#aph etruria

[septimusseptimius]

Some of my most recent Ancientalia art I'm still proud of (this account is still mostly dead, sorry..)

Guess who's hardcore hyperfixated on Pre-Roman Italy and the Bronze Age 😅

[tyrrhenoi]

Corsica (Ancient Alalia) is the son of Etruria and Carthage (never ask him how. It's a sensitive subject for him). He was born in the 7th century BC, and his parents, unlike his siblings, took him on their adventures throughout the Mediterranean. As a result, he made many friends across the continent, like Murcia! (a future protégé of Carthage).

For centuries, Corsica thought Murcia must be some kind of god who spat out bronze coins as gifts for his most devoted followers. A couple of centuries later, already under Roman rule, Florence told him the truth about Murcia: that he wasn't a god of metals who spat out coins, but a bronze-addicted gambler like any other. Corsica spent a week crying in his room after that. It was the equivalent of finding out who Santa Claus is. Nevertheless, they have maintained their friendship and remain good friends today.

On the other hand, after romances with human women (and some nations) throughout the Italian peninsula, Etruria met his last lover: Carthage. He was one of his favorite lovers, only behind his first wife, Alba Silvia. Together they conquered Corsica, established new trade routes and conquered territories belonging to Ancient Greece. Shortly after seizing these Greek territories, Romulus (Rome) killed him and took his culture, children and territories, which he molded to his liking. Hence, a devastated Carthage, driven by the loss of his lover, decided to start the Second Punic War, but we'll discuss that in another post.

Aph Murcia oc: @lamichicuenta

Body reference: @albanenechi

[monaluisa]

Getting emotional about Romulus and Mamarce right now. One thousand years could not have washed the traces of one from the other. If Mamarce was wounded, the blood that pooled beneath him would be Romulus’, and if Romulus was struck blind, so too would Mamarce’s world grow dark and dim. The gods created Mamarce so that he might be destroyed. And they, in their heartlessness, had forced him to love above all others the one who would destroy him. Romulus would carry the corpse for hours, and bear the burden for eternity. Mamarce imagined that he was forgotten, a shade on the banks of the Styx, an effigy of himself eaten by moss and time in a fading tomb, a name and nothing more in an account of the nations, some obscure person over whom Romulus’ triumph was inevitable. Time grew short, and the heavens small, and immortality a fruitless and impotent thing, and in the land of the dead, Mamarce lowered his hand, and drew a veil over his face, and became nothing more than an effigy on a sarcophagus once again. Crawl, child, into this tomb of the wolves, and let the ages--

[twrambling]

etruria fandom how we feeling about the constant killing of your elders in the "Italian" family

(Rome killing Etruscan culture,

Romano killing Roman paganism,

Venice helping turkey kill Byzantine,

any and all fights between Romano and Veneziano)

[peonycats]

Ancients Chibis!

from top to bottom, left to right:

Illyria, Iberia (+bby Port), Etruria (more accurately, Tarquinia), Dacia

Thrace, Numidia (more accurately, Masaesyli), Persia/Iran, Gaul

Pontus, Kush, Judea, Ancient Libya

Obligatory disclaimer that Illyria, Iberia, Dacia, Thrace, Gaul, and Ancient Libya had other personifications due to the number of diverse tribes inhabiting these regions they’re just standing in as overall representatives haha

These are just some cute ancients chibis I’ve been working on! If there’s interest, I might turn them into stickers hehe, but for now I’m pretty satisfied with how these designs turned out, and I definitely want to draw them more later!

[rosesandalfazemas]

How do you see Argentina's family tree?

Nice challenge, Anon! since they're all related it's difficult to spread one clean line. But let's suppose I could and this would be the result.

(I took only references for the tree; Morra for Iberia, Peonycats for Etruria; Kuraudia for Argentina, Charrua and Pampa; Rowein for Uruguay; Bishos for Guarani; Nekichan for Paraguay. Roma, Spain, Portugal and Italies belong to their creators)

Pampa (Argentina's grandpa) and Charrúa (Uruguay's grandpa) are Ancestors OCs I've made for Latin Hetalia

[marraiwa]

[unknownhomosapien]

Made quick art with my Etruria oc, being inspired by music and ancient culture of these country.

His name is Mamarce (Mamerus), he is... older brother/parent (sibling) figure to roman empire and was able to predict as haruspex. Mamerus was close to culture and medicine, despite being a country, but had strength higher than in average warrior.

As person, he more... patient, with cold and silent agression, and distrustful, maybe made only exception to Roman empire. Anyway, most of knowledge was lost after his death, and it was right thing to do. Maybe he was only one country, who decided to leave and fade as his own choice, refusing to get more power like Rome, because predicted dead end of this path.

Some inspirations for this art: