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zonerobotnik · 1 year

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Smith was a very good poet.

Here's one of my favourite poems of him.

The Ghoul And the Seraph

Clark Ashton Smith

Scene: a cemetery, by moonlight. The Ghoul emerges from the shade of a cypress, and sings.

The Song

The Pestilence is on the wing! Behold! the sweet and crimson foam Upon the lips of churl and king! No worm but hath a feastful home: The Pestilence is on the wing!

Even now his kiss incarnadines The brows of maiden, queen and whore; The nun to him her cheek resigns; Wan lips were never kissed before, His ancient kiss incarnadines.

Good cheer to thee, white worm of death ! The priest within the brothel dies, The baud hath sickened from his breath ! In grave half-dug the digger lies: Good cheer to thee, white worm of death!

The Seraph appears from among the trees, half walking, half flying, with wings whose iris the moonlight has rendered faint, and pauses at sight of the Ghoul.

The Seraph

What gardener in crudded fields of hell, Or scullion of the Devil's house, art thou— To whom the filth of Malebolge clings, And reek of horrid refuse? Thou art gnurled And black as any Kobold from the mines Where demons delve for orichalch and steel To forge the infernal racks! Upon thy face, Detestable and evil as might haunt

The last delirium of a dying hag, Or necromancer's madness, fall thy locks Like sodden reeds that trail in Acheron From shores of night and horror; and thy hands, Like roots of cypresses uptorn in storm That still retain their grisly provender, Make the glad wine and manna of the skies Turn to a qualmish sickness in my veins.

The Ghoul

And who art thou ?— some white-faced fool of God, With wings that emulate the giddy bird, And bloodless mouth for ever filled with psalms In lieu of honest victuals ! . . . Askest thou My name ? I am the ghoul NecromaIor: In new-made graves I delve for sustenance,

As man within his turnip-fields; I take For table the uprooted slab, that bears The words, "In Pace;" black and curdled blood Of cadávers is all my cupless wine — Slow-drunken, as the dainty, vampire drinks From pulses oped in never-ending sleep.

The Seraph

O, foulness Born as of the ninefold curse Of dragon-mouthed Apollyon, plumed with darts And armed with horns of incandescent bronze ! O, dark as Satan's nightmare, or the fruit Of Belial's rape on hell's bIack hippogriff ! What knowest thou of Paradise, where grow The gardens of the manna-laden myrrh,

And lotos never known to Ulysses, Whose fruit provides our long and sateless banquet ? Where boundless fields, unfurrowed and unsown, Supply for God's own appanage their foison Of amber-hearted grain, and sesame Sweeter than nard the Persian air compounds With frankincense from isles of India ! Where flame-leaved forests infinitely teem With palms of tremulous opal, from whose tops

Ambrosial honies fall forevermore In rains of nacred light ! Where rise and rise, Terrace on hyacinthine terrace, hills Hung with the grapes that drip cerulean wine, One draught whereof dissolves eternity In bliss oblivious and supernal dream !

The Ghoul

To all the meat their bellies most commend,

To all the according wine. For me, I wot, The cates whereof thou braggest were as wind In halls where men had feasted yesterday, Or furbished bones the full hyena leaves. Tiger and pig have their apportioned glutt, Nor lacks the shark his provender; the bird Is nourished with the worm of charnels; man, Or the grey wolf, will slay and eat the bird, Till wolf and man be carrion for the worm.

