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Brass sextant, 1900s

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PERSUASION (2022)

dir. carrie cracknell

Swordtember 2025

7. Clock

Astronomer Priest’s Secret Blade

Once one of the most powerful groups of people in the entirety of the lands, the Astronomers are now a fragmented and dwindling diaspora. In their heyday they controlled vast kingdoms built at the very tops of the impossibly tall mountains in the Southern Lands, a realm they called Sud Ech. From their Mountaintop cities, they built vast Observatory Temples from which they studied and venerated the stars and other astronomical bodies. They controlled massive trade networks and even rivalled the Elves in their understanding and command of magical and technical knowledge.

Their itinerant priests often carried objects that appeared to be fully functional sextants, though at the push of a button, could be transformed into blades, via intricate clockwork mechanisms perfected by their engineers.

These clockwork blades would not save the Astronomer peoples from their downfall however: their entire continent was sunk by the Sea King, Nepatharon during the War of the Sea and now their people are but a shadow of their former greatness.

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Sticker club this month was an absolute blast to work on! These are in the mail now but I always print off a few extra sets each month - if you want them its not too late! You can hop onto the tier with either patreon or kofi and I'll get them in the mail the same day.

The octopus and the mermaid will likely make their way onto the etsy shop as well in a few days here!

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ANGLEFISH, TELESKEYE & ASTROLAZE (Water/Psychic) The stargazing pokemon

This family of fish pokemon have gained psychic powers after spending their whole lives gazing at the stars, basking in their cosmic energy, opening their minds to the powers of the universe. They know the movement of the stars up to hundres of years into the future and navigate around the seas following the star charts imprinted in their mind.

ANGLEFISH (Angelfish/Angle) is based on the juvenile of the Orbicular Batfish (Platax orbicularis) and a Sextant, a navigational instrument used for determining the angle between the horizon and a celestial body such as the Sun, the Moon, or a star, used in celestial navigation to determine latitude and longitude

TELESKEYE (Telescope/Eye/Sky) is based on the Tripod Fish (Bathypterois grallator) and a Nautical Telescope with its tripod

ASTROLAZE (Astrolabe/Gaze) is based on the Stargazers, a family of fish (Uranoscopidae) with eyes on top of their heads and an Astrolabe, an ancient astronomical instrument that was a handheld model of the universe used to help determine the ship's latitude from the height of the Pole Star or of the sun

In ASTROLAZE's back there are 3 markings, these markings actually represent 3 different constellations, this are Pisces (The Fishes), Sextans (The Sextant) and Telescopium (The Telescope), making them references the line inspiration in stars and to its previous forms