A beautiful half armour in Pisan style with important burgonet.
North Italy, about 1580.
Ph: Czerny's.
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A beautiful half armour in Pisan style with important burgonet.
North Italy, about 1580.
Ph: Czerny's.
👨‍🎨 Pierre Paul Rubens.
đź–Ľ Study of the equipment of a knight and his horse at the time of Maximilian I (early 16th century) around 1600.
🏛 British Museum London.
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Domenico Negroli.
Milan 1496-1500.
🏛Royal Armoury of Madrid.
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concept: a death god that is actually surprisingly supportive and on the side of the good guys, supporting actions and promoting policies that will lead to the kingdom growing and thriving instead of being destroyed, because the more the kingdom grows, the more people there are, and the more people there are the more people will eventually die, and when you’re an immortal god of death, you know there’s no need to rush. you’ll get them all in the end
i like how the responses on this post are cleanly split between “hey this is a great story idea i love it” and “this is absolutely terrifying”
Yes. A Death that is kind, and patient, and inevitable.
A Death that need not fight against you, that will often fight for you, because why not? It will gather you home eventually. Why not enjoy you first?
A Death that treasures those who fight it most ardently. That loves healers and defenders and survivalists and necromancers and mad scientists and immortal gods. That lets them pour everything they are into fighting it, denying it, adoring every desperate scrap of strength and will and brilliance and raw determination poured out against it. That catches you when your strength is done and all your will and brilliance run out, that gathers you close beneath a warm, dark cloak, and whispers well done, oh child, you were magnificent, well done.
A Death who will not seek to hasten an inevitable end, who will chastise those who seek to hasten it for others in Death’s stead, who will slowly and patiently plot and sow and siphon away from the great monsters of the world. Because who are they to hasten Death’s domain, who are they to deny Death its time and its place, who are they to cut short these vital glories that illuminate it so? Who are they to presume upon its will, that is so much larger and so much longer than theirs?
Who are they to call, and presume that Death, of all beings, should obey?
A Death that is not a hunter but a gatherer, who is always and eternal, who loves you, and can afford to wait. A Death who will fight for you and defend you, who will place its hand upon those who would speed you to its embrace, who has no need to rush you, only to greet you when you call.
A Death who is kind.
And patient.
And, before all and above all,
inevitable.
Source.
An interesting helmet of scales, Ottoman Turkish, ca. 16th century, housed at the Royal Armouries Study Collection.
Italian cinquedea, mid 15th century.
from The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
Gold decorated sword from the armory of the Princes von Liechtenstein, circa 1580.
from Peter Finer
Lamellar armor for horse and rider, Mongolian, ca. 17th century, housed at the Royal Armouries Oriental Gallery in Leeds.
A beautiful Oakeshott XVa Longsword, Denmark or Germany, ca. 1470-1500, housed at the Musée de l'Armée.
A Moorish “Boabdil” Sword, Granada, Spain, ca. late 15th century, housed at the Musée de l'Armée.
A fantastically decorated Sabre, Swiss, ca. 1604, housed at Castle Veste Coburg.
Shown by Pursuing the Knightly Arts in their video at Castle Veste Coburg.
A fantastically decorated Sallet, attributed to the workshop of the Negroli family, Milan, Italy, ca. 1495-1500, housed at the Spanish Royal Armoury.
The Sword of Ceremony of the Catholic Kings of Spain, made in Spain, ca. 1490, housed at the Spanish Royal Armoury.
A Burgonet in the Modo Antiqua style, belonging to Emperor Charles V, attributed to Kolman Helmschmid, Augsburg, Germany, ca. 1530, housed at the Spanish Royal Armoury.
was messing with some fake tweet makers and the idea that dick just uses twitter to compliment and flirt with himself hit me and i couldn’t stop til i made it.
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