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[o3-sso]

the criollos

new honsies with my baby

[feliciawolfpaw]

SSO Promptober 2024 ↪ day nine, carrot

[lukas-crowsong]

i was inspired by @natduskfall, so i sketched up a VERY rough, from-memory Silverglade Village. i wanted to capture a small, close-knit farming community sprawling over the surrounding hillside, the castle the main feature of the landscape with a cheery village nestled at its feet

[earthyleo]

Sometimes im just doing random chores around the house and I naturally hum the old sso soundtrack, but it has been years since i haven't heard it. Yesterday I decided to listen to the entire old sso soundtrack playlist and oh boy... the silverglade theme were always my favorite, i almost cried when I heard it again, it's so whimsical and beautiful.

I literally don't care about the discussions around SSO nowadays ("the game is dying", "it lost its magic", "its cashgrab", you guys know the drill), but you just gotta be dead inside if you listen to this soundtrack and don't feel anything about it.

[greydewcoast]

[salty-medley]

SSO - Fort Maria paintings

This library contains a lot of rather interesting paintings, most of them sadly only related to the druids, but for a part of them, few details are a bit intriguing:

The "roman" temple

Why would we find roman ruins in an island which is on the north of the Baltic Sea ? I guess most people don't think about it but it was my main reaction when I saw it in Epona. Now... That painting could give the start of an explanation: if you look at the ambiance and the light, you'll see it's not in earth anymore, it's in the in-between worlds path. And it's a portal. Maybe a portal to travel on either another world ( roman themed one ?) or on another country, like the Roman empire.

2. The harbour

This one looks rather normal, you can think about Cape West or Fort Pinta... Which one by the way ? There's not the colors of Golden, nor the statue of Fort Pinta, and certainly not the fortifications of the last one, and we know that it was fortified since the start, and the boats are more modern, something you can find in the 50s/60s. So where could it be ? Well, it still can be Cape West if we consider that the permanant autumn weather is related to the witches, but it can also be another sea side city in Jorvik, something on the closed part of the map.

3. The castle

One of the most interesting ones, if not the most. Keep in mind that I don't change the orientation of the screenshot, it's the right side. It looks like Silverglade castle, but... There's like a lake and mountains, full of snow, behind it. But the painting represents spring, there's a blossoming tree here. So... Where it is ? Could it be the lands eras before ?

4. In the sky

It's clearly not an unknown place. Do you remember the cloud event with Mica ? That strange castle silhouette you can see in the clouds ? Well, you have it with more details. We can see something like a plaza and stairs to a higher place, some columns and some trees made of clouds. There's also several winged horses ( why not pegasi ? Because Pegasus is a name, not a specie. Winged horse is a way better term) and one single human girl, probably Aideen or one of her incarnations. I though that it could be a cloud civilization BUT the magic side of the Wildwoods made me think about MPL and I think it's one of their main inspiration, so why not wild winged speaking horses ? It's dumb and childish, right in their current line.

The only question would be: why stairs when they can fly ? Eh... That one is a real mystery.

5. Mystical valley

You will say "Oh but it's a wild forest like in the Wildwoods, it's here ?" Well, since when there's palm trees in Wildwoods ? When you look more at it, the whole light make it feel warmer than the Jorwegian islands, something almost tropical. And... Is it a dinosaur like creature in the water ? Could it be what was the valley of the dinosaur before ? No, there's a south american pyramid on the right side, and a giant head. Plus, you can see some openings in the cliff, like if they were living in it, despite the small waterfalls. But you still can see a horse like creature and the soul riders runes... Very weird mix, making me think that Jorvik and its present location could just be our world's version. If you heard about the String theory, it's based on it. I have a very hard time to conceive Jorvik having both roman and pre-columbian ruins at the same time while being located near Iceland. You'll excuse me people, but having several dimensions looks more logical at that point.

6. The storm

I can't say if it's earth or not, but these rocks are really unique and threatening at the same time. Kinda looks like petrified waves, no?

7. Druidic stone

Another strange forest painting... This one has horses and a druidic stone on it, so I assume it's Jorvik. Once again, it gives a more warm feeling, it doesn't look like it's in the north of Europe at all. There's something prehistorical, I can explain why.

8. Ruins

That one intrigues me like A LOT ! These ruins looks like medieval ones, something from the early medieval era. But why are they that destroyed ? The whole place is unknown to me, I can't figure where it is, and what is the era of the painting.

[lisasprideflag]

CONGRATULATIONS BABYGIRL IM SO EXCITED FOR HER

[lildoesheknows]

Silverglade at night