answering to no single allegiance, creed, nation, etc. She is included in the category of The Grand Mages mainly by the choosing of the other Mages, and only agrees within her own terms to be accounted for as such.

Parts of magical history intermingle with non magical history in my thing. Her influence is felt in artwork, dress, customs, and tales from Greco-Roman antiquity, and even the time before that, during the eras of The Bronze Age with the Cycladic, Minoan, and Mycenaean civilizations, and then even before that.

Much like the term irl, Sybilla is a term that simply means prophetess and sprung forth to give to the term sybil, those being what they are in our real world tales too. In my thing tho, this term stems from her name first and went on to become synonymous and defined as prophetess.

There were other sybils just like in old stories, these being followers of hers who wanted to act in her stead and honor and provide their services too.

Sybilla is the supreme head though, and is the grand origin for this.

She goes into stasis for longer periods of time so despite being the oldest, turning to stone by choice, this time acting a long sleep for her. When she awakes, it feels like she has only blinked. Sometimes towns would be built around her stony form, alters erected around her, offerings brought, pilgrimages made. And then suddenly, the mortals will see her “statue” is suddenly gone, and when she chooses to rest again, the cycle begins anew. Sometimes new statues are erected where she used to rest, legends telling that it actually is her and not just a statue, others believing it was just a statue put there long ago and someone decided to steal it so a new one must be placed.

There are many of her form in many places for that reason among other, her acting as a type of saint or figure to be kept to watch over places or people or whatever is deemed to need watching, memorabilia of her present in the forms of previously memorials statues, small talisman type objects, her figure on handkerchiefs, tapestries, walls of buildings, etc.

She has a history of intermingling with non magical beings far more than any of the other Grand Mages, even more so than most magical beings in general. With regard to that and her actions, she chooses to sleep when she feels she has done her job for the time being, overseeing and acting as whatever the mortals feel she is during times of great strife, whether that label be as a guide, an oracle, a prophet, or sometimes even a god or goddess.

She also chooses to rest after helping with grand issues with magical affairs too just the same. She awakens when she chooses to, whether that be because something in the ambient energy of the Earth feels off, signaling a great change, she has been sought out by a being, magical or not, that has made a great plea that she deems worthy, or she has decided she simply doesn’t want to rest anymore.

Her form appears through much of human history in the areas of the modern day Mediterranean and she has many stories about her weaved through old long gone told tales and legends, many lost to time, some still present.

Her aging is less visible than on Diana as a result of her sporadic periods of stasis, who has stayed active and present for her whole life, which has resulted in peak milf status.

She has no eyes, having had them voluntarily removed to be fully dedicated to her cause of what she deems proper judgement and action.

[treason-and-plot]

Tuesday 8.11 am

Saffron rolls into the student car park with her radio blaring. She can see Connor's Prius parked in his usual spot and her throat does a funny fluttery thing. Then she notices he is still sitting in the driver's seat. After she parks he gets out and walks over to her. She checks her hair quickly in the mirror.

"Good morning," he says, smiling at her from beneath his fringe. "Do you need any help carrying your books?"

"Why would I need help carrying my books?" she says, pretending to pout. "I'm a strong independent female, you know."

"Of course I know that," he says. "I was just looking for an excuse to walk with you."

The flutter in Saffron's throat intensifies. She somehow finds her voice.

"You can do whatever you like with me, Connor," she says.

[annagehtdichnenkeksan]

King Baldwin IV Headcanon

Baldwin and young beautiful girl (sorry, English is not my main language)

-he adores long hair and loves it when the girl wears it open

-he never eat anything when he is in company, but he loves it to watch the girl when she eats

-when she smiles at him for the first time he almost faints

-loves how he can talk with her and how she understands him

-praying everyday to god, that he will become healthy, so he can marry her

-hates it when she talks to other men, but he would never say something against it, because he wants her to be happy

-when he see how she adores his nephew, he wish to have children with her

-he always asks Sybilla if she mentioned him

-he invites her to walk with him in the garden

-he loves her voice

-he keeps every letter she sends to him and loves it to read the letters all over again and again

-he loves to tell her how beautiful she is

-he always makes her little presents

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Eva Green behind the scenes of Casino Royale, 2006

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The Jerusalem siblings

[zomnommbie]

Your favorite KoH character besides Baldwin? 😁

Short answer, Sybilla, long answer, Sybilla and/or Guy.