What wouldst thou ? As the elfin lily does, Or as the Paphian myrtle, pale with love, I draw me from the unreluctant dead The rightful meat my belly's law demands. Eaters of death are all: life shall not live, Save that its food be death: no atomy In any star, nor heaven's remotest moon But hath a billion billion times been made The food of insatiable life, and food

Of death insatiate: for all is change— Change, that hath wrought the chancre and the rose, And wrought the star, and wrought the sapphire-stone, And lit great altars, and the eyes of lions— Change, that hath made the very gods from slime Drawn from the pits of Python, and willing Gods and their builded heavens back again To slime. The fruits of archangelic light Thou braggest of, and grapes of azure wine,

Have been the dung of dragons and the blood Of toads in Phlegethon: each particle That is their splendor, clomb in separate ways Through suns and worlds and cycles infinite— Through burning brume of systems unbegun, And manes of long-haired comets, that have lashed The night of space to Fury and to fire; And in the core of cold and lightless stars, And in immalleable metats deep,

Each atomy hath slept, or known the slime Of cyclopean oceans turned to air Before the suns of Ophiuchus rose; And they have known the interstellar night, And they have lain at root of sightless flowers In worlds without a sun, or at the heart Of monstrous-eyed and panting flowers of flesh, Or eon-blooming amaranths of stone; And they have ministered within the brains

Of sages and magicians, and have served To swell the pulse of kings and conquerors, And have been privy to the hearts of queens.

The Ghoul turns his back on the Seraph, and moves away, singing.

The Song

O condor, keep thy mountain-ways Above the long Andean lands;

Gier-eagle, guard the eastern sands Where the Forsaken camel strays: Beetle and worm and I will ward The Iardered graves of lout and lord.

Oh, warm and bright the blood that Iies Upon the wounded lion's trail ! Hyena, laugh, and jackal, wail, And ring him round, who turns and dies !

Beetle and worm and I will ward The lardered graves of lout and lord.

Arms of a wanton girl are good, Or hands of harp-player and knight: Breasts of the nun be sweet and white, Sweet is the festive friar's blood. Beetle and worm and I will ward The lardered graves of lout and lord.

That's a pretty good poem.

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orchidbreezefc · 2 years

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why every hello from the hallowoods character deserves to say fuck: a non exhaustive demonstration

-olivier would be the one to make the most of it. olivier song would know exactly what to do with fuck privileges

-diggory is the one i trust the most to make it satisfying and cathartic

-i really do wish that polly scene had gone "FUCK your paperwork!". like, i could taste it. thats the one canonical scene i would choose for the one PG-13 allocated fuck

-percy probably deserves it the most

-it'd feel so right with riot

-a good fuck of frustration seems only appropriate for hector at this point, honestly

-the thought that tickles me the most is yaretzi teaching mort to say fuck like a toddler on a road trip just to annoy polly

-zelda. nuff said

#hello from the hallowoods #hfth #olivier song #diggory graves #percy reed #mort hfth #yaretzi hfth #apollyon #riot maidstone #hector mendoza #zelda duckworth #honestly nikignik doesnt even need it. hes got enough ire power as it is #sage speaks #sage original post #add your own fucks!#im only through the end of s1 and some extras #greatest hits

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apocalyptic-chaos · 3 years

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I went on the hello from the hallowoods wiki and I found the best genders so you can tag yourself- part 1

I guess this can also be a guessing game?

#hello from the hallowoods #hfth #diggory graves #percy reed #diggory hfth #democracy hfth #apollyon hfth #mort hfth

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fruitviking · 3 years

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Been playing around in HeroForge, making Hallowoods characters into tabletop miniatures! So far there's Diggory, Percy, Riot, Polly, Olivier, and Walt. Who should I try and make next?

@hellofromthehallowoods

#hello from the hallowoods #hfth #hfth fanart #diggory graves #percy reed #riot maidstone #apollyon #olivier song #walter pensive #heroforge

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azzy-the-christian-furry · 4 years

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((Revelation, Part 2.))

Ch.9:

The fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from the sky to the earth. The star was given the key to the shaft of the Abyss. 2 When he opened the Abyss, smoke rose from it like the smoke from a gigantic furnace. The sun and sky were darkened by the smoke from the Abyss. 3 And out of the smoke locusts came down on the earth and were given power like that of scorpions of the earth. 4 They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any plant or tree, but only those people who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads. 5 They were not allowed to kill them but only to torture them for five months. And the agony they suffered was like that of the sting of a scorpion when it strikes. 6 During those days people will seek death but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will elude them.

