Vision without execution is a daydream.
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Some bonus notes:
• Time period chosen for this aesthetic is 14-15-th centuries (times of disunity and mass execution) so it is ok that Ro looks so childlike (and also nasty like a garden dwarf. 'Beware of the Ro, everybody!'). I found it useful to refer to the Time flies series of arts from the Ask the Ottomans! blog where the age of Romania and Moldova is shown rather accurately.
• The image of a castle used presents Corvin Castle in Hunedoara, Romania (I thought that Dracula's stronghold has become too overrated). And it's a medieval Romanian fortress, which construction began in the first half of 15-th century. Plus, as it's said, Vlad himself was chillin in here! In prison.
• The nickname of a king Matia Corvin (who, in his turn, was a son of John Hunyadi) means raven, that's why there's back of a black raven up there.
• The image of a well used in this aesthetic is also a reference to the Corvin well, dug in the castle yard, which is more than 30 metres deep. Here is a quick seance of horror storytelling: according to the legend, this well was a product of backbreaking work of three Turkish captives, inspired by a perspective of freedom in case they were able to reach the water. Still, 15 years passed, the mission was completed (slowly but surely...), but the captors did not keep promise, unfortunately, and burried Turks alive (I see nothing abnormal). The only reminder, left by wretched Turkish slaves, is the inscription on a wall of the well: 'You have water, but not soul'. I mean, can it count at least as a chocolate chip in Ro's dark side's cookie?
