#hospitaler

[thegodemperorsmycopilot]

Sister Elysia, Hospitaler

A friend's character from our group's Wrath & Glory campaign.

[paniwarhamauser]

Assorted Sisters of Battle arts

[mr-groovyart]

Sisters can perform miracles sometimes. What's a little nurgle rot to some drunken faith?

[lemonerix]

chicken coop crusaders

Teuton somehow talked the other two orders into horsing around a chicken coop owned by France (bc his idea of fun is pranking the Frenchman lol) but that ended up in them getting chased out by one of Francis' men. Hospitaller is somehow enjoying the chase (tho won't admit it out loud), Templar is guilty af and knows he'll be in serious trouble with Francis and his Grand Master (he's really a shtick for rules), and Teuton gets stale bread thrown at him (bread were HARD back then).

I sometimes get whiplash realizing that they're literally just children burdened with the responsibility of their people and they don't even get normal childhoods bc it's either they conquer or be conquered and sure they don't die and have really fast healing but their weird place in the world gifts them a kind of loneliness that no one but others like them could understand and I get sad about it :(

[jackce]

And my last piece for the Hetalia anthology zine! If you haven't downloaded that zine already (is free) here https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/19NfjP1DkLuTleLWHKARfAD9NdRyGUldR

[plainandgeneric]

Headcanon: because Baldwin is so close to death he can see the Hospitaller.

[alternativeminiatures]

Delicious in Space Hulk: "Let me introduce you Veteran Brother Laios and his Kill team companions"

by @Sgt_Lonely_

https://ko-fi.com/sgt_lonely

[genillustrate]

"You'll always advance behind me" "Yes, sir!" "Psh, Sacro is better" "Yes, sir." I'm back. With more medieval times, oh yeah. I'm giving the name Michael to the Templar Knights and Gabriel to Hospitallers, just because they're biblical names, haha. The Knights Hospitaller started in Cyprus, and Cyprus is an island that was under Greek protection since ancient times, and in times of the Cruzades, Cyprus was under the protection of the Bizantine Empire, thus, Greece, that's why I'm giving him an appearence similar to that of my HC of Greece himself, just like Knights Templar looks just like France.

In my HCs, in his youth, France has a much more severe personality than in his adulthood, more similar to his germanic Frankish roots, than the Galloroman ones. It would be not until the Fall of the Bizantine Empire and the Reinassance that the Greek pushed with the enourmous exodus of Greek erudites that the Fall of Constantinople pushed through Europe, that France, and the rest of the continent, would have contact with the almost forgotten Grecoroman culture. And thus, the start of modern history. That's why I draw him all serious and violent in his youth; it's a reflection of the times. And he was always the vanguard of the attacks, because in that time the French were famous for their training, ferocity in battle and direct attacks. They were all about their honor in battle and their strategy were more like battles of brute force instead of strategic calculations; they were so strong they could afford the luxury, ha. Until they couldn't and had to adapt. And yes, Gilbert is very infatuated with Michael. I think it's canon that Templar knights was the one who teached him music, literature, to sing and the one who trained the most with him. And if not, well, now it is. Haha. They're hella cute, and I'm a sucker for first innocent love in baby years. I got sloppy with the colors but please bear with it, my back was killing me.

[noughticalcrossings]

Kingdom of Heaven

[alpaca-clouds]

Let me talk Church and the Revolution

Okay, let me post this preemptively. Because I already know that soon enough those people looking for reasons to hate on Castlevania Nocturne because it is not like the games will also come to cry a river about "they depict the church as evil!!!!"

So, let me quickly talk about the role of the church in the French Revolution. Because there is something you gotta understand about the Church during the French revolution: That there was not THE Church.

Basically within the Catholic church in France there was a fracture over the entire revolution happening. A lot of the higher ranked clergy men stood on the side of the nobles and royals, while a lot of the lower ranked clergymen stood with the revolutionaries. The reason behind that mostly was money.

See, before the revolution the church was allowed to collect taxes themselves, while also being tax exempt. So they did not have to pay taxes on all the stuff they sold and made to the nobility. Which was why the bishops and general higher ups within the church could have the lavish lifestyle of nobility themselves, often of course ignoring their vows.

Meanwhile a lot of lower clergy (and especially certain groups of monks - especially the franciscans) were like: "We are all equal in the eyes of god. Rich folks do not get into heaven. Equality is what god wanted from us" and supported the revolution because of it.

But of course there was also the thing that the show mentioned: Given the show is set in summer it seems (probably just before the Reign of Terror) it would have been not even a year before that a lot of clergy got slaughtered. Why did they get slaughtered?

Well, short explanation: Royalists and also some of the bishops provoked the war with Prussia in an attempt to overthrow the revolutionary forces with the help of the Prussian military. This of course failed and the revolutionaries were out for blood. So nobles fled into the churches for sanctuary. And in retaliation a lot of clergy died for haboring the nobles in question.

And, yeah. There is of course the other aspect: The church at the time for a lot of historcal and religious reasons very much supported slavery. Meanwhile this is already a point where the revolution at large had decided that slavery should be done away with. And that leads to what we see in the show here: Clergy going on about the revolution being against "the natural order".

(Being frank: I LOVE that they brought this into the show. Which is almost like a whole other thing I could write about. The entire idea of the revolution and the "natural order" and how it is all linked to colonialism.)

Another interesting part here is the order the abbot and Mizrak are from. On the Castlevania discord server I already went into a whole thing trying to figure that out, but my last idea was right: They are from the Knights Hospitaller. The order of St. John.

This order arose during the crusades and as the name Knights Hospitaller suggests: Yeah, they mostly created hospitals (though historically those were not only to cure the sick, but also to be a home - "hospitality" - for those on the road). They were based in Jerusalem for a while, but ended up moving to Malta, which was of course for a long while ruled by France. They referenced here that the Abbot came to France from Malta, which is the reason.

But yeah, they actually were about helping people for the most part. But they also made money from it. And when the revolution came, they seized all the assets from the order, which made the order join into the ranks of clergy who stood against the revolution by 1792.

[incorrect-koh-posts]

KoH characters as Duolingo widgets

[dese-o]

Small batch of space nuns :3

The first one was inspired by Celestine old model, I kinda feel like she would have a similar aura after ascending by the Emperor.

Then comes Enya my Oc, she was really fun to draw :3

[illustratus]

[mr-groovyart]

Sister hospitaller

[lemonerix]

fixed up my templar sketch bc he's just so fun to draw :DDD

[jackce]

Preview exclusive for my Tumblr people because I like how this one turned out