I know Guy is a bad.. guy, HOWEVER i absolutely love how they played so much into how *evil* he could be and made him look so comically villianous which managed to make me laugh with how well they played it up, they gave him one of the only french accents in the film and made him talk all smug-like in contrast to more of the normal acting characters, (besides Balian, who is a complete stereotype while also having the personality equivalent of flour).

Sybilla, shes pretty and a somewhat complex female character and one of the only women characters we see who pull the plot forward, while she is widely inaccurate in terms of sleeping with balian and going against Guy and them having this weird conflict which is far from the historical reality, i absolutely love her outfits and i could fix her indefinitely

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A fun day in Jerusalem

Reader and Baldwin are married, Guy is bullied, reader is gender-neutral

Warnings: none, all fun

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It was another hot, boring day in Jerusalem, and you were walking in the garden of the palace, that is when you saw Sybilla sitting there, all alone. You went up to her to ask her what was the matter. "Hey Syb, are you ok? " you asked. "Yes I'm fine, just bored, I suppose" Sybilla responded to you.

You sat next to her, and stared at the ground, trying to come up with ideas on what to do to help your and Sybilla's boredom.

You two sat there for around 15 minutes in awkward silence. Out of nowhere Tiberias who was taking a walk in the garden appeared and asked you two the same question you had asked Sybilla earlier "just bored" you two responded.

Tiberias looked at you two in silence for a few seconds, then said "how about we go and see if Baldwin has anything for us to do".

You and Sybilla agreed, and so you went on to find the king of Jerusalem. Which brings us to this moment.

Laughter filled the room that you Sybilla, Tiberias and Baldwin were in. Sybilla was wearing Baldwin's blue clothes that he wears when he's outside of his palace. "Jesus Syb, you look like Guy, dressed like that" Tiberias said. In fact Sybilla's dark and long hair with the blue outfit did remind you of Guy.

Baldwin had come up with the idea that you dress up and act as different people and the rest have to guess who you are.

"Come on now Tiberias no need to be rude" you said letting out a chuckle.

"Yeah Tiberias NOBODY wants to look like Guy" Sybilla added trying her best to keep in her laugh and look offended.

Baldwin also let out a small giggle at his older sisters and your childish behavior.

"Hold on" you said getting up to grab your eye pencil, and drawing a little mustache and beard on Sybilla.

"God I can't even bear to look at you right now" you laughed "You know, she does look like Guy with the mustache and beard drawn on" Baldwin said finally deciding to join the conversation.

All of you started laughing while Sybilla pretended to be extremely hurt by this.

"Oh god! How can I live like this! I've been cursed!" Sybilla proclaimed loudly while dramatically falling to the ground and pretending to die.

This sent you all laughing again.

After a few seconds Sybilla got up and bowed her head in thanks, like actors do after they act out a play on stage.

Sybilla took a wet napkin and removed the face beard and mustache from her face, which after she ran back into the walk in closet and changed back into her own clothes.

"What now" asked Sybilla coming out of the closet.

"Hmm I don't know" you responded.

As if on que a knock was heard at the door. "Come in" Tiberias said after looking at the King and earning a small nod from him.

Speaking of the devil, it was Guy. "Your majesty the soldiers told me to ask on all of their behalf if they could go out of Jerusalem and into the desert to practice fighting, they have nothing else to do, since today seems to be quiet" he told the King.

"Alright half of the soldiers can go and practice but the rest have to stay, we do not know what may happen, I'll leave it to you to decide whom goes and whom doesn't" Baldwin said, sounding very kingly. Oh you could just melt at his beautiful voice.

Guy left with a "yes your majesty" and left you all in silence which Sybilla decided to break. "Yeah, I stand by my words it WOULD be a curse to look like that". You all laughed at this and kept on making jokes mostly ones that you Bully Guy in but who cares. " Alright it's starting to get late, I think we should go to bed" Baldwin said.

Looking out of the window you realized that you had passed the entire day, hanging out with your dear friends and husband.

"You're right my king" Tiberias said getting up from the comfortable arabian style cushions on the ground.

You helped Baldwin get up and said your good nights to Tiberias and Sybilla who were heading to their bedrooms to prepare for the night.

*Time skip*

After reaching your bedroom that you share with your husband and getting ready to bed you sat in bed for a moment with a smile the only light source coming from the candle on your bedside table and the moon that shone through the window.

"Is everything alright my dear" you heard from next to you. It was your beautiful husband Baldwin.

"Everything is perfect my love, I had so much fun today" you replied, your smile growing bigger.

"Me too" Baldwin said a smile finding its way into his face that was free from the mask for the night. The candle light shining on his face, made it look as if you were in a dream, he was just too beautiful.

"Goodnight my love" you whispered and kissed his temple, then turned and blew the candle.

"Goodnight my angel" he whispered back holding you close.

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Art Fight attack for @glitterfr33ze OvO

Glad I managed to make an attack of this awesome character!

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handful of doodles of my fairy and her knight bf

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Sybilla’s riding dress in Kingdom of Heaven

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Angelique: That's ridiculous. Evariste doesn't have a crush on me.

Stil: Yes, he does.

Sybilla: Yes, he does.

Clovicus: Yes, he does.

Literally everyone: Yes, he does.

Evariste: Yes, I do.

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Seeing your amazing takes on aurora and nebula... Could we also see your takes on the other 2 major fairies Diana and Sybilla? They'll definitely look amazing

Ah you’re so sweet!!

I have another piece of Diana I’ve done that I really like, but it’s for a collab so it’s a secret;)

Heres my version of Diana and Sybilla!

Diana is my milf supreme. Not much about her is different from the original show since I really liked her already.

Sybilla is wildly different though.

She’s very old. Older than recorded history technically, born in the area of the Mediterranean a couple hundred years before the foundation of Mesopotamia. She enters periods of stasis where she enters a deep sleep and turns to stone, choosing to awake when she feels the ambient magic/energy of the Earth is in unrest, seeing that as the time for her enact her will as Lady Justice and work to restore harmony and right whatever has bent the energy in a sour way. She sometimes also awakes when she’s just tired of sleeping lol. She actually has a few reasons she chooses to sleep or awaken, which I’ll explain more of in my upcoming post about the major fairies in my rewrite, but it’s very much on her time more than anything else. These deep sleeps results in a halting of her body aging, which is why despite being incredibly old, she doesn’t look it.

She has no eyes, having had them voluntarily removed to be fully dedicated to her cause of what she deems proper judgement and action.

[fashionbooksmilano]

Sybilla

El Hilo Invisible  The Invisible Thread

Luis Arias, Valerie Steele, Laura Cerrato et María Sybilla.

Ediciones El Viso, Madrid 2022, 160 pages, 215 illustrations, 22,5 x 25 cm, Couverture cartonnée, Édition bilingue en Espagnol et Français, ISBN  978-84-125528-0-5

euro 68,00

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Sybilla. El hilo invisible (Sybilla. Le fil invisible) est le catalogue de l’exposition homonyme qui a lieu à la salle Canal de Isabel II de Madrid, du 27 septembre 2022 au 15 janvier 2023.

Sybilla monte sur la scène de la mode espagnole en 1983. Dès lors, la critique, nationale et internationale, la reconnaît comme la meilleure créatrice espagnole depuis Cristóbal Balenciaga. Il peut paraître mal aisé de trouver un fil conducteur dans son travail vu dans son ensemble. Toutefois, ce fil existe et il est présent sous la forme de langages qui permettent à Sybilla de désorienter et qui confèrent en outre une cohérence à ses créations.

Cette exposition entend mettre en lumière ces langages articulés autour de ce fil invisible qui donne une cohérence à l’ensemble de son œuvre. Des langages qu’elle paraît tisser sans le savoir, parce que Sybilla met les mots de côté pour exprimer la Vie qui la traverse.

31/01/23

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[hexgirllovesyou]

Hi there! This is my third episode on Just So Random! the podcast show I created.

This episode is about the movie Kingdom of Heaven, which I have been wanting to discuss for some time. Please leave your thoughts on the episode in the comments below or on the Instagram page of Just So Random! (@just_sorandomm)