7 The locusts looked like horses prepared for battle. On their heads they wore something like crowns of gold, and their faces resembled human faces. 8 Their hair was like women’s hair, and their teeth were like lions’ teeth. 9 They had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the thundering of many horses and chariots rushing into battle. 10 They had tails with stingers, like scorpions, and in their tails they had power to torment people for five months. 11 They had as king over them the angel of the Abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon and in Greek is Apollyon (that is, Destroyer).

12 The first woe is past; two other woes are yet to come.

13 The sixth angel sounded his trumpet, and I heard a voice coming from the four horns of the golden altar that is before God. 14 It said to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.” 15 And the four angels who had been kept ready for this very hour and day and month and year were released to kill a third of mankind. 16 The number of the mounted troops was twice ten thousand times ten thousand. I heard their number.

17 The horses and riders I saw in my vision looked like this: Their breastplates were fiery red, dark blue, and yellow as sulfur. The heads of the horses resembled the heads of lions, and out of their mouths came fire, smoke and sulfur. 18 A third of mankind was killed by the three plagues of fire, smoke and sulfur that came out of their mouths. 19 The power of the horses was in their mouths and in their tails; for their tails were like snakes, having heads with which they inflict injury.

20 The rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the work of their hands; they did not stop worshiping demons, and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone and wood—idols that cannot see or hear or walk. 21 Nor did they repent of their murders, their magic arts, their sexual immorality or their thefts.

Ch.10:

The Angel and the Little Scroll

Then I saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven. He was robed in a cloud, with a rainbow above his head; his face was like the sun, and his legs were like fiery pillars. 2 He was holding a little scroll, which lay open in his hand. He planted his right foot on the sea and his left foot on the land, 3 and he gave a loud shout like the roar of a lion. When he shouted, the voices of the seven thunders spoke. 4 And when the seven thunders spoke, I was about to write; but I heard a voice from heaven say, “Seal up what the seven thunders have said and do not write it down.”

5 Then the angel I had seen standing on the sea and on the land raised his right hand to heaven. 6 And he swore by him who lives for ever and ever, who created the heavens and all that is in them, the earth and all that is in it, and the sea and all that is in it, and said, “There will be no more delay! 7 But in the days when the seventh angel is about to sound his trumpet, the mystery of God will be accomplished, just as he announced to his servants the prophets.”

8 Then the voice that I had heard from heaven spoke to me once more: “Go, take the scroll that lies open in the hand of the angel who is standing on the sea and on the land.”

9 So I went to the angel and asked him to give me the little scroll. He said to me, “Take it and eat it. It will turn your stomach sour, but ‘in your mouth it will be as sweet as honey.’[a]” 10 I took the little scroll from the angel’s hand and ate it. It tasted as sweet as honey in my mouth, but when I had eaten it, my stomach turned sour. 11 Then I was told, “You must prophesy again about many peoples, nations, languages and kings.”

Ch.11:

The Two Witnesses

I was given a reed like a measuring rod and was told, “Go and measure the temple of God and the altar, with its worshipers. 2 But exclude the outer court; do not measure it, because it has been given to the Gentiles. They will trample on the holy city for 42 months. 3 And I will appoint my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.” 4 They are “the two olive trees” and the two lampstands, and “they stand before the Lord of the earth.”[a] 5 If anyone tries to harm them, fire comes from their mouths and devours their enemies. This is how anyone who wants to harm them must die. 6 They have power to shut up the heavens so that it will not rain during the time they are prophesying; and they have power to turn the waters into blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague as often as they want.

7 Now when they have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up from the Abyss will attack them, and overpower and kill them. 8 Their bodies will lie in the public square of the great city—which is figuratively called Sodom and Egypt—where also their Lord was crucified. 9 For three and a half days some from every people, tribe, language and nation will gaze on their bodies and refuse them burial. 10 The inhabitants of the earth will gloat over them and will celebrate by sending each other gifts, because these two prophets had tormented those who live on the earth.

