#fighting dragons

[quiltofstars]

Fighting Dragons, LBN 552 // Brian Fowler

[wackywasabi09]

Dragon fight! A gradient maps practice

[tixdixl]

Wishmaster's Concert - Band Lore

Wishmaster

Design by @ramshacklerumble

Inspired by the band Nightwish || Recommended Song

From the frigid mountains of Briar Valley, meet our headlining band of fae and otherfolk. Lead guitarist and singer, Cyril Zeman, is known for his darker tones, complimenting his operatic soprano counterpart. Their songs tend to range from absolute bangers with orchestral accompaniment, ballads with rifts and guitar solos, all the way to incredibly deep and profound songs of love and life lost. Their performances are known to go long, but are full of practical effects, moshing, and even full crowd conga-lines. It's even said that sometimes the dead will rise from their graves to mosh alongside the living until dawn sends them off.

UnderDark

Design by @tixdixl

Inspired by the band Wind Rose || Recommended Song

This band of dwarves came out from the caves of the Shaftlands to sing about their forefathers who helped the Poisoned Princess, and their distant cousins from the Isle of Cantrevs who lived alongside the Tylwyth Teg. Their music makes any listener want to grab a pick axe and start digging! Expect glitter bombs and smoke during their live shows.

Pixie Metal

Design by @the-trinket-witch

Inspired by the band Baby Metal || Recommended Song

This band of pixies came out from the Land of Dawning to make you dance and sing. Singing songs of poisoned cakes and dirty, rotten pirates, you better have your glow sticks ready, and you better be ready to clap! After all, fairies stay awake and alive to the sound of rhythmic clapping.

Fighting Dragons

Design by @the-trinket-witch

Inspired by the band DragonForce || Recommended Song

These musicians hail from the Kingdom of Heroes, coming to share tales and ballads of warriors who have slayed dragons of all kinds. The trials of the Boy King and his trusted Wizard Mentor inspire excitement and determination in all who hear. Get ready to headbang and mosh to the shredding and the rifts of Fighting Dragons!

Her Draconic Majesty

Design by @cyanide-latte

Inspired by His Infernal Majesty [HIM] || Recommended Song

This band of fae folk come to the stage from the forests of Briar Valley. In political protest against the wills of the Senate, they mourn the loss of their Dragon Princess. And to combat the decline of belief in dragons across the board, these tales will remain immortalized in the lyrics of their ballads. Expect fire on the stage and swaying smartphone lights in the audience of any of their performances!

Event Post

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[dearvoidgoodnight]

Whenever people talk about the modern knights and dames fighting dragons, they always talk about the actors who've been knighted or damed. But what about the people in other fields who've been honored?

What would Dame Prue Leith and Dame Mary Berry do if faced with dragons? They've got pastry torches. Sir Lewis Hamilton? He must have useful skills. Sir Andy Murray could lob tennis balls at it if nothing else. And there are scientists and all sorts of other brilliant people...this could be amazing.

[hanssloane]

Fighting a Dragon

A man, wearing a short tunic, stands astride the dragon's tail, grips its neck and thrusts a spear into its breast

Bury St Edmunds

From a former monastery

[deadlyflan]

In her debut series, Mei Pieh Chi's (Venus') culture & past were barely explored. The Next Mutation just didn't spend much time establishing her home or her father. Since she loses those so suddenly and so profoundly, it has to have had an enormous impact on her character and her perspective.

In Balance The Scales, my 2012 AU/mashup fic, the post-season-5-ish Turtles have also experienced an incredible loss. Their own father died violently not too long ago. So many of the big adventures that dominated their lives for so long are concluded. An aspect of directionlessness permeates their home.

The parallel losses of their father figures and their way of life will provide an understanding between Venus and the 2012 turtles even through barriers of language and culture.

That's what I'm excited to share: finding, against all odds, family again.

But also, they wreck a whole cargo ship and learn to fight with qi energy and they battle a god-tier dragon, so those are cool, too, I guess. 😉

[maypoleman1]

26th September

Fighting Dragons

Source: Visit North Wales website

On this day in 1499, a black dragon from Keddington Hill, Suffolk, fought a white dragon from Ballingden Hill in Essex. The battle took place near Little Cornard in Suffolk. Despite much fire and fury, their fight was fairly inconclusive with the Essex dragon gaining a slight advantage. The black dragon broke off the contest and both retired to their respective caves. Where this relatively recent myth came from is not too clear, although it may be a symbolic retelling of the Roman defeat by the Iceni army of Boudicca. It also carries echoes of a much older tradition of Celtic dragons. In ancient Britain King Llud’s realm was beset by two dragons, one red and one white. When the battling dragons tired, they fell to earth, exhausted. Llud, skilled in old magic, had the dragons tied up in a silk sheet and buried near the hill fort of Dinas Emrys in Gwynedd.

Many years later, in the fifth century, the semi-mythic British king, Vortigern, was frustrated that the castle he was trying to build at Dinas Emrys kept falling down. He called on the boy-magician Ambrosius Aurelianus for advice, and the lad had the foundations of the castle dug up to reveal the two dragons, still battling furiously. The white dragon appeared to be winning and Ambrosius claimed this beast represented the invading Saxons. Ultimately however the red dragon, whom Ambrosius identified with the Britons, won the fight. In terms of history, Vortigern was said by the monk Gildas to have been defeated by the Saxons but that their advance was halted by the Britons led by the adult Ambrosius. This symbolic myth was later transferred to represent the victory of the Welsh Henry Tudor over the English King Richard III - possibly because the Saxons later overran the whole of Britain apart from Scotland and Wales, thus invalidating Ambrosius’ Dark Age prediction.

[nicholaas-chiao]

Nicholaas Chiao, Study for The Secret Dragons, 2023, mixed media