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2024.04.29 19:47 Captain-Rupan The World, Races, Devil Fruits, and the Moon (Big Theory)
This theory is as big as the One Piece World, but I will try to make it simple and leave the rest for you to discover.
My theory is that the World of One Piece is ending Naturally, and it should, because that is the natural order of the world, nothing can stop it. This theory will try to build a structure of the History of One Piece since life started on the Planet of One Piece, including Kingdoms of Life, Continents, and Races.
This Theory is based on Theosophy and some Ancient Legends, before we link things with One Piece, there is some basics you need to understand. I will try to make this as simple as possible.
Here is what is known about the previous 4 Root Races which preceded our "Adamic Race" and their Continents:
This means that at the end of each Root Race, a World spanning cataclysm will happen. And after each cataclysm the whole World is changed geologically. And then, "each parts of the continents of one root-race become incorporated into the continental system of the next."
However, there is something special about the continent of the first race, The Imperishable Sacred Land. This continent remains unaffected by all these cataclysms. "Because it is the only one whose destiny it is to last from the beginning to the end...throughout each Round."
Sub-Races of each root race propagate and reproduce, creating new generations and variations of life forms. "There is always an overlap between two successive Root Races, the fourth began to gradually develop during the middle portion of the third". Rumors say that there was a thermonuclear war for dominance between the Third Race (the Lemurian race) and Forth race (the Atlantean Race).
Now its One Piece time.
Elbaf is Hyperborea. Hyperboreans were also believed to be giants compared to normal humans. The sun rise and set only once a year in Hyperborea, and the Giants in Elbaf celebrate "the death and rebirth of the sun" each year in what is called Winter Solstice Festival. Both Hyperborea and Elbaf share the same Sunny theme.
The Lemurian race went extinct by a natural cataclysm, and that might be the case with the Lunarians in One Piece. The Lunarians in One Piece might also escaped and still be alive in a hidden city. Also both of their names are similar. The hidden city or place that the Lunarians escaped to might even turn out to be Fairy Vearth.
The Atlanteans are said to be "psychic" and used magic, and they were destroyed due to the misuse of their powers. I believe that this race were the people of the Ancient Kingdom in One Piece, and the kingdom was destroyed for defying Nature, not necessarily evil. I think this reason ties with the Devil Fruits. The Devil Fruits are also considered to be "psychic" fruits based on Vegapunk's Theory.
Now what if these dreams or desires are just the results of evolution from the previous Rounds, hopes, dreams, or imaginations of previous life forms brought to this world by the Ancient Kingdom in the shape of fruits? the people of the Ancient Kingdom dont have to be the creators of the Devil Fruits, but they can be the Cause of its appearance by altering the "Life Wave".
Now I mentioned before that the humans, Globe (D) is considered to be on the lowest level metaphysically. But what if we turn it upside down? the D will be on the top. Is this is what roger meant by turning the world upside down?
The interesting thing about the Planetary Chain of the Moon, also called the Lunar Chain is that it is considered to be the previous chain of the Earth chain. Meaning that it was before like “Planet Earth”, and after the Lunar Chain completed the seven rounds, it died, the “Life Wave” was transferred to the current Earth in what is known as reincarnation.
Now this is how the process of reincarnation rom the Moon to Earth works: Life is transferred from the Moon Chain to the Earth Chain globe by globe, one after the other (from Moon Globe A to Earth Globe A...etc). This means that life forms on Globe D, were once residents of the Moon when life was in the Moon Chain.
This aligns with the story of the "Moon People" in One Piece. The moon people were probably the last of their species and they migrated to Earth when it was time for the Moon to die. This is why Enel didnt find any life forms on the Moon, only Ruins of a City called Birka and Robots.
I will stop here. Thank you for reading.
TLDR: too complex to summarize.
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My theory is that the World of One Piece is ending Naturally, and it should, because that is the natural order of the world, nothing can stop it. This theory will try to build a structure of the History of One Piece since life started on the Planet of One Piece, including Kingdoms of Life, Continents, and Races.
This Theory is based on Theosophy and some Ancient Legends, before we link things with One Piece, there is some basics you need to understand. I will try to make this as simple as possible.
Chains and Rounds
- A Chain, also called a Planetary Chain, is like a group of 7 interconnected Worlds, Globes, Dimensions, Planes, or levels of existence. For Each Planet there is Planetary Chain.
- Each Chain, with its Globes, goes through a cycle of evolution called a Round. There are seven rounds in total for each Chain.
- After the last Round, all the Globes in the Chain start to dissolve. Then, there's a period of rest. After that, the Life Wave moves on to a new Chain, on another planet, to start the process again or reincarnate.
- We will focus only on One Planet's Chain, its Rounds, and it its Globes.
- Here is an easy to understand diagram of One Planetary Chain for one planet.
Globes
- The Globes are also numbered with letters, from A to G. These seven Globes/Dimensions also represent the seven states of consciousness in living things.
- In each globe, Kingdoms of Life begin to emerge as the "Life Wave" reaches its Globe, each new kingdom is an evolution of the one before it, the Kingdoms of Life emerge in this order, each appearing first time in one of the 7 rounds (each color in the diagram represents a kingdom):
- Globe A= Mineral Kingdom
- Globe B= Plant Kingdom
- Globe C= Animal Kingdom
- Globe D= Human Kingdom
- Globe E= Superhuman Kingdom
- Globe F= Celestial Beings Kingdom
- Globe G= Highest Level Beings Kingdom
- The 4th Globe (D) is where humans first emerged on Round 4.
- Humans first emerged in Round 4 of the chain, and the next kingdoms will follow on the next round. Globe (D) is considered to be in the lowest level metaphysically.
- The other Globes are supposed to be not perceivable with human eyes but all of them are linked and form an endless ring, circle, or evolution. And on the last round of the chain, kingdoms of life in each globe somehow coexist and the barrier between them becomes less rigid.
- On each Globe and Kingdom, life evolves through Root Races.
Root Races
On Globe D of planet Earth, there are 7 Root Races of human civilization and evolution that comes one after the other. In each Root Race, a new race of humanity is emerged, and for each race there is a Continent on Earth. Every Root Race has seven sub-races, but we will not go deep into them.Here is what is known about the previous 4 Root Races which preceded our "Adamic Race" and their Continents:
- Root Race 1: The Polarian Race). Ethereal beings that lived in The Imperishable Sacred Land.
- Root Race 2: The Hyperborean Race) that lived in Hyperborea
- Root Race 3: The Lemurian race), inhabited a lost continent called Lemuria). And later it is said that they escaped the flooding of their continent Lemuria, and went under Mount Shasta and created the legendary hidden City of Telos.
- Root Race 4: The Atlantean Race), inhabited Atlantis.
- Root Race 5: The Aryan Race), us.
- Root Race 6: Unknown. In the future.
- Root Race 7: Unknown. In the future.
This means that at the end of each Root Race, a World spanning cataclysm will happen. And after each cataclysm the whole World is changed geologically. And then, "each parts of the continents of one root-race become incorporated into the continental system of the next."
However, there is something special about the continent of the first race, The Imperishable Sacred Land. This continent remains unaffected by all these cataclysms. "Because it is the only one whose destiny it is to last from the beginning to the end...throughout each Round."
Sub-Races of each root race propagate and reproduce, creating new generations and variations of life forms. "There is always an overlap between two successive Root Races, the fourth began to gradually develop during the middle portion of the third". Rumors say that there was a thermonuclear war for dominance between the Third Race (the Lemurian race) and Forth race (the Atlantean Race).
Now its One Piece time.
One Piece World
If you didnt see the connection to One Piece world yet, let me give it to you.Races and Continents
The Imperishable Sacred Land is clearly the Holy Land Mary Geoise. It is the safest place in One Piece world. The Polarians are also described as "dark-colored giants that can reduce their height to the size of an average person". Also described as the "Chaya Race" meaning "image or shadow.". And Imu could belong to this race.Elbaf is Hyperborea. Hyperboreans were also believed to be giants compared to normal humans. The sun rise and set only once a year in Hyperborea, and the Giants in Elbaf celebrate "the death and rebirth of the sun" each year in what is called Winter Solstice Festival. Both Hyperborea and Elbaf share the same Sunny theme.
The Lemurian race went extinct by a natural cataclysm, and that might be the case with the Lunarians in One Piece. The Lunarians in One Piece might also escaped and still be alive in a hidden city. Also both of their names are similar. The hidden city or place that the Lunarians escaped to might even turn out to be Fairy Vearth.
The Atlanteans are said to be "psychic" and used magic, and they were destroyed due to the misuse of their powers. I believe that this race were the people of the Ancient Kingdom in One Piece, and the kingdom was destroyed for defying Nature, not necessarily evil. I think this reason ties with the Devil Fruits. The Devil Fruits are also considered to be "psychic" fruits based on Vegapunk's Theory.
Now what if these dreams or desires are just the results of evolution from the previous Rounds, hopes, dreams, or imaginations of previous life forms brought to this world by the Ancient Kingdom in the shape of fruits? the people of the Ancient Kingdom dont have to be the creators of the Devil Fruits, but they can be the Cause of its appearance by altering the "Life Wave".
"Anything that man can imagine is a possibility in reality" — Willy Karen
End of the World & The Will of D
Based on the Kingdoms of Life in each globe that I mentioned before, we can see that the human evolution starts from D to G, the latter being more celestial beings. D in One Piece might just refer to normal humans, and Imu might be the first born or the first to emerge from Globe G to D in the Final Round, and this Final Round might be where the One Piece events are happening now. Where the barriers between dimensions are less rigid. Also the D might refer to "Dimensional" since most of the D holders can hear the Voice of All Things, they can hear the consciousness of things that live in another dimension.Now I mentioned before that the humans, Globe (D) is considered to be on the lowest level metaphysically. But what if we turn it upside down? the D will be on the top. Is this is what roger meant by turning the world upside down?
Planets and the "Earth" of One Piece
Now lets say you are on Earth and learned that the fate of Earth is to end on the 7th round, and the "life wave" will move to another planet. What is the solution if you want to live forever? the solution is to link all the planets together, and I think this is what happened many years ago, and I think this linking is reflected in the Flag of the World Government. If the entire world of One Piece is basically 5 planets, this means that there should be 5 North Poles, which could somehow explain the strange behavior of the compass in One Piece, the Log Pose. Now imagine 5 North poles changing after a cataclysm at the end of each Root Race.Devil Fruits
I think the Devil Fruits can give the user abilities from different dimensions/globes that belong to other life forms consciousness in different dimensions and even from previous rounds/cycles of existance. This is might also be hinted at here when Morgan talks about the Devil Fruits. Also, the drawing of the Devil Fruits is similar to the World Government flag, but doubled many times. This could be a hint that the Devil Fruits powers are from different dimension and even from entirely different worlds. It is just big and manifold.The link between Earth and the Moon
I mentioned before that for each planet there is Planetary Chain, and what I mentioned before was all about Earth.The interesting thing about the Planetary Chain of the Moon, also called the Lunar Chain is that it is considered to be the previous chain of the Earth chain. Meaning that it was before like “Planet Earth”, and after the Lunar Chain completed the seven rounds, it died, the “Life Wave” was transferred to the current Earth in what is known as reincarnation.
Now this is how the process of reincarnation rom the Moon to Earth works: Life is transferred from the Moon Chain to the Earth Chain globe by globe, one after the other (from Moon Globe A to Earth Globe A...etc). This means that life forms on Globe D, were once residents of the Moon when life was in the Moon Chain.
This aligns with the story of the "Moon People" in One Piece. The moon people were probably the last of their species and they migrated to Earth when it was time for the Moon to die. This is why Enel didnt find any life forms on the Moon, only Ruins of a City called Birka and Robots.
I will stop here. Thank you for reading.
TLDR: too complex to summarize.
2024.04.18 23:05 New_Delivery6734 Dao of Cooking - Chapter 12 [Xianxia-LitRPG]
Story: It's hard adapting to a new world, especially to an ancient one. So when Lei found himself in a Xianxia world, he thought the best thing to do was to go against all these strange things with the only thing he knew -- Cooking. Though he had to admit, the hovering screen before his eyes that told him to 'Feed People' certainly helped in that decision.
Come along, and watch as Lei starts with a makeshift stall, then dives into a sect full of cultivators, and conquers the heart of these cold-blooded people who can command the winds and the skies with his tasty, a touch too strange for this world, dishes.
This is not a slice-of-life story.
Our MC will cultivate, although a touch more different than others.
The LitRPG elements will be light. There won't be any stats.
[First Chapter] - [Previous]
Chapter 12 - Yellow Maiden's Blessing
[Only by gazing upon the inner heart, one can hope to find the true core of one's being. Within that core lies the gift of the Great Mother, the inner flame waiting for a single spark to blaze alive once again.]
There was a cauldron. Smoke puffed out beautifully from its half-opened lid, curling around a thousand blinking stars, up through the shoulders of a faceless man. He stood behind the cauldron. A black cape spilled down his shoulders, its edges dancing lazily in outer space. Ladle in his hand, he stirred slowly the mixture, shoulders towering high over a big ball of molten rock, its surface barely seen under the giant cauldron exploding with bright flames.
Is that a cauldron placed on top of a sun?
Then he stopped. Stars lost their glint, burning flames wavering as though they were afraid as the man reached with one hand to a distant star, smoke coiling around his arm, carried by the motion. His fingers clutched the trembling celestial body as though a pebble, plucked it from its roots, tossed it into the cauldron, and the mixture hissed at the touch of it.
[Dao is the path that can't be spoken of with mere words. It lays within one's heart, belonging only to one's inner core. It is the foundation of one's being, the true purpose of one's existence.]
An ethereal voice dinned inside Lei's mind, soothing like a spring breeze. He felt it close in his arms, and heard it beating inside his chest, but his body was nowhere in sight. Yet it was speaking to him, this voice.
[It is a calling one can't refuse, for refusing to adhere to this call is to revolt against one's own heart. But it can be changed, just as one's heart can be changed through the waves one experiences within many lives.]
He stirred the cauldron, leaving the skies with one less star. They wouldn't miss it, Lei thought, there were thousands of them dotting the endless space.
[To embark upon this path is to defy the heavens, to adhere to the rules of one's own being, to stay true to one's self.]
It was beyond understanding. Unrealistic. He felt like a dream, a blink away from existing, but then he felt he was everywhere at once, flowing with the smoke, dripping down the edge of the cauldron's lid, shivering senseless like those stars that lost their glint.
[No path is simple. No path is unimportant. Even a glimmer of light can cleave apart the darkness, even a candle's flame can light the path for eyes to see. To walk upon this path one must take the first step.]
A fire blazed, this one burning white. Within the chest of the towering man it roared, spreading warmth about the cosmos -- felt like a mother's touch. So welcoming, yet brimmed with a power mighty enough to make the molten rock's flames seem like they were nothing more than tiny sparks.
[From darkness rises a light, through death begins one's mind to unravel, thus the path beckons the core back to one's inner heart, back to where it belongs, to unite once again as a whole.]
The scene changed, and Lei found himself perched over on the man's right shoulder, staring down at the cauldron, to the boiling mixture of a thousand colors. It was a mess, the mixture was, but then it did seem to have an order of its own, as though twisting colors were all splashed out with purpose. Grains sparkled amongst them, and one of them flashed blue like a sapphire.
Earth? Is this our galaxy?
A long sigh escaped through the lips of the giant man, turning into a gale that sent the stars hurtling about the space and made the burning suns shake like leaves. Before long he was holding the lid, fingers trembling as he closed it shut over the mixture, cutting short the curling waves of the smoke.
But then, his fingers stopped, leaving a sliver of opening at the edge of the cauldron. A tiny ball broke free from the fire burning within his chest, dancing across the lid, hopping like a little child until it found the opening, and jumped straight into it.
…….
When Lei opened his eyes, there was a sensation distorting his mind as though he had been torn away from that strange world, the reality crackling like a glass, before finally twisting and settling into the familiar sight of the Outer Sect Library.
As he was about to breathe, to try and understand what just happened, his legs dragged him through the bookcases, head foggy with confusion as he stared at the hovering screen before his eyes. He blinked to clear his vision, but though the screen faded, the call beckoned him all the same, pulling him toward the edges of the Outer Sect Library.
His steps took him to an old bookcase where he found three manuals, their covers made with a different sort of leather, tattered and torn by what seemed like thousands of nails. Their edges were twisted, and curled in hard use, breaking the bloody line of characters written upon their faces.
Lei pulled the one that stood by the right side, pulled it closer, and opened it wide, blood thumping in his head. He gave a quick look at the writing as the world went spinning, his feet sliding across the dust-choked tiles, wobbling near the bookcases before he slammed the back of his head to a hard wall, heard a strange buzzing, choked out words to get someone round to help him.
But the words came out as an intangible mess as he wheezed weakly, blood trickling down his nose and warm on his face. Some whispers, some faraway calling, and yet the voices were trying to tear him down, near his chest, as though wanting to run him through the heart and leave him breathless.
Out of the corner of his eyes, he saw Fatty Lou dash round the corner, blurry face pale with worry. Once near, he kneeled beside him, taking him by the shoulders, and he shook him hard, snapped his head back as he called out for the others, someone, anyone.
I'm fine…
Lei wished to say, but the buzzing wouldn't stop. The fingers holding the manual burned painfully hot, as though he clutched within his hand a molten rock. He tried flinging the damn thing away, but something stopped him at the last second. It felt wrong to get rid of it, rather he pressed it tight to his side, and tighter still until his whole side went alive with excruciating agony.
"I-I'm fine…" Lei said. He breathed and forced himself to relax, but felt as if the ground slipped slowly away from under his feet, away from under his feet, away from under his…
…..
Lei wheezed out a breath, heart pounding in his chest. He searched blindly around him as his eyes opened a crack, sharp sunlight poking holes into his brain. Raising a quick hand over them, he peered about him, and saw Fatty Lou right there, leaning onto a wooden door, face red with thrill.
Just as their eyes crossed a blinding pain shot up into Lei's brain, making stars swim in his vision. He clenched his teeth as a warmth slowly spread from within his chest, down his legs, up his head, easing the pain like it'd been a lie.
Shit. What the hell is happening?
"Thank the Heavens," Fatty Lou said as he closed the guidebook in his hands, stepped near him, and kneeled by his side. "How are you feeling?"
How? Like a man who saw the whole universe's been cooked in a fucking cauldron.
"I'm fine," Lei said with a strained smile. "Mind's a little heavy, that's all. What happened?"
"You passed out holding that manual," Fatty Lou said, pointing with his eyes to the booklet clutched tight in Lei's right hand.
I didn't even feel the damn thing.
"We tried to take it away, but you wouldn't let go. And that Library Elder came all of a sudden, said 'Let the kid embrace his good fortune', something like that. In short, Elder Brother Bai and Elder Sister Mei decided you to keep it."
"This?" Lei raised the booklet doubtfully, scowling as he tried to read the ancient letters on its cover. "Yellow Maiden's… Heart Flame?"
"They don't know what it is," Fatty Lou said with a frown. "Even Elder Sister Mei and Elder Brother Bai said they had never seen anything like this before."
Heart Flame?
Lei raised a hand over his chest. It was warm. And there did seem to be something different about his body, as though he gulped down a miraculous drug that somehow made his chest swell with energy.
"You sure you're good?" Fatty Lou said, brows creased as he stared deeply at him.
Lei shook his head. It was… not easy to make sense of the scene he'd witnessed what felt like some seconds ago. A faceless man cooking the Milky Way inside a cauldron? Plucking stars like they are onions, adding them to the mix without peeling their skin? And what about that stove? Sun, was it?
Are you trying to say that the Dao of Cooking means that you can cook everything, even the universe with your hands… like soup? How?
He leaned back to his bed, having decided there wouldn't be any stopping to these questions of which none he had the answers for. He was a simple cook, but it started to seem like this system was slowly forcing him to become anything but.
Well, when you think about it, cooking soup isn't much different. The man was a towering giant, after all.
He chuckled at the thought. That was helpful. Another helpful thing was the wide grin creasing the face of Fatty Lou who, after making sure he was alright, started trembling like an excited kid.
"Look what I've got," he said, pulling another booklet, its cover looking bright as though somebody licked it clean.
Lei's eyes widened when he read the manual's name, "Calamity Demon's Indestructible Body? What the—"
"Sounds good, right?" Fatty Lou's smile was almost too bright to look at. "I knew from the first time I laid my eyes on this manual, and Elder Brother Bai thinks this is the best one for me. Can't say the same thing with Elder Sister Mei, though. She wasn't too… enthusiastic about my choice, saying that I should've picked the Soaring Hawk Manual."
Lei glanced over the contents after he took the booklet from Fatty Lou's hand. There were all sorts of strange diagrams drawn inside of it, but the part that got his attention was the 'Indestructible Body' part. Supposedly, once trained to the Adept Stage, two stages above the Foundation Realm, the body would become as hard as jade, allowing the practitioner to be unrivaled amongst the same stage opponents.
But then, Lei came across another crucial fact, this one making him a little nervous. "Are you sure you can endure a bolt of lightning? It says here that you'll have to absorb lightning energy, sitting bare-chested under a heavy storm, waiting for lightning to strike your…" He pointed at a page that depicted the heavenly seal nodes in a human's body. There was one node hanging dangerously close near the crotch. "Nodes."
Fatty Lou stared at him oddly.
"What?" Lei asked.
"What do you mean 'what?' Didn't you check your own manual?" Fatty Lou leaned closer, tapping with one finger on the other booklet which was still clutched in Lei's hand. "I don't know what's gotten into you, but read the first page. It's… a lot worse than my manual."
Lei frowned as he gave the Calamity Demon's Indestructible Body Manual back to Fatty Lou, once more sighing at the grand name, before he opened his own manual's first page. Then he blinked. For a second he thought he'd seen the words glistening with a golden hue.
Something's wrong with my brain.
He trailed a finger as he read one sentence after another, his mouth slowly opening in response. He stared back at Fatty Lou to check if he'd read it right.
The man nodded sadly.
"A volcano…" Lei mumbled, dazed, and light-headed. "I'll have to soak myself fully into magma to break every third seal, absorbing True Flame essence to strengthen my inner flame. And the only way to absorb spiritual energy is through burning… spiritual beasts?"
"With your inner flame," Fatty Lou said. "You'll have to burn spiritual animals, wood, herbs, anything with a whiff of spiritual energy. You'll suck the ashes through your pores in deep meditation. According to Elder Brother Bai, this manual can break even a rich Young Master of some noble clan."
"B-But why? I don't remember I've accepted anythi—" Lei stopped when Fatty Lou gave him an uncertain look.
Right. He doesn't know. But how can you explain something so bizarre to a man? He won't believe me. Even I'm not sure if I'm supposed to believe it or not.
"Uh," Lei grunted, clearing his throat. "You have to make the best of it, right?" he said after he took a deep breath to calm his nerves.
Thankfully, Fatty Lou was too caught up with his own manual to think much about Lei's strange mode.
"Don't worry," he said instead. "Elder Brother Bai said that every manual has its own rhythm, a sort of… system that once you get the hang of it, everything becomes a lot easier."
"System, you've said?" Lei knitted his brows in thought. Felt as though he was missing something.
Shit. The system!
"I think I'll sleep a bit more," he said hastily, intending to check the system after sending Fatty Lou to his room. "I'm still tired."
"Mm." Fatty Lou gave him a little nod. "I'll leave you alone. I was planning to check the manual, anyway."
As Fatty Lou made his way toward the room, Lei called the system with a thought, blue lights bursting alive from seemingly nowhere.
[Dao of Cooking]
Inner Flame: Spiritual
Name: Lei Liang
Age: 20
Cultivation Level: Half-Step into the 1st Seal.
Cooking Skills: [Heartburn]
Tools: None
Wait, what?
He paused when he saw the additional information that appeared on the screen. There was a skill. That was a good thing. But then there was this thing called Inner Flame which made him remember that tiny ball of white-hot blaze hopping over onto the lid of the galaxy-cooking cauldron.
Can't be that flame, right?
Though he thought as such, there was a bad feeling in the pit of his stomach that told him otherwise. There was no other explanation, considering the Yellow Maiden's Manual somehow stuck itself to his hands as though they were once a complete whole.
Shaking his head, Lei sent another thought at the system, this time calling his one and only cooking skill.
And he heard that same voice again, an ancient voice echoing inside his head.
[Heartburn… The first step. Mix the Inner Flame perfectly with the cooking fire, careful not to overdo it. Once a dish is influenced by the spiritual Heart Flame, it will gain a special flavor that will allow a cultivator to break past any obstacles in the path of immortality. With your little flame, your dishes can only affect the cultivators still crawling through the Seal-Breaking Stage and Foundation Realm. Cultivators who are above such realms will only experience a slight increase in their spiritual energy absorption.]
Elder… Much thanks.
Lei trembled uncontrollably as that tired, ancient voice dinned inside his ears. There was a good chance that this voice belonged to that faceless, galaxy-stirring man, but there was no way to be sure of that. Instead, Lei acted as respectfully as possible, even going as far as to cup his hands and bow his head, making Fatty Lou who had just opened the door stare back at him strangely.
Then another hefty sigh made him flinch on his bed, sending a shiver down his spine.
[Be grateful for the blessing, and never take it for granted. Use it wisely, for Heartburn is not for the weak-hearted.]
……..
I've been thinking about this chapter for some time now, and then I said 'Why not think of the Universe as the perfect dish, stirred and cooked perfectly by an Almighty hand, perhaps? And there, it brought us here. Dao of Cooking, now you can't expect it to be something simple, right? Thanks for reading, and I'm always grateful for your comments, your watches, and your precious time. Cheers!
[First Chapter] - [Previous]
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Come along, and watch as Lei starts with a makeshift stall, then dives into a sect full of cultivators, and conquers the heart of these cold-blooded people who can command the winds and the skies with his tasty, a touch too strange for this world, dishes.
This is not a slice-of-life story.
Our MC will cultivate, although a touch more different than others.
The LitRPG elements will be light. There won't be any stats.
[First Chapter] - [Previous]
Chapter 12 - Yellow Maiden's Blessing
[Only by gazing upon the inner heart, one can hope to find the true core of one's being. Within that core lies the gift of the Great Mother, the inner flame waiting for a single spark to blaze alive once again.]
There was a cauldron. Smoke puffed out beautifully from its half-opened lid, curling around a thousand blinking stars, up through the shoulders of a faceless man. He stood behind the cauldron. A black cape spilled down his shoulders, its edges dancing lazily in outer space. Ladle in his hand, he stirred slowly the mixture, shoulders towering high over a big ball of molten rock, its surface barely seen under the giant cauldron exploding with bright flames.
Is that a cauldron placed on top of a sun?
Then he stopped. Stars lost their glint, burning flames wavering as though they were afraid as the man reached with one hand to a distant star, smoke coiling around his arm, carried by the motion. His fingers clutched the trembling celestial body as though a pebble, plucked it from its roots, tossed it into the cauldron, and the mixture hissed at the touch of it.
[Dao is the path that can't be spoken of with mere words. It lays within one's heart, belonging only to one's inner core. It is the foundation of one's being, the true purpose of one's existence.]
An ethereal voice dinned inside Lei's mind, soothing like a spring breeze. He felt it close in his arms, and heard it beating inside his chest, but his body was nowhere in sight. Yet it was speaking to him, this voice.
[It is a calling one can't refuse, for refusing to adhere to this call is to revolt against one's own heart. But it can be changed, just as one's heart can be changed through the waves one experiences within many lives.]
He stirred the cauldron, leaving the skies with one less star. They wouldn't miss it, Lei thought, there were thousands of them dotting the endless space.
[To embark upon this path is to defy the heavens, to adhere to the rules of one's own being, to stay true to one's self.]
It was beyond understanding. Unrealistic. He felt like a dream, a blink away from existing, but then he felt he was everywhere at once, flowing with the smoke, dripping down the edge of the cauldron's lid, shivering senseless like those stars that lost their glint.
[No path is simple. No path is unimportant. Even a glimmer of light can cleave apart the darkness, even a candle's flame can light the path for eyes to see. To walk upon this path one must take the first step.]
A fire blazed, this one burning white. Within the chest of the towering man it roared, spreading warmth about the cosmos -- felt like a mother's touch. So welcoming, yet brimmed with a power mighty enough to make the molten rock's flames seem like they were nothing more than tiny sparks.
[From darkness rises a light, through death begins one's mind to unravel, thus the path beckons the core back to one's inner heart, back to where it belongs, to unite once again as a whole.]
The scene changed, and Lei found himself perched over on the man's right shoulder, staring down at the cauldron, to the boiling mixture of a thousand colors. It was a mess, the mixture was, but then it did seem to have an order of its own, as though twisting colors were all splashed out with purpose. Grains sparkled amongst them, and one of them flashed blue like a sapphire.
Earth? Is this our galaxy?
A long sigh escaped through the lips of the giant man, turning into a gale that sent the stars hurtling about the space and made the burning suns shake like leaves. Before long he was holding the lid, fingers trembling as he closed it shut over the mixture, cutting short the curling waves of the smoke.
But then, his fingers stopped, leaving a sliver of opening at the edge of the cauldron. A tiny ball broke free from the fire burning within his chest, dancing across the lid, hopping like a little child until it found the opening, and jumped straight into it.
…….
When Lei opened his eyes, there was a sensation distorting his mind as though he had been torn away from that strange world, the reality crackling like a glass, before finally twisting and settling into the familiar sight of the Outer Sect Library.
As he was about to breathe, to try and understand what just happened, his legs dragged him through the bookcases, head foggy with confusion as he stared at the hovering screen before his eyes. He blinked to clear his vision, but though the screen faded, the call beckoned him all the same, pulling him toward the edges of the Outer Sect Library.
His steps took him to an old bookcase where he found three manuals, their covers made with a different sort of leather, tattered and torn by what seemed like thousands of nails. Their edges were twisted, and curled in hard use, breaking the bloody line of characters written upon their faces.
Lei pulled the one that stood by the right side, pulled it closer, and opened it wide, blood thumping in his head. He gave a quick look at the writing as the world went spinning, his feet sliding across the dust-choked tiles, wobbling near the bookcases before he slammed the back of his head to a hard wall, heard a strange buzzing, choked out words to get someone round to help him.
But the words came out as an intangible mess as he wheezed weakly, blood trickling down his nose and warm on his face. Some whispers, some faraway calling, and yet the voices were trying to tear him down, near his chest, as though wanting to run him through the heart and leave him breathless.
Out of the corner of his eyes, he saw Fatty Lou dash round the corner, blurry face pale with worry. Once near, he kneeled beside him, taking him by the shoulders, and he shook him hard, snapped his head back as he called out for the others, someone, anyone.
I'm fine…
Lei wished to say, but the buzzing wouldn't stop. The fingers holding the manual burned painfully hot, as though he clutched within his hand a molten rock. He tried flinging the damn thing away, but something stopped him at the last second. It felt wrong to get rid of it, rather he pressed it tight to his side, and tighter still until his whole side went alive with excruciating agony.
"I-I'm fine…" Lei said. He breathed and forced himself to relax, but felt as if the ground slipped slowly away from under his feet, away from under his feet, away from under his…
…..
Lei wheezed out a breath, heart pounding in his chest. He searched blindly around him as his eyes opened a crack, sharp sunlight poking holes into his brain. Raising a quick hand over them, he peered about him, and saw Fatty Lou right there, leaning onto a wooden door, face red with thrill.
Just as their eyes crossed a blinding pain shot up into Lei's brain, making stars swim in his vision. He clenched his teeth as a warmth slowly spread from within his chest, down his legs, up his head, easing the pain like it'd been a lie.
Shit. What the hell is happening?
"Thank the Heavens," Fatty Lou said as he closed the guidebook in his hands, stepped near him, and kneeled by his side. "How are you feeling?"
How? Like a man who saw the whole universe's been cooked in a fucking cauldron.