11 But after the three and a half days the breath[b] of life from God entered them, and they stood on their feet, and terror struck those who saw them. 12 Then they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, “Come up here.” And they went up to heaven in a cloud, while their enemies looked on.

13 At that very hour there was a severe earthquake and a tenth of the city collapsed. Seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake, and the survivors were terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven.

14 The second woe has passed; the third woe is coming soon.

The Seventh Trumpet

15 The seventh angel sounded his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, which said:

“The kingdom of the world has become

the kingdom of our Lord and of his Messiah,

and he will reign for ever and ever.”

16 And the twenty-four elders, who were seated on their thrones before God, fell on their faces and worshiped God, 17 saying:

“We give thanks to you, Lord God Almighty,

the One who is and who was,

because you have taken your great power

and have begun to reign.

18 The nations were angry,

and your wrath has come.

The time has come for judging the dead,

and for rewarding your servants the prophets

and your people who revere your name,

both great and small—

and for destroying those who destroy the earth.”

19 Then God’s temple in heaven was opened, and within his temple was seen the ark of his covenant. And there came flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, an earthquake and a severe hailstorm.

Ch.12:

The Woman and the Dragon

A great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head. 2 She was pregnant and cried out in pain as she was about to give birth. 3 Then another sign appeared in heaven: an enormous red dragon with seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns on its heads. 4 Its tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky and flung them to the earth. The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth, so that it might devour her child the moment he was born. 5 She gave birth to a son, a male child, who “will rule all the nations with an iron scepter.”[a] And her child was snatched up to God and to his throne. 6 The woman fled into the wilderness to a place prepared for her by God, where she might be taken care of for 1,260 days.

7 Then war broke out in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back. 8 But he was not strong enough, and they lost their place in heaven. 9 The great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.

10 Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say:

“Now have come the salvation and the power

and the kingdom of our God,

and the authority of his Messiah.

For the accuser of our brothers and sisters,

who accuses them before our God day and night,

has been hurled down.

11 They triumphed over him

by the blood of the Lamb

and by the word of their testimony;

they did not love their lives so much

as to shrink from death.

12 Therefore rejoice, you heavens

and you who dwell in them!

But woe to the earth and the sea,

because the devil has gone down to you!

He is filled with fury,

because he knows that his time is short.”

13 When the dragon saw that he had been hurled to the earth, he pursued the woman who had given birth to the male child. 14 The woman was given the two wings of a great eagle, so that she might fly to the place prepared for her in the wilderness, where she would be taken care of for a time, times and half a time, out of the serpent’s reach. 15 Then from his mouth the serpent spewed water like a river, to overtake the woman and sweep her away with the torrent. 16 But the earth helped the woman by opening its mouth and swallowing the river that the dragon had spewed out of his mouth. 17 Then the dragon was enraged at the woman and went off to wage war against the rest of her offspring—those who keep God’s commands and hold fast their testimony about Jesus.

Ch.13:

The Beast out of the Sea

The dragon[a] stood on the shore of the sea. And I saw a beast coming out of the sea. It had ten horns and seven heads, with ten crowns on its horns, and on each head a blasphemous name. 2 The beast I saw resembled a leopard, but had feet like those of a bear and a mouth like that of a lion. The dragon gave the beast his power and his throne and great authority. 3 One of the heads of the beast seemed to have had a fatal wound, but the fatal wound had been healed. The whole world was filled with wonder and followed the beast. 4 People worshiped the dragon because he had given authority to the beast, and they also worshiped the beast and asked, “Who is like the beast? Who can wage war against it?”

