#lore ref

[helloitsmadamehyde]

y'all ever think about how Variel the Flayer is the youngest guy in First Claw by like 10,000 years?

How, yes, he's a space marine and they're sort of interchangeable parts, but he's SO CULTURALLY DIFFERENT from the first generation he'd kind of find them unrecognizable.

Like, the old guard were raised on the secular imperial truth, human ascendancy, yadda yadda. Nostramo existed for them, their primarch fought with them, the Great Crusade was REAL for them, not just stories handed down.

Meanwhile Variel would have been raised on M41's "the God-Emperor of Mankind" shit before becoming a space marine. He calls killing his battle-brothers "giving them the emperor's peace" the first time we meet him, even though he's a heretic marine. Little Variel probably grew up going to mass with his family, even if he doesn't remember it, and especially if he underwent the trials to become an Aspirant.

Not to mention, Talos spends his whole life trying to live up to Konrad Curze's ideals and Variel doesn't even know who his primarch *is*, nor does he care.

That culture shock is FASCINATING and I wish we saw more of it.

also I realized, the Night Lords books from Variel's perspective is just:

talos/mercutian/etc: pointer dog like fixation on the horus heresy and konrad curze

Variel, who was not even born: what on TERRA are you boomers going on about?

[monsterblogging]

Wanna really get to know Pacific Rim's lore?

An incredible amount of worldbuilding was developed for the first film - but only a small amount made it into the actual movie! I've scoured every source of Pacific Lore information I could find to create thorough writeups on its lore. Also, I've put together a chronology of events over here.

[acerace]

Was not expecting lore on this mcc practice stream and yet

"Noxite, sort your game out lad"- Joel

"don't anger the god"- Scott

"he can smite us- it doesn't matter if we're in a separate world, he can smite us!"- Grian

[reversedreamtale]

Lore the Skeleton Ref

here is a ref for Lore for anyone that cares

[cubitomads]

Last thing i saw before going to bed was fit preparing roses and chocolates for pac and now i wake up to Richas apparently killing tubbo????? And there's a God like being named Creation or something?!!??!?! Help?!?!?

[icesprites-blog]

Some thoughts on my clan’s lore (so far):

We’re called Clan Glacial Runes (which is the made-up name of the location right between the Southern Icefield and Starfall Isles, which is where this clan resides)

Khione is the leader because she’s an ice clan princess (which isn’t anywhere as rare and elite as it sounds, there’s actually quite a lot of ice clan royalty. Any Wildclaw or Coatl with triple sky or ice crystal/butterfly/glimmer is ice clan royalty in their own right.)

Since Khione was born during the Crystalline Gala, she’s considered even more “blessed by the Icewarden” among other ice clan dragons. However, Khione left her home in The Fortress Ends to set out to the northern ice planes just beneath the Starfall Isles. Her clan inhabits the Glacial Runes (the intersection between the Frigid Floes and the Crystalspine Reaches), so there is a good relationship between ice and arcane dragons.

Glacial Runes combines sorcerer and scientist dragons alike, and aims to study/understand the magical properties of ice. It’s sort of a unique culture where no one is “purely” sorcerer or scientist in their own right, but rather that all members exercise knowledge and skill fluidly across both domains. 

Hestia, a fire ridgeback, joined the clan to be a mentor to Khione. No one expected that a fire dragon would be interested in the magical properties of ice, but Hestia wanted a chance to give back to the ice clan after a native Tundra saved her life in battle. Since joining, she has become an ambassador to the fire clan. 

Glacial Runes is currently not on good terms with the light clan, due to Eridanus (a light skydancer) being a member. Eridanus was known for creating ridiculous contraptions and technology which went against the nature of the scholarly and disciplined light clan. Although the ice clan tends to promote conventionality over creativity, Eridanus found his place in Glacial Runes after impressing Khione with his experiments and inventions. 

The clan’s main members are: Khione (leader), Andoria (Khione’s husband), Laer (their son), Siel (Khione’s biological aunt), Vokaya (Siel’s husband), Zima (the head of excursions), Azurita (Khione’s protege), Aquarius, Eridanus, Shran, Talas, Nerites, Amphitrite, Aegaeon, Jadzia, Andromeda, Hestia, and Zul. Everyone else who lives with them is a member of Glacial Runes, but plays a citizen role rather than a community leader role. 

[fr-lutielle-archive]

@roibenrising lord above i just went through the posts in your imperial eleven tag and this is. properly breathtaking. you've done a beautiful job.

[fr-lutielle-archive]

a hc, because it makes it much easier for the location i want the kingdom to be in to exist and makes pirate lore easier to deal with:

wind is larger than it appears on the map and protrudes more into the ocean, more peninsula-like than it looks, and curves very slightly toward arcane (to make the bay bigger, aka battle for the bay). the twisting crescendo is therefore much closer to and surrounded by more seawater, making the waters around it very dangerous to navigate. it’s part of why the bay is so essential - it’s oddly calm for being so close to the storm, and serves as a rest stop for ships seeking to enter the sea of a thousand currents.

there’s also a fairly wide sea channel between the reedcleft ascent and plague/arcane territory to make it easier for ships to pass through. being so close to the cliffs, it’s still very dangerous, just a little less so than trying to fit a full-sized vessel between the pillars of the ascent.

nature is about as far from the continent as long island is from the u.s. mainland. the southern icefield, on the other hand, is significantly further out; it’s only really visible from the mainland on very clear days from a high vantage point. the sea between is large enough to support a number of fairly large islands.