"I'm fine," Lei said with a strained smile. "Mind's a little heavy, that's all. What happened?"
"You passed out holding that manual," Fatty Lou said, pointing with his eyes to the booklet clutched tight in Lei's right hand.
I didn't even feel the damn thing.
"We tried to take it away, but you wouldn't let go. And that Library Elder came all of a sudden, said 'Let the kid embrace his good fortune', something like that. In short, Elder Brother Bai and Elder Sister Mei decided you to keep it."
"This?" Lei raised the booklet doubtfully, scowling as he tried to read the ancient letters on its cover. "Yellow Maiden's… Heart Flame?"
"They don't know what it is," Fatty Lou said with a frown. "Even Elder Sister Mei and Elder Brother Bai said they had never seen anything like this before."
Heart Flame?
Lei raised a hand over his chest. It was warm. And there did seem to be something different about his body, as though he gulped down a miraculous drug that somehow made his chest swell with energy.
"You sure you're good?" Fatty Lou said, brows creased as he stared deeply at him.
Lei shook his head. It was… not easy to make sense of the scene he'd witnessed what felt like some seconds ago. A faceless man cooking the Milky Way inside a cauldron? Plucking stars like they are onions, adding them to the mix without peeling their skin? And what about that stove? Sun, was it?
Are you trying to say that the Dao of Cooking means that you can cook everything, even the universe with your hands… like soup? How?
He leaned back to his bed, having decided there wouldn't be any stopping to these questions of which none he had the answers for. He was a simple cook, but it started to seem like this system was slowly forcing him to become anything but.
Well, when you think about it, cooking soup isn't much different. The man was a towering giant, after all.
He chuckled at the thought. That was helpful. Another helpful thing was the wide grin creasing the face of Fatty Lou who, after making sure he was alright, started trembling like an excited kid.
"Look what I've got," he said, pulling another booklet, its cover looking bright as though somebody licked it clean.
Lei's eyes widened when he read the manual's name, "Calamity Demon's Indestructible Body? What the—"
"Sounds good, right?" Fatty Lou's smile was almost too bright to look at. "I knew from the first time I laid my eyes on this manual, and Elder Brother Bai thinks this is the best one for me. Can't say the same thing with Elder Sister Mei, though. She wasn't too… enthusiastic about my choice, saying that I should've picked the Soaring Hawk Manual."
Lei glanced over the contents after he took the booklet from Fatty Lou's hand. There were all sorts of strange diagrams drawn inside of it, but the part that got his attention was the 'Indestructible Body' part. Supposedly, once trained to the Adept Stage, two stages above the Foundation Realm, the body would become as hard as jade, allowing the practitioner to be unrivaled amongst the same stage opponents.
But then, Lei came across another crucial fact, this one making him a little nervous. "Are you sure you can endure a bolt of lightning? It says here that you'll have to absorb lightning energy, sitting bare-chested under a heavy storm, waiting for lightning to strike your…" He pointed at a page that depicted the heavenly seal nodes in a human's body. There was one node hanging dangerously close near the crotch. "Nodes."
Fatty Lou stared at him oddly.
"What?" Lei asked.
"What do you mean 'what?' Didn't you check your own manual?" Fatty Lou leaned closer, tapping with one finger on the other booklet which was still clutched in Lei's hand. "I don't know what's gotten into you, but read the first page. It's… a lot worse than my manual."
Lei frowned as he gave the Calamity Demon's Indestructible Body Manual back to Fatty Lou, once more sighing at the grand name, before he opened his own manual's first page. Then he blinked. For a second he thought he'd seen the words glistening with a golden hue.
Something's wrong with my brain.
He trailed a finger as he read one sentence after another, his mouth slowly opening in response. He stared back at Fatty Lou to check if he'd read it right.
The man nodded sadly.
"A volcano…" Lei mumbled, dazed, and light-headed. "I'll have to soak myself fully into magma to break every third seal, absorbing True Flame essence to strengthen my inner flame. And the only way to absorb spiritual energy is through burning… spiritual beasts?"
"With your inner flame," Fatty Lou said. "You'll have to burn spiritual animals, wood, herbs, anything with a whiff of spiritual energy. You'll suck the ashes through your pores in deep meditation. According to Elder Brother Bai, this manual can break even a rich Young Master of some noble clan."
"B-But why? I don't remember I've accepted anythi—" Lei stopped when Fatty Lou gave him an uncertain look.
Right. He doesn't know. But how can you explain something so bizarre to a man? He won't believe me. Even I'm not sure if I'm supposed to believe it or not.
"Uh," Lei grunted, clearing his throat. "You have to make the best of it, right?" he said after he took a deep breath to calm his nerves.
Thankfully, Fatty Lou was too caught up with his own manual to think much about Lei's strange mode.
"Don't worry," he said instead. "Elder Brother Bai said that every manual has its own rhythm, a sort of… system that once you get the hang of it, everything becomes a lot easier."
"System, you've said?" Lei knitted his brows in thought. Felt as though he was missing something.
Shit. The system!
"I think I'll sleep a bit more," he said hastily, intending to check the system after sending Fatty Lou to his room. "I'm still tired."
"Mm." Fatty Lou gave him a little nod. "I'll leave you alone. I was planning to check the manual, anyway."
As Fatty Lou made his way toward the room, Lei called the system with a thought, blue lights bursting alive from seemingly nowhere.
[Dao of Cooking]
Inner Flame: Spiritual
Name: Lei Liang
Age: 20
Cultivation Level: Half-Step into the 1st Seal.
Cooking Skills: [Heartburn]
Tools: None
Wait, what?
He paused when he saw the additional information that appeared on the screen. There was a skill. That was a good thing. But then there was this thing called Inner Flame which made him remember that tiny ball of white-hot blaze hopping over onto the lid of the galaxy-cooking cauldron.
Can't be that flame, right?
Though he thought as such, there was a bad feeling in the pit of his stomach that told him otherwise. There was no other explanation, considering the Yellow Maiden's Manual somehow stuck itself to his hands as though they were once a complete whole.
Shaking his head, Lei sent another thought at the system, this time calling his one and only cooking skill.
And he heard that same voice again, an ancient voice echoing inside his head.
[Heartburn… The first step. Mix the Inner Flame perfectly with the cooking fire, careful not to overdo it. Once a dish is influenced by the spiritual Heart Flame, it will gain a special flavor that will allow a cultivator to break past any obstacles in the path of immortality. With your little flame, your dishes can only affect the cultivators still crawling through the Seal-Breaking Stage and Foundation Realm. Cultivators who are above such realms will only experience a slight increase in their spiritual energy absorption.]
Elder… Much thanks.
Lei trembled uncontrollably as that tired, ancient voice dinned inside his ears. There was a good chance that this voice belonged to that faceless, galaxy-stirring man, but there was no way to be sure of that. Instead, Lei acted as respectfully as possible, even going as far as to cup his hands and bow his head, making Fatty Lou who had just opened the door stare back at him strangely.
Then another hefty sigh made him flinch on his bed, sending a shiver down his spine.
[Be grateful for the blessing, and never take it for granted. Use it wisely, for Heartburn is not for the weak-hearted.]
……..
I've been thinking about this chapter for some time now, and then I said 'Why not think of the Universe as the perfect dish, stirred and cooked perfectly by an Almighty hand, perhaps? And there, it brought us here. Dao of Cooking, now you can't expect it to be something simple, right? Thanks for reading, and I'm always grateful for your comments, your watches, and your precious time. Cheers!
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2024.04.15 06:01 T-1Through_sand Humans, They are just Built Different. Ch1.
Standing at a podium surrounding a full circular lecture hall was a lone Bipedal Insectoid being resembling a praying mantis. His four segmented legs lightly bouncing in place as the entire room was bustling with mumbles and chatter that soon died off as attention was drawn to him and his fluttering thorax wing. His segmented exoskeleton bright green with his arms holding a translucent glass plate with two metal segments. one on the top and one on the bottom. The Insectoid being begins his presentation as a title soon shows. "The Shocking discovery of a new Species." By Scryxl. (*Pronounced Scry Zell*)
"Greetings to everyone here of the Galactic Systems Chancellors. I have asked you all here to reveal the secret project that we of the High Council have been working on the last 8 stellar Cycles." Scryxl speaks as the large circular holographic projector behind him kicks on revealing a small blue orb floating and rotating.
"This here is a newly discovered planet. it is inside one of the galaxies arms near the edge. The thing about this planet in particular is that it is the only planet inside its system to hold living breathing life. Not only is that strange but what is also strange is that the entire solar system is inside a void Bubble." scryxl says as Chatter begins when a zooming out of the system is shown. it shows 10 planets with 1 massive one having a large elliptical orbit two asteroid belts and 4 gas planets. one of which could be considered a brown star. but after that. Nothing. Just a blank empty void of space in a full sphere spanning nearly 10 light years in diameter.
Occurrences like this were extremely rare as void pockets such as this were usually too frigidly cold to hold any form of living species even those with perfect conditions around the parent star. The probability of this occuring was astronomically impossible that no one thought they could actually house life.
"This species which calls this planet home have named it "Earth" another name for Dirt in the languages spoken there. The species itself is also truly very different from all other known species in the galaxy but we will get to that in a moment. Truthfully upon examination we thought the planet itself was just us all here in the high council going insane but no...the planet exists, Its cacophony of species exists and the one species to truly prosper on it are just as unbelievable." Scryxl says as his mandibles click in excitement and his eyes dart from every other species surrounding him.
"What could possibly make the world seem so impossible to exist to the great ones of the high council? Speak Tri'lxl yan" (*Pronounced: Try Ixel yen.*) a Female voice asks coming from a red furred Bovine like species that has red and white mushrooms growing on its back. "The fact the planet has met all classifications to be considered a Gamma class Hellworld for one." scryxl exclaims causing terrified gasps to envelope the entire hall.
"Now as i was saying, This planet has met the perfect conditions for habitation of many species of varying climates. they have insects such as my species the Tri'lxl yan, The bovine race of the Ha'loon, Even the frigid cold loving Kan'yanx! all in one planet. but so many more as well. Every member species of this galactic chamber has a form of species on that planet." Scryxl says showing the counterparts of the species that live on the planet. Each one shocking the members as they all. stare in wonder. "From deserts that run upwards of 139+ degrees in heat. to frigid colds that reach 200 below 0. This planet holds every conceivable environment known. However they have storms there that make our own homeworld devastators seem like a light drizzle. Winds gaining speeds over 300 miles per hour. Strikes of super heated plasma that explode the very atmosphere around itself, swirling devil pillars that destroy countless miles of landscapes, fires that burn entire forests and even quakes that shatter and alter the very ground beneath the species feet! This world even has actively erupting Volcanos and Even a new classification we have dubbed "Super volcanos" Who's entire covered summit span hundreds of miles across." Scryxl speaks once again as the holograms continue showing footage of the disasters. wooden objects piercing solid stone from winds, hurricanes and lightning strikes, earthquakes and tornados ravaging the land as fires and volcanos are shown making nearly every member of the council fear for their own lives just seeing these things.
"What the hell kind of devil world has the high council found Scryxl? What in all of the holy ones has gone wrong for the universe to BIRTH SUCH AN ATROCITY?" A Oylynx asks. the Oylynx being a bipedal Owl like species.
"Ah but that's the thing. Nothing was wrong. We of the council believe this world has existed as a counter balance to everything else good in the galaxy. Where one species thrived another on this world didn't, Where one species died another was born here. But that the planet itself is nothing when we compare it to the dominant species of the world." Scryxl says as he Pulls out a small orb from his robes that floats up and brings up a huge display showing a nearly hairless Bipedal creature with two arms, two legs, two eyes and diagrams of organs, range of motion, even diagrams of its entire internal systems shocking every species in the room who immediately begin staring in fascination, horror and wonder. Some species even stare in lust and primal hunger at the vulnerable looking species.
"I ask for your attention here. I know how these species look but....Believe me when i say that these beings..These Human Beings are far from helpless." Scryxl speaks as the orb that showed the diagrams and medical knowledge soon changes to showing these creatures in various activities. Everything from fighting huge forest fires, Two or more Humans in ejat appears to be gladiatorial matches beating each other into unconsciousness. Speeding vehicles smashing into corners and flipping as they race these metal coffins around designated tracks and crashing large vehicles into one another or smaller ones even a large Reptilian looking metal behemoth that breaths fire and grabs and eats other metal vehicles of transport. The videos switch to shots of combat between the species and how they devastate each other with their weapons ranging from knife fights, fist fights and even weapons that spit fire and cause entire holes to be blown in their enemies. Some who lost limbs to explosive devices or having holes inside them still continue to fight back against attackers. One video shows a species resembling the Guzvaldi mauling a human being leaving him bleeding and having huge gashes and missing chunks of himself who after the attack gets back up and heads to seek medical attention.
"This species calling itself Human Beings are just Built Different. Everything you see here is footage captured by our drones and archives of data these humans have kept of their own past so they do not repeat the mistakes they made previously. We have footage ranging from their mating habits, To fights, to everyday life and then some. This species was forged out of the wasted genetics of every other species on the planet that in the gestating primordial Ooze cobbled itself together into a usable form. This species has even detailed their origins and evolution from what they call the "Great apes" family. Evolving from tree dwelling apes, to plains striding early humans. They theorized that the planet itself created the entire human species for the simple purpose of being food for every predator species on the planet. They were born with no claws to hunt so they created tools, They had no fur for warmth so they stole fire from nature, They were hunted by everything hiding in tall grass so they evolved to walk upright and see them before being seen themselves. This species survived because of how they hunt and they hunt by literally NEVER getting tired. Imagine if you were Ha'loon grazing in a field and a predator alerted you, you'd run away. Problem is humans would simply follow you. They alert you again and you would run away again and humans would follow. This species Tracked, hunted and killed species of animals by outlasting them all in endurance and learning to throw pointed sticks and rocks." Scryxl spoke as 3D imaging showed just what he was talking about causing a few of the Ha'loon species to faint or cower in fear. Predators that never tire and could track you for miles? Worst nightmare fuel to give them.
"Humans were spited by the very nature of their homeworld and so humans evolved in a way to spite nature. See here, Half of the species in this room can easily be exterminated by two extremely deadly chemical poisons. Capsaicin and Caffeine. My species included. Humans have a plant there on the Earth THAT NATURALLY PRODUCE THEM!" Scryxl clicks a button showing two plants shocking the council.
"Not only this but the reason those plants exist is that they evolved this way so as to not be eaten by any species! The plants are called Jalapeno and Aravica Berries. Humans didn't get the memo that nature wanted these plants to be left alone and decided that just to spite nature they will STILL EAT THEM!" Scryxl says showing videos of Humans eating the plants happily and causing gasps.
"That's not the worst part, This species has also selectively bred the Jalapeno plant with other naturally occuring plants to make hybrids with even more naturally occuring capsaicin. They bred it to the point one pepper species contains so much capsaicin that JUST ONE PEPPER can literally cause the extinction of every exoskeletal species on the council. However to the humans it causes Extreme pain and hallucinations. The humans still eat them." Scryxl speaks showing a bunch of different humans eating the literal genocide plant and not even caring.
"The caffeine? they somehow found a way to concentrate the chemical by roasting the seed that holds it and turning it into a drink." Scryxl shows people drinking different colored liquids of what is called coffee showing diagrams of how the caffeine was concentrated 1000 Times the norm in the plant.
"They are even able to eat the fermented cacao plant. They call it Chocolate! its considered a delicious snack." Scryxl says showing large groups having muddy brown bricks in their hands being enjoyed as snacks by this species as well as a liquid drink.
"The Human species has been Classified just as insane as the world that birthed them. This species however has done something not even we of this galactic conglomerate of species has thought to do and even the high council has agreed that we will soon be working on bringing it to ourselves." Scryxl says as he brings up something that no one seems to understand.
"The humans of earth are technologically attuned to the point they are already exploring the other planets of their system. We captured a probe they sent that had all the information we could ever want on then including language, translations, diagrams and stories of battles past. They even created a strange thing called "The Internet" which is a massive interconnected network of nodes and information caches worldwide that anyone at anytime can access with the right equipment. This "Internet" holds the entirety of the humans collective knowledge on ... well everything! Its a massive data store that is actively updated, improved and worked on to the point they are even experimenting with augmenting the very fabric of their perceived reality with digital information!" Scryxl says as he shows humans wearing headsets that while not transporting the human itself it transforms the world around them into something new for them to enjoy bringing awe and wonder to other species.
"This Internet is also a store of many...interesting things. The internet has many rules to follow but one Universal rule known the world over is one dubbed Rule 34. That rule in particular based on translation with help of the probe we caught named " Voyager 1" is states "Rule 34: If it Exists, their is porn of it. No exceptions." Now this is obviously hyperbole right? Humans don't know of alien species right? That is correct but Humans have before any other species theorized about the existence of alien life and Theorized what those species could or would look like. They archived them on the Internet through Art pieces and drawings. like this one." Scryxl says as he pulls up images from a human website called e621. the images shown are mostly harmless but very very explicit showing many varying different species that all call this galaxy home.
"As you can see the human species has a mind forever curious of the universe around them and by sheer LUCK they have somehow guessed somewhat accurate depictions of many of the species in this room. They also express interest in mating with these depictions as seen by these humans in what is called a " Comment section" and humans have no shame dressing up as though they were these species! These humans are called Furries and Scallies!" Scryxl continues as he shows images of humans wearing full suits to turn themselves into facsimiles of these various species.
"But be warned if you do try and mate with humans. they may seem vulnerable however they are anything but. This here is how human muscles work." Scryxl says showing an animated depiction of a group of muscles working in tandem to expand and contract to facilitate movement showing they work like levers giving humans untold strength beyond what normal species have.
"They grew this kind of muscle because otherwise they could not survive the gravity of their own planet. Its gravity is 9.32 Meters per second per second. Meaning 9.32meteres Squared. The planet earth has a gravity 2.465 times the Galactic average and humans see this as no big deal. Not only that but the clips i showed of their version of warfare? yeah that is merely a light skirmish between two countries. The humans who lost limbs and had holes shot in them? even the one man Mauled by that quadruped species who got up? its because of another deadly chemical that can quite literally cause death to nearly All the species here so much so that it was declared that production from any source would be considered treason and result in banishment from the galactic council? Yes I speak of adrenaline! the potent chemical that send even the weakest amongst us into a violent killing frenzy that would take a full security detail to stop." Scryxl says as he shows the diagram of a human brain showing one very tiny portion before a label comes up calling it by name.
"This is the Human Adrenal gland located in the brain. Under extreme duress, stress and damage this tiny gland floods the human body with enough adrenaline to kill 10 full Grown Diz'clixian warrior caste! It does this to keep the human alive long enough to find medical attention. Humans evolved a gland to produce a chemical that makes them nearly unkillable simply to survive the bullshit their own planet throws at them! This species defies logic, reason and calls the very concept of what it takes for life to form into question. We of the high council Brought this species to attention now for the simple reason that we need you all to understand that you are not to engage humans in any form of combat or contact." scryxel says as another diagram shows up showing a large invading fleet of star ships as it seems to be nearing planet earth.
"We say this because Humans are quite literally just built different and they may not be around very long. an invading force of reavers from the andromeda galaxy have arrived and set their sites on earth as a staging point. We can not contact Earth because we all need to prepare for the inevitable galactic war approaching. The only thing we can do is hope that Humans being built different is enough to stall the reavers and buy us time to gather the forces we need to fight them. This council is hereby dismissed. Alert your ruling governments of the incoming threat and the species who are unknowingly about to hold the line for us all." Scryxl says as he walks away to an elevator ascending to an upper floor leaving the visual display of earth and all the information on earth free to be transmitted. The galactic Council mourning what possible could have been a very welcomed or hated addition to the Galaxy at large.
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"Greetings to everyone here of the Galactic Systems Chancellors. I have asked you all here to reveal the secret project that we of the High Council have been working on the last 8 stellar Cycles." Scryxl speaks as the large circular holographic projector behind him kicks on revealing a small blue orb floating and rotating.
"This here is a newly discovered planet. it is inside one of the galaxies arms near the edge. The thing about this planet in particular is that it is the only planet inside its system to hold living breathing life. Not only is that strange but what is also strange is that the entire solar system is inside a void Bubble." scryxl says as Chatter begins when a zooming out of the system is shown. it shows 10 planets with 1 massive one having a large elliptical orbit two asteroid belts and 4 gas planets. one of which could be considered a brown star. but after that. Nothing. Just a blank empty void of space in a full sphere spanning nearly 10 light years in diameter.
Occurrences like this were extremely rare as void pockets such as this were usually too frigidly cold to hold any form of living species even those with perfect conditions around the parent star. The probability of this occuring was astronomically impossible that no one thought they could actually house life.
"This species which calls this planet home have named it "Earth" another name for Dirt in the languages spoken there. The species itself is also truly very different from all other known species in the galaxy but we will get to that in a moment. Truthfully upon examination we thought the planet itself was just us all here in the high council going insane but no...the planet exists, Its cacophony of species exists and the one species to truly prosper on it are just as unbelievable." Scryxl says as his mandibles click in excitement and his eyes dart from every other species surrounding him.
"What could possibly make the world seem so impossible to exist to the great ones of the high council? Speak Tri'lxl yan" (*Pronounced: Try Ixel yen.*) a Female voice asks coming from a red furred Bovine like species that has red and white mushrooms growing on its back. "The fact the planet has met all classifications to be considered a Gamma class Hellworld for one." scryxl exclaims causing terrified gasps to envelope the entire hall.
"Now as i was saying, This planet has met the perfect conditions for habitation of many species of varying climates. they have insects such as my species the Tri'lxl yan, The bovine race of the Ha'loon, Even the frigid cold loving Kan'yanx! all in one planet. but so many more as well. Every member species of this galactic chamber has a form of species on that planet." Scryxl says showing the counterparts of the species that live on the planet. Each one shocking the members as they all. stare in wonder. "From deserts that run upwards of 139+ degrees in heat. to frigid colds that reach 200 below 0. This planet holds every conceivable environment known. However they have storms there that make our own homeworld devastators seem like a light drizzle. Winds gaining speeds over 300 miles per hour. Strikes of super heated plasma that explode the very atmosphere around itself, swirling devil pillars that destroy countless miles of landscapes, fires that burn entire forests and even quakes that shatter and alter the very ground beneath the species feet! This world even has actively erupting Volcanos and Even a new classification we have dubbed "Super volcanos" Who's entire covered summit span hundreds of miles across." Scryxl speaks once again as the holograms continue showing footage of the disasters. wooden objects piercing solid stone from winds, hurricanes and lightning strikes, earthquakes and tornados ravaging the land as fires and volcanos are shown making nearly every member of the council fear for their own lives just seeing these things.
"What the hell kind of devil world has the high council found Scryxl? What in all of the holy ones has gone wrong for the universe to BIRTH SUCH AN ATROCITY?" A Oylynx asks. the Oylynx being a bipedal Owl like species.
"Ah but that's the thing. Nothing was wrong. We of the council believe this world has existed as a counter balance to everything else good in the galaxy. Where one species thrived another on this world didn't, Where one species died another was born here. But that the planet itself is nothing when we compare it to the dominant species of the world." Scryxl says as he Pulls out a small orb from his robes that floats up and brings up a huge display showing a nearly hairless Bipedal creature with two arms, two legs, two eyes and diagrams of organs, range of motion, even diagrams of its entire internal systems shocking every species in the room who immediately begin staring in fascination, horror and wonder. Some species even stare in lust and primal hunger at the vulnerable looking species.
"I ask for your attention here. I know how these species look but....Believe me when i say that these beings..These Human Beings are far from helpless." Scryxl speaks as the orb that showed the diagrams and medical knowledge soon changes to showing these creatures in various activities. Everything from fighting huge forest fires, Two or more Humans in ejat appears to be gladiatorial matches beating each other into unconsciousness. Speeding vehicles smashing into corners and flipping as they race these metal coffins around designated tracks and crashing large vehicles into one another or smaller ones even a large Reptilian looking metal behemoth that breaths fire and grabs and eats other metal vehicles of transport. The videos switch to shots of combat between the species and how they devastate each other with their weapons ranging from knife fights, fist fights and even weapons that spit fire and cause entire holes to be blown in their enemies. Some who lost limbs to explosive devices or having holes inside them still continue to fight back against attackers. One video shows a species resembling the Guzvaldi mauling a human being leaving him bleeding and having huge gashes and missing chunks of himself who after the attack gets back up and heads to seek medical attention.
"This species calling itself Human Beings are just Built Different. Everything you see here is footage captured by our drones and archives of data these humans have kept of their own past so they do not repeat the mistakes they made previously. We have footage ranging from their mating habits, To fights, to everyday life and then some. This species was forged out of the wasted genetics of every other species on the planet that in the gestating primordial Ooze cobbled itself together into a usable form. This species has even detailed their origins and evolution from what they call the "Great apes" family. Evolving from tree dwelling apes, to plains striding early humans. They theorized that the planet itself created the entire human species for the simple purpose of being food for every predator species on the planet. They were born with no claws to hunt so they created tools, They had no fur for warmth so they stole fire from nature, They were hunted by everything hiding in tall grass so they evolved to walk upright and see them before being seen themselves. This species survived because of how they hunt and they hunt by literally NEVER getting tired. Imagine if you were Ha'loon grazing in a field and a predator alerted you, you'd run away. Problem is humans would simply follow you. They alert you again and you would run away again and humans would follow. This species Tracked, hunted and killed species of animals by outlasting them all in endurance and learning to throw pointed sticks and rocks." Scryxl spoke as 3D imaging showed just what he was talking about causing a few of the Ha'loon species to faint or cower in fear. Predators that never tire and could track you for miles? Worst nightmare fuel to give them.
"Humans were spited by the very nature of their homeworld and so humans evolved in a way to spite nature. See here, Half of the species in this room can easily be exterminated by two extremely deadly chemical poisons. Capsaicin and Caffeine. My species included. Humans have a plant there on the Earth THAT NATURALLY PRODUCE THEM!" Scryxl clicks a button showing two plants shocking the council.
"Not only this but the reason those plants exist is that they evolved this way so as to not be eaten by any species! The plants are called Jalapeno and Aravica Berries. Humans didn't get the memo that nature wanted these plants to be left alone and decided that just to spite nature they will STILL EAT THEM!" Scryxl says showing videos of Humans eating the plants happily and causing gasps.
"That's not the worst part, This species has also selectively bred the Jalapeno plant with other naturally occuring plants to make hybrids with even more naturally occuring capsaicin. They bred it to the point one pepper species contains so much capsaicin that JUST ONE PEPPER can literally cause the extinction of every exoskeletal species on the council. However to the humans it causes Extreme pain and hallucinations. The humans still eat them." Scryxl speaks showing a bunch of different humans eating the literal genocide plant and not even caring.
"The caffeine? they somehow found a way to concentrate the chemical by roasting the seed that holds it and turning it into a drink." Scryxl shows people drinking different colored liquids of what is called coffee showing diagrams of how the caffeine was concentrated 1000 Times the norm in the plant.
"They are even able to eat the fermented cacao plant. They call it Chocolate! its considered a delicious snack." Scryxl says showing large groups having muddy brown bricks in their hands being enjoyed as snacks by this species as well as a liquid drink.
"The Human species has been Classified just as insane as the world that birthed them. This species however has done something not even we of this galactic conglomerate of species has thought to do and even the high council has agreed that we will soon be working on bringing it to ourselves." Scryxl says as he brings up something that no one seems to understand.
"The humans of earth are technologically attuned to the point they are already exploring the other planets of their system. We captured a probe they sent that had all the information we could ever want on then including language, translations, diagrams and stories of battles past. They even created a strange thing called "The Internet" which is a massive interconnected network of nodes and information caches worldwide that anyone at anytime can access with the right equipment. This "Internet" holds the entirety of the humans collective knowledge on ... well everything! Its a massive data store that is actively updated, improved and worked on to the point they are even experimenting with augmenting the very fabric of their perceived reality with digital information!" Scryxl says as he shows humans wearing headsets that while not transporting the human itself it transforms the world around them into something new for them to enjoy bringing awe and wonder to other species.
"This Internet is also a store of many...interesting things. The internet has many rules to follow but one Universal rule known the world over is one dubbed Rule 34. That rule in particular based on translation with help of the probe we caught named " Voyager 1" is states "Rule 34: If it Exists, their is porn of it. No exceptions." Now this is obviously hyperbole right? Humans don't know of alien species right? That is correct but Humans have before any other species theorized about the existence of alien life and Theorized what those species could or would look like. They archived them on the Internet through Art pieces and drawings. like this one." Scryxl says as he pulls up images from a human website called e621. the images shown are mostly harmless but very very explicit showing many varying different species that all call this galaxy home.
"As you can see the human species has a mind forever curious of the universe around them and by sheer LUCK they have somehow guessed somewhat accurate depictions of many of the species in this room. They also express interest in mating with these depictions as seen by these humans in what is called a " Comment section" and humans have no shame dressing up as though they were these species! These humans are called Furries and Scallies!" Scryxl continues as he shows images of humans wearing full suits to turn themselves into facsimiles of these various species.
"But be warned if you do try and mate with humans. they may seem vulnerable however they are anything but. This here is how human muscles work." Scryxl says showing an animated depiction of a group of muscles working in tandem to expand and contract to facilitate movement showing they work like levers giving humans untold strength beyond what normal species have.
"They grew this kind of muscle because otherwise they could not survive the gravity of their own planet. Its gravity is 9.32 Meters per second per second. Meaning 9.32meteres Squared. The planet earth has a gravity 2.465 times the Galactic average and humans see this as no big deal. Not only that but the clips i showed of their version of warfare? yeah that is merely a light skirmish between two countries. The humans who lost limbs and had holes shot in them? even the one man Mauled by that quadruped species who got up? its because of another deadly chemical that can quite literally cause death to nearly All the species here so much so that it was declared that production from any source would be considered treason and result in banishment from the galactic council? Yes I speak of adrenaline! the potent chemical that send even the weakest amongst us into a violent killing frenzy that would take a full security detail to stop." Scryxl says as he shows the diagram of a human brain showing one very tiny portion before a label comes up calling it by name.
"This is the Human Adrenal gland located in the brain. Under extreme duress, stress and damage this tiny gland floods the human body with enough adrenaline to kill 10 full Grown Diz'clixian warrior caste! It does this to keep the human alive long enough to find medical attention. Humans evolved a gland to produce a chemical that makes them nearly unkillable simply to survive the bullshit their own planet throws at them! This species defies logic, reason and calls the very concept of what it takes for life to form into question. We of the high council Brought this species to attention now for the simple reason that we need you all to understand that you are not to engage humans in any form of combat or contact." scryxel says as another diagram shows up showing a large invading fleet of star ships as it seems to be nearing planet earth.
"We say this because Humans are quite literally just built different and they may not be around very long. an invading force of reavers from the andromeda galaxy have arrived and set their sites on earth as a staging point. We can not contact Earth because we all need to prepare for the inevitable galactic war approaching. The only thing we can do is hope that Humans being built different is enough to stall the reavers and buy us time to gather the forces we need to fight them. This council is hereby dismissed. Alert your ruling governments of the incoming threat and the species who are unknowingly about to hold the line for us all." Scryxl says as he walks away to an elevator ascending to an upper floor leaving the visual display of earth and all the information on earth free to be transmitted. The galactic Council mourning what possible could have been a very welcomed or hated addition to the Galaxy at large.
