#kallisti

[tyetknot]

*carefully tosses a golden apple labelled 'TO THE LEAST PROBLEMATIC' into the middle of witchblr discourse*

[ostolero]

to save ferris or whatever discordia said

[striderstable]

[ID: screenshot from the video game neverwinter nights enhanced edition, depicting an NPC standing guard outside of a noble's house in the blacklake district and in the street nearby the player character, a female human monk with a shaved head wearing the robes of the old order, and her henchman tomi undergallows, a halfling rogue in studded leather armor armed with a kukri. /end ID]

My monk of the Old Order, Kallisti, has made considerable progress in Chapter One of the Neverwinter Nights Original Campaign since I introduced her, having recovered two of the four spell components Aribeth needs. She has also acquired a number of nice magical items, including the Gloves of the Yellow Rose +1, Boots of the Sun Soul +3, a Lesser Belt of Guiding Light, an assortment of magical shuriken, and the henchman quest items the Amulet of the Long Death from Grimgnaw and the Ring of the Rogue from Tomi. She's now a 6th level monk. Since the Old Order permits multiclassing as Rogues and Shadowdancers, I plan to add at least two levels of each of those eventually. Here she is about to break into some nobleman's house and steal all his shit.

[golden-apples-and-swords]

Hymn to Eris

Beloved and feared Daimona of rivalry and discord, daughter of mighty Zeus and wifely Hera, creatress of the golden apple, I humbly praise and greet you. She who is a freshly sharpen Poniard which uses the hilt to weave golden threads of chaos in her wake. I pray your gentle discord finds me, pushing me beyond my mortal limits to do better and that you may avert your malevolent gaze from my household. In the laws of reciprocity I offer to you a place in my household, food and drink in turn. I’m eternally grateful for your hard lessons and even harder truths.

[heylookits]

[capncornflake]

I have broken the second seal holding shut Pandora's Box. Like last time, the resulting spell is completely free for all to read and observe.

happy halloween/samhain/dia de los muertos/etc 🎃 ⏳ 👻

Direct link: https://gospeloferis.com/preview/DPH-002.pdf

[tracyorama]

[mamabedlamvt]

Twitter may be going to shit but the Embee Cabaret stays open for business. Can't stop, can't stop as the kids say.

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[epilepticsaints]

[key-city-blues]

I usually don’t post photos of myself but HOLY SHIT I HAVE BOOBS AND THEY GO SQUISH

[onyxtides]

This Greek Goddess Eris Charm Bracelet, is made with a wood apple charm, onyx, garnet and carnelian. In Greek Mythology Eris is the Goddess of Strife and Discord. According to Hesiod there are two Eris’s; one man loves and one he blames.

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[striderstable]

Kallisti, Monk of the Old Order

[ID: screenshot from the video game neverwinter nights enhanced edition, original campaign chapter one, featuring a female human monk player character with a shaved head wearing the robes of the old order, which resembles the habit of a european medieval monk, standing in front of a tavern table into the side of which the image's watermark of striders table dot tumblr dot com cleverly appears to have been carved by some miscreant or another. next to her is the henchman halfling rogue tomi undergallows. the semi-transparent character record and inventory GUI's are both open, showing the PC's stats and a number of items she wears or carries, all of which are pretty much standard for a low level monk in this game. /end ID]

I want to talk a little bit about this character but I might go on for quite a bit so I'll put it under the cut.

Not long ago I posted about my previous monk character, also of the Old Order, and how excited I was that after having imported him into the Enhanced Edition of Neverwinter Nights, you could actually see the cloak he was wearing (in the original versions of the game, you could only see it as a static icon in the inventory, not how it looked on the character, animated and everything). Well, imagine my surprise when while playing yet another monk character I came across a new and improved version of the Robes of the Old Order that looked more like something Friar Tuck or Brother Cadfael might wear.

This is not the only item that looks different in the EE when you find it in the wild as opposed to buying it in the store (for example, the wizard robes are now actually long flowing robes, but only if you start the game with them, someone gives them to you, or you find them in the course of adventuring, such as in a chest). But I liked these enhanced Robes of the Old Order so much that I was prompted to create a whole new character around them. The portrait I ended up using was perfect for this--alas, I haven't been able to track down the artist via Google reverse image search, it came as part of a portrait pack I downloaded long ago--and thankfully one of the in-game avatars for female human characters had a shaved head, because as I might have mentioned before I'm a stickler for things like my PC's avatar matching their portrait.

Anyway, I had to use a cheat to give her the enhanced version of the Robes of the Old Order at the outset, and if she doesn't acquire the Improved Robes of the Old Order on her own before the end of Chapter One I'll use it again to give her those, because the game isn't always as great about rewarding certain character classes as it is others. This is pretty much the only reason I'd ever want to cheat in this game; that is, for roleplaying purposes (I did a similar thing with my Undead Hunter Ranger/Cleric of the Dawnfather, giving him a Shield of Dawn when the game didn't do so automatically within what I considered a reasonable amount of time). Sometimes you have to be your own DM. ;)

Partly inspired by Beauregard of Critical Role Campaign 2, but also by Campaign 3's overall theme, I decided that despite the required "Lawful" alignment, this monk would be pretty chaotic and also atheistic. I don't mean that in the sense of not believing that the gods exist, just being of the opinion that they aren't necessary. See, somewhere along the way I decided that the Old Order is (despite the Western style of the monastic habit) more akin to Eastern philosophies such as Daoism and Zen Buddhism. I didn't just make that up out of the blue, however, it was based squarely on the very sparse amount of information available to us on the Order, such as this scant paragraph from the Forgotten Realms Wiki:

"The Old Order was dedicated to the philosophy espoused by a certain deity, but they did not worship this deity, nor any other, apparently preferring to leave them alone. Their deity was either deceased or had never existed on Toril's Material Plane; the monks were contradictory about this. Some outsiders doubted they'd ever even had a god. The monks considered even the deity's identity unimportant, instead caring only about their message."

What is remarkable about this is that in the Forgotten Realms campaign setting, the soul of any mortal who died without a patron deity got absorbed as a punishment into this enormous wall surrounding the City of Judgment (known as the Wall of the Faithless for this reason) "and wholly became a part of it". Whether you consider this to be an objective fact or only a belief, I have come to the conclusion that the Old Order at least, teaches that it is merely the latter. I don't necessarily see the Order as antagonistic toward any faith, however, except the most destructive and imbalanced ones. Rather I think its mission is to enlighten, and with enlightenment comes the understanding that beliefs are just that--beliefs, and the practitioner would be better off realising the truth.

The vagueness of the description of the Old Order is therefore an asset as far as I'm concerned; it has allowed me the freedom to create my own dogma--or in this case, the absence of such--for the monk character I built around the idea.

[erisis]

Though I may be hemmed in on all sides, in all directions; I will still grow to fill all the available space. Tall and beautiful. An oasis of chaos in the order. #nature #chaos #creativity #personal #urbannature #sidewalktree #fnord #kallisti #order https://www.instagram.com/p/Clfc-KksN4r/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[eurisko-bohemia]

Live, laugh, lay down suppressive fire

[capncornflake]

The first part of my magnum opus, The Gospel According to Eris, came out today.

It is free. Share it around.

The chaos unleashed by the Apple of Discord only works if everyone gets in on the action. Join me as we launch the most subversive psyop in American history!

Direct link: https://gospeloferis.com/preview/DPH-001.pdf