5 The beast was given a mouth to utter proud words and blasphemies and to exercise its authority for forty-two months. 6 It opened its mouth to blaspheme God, and to slander his name and his dwelling place and those who live in heaven. 7 It was given power to wage war against God’s holy people and to conquer them. And it was given authority over every tribe, people, language and nation. 8 All inhabitants of the earth will worship the beast—all whose names have not been written in the Lamb’s book of life, the Lamb who was slain from the creation of the world.[b]

9 Whoever has ears, let them hear.

10 “If anyone is to go into captivity,

into captivity they will go.

If anyone is to be killed[c] with the sword,

with the sword they will be killed.”[d]

This calls for patient endurance and faithfulness on the part of God’s people.

The Beast out of the Earth

11 Then I saw a second beast, coming out of the earth. It had two horns like a lamb, but it spoke like a dragon. 12 It exercised all the authority of the first beast on its behalf, and made the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast, whose fatal wound had been healed. 13 And it performed great signs, even causing fire to come down from heaven to the earth in full view of the people. 14 Because of the signs it was given power to perform on behalf of the first beast, it deceived the inhabitants of the earth. It ordered them to set up an image in honor of the beast who was wounded by the sword and yet lived. 15 The second beast was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that the image could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed. 16 It also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads, 17 so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of its name.

18 This calls for wisdom. Let the person who has insight calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man.[e] That number is 666.

Ch14:

The Lamb and the 144,000

14 Then I looked, and there before me was the Lamb, standing on Mount Zion, and with him 144,000 who had his name and his Father’s name written on their foreheads. 2 And I heard a sound from heaven like the roar of rushing waters and like a loud peal of thunder. The sound I heard was like that of harpists playing their harps. 3 And they sang a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders. No one could learn the song except the 144,000 who had been redeemed from the earth. 4 These are those who did not defile themselves with women, for they remained virgins. They follow the Lamb wherever he goes. They were purchased from among mankind and offered as firstfruits to God and the Lamb. 5 No lie was found in their mouths; they are blameless.

The Three Angels

6 Then I saw another angel flying in midair, and he had the eternal gospel to proclaim to those who live on the earth—to every nation, tribe, language and people. 7 He said in a loud voice, “Fear God and give him glory, because the hour of his judgment has come. Worship him who made the heavens, the earth, the sea and the springs of water.”

8 A second angel followed and said, “‘Fallen! Fallen is Babylon the Great,’[a] which made all the nations drink the maddening wine of her adulteries.”

9 A third angel followed them and said in a loud voice: “If anyone worships the beast and its image and receives its mark on their forehead or on their hand, 10 they, too, will drink the wine of God’s fury, which has been poured full strength into the cup of his wrath. They will be tormented with burning sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and of the Lamb. 11 And the smoke of their torment will rise for ever and ever. There will be no rest day or night for those who worship the beast and its image, or for anyone who receives the mark of its name.” 12 This calls for patient endurance on the part of the people of God who keep his commands and remain faithful to Jesus.

13 Then I heard a voice from heaven say, “Write this: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.”

“Yes,” says the Spirit, “they will rest from their labor, for their deeds will follow them.”

Harvesting the Earth and Trampling the Winepress

14 I looked, and there before me was a white cloud, and seated on the cloud was one like a son of man[b] with a crown of gold on his head and a sharp sickle in his hand. 15 Then another angel came out of the temple and called in a loud voice to him who was sitting on the cloud, “Take your sickle and reap, because the time to reap has come, for the harvest of the earth is ripe.” 16 So he who was seated on the cloud swung his sickle over the earth, and the earth was harvested.

17 Another angel came out of the temple in heaven, and he too had a sharp sickle. 18 Still another angel, who had charge of the fire, came from the altar and called in a loud voice to him who had the sharp sickle, “Take your sharp sickle and gather the clusters of grapes from the earth’s vine, because its grapes are ripe.” 19 The angel swung his sickle on the earth, gathered its grapes and threw them into the great winepress of God’s wrath. 20 They were trampled in the winepress outside the city, and blood flowed out of the press, rising as high as the horses’ bridles for a distance of 1,600 stadia.