2024.04.09 22:55 Doubtfulaboutit Elden Ring Design Inspiration
 | NOTE: the numbering got out of order when I posted so don’t read too much into paragraphs numbers. submitted by Doubtfulaboutit to eldenringdiscussion [link] [comments] The Great Runes of Elden Ring all correspond in some way to the whole of the Elden Ring that we see depicted on the title screen and in Marika's body. (I won't be discussing the Lattice in the background that is associated with Radagon simply because that is not a rune that the game grants us or seems to do much with, although it is possible its an interpretation of the pillars I mention below). https://preview.redd.it/syohlz7ooitc1.jpg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f7d24a5f0405ed082a9b8a26fae096853941f670 All of these runes exist as one within Marika up until the shattering, during which they are claimed by various demigods (with exception to Rennala as Radagon gifts the Rune of the Unborn to her). While all of these fit pretty easily into the design of the Elden Ring the game is famous for, there is another design that the rings fit (fairly) neatly into that I believe served as the inspiration for the Elden Ring and, to some degree, even characteristics of the demi gods themselves. In Kabbalah there is a tree known as the Sephiroth (no, not that one) Tree. The tree is at the core of Kabballah, it's most influential and multi-layered symbol. Kabbalah is not an exact practice across time and you will find a great variety of explanations, art and diagrams that attempt to explain humanity's existence. However, some aspects are fairly consistent. https://preview.redd.it/o14tndppoitc1.jpg?width=1668&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=95932ae6c1b3fb4b0ada5b10f29a69d365dff24c The Sephiroth tree is called such because there are the ten Sephiroths (or sefirots), primal numbers which, in combination with the twenty-two letters of the Hebrew alphabet, represent the plan of creation (or Order of Creation) of all upper and lower things. They are the ten names, attributes or powers of God, and form a pulsating organism called the "mystical face of God" or the "Body of the Universe". It stands on the Three Pillars: Mercy (Right), Severity/Punishment (Left) and Balance (Central). The central pillar is the spine or lineage through which the Divine Dew flows down. The 10 Sephiroth are also separated into Four Worlds: the light world, the throne world, the world of angels and the spiritual world corresponding with the material world (these aren't super important but factor into the design). You can google longer and more in-depth explanations of each of the ten attributes but I'll provide a brief explanation of each here: World 1:
https://preview.redd.it/gvlxto7roitc1.jpg?width=1668&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5a17b211b440df099a29eacae171bf028308b42c That is a lot to just throw onto the tree so lets break it down:
https://preview.redd.it/ko5c5uvsoitc1.jpg?width=1668&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2840b00b42099cb1d0703bb85abd5505f8a14a87 In contrast to this symbol of life, the Rune of Death is the inverse, the rune being upturned in the opposite direction https://preview.redd.it/gmjf3rwtoitc1.jpg?width=512&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=665ae556bc78e203ac4e2f2963cb8462e824c056 "BUT WAIT!! What about Messmer?" Good question, there is an 11th Sephiroth, a hidden one. (No Im not making this up) https://preview.redd.it/pzd8098voitc1.jpg?width=1668&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=54e2762f0701dc533c673614bc0ef5aeeed575d6
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2024.04.09 22:17 Doubtfulaboutit The Elden Ring's Rune Design Inspiration
 | NOTE: the numbering got out of order when I posted so don’t read too much into paragraphs numbers. submitted by Doubtfulaboutit to Eldenring [link] [comments] The Great Runes of Elden Ring all correspond in some way to the whole of the Elden Ring that we see depicted on the title screen and in Marika's body. (I won't be discussing the Lattice in the background that is associated with Radagon simply because that is not a rune that the game grants us or seems to do much with, although it is possible its an interpretation of the pillars I mention below). https://preview.redd.it/rd6cqhmreitc1.jpg?width=666&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7ebe41286a25b4ac7a640d52c02ad6ed45de2fa1 All of these runes exist as one within Marika up until the shattering, during which they are claimed by various demigods (with exception to Rennala as Radagon gifts the Rune of the Unborn to her). While all of these fit pretty easily into the design of the Elden Ring the game is famous for, there is another design that the rings fit (fairly) neatly into that I believe served as the inspiration for the Elden Ring and, to some degree, even characteristics of the demi gods themselves. In Kabbalah there is a tree known as the Sephiroth (no, not that one) Tree. The tree is at the core of Kabballah, it's most influential and multi-layered symbol. Kabbalah is not an exact practice across time and you will find a great variety of explanations, art and diagrams that attempt to explain humanity's existence. However, some aspects are fairly consistent. Numbers are linked to English translation below The Sephiroth tree is called such because there are the ten Sephiroths (or sefirots), primal numbers which, in combination with the twenty-two letters of the Hebrew alphabet, represent the plan of creation (or Order of Creation) of all upper and lower things. They are the ten names, attributes or powers of God, and form a pulsating organism called the "mystical face of God" or the "Body of the Universe". It stands on the Three Pillars: Mercy (Right), Severity/Punishment (Left) and Balance (Central). The central pillar is the spine or lineage through which the Divine Dew flows down. The 10 Sephiroth are also separated into Four Worlds: the light world, the throne world, the world of angels and the spiritual world corresponding with the material world (these aren't super important but factor into the design). You can google longer and more in-depth explanations of each of the ten attributes but I'll provide a brief explanation of each here: World 1:
https://preview.redd.it/8zbuz74dyhtc1.jpg?width=1668&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4509df1612b72a752736321949ebda20ae0c2bdf That is a lot to just throw onto the tree so lets break it down:
https://preview.redd.it/3rtl3a6vditc1.jpg?width=1668&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e333d80a02d7447467e0e4d61ffd7736f16d7ffc In contrast to this symbol of life, the Rune of Death is the inverse, the rune being upturned in the opposite direction. https://preview.redd.it/rljh5jxeeitc1.jpg?width=512&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0699626631a08243d09c8bcdf65e59091180d6b8 "BUT WAIT!! What about Messmer?" Good question, there is an 11th Sephiroth, a hidden one. (No Im not making this up). https://preview.redd.it/7irpp5yfgitc1.jpg?width=1668&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=97be0135ee414f5c667db6d5e310c1b2fe33bec8
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2024.04.02 17:16 AhuraApollyon Apocalypse of the 19th century. The true story of genocide
 | https://preview.redd.it/xsqk6rui13sc1.jpg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a24a82c7489e0821002087c65a5098063148986a submitted by AhuraApollyon to CulturalLayer [link] [comments] I didn't write this so don't get mad at me. I translated some of the images, omitted the filler images and added some links to illustrate some of the ideas. Read the full article bellow Original https://www.tart-aria.info/apokalipsis-xix-veka-podlinnaja-istorija-genocida/ Apocalypse of the 19th century. The true story of genocide Neo Ficial 02/21/2022 Introduction Why does humanity need to know about the past? To learn from it and not repeat mistakes. However, what lessons can you and I learn if we don’t have a past, and the whole story was invented for us? You've probably heard the phrase “rewriting history,” or something similar. In the comments to films on the YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/c/unofficialhistory, the thesis was often voiced that it is impossible to rewrite the whole history, since these are different countries, sometimes very unfriendly to each other, different political systems, different languages, etc. These are millions of copies of archival documents and physical artifacts. We will return to the issue of languages, documents in archives and ancient objects today, later, but now, in order to understand how history is written, it is enough to remember the old joke: A man returns on a train from a business trip. It takes a place on the bottom shelf of a compartment carriage and suddenly, a slender female leg hangs from the top shelf. Fellow travelers meet, they begin an affair, and they get off together at a station that is far from the traveler’s destination. The next morning, the man, having freed himself from the embrace of his mistress, sends an SMS to his legal wife: “I was on the train, dot, my leg turned up, dot, I’m lying in bed, dot, kiss, dot.Please note, friends, every word said by the man in the message is the pure truth. However, did he tell the truth to his wife? Definitely not. This paradox is actively used for historical falsifications. Thus, we understand how we could hide the past, very simply, by mixing lies with truth. When presenting information, some facts are kept silent, and several true facts, preferably known to everyone, are added to the obviously false ones, then all the information as a whole looks truthful. Then repeat it several times, from different sources, preferably popular and known to be trusted. Then this information itself becomes an axiom, and can already be used as evidence. This is called manipulation of facts. This happens all the time in official history. Manipulation of history is a huge complex machine, a whole system that tries to take into account even the little things, but still this machine is not able to grasp the immensity, and like any machine, sometimes it fails, missing some grains, and in these grains we and you can recreate the whole picture of what happened in the past. Regardless of which version of history is considered official, one way or another, according to any version of history, at a certain point in time some kind of turning point occurred and people had to start all over again. Thus, our entire civilization is a post-apocalypse, we are still trying to get out of the hole that we abandoned as a result of the catastrophic events of the past. If you remember, the so-called official history, which is described in school textbooks, conventionally divides the history of mankind into several periods: Primitive society, tribal system, hunting and gathering; Slave system, Ancient Rome, Ancient Greece, Ancient East; Feudalism, the so-called “Middle Ages”; Capitalist structure. It should be noted here that many of the events described in official history actually took place, only as in that anecdote, under other circumstances, in another place and at another time. We ourselves remember the events of the 21st century, since we were direct witnesses to this, according to the chronology of the events of the 20th century, there is quite a lot of documentary evidence and living witnesses, but then it’s more complicated. The line of historical events now used by official science is valid from the present day only until the middle of the 19th century, and earlier events are already located on the chronological line as the officials arranged them. Moreover, the events of the so-called “Middle Ages” actually took place precisely in the 19th century, and the events of the 19th century went back to the Middle Ages or even further into the depths of centuries.Apocalypse of the 19th century. (diagram) You can easily see this for yourself if you take any event from “deep antiquity” and look for connections with other events of that era and the 19th century. In most cases, it turns out that the “ancient” event is associated with the 19th century much more than with the era to which it is attributed. The material is very difficult to understand; in order to understand all the logic presented in the article, it is very important not to make hasty conclusions, but to read it completely, in order and to the end. Treat everything you read as a fairy tale, some kind of fantastic story, and after reading to the end, you will decide for yourself whether this could have happened or not. As they say, knowledge begins with surprise. To make it easier for you to understand, later in the article I will use the modern calendar system and chronological scale, as well as call the states as they are called today, although in the past, the countries located in these territories were called differently and the chronology was different. I will also use modern terminology in the names of processes and technical means. If we have previously considered any issue in more detail, I will refer to an article on this issue. And one more important detail: the dates used. Here I want to especially emphasize that this is just an official backdating that deliberately placed different episodes of one event in different years in the chronology, or even in different periods in history, in order to hide the event itself. The article is based on well-known dates taken from open sources. The dates have been refined as much as modern science allows. However, it was modern official science that repeatedly manipulated dates, spreading events one after another in time, and placing events from different periods side by side. That is why I never tire of saying - do not believe me, since I do not claim to be the ultimate truth. If you are really interested, doubt it and check for yourself Chapter 1. Life “BEFORE”. Background Before the cataclysm, the world was global, there was a single architectural and engineering school, a single cultural civilization, with advanced technologies, significantly superior to ours in terms of scientific and technological development. Here I would like to recall the most common statement of skeptics that in the age of horse-drawn carriages there could not have been nuclear weapons. Firstly , bows, flintlock guns and horse-drawn carts, this is all post-apocalyptic, we will return to this later. Secondly , even if in our time you come to New Guinea, or the Amazonian Selva, and look at the level of technical development of those tribes, then it will be difficult to believe in our nuclear age There were only 6 large states in the world. What these countries were called is now unknown for certain. We will conventionally call these countries “Huge Powers”. Although this is a very real and not a conditional definition. They really were huge, literally and figuratively, since some countries occupied an entire continent, and the level of scientific and technological development was significantly higher than the development of our civilization. Political map of the world before the apocalypse Political map of the world before the apocalypse South America. Africa, excluding the Mediterranean coast. Australia. India, China, Indochina, Indonesia. Atlantis, which we know as Antarctica, is not shown for simplicity. Hyperborea, let's conventionally call this country that. I repeat, what it was called is now unknown for certain. It was a huge country over which the sun never set, it stretched from the European coast of the Atlantic Ocean to the east coast of the modern USA, encircling the entire northern part of the world, shown in red on the map. This country included the territories of the former USSR, the USA, Canada, Northern Mexico, all countries of Europe, the African coast of the Mediterranean Sea, the Arabian Peninsula, and Iran. The land borders in Egypt and China are shown conditionally, because there is no data on where exactly they were. Here I would like to note that the Bering Strait did not exist and Asia and North America were connected by a wide isthmus. At the same time, the Arctic Ocean was just an internal Hyperborean Sea, and a warm one, since throughout the entire earth there was a uniformly warm subtropical climate, which was maintained by the water-steam layer in the atmosphere. There were no deserts, cold zones or permafrost at all. Dense ancient forests grew all over the land. On the topic of climate change, there are already two articles on our website ( here and here ), but today we will return to this topic more than once. People lived in harmony with nature and enjoyed excellent health and long life. The priority was goodness, mutual assistance and respect; all those universal human values that we now strive for all the time, but cannot achieve, were commonplace at that time. It was this world that became the prototype of the Biblical paradise, into which people supposedly will go after death. Chapter 2. Apocalypse I would like to make two clarifications right away: When we say “nuclear weapons,” we mean weapons comparable in power to nuclear weapons. Naturally, the principle of operation of this weapon could be anything, even vacuum, even electromagnetic, even plasma, even something we don’t yet know. But nuclear weapons, precisely as weapons of mass destruction as such, were also used during this war. At the same time, I emphasize that simultaneously with nuclear weapons, other types of weapons were used, comparable in power to them. I deliberately call the events of the early 19th century the word “cataclysm” or “apocalypse”, and not just nuclear war, because the war itself is just one of several episodes of that disaster. The whole catastrophe consisted of several stages, the first stage of which was a war with the use of weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear weapons. Natural collapse is the next stages. The chronology of the apocalypse itself was as follows: Carpet nuclear strikes. The soil from the explosions is raised into the sky. Massive fires from explosions burned organic matter over vast areas. Earthquakes and volcanic eruptions caused by stress in the earth's crust. Again the soil is raised into the sky, this time it is ash and ash. Since vast areas were stripped of vegetation, powerful dust storms began. Which also lifted another portion of soil into the sky. The amount of dust in the atmosphere has reached a “critical mass”; the water-steam layer is collapsing at the poles and mud rains all over the Earth. At the same time, you need to understand that all these events occurred in a relatively short period of time and were directly interconnected, so they need to be considered all together, as one single event. 1. Progress of the war We are well aware of the course of events during the nuclear war itself, but we do not know what its true cause was and, most likely, we will never know. Here I can only assume that the conflict began over the Mediterranean coast of Africa and in particular the territory of Morocco. The African state probably laid claim to the entire continent, but its northern part was inhabited by, in modern parlance, “Slavic peoples.” I would like to emphasize right away that initially the people were united, there was not even a concept of “nationality”, all nationalities will be invented later, but we will return to this issue later, but for now we are looking at the chronology of events. According to our assumption, the African state wanted to gain control of the Mediterranean coast of the continent and on this basis a conflict arose. There were probably attempts to resolve the issue diplomatically, since the alliance of Hyperborea and India was opposed by the alliance of Africa and Australia. We don’t know how long the negotiations took and how they culminated, but on one autumn day, according to the modern calendar it was the end of October, surface-to-surface intercontinental ballistic missiles were launched from Africa. Africa launched targeted nuclear strikes on economically important and densely populated areas of Siberia and North America. Australia carried out similar surgical strikes in Siberia and India https://preview.redd.it/nl54o7xpo2sc1.png?width=1536&format=png&auto=webp&s=ee9b8799ac42e6fb861efa95e11eb1b81cf1e655 Hyperborea launched retaliatory targeted strikes on the territories of Africa and Australia. India gave an answer only in the direction of Australia, since trade agreements with Africa were still in force at that time.Apocalypse of the 19th century. In military affairs there is a concept of main targets and secondary ones, and these targeted strikes were carried out precisely on the main targets. After delivering targeted strikes, the Perimeter systems of both sides of the conflict activated the launch of all available nuclear weapons, or most of them. Subsequently, this system was called “Weapons of Retaliation.” Thanks to the actions of air defense systems, some of the launched missiles were destroyed and did not reach their targets. But there were a lot of missiles, too many. “Discourse on the Seven Suns.” Collection of Komi-Permyak folk tales “One Hundred Silver Horses”: “...When the fifth sun appeared, the ocean gradually dried up, when the sixth sun appeared, “the whole world was filled with smoke,” when the seventh sun appeared, the whole world split under the pressure of the flames.” A strategic massive strike was carried out with weapons of mass destruction, through carpet bombing with ground-based contact detonation cluster munitions, in combination with individual strikes with especially high-power air detonation ammunition, including the concentration of several powerful strikes over a limited area, turning into deserts a flourishing region in which the life. https://preview.redd.it/pcjlm5ih8xrc1.jpg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2bf331bfa887c010f77a198e972cb6f80746f0e1 For example, the Sahara, it became a desert precisely as a result of the events of the early 19th century. Thus, we immediately answer two popular questions - why was it necessary to bomb the deserts and why was it necessary to strike so densely. Eye of the Sahara https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richat_Structure To make it easier for you to understand the scale of the tragedy, I will give a simple example. Ground-based nuclear explosions carried out at the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site had a total power of approximately 100 megatons. Even if they were blown up in a short period of time, the zone of complete destruction would be only 8,500 sq. km. This is a square measuring 92 by 92 kilometers. The continuous fire zone is a square of 107 by 107 km. And all this is entirely within the testing area, and not halfway around the world. And naturally, this will not cover cities around the world with clay by 2 meters or more. Even looking at photographs of the craters, 200 years later, you understand what a hellish meat grinder there was. There is no need to even talk about the fact that these are karst sinkholes, since the formation of karst sinkholes requires liquid water, and here is Siberia, that is, permafrost. Meteorites? Perhaps, but why so selective and crowded? We look at what types of craters there are and how they differ in the article “Cesium-137 in Ryazan land7” . But even if half of these craters are craters from nuclear explosions, then calculate for yourself, based on the size of the crater, the power of the charge and the mass of soil raised into the atmosphere. https://preview.redd.it/m7wit09s8xrc1.jpg?width=1277&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d6b0962bb554c21a265a5e5678112f1214783694 For reference: a crater with a diameter of 390 meters is left by a ground-based nuclear explosion with a capacity of 1 megaton in TNT equivalent, and the height of the rise of the cloud from such an explosion is 19 km. The heaviest and largest particles, such as sand, settle around the epicenter of the explosion. But depending on the power of the explosion, even sand is thrown into the upper layers of the atmosphere, and not just clay. But then why did the ancient cities survive, you ask? It all depends on the size of the city and its role in the strategic plan. Option one: more powerful charges flew to another address, and several smaller charges were thrown at one large city and they were not enough to completely wipe the city off the face of the earth, as for example there was one airborne nuclear explosion over Tula and one slightly south of Tula. Option two: all the charges that were in the launchers were fired automatically at specific, predetermined targets. Option three, there were no important targets in the surviving city. Actually, the nuclear war itself did not last long. For example, the flight time of modern missiles is less than 20 minutes, so the total duration of hostilities in that war was one, maximum two days. There were also ground-based combined-arms operations, but there were literally only a few of them recorded: there were several instances of military clashes, as well as several cases of landings on enemy territory, but they did not affect the overall course of events, therefore, within the framework of this article, we will not consider combined-arms operations so as not to overload the reader with material. In fact, the entire war consisted of an exchange of blows with weapons of mass destruction. Most of the inhabitants of the earth did not even have time to understand that the war had begun and ended. But the subsequent cataclysms lasted about two years. That is why, in popular memory and folklore, such a concept as a flood has been preserved, but there are practically no memories of the war itself. And since we have touched on the topic of popular memory, I will immediately answer the question of why no one remembers this nuclear war. The first and most basic reason was stated above - the transience of the war itself. The second reason is the so-called subjective perception factor. Here, in fact, everything is simple, people told their descendants either fairy tales, or what they themselves witnessed, or what their ancestors told them. However, if there are no such stories, this does not mean at all that this did not happen, it’s just that their ancestors don’t remember this (they didn’t see it, they don’t know how to explain it, etc.). Perhaps they were lucky to live in an area where there were no nuclear attacks, and subsequent disasters were not so terrible. Perhaps their story was somehow allegorical, perhaps figurative. For example, let’s say I have never seen a trolleybus in my life. I have no idea what it is and on what principles it functions. The most I know about technology is the structure of a cart. Now, please tell me how this cart with horns rides without a horse? Another example, can you by eye distinguish the flight of a meteorite from the flight of a Sarmatian missile warhead? Even specialists cannot do this without the appropriate equipment. And a person who sees an object flying in the sky will draw exactly what he sees - a light stripe, since in a motionless drawing it is very difficult to convey movement, especially the movement of a luminous object, especially one moving at great speed.Apocalypse of the 19th century. https://preview.redd.it/b0puynu09xrc1.jpg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=54882c2dedccad585e00036f9f1fff319b5b6a74 After some time, another person looking at this picture will perceive what is depicted as lightning or an asteroid, since, in his mind, there are no other examples of what it could be, and the brain is designed in such a way that it perceives on the principle of analogy, and if the brain does not find analogues, then a person simply may not notice this or that thing. The third reason is the objective factor of perception: after all, a nuclear mushroom is not a nuclear explosion itself, as many people think, these are just convective currents of air and dust that form after a light flash, which is actually a nuclear explosion. But the strength of the light emitted by the fireball in a flash of light is such that you can not only go blind, but even burn out, therefore, it is quite natural that people who saw the fireball could not tell what the mushroom looks like. They either went blind, burned, or hid. And if people took cover from the flash of light in a timely manner, they might well not have seen the nuclear mushroom. Who remembers the old instructions on civil defense in schools of the USSR, they read: “Duck down, cover up and DON’T LOOK at the flash.” To understand what a fireball of a nuclear explosion is, try at noon on a bright sunny day, at least for a minute, to look at the sun without glasses and without closing your eyes! Naturally, you don’t even need to try to do this, otherwise you risk severely damaging your vision. But I think you understand the example, and the light flash of a nuclear explosion is thousands of times brighter. Of course, you will say that it’s a weak explanation, I don’t argue, but perhaps that’s why there is still isolated evidence of these fireballs, since there were people who, observing a nuclear explosion from a safe distance, even found the strength to write it down, and the documents were preserved in the archives. We looked at these, and many other documents from the Tula State Archive, in the article, “The explosion over Tula in 1830, or a forgotten war https://www.tart-aria.info/vzryv-nad-tuloj-1830-goda-ili-zabytaja-vojna/. ” Three archival documents describe a fireball exploding over the city. After the release of this film, there was a flurry of comments that it was a meteorite or an asteroid. I am sure that such comments and accusations of illiteracy will continue today. https://preview.redd.it/l6few8mfyyrc1.png?width=2234&format=png&auto=webp&s=7ce612dc07662aee51c328e4490a322bccf3fea4 Firstly , in the register of meteorites, comets and asteroids, the object that exploded over Tula at the beginning of the 19th century is not even close, and besides, there is simply no point in hiding a natural disaster. Yes, the mayor does not write in his report that it was a nuclear missile, but his report also does not indicate that it was a meteorite. The mayor wrote only what he saw. And he saw a flying fireball. Secondly , I have already said many times, Cesium-137 is a man-made product and is not found in meteorite craters, but in Tula, in the layer of a fire in 1834, at a depth of 2 meters, Cesium-137 was discovered, which is a product of the nuclear decay of uranium or plutonium. Moreover, in the layers above or below, this cesium isotope is not present. But cesium cannot be a trace of a meteorite, for one simple reason: the half-life of Cesium-137 is no more than 30 years. Over millions of years, while the meteorite wanders through the expanses of space, not a trace of cesium would remain. Thirdly , from a meteorite hitting the ground, Cesium-137 is not formed, as some tried to convince me. Cesium-137 is a man-made product and is a product of the nuclear decay of Uranium or Plutonium, and is formed only during a nuclear decay reaction and nothing else (from the word at all). Consequently, the very presence of Cesium-137 is a fact confirming nuclear decay in this place, and this could be either a nuclear explosion or a nuclear power plant reactor, as they say, there is no third option. Fourthly , Cesium-137 was discovered not only in Tula, but also in neighboring regions, and in territories north of the Chernobyl zone, as well as in other regions of Russia and abroad. Let me digress for just a couple of minutes and explain some fundamentally important things. The most favorite argument against the version of a nuclear war of the past is the topic of several thousand years of radioactive contamination, and skeptics cite Chernobyl as an example. What they say is, “if there had been a nuclear war in the past, then the whole Earth would have erupted like Chernobyl, where it is impossible to live for thousands of years, since everything is contaminated.” There is one very important point here: there was no nuclear explosion at Chernobyl! The explosion at the 4th block of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant is comparable to the explosion of a “dirty bomb”, when radioactive fuel from the reactor was scattered around the epicenter, and finely dispersed radioactive dust was carried by winds over hundreds and thousands of kilometers. To save you time, I'll explain it simply. According to the physics of decay processes, nuclear reactions at the epicenter of a nuclear explosion and in a nuclear power plant reactor are the same. And the significant difference is that in the reactor these processes are controlled and proceed slowly, but in the epicenter of the explosion the reaction is uncontrollable, and the faster the greater the charge power, that is, the amount of the starting substance, is. And during a nuclear explosion, some substances transform into others very quickly, and the greater the power of the charge, the faster these transformations occur, and the greater the amount of substance that has time to react.Apocalypse of the 19th century. That is why, at the site of a nuclear explosion, you can find large quantities of cesium, iodine and other isotopes, which maintain an increased background radiation. But the half-life of Iodine-131 is 8 days, Cesium-137 is 30 years. Please note, half-life, not complete decomposition. This means that after 30 years, there will be half as much cesium, after another 30 years, there will be half of half of it left, and so on. That is, from a “conventional kilogram of Cesium-137”, after 30 years, there will be half a kilogram left, after another 30 years - 250 grams, after another 30 years - 125 grams, etc. Every 30 years, the amount of substance will decrease by 2 times. Thus, after 180 years, from a conventional kilogram of Cesium-137, 15 grams will remain. The numbers are absolutely conditional, just for ease of understanding that after 200 years, it is very possible to find the remainder, but not with a dosimeter, but in the laboratory and by the remaining amount of Cesium-137 and the number of half-lives, you can approximately calculate the date of the event, if you count in reverse side. Thus, the Chernobyl trace, the Semipalatinsk trace and any other modern one are excluded. But the example of Chernobyl (or Fukushima) is not suitable, as you already understood, for the reason that mainly the original radioactive fuel is scattered there. Decay products, of course, also exist, but they are thousands of times smaller, and it is the radioactive fuel that will maintain a high radioactive background for hundreds of thousands of years. But let's return to the issue of fireballs, because interestingly, a similar phenomenon was observed in North America. This event was called the "Starfall of 1833." On November 12-13, 1833, 34,640 star falls per hour were recorded, calculated by Professor Olmsted after the weakening of the stellar flow. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fc/Leonids-1833.jpg Don’t ask how or what he thought, but today there are no analogues to this event. Agnes Clarke, in her book A History of Astronomy in the Nineteenth Century, wrote: “As a result of the meteor shower of 1833, the study of meteorites once and for all became an integral part of astronomy.” According to her comments, North America bore the brunt. On November 12-13, 1824, a bright fireball was seen in Mainz. After it, an earthquake occurred, which was recorded not only in Mainz, but also in Tuscany (Italy). All this was accompanied by thick fog. An earthquake was also recorded on the island of Meleda. And then, on November 27, 1824, a fireball the size of the Moon was observed in Prague. From 1800 to 1850 huge meteors or small fragments of certain bodies fell from the sky almost every day. In 1887 in the USA, Daniel Kirkwood, in the quarterly journal published by the American Philosophical Society since 1838, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, provided a list of the most significant cosmic incidents of the 19th century: “In 1822, from November 12 to 13, various phenomena were noticed not only throughout Europe. Countless shooting stars in Orenburg, Warsaw and Cologne. Lightning in Odessa. A ball of fire, like lightning and a flash of light, from which a kind of small curtain of light unfolded, and then once again shone in the bright colors of the rainbow.” Not understanding such a scale, people of that time naturally attributed what was happening to natural phenomena. There are very many books in which meteors, atmospheric phenomena, etc. are recorded. during the period November 12-25, 1824. It is quite obvious that storms, fires, and other natural disasters were caused by one event. Researchers who are skeptical even about the idea of nuclear war in the early 19th century are trying to find any other explanation for the buried buildings, deserts and other non-connections of the office. stories. And one of these explanations is an asteroid/comet, from the impact of which the Drake Passage and the Sahara Desert were allegedly formed, and the asteroid itself allegedly bounced off the planet like a ball. If you look at this strait from a general perspective, it seems that there is an arc here, which was supposedly left by that same fallen asteroid, plowing the bottom. However, take a closer look, there is clearly not a circle here, but almost a right angle. https://malagabay.wordpress.com/2013/12/28/the-drake-passage-impact-event/ And if anyone didn’t know, these islands are a range of volcanoes. And this happened due to a fracture of the tectonic plate caused by the immersion of Antarctica by 400 meters. But we will talk about this further when we touch on the topic of the so-called “World Flood”. https://preview.redd.it/phy9ska4bxrc1.png?width=1918&format=png&auto=webp&s=c4649f3152b766187f137cb92d787b4578568661 One subscriber, compiling her genealogy, carefully studied the Revision Tales of the Ural Cossack Army. In the 1834 census, every fifth or sixth Cossack has the entry: “Died in 1830.” Moreover, this applies to adult Cossacks, and not to their children and wives. Children and wives survived 1830. It turns out that in 1834 they tried to count the Cossacks who died during the massacre in 1830.Apocalypse of the 19th century. Studying the events of those years, we cannot ignore the translation of Proto-Slavic writing, the supposedly “unreadable” Etruscan letter, made by Gennady Stanislavovich Grinevich. I highly recommend reading the original. It just describes the events of the invasion of “Navo Ra”, flying balls with energy very similar to nuclear energy. Next quote: “...the drama of the situation is aggravated by the fact that there is a certain “Navo Ra” - a deadening sun, emitting superheat, with which it kills people as it flies over them....” What are we talking about here? Perhaps about some kind of deadly weapon of incredible destructive power. Literal translation of the text on the stone from the Perugia Museum. But, apparently, there is no need to give its modern translation, since everything in it is quite clear and so, despite the fact that some of its lines cannot yet be translated and some words have been encountered whose interpretation and translation are not always unambiguous. The above text is one of the dramatic pages in the history of the Slavs. History, unknown to us, hidden from us behind the thickness of millennia.” This is how the Mayan Code of Rio describes the effects of radiation, quote: “...the dog that arrived was without hair, and its claws fell off...” This description is nothing more than a description of the characteristic symptoms of radiation sickness. Descriptions have been preserved, as official historians believe, of the beginning of the plague epidemic in 1333 in China: “...before the outbreak of the epidemic, there was a roar underground, the mountains shook and some collapsed, fiery rain fell, those people who saw it went blind and then quickly died...” https://preview.redd.it/p7nsg18kbxrc1.jpg?width=874&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cf635231e273b121cca337d02f2b92e4e46f810c finish reading at : https://www-tart--aria-info.translate.goog/apokalipsis-xix-veka-podlinnaja-istorija-genocida/?\_x\_tr\_sl=auto&\_x\_tr\_tl=en&\_x\_tr\_hl=en&\_x\_tr\_pto=wapp https://www.tart-aria.info/apokalipsis-xix-veka-podlinnaja-istorija-genocida/ fun links https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neolithic_ashmounds https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisk_metallic_burial_case https://www.quora.com/Why-are-coffins-in-the-UK-lead-lined https://www.reddit.com/CulturalLayecomments/c3ky07/interesting_analogy/ https://imgur.com/a/4ejtDrF https://www.reddit.com/CulturalLayecomments/bkfoq1/anomalous_polygonal_masonry_in_the_small_town_of/ https://www.reddit.com/CulturalLayecomments/b96g9x/maps_of_africa_from_1800s_show_less_charted/ https://www.reddit.com/CulturalLayecomments/8wn9pa/buried_russian_churches_a_look_inside/ Original https://www.tart-aria.info/apokalipsis-xix-veka-podlinnaja-istorija-genocida/ |
2024.03.20 18:50 LordIlthari The Dragon Princess Chapter 17: Flail of God Part 1
To say the fight had left everyone, and especially the cavern, a mess, would be putting it lightly. The floor was now quickly thawing mud, everyone was covered in mud and blood, and multiple sections of the cavern had been collapsed, weaponized, or otherwise misplaced. It was fixable, with enough magic, but that was something none of the royals had the time or energy for. Sera limped down the hill with the pair of humans in tow, and they washed the blood and mud from themselves in the river. Leon took the time to bind their wounds, and then the exhausted trio found a sufficiently large tree to flop to sleep under. Sera covered the humans with her wings for warmth, and the trio promptly fell asleep.
