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Mosaic Longsword

Half an hour of meditative forging. The blacksmith is very cool, and although the sword looks like it is purely decorative, as far as I understand, it is an absolutely functional weapon.

PS I’ve never seen how gold carving is done before - it turns out it’s not that difficult.

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Leuenmensch

But this is real archaeology, and not the nonsense that we do. A sculpture of a Geart (?), which is about forty thousand years old, was found in 1939 in the Diepenstein Cave (Diopenstain). During this time it has deteriorated slightly and now looks very funny.

To find out more, google Leuenmensch-Diopenstain, or simply “man-lion”.

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Guardian

Meanwhile, we're playing around with buns. That is, with swords.

This is the same Guardian whose sketches you saw once before; Maybe someday we’ll bring his model to such a state that we won’t be ashamed to show it to people.

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Sibelius Violin Concerto

And now a music post.

In general, usually when you let someone listen to classical music, and especially such long and deep concerts, it is customary to provide the context in which this music was written in order to better understand it. But now I will limit myself to just three phrases:

  • romanticism
  • post-war years
  • winter in Ethelenia
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Dragars and their existence

Recently we were suddenly bombarded with strange questions about the draghars and asked to answer them. I don't know why us, but okay.

  • Dragars really exist. To deny their existence is somewhere on the level of being a flat-earther;
  • those of them that have a human appearance you do not recognize. No way at all - I'm serious. If you have a suspicion, it’s easier to ask, rather than try to determine whether you belong to a dragar by the growth of the hair on the top of the head, the shape of the eyes, the length of the fingers, the number of teeth (I can’t even imagine who came up with this), the size of the testicles (I don’t even want to think about this point), and other things that have little to do with reality;
  • we cannot answer whether gearomorphic draghars exist today. The official international program works only within the framework of giving them Homo-shaped appearance; however, it is possible that there are individuals who independently became bipedal cats. Alas, we know nothing about them;
  • Yes, all draghars have been able to intuitively use magic since childhood, and they do this much more effectively than everyone else. Berenice suggests that you can read more about this in the university textbook on the history of magic by Shevchuk and Ziri;
  • There are simply a huge number of variations of their, uh, dragaroform appearance, because each individual adjusts his anatomy and physiology in a way that is convenient for him. However, it is quite proven that their primary species is something like Archeopteryx with a reptilian head and a long tail. See art below.

That's all. If we remember anything else, we’ll be sure to mention it in future posts.

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Imagism

Sorry for the silence: yesterday I had a terrible fight with a not very pleasant person, from which I am still burning. But it became the reason for writing another post.

In 457 AD, the so-called The Council of Federa was the fourth ecumenical council of the Christian church, convened on the occasion of the Imagist heresy, which was very widespread in those years. Not many people know about it, and this is not the most pleasant page in the history of Christianity - but I will try to tell you briefly.

TOO IMPRESSIVENESS NOT TO READ

The essence of imagism is this: God created people in his own image and likeness - and people with alves and doors perfectly correspond to this concept. But the Gearts, as a result of some sin by one of Adam’s descendants, lost their original human appearance (!), thereby paying for that ancient sin. It would be okay if it all ended there; but the followers of this teaching believed that in order to restore intimacy with God, the Geart needed to cut off its tail. Literally.

History has not recorded the number of Gearts who suffered as a result of this stunningly absurd movement - there were from several hundred to several thousand, most likely. And without a tail, a Geart immediately begins to have a lot of problems: adults constantly lose their balance, their posture is impaired, and spinal diseases progress; if the tail was cut off in early childhood, then the entire spine of such an unfortunate person develops incorrectly - but the Imagists said that this was just retribution for sin and you just need to be patient.

The Fed Council decisively debunked this heresy in just a couple of weeks, and immediately excommunicated its zealous supporters from the Church. At the same time, a resolution was adopted regarding the fact that the Gearts are considered equal in rights with people and other members of the Church, and the verse “in the image and likeness” implies, first of all, not a physical appearance, but a spiritual one. The bodily differences were explained in exactly the same way as the differences between the same human races, and in support of this they took another verse from Be-Midbar (13:21): “...how some of you get food by climbing trees...”.

And the victims of this heresy are now revered as martyrs, so we can say that everything ended more or less well.

And I was upset because this certain person was asking me how I could remain a Christian after Christians had previously cut off the Gearts’ tails. Unable to stand it, I asked in response: “how can you be a socialist if your great-great-grandfather was a kulak?” Well, at this point we finally quarreled.