Shackled Sun

A twine game and aesthetic blog for a Dark Souls fan setting.

[ducissatenebrarum]

"Weeping Woman" Sculpture by Nikolaus Geiger.

In the cemetery of the Old St. Matthew's Church, Berlin.

[nn-ee-zz]

Angel designs based on cursed emoji mashups

[fateoftheundead]

Grant us eyes

[armthearmour]

A half-armor of a Papal Guardsman, Brescia, Italy, ca. 1590, housed at the Museo Stibberto.

[abyssal-plains]

[genterie]

[did-you-know]

The Temple of Quechula was built in 1564 and abandoned in the 1700s because of a plague.

Source

[jonlybonlyfromboldlygo]

plague church emerges from the water.  totally cool.  normal.  not an ill omen or harbinger of doom at all.  happens ever y day

[historyfilia-deactivated2025061]

Dolphin frieze from the Mycenaean citadel of Gla (1600–1100 BC ). Now in the Archaeological Museum of Thebes

[art-of-eons]

The Butcher by Geliy Korzhev, 1990.

[weirdlandtv]

Russian painter, Geliy Korzhev (1925-2012).

[magictransistor]

The Alchemist who has Achieved Illumination. Zoroaster Clavis Artis, MS Verginelli-Rota. 1737.

[unexplained-events]

Stygiomedusa Gigantea

For the first time ever, stygiomedusa gigantea, a gigantic jellyfish was caught on video by scientists in the Gulf of Mexico. There have only been 115 sightings of this deep sea jellyfish in the past 110 years.

[allthepowersofhell]

What a babe

[prettyskeletons]

[sictransitgloriamvndi]

Paolo Girardi 

[rauschvoi]

[helenmilesmosaics]

These ancient mosaic fragments,  slightly submerged in the sea, can be found on a deserted stretch of minor road on the East coast of the Greek mainland, untended, unsignposted, unnoticed. 

[historyfilia-deactivated2025061]

Ruins of a Byzantine Basilica in Apollonia, Lybia

[ejacurate]

got my film developed from my holiday in the Amalfi Coast in Italy 🇮🇹