The prince of the power of the air caught the wind, and swept it along a course for wicked ends. It blew into the kingdom, where Alfred, father and king, walked under his own cloak of illusions. He drew all his magic within himself, and appeared as nothing but a man, though all his senses were keen. So when the wind was delivered him, he smelled blood upon it. He smelled his daughter’s blood, and a blood most potent, strong with magic, as strong as his own if not stronger. Blood had been shed, a clash of magic, terrible and mighty. He turned at once, and began to run. Leagues flew by under mighty strides, as he moved swifter than any man could have, for even in this mortal guise he was still mighty. Those who saw his back would have said he ran like a man with all Hell behind him. Those who saw his eyes would have said he ran like a man with all Hell before him, and every intention of conquering it.
The trio of royals rose the next day somewhat awkwardly. Not least of all because the humans woke up long before the somewhat slothful dragoness. Leon briefly tried to lift the wing covering him, found he didn’t quite have the leverage, and gave up. He was going to have to miss the sunrise. When Seramis finally did awaken, she paused for a moment before moving, and checked to see if the humans were in a position where her rising wasn’t going to dump them on the ground unceremoniously. She checked under her left wing, and saw Cass’s eyes snap open. The two stared at each other for a moment.
“So, are you going to try to kill me again, or are we good now?” Sera asked, breaking the silence.
“I don’t currently plan on it.” Cassandra replied.
Seramis sighed. That was going to the best she could get. She checked on Leon, and nudged him slightly with her snout to rouse him. She pulled her head back as the prince snapped awake with his hand on his knife. She sighed. “Do all humans wake up this violently?”
“Only when confronted with a dragon six inches from their face.” Leon admitted.
“You’re the one using me as pillow and blanket, so get your instincts under control. You’re hardly a prey animal anyways.” Sera grumbled, and then got up. She was sore, she was very, very sore. Her head ached, her back ached, her tail really ached, and in general she felt somewhat like a ball of yarn a lion had started playing with. She wasn’t sure how she hurt more now after the fight than she had in it, but that was just how life worked.
She needed a drink, and a meal. She practically flopped down at the riverside and began to drink from it, keeping a close eye on the water. The dragon appeared unusually flat, pressed low to the ground to avoid casting a shadow onto the water. Her tail coiled beside her and she winced as the movement agitated her wounds. When she spied a fish, her tail struck like a viper, a particularly drunk and injured viper. The fish escaped. Sera sighed. Bigger game was going to be exhausting to take, though she probably would be able to eat an entire deer.
Cass sat next to her, cupping her own hands to drink. The two remained near to one another, and Sera tried again for the next fish swimming big, and failed. This was growing irritating, and she growled slightly in frustration. She watched Cass remove her bandages, and reach into her cloak. The young queen’s hands were essentially two massive bruises, her wrists were covered in small wounds, and there was still a nasty gash on her leg. She pulled out a silver cup, drew in river water, and cast.
“Phoolana.”
“Theek karo.”
“Ateet.”
The water overflowed its bounds, and ran over her palms and wrists. She breathed a sigh of relief as the bruises on her hands faded, and ugly cuts across her wrists knit to fine, white lines. Sera watched, and saw how many fine white lines there were across her hands and forearms. She’d fought exclusively with blood casting during their battle. The many white lines said it wasn’t just because a lack of water. She cast again and mended her leg. Sera tried and failed to catch another fish. The rumbling that followed might have been annoyance, and it might have been an empty stomach.
“If you’ll allow, I could try and mend some of your injuries.” Cass proposed, slightly awkwardly. It was understandable, it was an awkward situation.
“Go for it.” Sera replied. “I can’t exactly fish like this, and I don’t actually know any healing magic.”
Leon raised an eyebrow at that. “Given everything else I’ve seen you do with magic, I’m somewhat surprised at that. I’d figure with as much shapechanging as you do, healing would be fairly simple. It’s just sort of shapeshifting back into an uninjured state.”
“Totally different schools of magic.” Sera replied, scratching a small diagram into the sand by the river. “Shapechanging is a subset of illusions. It’s just a full five-senses illusion, one powerful enough to deceive inanimate objects, and of course the one making it. Healing magic is more closely associated with, depending on how you approach it, chronomancy or more commonly alchemy.” She drew a hieroglyph for “mind” on one side, with “shape” extending out from it. On the other she drew a symbol for “Alchemy” with “Healing” extending out from it.
“Right, like you’re not a chronomancer.” Cassandra mused sarcastically.
“I’m not, that was basically one step away from just being primal magic.” Sera half admitted, half protested.
“I don’t understand any of this.” Leon sighed in his ignorance.
“Primal magic is the oldest form, raw will and spiritual energy inflicting a change on the mental or material world.” Cass explained, “Spirit” to the diagram, above the rest, then two lines leading into “mental” and “material”. “Sera’s magic uses the mental world, manipulating it, creating illusions, changing shapes, and conjuring from the world of Forms. Mine works by directly influencing the material world, transmuting matter, evoking existing laws of nature, and producing permanent changes. Her approach is more versatile both in what it can do and how she can do it, mine is more limited, but more efficient in terms of energy use and produces effects that can continue without continual application of energy.”
Leon heard this brief lecture on magic, and looked upwards. The two magicians stared for a moment. “What are you doing?” Sera asked.
“Well, that all went very much over my head, but perhaps I can understand it better if I trace its path through the clouds.” Leon replied.
“Gah, the wyrmling version then. She changes things, I make things appear to change. Once a spell of mine stops, things go back to normal. So I could shapechange into a healthier version of myself, but every single injury would be back the moment I stopped maintaining the spell.”
“You could have just led with that.” Leon remarked.
“Well yes, but then you wouldn’t have understood it.” Cass replied.
“I didn’t understand anyways.”
“Can’t fault us for trying. I swear, the amount of blood that flows to one of a man’s heads must truly starve the other of all nutrition.”
Sera blinked. “I’m pretty sure he has only one head.”
“No, his voice is too deep for there to only be one.” Cassandra replied, to Sera’s ongoing confusion.
“Returning to the point at hand, you can do healing magic.” Leon reiterated.
“Yes, but I also understand if you don’t exactly trust me enough to-”
“Go for it.” Sera interrupted, drawing both human’s attention. “I’m fairly certain if you still wanted to kill me you’d have done it last night. That water pistol of yours, or that lightning ball, either one of those would kill me with a solid hit, and it would have been trivial for you to cast that while I was sleeping and kill me.” The dragonness explained, point kind, even if her tone was perhaps a bit less so. “And, I’m very sore and could use the help.”
Cass paused for a moment, considered, and smiled. “Well, you are capable of being sensible. Alright. I’ve never had to undo my own work, so this might take a few casts.” She instinctively went for her rings, but they had been destroyed in the past battle. “Leonidas, would you kindly loan me your knife?”
Leon’s hand went to the knife, then he paused. “You lost quite a bit of blood in that last fight. Are you sure that’s a good idea?”
“It’s not.” Sera added, expression concerned. “As efficient as blood casting can be, with as much as you used, it’s probably not wise for you to use it for maybe a week, unless humans have far more blood than I thought they did. Elijah, would you confirm?”
The familiar pulled himself out of his shadow, and politely bowed to Cassandra. “It’s a little more complicated with her majesty, but broadly, yes. Even though medicine isn’t my specialty, I do know enough to know that kind of casting can result in anemia, and given how sunny the climate is here, being that pale isn’t healthy.”
“I’ve always been pale.” Cassandra replied, arms folded over one another. “It’s just part of being from the north.”
“You’re pale enough to be mistaken for an Inuit in spring.” Elijah responded with a hint of snark. When he saw nobody got the point, he sighed. “Humans who live in the very far north, where the sun rises once in summer and sets once in winter. Regardless, you should probably avoid any blood casting for a while, especially if you’ve always been this pale.”
“You’ve bled enough Cass. No need to bleed more for my sake.” Sera concurred. Cassandra sighed.
“It will be less effective.”
“I’ll manage. No sense in one of us hurting themselves more than they can help another.”
“Hypocrite.” Cass snorted. “Your tail shows it.”
“I said exactly what I said.” Sera replied, though she did regard her wounded tail. “That said, that’s the other reason you should probably avoid blood casting around me. There’s something off with your blood, it’s a bit dangerous for me to be around.”
“Demigod. I suppose the dragons really are the reason why Olympus is silent.” Cass replied with a shrug. “Alright, though let’s start with that. It’s not that different from a wolf bite. Just somewhat larger.” She examined the wound Sera had left on herself carefully, and consulted briefly with Elijah on the finer details of dragon anatomy. Then, she carefully selected her components, and began to cast.
“Jo kiya gaya hai use poorvavat karo.”
“Bhugataan kee gaee keemat vaapas karen.”
“Ghaayal maans ko theek karo.”
The water gleamed with light, and Cassandra carefully applied it to each individual section of the wound, knitting it back piece by piece. Her hands were steady, and her gaze intense. She enacted the healing with the care of a surgeon, even with a far more effective instrument. Soon, the wounds knit together, but there was still a problem. The scales around the injury, once a glossy black, were now a desaturated white color, a bit like dirty snow.
“No, no no. That can’t be right. Hold on I’m so sorry, I’ll fix this, just give me a moment. I must have made some mistake I will fix this.” Cassandra rapidly apologized, fingers shifting through the air nervously. Leon observed them carefully, it really was just fidgeting and not more casting by signs. Sera examined her tail carefully, then coiled it and struck. It moved just as swiftly as before her injury.
“Seems you did a great job. Pain’s gone, scales are back, and it doesn’t feel any weaker. Certainly better work than I could do.”
“Well yes, but clearly it’s not complete.” Cass protested. “I brought your scales back wrong.”
“No, this is pretty normal. Damaged scales grow back without color. I think I asked Elijah about why once, though I don’t remember why.”
“Conserves resources by not needing to produce the additional proteins to create pigmentation, important for socialization among a highly competitive solitary species, primarily acts as a visual social signal for territorial and mating disputes to discourage unfit specimens or signal to juiveniles to not risk proceeding to additional stages of escalation.” Elijah replied.
“Ah, that’s why I forgot, he put it that way.” Sera replied with a faint laugh. “Short version?”
“Color is expensive, and it helped tell other dragons not to meddle with you before your species had language.” Elijah sighed.
“I see where you get your habit of speaking too much.” Leon remarked with a faint smile. Sera shot him a glare, and the smile widened.
“That to say, you didn’t do anything wrong.” Sera explained. “It’s just how dragons heal. If it bothers me I can certainly cover it up with an illusion. Not my first scar, probably not the last.”
“I see. Well then, if you don’t consider me a failure, your eyes, ears, and internals could also use attention. There’s also probably some work to be done soothing the damage caused to your muscular systems and any microfractures caused by the electricity.” Cassandra considered. “Likewsise, bruising, microfactures, muscle damage, probably some organ damage, and also burns for you Leon. I’ll address those as well in a moment, but Sera has certainly suffered more damage. Mostly because I was actually trying to kill her.”
Leon wasn’t sure how to feel about that statement. Cassandra had done a remarkably good job of nearly killing him for someone who wasn’t trying to kill him. He wasn’t sure if he was grateful she held back, offended at the fact his opponent hadn’t fought him all out, or frightened at Cassandra’s definition of nonlethal. He decided to keep his mouth shut for a while, and as Cassandra prepared her next spell, he changed the subject.
“You mentioned this wasn’t your first scar, but I haven’t seen any other ones on you. Already using an illusion?” He asked.
“No, just here.” Sera replied, lifting one of her wings and revealing a patch of white scales. “Got overly enthusiastic with a major shed during one of my growth spurts and took off more than I should have. Bit embarrassing to be honest.”
“I’m surprised I never noticed that before.” Leon admitted.
“Ah, so you’re the sort of man who spends time looking at women’s armpits.” Cass replied, her tone full of feigned accusation.
“What?” Sera asked, once again very confused by the worldly queen.
“Oh it’s just another odd quirk of humans, particularly the men. They find odd things interesting, such as one lord of mine who insists all his house slaves go barefoot.” Cass explained with a sort of wicked glee barely contained behind a professional demeanor. “You know, perverts.”
“Hey!” Leon shouted, sincerely hoping he wasn’t turning red.
“Well he really must be if he’s looking at me with you around.” Sera remarked, and Cass laughed raucously.
“My, my dragoness, you’re a smoother seductress than the prince of Corinth. Aphrodite weeps.” This statement produced an expression neither Cassandra nor Leonidas could have ever imagined a dragon making. Both were in stitches, as Seramis hid her head under her wing.
“This is why I didn’t interact with humans much before. You’re all very queer.”
“Well, Hellenes certainly are.” Cass snorted, clearly enjoying this flavor of humor. “Then again so are you, given you’ve been turning yourself into a man so regularly.”
“I’m not though, the form I take is more akin to what I might look like when I’m fully grown.” Seramis replied with a slight huff. “I was counting on the fact humans can’t tell a dragon from a dragoness whatsoever, and clearly it worked.”
“True, helps that you’re apparently going to have quite the deep voice, perhaps you’re a bit manly for a dragoness.”
“It’s really not that deep by dragon standards, it’s simply how we are.”
“Ah, perhaps that’s why the good prince is interested eh?” Cass replied, producing further spluttering from Leon. “Oh, is it untrue? Then do tell, which of us is fairer?” She teased.
Leon heard that, and promptly turned on his heel. “Nope, nope. Nope!” He walked away at a brisk pace. “That question is dangerous enough with ordinary women, I’m not answering it anywhere near either of you two!” With that, Leon vanished out of range of Cassandra’s teasing, much to the queen’s amusement.
“You’re rather fond of mischief aren’t you?” Sera asked with a carefully neutral tone.
Cass shrugged. “Probably more than a queen aught to be.” Her tone was critical, but her smile was wicked.
A similarly wicked smile spread across Sera’s face. “We are going to do incredible things together.”
Cass cackled. “Let Olympus tremble.”
The trio regrouped to meet back at the entrance to the mountain. Given it was acting as their base, the two magicians set to work mending some of the damage their battle had inflicted. Leon listened as the pair worked and talked shop. The finer details of whatever they were discussing went well over his head, but they seemed to be getting along. He shrugged, consigning himself to never quite understanding magic, but at least not having to worry about the local magicians trying to kill each other again. Then, he felt the wind shift, and something made the hair on the back of his neck stand up.
Leon had his knife out immediately, and turned. The others noticed his behavior, each prepared. Seramis adopted her adult form, and Cassandra picked up a sharp rock to hold in her palm. Both were on edge, as Leon turned, and looked down the mountain. Someone was coming up it, a human, not mounted on any horse, but wearing armor. He was coming up quickly. “We have a problem.” He reported, and remained heavily on edge. Every instinct told him what was coming up that mountain was dangerous, exceedingly so. Cassandra looked down as well, and frowned. “That’s not one of mine.”
“I’ll deal with it.” Seramis rumbled, and took wing to fly down and meet this latest problem. At this point, she was starting to get annoyed. The sheer number of random visitors interrupting her scheme was getting out of hand. Then, she saw who was coming up the mountain, and relaxed. She knew this shape.
Alfred felt his mouth go dry as he approached the mountain, his old lair, his old home. Here where he and his bride had first raised Seramis, before the home he made them under the castle was finished. He remembered the first day he had come here, digging away at magnetite exposed by the winds, and how he had tunneled deeply to dredge up the bounties of the earth for his family. He remembered the first knights that had come, come in the vain quest to slay him. He knew where they had all been.
He remembered the fear most of all. Not because any of the knights posed a threat to him. They were as wheat before the wildfire. But his daughter would soon be born. She would be in danger. His wrath was kindled by fear, and he turned his eyes towards the distant capital. In time they called him the good king, for he had discovered the cruelty of the old and undone it. To be a good father, he had become a good king. But in his private moments, he remembered the fear and the wrath that had drawn him out of the lair. He had feared much in these days, since his daughter departed, and now, the smell of her blood had drawn him back.
Where a dragoness he did not know came down from his home, reeking of his daughter’s blood. It was not Malphus, that at least was some comfort, but clearly a servant of the dark lord. The marks of recent injury were clear, there had been a battle. The wounds on her tail, those were inflicted by a dragon’s maw, and recently. They were freshly healed, still stark white against the dark armor about them. His daughter had returned to her childhood home. She had not departed. Something else had taken it. Someone else had taken his daughter.
For a moment, that realization paralyzed him. The king was frozen in utter terror. But dragons do not freeze. His fire flared, anger boiling over. This dragoness, this servant of evil, had hurt his daughter, had done it in his own home. She had disrupted his kingdom, tried to incite a war, threatened his honor, harmed his friend’s child, taken his home. She. Had. Hurt. His. Daughter.
She was dead.
The king moved, all his strength flooding into the shape not suited for him, and he leapt. He did not have wings, but he was still mighty, and with a bound he cleared the distance between the dragoness and himself. His fist led the way, and there was a crack as he sent scales flying from the dragoness’s jaw. The disorienting blow, combined with the unexpected source, stunned the dragoness. Her eyes suddenly went wide with confusion and terror. He could almost sense her thoughts, wondering how a mere human could have done this.
“fflangellwch nef a daear”
“Gadewch i'm cysgod ddod â braw.
“Fy llid fel tân Uffern.”
A second sun rose over Achaea. There was a sound like the world screaming. Then there was a clap like thunder that threw Leonidas and Casandra back. Both came to their senses in a world that had suddenly transformed into Hell. It was so hot they could barely breathe. Leon dropped his knife, the blade red-hot and hilt searing his flesh. He looked out and saw something like a mountain of ash and smoke. He had heard stories of volcanoes, and now saw one composed of detritus, the winds stoking flames as they sucked into a funnel-shaped body, then erupted out in a pillar of ash that spread above them and turned the bright day dark as twilight.
He saw Seramis half-sunken into the stone which gleamed brilliantly as gemstones and flowed like water around her. She stared upwards, eyes wide into the heart of the flame. All around her was utter devastation. The forest was ablaze. The river was boiling. The mountain was melting. The gold lining the wall gleamed like fireflies and ran like spilled wine.
Seramis looked up at the pillar of smoke and watched it part around its master. Flame incarnate, veiled in scarlet scale, looked down, terrible in his wrath. His wings beat a hurricane in the storm of ash he had conjured, and the world shimmered around him like a mirage, like a nightmare given form. Above the fire’s head was a crown of pure gold, set with seventy eyes that gleamed like gems of every color. The flame, her father, spoke. He did not raise his voice, but his wrath silenced the world about it.
“I am the flail of God. If you had not sinned, God would not have set me upon you.”
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The prince of the power of the air caught the wind, and swept it along a course for wicked ends. It blew into the kingdom, where Alfred, father and king, walked under his own cloak of illusions. He drew all his magic within himself, and appeared as nothing but a man, though all his senses were keen. So when the wind was delivered him, he smelled blood upon it. He smelled his daughter’s blood, and a blood most potent, strong with magic, as strong as his own if not stronger. Blood had been shed, a clash of magic, terrible and mighty. He turned at once, and began to run. Leagues flew by under mighty strides, as he moved swifter than any man could have, for even in this mortal guise he was still mighty. Those who saw his back would have said he ran like a man with all Hell behind him. Those who saw his eyes would have said he ran like a man with all Hell before him, and every intention of conquering it.
The trio of royals rose the next day somewhat awkwardly. Not least of all because the humans woke up long before the somewhat slothful dragoness. Leon briefly tried to lift the wing covering him, found he didn’t quite have the leverage, and gave up. He was going to have to miss the sunrise. When Seramis finally did awaken, she paused for a moment before moving, and checked to see if the humans were in a position where her rising wasn’t going to dump them on the ground unceremoniously. She checked under her left wing, and saw Cass’s eyes snap open. The two stared at each other for a moment.
“So, are you going to try to kill me again, or are we good now?” Sera asked, breaking the silence.
“I don’t currently plan on it.” Cassandra replied.
Seramis sighed. That was going to the best she could get. She checked on Leon, and nudged him slightly with her snout to rouse him. She pulled her head back as the prince snapped awake with his hand on his knife. She sighed. “Do all humans wake up this violently?”
“Only when confronted with a dragon six inches from their face.” Leon admitted.
“You’re the one using me as pillow and blanket, so get your instincts under control. You’re hardly a prey animal anyways.” Sera grumbled, and then got up. She was sore, she was very, very sore. Her head ached, her back ached, her tail really ached, and in general she felt somewhat like a ball of yarn a lion had started playing with. She wasn’t sure how she hurt more now after the fight than she had in it, but that was just how life worked.
She needed a drink, and a meal. She practically flopped down at the riverside and began to drink from it, keeping a close eye on the water. The dragon appeared unusually flat, pressed low to the ground to avoid casting a shadow onto the water. Her tail coiled beside her and she winced as the movement agitated her wounds. When she spied a fish, her tail struck like a viper, a particularly drunk and injured viper. The fish escaped. Sera sighed. Bigger game was going to be exhausting to take, though she probably would be able to eat an entire deer.
Cass sat next to her, cupping her own hands to drink. The two remained near to one another, and Sera tried again for the next fish swimming big, and failed. This was growing irritating, and she growled slightly in frustration. She watched Cass remove her bandages, and reach into her cloak. The young queen’s hands were essentially two massive bruises, her wrists were covered in small wounds, and there was still a nasty gash on her leg. She pulled out a silver cup, drew in river water, and cast.
“Phoolana.”
“Theek karo.”
“Ateet.”
The water overflowed its bounds, and ran over her palms and wrists. She breathed a sigh of relief as the bruises on her hands faded, and ugly cuts across her wrists knit to fine, white lines. Sera watched, and saw how many fine white lines there were across her hands and forearms. She’d fought exclusively with blood casting during their battle. The many white lines said it wasn’t just because a lack of water. She cast again and mended her leg. Sera tried and failed to catch another fish. The rumbling that followed might have been annoyance, and it might have been an empty stomach.
“If you’ll allow, I could try and mend some of your injuries.” Cass proposed, slightly awkwardly. It was understandable, it was an awkward situation.
“Go for it.” Sera replied. “I can’t exactly fish like this, and I don’t actually know any healing magic.”
Leon raised an eyebrow at that. “Given everything else I’ve seen you do with magic, I’m somewhat surprised at that. I’d figure with as much shapechanging as you do, healing would be fairly simple. It’s just sort of shapeshifting back into an uninjured state.”
“Totally different schools of magic.” Sera replied, scratching a small diagram into the sand by the river. “Shapechanging is a subset of illusions. It’s just a full five-senses illusion, one powerful enough to deceive inanimate objects, and of course the one making it. Healing magic is more closely associated with, depending on how you approach it, chronomancy or more commonly alchemy.” She drew a hieroglyph for “mind” on one side, with “shape” extending out from it. On the other she drew a symbol for “Alchemy” with “Healing” extending out from it.
“Right, like you’re not a chronomancer.” Cassandra mused sarcastically.
“I’m not, that was basically one step away from just being primal magic.” Sera half admitted, half protested.
“I don’t understand any of this.” Leon sighed in his ignorance.
“Primal magic is the oldest form, raw will and spiritual energy inflicting a change on the mental or material world.” Cass explained, “Spirit” to the diagram, above the rest, then two lines leading into “mental” and “material”. “Sera’s magic uses the mental world, manipulating it, creating illusions, changing shapes, and conjuring from the world of Forms. Mine works by directly influencing the material world, transmuting matter, evoking existing laws of nature, and producing permanent changes. Her approach is more versatile both in what it can do and how she can do it, mine is more limited, but more efficient in terms of energy use and produces effects that can continue without continual application of energy.”
Leon heard this brief lecture on magic, and looked upwards. The two magicians stared for a moment. “What are you doing?” Sera asked.
“Well, that all went very much over my head, but perhaps I can understand it better if I trace its path through the clouds.” Leon replied.
“Gah, the wyrmling version then. She changes things, I make things appear to change. Once a spell of mine stops, things go back to normal. So I could shapechange into a healthier version of myself, but every single injury would be back the moment I stopped maintaining the spell.”
“You could have just led with that.” Leon remarked.
“Well yes, but then you wouldn’t have understood it.” Cass replied.
“I didn’t understand anyways.”
“Can’t fault us for trying. I swear, the amount of blood that flows to one of a man’s heads must truly starve the other of all nutrition.”
Sera blinked. “I’m pretty sure he has only one head.”
“No, his voice is too deep for there to only be one.” Cassandra replied, to Sera’s ongoing confusion.
“Returning to the point at hand, you can do healing magic.” Leon reiterated.
“Yes, but I also understand if you don’t exactly trust me enough to-”
“Go for it.” Sera interrupted, drawing both human’s attention. “I’m fairly certain if you still wanted to kill me you’d have done it last night. That water pistol of yours, or that lightning ball, either one of those would kill me with a solid hit, and it would have been trivial for you to cast that while I was sleeping and kill me.” The dragonness explained, point kind, even if her tone was perhaps a bit less so. “And, I’m very sore and could use the help.”
Cass paused for a moment, considered, and smiled. “Well, you are capable of being sensible. Alright. I’ve never had to undo my own work, so this might take a few casts.” She instinctively went for her rings, but they had been destroyed in the past battle. “Leonidas, would you kindly loan me your knife?”
Leon’s hand went to the knife, then he paused. “You lost quite a bit of blood in that last fight. Are you sure that’s a good idea?”
“It’s not.” Sera added, expression concerned. “As efficient as blood casting can be, with as much as you used, it’s probably not wise for you to use it for maybe a week, unless humans have far more blood than I thought they did. Elijah, would you confirm?”
The familiar pulled himself out of his shadow, and politely bowed to Cassandra. “It’s a little more complicated with her majesty, but broadly, yes. Even though medicine isn’t my specialty, I do know enough to know that kind of casting can result in anemia, and given how sunny the climate is here, being that pale isn’t healthy.”
“I’ve always been pale.” Cassandra replied, arms folded over one another. “It’s just part of being from the north.”
“You’re pale enough to be mistaken for an Inuit in spring.” Elijah responded with a hint of snark. When he saw nobody got the point, he sighed. “Humans who live in the very far north, where the sun rises once in summer and sets once in winter. Regardless, you should probably avoid any blood casting for a while, especially if you’ve always been this pale.”
“You’ve bled enough Cass. No need to bleed more for my sake.” Sera concurred. Cassandra sighed.
“It will be less effective.”
“I’ll manage. No sense in one of us hurting themselves more than they can help another.”
“Hypocrite.” Cass snorted. “Your tail shows it.”
“I said exactly what I said.” Sera replied, though she did regard her wounded tail. “That said, that’s the other reason you should probably avoid blood casting around me. There’s something off with your blood, it’s a bit dangerous for me to be around.”
“Demigod. I suppose the dragons really are the reason why Olympus is silent.” Cass replied with a shrug. “Alright, though let’s start with that. It’s not that different from a wolf bite. Just somewhat larger.” She examined the wound Sera had left on herself carefully, and consulted briefly with Elijah on the finer details of dragon anatomy. Then, she carefully selected her components, and began to cast.
“Jo kiya gaya hai use poorvavat karo.”
“Bhugataan kee gaee keemat vaapas karen.”
“Ghaayal maans ko theek karo.”
The water gleamed with light, and Cassandra carefully applied it to each individual section of the wound, knitting it back piece by piece. Her hands were steady, and her gaze intense. She enacted the healing with the care of a surgeon, even with a far more effective instrument. Soon, the wounds knit together, but there was still a problem. The scales around the injury, once a glossy black, were now a desaturated white color, a bit like dirty snow.
“No, no no. That can’t be right. Hold on I’m so sorry, I’ll fix this, just give me a moment. I must have made some mistake I will fix this.” Cassandra rapidly apologized, fingers shifting through the air nervously. Leon observed them carefully, it really was just fidgeting and not more casting by signs. Sera examined her tail carefully, then coiled it and struck. It moved just as swiftly as before her injury.
“Seems you did a great job. Pain’s gone, scales are back, and it doesn’t feel any weaker. Certainly better work than I could do.”
“Well yes, but clearly it’s not complete.” Cass protested. “I brought your scales back wrong.”
“No, this is pretty normal. Damaged scales grow back without color. I think I asked Elijah about why once, though I don’t remember why.”
“Conserves resources by not needing to produce the additional proteins to create pigmentation, important for socialization among a highly competitive solitary species, primarily acts as a visual social signal for territorial and mating disputes to discourage unfit specimens or signal to juiveniles to not risk proceeding to additional stages of escalation.” Elijah replied.
“Ah, that’s why I forgot, he put it that way.” Sera replied with a faint laugh. “Short version?”
“Color is expensive, and it helped tell other dragons not to meddle with you before your species had language.” Elijah sighed.
“I see where you get your habit of speaking too much.” Leon remarked with a faint smile. Sera shot him a glare, and the smile widened.
“That to say, you didn’t do anything wrong.” Sera explained. “It’s just how dragons heal. If it bothers me I can certainly cover it up with an illusion. Not my first scar, probably not the last.”
“I see. Well then, if you don’t consider me a failure, your eyes, ears, and internals could also use attention. There’s also probably some work to be done soothing the damage caused to your muscular systems and any microfractures caused by the electricity.” Cassandra considered. “Likewsise, bruising, microfactures, muscle damage, probably some organ damage, and also burns for you Leon. I’ll address those as well in a moment, but Sera has certainly suffered more damage. Mostly because I was actually trying to kill her.”
Leon wasn’t sure how to feel about that statement. Cassandra had done a remarkably good job of nearly killing him for someone who wasn’t trying to kill him. He wasn’t sure if he was grateful she held back, offended at the fact his opponent hadn’t fought him all out, or frightened at Cassandra’s definition of nonlethal. He decided to keep his mouth shut for a while, and as Cassandra prepared her next spell, he changed the subject.
“You mentioned this wasn’t your first scar, but I haven’t seen any other ones on you. Already using an illusion?” He asked.
“No, just here.” Sera replied, lifting one of her wings and revealing a patch of white scales. “Got overly enthusiastic with a major shed during one of my growth spurts and took off more than I should have. Bit embarrassing to be honest.”
“I’m surprised I never noticed that before.” Leon admitted.
“Ah, so you’re the sort of man who spends time looking at women’s armpits.” Cass replied, her tone full of feigned accusation.
“What?” Sera asked, once again very confused by the worldly queen.
“Oh it’s just another odd quirk of humans, particularly the men. They find odd things interesting, such as one lord of mine who insists all his house slaves go barefoot.” Cass explained with a sort of wicked glee barely contained behind a professional demeanor. “You know, perverts.”
“Hey!” Leon shouted, sincerely hoping he wasn’t turning red.
“Well he really must be if he’s looking at me with you around.” Sera remarked, and Cass laughed raucously.
“My, my dragoness, you’re a smoother seductress than the prince of Corinth. Aphrodite weeps.” This statement produced an expression neither Cassandra nor Leonidas could have ever imagined a dragon making. Both were in stitches, as Seramis hid her head under her wing.
“This is why I didn’t interact with humans much before. You’re all very queer.”
“Well, Hellenes certainly are.” Cass snorted, clearly enjoying this flavor of humor. “Then again so are you, given you’ve been turning yourself into a man so regularly.”
