#dark fact

[90sfantasyanimestuff]

Ys novel cover

[matt-at]

Other ys-related sketches and doodles I don't know where to put

[adoroos]

[djohnhopper]

BOY: a taster of the project

BOY: is beginning to take shape. A large but intimate project, with a load of elements, but it's getting there.

https://johnhopperwriter.blogspot.com/

[bimshwel]

The First Steps Toward Worship featuring Adol "Born Again" Christin

[90sfantasyanimestuff]

Ys-themed tabletop games (and one magazine cover) from Japan

Source: https://github.com/weatherspud/japanese-collectors-list

[kristonkwastaken]

”Fun” history fact

The Donner party was a group of families who moved westward to California on April 14, 1846, with the initial party numbering to 31 people, which would change to around 86, with 43 being children. The horrors they experienced and had to endure started when an unreliable guide named Lansford Hastings gave them a shortcut suggestion through the Hastings Cutoff which he claimed would shave more than 300 miles of the journey, despite it being 125 miles longer than the original trail and going through some of the most inhospitable areas in the entire Great Basin. The party set off and endured extreme hardships, with many of their cattle being killed and their personal belongings having to be disposed of, leading to only the bare supplies necessary for survival to be with them. But that was not the worst part. On October 31st, the party started to go through modern day Donner Pass, where their progress was halted by deepening snow. They set up crude cabins near modern day Donner Lake to wait out the winter until they could continue. On November 20, Patrick Breen began to write a diary, which is the only contemporary written record of the Donner party’s ordeal. Through overwhelming hardships from cold, storms, deep snow, and inadequate food, they struggled on. Eight men died due to these conditions, and out of desperation and lack of food, the party started to eat their bison. Once the bison ran out, they unburied and ate the bodies of the men who died. Once those ran out, they started to elect the weakest of the group to eat. This continued until The settlers of California organized a relief party which left Fort Sutter on January 31, 1847, where the Donner party was found and rescued on February 18. They then took 23 of the starving emigrants, including 17 children, back to the settlements; several deaths occurred on the way. Other relief parties followed, but, because of illness and injuries, it was impossible to remove everyone.

The Donner Party became a cautionary tale for any who decided to move west to not take shortcuts.

[cvgz-blog1]

Dark Fact, from Ancient Ys Vanished Omen... Dark Fact is the main antagonist of Ys.  He’s an imposing figure that you only hear about through other villagers until you finally face him at the end of the game.  Ys is another one of those games that I come back to play every year or so.  It was a difficult and mysterious game for me when I was a kid.