#The Heroic Legend of Arslan

[tired-reader-writer]

The trio put together! I'm not stoked with how the background turned out— FireAlpaca starts acting weird and laggy whenever I use a brush size larger than 100— and blending and blurring these three backgrounds together took a brush size around 300 to see any significant effect sooooo. Yeah.

They're three of the so far six OCs introduced in my fic Winds of Wolfsong (soon to be seven to be eight to be— damn why does the cast keep expanding?!) (oh wait I know why, because Tanaka didn't provide me with enough characters from certain social classes to fill the gaps for the kind of story I want to tell, which isn't necessarily his fault, he wanted to tell a war epic, I wanted to tell a character and emotion driven story with themes of cooperation coexistence and community, how creation is sacred and way harder than destruction, which necessitates the appreciation of those outside of the nobility and warrior classes to shine light on the crafters and the servants, also magic plays a much bigger role both in the present and in the defeat of Zahhak which led me to fill in the gaps with even MORE OCs... damn), these three in particular debuted in the first chapter. From left to right are: Kashi (AU!Arslan's biological mother), Ayunnen (AU!Arslan's biological father, married to Kashi), and Kazai (Kashi's younger brother, AU!Arslan's biological uncle who makes a return in chapter 2).

[obscureanimeoftheday]

Obscure Anime of The Day:

The Heroic Legend of Arslan

Aired: 1991-1995

Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Historical, Military, Shounen, Supernatural, Violence

[innerchorus]

The one that binds (or rather, bound) the Snake King is the exception, surely?

[anusharao96]

They are Arslan's real mother and father for me.

I don't care what the canon says :3

[apollolewis]

There’s no character I want to hug more than Arslan. Like the poor baby, he basically only had one person growing up that treated him like a son.

[importantdestinydefendor]

So, here is the poll for the "evil" aunts name I talked about in the ask-post. I also put the actual Arabic writing form for the names as that seems appropriate.

(My source is the behind-the-name-website: https://www.behindthename.com/names/gender/feminine/usage/persian)

[daryun]

One thing about Arslan Senki is that we have a few characters who aren't Parsian.

So I am curious about Jaswant's reaction to this foreign county's mythology actually being bleeding true. (What kind of implications does this have for Shindhuran mythology?)

n'awwww Jimsa seems to have left the picture after chapter 123, I think this is the last we see of him and he had a horse packed and ready to go.

I would love to have seen Jimsa also swearing at the gigantic Parsian Snake Monster. We'd be learning so much colourful Turanian.

In terms of our heroes in chapter 126

I really need to see Daryun's reaction. I need to know for legal reasons if he is the "If it's real I can kill it, obvs" or if he needs to overcome a "holy shit" moment.

I will patiently be waiting for chapter 127, it's bound to be a good one.

(The downside to this version of the story is there will be no Daryun catching Alfreed on Mt Damavand during an earthquake moment, unless that comes later? I just love him looking out for her)

[hatsumishinogu]

The Heroic Legend of Arslan Vol.20

[choujinx]

ARSLAN SENKI (2013-?) by arakawa hiromu

[chihuahuat0by]

Was watching the anime for this. I read a bit of the manga but need to get back to it, I just enjoy seeing hiromu arakawa's art :3

[tired-reader-writer]

Winds of Wolfsong chapter 2 is now up on AO3!

The pinned post is now edited to reflect the chapter count.

[natsukashii-naa]

1991 anime

[innerchorus]

Familial resemblance. (This image is what came to Narsus's mind in Chapter 29 when he first considers the possibility that this silver-masked man is Prince Hilmes. Hilmes looks more like Andragoras than Osroes here, maybe a visual hint at what's just been revealed? They have the same frown lines, lmao. And the hair/hairline is similar, too.)

[anusharao96]

God look at Gieve in this panel

Every single one of them : *sincerely kneel before the queen, faster than the speed of light*

Gieve : ............

*finally kneels down to not stand out among them*

He doesn't give two fucks about royalty. Also, he finds the queen cheap, for she deducted a sum from his measly prize money :'D

[arslanthesmol]

Every year or two... after a random arslan senki chapter update, i go back to looking up stuff like fan fics, fan art or just anything about arslan senki and then i end up re-watching the anime....sometimes i rewatch all the episodes and sometimes i skip a few but so far I've watched the anime 5 times and read the manga 3 times and whatever was translated from the novel once....this is the only show I've ever given so much attention to...i remember the day when arslan season 2 (anime) was released and being so happy about it that i posted the op song on yt and got copyrighted in a minute lol....it feels a bit unhealthy to be interested in a show this much but well....i enjoy it

..i think it'll always be top 1 series for me...not sure whyyy i love it a lot but it's always interesting and never boring..the plot is beautiful, each character is unique and different, no event is pointless and arslan's development is something i enjoy watching.

Historical stories are always better than a modern time story (my opinion ofc)

Nothing was useful here...just feelings, thank u for reading this far...

have a good day!

[importantdestinydefendor]

HERE SHE IS!!!!

It took so long to draw the background and deciding on her color palette! I wanted her palette to show a little lore, but it was hard to balance the white with the leather😫. Especially as my research showed that white leather would not have been a thing in her time🥲.

But enough of that. Let me intreduce you to:

Azar, a high ranking general and one of the best warriors in all of Maar!

She was born into two parsian warrior families in the year P.E. 294 in Ecbatana, Pars, which makes her 26 years old. She is 170cm/5'5f tall.

Her tutelary god is Tiw, the maaren god of war—especially treaties—and of justice. He also oversees the moot (general assembly) and court cases. He stands for fair fights, victory and peace.

She moved to the village of Rus in Maar, where her aunt Sanaz, her fathers sister, lives with her family. After some time and events she moved to the capital of Maar, Vigard, and officaly became a squire. She worked hard and long and at the age of 16 she became an offical knight. From there she climbed the ranks of the maaren army very fast and at the age of 22 she became the highest ranking general, an Almennt (Almennt = Eran).

Similar to Daryun, Azar also has gained a few nicknames amongst her enemies, like the white general or the white death. The white coming from her mostly white armor and the death coming from her being infamouse for mowing down her enemies.

Azar also acts as the mentor to the maaren crown prince Aleksi and is rumered to be very close with the royal family, the "Elvenking" Farzin, his wife Queen Serrilda and the dowager queen Moja.

How will she fit with Team Arslan? Will they get along? How did the meet? And most importantly - what is that familiar yet strange air/aura between Azar and Daryun? Does Vahriz have anything to do with this? What does he know?

These questioned will be answered!

... someday...