Ch.15:

Seven Angels With Seven Plagues

15 I saw in heaven another great and marvelous sign: seven angels with the seven last plagues—last, because with them God’s wrath is completed. 2 And I saw what looked like a sea of glass glowing with fire and, standing beside the sea, those who had been victorious over the beast and its image and over the number of its name. They held harps given them by God 3 and sang the song of God’s servant Moses and of the Lamb:

“Great and marvelous are your deeds,

Lord God Almighty.

Just and true are your ways,

King of the nations.[a]

4 Who will not fear you, Lord,

and bring glory to your name?

For you alone are holy.

All nations will come

and worship before you,

for your righteous acts have been revealed.”[b]

5 After this I looked, and I saw in heaven the temple—that is, the tabernacle of the covenant law—and it was opened. 6 Out of the temple came the seven angels with the seven plagues. They were dressed in clean, shining linen and wore golden sashes around their chests. 7 Then one of the four living creatures gave to the seven angels seven golden bowls filled with the wrath of God, who lives for ever and ever. 8 And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God and from his power, and no one could enter the temple until the seven plagues of the seven angels were completed.

Ch.16:

The Seven Bowls of God’s Wrath

16 Then I heard a loud voice from the temple saying to the seven angels, “Go, pour out the seven bowls of God’s wrath on the earth.”

2 The first angel went and poured out his bowl on the land, and ugly, festering sores broke out on the people who had the mark of the beast and worshiped its image.

3 The second angel poured out his bowl on the sea, and it turned into blood like that of a dead person, and every living thing in the sea died.

4 The third angel poured out his bowl on the rivers and springs of water, and they became blood. 5 Then I heard the angel in charge of the waters say:

“You are just in these judgments, O Holy One,

you who are and who were;

6 for they have shed the blood of your holy people and your prophets,

and you have given them blood to drink as they deserve.”

7 And I heard the altar respond:

“Yes, Lord God Almighty,

true and just are your judgments.”

8 The fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and the sun was allowed to scorch people with fire. 9 They were seared by the intense heat and they cursed the name of God, who had control over these plagues, but they refused to repent and glorify him.

10 The fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and its kingdom was plunged into darkness. People gnawed their tongues in agony 11 and cursed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, but they refused to repent of what they had done.

12 The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up to prepare the way for the kings from the East. 13 Then I saw three impure spirits that looked like frogs; they came out of the mouth of the dragon, out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet. 14 They are demonic spirits that perform signs, and they go out to the kings of the whole world, to gather them for the battle on the great day of God Almighty.

15 “Look, I come like a thief! Blessed is the one who stays awake and remains clothed, so as not to go naked and be shamefully exposed.”

16 Then they gathered the kings together to the place that in Hebrew is called Armageddon.

17 The seventh angel poured out his bowl into the air, and out of the temple came a loud voice from the throne, saying, “It is done!” 18 Then there came flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder and a severe earthquake. No earthquake like it has ever occurred since mankind has been on earth, so tremendous was the quake. 19 The great city split into three parts, and the cities of the nations collapsed. God remembered Babylon the Great and gave her the cup filled with the wine of the fury of his wrath. 20 Every island fled away and the mountains could not be found. 21 From the sky huge hailstones, each weighing about a hundred pounds,[a] fell on people. And they cursed God on account of the plague of hail, because the plague was so terrible.

Ch.17:

Babylon, the Prostitute on the Beast

One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the punishment of the great prostitute, who sits by many waters. 2 With her the kings of the earth committed adultery, and the inhabitants of the earth were intoxicated with the wine of her adulteries.”

3 Then the angel carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness. There I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was covered with blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten horns. 4 The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and was glittering with gold, precious stones and pearls. She held a golden cup in her hand, filled with abominable things and the filth of her adulteries. 5 The name written on her forehead was a mystery:

babylon the great

the mother of prostitutes

and of the abominations of the earth.

