#book-of-conquest

[autismmydearwatson]

Still more important is the realization that all those generations of British people (largely men), who were educated in the classics, were being taught to understand and sympathize with the Greeks and Romans. When thinking of the long confrontation between the Celts and Romans, therefore they instinctively sided with the Romans. They would have all read Tacitus' warning: "Remember, they are barbarians..." For the Romans were seen as the bearers of civilization and the ancient Britons as the uncivilized.....

All manner of pressure was brought to bear to ensure that British schoolboys empathized with Rome. From the sixteenth century to the mid-twentieth, every educated person was required to learn Latin. Caesar and Tacitus were among the very first authors which all those pupils were obliged to read. Yet no one taught them anything about the Celts, let alone a Celtic language. Even today, when the teaching of classics in the United Kingdom has sharply declined and Celtic studies receive a measure of official support, for every British schoolchild that learns even a little about the native Celtic heritage, there are a hundred that still learn about the heritage of Rome.

A whole literary genre was devoted to strengthening the bond of identity between the modern Britons and the Ancient Romans. Any number of books and poems have been written to invite the reader to stand in Roman shoes, to put oneself shoulder to shoulder with the legions in the eternal struggle of civilization against barbarity.

-Norman Davies, The Isles

[praparuru-ume]

Visenya Targaryen

Not my typical style, but I was trying something new...

[wanderingnork]

I keep reminding myself that not everyone has read every possible githyanki/githzerai related source going back to the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Fiend Folio. Not everyone has this level of Special Interest. Not everyone is actively trying to track down good hard copies of most of these books. Nor is anyone obligated to do so.

So here you go: I'm going to explain why "githzerai good/githyanki evil" is completely reductive, not in line with the lore, and would be ridiculous to add to BG3.

The githzerai are far, far, FAR from saints, and including them in BG3 would just muddy the waters further. They aren't just running around being the good to the githyanki's evil. And never have been. They've been chaotic neutral since the Fiend Folio, and they did not become Chaotic Good in the years since. In fact, I'd make the argument that, based on their canonical behavior right up to the present, "chaotic evil" would be an appropriate alignment.

Back in second-edition D&D, in the Planescape Book of Chaos, there's an entire section on a credible rumor that the githzerai are working on a ritual that will allow them to pull githyanki out of the Astral Plane into their city so they can "punish them for their evil." (Page 76, if you're curious.) Dragon magazine #306 (an official source), there's an article entitled "Killing Cousins." It details the gith-attala, or...cousin hunters, githzerai who specialize in hunting down and killing githyanki. They go after githyanki anywhere, but in particular strongholds on the Material Plane. As of Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes (again, official source), it's explicitly stated on page 305 that the githzerai are "always on the lookout for githyanki plots to foil and creches to exterminate."

If we encountered githzerai in BG3, the most likely place to do so would be outside the creche, planning an attack that would have targeted eggs, hatchlings, and children.

The githyanki aren't coming from a place of moral good. But neither are the githzerai. Simplifying it down to good vs evil does the entire story of the species a disservice.

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[who-do-i-know-this-man]

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[archduke-enver-gortash]

still a massive wip but cleaned up the blacksmith gortash outfit sketch…… he made it all himself

[fearthhereaper]

can't wait to see visenya unleashing hell on earth. they better make her the cruelest, most heartless, sexiest bitch that has ever lived. i want to see an unapologetically bad woman that doesn't pretend she's someone she's not. i want her to rain terror and then proudly hold her head high.

[elennemigo]

1st

✦ Photographer and camera operator, Roger Do Minh, shared some behind the scenes pictures from Wes Anderson´s short films, including "Poison" and "Henry Sugar" x x x x

11th

✦ The Book of Clarence premiered at the BFI London Film Festival, with many reviews highlighting Benedict´s brief participation.

Here, a few: x x x x x

On theatres January 12, 2024 (US)

12th

✦ Benedict bacame Era Of Conquest ambassador.

(All clips so far: x x x)

16th

✦ Benedict´s clip for Prada campaign "Conversation with a flower."

✦ LAMDA president, Benedict Cumberbatch, at the graduation ceremony 2023. (clips x x x x/ pics x x)

18th

✦ New Benedict´s clip wearing Prada sunglasses.

20th

✦ It was announced his participation at Tokio Comic-Con 2023.

✦ In an interview for Arab News, Benedict talked about wroking with Wes Anderson. (Done before the SAG AFTRA strike)

30th

✦ Park Theatre announced new season including celebrity-heavy Whodunnit, The Forsyte Saga and Marilyn Monroe drama. (Benedict is included in the "celebrity-heavy" list)

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[dumbass-rodent]

Just finished conquest for bread fs a 10/10 book would recommend it if you have time its surprising how well its aged (not to say it hasn't aged at it is flawed in this regard)

[navree]

"can we stop pretending the evil stepmother trope is bad and boring" oh my FUCKING GOD just reread the book!!!! just reread the fucking book!!!!!! if you want the book canon so bad it's right there, go read it!!!!! you've got to have it in your possession since you talk about it all the fucking time and i'd be astounded if someone this fucking pressed hasn't actually read it!!!!!! the change to rhaenyra and alicent's relationship has been known since they first cast the fucking show!!!!! it's been there since episode one!!!!!!! if you don't like it don't watch the show and just REREAD THE FUCKING BOOK!!!!!!

[medusassecondcousin]

I spent to much money on books today :)

[smashpages]

Conquest 2099 #2 (Marvel, October 2024) cover by Leinil Francis Yu

[praparuru-ume]

Just a sketch of these three again

Rhaenys, Visenya, and Aegon Targaryen

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

"The Koran calls for belief and consequent obedience. It is, surely, calculated to inspire fear, indeed abject terror, rather than love." -- Antony Flew

[shamlesspandanerd]

[ruthlesslistener]

The most disgusting fucking thing that zionists keep circling in response to palestinian suffering and people crying for an end to a genocide is the fucking cries about the thousand killed on october 7th

I don't care how many settlers died. I don't care. I don't care because 1,000 dead does not ever equate to 100,000 murdered and lost. It doesn't equate to all the horrendous suffering and the torture that Israel inflicts on innocents. It doesn't equate because human lives are not a fucking math equation and yet it becomes extremely fucking apparent that to these people it is because they view palestinian lives as so much lesser than those of the settlers that thousands of them cannot pay back the life of one colonizer

'Civilians shouldn't be killed' is the most neutral thing that can be said about a war and is IMPLICIT to saying that the Hamas attack on october 7th was poorly planned. But when israeli civilians are actively participating in the genocide of people they already were tormenting then it becomes really fucking hard to think of the people killed as innocents, and when they are being used as the justification to set military dogs on 4 year olds and to selectively target and destroy safe havens and ignore peace treaties then it is altogether. I dont care that nearly two thousand filthy fucking colonizers died because there is NO justification for the river of blood spilled in retribution, nor the painting of a race of people as terrorists despite only a scant handful of them being willing to bloody their hands in retribution for decades of torment