#the sleeper

[midnightcrows]

Matthias Nonius, the greatest swordsman of the Ninth, vs the Sleeper

Inprnt store here!

[wubbelwubbwubb]

Don’t wake the Sleeper

Thank you @theriverbeyond for letting me use your cosplay pictures as a reference, and for creating such an awesome Wake cosplay! The moment I saw it, I knew I had to draw it.

[enchantedbook]

'The Sleeper' by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1846

[metamorphesque]

— The Sleeper, Edgar Allan Poe

[text ID: At midnight, in the month of June, / I stand beneath the mystic moon.]

[ganglystem]

some drawings I did to practice using clip studio paint

[ruby-lith]

[katakaluptastrophy]

Wait...wait...I've just realised something about The Sleeper.

So obviously there's the whole joke on the name Wake (as Ortus himself accidentally points out: "Perhaps a better name would have been.… the Waker") but...I think there's also (yet another) classical reference here.

In Aeschylus' Eumenides, Orestes is pursued by the Furies for the murder of his mother, Clytemnestra. The Furies in question are Tisiphone (“avenging murder”), Megaera (“grudging”), and...oh yeah...Alecto (“unceasing”).

To give Orestes a respite, the god Apollo puts the Furies to sleep, but they are woken by the ghost of Clytemnestra.

Now usually when ghosts turn up in ancient Greek plays/poems/etc it's to complain about not having been buried properly. Clytemnestra turns up asking for vengeance. (The Furies then track Orestes by the scent of his mother's blood on him, and then it all goes a bit Judge Judy with the goddess Athena, but that's getting past Clytemnestra...)

Anyway, Clytemnestra's ghost turns up and says to the Furies: "Sleep on! Aha! Yet what need is there of sleepers?"

So apparently the River bubble is just niche ancient Greek ghost references all the way down...

[dorkfruit]

asked for requests of underrated characters in the locked tomb fandom. so here's the sketch page i did! oh and a babs for someone who asked for him didn't know anything about these guys so i had to look them up and found ... not much ! who wouldve thought that when i asked for underappreciated characters i would find nothing to reference LOL

[wvelyn]

Milf. Would.

[jbm04]

Makes me wonder:

[midnightcrows]

The Sleeper whipped her baton into the side of Nonius's face, sending him staggering, and followed up with a vicious knife thrust to his belly; he turned it with the thick part of his blade, but awkwardly, and the Sleeper managed to knee him in the flank and score the knife's point down his sword arm for good measure before he shoved her away and fell into guard.

[annabethwarriorprincess]

*smh* I dont know how Anyone took Wake seriously with this business card.

[mysterious-secret-garden]

Dante Gabriel Rossetti - The sleeper, 1846-7.

[localburntoutkid]

Aru Shah

aHem. I've seen a lot of diwali posts for aru Shah and istg all of them are so good????? This fandom slays fr. I've been in the fandom for more than two years and love it a lot because I myself am an Indian.

Anyway the actual post is,

Think about aru with a fear of lighting lamps on diwali. She knows its not dangerous. She knows sleeper isnt trapped in there but every time the festival of lights come by, she's the only who stands back while her sisters, Aiden and her mother run around lighting lamps. She stands back and looks because she feels like if she tries she might ruin everything again. Still, Aiden pulls her to light a lamp, and they both do so holding hands.

"Happy Diwali, Shah."

Think about it

[nose-coffee]

undoubtedly someone's made a post abt this before, but at work today i was thinking about this

[squints at him] what do you know?? what do you know, ortus????

[derseprinceoftbd]

Wait just a minute

Gideon hasn't been mentioned, and some stuff isn't 100% lining up: Judith(?) and Corona were said to be alive in Gideon's Epilogue, but haven't been shown as such really.

...is it possible that the sleeper is Cytherea, and Ortus is the one in Harrowhark, and Harrow has *entirely* been the Ortus timeline?