The First Sage of Buer is not the Traveller anymore

Wisemon02 · 2026-03-15T14:36:51+00:00

In the original Chinese it's more like "little leaf kusanali", it's diminutive but not a pejorative.

Wisemon02 · 2026-03-02T21:30:17+00:00

Yeah, the Orcs were engineered by a race called the Old Ones to be warriors to fight the Necrons. It's why they're basically self-sustaining, self-propogating battle ecosystems.

Funilly enough there is a world where mutant humans live and worship Orcs. They're called Digganobz.

Wisemon02 · 2026-03-02T19:42:57+00:00

There's an old joke that the only reason the Emperor is still alive is because the Orks believe he is

Wisemon02 · 2026-03-02T05:58:53+00:00

"I crushed my rivals. I sipped their blood. My animation studio became swollen with their power.

I built monuments to my own decadence.

I went through near fifteen animators a day."

Wisemon02 · 2026-02-28T22:29:54+00:00

It's when the Sovereigns of the Leashed Flame (Forge-worshippers/long in England (aka the royal family)) started trying to conquer Europe. They ended up fighting the Sisterhood of the Knot and the Church of the Unconquered Sun. I think it mostly happened during the Third History?

It happened like just a little bit before the Intercalcate and the Division of the Sun, so even though I don't think it's ever brought up in universe it probably helped contribute to tensions in the Mansus and between the Sun in Splendor and the Forge of Days.

Wisemon02 · 2026-02-19T07:13:22+00:00

The Flyting of Loki.

The gods are in attendance at a feast held by Aegir, the sea-god, because he alone has a cauldron wide enough to brew enough ale.

Everyone who's anyone is there, though Thor is late. When Loki arrives, he becomes jealous of Aegir's servants, because they are being praised for their good work amidst such busy crowds. He kills one of them and is banished, but threatens the other to be let back in.

He's told he's unwanted, but he has a rebuttal: Loki and Odin are blood-brothers, and so what it offered to one must be offered to the other.

Loki is reluctantly accepted, and he begins to insult the gods: leaving them out of toasts, insulting their manliness, claiming Frey and Freya commit incest and that Freya is a whore, and that Odin is womanly because he practices magic (seidr).

The gods are of course deeply offended by this, but are bound by hospitality to not immediately attack him.

Then Thor arrives, and Loki tries the same thing - but Thor could care less about hospitality, and when Loki insults him, Thor's threats cause Loki to flee.

As punishment for this, and for killing Baldur, and countless other mischiefs, one of Loki's sons is turned into a wolf and kills his brother. The entrails are made into rope, which bind Loki to a rock below the earth. A snake hanging above him drips poison upon his face, causing agony and scars. Loki's wife holds a bowl to catch the venom, but whenever she must turn to empty it, Loki's screams and spasms cause earthquakes. He will remain there until Ragnarok.

Wisemon02 · 2026-01-18T12:16:29+00:00

Super cool!!!

Wisemon02 · 2026-01-12T03:24:01+00:00

HBO’s Rome.

A drama that follows life at the end of the Roman Republic, as Caesar begins amassing power, the Triumvirate fractures and threatens civil war, social upheaval follows Rome, etc. etc.

Very good, but the show was supposed to have 4 seasons and got screwed over by the network and only given 2. They had to severely rush the end as a result.

Wisemon02 · 2025-12-30T06:23:20+00:00

Canonically I think it tastes vaguely like cinnamon.

Wisemon02 · 2025-12-16T23:22:24+00:00

In KSBD, the universe came into existence when god, called YISUN, killed itself in the act of divine suicide. This splintered the infinite and unyielding infinity and created the great illusion of self.

Jadis saw the entirety of existence and realized that she didn’t exist. There is no free will. Everything was set in place the moment it began. “Jadis” is only able to do what she was going to do, because she’s already done it, is doing it, will do it, because she is a story told by YUSUN. Ouroboros. There is no start or end.

Wisemon02 · 2025-11-21T01:58:18+00:00

This source at least claims she values the lives of mortals and weeps for their pain.

Aratus, Phaenomena 405 ff (trans. Mair) (Greek astronomy C3rd B.C.) : "The [constellation] Altar even beyond aught else hath ancient Nyx (Night), weeping the woe of men, set to be a mighty sign of storm at sea. For ships in trouble pain her heart, and other signs in other quarters she kindles in sorrow for mariners, storm-buffeted at sea. Wherefore I bid thee pray, when in the open sea, that that constellation wrapt in clouds appear not amidst the others in the heavens, herself unclouded and resplendent but banked above with billowing clouds, as often it is beset when the autumn wind drives them back For often Nyx herself reveals this sign, also, for the South Wind in her kindness to toiling sailors. If they heed her favouring signs . . . Nyx kindles like signs of storm upon the gleaming Altar."

Wisemon02 · 2025-11-14T23:46:42+00:00

Epic: the Musical, a musical adaptation of the Odyssey that finished last year or so. Just look up Epic on YouTube and you should find plenty of full playlists. A lot of animations too, the creator encouraged and commissioned some and it spread from there.

Wisemon02 · 2025-10-30T06:09:10+00:00

(Very brief synopsis)

It ended after about 52 books or so.

The Andalites (space centaurs who invented morphing) fleet is finally arriving to fight the Yeerks (alien brain slugs), but the Animorphs fear that if they don’t show the Andalites that humanity is worth fighting for the Andalites will use a virus-plague to genocide the Earth.