“I’m not though, the form I take is more akin to what I might look like when I’m fully grown.” Seramis replied with a slight huff. “I was counting on the fact humans can’t tell a dragon from a dragoness whatsoever, and clearly it worked.”
“True, helps that you’re apparently going to have quite the deep voice, perhaps you’re a bit manly for a dragoness.”
“It’s really not that deep by dragon standards, it’s simply how we are.”
“Ah, perhaps that’s why the good prince is interested eh?” Cass replied, producing further spluttering from Leon. “Oh, is it untrue? Then do tell, which of us is fairer?” She teased.
Leon heard that, and promptly turned on his heel. “Nope, nope. Nope!” He walked away at a brisk pace. “That question is dangerous enough with ordinary women, I’m not answering it anywhere near either of you two!” With that, Leon vanished out of range of Cassandra’s teasing, much to the queen’s amusement.
“You’re rather fond of mischief aren’t you?” Sera asked with a carefully neutral tone.
Cass shrugged. “Probably more than a queen aught to be.” Her tone was critical, but her smile was wicked.
A similarly wicked smile spread across Sera’s face. “We are going to do incredible things together.”
Cass cackled. “Let Olympus tremble.”
The trio regrouped to meet back at the entrance to the mountain. Given it was acting as their base, the two magicians set to work mending some of the damage their battle had inflicted. Leon listened as the pair worked and talked shop. The finer details of whatever they were discussing went well over his head, but they seemed to be getting along. He shrugged, consigning himself to never quite understanding magic, but at least not having to worry about the local magicians trying to kill each other again. Then, he felt the wind shift, and something made the hair on the back of his neck stand up.
Leon had his knife out immediately, and turned. The others noticed his behavior, each prepared. Seramis adopted her adult form, and Cassandra picked up a sharp rock to hold in her palm. Both were on edge, as Leon turned, and looked down the mountain. Someone was coming up it, a human, not mounted on any horse, but wearing armor. He was coming up quickly. “We have a problem.” He reported, and remained heavily on edge. Every instinct told him what was coming up that mountain was dangerous, exceedingly so. Cassandra looked down as well, and frowned. “That’s not one of mine.”
“I’ll deal with it.” Seramis rumbled, and took wing to fly down and meet this latest problem. At this point, she was starting to get annoyed. The sheer number of random visitors interrupting her scheme was getting out of hand. Then, she saw who was coming up the mountain, and relaxed. She knew this shape.
Alfred felt his mouth go dry as he approached the mountain, his old lair, his old home. Here where he and his bride had first raised Seramis, before the home he made them under the castle was finished. He remembered the first day he had come here, digging away at magnetite exposed by the winds, and how he had tunneled deeply to dredge up the bounties of the earth for his family. He remembered the first knights that had come, come in the vain quest to slay him. He knew where they had all been.
He remembered the fear most of all. Not because any of the knights posed a threat to him. They were as wheat before the wildfire. But his daughter would soon be born. She would be in danger. His wrath was kindled by fear, and he turned his eyes towards the distant capital. In time they called him the good king, for he had discovered the cruelty of the old and undone it. To be a good father, he had become a good king. But in his private moments, he remembered the fear and the wrath that had drawn him out of the lair. He had feared much in these days, since his daughter departed, and now, the smell of her blood had drawn him back.
Where a dragoness he did not know came down from his home, reeking of his daughter’s blood. It was not Malphus, that at least was some comfort, but clearly a servant of the dark lord. The marks of recent injury were clear, there had been a battle. The wounds on her tail, those were inflicted by a dragon’s maw, and recently. They were freshly healed, still stark white against the dark armor about them. His daughter had returned to her childhood home. She had not departed. Something else had taken it. Someone else had taken his daughter.
For a moment, that realization paralyzed him. The king was frozen in utter terror. But dragons do not freeze. His fire flared, anger boiling over. This dragoness, this servant of evil, had hurt his daughter, had done it in his own home. She had disrupted his kingdom, tried to incite a war, threatened his honor, harmed his friend’s child, taken his home. She. Had. Hurt. His. Daughter.
She was dead.
The king moved, all his strength flooding into the shape not suited for him, and he leapt. He did not have wings, but he was still mighty, and with a bound he cleared the distance between the dragoness and himself. His fist led the way, and there was a crack as he sent scales flying from the dragoness’s jaw. The disorienting blow, combined with the unexpected source, stunned the dragoness. Her eyes suddenly went wide with confusion and terror. He could almost sense her thoughts, wondering how a mere human could have done this.
“fflangellwch nef a daear”
“Gadewch i'm cysgod ddod â braw.
“Fy llid fel tân Uffern.”
A second sun rose over Achaea. There was a sound like the world screaming. Then there was a clap like thunder that threw Leonidas and Casandra back. Both came to their senses in a world that had suddenly transformed into Hell. It was so hot they could barely breathe. Leon dropped his knife, the blade red-hot and hilt searing his flesh. He looked out and saw something like a mountain of ash and smoke. He had heard stories of volcanoes, and now saw one composed of detritus, the winds stoking flames as they sucked into a funnel-shaped body, then erupted out in a pillar of ash that spread above them and turned the bright day dark as twilight.
He saw Seramis half-sunken into the stone which gleamed brilliantly as gemstones and flowed like water around her. She stared upwards, eyes wide into the heart of the flame. All around her was utter devastation. The forest was ablaze. The river was boiling. The mountain was melting. The gold lining the wall gleamed like fireflies and ran like spilled wine.
Seramis looked up at the pillar of smoke and watched it part around its master. Flame incarnate, veiled in scarlet scale, looked down, terrible in his wrath. His wings beat a hurricane in the storm of ash he had conjured, and the world shimmered around him like a mirage, like a nightmare given form. Above the fire’s head was a crown of pure gold, set with seventy eyes that gleamed like gems of every color. The flame, her father, spoke. He did not raise his voice, but his wrath silenced the world about it.
“I am the flail of God. If you had not sinned, God would not have set me upon you.”
2024.03.17 21:18 sillypcalmond Base location help
 | As the title would suggest I need some help regarding base locations. For context I'm like LVL 30-35 (can't remember exactly) and just unlocked my 3rd base slot. As you can see in my diagram above I have my well established main base, my suggested location for a coal base and my breeding and ore production base. I want to have a sulfur and coal base but by the sounds of it there is no obvious place that has both in one so I'm considering moving my ore base as there is a bit of ore at both my main base and within reach of my coal base. submitted by sillypcalmond to Palworld [link] [comments] I know there are good sulfur deposits in the volcano but I fear I might not be high enough level for that? Any suggestions would be super helpful. Coal base can also definitely be moved as it's just 4 foundations, a pal box and a campfire at this stage. |
2024.02.27 17:40 JoeBrownshoes The biggest volcano in history?
I think every boy goes through several phases when he starts to learn to use the library. (at least before the internet)
They include among others: dinosaurs, ancient Egypt and the Bermuda triangle.
At some point in this journey we all learned one definite fact: the largest volcano in human history was Krakatoa. We've all seen the diagrams comparing the smoke plume to other eruptions like Vesuvius or Mt. Saint Helens and it dwarfed them all. We heard about how the sound of the explosion was heard across the entire planet.
Well imagine my surprise when I learned last night that there was another larger eruption called Mt Tambora! How has a little science nerd like me never even heard of this?? It caused Europe to experience its coldest summer on record and led many to believe that the sun itself was about to burn out.
Is it just me or is this fact surprising to anyone else??
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They include among others: dinosaurs, ancient Egypt and the Bermuda triangle.
At some point in this journey we all learned one definite fact: the largest volcano in human history was Krakatoa. We've all seen the diagrams comparing the smoke plume to other eruptions like Vesuvius or Mt. Saint Helens and it dwarfed them all. We heard about how the sound of the explosion was heard across the entire planet.
Well imagine my surprise when I learned last night that there was another larger eruption called Mt Tambora! How has a little science nerd like me never even heard of this?? It caused Europe to experience its coldest summer on record and led many to believe that the sun itself was about to burn out.
Is it just me or is this fact surprising to anyone else??
2024.02.18 23:54 SabineRitter [ROUNDUP] UFOs and Sol Foundation videos. Countries:🇺🇸🇬🇧🇦🇺🇿🇦🇦🇪🇮🇳🇮🇪🇩🇪🇭🇺🇳🇱🇮🇹🇬🇹🇨🇭🇩🇰🇫🇷 Colors seen this week: 🟣, 🔵, 🟠,🟡, 🔴🔵🟢
Last week's post https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1aol8bm/roundup_ufos_poopdig_national_archives_nav_canada/
Archive https://web.archive.org/web/20240211230358/https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1aol8bm/roundup_ufos_poopdig_national_archives_nav_canada/
Moon phase waxing crescent, five days before half
.1 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1aon2ey/strange_lights_in_the_skies_of_johannesburg_south/ sighting description, moving star, two witnesses, single light object red 🔴, moving and stationary, flew overhead, jumpy movements, urban area, Johannesburg south Africa 🇿🇦
.2 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1aoznh2/sol_videos_are_out_now/ videos from the Sol Foundation
.3 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1ap29ft/all_the_relevant_uap_updates_from_feb_511/ information, state of disclosure https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1au1k50/a_summary_of_latin_american_ufo_disclosure_this/ information, state of disclosure from Latin America
.4 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1aocii6/dubai_uae_spotted_something_strange_in_the_sky/ video and photos, nighttime cloudy sky, urban area, near water, Dubai United Arab Emirates 🇦🇪, contemporaneous report, cylindrical, moving slowly, possibly scanning, duration 10 minutes, single light object, elongated, purple 🟣, orientation change to vertical, sudden departure upward, [GOODPOST]
.5 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1aot7ww/a_weird_experience_today_in_melbourne/ sighting description, contemporaneous report, at home, daytime, outside bedroom window, fleet, flying in formation, low below rooftop, possible metallic sphere shape, witness looked away and looked back, vanished, urban area, Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺, similar sighting in comments, V-shaped formation change to grid,
.6 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1ao8ipa/mysterious_bright_object_over_mumbais_arabian_sea/ photos, nighttime sky, urban area, Mumbai India 🇮🇳, near water, Arabian Sea, observed moving and stationary, vanishing, photos show possible splitting, single light object and threelights, close formation, line, jumpy movement, contemporaneous report, duration 5-7 minutes, silent, repeat visitor, previous reaction to being filmed, flareup and vanishing, emotion of peace
.7 ➡️ https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1apb6bc/i_believe_i_have_caught_2_ufos_disappearing_on/ video, daytime cloudy sky, twolights, blackwhite, flying in formation, horizontal trajectory, video shows vanishing or jumpy movement, contemporaneous report, blackpool England the UK 🇬🇧, similar sighting in comments , at home, outside window, [GOODPOST], similar sightings in comments https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1aq53y8/update_post_from_disappearing_ufo_new_clip/ more video
.8 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1aov2ka/plane_satellite_space_station_or_ufo/ video, daytime sky, contemporaneous report, urban area, San Diego California, near water pacific ocean, at home, backyard, single light object, downvoted to zero, OP comments downvoted, duration 5-7 minutes
.9 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1aoxia0/my_sighting/ sighting description and drawing, urban area, Newark New Jersey, two witnesses, single object blackwhite, ring ⭕️ of light surrounding a dark circle, possible reaction to being observed, departing,
.10 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1apc8tu/_/ photo, nighttime sky, single light object, low over rooftop, urban area, San Francisco California, contemporaneous report
.11 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1ap0oq2/saw_a_huge_red_light_in_the_sky_in_india/ childhood sighting description, single light object stationary, red 🔴, at home, outside window, multiple witnesses, silent, witness looked away and looked back, vanished, other witness observed it moving erratically and sudden departure upward , India 🇮🇳
.12 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1ap2h5g/alleged_ufo_footage/ video, daytime cloudy sky, urban area, single dark object, elongated, vertical orientation, metapod or jetpack man type, similar sighting in comments, downvoted to zero, OP comments downvoted, urban area, Brooklyn NYC New York state, low over rooftop, [GOODPOST]
.13 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1apb23t/personal_ufo_sighting_ai_generated_for_reference/ sighting description and drawing, urban area, Ireland 🇮🇪, single light object, red 🔴, two witnesses, nighttime, moving slowly, duration 1 minute, blinking, pulsating almost like it was using it to propel itself forward
.14 ➡️ https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1apcvny/illuminated_object_above_catalina_island_on/ video, daytime sky, single light object, low over ridgeline, over Catalina Island, from Laguna Beach California, near water pacific ocean, stationary, observed vanishing, repeat visitor, two witnesses, duration 15 minutes, [GOODPOST]
.15 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1apeisnorth_manchester_uk_130822/ video, nighttime sky, event amnesia, I totally forgot I’d filmed it, single light object, flickering, Manchester the UK 🇬🇧,
.16 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1apfcuy/ufo_disappears_right_in_front_of_me/ video, nighttime sky, single light object, vanishing, low over rooftop, urban area, Kennewick Washington state, OP deleted
.17 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1apfnjb/junior_3d_artist_looking_to_recreate_you art 🎨, video recreation of ufo sighting, stories wanted
.18 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1apgn36/probably_not_a_plane_uc_irvine_ca/ video, daytime sky, Irvin California, single dark object moving slowly
.19 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1apm0op/ufo_sighting_from_dec_2023/ video, daytime sky, from car, single light object or twolights, pacing car, additional contrails type or pacing plane, Deer Trail Colorado, multiple objects observed, downvoted to zero
.20 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1apmmux/night_sky_turning_orange_anyone_else_encountered/ sighting description, no craft, nighttime, camping, outback Birdsville Queensland Australia 🇦🇺, four witnesses, orange 🟠 glow that grew then shrunk, then exploded bigger lighting up the whole sky in orange, it was growing rather than flashing. Maybe it was around 10 seconds duration all up. , flareup , bolide?, downvoted to zero, has anyone seen?
.21 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1apmsa6/what_is_this_moving_next_to_jupite video, nighttime sky, single light object moving, zigzag movements, Jupiter for comparison, duration 30 minutes, brightness change, trail, east coast USA, contemporaneous report, has anyone seen?, downvoted to zero, OP comments downvoted, big debunker energy, [GOODPOST]
.22 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1apo8ku/heavy_activity_in_the_sky_above_augusta_ga_right/ sighting description, contemporaneous report, happening at time of posting, fleet, Augusta Georgia, duration 15 minutes, flying in close formation, straight lines, then a few in diamond 💠 formations, ranged from groups of 2's, 4's, 5's, 9's., two witnesses, nighttime cloudy sky,
.23 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1apzya3/sighting_orange_orbs_near_nyma_border_on_jan_23/ sighting description, new Lebanon new York state, nighttime cloudy sky, first noticed from car, threelights, triangle 🔺️ formation, orange 🟠, witness stopped the car and got out, fleet or single object multiple lights, flashing in sequence observed, silent, low below treeline , appearing and vanishing
.24 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1apzd22/strange_lights_brisbane/ video, nighttime sky, urban area, Brisbane Australia 🇦🇺, duration 1 hour, appearing and vanishing, fleet, contemporaneous report, video shows threelights, appearing and vanishing, powerlines https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1aqdcnf/strange_lights_over_brisbane/ more video
.25 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1apgqb4/inbound_shapeshifter_over_los_angeles/ video, daytime sky, single dark object, elongated, irregular oval-shaped, tumbling, descending, emitting gas or smoke, urban area, Los Angeles California, repeat visitor https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1aq7quj/021024_noaa_wind_data/ NOAA wind data for that day
.26 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1aq37m8/what_are_those_lights/ video, nighttime sky, single light object moving, urban area, Hamburg Germany 🇩🇪
.27 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1apu0i3/i_cant_explain_these_ufos_in_the_photo/ photo, daytime cloudy sky, twolights, trail, not seen by eye, Mid-Atlantic USA, 50 miles from Atlantic Ocean , downvoted to zero, OP comments downvoted
.28 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1apq6zc/second_video_from_asheville_sighting/ video, nighttime sky, single light object, flashing, Asheville north Carolina , downvoted to zero
.29 https://old.reddit.com/HighStrangeness/comments/1aongi6/a_black_rectangle_in_my_room/ sighting description, at home, inside bedroom, nighttime, audio description light banging noise in my closet. , single dark object, elongated, rectangular shape, black, moving fast, I see a black rectangular solid shadow zip away from me. It was about 6x4 inches long, and as it moved seemed to leave a trail like a blur.
.30 https://old.reddit.com/HighStrangeness/comments/1aoq30s/fast_moving_light_that_i_hope_someone_else_in_the/ sighting description, contemporaneous report, single light object moving fast, flew overhead, similar sighting in comments, from car, three witnesses , towards Belleville Illinois , has anyone seen?, contemporaneous report
.31 https://old.reddit.com/HighStrangeness/comments/1apjql9/help_with_a_ufo_case/ sighting description and reference news article, family story, grandmother, information wanted, Crestview Florida, near Eglin Air Force Base, V-shaped or chevron , similar sightings same area in comments
.32 https://old.reddit.com/HighStrangeness/comments/1apkawy/has_anyone_had_et_experiences_as_a_child_that/ discussion of childhood sighting descriptions, entities, hostile, emotional reaction anger "you bastards messed with me and now you're going to fuck off??" , similar sightings in comments
.33 https://old.reddit.com/HighStrangeness/comments/1aq41rw/any_insights_welcome/ sighting description, at home, inside bedroom, entity, physical effects goosebumps, vapor like entity, it's like a grey flame lapping up my bed toward me as it gets closer or the "flame" like extensions get closer the sensation gets stronger , emotion of fear
.34 https://old.reddit.com/HighStrangeness/comments/1apzf7i/an_odd_occurrence_in_the_woods_anyone_else/ sighting description, nighttime, two witnesses, Pennsylvania, single light object, orange 🟠, low over ground, stationary, silent, duration 30 seconds, dimming, vanishing, emotion of fear, witnesses left the area, physical effects goosebumps
.35 https://old.reddit.com/HighStrangeness/comments/1aq0zwsaw_a_ufo_on_vacation_in_hungary/ sighting description, Somogyzsitfa Hungary 🇭🇺 , nighttime, single light object, color change, a shining point that alternated between the colors red, green, blue. 🔴🟢🔵, zigzag movement, flew in a triangle., sudden departure, two witnesses, similar sighting same area in comments
.36 https://old.reddit.com/aliens/comments/1apzn03/was_flying_my_drone_over_kansas_city_mo_today_and/ video, daytime cloudy sky, from drone, contemporaneous report, crop circle, Kansas city Missouri https://old.reddit.com/aliens/comments/1aqvxae/you_have_been_taken_for_fools_the_so_called_crop/ debunk?
.37 https://old.reddit.com/aliens/comments/1apoghk/picture_i_drew_today_of_a_ufo_grey_and_mantis/ art 🎨, drawing, entities
.38 https://old.reddit.com/ufo/comments/1aq0fhs/what_do_you_swear_you_saw_but_dont_have_any_proof/ discussion of sightings
.39 https://old.reddit.com/ufo/comments/1ap2ara/black_triangles/ sighting description, nighttime, from car, two witnesses, low over treeline, single dark object, stationary, ward/Cabot Arkansas, two witnesses, emotion of fear in other witness, black triangle 🔺️ with lights on each point of the craft, silent, similar sightings in comments
.40 https://old.reddit.com/space/comments/1aq4mif/i_saw_two_points_of_light_show_up_and_disappea sighting description, nighttime, twolights, two witnesses, stationary, flareup and vanishing, I was looking up at the night sky at Orion's Belt and I noticed two bright "stars" that were sitting stationary to the lower left of the constellation.
.41 https://old.reddit.com/Glitch_in_the_Matrix/comments/1aq0lon/the_sun_blinked/ experience description, no craft, flash of darkness, two witnesses, the (sun)light suddenly blinks once.
.42 https://old.reddit.com/CLOUDS/comments/1apno5e/blue_clouds_today/ video, daytime cloudy sky, cloud anomaly, blue 🔵, dragon 🐉, contemporaneous report, Mid north coast New South Wales Australia 🇦🇺
.43 https://old.reddit.com/aliens/comments/1aohfht/my_personal_experience_from_sep_2023/ photo, daytime cloudy sky, from car, single light object, low over treeline, the Netherlands 🇳🇱
.44 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1aqg3lk/ufo_see_over_philadelphia_south_jersey/ video, daytime sky, urban area, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, fleet, two witnesses, video shows brightness change, turned black ⚫️ , departure upward, OP comments downvoted, [GOODPOST]
.45 ➡️ https://old.reddit.com/AliensAndUFOs/comments/1arb4t0/possible_ufo_uap_changing_into_plane/ video, daytime cloudy sky, urban area, East Brunswick new jersey, single light object, lighting configuration change to dark, shape change to plane, https://streamable.com/qr22a5 direct link to video, weird shit, [GOODPOST], plane-shaped
.46 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1aqej84/what_are_those_lights/ video, witness is a pilot, from airplane, nighttime sky, fleet, multiple objects, one orange 🟠 light, brightness change, contemporaneous report, two witnesses , north of Milwaukee Wisconsin
.47 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1aq8l42/i_saw_two_dots_of_light_moving_in_pair_for_the/ sighting description, repeat visitor, twolights, moving fast, flying in formation, brief duration a few seconds, similar sightings in comments, Northern Italy 🇮🇹 , nighttime , downvoted to zero
.48 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1aqkr4q/three_strange_lights_in_the_sky_500_playlist/ original compilation, threelights, similar sighting in comments, daytime, moving slowly, Germany 🇩🇪
.49 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1aqmu8x/ufo_black_triangle/ sighting description, black triangle 🔺️, urban area, London England the UK 🇬🇧, nighttime, duration 50 seconds, nighttime, at home, backyard, single light object, orange 🟠, approach, flew overhead, low and slow and silent, triangular craft with a hazy orange/amber glow in the middle with white lights at each end of the triangle., threelights with central light, flew over the witness home,
.50 https://old.reddit.com/HighStrangeness/comments/1aqije8/ufo_spotted_north_of_portland_up_i5/ sighting description, urban area, Portland Oregon, from car, contemporaneous report, daytime, two witnesses, single light object, elongated, tictac, moving fast, crossed directly in front, speed change, slowed down, jumpy movement, We watched it cloak/teleport
.51 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1aqt8zm/project_contact/ original project, ongoing, human initiated contact, USA
.52 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1aqzb5n/alien_artwork_by_me/ sighting descriptions and drawing, art 🎨, mushrooms, abduction, fleet , single object multiple lights, Manitoba Canada 🇨🇦
.53 https://old.reddit.com/aliens/comments/1aqke47/large_multicolored_ufo_captured_in_charlotte/ reference video and discussion of sightings, threelights, single object multiple lights, angled from the horizon, low below treeline, many similar sightings in comments, Charlotte North Carolina
.54 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1ar0evo/lights_in_the_daytime_sky/ video, daytime cloudy sky, twolights, moving slowly, jumpy movements, flickering, blackwhite , duration 30 minutes, previously observed triangle 🔺️, threelights with central red light blinking, reddish glow, horizontal trajectory, near Eugene west Oregon, near water pacific ocean
.55 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1ar17ll/sighting_over_atl/ video, daytime sky, contemporaneous report, urban area Atlanta Georgia, two dark objects, rotating, tumbling, blackwhite, doughnut 🍩 and T-shaped
.56 https://old.reddit.com/UFOB/comments/1ar00h1/glowing_i_have_photos_of_it_being_a_glowing_orb/ video, daytime cloudy sky, single light object, plane-shaped , https://old.reddit.com/UFOB/comments/1ar0tkq/video_of_glowing_ball_or_something_like_that/ more video, single light object, disk shape with dome, powerlines,
.57 https://old.reddit.com/signalidentification/comments/1aqqqe3/brother_caught_this_on_his_speakers/ audio anomaly
.58 https://old.reddit.com/AlienEncounters/comments/1aqg7cj/alien_encounte sighting description, from car, single light object moving erratically, pacing car, three witnesses, low over ground, flareup, sudden departure upward, emotional reaction shock, witnesses left the area , near Kerman California
.59 https://old.reddit.com/UAPPhenomenon/comments/1aqamv9/question_ive_never_asked/ childhood experience description, Expecting to see the Moon I looked and in it's place was Saturn. It was huge. It was very real then and it still is now. It was different shades of golds. Lighter at the pole regions and darkening bands of gold converging at the equator. The rings extended beyond the horizons. I felt eyes on me and as I was looking at the other children I started to realize that they were very strange looking children from behind them and I knew the were turning towards me and I didn't want them to.
.60 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1ar3ckk/is_this_a_plane_with_headlight/ video, nighttime sky, single light object, diffuse, haze, possible approach, getting larger and lower in brightness until it faded completely., dimming, vanishing, plane for comparison observed, SpaceX?
.61 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1arhfsh/i_think_i_accidentally_filmed_a_tic_tac/ video, daytime sky, over water, from ship, ferry, single light object, elongated, horizontal orientation, tictac, pacing ship, sudden departure upward, from Barcelona Spain 🇪🇸 to Rome Italy 🇮🇹
.62 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1arizv7/found_during_a_morning_walk_in_a_park_in_denve documents, The envelope with the name Edmund written on the outside contained a hand written letter explaining that “K” and his sister supposedly found these photos from their dad and are looking for answers. Then there are 9 photos. 3 look like they contain a UFO the other 6 look like diagrams or something?, urban area, Denver Colorado, contemporaneous report, USAF, deleted OP in 3 hours, pictures still there
.63 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1ar2vya/my_personal_experiences/ detailed experience descriptions, multiple events, possible implant, Tuolumne county California. Sierra Nevada mountains and foothills. Stanislaus National Forest., multiple witnesses, entities, cloaked
.64 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1arlvqg/strange_light_on_volc%C3%A1n_de_agua_gt/ video, daytime sky, single light object, possibly entering and exiting volcano, crater of Volcan de Agua. , Guatemala 🇬🇹
.65 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1arolip/object_hovering/ video, daytime sky, from car, single light object, elongated, irregular shape, jellyfish 🪼, vertical orientation, pacing car, submission statement issues, removed, video still there
.66 https://old.reddit.com/HighStrangeness/comments/1aqvgol/bright_and_silent_ball_of_light_recorded_passing/ video, daytime cloudy sky, single light object moving, illuminating clouds, Holly Springs north Carolina, silent , disappeared behind treeline
.67 https://old.reddit.com/HighStrangeness/comments/1aqu3it/strange_childhood_experience_looking_for_an/ experience description, entity, humanoid, shadow figure, inside bedroom, emotion of fear, physical effects injuries, The next morning I had scratches all over my thighs., similar sighting in comments
.68 https://old.reddit.com/HighStrangeness/comments/1aqvy8y/crazy_soundvibration_on_a_hike_bell_canyon_ca/ audio description, bell canyon California, two witnesses, contemporaneous report, It felt like the entire Earth was buzzing, and we could feel the vibration through our whole body. I also felt a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach, like the earth was about to split in half under me. This whole experience lasted maybe 5-10 seconds duration, physical effects vibration, similar sightings in comments
.69 https://old.reddit.com/HighStrangeness/comments/1argb7g/childhood_experiences_in_the_deep_south/ experience descriptions, Mississippi, flying car, flying pink convertible…with two people inside. They hovered above us way up in the sky and smiled and waved. , witness waved at it, pterodactyl, levitation, single light object, approach, felt observed, communication, felt and just knew it was mad and reprimanding us basically.
.70 https://old.reddit.com/aliens/comments/1ar9o8d/uap_in_swiss/ photo, daytime cloudy sky, single dark object, elongated, vertical orientation, angular, Switzerland 🇨🇭
.71 https://old.reddit.com/aliens/comments/1aq5olo/big_metal_sphere_ufo/ sighting description and video, three witnesses, sudden departure, Conroe Texas , daytime, single light object, metallic sphere observed
.72 (duplicate)
.73 https://old.reddit.com/AliensAndUFOs/comments/1argqgh/i_saw_something_similar_to_the_recent_uap/ photos, daytime cloudy sky, single light object observed, very bright, witness followed it, duration 10 minutes, brightness change to single dark object, plane-shaped, smaller object accompanying it, the shining light faded completely and what was left was this passenger plane-looking thing, but it was like 1/5 the average size. , moving erratically, it took off accross the neighborhood and stopped about half a mile away, so I followed. We did this cat and mouse, back and forth where I would follow it and stop, then it would zip off in another direction.
.74 https://old.reddit.com/AliensAndUFOs/comments/1arqvvj/i_saw_the_planeshaped_thing_too/ sighting description, daytime cloudy sky, single light object, low below treeline, trail, elongated, vertical orientation, orientation change to horizontal, disappeared into clouds, brightness change or second object, single dark object, elongated, horizontal orientation, angular, plane-shaped, witness looked away and looked back, vanished
.75 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1arsq1n/saw_this_on_july_4th_wasnt_sure_what_it_was/ video, nighttime sky, single light object, orange 🟠, July 4th, video shows vanishing , southern Florida
.76 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1arstgj/what_could_this_be/ video, daytime sky, single object moving slowly, contemporaneous report, eastern north Carolina,
.77 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1arsw3g/poss%C3%ADvel_sonda/ audio, from home security camera, I think my security camera caught a probe,
.78 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1aruja2/i_feel_gifted_a_little/ sighting description, two witnesses, near water, lake, near airport, nighttime, windy, emotion of fear, single light object, multicolored, low over treeline, approach, flew overhead, vanished, audio description explosion, blue and red 🔵🔴, Omg it looked like dragon ball Z kamahame haa colors it was a fireball of colors.
.79 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1arzfm2/saw_an_orange_light_behind_my_house_in_the_woods/ video, nighttime sky, at home, backyard, contemporaneous report, single light object, orange 🟠, low below treeline, Shelby north Carolina, duration 1-2 minutes, brightness change, color change, vanishing, the object ended up dimming after a minute or two and turned into a white light like a star and disappeared., stationary, video shows possible threelights, close formation, line formation, possible butterfly 🦋 , possible light beam, rectangular, reddish glow,
.80 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1as1r7e/nj_ufo_011324_sucks_tbh/ video, nighttime sky, downvoted to zero, OP comments downvoted, duration 40 seconds, splitting observed, the light in the recording previously splitting into 2 separate lights, twolights, video shows single light object, low over rooftop, new jersey
.81 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1arofl9/help_identifying_this_sighting/ sighting description and drawing, rocket launch,
.82 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1as2lyw/westchester_florida_705pm_011524/ video, nighttime sky, contemporaneous report, single light object, triangle 🔺️, shape change, approach, flew overhead, urban area, Westchester Miami Florida, near water Atlantic Ocean, [GOODPOST], downvoted to zero,
.83 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1as3h93/3_sightings_over_35_years/ sighting descriptions, repeat visitors, northwest England the UK 🇬🇧, fleet, flying in formation, nighttime, subsequent single light object, orange 🟠, at home, backyard, two witnesses, darkness bright as day, illuminated surroundings, subsequent sighting single dark object, dark grey "elongated hexagon" moving across the sky.
.84 https://old.reddit.com/HighStrangeness/comments/1asajr5/what_did_i_experience_with_my_nhi_communication/ experience description and drawing, human initiated contact, entities, information, UAPs have constantly variable surfaces and can change shape at will. https://old.reddit.com/HighStrangeness/comments/1asc7t8/sketches_from_my_previous_post_about_my_experience/ more drawings, entity, similar sighting in comments
.85 https://old.reddit.com/HighStrangeness/comments/1arxwff/light_orbs_seen_2_times_in_the_span_of_10_days/ video, nighttime sky, repeat visitors, at home, felt compelled to go outside, single light object, stationary and moving, duration 10 minutes, mimicking airplane, it started to fly away (and got these plane like pulsating lights), near Avala mountain Serbia 🇷🇸 , very bright, scanning, possibly cloaking, looked like it was sort of scanning the area, and when it finished "turned" or cloaked to something known to us.