6 I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of God’s holy people, the blood of those who bore testimony to Jesus.

When I saw her, I was greatly astonished. 7 Then the angel said to me: “Why are you astonished? I will explain to you the mystery of the woman and of the beast she rides, which has the seven heads and ten horns. 8 The beast, which you saw, once was, now is not, and yet will come up out of the Abyss and go to its destruction. The inhabitants of the earth whose names have not been written in the book of life from the creation of the world will be astonished when they see the beast, because it once was, now is not, and yet will come.

9 “This calls for a mind with wisdom. The seven heads are seven hills on which the woman sits. 10 They are also seven kings. Five have fallen, one is, the other has not yet come; but when he does come, he must remain for only a little while. 11 The beast who once was, and now is not, is an eighth king. He belongs to the seven and is going to his destruction.

12 “The ten horns you saw are ten kings who have not yet received a kingdom, but who for one hour will receive authority as kings along with the beast. 13 They have one purpose and will give their power and authority to the beast. 14 They will wage war against the Lamb, but the Lamb will triumph over them because he is Lord of lords and King of kings—and with him will be his called, chosen and faithful followers.”

15 Then the angel said to me, “The waters you saw, where the prostitute sits, are peoples, multitudes, nations and languages. 16 The beast and the ten horns you saw will hate the prostitute. They will bring her to ruin and leave her naked; they will eat her flesh and burn her with fire. 17 For God has put it into their hearts to accomplish his purpose by agreeing to hand over to the beast their royal authority, until God’s words are fulfilled. 18 The woman you saw is the great city that rules over the kings of the earth.”

#bible stuff #revelation #revelation part two

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rizardofether · 3 years

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Just having fun.

#gw2 #guild wars 2 #asura #apollyon reed #the glitch still being there too #i love tapping movement keys super fast and looking at the animation

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heavensdog · 4 years

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Do you have like a glossary about the characters? Who they are and what they are? Appearance and powers. that kind of thing?

Not really! Though it might be fun to do profiles, since I’ve caved and decided on canon designs for everyone haha . . . .

I’ll do a quick break down for everyone, though this might contain mild spoilers! These are all the named characters so far, excluding Emi’s parents.

Iriel Lovelace -- Iriel Lovelace is the mascot character; they used to be a rabbit, but after the Agent of Heaven moved out, they took on a human form in order to help with day to day life and also provide some emotional stability . . . but this unfortunately also left them vulnerable to human emotions and they caught some bad feels. They have a combat form they aren’t supposed to use, and they find out in act two that they also have a mysterious past they known nothing of. It’s a bit of an adjustment. Pink hair, silver eyes, tall and given to wearing bulky, somber clothing.

Lapis du Obsidienne -- Lapis is an elf, basically; they were the bastard child of the head of the most prestigious family in their society, who gained an elevated position once their dad’s first wife died and he was able to marry their mother officially; this resulted in them feeling incredibly isolated, which Phantom du Mirage used to manipulate them into unsealing her, before wiping out Lapis’s entire civilization and putting them in a coma for a few millennium. Lapis’s powers are a bit vague for the time being, but they’re able to bring out people’s dark sides and turn them into literal monsters, and Phantom du Mirage uses Lapis’s powers in order to provide extra power to the other “generals” in her army (Flint, Delta and Harper). Scrawny, with tawny skin and freckles, dark hair and light blue eyes.

Aconite Rosewood -- A normal human who is super into the occult and horror movies and stuff. They grew up in a small town, which made being openly gay kind of awkward, but it was mostly okay. Phantome du Mirage attacked their home town, seeking to recruit them, so Aconite summoned a demon . . . and got Phantome du Mirage, who provided them with some of Lapis’s powers and the ability to transform, but not the ability to purify people’s hearts. When Delta helped them put two and two together, they tried summoning a different demon and got Abaddon. They specialize in sealing and binding energy, but are also handy with some other forms of magic, and they transform by letting Abaddon possess them. Average height, but seems mega tall compared to Abaddon, with (dyed) pink hair and brown eyes that look red in the right light. Very 1920s aesthetic, and also half Chinese, though they were adopted by a white family.