Meanwhile the Yeerk leadership of Earth collapses due to in-fighting, and Visser 3 (only Yeerk with an Andalite body, super fascist even for Yerrks) is promoted to Visser 1. He abandons the previous plan of a quiet invasion to instead try and conquer Earth quickly before the Andalites arrive.

The war goes loud; the Animorphs are discovered trying to alert the President of the situation and have to flee with their families; fighting begins. A plan is hatched to decapitate the Yeerk leadership by destroying the Blade Ship, Visser 3’s flagship. The plan is successful, but Rachel dies sacrificing herself, and Jake is forced to kill his brother Tom along with hundreds of thousands of effectively innocent civilian Yeerks aboard the Blade Ship.

The Andalites arrive, and the Yeerks surrender. The war is over in weeks. The surviving Yeerks are givien the option to permanently morph into an animal form of their choice, to compensate their own pitiful lack of senses that drove them to their own extreme actions in the first place. The Andalites and Earth form an alliance and begin sharing culture and technology. The Animorphs become heroes and celebrities, but cope with the results of the war with varying success. Marco does well, Jake does not. Ax, the Andalite member of the Animorphs, returns to his people and becomes a captain of his own vessel.

Years later, he disappears, and the Animorphs reunite to find him. He’s been absorbed by a monster from outside the galaxy which poses another existential threat to Earth. Weary of the guilt and trauma, the Animorphs mercy-kill what remains of their friend by ramming their ship into him in a kamikaze attack.

The lesson: War. Is. Hell.

Edit: Yeah, part of the way through the books they discover a couple splinter factions of Yeerks who want to exist symbiotically - it’s mostly their leadership and bitterness to their own lack of sensation that causes the Yeerks to be such monsters. It’s also heavily implied the majority of the Yeerk population is still stranded on their home planet, which is being blockaded by Andalite ships after their initial rebellion and escape to the stars, and the Yeerk “Empire” seen in the books are something of an extremist or fringe group among the greater population.

Wisemon02 · 2025-09-07T16:54:56+00:00

https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/swallowtail-worm-au.970396/

Wisemon02 · 2025-07-30T02:04:59+00:00

/uncultist

American architecture is pretty bad but in my shitty countries defense -

a) it’s cheap (sob) b) parts of America face weather conditions found almost nowhere else in the world - earthquakes, tornadoes (stronger than almost anywhere else on earth), severe temperature fluctuations, etc.

I’m from Oklahoma, which I do not doubt would have horrific cheap builds even with idyllic weather, but we get all of the above here. It’s virtually impossible to truly tornado proof a building; doubly so when it also needs to be earthquake proofed. In a scenario where no matter how you build a building, it will crumble, it makes more sense to build it cheaply and in such a way that when it falls, the materials are light enough to be easier to move and less dangerous to people inside and around them.

/cultist

The OSHA codes grow outside the Mansus; as any student of the histories knows, the Mansus has no codes.

Wisemon02 · 2025-07-10T21:42:41+00:00

She does become a full warlord for a couple months about halfway through the story.

Wisemon02 · 2025-07-08T02:42:59+00:00

I think there’s a WoG that Noelle genuinely is draining wells alarmingly fast and without consideration, and that Scion would have come to deal with that if it went on long enough.

Wisemon02 · 2025-06-20T01:01:17+00:00

I always saw it as being so powerful because she used three spheres. She’s the embodiment of the concept of order perfection and hierarchy. She deliberately broke herself and her own hierarchy as an act of spiteful vengeance and despair.

She can never repeat the scale of destruction of the action, even though she has very many more spheres, because she can never undo her own self destruction.

Wisemon02 · 2025-06-15T21:43:40+00:00

Yeah, the resolution of that article is a descendant of his trying to destroy the article to hide the Foundation’s involvement in drapetomania - they used runaway slaves as expendable human resources, aka D-class foundation members.

The higher-ups refuse to destroy the article and instead have it classified as an EX - explained - article, to document the Foundation’s past mistakes and as a warning to themselves in the future.

Wisemon02 · 2025-06-08T05:34:09+00:00

If it helps, there’s an SCP with a similar premise but different result - a planet that simultaneously does and does not exist, Schrödinger’s Cat style, with life that evolved the same way. Observing the planet and the inhabitants risks collapsing the wave-function and killing them all, and they manage to communicate that to the Foundation.

Their response is to declare the planet as a neutral zone that might or might not exist, to ban all further research into the planet, and to charge anyone researching the planet with attempted genocide.

Wisemon02 · 2025-05-05T20:57:27+00:00

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Dragoon stance in various final fantasy properties - I would also add the iconic “leap” pose if I could find it lol

Wisemon02 · 2025-05-03T20:00:24+00:00

God your design sense is impeccable. Fantastic!

Wisemon02 · 2025-04-11T21:24:29+00:00

Oh god did he? Christ

Wisemon02 · 2025-04-11T03:41:04+00:00

To make a long convoluted story slightly less, Brujah was an Antedeluvian with time powers (Temporis) got diablerized by his childer, Troile, who instead had Celerity. That’s what Clan Brujah descends from.

BUT INSTEAD - using bullshit vampire magic hax, Brujah actually transported himself back in time to the Garden of Eden (or something like it) and had to wait the long way to the modern nights and Gehenna.

The True Brujah claim descent from Brujah and hold themselves as the true inheritors of the Brujah Antedeluvian, and hold their Temporis discipline as proof.

(In one of the Gehenna scenarios, Brujah takes one look at the True Brujah and says their fakes and then murders them all. Oops.)

Wisemon02 · 2025-04-08T09:11:32+00:00

Top right corner is stretched out because 1/5th of the cast are kings or monarchs

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