.86 https://old.reddit.com/HighStrangeness/comments/1as97jd/the_hum_its_back/ audio anomaly, the hum, repeat visitor, contemporaneous report, Østerbro Copenhagen Denmark 🇩🇰 ,
.87 https://old.reddit.com/ufo/comments/1asfzd6/finally_filmed_my_own_ufouap/ video, nighttime sky, single light object, diffuse haze, rocket launch?
.88 https://old.reddit.com/ufo/comments/1arvzrg/can_someone_help_me_figure_out_what_i_just_saw/ sighting description, contemporaneous report, nighttime, from car, near airport, threelights, triangle formation, lights were all forward facing on what seemed to be a flat surface tbh. There was like one small red light towards the rear., Sarasota Florida
.89 https://old.reddit.com/aliens/comments/1ashkrs/i_have_many_questions_and_few_answerscattle/ video, mutilation, cow,
.90 https://old.reddit.com/aliens/comments/1asanrs/my_ufo_encounte sighting description, south Florida, single light object, oval-shaped, approach, flew overhead, shaped like an egg but had a sharp edge going along the middle of it and the bottom half had verticle grooves running from the front to the back., event amnesia, missing time, entities , communication, The only thing I remember after that was waking up in my car as the suns rising. I sat there completely shell shocked.
.91 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1asjmkc/possible_sighting_near_south_njphilly/ sighting description, south new jersey near Philadelphia Pennsylvania, two witnesses, from car, single object, elongated, vertical orientation, descending
.92 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1asmtra/possible_uap_while_driving/ video, daytime cloudy sky, from car, single object blackwhite, elongated, horizontal orientation, powerlines, Massachusetts, duration 10 minutes,
.93 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1asm669/ufo_fleet_experience/ sighting description and video, contemporaneous report, nighttime cloudy sky, moving stars, single light object, fleet, jumpy movement, flying in formation, line, vertical orientation, 3 more orbs in a vertical line, there was 1 on top 1 in the middle and 1 below it , haze, craft observed, texture visible, there were dark patches that were hexagon shaped that covered this orb and in the front there was a light, duration 2 hours, observed moving and stationary, repeat three times, that white orb that was stopping and going did that 3 times, filled the sky, felt like something I was not supposed to see
.94 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1asjvgh/pilots_sees_ufo_over_boston/ discussion of sightings, some comments from pilots, single light object, orange 🟠 , [GOODPOST]
.95 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1at3x70/ufo_fall_2023_rural_iowa/ photos, daytime sky, single light object, elongated, horizontal orientation, tictac, repeat visitor, Iowa, similar sighting in comments
.96 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1astsg4/2_objects_flying_in_opposite_directions/ video, daytime sky, powerlines, downvoted to zero, OP comments downvoted, silent, over the Ozark Mountains in Arkansas., twolights, moving separately, low below treeline, elongated, tictac
.97 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1asszeb/ufo_western_ma/ video, nighttime sky, single light object , multicolored observed moving erratically, zigzag movements, possible communication, I have asked it to move up and down side to side and it does….wtf, repeat visitor, western Massachusetts, up down left right, downvoted to zero
.98 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1assl2q/three_eerie_lights_above_ok/ sighting description, nighttime, two witnesses, duration 3 minutes, threelights, line formation, angled from the horizon, brightness change, dimming, vanishing, Oklahoma
.99 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1asrc57/uap_over_lake_starnberg_bavaria_germany/ video, nighttime sky, urban area, Bavaria Germany 🇩🇪, single light object stationary, multicolored, silent, vanishing, similar sighting in comments, over water, Lake starnberg
.100 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1asvynm/small_ufo_ill_appreciate_some_insight/ photo, daytime cloudy sky, contemporaneous report, single light object, elongated, horizontal orientation, twolights, two objects observed, powerlines, Argentina 🇦🇷, two witnesses, duration 6 minutes, yellowish 🟡, reddish glow, similar sightings in comments ,
.101 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1asqudw/something_strange_over_asheville_nc_02142024/ video and photos and video from second witness, nighttime sky, urban area, Asheville north Carolina, single object multiple lights, haze, formation change, 1.5 minutes of dancing/orbiting about one another with this strange fog/mist forming and somewhat enveloping them, followed by an alignment into the equilateral triangle shape, followed by more dancing orbiting chaos and then again, the same alignment., [GOODPOST]
.102 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1asx00w/im_a_skeptic_but_i_did_see_a_ufo_one_time/ sighting description, downvoted to zero, close to LA and south of Pasadena in a little city called El Sereno California, nighttime, single light object, physical effects paralysis, transfixed, my eyes locked on to this one star, I stared at it for a few minutes , flareup, sudden departure, curved trajectory, The light made a movement similar to the Nike logo of a swoosh.
.103 https://old.reddit.com/HighStrangeness/comments/1astqj6/unexplained_lights_in_my_backyard/ video, at home, backyard, from home security camera, flareup, low below treeline, single light object moving, similar sightings in comments, Georgia, [GOODPOST]
.104 https://old.reddit.com/ufo/comments/1at346f/the_day_i_saw_an_ufo/ sighting description and drawing, daytime, two witnesses, single light object, orange 🟠, triangle 🔺️, moving straight, vanishing, Argentina 🇦🇷
.105 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1at9ubm/i_think_i_saw_a_ufo_last_night_is_there_anything/ sighting description, contemporaneous report, nighttime, single light object moving slowly, blinking in a pattern, dim, duration 5 minutes, It had a steady double blink, about every 2 to 3 secs it would blink,blink., at home
.106 https://old.reddit.com/aliens/comments/1at870v/any_idea_what_this_is/ video, daytime sky, single dark object, irregular blocky shape, worm 🪱, rotating
.107 https://old.reddit.com/aliens/comments/1at56ry/i_dunno/ photos, from train, daytime cloudy sky, single dark object , was circular and moving whilst tilted slightly, near Leamington Ontario Canada 🇨🇦
.108 https://old.reddit.com/aliens/comments/1asjelu/alien_encounter_or_dream/ childhood experience description, entities, inside home, nighttime, emotion of fear, two small beings walked into the room., they dragged my mothers and brothers souls out of their body. Like they dragged something from them that was light in color, like a deflated human figure
.109 https://old.reddit.com/aliens/comments/1as4s2f/something_noticed_out_of_the_window/ video, nighttime sky, at home, outside window, single light object, multicolored, flickered red, blue white and a bit of green 🔴🔵🟢, contemporaneous report, two witnesses, possibly moving slowly, possible shape change
.110 https://old.reddit.com/aliens/comments/1as0ijw/encounter_in_huntsville_alabama_looking_fo sighting description and drawing, entity, Huntsville Alabama, Its form, though humanoid in shape, was marred by grotesque elongations and contortions that spoke of a biology wholly divergent from our own. Its head, disproportionately large, bore the remnants of what appeared to be multiple ocular organs, now clouded and lifeless. , blue 🔵,
.111 https://old.reddit.com/astrophotography/comments/1atdooh/new_here_what_this/ sighting description, single light object, multicolored, in other photo it was green with somewhat yellow, in another it was blue with orange and white in the middle. 🟡🟢🔵🟠
.112 https://old.reddit.com/HighStrangeness/comments/1atd85c/its_not_a_bug_what_is_it/ video, nighttime cloudy sky, storm, lightning, single light object moving erratically
.113 https://old.reddit.com/UAPPhenomenon/comments/1asqlnu/uap_sighting/ photo, daytime cloudy sky, Phoenix Arizona, single dark object, elongated, vertical orientation, stationary, over the witness home, duration several minutes, jumpy movement, disappearing in an instant and reappearing far off in the distance., possible military response jet, USAF, jet from what looked like the direction of Luke AFB took off directly in line with it before it disappeared completely.
.114 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1atx5de/how_can_i_capture_objects_far_away_in_cleare video, daytime cloudy sky, fleet, blackwhite, jumpy movement, birds for comparison, contemporaneous report, St Clair new south wales Australia 🇦🇺, duration 1 hour
.115 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1atv6p8/possible_ufos_over_albuquerque_on_valentines_day/ video, daytime sky, at work, fleet, urban area, Albuquerque new Mexico, possibly metallic, blinking, multicolored, dancing, plane for comparison observed, video shows single light object, flickering, vanishing and reappearing or jumpy movement , similar sighting in comments
.116 https://old.reddit.com/HighStrangeness/comments/1atgngv/big_white_dog_in_middle_of_night/ experience description, entity, big white dog, nighttime, the UK 🇬🇧, anomalous silence, I remember feeling like it was REALLY quiet, followed the witness, emotion of fear, witness left the area, similar sightings in comments
.117 https://old.reddit.com/HighStrangeness/comments/1atyzj8/unexplained_burn/ experience description, no craft, physical effects injury , at home, outside window, suddenly felt a burning sensation on my left arm, I had a purple, round mark on my arm. 🟣
.118 https://old.reddit.com/CLOUDS/comments/1atpirh/am_i_just_uneducated_or_is_this_not_normal/ photo, daytime cloudy sky, cloud anomaly, triangle 🔺️, Arkansas
.119 https://old.reddit.com/astrophotography/comments/1athuxu/interesting_streak/ photo, nighttime sky, streak of light, green 🟢, angled from the horizon, 10 second long exposure
.120 https://old.reddit.com/RBI/comments/1ath08n/slow_moving_convoy_at_3am_w_loudspeakers_in_la/ possible crash retrieval, Los Angeles California, around 2010, nighttime, slow moving convoy moving down a main street. There were a few cop cars, some trucks, and smack dab in the middle was an 18 wheeler hauling a flatbed trailer with something big strapped to it
.121 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1au3onj/took_this_3_years_ago_no_idea_what_that_is_neve video, nighttime sky, Goa India 🇮🇳, single light object, low over rooftop, possible jumpy movement observed, vanishing
.122 https://old.reddit.com/RBI/comments/1au2y6t/what_happened/ experience description, entities, single light object, single flash, threelights, two witnesses, emotion of fear, witnesses left the area, Ile d'Oleron France 🇫🇷, near water Atlantic Ocean
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.1 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1aon2ey/strange_lights_in_the_skies_of_johannesburg_south/ sighting description, moving star, two witnesses, single light object red 🔴, moving and stationary, flew overhead, jumpy movements, urban area, Johannesburg south Africa 🇿🇦
.2 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1aoznh2/sol_videos_are_out_now/ videos from the Sol Foundation
.3 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1ap29ft/all_the_relevant_uap_updates_from_feb_511/ information, state of disclosure https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1au1k50/a_summary_of_latin_american_ufo_disclosure_this/ information, state of disclosure from Latin America
.4 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1aocii6/dubai_uae_spotted_something_strange_in_the_sky/ video and photos, nighttime cloudy sky, urban area, near water, Dubai United Arab Emirates 🇦🇪, contemporaneous report, cylindrical, moving slowly, possibly scanning, duration 10 minutes, single light object, elongated, purple 🟣, orientation change to vertical, sudden departure upward, [GOODPOST]
.5 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1aot7ww/a_weird_experience_today_in_melbourne/ sighting description, contemporaneous report, at home, daytime, outside bedroom window, fleet, flying in formation, low below rooftop, possible metallic sphere shape, witness looked away and looked back, vanished, urban area, Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺, similar sighting in comments, V-shaped formation change to grid,
.6 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1ao8ipa/mysterious_bright_object_over_mumbais_arabian_sea/ photos, nighttime sky, urban area, Mumbai India 🇮🇳, near water, Arabian Sea, observed moving and stationary, vanishing, photos show possible splitting, single light object and threelights, close formation, line, jumpy movement, contemporaneous report, duration 5-7 minutes, silent, repeat visitor, previous reaction to being filmed, flareup and vanishing, emotion of peace
.7 ➡️ https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1apb6bc/i_believe_i_have_caught_2_ufos_disappearing_on/ video, daytime cloudy sky, twolights, blackwhite, flying in formation, horizontal trajectory, video shows vanishing or jumpy movement, contemporaneous report, blackpool England the UK 🇬🇧, similar sighting in comments , at home, outside window, [GOODPOST], similar sightings in comments https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1aq53y8/update_post_from_disappearing_ufo_new_clip/ more video
.8 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1aov2ka/plane_satellite_space_station_or_ufo/ video, daytime sky, contemporaneous report, urban area, San Diego California, near water pacific ocean, at home, backyard, single light object, downvoted to zero, OP comments downvoted, duration 5-7 minutes
.9 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1aoxia0/my_sighting/ sighting description and drawing, urban area, Newark New Jersey, two witnesses, single object blackwhite, ring ⭕️ of light surrounding a dark circle, possible reaction to being observed, departing,
.10 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1apc8tu/_/ photo, nighttime sky, single light object, low over rooftop, urban area, San Francisco California, contemporaneous report
.11 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1ap0oq2/saw_a_huge_red_light_in_the_sky_in_india/ childhood sighting description, single light object stationary, red 🔴, at home, outside window, multiple witnesses, silent, witness looked away and looked back, vanished, other witness observed it moving erratically and sudden departure upward , India 🇮🇳
.12 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1ap2h5g/alleged_ufo_footage/ video, daytime cloudy sky, urban area, single dark object, elongated, vertical orientation, metapod or jetpack man type, similar sighting in comments, downvoted to zero, OP comments downvoted, urban area, Brooklyn NYC New York state, low over rooftop, [GOODPOST]
.13 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1apb23t/personal_ufo_sighting_ai_generated_for_reference/ sighting description and drawing, urban area, Ireland 🇮🇪, single light object, red 🔴, two witnesses, nighttime, moving slowly, duration 1 minute, blinking, pulsating almost like it was using it to propel itself forward
.14 ➡️ https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1apcvny/illuminated_object_above_catalina_island_on/ video, daytime sky, single light object, low over ridgeline, over Catalina Island, from Laguna Beach California, near water pacific ocean, stationary, observed vanishing, repeat visitor, two witnesses, duration 15 minutes, [GOODPOST]
.15 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1apeisnorth_manchester_uk_130822/ video, nighttime sky, event amnesia, I totally forgot I’d filmed it, single light object, flickering, Manchester the UK 🇬🇧,
.16 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1apfcuy/ufo_disappears_right_in_front_of_me/ video, nighttime sky, single light object, vanishing, low over rooftop, urban area, Kennewick Washington state, OP deleted
.17 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1apfnjb/junior_3d_artist_looking_to_recreate_you art 🎨, video recreation of ufo sighting, stories wanted
.18 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1apgn36/probably_not_a_plane_uc_irvine_ca/ video, daytime sky, Irvin California, single dark object moving slowly
.19 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1apm0op/ufo_sighting_from_dec_2023/ video, daytime sky, from car, single light object or twolights, pacing car, additional contrails type or pacing plane, Deer Trail Colorado, multiple objects observed, downvoted to zero
.20 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1apmmux/night_sky_turning_orange_anyone_else_encountered/ sighting description, no craft, nighttime, camping, outback Birdsville Queensland Australia 🇦🇺, four witnesses, orange 🟠 glow that grew then shrunk, then exploded bigger lighting up the whole sky in orange, it was growing rather than flashing. Maybe it was around 10 seconds duration all up. , flareup , bolide?, downvoted to zero, has anyone seen?
.21 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1apmsa6/what_is_this_moving_next_to_jupite video, nighttime sky, single light object moving, zigzag movements, Jupiter for comparison, duration 30 minutes, brightness change, trail, east coast USA, contemporaneous report, has anyone seen?, downvoted to zero, OP comments downvoted, big debunker energy, [GOODPOST]
.22 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1apo8ku/heavy_activity_in_the_sky_above_augusta_ga_right/ sighting description, contemporaneous report, happening at time of posting, fleet, Augusta Georgia, duration 15 minutes, flying in close formation, straight lines, then a few in diamond 💠 formations, ranged from groups of 2's, 4's, 5's, 9's., two witnesses, nighttime cloudy sky,
.23 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1apzya3/sighting_orange_orbs_near_nyma_border_on_jan_23/ sighting description, new Lebanon new York state, nighttime cloudy sky, first noticed from car, threelights, triangle 🔺️ formation, orange 🟠, witness stopped the car and got out, fleet or single object multiple lights, flashing in sequence observed, silent, low below treeline , appearing and vanishing
.24 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1apzd22/strange_lights_brisbane/ video, nighttime sky, urban area, Brisbane Australia 🇦🇺, duration 1 hour, appearing and vanishing, fleet, contemporaneous report, video shows threelights, appearing and vanishing, powerlines https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1aqdcnf/strange_lights_over_brisbane/ more video
.25 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1apgqb4/inbound_shapeshifter_over_los_angeles/ video, daytime sky, single dark object, elongated, irregular oval-shaped, tumbling, descending, emitting gas or smoke, urban area, Los Angeles California, repeat visitor https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1aq7quj/021024_noaa_wind_data/ NOAA wind data for that day
.26 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1aq37m8/what_are_those_lights/ video, nighttime sky, single light object moving, urban area, Hamburg Germany 🇩🇪
.27 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1apu0i3/i_cant_explain_these_ufos_in_the_photo/ photo, daytime cloudy sky, twolights, trail, not seen by eye, Mid-Atlantic USA, 50 miles from Atlantic Ocean , downvoted to zero, OP comments downvoted
.28 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1apq6zc/second_video_from_asheville_sighting/ video, nighttime sky, single light object, flashing, Asheville north Carolina , downvoted to zero
.29 https://old.reddit.com/HighStrangeness/comments/1aongi6/a_black_rectangle_in_my_room/ sighting description, at home, inside bedroom, nighttime, audio description light banging noise in my closet. , single dark object, elongated, rectangular shape, black, moving fast, I see a black rectangular solid shadow zip away from me. It was about 6x4 inches long, and as it moved seemed to leave a trail like a blur.
.30 https://old.reddit.com/HighStrangeness/comments/1aoq30s/fast_moving_light_that_i_hope_someone_else_in_the/ sighting description, contemporaneous report, single light object moving fast, flew overhead, similar sighting in comments, from car, three witnesses , towards Belleville Illinois , has anyone seen?, contemporaneous report
.31 https://old.reddit.com/HighStrangeness/comments/1apjql9/help_with_a_ufo_case/ sighting description and reference news article, family story, grandmother, information wanted, Crestview Florida, near Eglin Air Force Base, V-shaped or chevron , similar sightings same area in comments
.32 https://old.reddit.com/HighStrangeness/comments/1apkawy/has_anyone_had_et_experiences_as_a_child_that/ discussion of childhood sighting descriptions, entities, hostile, emotional reaction anger "you bastards messed with me and now you're going to fuck off??" , similar sightings in comments
.33 https://old.reddit.com/HighStrangeness/comments/1aq41rw/any_insights_welcome/ sighting description, at home, inside bedroom, entity, physical effects goosebumps, vapor like entity, it's like a grey flame lapping up my bed toward me as it gets closer or the "flame" like extensions get closer the sensation gets stronger , emotion of fear
.34 https://old.reddit.com/HighStrangeness/comments/1apzf7i/an_odd_occurrence_in_the_woods_anyone_else/ sighting description, nighttime, two witnesses, Pennsylvania, single light object, orange 🟠, low over ground, stationary, silent, duration 30 seconds, dimming, vanishing, emotion of fear, witnesses left the area, physical effects goosebumps
.35 https://old.reddit.com/HighStrangeness/comments/1aq0zwsaw_a_ufo_on_vacation_in_hungary/ sighting description, Somogyzsitfa Hungary 🇭🇺 , nighttime, single light object, color change, a shining point that alternated between the colors red, green, blue. 🔴🟢🔵, zigzag movement, flew in a triangle., sudden departure, two witnesses, similar sighting same area in comments
.36 https://old.reddit.com/aliens/comments/1apzn03/was_flying_my_drone_over_kansas_city_mo_today_and/ video, daytime cloudy sky, from drone, contemporaneous report, crop circle, Kansas city Missouri https://old.reddit.com/aliens/comments/1aqvxae/you_have_been_taken_for_fools_the_so_called_crop/ debunk?
.37 https://old.reddit.com/aliens/comments/1apoghk/picture_i_drew_today_of_a_ufo_grey_and_mantis/ art 🎨, drawing, entities
.38 https://old.reddit.com/ufo/comments/1aq0fhs/what_do_you_swear_you_saw_but_dont_have_any_proof/ discussion of sightings
.39 https://old.reddit.com/ufo/comments/1ap2ara/black_triangles/ sighting description, nighttime, from car, two witnesses, low over treeline, single dark object, stationary, ward/Cabot Arkansas, two witnesses, emotion of fear in other witness, black triangle 🔺️ with lights on each point of the craft, silent, similar sightings in comments
.40 https://old.reddit.com/space/comments/1aq4mif/i_saw_two_points_of_light_show_up_and_disappea sighting description, nighttime, twolights, two witnesses, stationary, flareup and vanishing, I was looking up at the night sky at Orion's Belt and I noticed two bright "stars" that were sitting stationary to the lower left of the constellation.
.41 https://old.reddit.com/Glitch_in_the_Matrix/comments/1aq0lon/the_sun_blinked/ experience description, no craft, flash of darkness, two witnesses, the (sun)light suddenly blinks once.
.42 https://old.reddit.com/CLOUDS/comments/1apno5e/blue_clouds_today/ video, daytime cloudy sky, cloud anomaly, blue 🔵, dragon 🐉, contemporaneous report, Mid north coast New South Wales Australia 🇦🇺
.43 https://old.reddit.com/aliens/comments/1aohfht/my_personal_experience_from_sep_2023/ photo, daytime cloudy sky, from car, single light object, low over treeline, the Netherlands 🇳🇱
.44 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1aqg3lk/ufo_see_over_philadelphia_south_jersey/ video, daytime sky, urban area, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, fleet, two witnesses, video shows brightness change, turned black ⚫️ , departure upward, OP comments downvoted, [GOODPOST]
.45 ➡️ https://old.reddit.com/AliensAndUFOs/comments/1arb4t0/possible_ufo_uap_changing_into_plane/ video, daytime cloudy sky, urban area, East Brunswick new jersey, single light object, lighting configuration change to dark, shape change to plane, https://streamable.com/qr22a5 direct link to video, weird shit, [GOODPOST], plane-shaped
.46 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1aqej84/what_are_those_lights/ video, witness is a pilot, from airplane, nighttime sky, fleet, multiple objects, one orange 🟠 light, brightness change, contemporaneous report, two witnesses , north of Milwaukee Wisconsin
.47 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1aq8l42/i_saw_two_dots_of_light_moving_in_pair_for_the/ sighting description, repeat visitor, twolights, moving fast, flying in formation, brief duration a few seconds, similar sightings in comments, Northern Italy 🇮🇹 , nighttime , downvoted to zero
.48 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1aqkr4q/three_strange_lights_in_the_sky_500_playlist/ original compilation, threelights, similar sighting in comments, daytime, moving slowly, Germany 🇩🇪
.49 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1aqmu8x/ufo_black_triangle/ sighting description, black triangle 🔺️, urban area, London England the UK 🇬🇧, nighttime, duration 50 seconds, nighttime, at home, backyard, single light object, orange 🟠, approach, flew overhead, low and slow and silent, triangular craft with a hazy orange/amber glow in the middle with white lights at each end of the triangle., threelights with central light, flew over the witness home,
.50 https://old.reddit.com/HighStrangeness/comments/1aqije8/ufo_spotted_north_of_portland_up_i5/ sighting description, urban area, Portland Oregon, from car, contemporaneous report, daytime, two witnesses, single light object, elongated, tictac, moving fast, crossed directly in front, speed change, slowed down, jumpy movement, We watched it cloak/teleport
.51 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1aqt8zm/project_contact/ original project, ongoing, human initiated contact, USA
.52 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1aqzb5n/alien_artwork_by_me/ sighting descriptions and drawing, art 🎨, mushrooms, abduction, fleet , single object multiple lights, Manitoba Canada 🇨🇦
.53 https://old.reddit.com/aliens/comments/1aqke47/large_multicolored_ufo_captured_in_charlotte/ reference video and discussion of sightings, threelights, single object multiple lights, angled from the horizon, low below treeline, many similar sightings in comments, Charlotte North Carolina
.54 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1ar0evo/lights_in_the_daytime_sky/ video, daytime cloudy sky, twolights, moving slowly, jumpy movements, flickering, blackwhite , duration 30 minutes, previously observed triangle 🔺️, threelights with central red light blinking, reddish glow, horizontal trajectory, near Eugene west Oregon, near water pacific ocean
.55 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1ar17ll/sighting_over_atl/ video, daytime sky, contemporaneous report, urban area Atlanta Georgia, two dark objects, rotating, tumbling, blackwhite, doughnut 🍩 and T-shaped
.56 https://old.reddit.com/UFOB/comments/1ar00h1/glowing_i_have_photos_of_it_being_a_glowing_orb/ video, daytime cloudy sky, single light object, plane-shaped , https://old.reddit.com/UFOB/comments/1ar0tkq/video_of_glowing_ball_or_something_like_that/ more video, single light object, disk shape with dome, powerlines,
.57 https://old.reddit.com/signalidentification/comments/1aqqqe3/brother_caught_this_on_his_speakers/ audio anomaly
.58 https://old.reddit.com/AlienEncounters/comments/1aqg7cj/alien_encounte sighting description, from car, single light object moving erratically, pacing car, three witnesses, low over ground, flareup, sudden departure upward, emotional reaction shock, witnesses left the area , near Kerman California
.59 https://old.reddit.com/UAPPhenomenon/comments/1aqamv9/question_ive_never_asked/ childhood experience description, Expecting to see the Moon I looked and in it's place was Saturn. It was huge. It was very real then and it still is now. It was different shades of golds. Lighter at the pole regions and darkening bands of gold converging at the equator. The rings extended beyond the horizons. I felt eyes on me and as I was looking at the other children I started to realize that they were very strange looking children from behind them and I knew the were turning towards me and I didn't want them to.
.60 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1ar3ckk/is_this_a_plane_with_headlight/ video, nighttime sky, single light object, diffuse, haze, possible approach, getting larger and lower in brightness until it faded completely., dimming, vanishing, plane for comparison observed, SpaceX?
.61 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1arhfsh/i_think_i_accidentally_filmed_a_tic_tac/ video, daytime sky, over water, from ship, ferry, single light object, elongated, horizontal orientation, tictac, pacing ship, sudden departure upward, from Barcelona Spain 🇪🇸 to Rome Italy 🇮🇹
.62 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1arizv7/found_during_a_morning_walk_in_a_park_in_denve documents, The envelope with the name Edmund written on the outside contained a hand written letter explaining that “K” and his sister supposedly found these photos from their dad and are looking for answers. Then there are 9 photos. 3 look like they contain a UFO the other 6 look like diagrams or something?, urban area, Denver Colorado, contemporaneous report, USAF, deleted OP in 3 hours, pictures still there
.63 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1ar2vya/my_personal_experiences/ detailed experience descriptions, multiple events, possible implant, Tuolumne county California. Sierra Nevada mountains and foothills. Stanislaus National Forest., multiple witnesses, entities, cloaked
.64 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1arlvqg/strange_light_on_volc%C3%A1n_de_agua_gt/ video, daytime sky, single light object, possibly entering and exiting volcano, crater of Volcan de Agua. , Guatemala 🇬🇹
.65 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1arolip/object_hovering/ video, daytime sky, from car, single light object, elongated, irregular shape, jellyfish 🪼, vertical orientation, pacing car, submission statement issues, removed, video still there
.66 https://old.reddit.com/HighStrangeness/comments/1aqvgol/bright_and_silent_ball_of_light_recorded_passing/ video, daytime cloudy sky, single light object moving, illuminating clouds, Holly Springs north Carolina, silent , disappeared behind treeline
.67 https://old.reddit.com/HighStrangeness/comments/1aqu3it/strange_childhood_experience_looking_for_an/ experience description, entity, humanoid, shadow figure, inside bedroom, emotion of fear, physical effects injuries, The next morning I had scratches all over my thighs., similar sighting in comments
.68 https://old.reddit.com/HighStrangeness/comments/1aqvy8y/crazy_soundvibration_on_a_hike_bell_canyon_ca/ audio description, bell canyon California, two witnesses, contemporaneous report, It felt like the entire Earth was buzzing, and we could feel the vibration through our whole body. I also felt a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach, like the earth was about to split in half under me. This whole experience lasted maybe 5-10 seconds duration, physical effects vibration, similar sightings in comments
.69 https://old.reddit.com/HighStrangeness/comments/1argb7g/childhood_experiences_in_the_deep_south/ experience descriptions, Mississippi, flying car, flying pink convertible…with two people inside. They hovered above us way up in the sky and smiled and waved. , witness waved at it, pterodactyl, levitation, single light object, approach, felt observed, communication, felt and just knew it was mad and reprimanding us basically.
.70 https://old.reddit.com/aliens/comments/1ar9o8d/uap_in_swiss/ photo, daytime cloudy sky, single dark object, elongated, vertical orientation, angular, Switzerland 🇨🇭
.71 https://old.reddit.com/aliens/comments/1aq5olo/big_metal_sphere_ufo/ sighting description and video, three witnesses, sudden departure, Conroe Texas , daytime, single light object, metallic sphere observed
.72 (duplicate)
.73 https://old.reddit.com/AliensAndUFOs/comments/1argqgh/i_saw_something_similar_to_the_recent_uap/ photos, daytime cloudy sky, single light object observed, very bright, witness followed it, duration 10 minutes, brightness change to single dark object, plane-shaped, smaller object accompanying it, the shining light faded completely and what was left was this passenger plane-looking thing, but it was like 1/5 the average size. , moving erratically, it took off accross the neighborhood and stopped about half a mile away, so I followed. We did this cat and mouse, back and forth where I would follow it and stop, then it would zip off in another direction.
.74 https://old.reddit.com/AliensAndUFOs/comments/1arqvvj/i_saw_the_planeshaped_thing_too/ sighting description, daytime cloudy sky, single light object, low below treeline, trail, elongated, vertical orientation, orientation change to horizontal, disappeared into clouds, brightness change or second object, single dark object, elongated, horizontal orientation, angular, plane-shaped, witness looked away and looked back, vanished
.75 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1arsq1n/saw_this_on_july_4th_wasnt_sure_what_it_was/ video, nighttime sky, single light object, orange 🟠, July 4th, video shows vanishing , southern Florida
.76 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1arstgj/what_could_this_be/ video, daytime sky, single object moving slowly, contemporaneous report, eastern north Carolina,
.77 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1arsw3g/poss%C3%ADvel_sonda/ audio, from home security camera, I think my security camera caught a probe,
.78 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1aruja2/i_feel_gifted_a_little/ sighting description, two witnesses, near water, lake, near airport, nighttime, windy, emotion of fear, single light object, multicolored, low over treeline, approach, flew overhead, vanished, audio description explosion, blue and red 🔵🔴, Omg it looked like dragon ball Z kamahame haa colors it was a fireball of colors.
.79 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1arzfm2/saw_an_orange_light_behind_my_house_in_the_woods/ video, nighttime sky, at home, backyard, contemporaneous report, single light object, orange 🟠, low below treeline, Shelby north Carolina, duration 1-2 minutes, brightness change, color change, vanishing, the object ended up dimming after a minute or two and turned into a white light like a star and disappeared., stationary, video shows possible threelights, close formation, line formation, possible butterfly 🦋 , possible light beam, rectangular, reddish glow,
.80 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1as1r7e/nj_ufo_011324_sucks_tbh/ video, nighttime sky, downvoted to zero, OP comments downvoted, duration 40 seconds, splitting observed, the light in the recording previously splitting into 2 separate lights, twolights, video shows single light object, low over rooftop, new jersey
.81 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1arofl9/help_identifying_this_sighting/ sighting description and drawing, rocket launch,
.82 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1as2lyw/westchester_florida_705pm_011524/ video, nighttime sky, contemporaneous report, single light object, triangle 🔺️, shape change, approach, flew overhead, urban area, Westchester Miami Florida, near water Atlantic Ocean, [GOODPOST], downvoted to zero,
.83 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1as3h93/3_sightings_over_35_years/ sighting descriptions, repeat visitors, northwest England the UK 🇬🇧, fleet, flying in formation, nighttime, subsequent single light object, orange 🟠, at home, backyard, two witnesses, darkness bright as day, illuminated surroundings, subsequent sighting single dark object, dark grey "elongated hexagon" moving across the sky.
