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[tabloidweather]

18 July 2023

"FERRYMAN OF THE UNDERWORLD" BRINGS NEARLY 50 DEGREE HEAT TO EUROPE

It's so hot, it's mythological!

[mvaljean525]

"O thou hero, Ilmarinen, Never, never be discouraged: In thy furnace, forge an eagle, From the fire of ancient magic; He will catch the pike of Mana, Catch the monster-fish in safety, From the death-stream of Tuoni, From Manala's fatal waters."

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The Kalevala - Rune XIX - Excerpt

Elias Lönnrot  1802-1884

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Graphic - Akseli Gallen-Kallela  1865-1931

[moonloredraws]

I saw your new classifications of elves while scrolling your blog and the Sea Elves tho 👀👀👀 you're doing gods work 😩👌

I’m quite proud of the Sea Elves myself too! In Manala’s canon, they’re the descendants of Eladrin and Triton interbreeding and have created a new race of elf-adjacent beings (since elven blood is generally crazy strong) though with a few additions. Sea elves can be of any colour that fish come in, including super bright tropical colours! They have scales, gills and fins on their ears. 

This is Maralyss, a Sea elf Paladin NPC that is going along with the Squishiest members of the Elysium party! She’s one of Elerath’s kids. Her skin is varying shades of grey but she has scales of gold and silver, and blue fins. She’s not as buff as the Sea Elf lady in the lineup (Chelle) but she’s buff enough!!The other elf adjacent beings are the Wood Elves, who came from Eladrin and Amali (basically a kemonomimi race, because I’m a weeb) breeding together. Sea and Wood elves are not considered “True” Elves, but fall into the Elf category anyway, as they share a lot of elven culture but also end up widely different in how they act. Such as not really getting crazy bloodlust when on “The Hunt”. 

[cantrollthatperfect20]

Just a whole bunch of maps from various campaigns I’ve run in Manala! The first is the world map, the second is Chezhett, where the party for Elysium is. The third is in the border between Reuxverte, Vozari and Auldloren, when my Eden party is at, and the fourth is for a campaign that I’ve since scrapped. The second and fourth maps have cracks in the landscape, because the cataclysmic Final Calamity left many cracks on the surface of the world.

The first map is hand drawn, the other 3 are made with Inkarnate!

[burlveneer-music]

Rent Romus, Heikki Koskinen, Life's Blood Ensemble - Manala - a big band journey through the underworld of the Finnish Kalevala saga (Edgetone Records)

Manala is the metaphysical realm of the Finnish underworld referenced throughout Dr. Elias Lönnrot’s collection of traditional oral songs(runot) published as poetry in the Kalevala. It is both a metaphor and reflection of a world view and cosmic order that inspires an inherent feeling of mystery throughout the texts of this tradition. It is a place where knowledge and song successfully emerge from dark waters to aid in the world of the living. This is the second iteration in a series which began in 2014 with the Otherworld Cycle (Edgetone Records EDT4161) as a cultural research project into Romus’ Finnish heritage. Manala is a joint musical project built upon a thematic framework featuring compositions by Rent Romus and Heikki Koskinen using elements of Finnish pentameter rhythmic folk music intertwined with melodic themes as well as graphic and improvisational components expressed in American Jazz. In addition to Finnish mythology Romus expanded his research related to lore connected through the Uralic cultural language chain from the Baltic shores of the Livonian Coast the to the Northeast Arctic of Siberia and the Northern Sápmi (Sami). Rent Romus - alto & soprano saxophones, flutes, kantele, bells Heikki "Mike" Koskinen - e-trumpet, tenor recorder, kantele Joshua Marshall - tenor & soprano saxophones, flute Gabby Fluke-Mogul - violin Tom Weeks - baritone & alto saxophones David Samas - voice, han, prepared frame drum, song stones, cocoa pod, bells, waterphone, animal calls, Aztec death whistle, water Cheryl E. Leonard - Spiny, Baby Driftwood Pipe Organ Limpet Shell Spine, bowl of sand, stone slabs, clam shells mussel shells, mobiles: (driftwood, obsidian needles, petrified wood, crab claws, shells) feathers, fish vertebrae, Japanese bowl gongs Mark Clifford - vibraphone Safa Shokrai - double bass Max Judelson - double bass Timothy Orr - drums, percussion

[captainskells]

my mother could be a harsh woman; We didn’t always see eye to eye, but when her hands were on my hair... there were never softer hands, despite the scars that they carried. She loved me. Oh, how she loved me.

What I've learnt from a soldier, every man is a son to a daughter and we only remember when we see the blood

credits: . . .

[antoined94-blog]

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[mandalamania]