Abaddon Knight -- Abaddon was formed by branching off of Apollo; if we were to put it in human-centric terms, they’re basically like Apollo’s kid and also Apollo’s reincarnation? But like, once removed or so (So Apollo became Apollyon and Apollyon became Abaddon.) They have some bad history with Iriel that they don’t want to talk about because it’s kind of complicated, and they’re in a relationship with Rosewood, as well as Rosewood’s teacher in the ~dark arts~. Their relationship with Rosewood mimics Iriel and the Agent of Heaven’s relationship, which . . .they’re painfully aware of. Tiny (4′11″-5′2″) with white hair and red eyes and as many frills as they can physically put on their body. Also, while they’re gendermatched to the player on the surface, they’re genderfluid, and as their relationship with Rosewood becomes less fraught, they start becoming more fluid about their presentation as well. (Rosewood is Big Gay and doesn’t feel attraction for the opposite gender at all, so Abaddon is afraid of being rejected if they’re more ambiguous about their presentation; Rosewood knows they’re genderfluid but doesn’t wanna pressure them to open up faster than they’re ready to, and with everything going on they just have a high tension relationship at the beginning of the story.)

E. Nymbostratus -- Emilio/Emilia, or Emi for short (and nonbinary); their from a rich family, though their family situation is very, very complicated and they’re not on good terms with anyone except their mom, who died about a year before the start of the story. Iriel recruits them to replace the Agent of Heaven, and they take to it like a fish to water -- they have the same power set as the MC, but don’t have the same kind of instinctive control, and aren’t quite as strong. Still very powerful. They have brown hair that they used to bleach blond, and they used to have brown eyes, but becoming an Agent of Heaven turned their eyes blue, which is part of the reason they stop bleaching their hair. They tend to have a very chic and trendy style and are the tallest member of the group. They’re mixed latinx/white, and Harper Reed is their half brother.

Flint Burst -- An older brother figure to Lapis, Delta and possibly the MC; Flint is a himbo lol. He’s buff; red hair, piercings, sort of punk/greaser aesthetic; his power set is themed around fireworks, and he’s the most likely to get his hands dirty without relying on corrupting people’s hearts. Deceased.

Harper Reed -- A scheming, cold hearted sort; he’s Emi’s older half brother through their father, who was a mafioso before Harper killed him. Harper stands out among du Mirage’s Generals because his family was horrendous enough that he honestly sees wiping them out as a good thing, while the other three are like “holy shit what just happened” about it. He’s really happy to meet Emi, but it’s complicated because they’re obviously on opposite sides of the battlefield and also Harper has some bad self esteem issues lol. He does a lot of mind control stuff -- his music is hypnotic and he uses that to his advantage, so even without Lapis’s magic he tends to use people as puppets when he fights. Blond hair, blue eyes, dresses like he’s rich.

Delta Rush -- The Softboi Baby of du Mirage’s Generals. Deceased.

Coco Darling -- The Agent of Heaven’s ex-friend from high school. A tomboy who’s best friend fell in love with her childhood crush.

Vanille au Lait -- The Agent of Heaven’s ex-friend from high school. A girly girl who ended up dating her best friend’s childhood crush. Did she know? I’m not sure.

Kara Malls -- A guy with an unfortunate name who was childhood friends with Coco before middle school made their different social statuses very apparent. Ended up dating Vanille au Lait, but might have still had feelings for Coco Darling.

Phantome du Mirage -- The big bad. All I’m gonna say is that she has a cool fucking office.

#cast of characters masterlist #i'm probably not gonna get too much writing done today orz #but i'll get back on track tomorrow i promise #Anonymous #spoiler #general spoilers i forgot to tag this

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