.84 https://old.reddit.com/HighStrangeness/comments/1asajr5/what_did_i_experience_with_my_nhi_communication/ experience description and drawing, human initiated contact, entities, information, UAPs have constantly variable surfaces and can change shape at will. https://old.reddit.com/HighStrangeness/comments/1asc7t8/sketches_from_my_previous_post_about_my_experience/ more drawings, entity, similar sighting in comments
.85 https://old.reddit.com/HighStrangeness/comments/1arxwff/light_orbs_seen_2_times_in_the_span_of_10_days/ video, nighttime sky, repeat visitors, at home, felt compelled to go outside, single light object, stationary and moving, duration 10 minutes, mimicking airplane, it started to fly away (and got these plane like pulsating lights), near Avala mountain Serbia 🇷🇸 , very bright, scanning, possibly cloaking, looked like it was sort of scanning the area, and when it finished "turned" or cloaked to something known to us.
.86 https://old.reddit.com/HighStrangeness/comments/1as97jd/the_hum_its_back/ audio anomaly, the hum, repeat visitor, contemporaneous report, Østerbro Copenhagen Denmark 🇩🇰 ,
.87 https://old.reddit.com/ufo/comments/1asfzd6/finally_filmed_my_own_ufouap/ video, nighttime sky, single light object, diffuse haze, rocket launch?
.88 https://old.reddit.com/ufo/comments/1arvzrg/can_someone_help_me_figure_out_what_i_just_saw/ sighting description, contemporaneous report, nighttime, from car, near airport, threelights, triangle formation, lights were all forward facing on what seemed to be a flat surface tbh. There was like one small red light towards the rear., Sarasota Florida
.89 https://old.reddit.com/aliens/comments/1ashkrs/i_have_many_questions_and_few_answerscattle/ video, mutilation, cow,
.90 https://old.reddit.com/aliens/comments/1asanrs/my_ufo_encounte sighting description, south Florida, single light object, oval-shaped, approach, flew overhead, shaped like an egg but had a sharp edge going along the middle of it and the bottom half had verticle grooves running from the front to the back., event amnesia, missing time, entities , communication, The only thing I remember after that was waking up in my car as the suns rising. I sat there completely shell shocked.
.91 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1asjmkc/possible_sighting_near_south_njphilly/ sighting description, south new jersey near Philadelphia Pennsylvania, two witnesses, from car, single object, elongated, vertical orientation, descending
.92 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1asmtra/possible_uap_while_driving/ video, daytime cloudy sky, from car, single object blackwhite, elongated, horizontal orientation, powerlines, Massachusetts, duration 10 minutes,
.93 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1asm669/ufo_fleet_experience/ sighting description and video, contemporaneous report, nighttime cloudy sky, moving stars, single light object, fleet, jumpy movement, flying in formation, line, vertical orientation, 3 more orbs in a vertical line, there was 1 on top 1 in the middle and 1 below it , haze, craft observed, texture visible, there were dark patches that were hexagon shaped that covered this orb and in the front there was a light, duration 2 hours, observed moving and stationary, repeat three times, that white orb that was stopping and going did that 3 times, filled the sky, felt like something I was not supposed to see
.94 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1asjvgh/pilots_sees_ufo_over_boston/ discussion of sightings, some comments from pilots, single light object, orange 🟠 , [GOODPOST]
.95 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1at3x70/ufo_fall_2023_rural_iowa/ photos, daytime sky, single light object, elongated, horizontal orientation, tictac, repeat visitor, Iowa, similar sighting in comments
.96 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1astsg4/2_objects_flying_in_opposite_directions/ video, daytime sky, powerlines, downvoted to zero, OP comments downvoted, silent, over the Ozark Mountains in Arkansas., twolights, moving separately, low below treeline, elongated, tictac
.97 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1asszeb/ufo_western_ma/ video, nighttime sky, single light object , multicolored observed moving erratically, zigzag movements, possible communication, I have asked it to move up and down side to side and it does….wtf, repeat visitor, western Massachusetts, up down left right, downvoted to zero
.98 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1assl2q/three_eerie_lights_above_ok/ sighting description, nighttime, two witnesses, duration 3 minutes, threelights, line formation, angled from the horizon, brightness change, dimming, vanishing, Oklahoma
.99 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1asrc57/uap_over_lake_starnberg_bavaria_germany/ video, nighttime sky, urban area, Bavaria Germany 🇩🇪, single light object stationary, multicolored, silent, vanishing, similar sighting in comments, over water, Lake starnberg
.100 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1asvynm/small_ufo_ill_appreciate_some_insight/ photo, daytime cloudy sky, contemporaneous report, single light object, elongated, horizontal orientation, twolights, two objects observed, powerlines, Argentina 🇦🇷, two witnesses, duration 6 minutes, yellowish 🟡, reddish glow, similar sightings in comments ,
.101 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1asqudw/something_strange_over_asheville_nc_02142024/ video and photos and video from second witness, nighttime sky, urban area, Asheville north Carolina, single object multiple lights, haze, formation change, 1.5 minutes of dancing/orbiting about one another with this strange fog/mist forming and somewhat enveloping them, followed by an alignment into the equilateral triangle shape, followed by more dancing orbiting chaos and then again, the same alignment., [GOODPOST]
.102 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1asx00w/im_a_skeptic_but_i_did_see_a_ufo_one_time/ sighting description, downvoted to zero, close to LA and south of Pasadena in a little city called El Sereno California, nighttime, single light object, physical effects paralysis, transfixed, my eyes locked on to this one star, I stared at it for a few minutes , flareup, sudden departure, curved trajectory, The light made a movement similar to the Nike logo of a swoosh.
.103 https://old.reddit.com/HighStrangeness/comments/1astqj6/unexplained_lights_in_my_backyard/ video, at home, backyard, from home security camera, flareup, low below treeline, single light object moving, similar sightings in comments, Georgia, [GOODPOST]
.104 https://old.reddit.com/ufo/comments/1at346f/the_day_i_saw_an_ufo/ sighting description and drawing, daytime, two witnesses, single light object, orange 🟠, triangle 🔺️, moving straight, vanishing, Argentina 🇦🇷
.105 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1at9ubm/i_think_i_saw_a_ufo_last_night_is_there_anything/ sighting description, contemporaneous report, nighttime, single light object moving slowly, blinking in a pattern, dim, duration 5 minutes, It had a steady double blink, about every 2 to 3 secs it would blink,blink., at home
.106 https://old.reddit.com/aliens/comments/1at870v/any_idea_what_this_is/ video, daytime sky, single dark object, irregular blocky shape, worm 🪱, rotating
.107 https://old.reddit.com/aliens/comments/1at56ry/i_dunno/ photos, from train, daytime cloudy sky, single dark object , was circular and moving whilst tilted slightly, near Leamington Ontario Canada 🇨🇦
.108 https://old.reddit.com/aliens/comments/1asjelu/alien_encounter_or_dream/ childhood experience description, entities, inside home, nighttime, emotion of fear, two small beings walked into the room., they dragged my mothers and brothers souls out of their body. Like they dragged something from them that was light in color, like a deflated human figure
.109 https://old.reddit.com/aliens/comments/1as4s2f/something_noticed_out_of_the_window/ video, nighttime sky, at home, outside window, single light object, multicolored, flickered red, blue white and a bit of green 🔴🔵🟢, contemporaneous report, two witnesses, possibly moving slowly, possible shape change
.110 https://old.reddit.com/aliens/comments/1as0ijw/encounter_in_huntsville_alabama_looking_fo sighting description and drawing, entity, Huntsville Alabama, Its form, though humanoid in shape, was marred by grotesque elongations and contortions that spoke of a biology wholly divergent from our own. Its head, disproportionately large, bore the remnants of what appeared to be multiple ocular organs, now clouded and lifeless. , blue 🔵,
.111 https://old.reddit.com/astrophotography/comments/1atdooh/new_here_what_this/ sighting description, single light object, multicolored, in other photo it was green with somewhat yellow, in another it was blue with orange and white in the middle. 🟡🟢🔵🟠
.112 https://old.reddit.com/HighStrangeness/comments/1atd85c/its_not_a_bug_what_is_it/ video, nighttime cloudy sky, storm, lightning, single light object moving erratically
.113 https://old.reddit.com/UAPPhenomenon/comments/1asqlnu/uap_sighting/ photo, daytime cloudy sky, Phoenix Arizona, single dark object, elongated, vertical orientation, stationary, over the witness home, duration several minutes, jumpy movement, disappearing in an instant and reappearing far off in the distance., possible military response jet, USAF, jet from what looked like the direction of Luke AFB took off directly in line with it before it disappeared completely.
.114 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1atx5de/how_can_i_capture_objects_far_away_in_cleare video, daytime cloudy sky, fleet, blackwhite, jumpy movement, birds for comparison, contemporaneous report, St Clair new south wales Australia 🇦🇺, duration 1 hour
.115 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1atv6p8/possible_ufos_over_albuquerque_on_valentines_day/ video, daytime sky, at work, fleet, urban area, Albuquerque new Mexico, possibly metallic, blinking, multicolored, dancing, plane for comparison observed, video shows single light object, flickering, vanishing and reappearing or jumpy movement , similar sighting in comments
.116 https://old.reddit.com/HighStrangeness/comments/1atgngv/big_white_dog_in_middle_of_night/ experience description, entity, big white dog, nighttime, the UK 🇬🇧, anomalous silence, I remember feeling like it was REALLY quiet, followed the witness, emotion of fear, witness left the area, similar sightings in comments
.117 https://old.reddit.com/HighStrangeness/comments/1atyzj8/unexplained_burn/ experience description, no craft, physical effects injury , at home, outside window, suddenly felt a burning sensation on my left arm, I had a purple, round mark on my arm. 🟣
.118 https://old.reddit.com/CLOUDS/comments/1atpirh/am_i_just_uneducated_or_is_this_not_normal/ photo, daytime cloudy sky, cloud anomaly, triangle 🔺️, Arkansas
.119 https://old.reddit.com/astrophotography/comments/1athuxu/interesting_streak/ photo, nighttime sky, streak of light, green 🟢, angled from the horizon, 10 second long exposure
.120 https://old.reddit.com/RBI/comments/1ath08n/slow_moving_convoy_at_3am_w_loudspeakers_in_la/ possible crash retrieval, Los Angeles California, around 2010, nighttime, slow moving convoy moving down a main street. There were a few cop cars, some trucks, and smack dab in the middle was an 18 wheeler hauling a flatbed trailer with something big strapped to it
.121 https://old.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1au3onj/took_this_3_years_ago_no_idea_what_that_is_neve video, nighttime sky, Goa India 🇮🇳, single light object, low over rooftop, possible jumpy movement observed, vanishing
.122 https://old.reddit.com/RBI/comments/1au2y6t/what_happened/ experience description, entities, single light object, single flash, threelights, two witnesses, emotion of fear, witnesses left the area, Ile d'Oleron France 🇫🇷, near water Atlantic Ocean
2024.02.08 17:34 AdruinoKamino [Geology With Lab] Igneous Rocks. Can you check what I’ve got?
![[Geology With Lab] Igneous Rocks. Can you check what I’ve got?](https://preview.redd.it/8p31mo0p2ehc1.jpeg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=bbd6ce41febc755c94385df1eec6f8c5d0fa48af "[Geology With Lab] Igneous Rocks. Can you check what I’ve got?") | I can’t find any information about the rock types and where they’re at in the “Igneous processes at convergent boundaries” section of the book, just types of magma and layer names. Using that information I just kind of guestimated these answers and with the exception of 6&7 I’m not confident about any of them. If you know of a resource that might explain this better than my textbook I’ll appreciate it if you drop a link for it. submitted by AdruinoKamino to HomeworkHelp [link] [comments] |
2024.01.17 21:59 United-Mud6306 Devils Hole ~~Pupfish~~ Image #4
 | Although not a picture of the Pupfish themselves, here is a cool diagram of Devils Hole itself. The bottom of the hole is still undiscovered… What do you think is hiding down there? At least 2 dead bodies! Here is an article on the deaths of 2 young divers attempting to explore this hole. submitted by United-Mud6306 to devilsHolePupfish [link] [comments] |
2024.01.17 04:41 DavidM47 The mystery of Siberia's strange exploding craters may have finally been solved (Source: Business Insider)
 | Apparently Siberia has a region where large craters have been found in the permafrost, often in connection with giant explosions being heard. Link to story. Discussion continues below. submitted by DavidM47 to GrowingEarth [link] [comments] Yamal Peninsula, Northern Siberia Reuters Initially, they thought it might be methane from organic material building up under the permafrost. But that phenomenon is what creates thermokarsts, lakes that bubble with methane as permafrost melts. That happens in other places, like Canada. This spontaneous crater formation is exclusive to particular regions of Siberia that have large concentrations of natural gas. VASILY BOGOYAVLENSKY/AFP via Getty Images Rather than being created by permafrost methane, scientists think these are trapped pockets of hot natural gas, seeping up through a natural fault, exploding when the permafrost gets sufficiently thin. The diagram explains it better than I can. Helge Hellevang et al, 2023, https://doi.org/10.31223/X59Q3K CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) "Only eight of these craters have been identified so far, all within a very specific area: the Western Siberian Yamal and Gydan peninsulas in Northern Russia." There appear to be other large swaths of land in Siberia that may contain more craters. Yamal and Gydan peninsulas shown in red; in yellow, other large regions of Siberia displaying a similar patchwork of thermokarsts, or potentially, filled-in craters. Here are these same regions on the crustal age map. Under the Growing Earth theory, these pockets of natural gas are merely carbon-hydrogen bonds formed in the Earth, trying to make their way to the surface, but stopped by the ice at the surface. https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/ocean_age/data/2008/ngdc-generated_images/globes/age_lithosphere_globe_northpole.png Recall that when a volcano erupts, the first thing that is released is usually not magma, but a pyroclastic flow - some combination of super-heated gas and a flakey unconsolidated volcanic material. Because mainstream geology does not accept the premise that these gasses are formed within the planet, they have created all sorts of theories about how a planet, even after 4 billion years of entropy, can still have pockets of gas inside of it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyroclastic_flow#/media/File:Pyroclastic_flows_at_Mayon_Volcano.jpg The Growing Earth theory would predict that the volcanos sprouting up in the Asian Pacific are similarly the result of a thinning of the surface and an absence of other escape routes for super-heated gas, except, instead of permafrost, the thinning surface consists of basalt. The oceanic / basalt crust is only 7 km thick, whereas the continents are 30-50 km thick. This area highlighted below is the oldest oceanic crust on the planet, so it's had the most time to deteriorate. The conspicuous "L" shaped pattern, the end of which is the Hawaii Island chain, appears to be a pre-existing weakness, or other vestige, caused by the Western coast of the North America previously being in this spot. https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/ocean_age/data/2008/ngdc-generated_images/globes/age_lithosphere_globe_pacific.png |
2023.12.24 20:18 BagBeneficial8060 Celestial Museum
Celestial museum, no entrance fee but lionhearted attitudes. Gaze upon the Relics of cultures macabre, dug up from galactic graves. The hyper- intelligent extremophiles with horned brains leaking formaldehyde, stand in line and weep. They wait to view the shriveled up remains of their planet, rotating behind impenetrable display glass.
The amorphous security guard who droops and taps the “don’t tap” glass ‘cause he’s sick of his job. He tells himself, “I am an officer of the laws of the universe,” then quits.
We arrive through portals that smell of urine. Smiled greetings, fuzzy comets came to see the hard rigor of their ancestry- those colossal space-born rocks which fought in all the battles of your eyes. “Are we an unfinished diagram?”, you ask. I look at you and study you as the greatest artifact in this place. But i didn’t need the context of a space museum to ponder you from every conceivable and inconceivable angle, From every epistemological viewpoint.
We browsed through stacks of God’s early blueprints- unexcited ions, symmetrical nebulas, planets planned as cubes, volcanos harboring ice-cold magma. All scrapped in favor of his current magnum opus.
A shopping cart found wedged in the soil of a virgin planet, puzzling as an SPQR flag found on the moon. Statues of arachnid priests, of dwarves with tentacles. Folk heroes of bowlegged solar systems. Too many curios to name. This poem is here too, tacked to the wall. I wrote it in some alternative dimension when I was King of the Omds, forced my people to worship you under threat of disintegration. I admit It was draconian and cruel. Usurped, exiled, the new king in good humor sent me on a one-way rocket to you.
Curators roar behind the scenes on how precisely to construct Pedagogy- to teach, succinctly, to the patrons, all the insidious mechanisms of each starfiber filtering time, of each subjective, sacred rhyme that underlies the euphoria of extinction and gathers us as debris, as voyeurs of our own sensational creation
A solar flare is gearing up for a coughing fit. The museum will close soon
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The amorphous security guard who droops and taps the “don’t tap” glass ‘cause he’s sick of his job. He tells himself, “I am an officer of the laws of the universe,” then quits.
We arrive through portals that smell of urine. Smiled greetings, fuzzy comets came to see the hard rigor of their ancestry- those colossal space-born rocks which fought in all the battles of your eyes. “Are we an unfinished diagram?”, you ask. I look at you and study you as the greatest artifact in this place. But i didn’t need the context of a space museum to ponder you from every conceivable and inconceivable angle, From every epistemological viewpoint.
We browsed through stacks of God’s early blueprints- unexcited ions, symmetrical nebulas, planets planned as cubes, volcanos harboring ice-cold magma. All scrapped in favor of his current magnum opus.
A shopping cart found wedged in the soil of a virgin planet, puzzling as an SPQR flag found on the moon. Statues of arachnid priests, of dwarves with tentacles. Folk heroes of bowlegged solar systems. Too many curios to name. This poem is here too, tacked to the wall. I wrote it in some alternative dimension when I was King of the Omds, forced my people to worship you under threat of disintegration. I admit It was draconian and cruel. Usurped, exiled, the new king in good humor sent me on a one-way rocket to you.
Curators roar behind the scenes on how precisely to construct Pedagogy- to teach, succinctly, to the patrons, all the insidious mechanisms of each starfiber filtering time, of each subjective, sacred rhyme that underlies the euphoria of extinction and gathers us as debris, as voyeurs of our own sensational creation
A solar flare is gearing up for a coughing fit. The museum will close soon
2023.12.15 06:50 omegacluster Album Anniversary List 2023-12-15
Today's anniversaries are:
2007
2009
2010
2013
2016
2021
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2007
2009
2010
2013
- Death Mercedes - Sans éclat (blackened hardcore)
- Elizabeth - Insomnia (blackened hardcore)
- Matheus Manente - Illusions Dimension (progressive metal) Read our review.
- Ultra Zook - Epuzzz (avant-prog)
2016
- An Anderson - Very Machine (progressive rock) Read our review.
- Tournez Nadège - Le 1 (avant-garde jazz)
- Al Goregrind - Nerdgasm Sci-Fi Deathmetal (grindcore)
- Bunkur & Mordor - Split (doom metal)
- Dadabots - Inorganimate (progressive metal)
- Eye of Nix - Black Somnia (doom metal)
- Grafvitnir - Keys to the Mysteries Beyond (black metal)
- Jakub Żytecki - Ladder Head (progressive metal)
- Minors - Atrophy (hardcore)
- Sawce - Sawce (math rock)
- The Big Fat Meanies - The Time Has Come… (progressive metal) Read our review.
- 神 (Kami) Octet - Spring Party (avant-garde jazz) Read our review.
- Ad Shave - Ad complementum (jazz fusion) Read our review.
- Cryptic Ruse - Dual Spaces: Exercises & Diagrams (microtonal progressive metal, doom metal) Read our review.
- Femur - Red Marks (grindcore)
- Laboratorium Pieśni - Rasti (neo-folk)
- Luna vista - Among the Haze (math rock, post-rock)
- Xavier Charles & Éric Normand - Avis aux réacteurs (free improvisation)
- Fabian Dudek - Creating Meaning (avant-garde jazz)
- Mere - Black One (future funk)
- Non- - Artifact (blackgaze)
- Sea Mosquito - Inferences (experimental black metal)
- The Geordie Approach - Shields (free improvisation)
2021
- Auld Ridge - Consanguineous Hymns of Faith and Famine (black metal)
- Flouxus - Kind of the Blues (experimental jazz)
- On a Tree - Future Samba (math rock)
- Wadada Leo Smith, Henry Kaiser, and Alex Varty - Pacifica Koral Reef (free jazz)
- トリコ (Toriko / Tricot) - 上出来 (Jōdeki) (math rock)
- 川井憲次 (Kawai Kenji) & Fox Capture Plan - シドニアの騎士：掌位ノ絆 (Shidonia no kishi: Shōkei no kizuna) (J-rock, soundtrack)
- 沼澤 (Zhǎozé) - 夏虫语冰 (Xià chóng yǔ bīng / Summer Insects Talk about Ice) (post-rock)
2023.12.06 05:51 PacificRimSkreetch Is Minecraft Stone the Real World Equivalent of Basalt/Basalt-Andesite/Trachybasalt/Basaltic-trachyandesite?
 | Edit: I just realized u/thijquint and u/brinjal66 posted something similar. However, I do not want the research and time I spend to write this long post to go to waste, either. Please let me know if I need to change anything. Note that there will some delay in replying since I do not log in everyday/week. submitted by PacificRimSkreetch to GameTheorists [link] [comments] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rocks. A part of the natural world. They are all around us. Useful for construction and enhancing the innate aesthetics of spaces where we reside. Stone is also found in Minecraft. But have you ever wondered if there is a difference between one stone and another? Or even what is Minecraft Stone? I have. Let us delve into the Earth to find out. First of all, a disclaimer. I am not a geologist, so it is entirely possible I am wrong on many parts of my knowledge and thought process. With that out of the way, we can start discussing what is exactly is a rock. What people call rocks - or stones - are a composite of basic constituents called minerals. Minerals themselves are made of elements, the same elements we all learned in Middle and High School Chemistry. Like Carbon, Boron, and Nitrogen. In the Earth’s crust, there is an abundance of several elements. These elements are Silicon and Oxygen. More often than not, they are combined together in the form of Silicon Tetroxide, or Silica for short. Since Silica is the most abundant substance on the Earth’s crust, it makes sense people would find a use for it. Silica is the most common component of sand. Sand, when heated to exorbitantly high temperatures, becomes glass. The same glass you use as a mirror, or use as a vessel for drinking water. Gordon B. Haxel, Sara Boore, and Susan Mayfield from USGS; vectorized by User:michbich - http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2002/fs087-02/. Accessed from Wikipedia, December 5, 2023. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%27s_crust#/media/File:Elemental_abundances.svg. Being the most common chemical compound in rocks also makes Silica useful classifying rocks. I believe this is subfield is called Petrology. Rocks, when studied, have varying content of Silica. Silica percentages can vary from the lowest recorded value of 27% to the highest recorded value of 77%. Based on the percentage of Silica, one is able to group rocks into four basic categories: Ultramafic, Mafic, Intermediate, and Felsic. One aspect to note about categories above is that this is strictly for igneous rocks, or those rocks types created from a volcanic origin. There are two other types of rock: Sedimentary and Metamorphic. Sedimentary rocks are created from the deposition of eroded material from Metamorphic and Igneous rocks. This eroded material is subsequently buried and compacted into rock. Metamorphic rocks are created when Sedimentary and Igneous rocks are transformed by heat and pressure, such as from lava. These types of rock are not applicable for classifying Minecraft Stone; this is due to the fact it can be created from pouring a Water Source Block on a flowing Lava Block. For Igneous rocks, a useful classification chart is called the TAS diagram. In addition to using Silica percentages, the TAS diagram also accounts for Potassium/Sodium oxides. Potassium/Sodium oxides are also known as Alkali oxides, since Potassium and Sodium belong to the Alkali Metals Groups on the Periodic Table. This is where the name of the diagram comes from, Total Alkali Silica. Currently in Minecraft, there are several varieties of stone: Basalt, Stone, Diorite, Andesite, Rhyolite, and Granite. Based solely on the Silica percentages, Basalt is a mafic rock, Diorite and Andesite are Intermediate rocks, and Rhyolite and Granite are Felsic rocks. On the TAS table, the rocks are located on O1, O3, and R, respectively. In the real world, Diorite and Andesite are the same composition, as are Rhyolite and Granite. The only difference between the pairs are that Diorite and Granite are underground, or Intrusive rocks, while Andesite and Rhyolite are exposed to air in an eruption, or Extrusive rocks. Another obvious question to ask is what do the other categories on the TAS table mean? The most pertinent categories are on the same bottom row as O1, O3, and R; they are Pc, O2, and O4. These three categories represent rocks with intermediate Silica percentages between Basalt, Andesite, and Rhyolite, and below Basalt. Pc stands for Picrobasalt, which is an ultramafic rock. O2 is for the category of Basalt-Andesite, and O4 indicates Dacite. Basalt-Andesite is a mafic rock, while Dacite is an Intermediate rock. TAS diagram with field outlines and labels from R. W. Le Maitre (editor), and A. R. Woolley, et. al., Igneous Rocks: A Classification and Glossary of Terms, Recommendations of the International Union of Geological Sciences, Subcommission of the Systematics of Igneous Rocks. Cambridge University Press, 2002. ISBN 0-521-66215-X. Accessed from Wikipedia, December 5, 2023. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TAS_classification#/media/File:TAS-Diagramm.svg. Now that the pertinent TAS categories have been determined, it is time to review the most relevant properties of Minecraft Stone in order to determine which stone group it belongs to. Minecraft Stone is a greyish block with some light tints. It is ubiquitous above the bottom five to six blocks of the Overworld. Minecraft Stone is a renewable resource, being made with a Water Source Block and flowing Lava Blocks. It can be used to craft other blocks and build structures. Minecraft Stone also has a standard Blast Resistance of and a Hardness Value of 6, meaning it is easy to mine and destroy with explosive entities. Besides the properties of Minecraft Stone, information is needed on Minecraft Lava. It is a Fluid Block, meaning it can flow a certain distance. For Lava Blocks, the maximum distance is determined by which dimension it is located in. In the Overworld and the End, Lava travels a maximum of four blocks away from the source Block. Due to the higher ambient temperature of the Nether, Lava travels the same maximum distance as water, seven blocks away from the source Block. Lava Blocks emit low levels of light, are transparent, and they are the color orange with the texture changing. When close by, popping and bubbling sounds can be heard from Lava Blocks. They also have the ability to set flammable objects and blocks ablaze. Additionally, Lava Blocks can be turned into Stone Blocks, Cobblestone Blocks, Obsidian Blocks, and Basalt Blocks, depending on material used to create the respective Block. Based on the evidence presented, it appears that Minecraft Stone is higher Silica content Basalt, or lower Silica content Basalt-Andesite. There are several possible reasons why this is the case. First, Basalt and Basalt-Andesite are very common igneous rocks in our world, mostly in the ocean. There is very similar distribution to Minecraft Stone in the Overworld, except it is even more plentiful. Second, the higher Silica content Basalt or lower Silica content Basalt-Andesite would match the slope angle of the flowing Lava Blocks. According to Tulane University, Basalt lava flows have a slope angle of four to ten degrees. Lava Blocks in the Nether flow more and a have a similar slope of 1 by 7, or approximately 8.5 degrees. Since Basalt-Andesite has a higher Silica content, it would be thicker and have a slightly steeper slope angle. The slope angle of Minecraft flowing Lava in the Overworld is 1 by 4, or approximately 14 degrees. But when Water source Blocks are poured over flowing Lava Blocks, the slope angle becomes 1 by 3, or approximately 18 degrees. This makes sense, since Basalt-Andesite lava would be less than the thirty to thirty-five degree slope angle of Cinder Cones. This would also place it possibly on the lower end of the slope angle for a Composite or Stratovolcano, which is between ten and thirty degrees. Image by GeologyHub youtube channel on Mount Nyiragongo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuGi3kB7WZg. Accessed from Volcano Cafe, December 5, 2023. Web. https://www.volcanocafe.org/nyiragongo-and-its-ultra-alkaline-magma-part-iii/comment-page-1/. Third, it allows for the possible creation of Obsidian Blocks. Although Obsidian in the real world is made from highly Silicate lava, like Rhyolite, it is could be made from lava with lower Silica content. The answer is lava stratification/enrichment, also known as fractional crystallization. In the real world, if lava is left underground for long enough, the Silica content in the lava can slowly separate into locally Silica-poor and Silica-enriched zones. This happens near the interface between the lava and the insulating rock. Just like with impurities in melted Gold, the Silica-rich zones are more buoyant and float to the surface. These Silica-rich zones could theoretically then become small pieces of obsidian, like with Water source Blocks poured onto Lava source Blocks. Fourth, this potentially solves a unique quandary in Minecraft: how would Lava of the same composition produce two different types of stone? Basalt Blocks, based on their texture, appear to be modeled on 'pahoehoe’ lava. This is a type of Basaltic lava that is runnier, and produces a thin, shiny, and ropey film on the surface of the lava flow. These properties are not true of Basalt-Andesite. Instead, owing to its sticky nature, Basalt-Andesite becomes chunkier with broken blocks on the surface. This type of lava is more similar to 'a'a’ lava, or when ‘pahoehoe’ lava becomes cooler. Unlike ‘a'a’ lava, Basalt-Andesite is more explosive, as the more viscous lava traps gas and generates greater pressure to be released. Since the same Lava Blocks produce different types of stone under different circumstances, some change must be occurring to form Basalt in Nether. We know that the lava composition in the Nether and the Overworld must be the same, as Lava Blocks taken from both dimensions create the same blocks under the same circumstances. In the game, Basalt is only found naturally in the Nether. In order to produce Basalt, Lava Blocks must be flowing under a Soul Sand Block and be next to a Blue Ice Block. Upon rumination, the first thought was that the Blue Ice Block was the cause of the change. Blue Ice is made by nine Packed Ice Blocks, and each Packed Ice Block is a combination of nine regular Ice Blocks. Unlike regular Ice Blocks, Packed Ice and Blue Ice do not melt when in subjected to higher light levels in the game, including light from Lava Blocks. I thought that perhaps prolonged contact with Blue Ice somehow thermally shocked the Lava into a different crystalline form, as seen with the differences in ‘a'a’ and ‘pahoehoe’ lava. USGS. 'A'a' large. https://web.archive.org/web/20080127043104/http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/Products/Pglossary/aa.html. circa 1998. Accessed from Wikipedia, December 5, 2023. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lava#/media/File:Aa_large.jpg/. In the real world, when wateice meets lava, the contact yields explosive results. While the lava is suddenly solidified and contracts, the wateice becomes superheated steam and expands tremendously, releasing a lot of energy in a short timeframe. In hindsight, prolonged contact with Blue Ice Blocks was only part of the whole picture. Blue Ice Blocks are rarely found to occur naturally in the Overworld, which is entirely due to the extreme rarity of the Ice Spikes Biome. If Blue Ice Blocks were the only other necessary Block required to form Basalt, then Basalt Blocks should be found very rarely in the Overworld. The reasons are Lava Blocks may or may not spawn on the surface in Ice Spikes Biomes, and even then, a Lava Block might not travel far enough to interact with a Blue Ice Block. Obviously, other than a Blue Ice Block, the main culprit is a Soul Sand Block. It is the only other Block found exclusively in the Nether that is a prerequisite for Basalt Block formation. How exactly would a Soul Sand Block aid Basaltic/Basaltic-Andesite lava to become a different Block? The answer is absorption. Besides having the faces of souls on the Block, a Soul Sand Block has another key property – sucking objects down into it. As a reminder, whenever an entity is on a Soul Sand Block, it sinks by one Minecraft pixel. It is entirely possible that Lava Blocks are more affected by this absorption property due to their fluidic nature, and the composition of the Lava Blocks are temporarily changed on Soul Sand Blocks. In other words, a Soul Sand Block’s absorptive properties cause a decrease in Silica concentration. When this effect is coupled with lava fractional crystallization/enrichment and thermal-shock induced crystal formation from a Blue Ice Block, a new block is formed. Basalt. Specifically, high Silica content Picrobasalt or low Silica content Basalt. Here is a hypothesis of how this Picrobasalt/Basalt is formed. First, Lava stratification and enrichment causes the formation of two different phases, one with high Silica content, and another with low Silica content. The lighter density of the high Silica content phase causes a majority of it to stay in place near the surface of the Lava source Block. Next, the higher density, low Silica content phase flows toward a Soul Sand Block next to a Blue Ice Block. If there is any remnant contamination of the high Silica phase left in the flowing Lava Block, the Soul Sand Block will absorb it, along with any excess Silica. This Silica deprived, flowing Lava Block is then thermally shocked with Blue Ice Block contact to induce a new crystal structure. The end product a completely different Block than Minecraft Stone. Woudloper. Fractional crystallization. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fractional_crystallization.svg. October 2009. Accessed from Wikipedia, December 5, 2023. Utilizing this information brings the final reason as to why Minecraft Stone is probably Basalt/Basalt-Andesite: the ability to increase its Silica content by crafting. Diorite, Andesite, Rhyolite, and Granite Blocks are all crafted by combining Cobblestone with increasing amounts of Nether Quartz. Cobblestone is simply broken Minecraft Stone. And Nether Quartz, like Quartz in the real world, is mostly made of Silica. Recall that as one goes to the right on the TAS diagram, Silica percentage increases. For this particular case, starting with Basalt-Andesite, it goes to Andesite, Dacite, and Ryolite. Interestingly, there are also four categories of igneous Blocks that can be crafted with Nether Quartz. Diorite Blocks needs two pieces of Nether Quartz and two Cobblestone Blocks. Andesite Blocks require one Diorite Block and one piece of Nether Quartz. Ryolite Blocks combine one Andesite Block with one piece of Nether Quartz. Finally, Granite joins two Andesite Blocks with two pieces of Nether Quartz. While it is not a perfect one to one case, these four Minecraft Stone types line up with the stone types in the TAS diagram. If Minecraft Stone is higher Silica Basalt or lower Silica Basalt-Andesite, then the rest of the igneous Blocks will follow a similar pattern. Diorite Blocks will correspond to higher Silica Basalt-Andesite or lower Silica Andesite. Then, Andesite Blocks correspond to higher Silica Andesite or lower Silica Dacite. Next, Minecraft Ryolite Blocks correspond to higher Silica Dacite or low Silica Rhyolite. Lastly, Minecraft Granite Blocks correspond to high Silica Rhyolite. The reason the igneous Blocks are not precisely categorized is the same reason Minecraft Stone and Basalt Blocks and are not properly categorized: insufficient information. Unfortunately, there is one problem with the idea of categorizing certain Minecraft Stone types as igneous rocks – the apparent absence of Olivine in Minecraft Stone and Basalt Blocks. When looking at the texture of the Blocks, neither the Basalt Block nor Minecraft Stone have any trace of green pixels on them. Despite being green, Olivine is not the same mineral as Emerald. Emerald has a completely different composition than Olivine. Emerald is the mineral Beryl, or Be3Al2(SiO3)6, while Olivine is (Mg or Fe)2SiO4. Olivine is the first mineral to melt in the lava phase, also called Bowen’s Reactions, and Olivine is abundant in Picrobasalt. Does this mean the Basalt Block is not Picrobasalt/Basalt, and the entire hypothesis of Minecraft Stone being Basalt/Basalt-Andesite is invalid? No. The only invalid portion is the assumption that Minecraft Stone is only Basalt/Basalt-Andesite. The fact is each stone type on the TAS graph has a range of Silica, and Potassium or Sodium. Up to this point, only the Silica percentage was deemed important. Because Minecraft Stone is apparently dearth in Olivine, this means Minecraft Stone must have a higher percentage of Potassium or Sodium. Higher Potassium (K) and Sodium (Na) oxide percentages preclude Olivine formation in rocks. Robert M. Lavinsky. Forsterite (Var.: Olivine). Before March 2010. http://www.mindat.org/photo-158776.html. Accessed from Wikipedia, December 5, 2023. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Forsterite-158776.jpg. When looking at the TAS table for Potassium and Sodium percentages, the next row above the bottom row are U1, S1, S2, S3, and T zones. U1 stands for Basanite or Tephrite. M1, M2, M3, and T mean Trachybasalt, Basaltic-Trachyandesite, Trachyandesite, and Trachyte or Trachydacite, respectively. Since it is known that the igneous Blocks cannot have Olivine, U1 in our case is Tephrite, while T is Trachydacite. From the listed TAS table K/Na zones above, the next best fit for the Basalt Block would be Tephrite. Specifically, Tephrite around the Basalt/Trachybasalt junction. Thus, the Basalt Block is either Tephrite, higher K/Na, lower Silica Basalt, or the lower limit for Trachybasalt. The reason for this imprecise demarcation is the same as before with Silica content: the exact strength of the Potassium or Sodium content is unknown. Therefore, postulating the Potassium or Sodium content any higher than the currently available information would be a useless endeavor. This assumption would also apply to the Diorite, Andesite, Rhyolite, and Granite Blocks due to Minecraft Stone being their underlying crafting ingredient. Similarly, Minecraft Stone would then be placed at the Basalt/Basalt-Andesite/Trachybasalt/Basaltic-trachyandesite junction. For the Diorite Block, it would be placed at the Basalt-Andesite/Andesite/Basaltic-trachyandesite/Trachyandesite junction. The Andesite Block would be placed at the Andesite/Dacite/Trachyandesite/Trachydacite junction. With the Rhyolite Block, it would be placed at the Dacite/Rhyolite/Trachydacite junction. Finally, the Granite Block would be placed at the upper right of the Rhyolite zone. Ironically, this prompt began with the quest to properly determine Minecraft Stone, only to find out that there is no exact the answer. Minecraft Stone is probably Basalt/Basalt-Andesite/Trachybasalt/Basaltic-trachyandesite. One, Basalt and Basalt-Andesite are very common igneous rocks in our world, very much like Minecraft Stone in the Overworld. Two, the higher Silica content Basalt or lower Silica content Basalt-Andesite would match the slope angle of the flowing Lava Blocks in all Minecraft Dimensions. Third, it allows for the possible creation of Obsidian Blocks via lava crystallization/enrichment. Fourth, this allows for Lava Blocks of the same composition to produce Basalt Blocks, which have lower Silica content from Minecraft Stone due to interaction with Soul Sand and Blue Ice Blocks. The lack of visible Olivine in Basalt Blocks and Minecraft Stone also indicates higher K/Na percentages. Last but not least, Minecraft Stone can be crafted into different igneous Blocks by increasing Silica content using Nether Quartz. Additionally, these four igneous Blocks match zones in the TAS diagram. Walter Siegmund. Collier Cone, Basalt-Andesite and Andesite. October 9, 2011, 23:29:06. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basaltic_andesite#/media/File:Collier_Cone_5955.JPG. Accessed from Wikipedia, December 5, 2023. To close this topic of determining Minecraft Stone, I again want to emphasize that I am not a geologist. I could be wrong in my assumptions. While this post ended up being much longer than I originally intended, I sincerely hope everyone who reads this enjoyed the process of coming to the conclusions as I did. It turns out, even a rock has a fascinating history when viewed through the eyes of time. |
2023.12.01 11:36 RazorOfSimplicity [Etymology] TERMINAL WORLD
TERMINAL WORLD
Etymology/Translation CornerTagline: "An earthshaking story about a world's creation. The doors leading to war are flung open once more--!"
