andantezen replied to your photoset āGarulf: Enough! Youāre all obsessed with irrelevant nonsense! Now is...ā
love how Garulf won't go down in a sea of troubles but instead recognizes the moving of the tide and decides to ride the wave -- in pop words, go with the flow.
My - often quoted - professor once said about one of those Roman usurpators: āThen of course he collected troops and marched for Rome, which was kinda legitimate to do, because obviously he wanted to stay alive.ā This was a thing that impressed me, and made me understand this everlasting civil-war much better. Once you had entered the game, it was win or die.
andantezen replied to your photo āCecilia: Arenāt you going to say anything? Lavinia: [Why? My claim to...ā
I love it when she shows her nobility not just as a pose but at her core leading her acts... Last sentence is marvelous!
It was always a challenge to find fitting poses for Lavinia! Sheās not, in our modern sense, self-confident, sheās just used to seeing her orders executed, and sheās as hard on herself as on everyone else. The exchange about love was sadly cut in two. I kinda liked the irony that they both see the other as the only one entitled to love. When really they both are the ones closest to each otherās heart.
andantezen replied to your photo āHildric: I ask only one thing of you. Have mercy upon my children. I...ā
would they be equals, in the sense that he is prince to his people and her a princess?
Something like that, yes. Although Laviniaās only de-facto subject at this point is Cecilia. Itās only when she realizes that the Goths are all about to be killed that she fully accepts responsibility for them. Also, her historical inspiration, Galla Placidia is said to have had a personal guard of Visigoths for the rest of her life, long after she returned to Rome.
andantezen replied to your photoset āLavinia: [I tell you a story: A woman gets married to a nobleman....ā
love the scene being played out on the wall... you are very resourceful when it comes to images (and words, of course!!!)
I came to love those houses as a projection-space!
andantezen replied to your photoset āCenturio: The ultimatum is off. Attack. Ulfilas: Theyāre coming!...ā
it's like you warned, it escalates from bad to worse!
:/
andantezen replied to your photoset āLavinia: I am the queen who spreads her shielding cloak over all her...ā
beautiful scenes!
Thank You!
andantezen replied to your photoset āLavinia: You are the four riders on the stormā¦ā
and rereading this, it relates to the 4 riders in the last scene, too...
The four riders are a recurring motive. Itās a story about the end of the world, after all. But I wanted a different take on the subject; so often images of the apocalyptic riders are reduced to drawing a very scary skeleton-horse.
andantezen replied to your photoset āThere will come a time when nothing will be remembered of this Wild...ā
agree with @nornities... And I believe it started as a fade in background image to the scene where Lavinia breaks from the group of women to talk to the Roman soldiers, right?
Yes it does! Thatās why I wanted to call the Story āWild Huntā and nothing else, even if I risked being confused with the videogame of the same title. In the scene with Lavinia walking, my association was hoofbeat=heartbeat. (Sometimes Iād love to have sound-effects).
The horses were also in the fire, directly after the Horses-of-St-Marc scene - and I placed the horse walking by there on purpose :)
Ever since I read about it, it fascinated me that according to folklore, Theoderic (the Ostrogoth king) rode his horse over the cliffs at Ravenna and became the first rider of the ghostly Wild Hunt. Which is a thing in Bavarian/Alpine tradition, where itās much feared. And like Lavinia, I believe this must be a misunderstanding.
andantezen replied to your photoset āRoxas: No way. No way, no, you can mark us all three off as sick but...ā
such a beautiful scene. making me emotional right now.
I felt so sorry for them. I remember thinking, āIf I am putting you through this, it must at least be beautifulā.
andantezen replied to your photoset āGisa: Youāve come. Hildric: Iām so sorry, I should never have let...ā
Rereading this 2 months later, what strikes me now is the sentence "This path we are travelling can only lead to disaster." Seems to me to be the path of mankind on this planet right now :/
Given that I wrote this some time last summer or autumn, the story turned out alarmingly up-to-date by the time I posted it! Maybe weāve reached another of those points in history.
Civilization has been at a point that looked like the end several times by now. (WW2, 30 Years War, Fall of the Roman Empire, to name just a few) The encouraging thing is, that it always got better after that (for a while). But of course it was the end for all those people who died there and then.
Maybe this is why there are so many legends about the post-Roman period. It felt like the world was coming to an end, but new things were already beginning to grow from the ashes.
andantezen replied to your photoset āUlfilas: You two come with me. There are several people fallen ill, we...ā
and indeed, the end of a world as she knew it has come, and she is still here...
Just what I said above... Also this is another motive that seems to be rooted in peopleās imagination. The most notorious example is probably that of the āevery-wandering Jewā (badly abused by the Nazis). But Iāve also read exiled French priests during the Revolution express this feeling that their world was gone and they were condemned to wander.
andantezen replied to your photoset āTheudilas: Grandsire, I have come to inform you that my Lady Mother is...ā
I enjoy getting glimpses into their beliefs.
This is also a thing that fascinates me. Many people think, the legends in Ovidās Metamorphoses were something like the Bible to the Romans, but in fact we know little about their actual everyday beliefs and even less when it comes to non-Roman peoples.
andantezen replied to your photoset āMessenger: The clan of the Darkstags sends their greetings. We left...ā
look at all the details of their lives inside that wagon... it's gorgeous!
Iām quite a little bit proud of this wagon! For one thing, these travelling people in antiquity lived in such cramped spaces - if they really had a wagon like this, it would have been much smaller, and much more crammed with luggage. But for Sims storytelling, a set must have a minimum size to allow for the decor, Sims and camera to fit in. So this was a bit of a compromise. And then of course the fact that it had to travel to several different locations throughout the story!