Each card name is linked to an image!! (Use an image-zooming extension like Imagus to view them instantly.)
Any questions or issues you may have about the translations are welcome.
- Lancea, Foredragon of the Sacred Ice Mountain
- Georgius, Swordsman of the Ice Barrier
- Mirror Mancer of the Ice Barrier
- A Crystal-Covered Land Leading to the Ice Barrier
- Blizzed, Warden of the Ice Barrier
- Blizzard Warrior
- Practitioner of the Ice Barrier
- Reisu the Ice Shooter
- Royal Knight of the Ice Barrier
- Intoxicating Insect That Dwells in the Ice Barrier
- High Priest of the Ice Barrier
- Spirit Medium of the Ice Barrier
- Mountain Ascetic of the Ice Barrier
- Feng Shui Master of the Ice Barrier
- Advance Party of the Ice Barrier
- Samurai of the Ice Barrier
- Water Shadow of the Ice Barrier
- Transport Squad of the Ice Barrier
- Magic-Sealing Unit of the Ice Barrier
- Grenade, Tiger General of the Ice Barrier
- Defense Corps of the Ice Barrier
- Technique Dispeller of the Ice Barrier
- Divine Spirit of the Ice Barrier
- Raihou, Tiger General of the Ice Barrier
- Strategist of the Ice Barrier
- Oniwaban of the Ice Barrier
- Ganthara, Tiger General of the Ice Barrier
- Dance Princess of the Ice Barrier
- Evangelist of the Ice Barrier
- Wayne, Tiger General of the Ice Barrier
- Demon Revealer of the Ice Barrier
- Spirit-Vessel Priestess of the Ice Barrier
- Frost Spirit of the Ice Barrier
- Attendant of the Ice Barrier
- Pure Glass of the Ice Barrier
- Brionac, Dragon of the Ice Barrier
- Dewloren, Tiger King of the Ice Barrier
- Gungnir, Dragon of the Ice Barrier
- Trishula, Dragon of the Ice Barrier
- Trishula, Return-to-Zero Dragon of the Ice Barrier
- Triangular Formation of the Ice Barrier
- Crest of the Ice Barrier Original artwork
- Mirror of the Ice Barrier
- A Clearing Mountain Haze Leading to the Ice Barrier
- Crystal Wall of the Ice Barrier
- The Remnants of War
- The Quaking of Trishula
- Pitfall of Purgatory
- The Heavenly Dragon's Snow Prison
- Arms of Genex - Return Zero
- Repair Genex Controller
- Real Genex Undine
- Real Genex Turing
- Genex Controller
- Genex Undine
- Genex Power Planner
- Genex Searcher
- Genex Worker
- Genex Neutron
- Genex Heat
- Genex Gaia
- Spare Genex
- Turbine Genex
- Genex Doctor
- Solar Genex
- Genex Blast
- Recycle Genex
- Army Genex
- Real Genex Turbo
- Real Genex Coordinator
- Real Genex Crusher
- Real Genex Magma
- Real Genex Accelerator
- Real Genex Oracle
- Real Genex Ultimum
- Ally Genex Duradark
- Ally Genex Remote
- Ally Genex Powercall
- Ally Genex Changer
- Ally Genex Volcannon
- Ally Genex Solid
- Ally Genex Chemistry
- Ally Genex Birdman Original artwork
- Ally Genex Vellflame
- Ally Genex Crusher
- Ally Genex Reviver
- Hydro Genex
- Thermal Genex
- Geo Genex
- Wind-Farm Genex
- Real Genex Kurokishian
- Real Genex Vindikite
- Ally Genex Tri-Arm
- Ally Genex Tri-Force
- Ally Genex Accel
- Final Tuning
- Infernoid Evil
- Infernoid Flood
- Activated Purgatory Ablaze
- Breakdown Barrier of Purgatory
- Infernoid Beelzebul
- Infernoid Lucifugus
- Infernoid Astaroth
- Infernoid Ashmedai
- Infernoid Vael
- Infernoid Adramelech
- Infernoid Nehemoth
- Infernoid Shaitan
- Infernoid Belphegor
- Infernoid Lilith
- Infernoid Dekatron
- Infernoid Tierra
- Deathly Disciple of Purgatory
- Smoldering Flood of Purgatory
- Extinguishing Sublimation of Purgatory
- Dream Void of Purgatory Original artwork
- Cataclysmic Skies of Purgatory
- Purgatory of Blue Flames
- A Purgatory Awakened by the Shells
- Purgatory in Counterflow
- Feeding Frenzy of Purgatory
- Sacred Spirit Beast Charmer - Rera
- Sacred Spirit Beast Rider - Nochiudrago
- Sacred Spirit Beast Rider - Reirautari
- Sublime Inheritance of the Spirit Beasts
- Spirit Beast Charmer - Rera
- Elder of the Spirit Beast Charmers
- Spirit Beast Charmer - Wen
- Sacred Spirit Beast - Apelio
- Sacred Spirit Beast - Petolphin
- Sacred Spirit Beast - Kannahawk
- Sacred Spirit Beast - Rampenta
- Dauntless Spirit Beast Charmer - Sephirampirika
- Shadow Spirit Beast Charmer - Sephirawendi
- Sacred Spirit Beast Charmer - Winda
- Sacred Spirit Beast Rider - Apelio
- Sacred Spirit Beast Rider - Petolphin
- Sacred Spirit Beast Rider - Kannahawk Original artwork
- Sacred Spirit Beast Rider - Gaiapelio
- Sacred Spirit Beast Rider - Kimunfalcos
- Shared Bond of the Spirit Beasts
- Promised Return of the Spirit Beasts
- Connecting Vow of the Spirit Beasts
- Riding Ambush of the Spirit Beasts
- God's Providence
- Ice Barrier (Hyōkekkai) is a Japanese portmanteau of hyōketsu (lit. "freezing") and kekkai—a Buddhist term for the prohibition of items, people, spirits, etc. that would hinder Buddhist practice (hence why the "Ice Barrier" monsters have a heavy religious theme and are centered around imprisoning the Ice Barrier Dragons). The term has evolved from there to refer to mystical barriers and force fields in fantasy.
- Lancea is the Latin name for the short javelin used by the Roman auxilia.
- Georgius is the Latin name of Saint George, a Roman soldier venerated in Christianity and known in legend for having killed a dragon.
- Feng Shui is a system of laws in Chinese thought considered to govern spatial arrangement and orientation in relation to the flow of energy (qi), and whose favorable or unfavorable effects are taken into account when siting and designing buildings.
- Grenade's name may come from the French word for "grenade" (pronounced "GRUH-NOD" in French).
- Oniwaban (lit. "garden-rank") were male servers in the inner palace of the shōgun during the Edo shogunate. They served as secret agents whose main task was intelligence gathering and inspecting rural areas. In popular culture, they are commonly depicted as spies or ninja.
- Ganthara may be a reference to Gandhāra—a region of the ancient Indian subcontinent known as a central location for the spread of Buddhism to Central Asia and East Asia.
- Mountain Ascetic (Shūgenja) in Japanese is named after a practitioner of Shugendō—a body of ascetic practices whose final purpose is for practitioners to find supernatural power and save themselves and the masses by conducting religious training while treading through steep mountain ranges.
- Dance Princess is a term for a shrine maiden performing the sacred Kagura dance.
- In Irish mythology, Brionac was the name of a spear belonging to the god Lugh and one of the Four Treasures of the supernatural Tuatha Dé Danann ("Tribe of the Gods").
- Gungnir (lit. "swaying one") was the spear of Odin in Norse mythology.
- Trishula is a trident, a divine symbol, commonly used as one of the principal symbols in Hinduism.
- Spirit-Vessel Priestess combines one of the kanji of miko (a Shinto priestess or shrine maiden) with yorimashi (a child or doll used as a vessel for a spirit invoked by a shaman or miko).
- Return-to-Zero (kanrei) is written with the kanji for "return" and "zero" (most likely implying a return of the ruin which almost befell the Duel Terminal world). It is also a Japanese homophone for another word meaning "coldness".
- The Quaking of Trishula is named after DUEL TERMINAL: The Quaking of Trishula!!, the set in which the original Trishula first appeared.
- The Heavenly Dragon's Snow Prison (Tenrōsetsugoku) is based on a Japanese idiom described to mean "the state of being buried in heavy snow and being unable to leave as you would in a prison created by heaven." One of the kanji used in the original idiom has been replaced with the kanji for "dragon."
- Genex is a contraction of Generation Next.
- Arms of Genex (A・O・G) is meant to be similar to Ally of Justice (A・O・J). Return Zero likely comes from the return 0; statement that is written in code to terminate a certain function of a program and return the value 0 as the result of that function. In this case, it is likely also referring to defeating Worm Zero, with the Worms from the DUEL TERMINAL storyline being the archvillains for the first part of the story.
- An undine is a female spirit or nymph inhabiting water.
- Turing is named after a Turing machine—a mathematical model of a hypothetical computing machine which can use a predefined set of rules to determine a result from a set of input variables.
- Power Planner is likely a corruption of power plant.
- Ultimum is an inflection of the Latin ultimus ("ultimate").
- The Ally Genex theme is named after the Ally of Justice theme, referring to them being Genex built with Ally of Justice technology.
- Duradark is possibly named after dura mater (the tough outermost membrane enveloping the brain and spinal cord).
- Volcannon is a portmanteau of volcano and cannon.
- Solid was a Genex developed by the Ice Barrier tribe in the DUEL TERMINAL storyline.
- Birdman was developed by the Mist Valley tribe.
- Vellflame is an inversion of Flamvell, as it was developed by the Flamvell tribe in the story.
- Reviver was developed by the XX-Saber tribe.
- A wind farm is a group of wind turbines in the same location used to produce electricity.
- Kurokishian is a corruption of kurokisha (Japanese for "black train") and possibly kurokishi ("black knight").
- Vindikite seems to be a twist on vindicate and windy kite.
- Tri-Arm was jointly developed by the Ice Barrier and Mist Valley tribes.
- Tri-Force was jointly developed by the Flamvell and XX-Saber tribes.
- Infernoid Evil is likely named after the Tree of Evil, another name for the diagram that represents the Qliphoth—the representation of evil or impure spiritual forces in the Kabbalah. They are the polar opposites of the holy Sefirot.
- Flood is named after the "fire flood" cryptically mentioned in the Japanese flavor text of Qliphort Assembler (Qliphort Monolith in the TCG): "God is angry on your doing and want to bring fire flood."
- Activated Purgatory Ablaze (Shidōsuru Rengoku) has a similar name to the kanji subtitle of Qliphortran (Qlipper Launch in the TCG): Booted-Up Mechanical Shell (Kidōsuru Kikai).
- The Infernoid monsters are mainly named after demons that represent each of the nodes of the Qliphoth.
- Beelzebul is another name for Beelzebub—a name derived from a Philistine god, formerly worshipped in Ekron, and later adopted by some Abrahamic religions as a major demon. He is commonly known as Lord of the Flies and in demonology as one of the seven deadly demons or seven princes of Hell, representing gluttony and envy.
- Lucifugus is named after Lucifuge Rofocale—the demon in charge of Hell's government and treasury by order of Lucifer.
- Astaroth is the great duke of Hell, in the first hierarchy with Beelzebub and Lucifer.
- Ashmedai is another name for Asmodeus—a prince of demons, commonly representing lust.
- Vael is a twist on Bael or Baal—one of the demons or fallen angels of Satan. He is depicted as appearing with with the heads of a cat, toad, and human simultaneously.
- Adramelech or Adrammelech is a fallen angel who became the President of the Senate of the demons. He is also the Chancellor of Hell and supervisor of Satan's wardrobe. He is generally depicted with a human torso, a mule's head, a peacock tail, and the limbs of a mule or peacock.
- Nehemoth is another name for Naamah, a Kabbalistic she-demon. According to the Zohar, after Cain kills Abel, Adam separates from Eve for 130 years. During this time, Lilith and Naamah seduce him and bear his demonic children, who become the Plagues of Mankind.
- Shaitan is the Arabic pronunciation of Satan, sometimes also called Lucifer in Christianity.
- Belphegor is a demon and one of the traditional seven princes of Hell. He seduces people by suggesting to them ingenious inventions that will make them rich.
- Lilith is a female figure in Mesopotamian and Judaic mythology, theorized to be the first wife of Adam and supposedly the primordial she-demon.
- A dekatron is a gas-filled tube used as a decade counter in early computers and calculators.
- Tierra is the Spanish word for "earth" or "soil." It is also the name of a computer simulation used to experimentally explore the basic processes of evolutionary and ecological dynamics.
- The Purgatory Magic/Trap Cards each contain a two-kanji Japanese phrase with one of its kanji substituted for a same-sounding but different-meaning one. For example, Dream Void (Kyomu) sounds like the Japanese phrase for nothingness (kyomu), but the mu kanji has been swapped out for the mu meaning "dream."
- Smoldering Flood is also a reference to the fire flood mentioned in Qliphort Assembler's text.
- Cataclysmic Skies (Saiten) is instead an inversion of the Japanese word tensai ("natural calamity"), but it also sounds like the Japanese word for "festival" (saiten).
- Rera is the Ainu word for "wind."
- Nochiudrago is a combination of nochiu (Ainu for "star") and drago(n). This is a reference to the Dragon Star theme from the DUEL TERMINAL storyline, with this monster being a purified version of Taotie, the Dragon Star of Demons (Taotie, Shadow of the Yang Zing in the TCG).
- Reira is a variation of rera, and utari is the Ainu word for "friend" or "fellow."
- Wen is an Ainu word meaning "abominable," referring to wen kamuy—a kamuy (a spiritual or divine being in Ainu mythology) that brings disaster.
- Apelio is made up of ape (Ainu for "fire") and lio(n).
- Petolphin is a portmanteau of pet (Ainu for "river" or "water") and dolphin.
- Kannahawk comes from kanna (Ainu for "thunder").
- Rampenta comes from the Ainu word ram ("spirit") and a twist on penguin.
- Sephirampirika is a portmanteau of Sephira, ram, and pirika (Ainu for "good" and referring to pirika kamuy—kamuy that bring good fortune).
- Both Dauntless Spirit Beast Charmer and Shadow Spirit Beast Charmer are pronounced the same in Japanese (Eireijūtsukai).
- Gaiapelio is a portmanteau of Gaia (referring to Naturu Gaiastrio) and Apelio.
- Kimunfalcos is a combination of kimun (an Ainu word that means "of the mountain") and Daigusta Falcos.
- The Spirit Beast Magic/Trap Cards employ the same kind of wordplay as the Infernoid ones.
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2023.11.12 21:11 luthierart The ultimate enrichment activity
My team teaching partner and I used this approach with our entire class of 48 grade 3 and 4 students, but it's also adaptable to individual students looking for enrichment. At the beginning of the school year, we had each student select one topic that was of special interest to them. Topics ranged from mythical monsters, volcanoes, the human body, whales, etc. If two or three students selected the same topic, we let them work cooperatively, but most kids studied their topic on their own. This was in addition to the regular curriculum, but there was huge overlap. For example, during reading time they would read about their topic. In math, one student made a bar graph of the mass of various bears and another made a Venn diagram of whales. In persuasive writing, the mythical monster group tried to explain why Bigfoot might be real, and we were amazed at how seamlessly the kids' special interests could fit into the regular school day.
Typically, when teachers are looking for enrichment activities, they tend to offer a wide variety of resources and interests, but we found focusing on one individual topic and becoming an expert on it was both motivating and effective. We gave the students the option of switching topics halfway through the school year, but they all preferred to keep the one that they selected at first. In addition, the students insisted on being able to present their topic to the rest of the class so everyone learned what everyone else had been studying. My teaching partner and I ended up with huge amounts of material for evaluation.
Even though our school normally underperformed on standardized tests, our class ended up near the very top in the entire School Board.
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Typically, when teachers are looking for enrichment activities, they tend to offer a wide variety of resources and interests, but we found focusing on one individual topic and becoming an expert on it was both motivating and effective. We gave the students the option of switching topics halfway through the school year, but they all preferred to keep the one that they selected at first. In addition, the students insisted on being able to present their topic to the rest of the class so everyone learned what everyone else had been studying. My teaching partner and I ended up with huge amounts of material for evaluation.
Even though our school normally underperformed on standardized tests, our class ended up near the very top in the entire School Board.
2023.11.10 16:11 divemastermatt This game has ruined me
This is just a rant but you people might be the only ones who can understand. I have clocked nearly 700 hours on this damn game and I've never played anything else for more than 100. I used to play RPGs, RTSs, action; none of it holds my attention anymore! I just keep going back and back and back to this game. I obsess about metal types, SHC, and automation. I've spent hours on the Wiki, I've made diagrams of builds, I've calculated fuel volumes, and on and on and on. And the craziest thing about it is that I'm not even that good! I have yet to tame a metal volcano, I am hopeless at the shipping layer, and my last base just crashed into flames after 300 cycles because of starvation of all things. How the hell do you sickos do this? This shouldn't be fun, this should be infuriating, I should be getting paid to do something this hard. But it is so. Incredibly. FUN. It has ruined me and I'm loving every minute!
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2023.10.17 17:02 TakeNote Some games are made for goofy reasons. This one was because of a Venn diagram.
Last year, I was joking around about how my idea of cool doesn't overlap very well with the rest of the world's idea of cool -- and that actually, tea, elevator music and puppets are probably deeply uncool on many levels. I made a Venn diagram to get the idea across.
There's a sliver on the diagram of "universally cool" things: volcanoes, big dogs, games, telling people you love them. A friend joked that somebody should make a game about all that stuff. My partner got a big grin on her face, and a few days later we had the first draft of Big Dog, Big Volcano. A million years later, I'm finally finished the art and formatting.
So! If you like the sound of a three player game about an oblivious hiker, a dangerous island, and a very good dog, there are free copies available on our itch page.
Would love to hear about weird things that have inspired you, or deeply uncool things you think are really neat.
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There's a sliver on the diagram of "universally cool" things: volcanoes, big dogs, games, telling people you love them. A friend joked that somebody should make a game about all that stuff. My partner got a big grin on her face, and a few days later we had the first draft of Big Dog, Big Volcano. A million years later, I'm finally finished the art and formatting.
So! If you like the sound of a three player game about an oblivious hiker, a dangerous island, and a very good dog, there are free copies available on our itch page.
Would love to hear about weird things that have inspired you, or deeply uncool things you think are really neat.
2023.10.17 17:00 TakeNote What's the silliest reason you've ever made a game?
Last year, I was joking around about how my idea of cool doesn't overlap very well with the rest of the world's idea of cool -- and that actually, tea, elevator music and puppets are probably deeply uncool on many levels. I made a Venn diagram to get the idea across.
There's a sliver on the diagram of "universally cool" things: volcanoes, big dogs, games, telling people you love them. A friend joked that somebody should make a game about all that stuff. My partner got a big grin on her face, and a few days later we had the first draft of a very silly game.
Would love to hear your own weird sources of inspiration.
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There's a sliver on the diagram of "universally cool" things: volcanoes, big dogs, games, telling people you love them. A friend joked that somebody should make a game about all that stuff. My partner got a big grin on her face, and a few days later we had the first draft of a very silly game.
Would love to hear your own weird sources of inspiration.
2023.10.13 10:39 Theriocephalus Some setting questions
Heyo; I've been a fan of Fantasy and 40k for a decently long time now, but I've never been able to get into AoS as much and I think that part of it is that I struggle to picture the setting very clearly in my mind. I've looked at lore and snippets from the wiki on and off for some time now, but it's kind of an awkward patchwork way of doing things so I thought I'd drop by and ask for some clarifications:
First off, what does the setting actually, like... look like, physically? I'm aware of the general picture -- eight magic bubbles with worlds inside, themed around a specific type of magic, relatively normal in the center and growing more fantastical towards the edges -- but I'm not certain on the specifics. What does "relatively normal" mean, exactly? If I'm dead center in, say, the realm of Fire, is it all basically medieval standard-ish fantasy or do I already see things like volcanoes everywhere and such? If I start walking in a straight line towards the edges, how do I see the world change around me? What do things look like at the very edge?
I recall when things were just getting started, most maps were things like this one, very super-fantasy sort of stuff with floating continents and miniature worlds and fantastical landforms floating around in the void. Modern maps of the same realms seem to be more like this one, which still has lots of magical stuff around but looks more like, well, a regular continent in a regular world with a lot of magical stuff on the surface. Are these supposed to be different areas in a single realm, like the edges and the center? Or does the realistic-looking continent turn out to be on a floating landmass in the void if I zoom out far enough?
On a related note; looking at a diagram of the whole setting, it looks like the realms have "moons" orbiting them on the outside, and I know that the Seraphon ships move around in the "Aetheric void", so that seems like it's supposed to be a literal place that things exist and move in. How does one reach it or leave it? What else is in there? If I'm on the surface of a realm and look up, do I see it directly or does the "bubble" interfere? I'm at least confident that the day-night cycle is caused by Hysh and Ulgu orbiting each other and shining on or obscuring other realms, so some direct observation must be possible. If I have a sufficiently good telescope, could I look at what's going on in other realms?
How much of each realm do the main factions generally control? My understanding is that the Realms started out as more or less entirely civilized, then Chaos came along and overran everything and turned every realm but Azyr into a huge edge to edge corrupted wasteland, and then Sigmar and his allies came back and started taking back the Realms piece by piece, so what does the status quo look like now? Is it still a huge sea of Chaos wastes dotted with civilized cities and kingdoms? Is it a more even spread of land belonging to one side or another? For that matter, does any given patch of land belong to a specific big-name faction? How much of it is just... wilderness, home to random tribes and brigands and monsters and animals that don't acknowledge Sigmar or Chaos or Nagash or Gorkamorka?
What exactly is the difference between a godbeast and a zodiacal godbeast?
Thanks in advance!
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First off, what does the setting actually, like... look like, physically? I'm aware of the general picture -- eight magic bubbles with worlds inside, themed around a specific type of magic, relatively normal in the center and growing more fantastical towards the edges -- but I'm not certain on the specifics. What does "relatively normal" mean, exactly? If I'm dead center in, say, the realm of Fire, is it all basically medieval standard-ish fantasy or do I already see things like volcanoes everywhere and such? If I start walking in a straight line towards the edges, how do I see the world change around me? What do things look like at the very edge?
I recall when things were just getting started, most maps were things like this one, very super-fantasy sort of stuff with floating continents and miniature worlds and fantastical landforms floating around in the void. Modern maps of the same realms seem to be more like this one, which still has lots of magical stuff around but looks more like, well, a regular continent in a regular world with a lot of magical stuff on the surface. Are these supposed to be different areas in a single realm, like the edges and the center? Or does the realistic-looking continent turn out to be on a floating landmass in the void if I zoom out far enough?
On a related note; looking at a diagram of the whole setting, it looks like the realms have "moons" orbiting them on the outside, and I know that the Seraphon ships move around in the "Aetheric void", so that seems like it's supposed to be a literal place that things exist and move in. How does one reach it or leave it? What else is in there? If I'm on the surface of a realm and look up, do I see it directly or does the "bubble" interfere? I'm at least confident that the day-night cycle is caused by Hysh and Ulgu orbiting each other and shining on or obscuring other realms, so some direct observation must be possible. If I have a sufficiently good telescope, could I look at what's going on in other realms?
How much of each realm do the main factions generally control? My understanding is that the Realms started out as more or less entirely civilized, then Chaos came along and overran everything and turned every realm but Azyr into a huge edge to edge corrupted wasteland, and then Sigmar and his allies came back and started taking back the Realms piece by piece, so what does the status quo look like now? Is it still a huge sea of Chaos wastes dotted with civilized cities and kingdoms? Is it a more even spread of land belonging to one side or another? For that matter, does any given patch of land belong to a specific big-name faction? How much of it is just... wilderness, home to random tribes and brigands and monsters and animals that don't acknowledge Sigmar or Chaos or Nagash or Gorkamorka?
What exactly is the difference between a godbeast and a zodiacal godbeast?
Thanks in advance!