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©️@extrawizardly 2022

Effort Jar

23” x 9” x 9”

58.4 x 22.9 x 22.9 cm

Glazed stoneware featuring underglaze painted details, prayer candles, sweat.

#queer artwork #painted ceramic #figurative painting #queer artist #ceramic artist #contemporary art #ceremonial #ceremonial objects #SoundCloud

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in-sightpublishing · 3 months

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The Tsimshian 5: Corey Moraes on Colouring in Culture and Status Signifiers (5)

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#Artistic Adaptation #Ceremonial Objects #Colonization #Eulachon Grease #Kwakwa̱ka̱ʼwakw #Nax&039;Nox #Potlatch #Potlatch Ban #Regalia #Seasonal Ceremonies #Secret Societies #Shamans #Symbolism #Tsimshian

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jacky93sims · 1 year

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Bridal Shower Arch and Cake Functional for The Sims 2

These are 4to2 conversions from Pinkbox Anye, I reduced the polycount, now is medium poly (5k). Both are functional, found in Party section of Buy Mode.

DOWNLOAD ARCH - DOWNLOAD CAKE

#sims 2 cc #the sims 2 #sims 2 download #ts2 #the sims 2 cc #ts2 download #4to2 #4to2 conversion #cute #wedding cake #wedding #wedding ceremony #wedding party #wedding arc #functional #buy mode #sims 2 objects

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artifacts-archive · 2 months

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Ceremonial Object in the Shape of an Ax

Indonesia, possibly Sulawesi, ca. 100 BCE–300 CE

#artifact #Indonesia #ceremonial object

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tiarascrowns · 2 months

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Gold & Gem Set Belts

"GOLD, GEM SET AND DIAMOND CEREMONIAL BELT AND A GOLD CEREMONIAL BELT, INDIA, CIRCA 1900

One composed of three motifs set with cushion-shaped, circular-cut and oval emeralds and rubies, highlighted throughout with circular-cut diamonds, shortest length approximately 520mm, expandable to approximately 570, 620, 670 and 720mm, and the other of floral and foliate design, shortest length approximately 620mm, expandable to approximately 640, 670, 700 and 730mm, numbered."

- Sotheby's

#historical object #object of art #ceremonial #belt #belts #gold #emerald #emeralds #rubies #ruby #diamond #diamonds #sotheby #sotheby's

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unstatedmartini · 1 year

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i’m honestly not even mad at the whole marriage thing. it just makes stuff even funnier to me, like andrea wanting more drama for the wedding. ma’am your son has a wife AND a fiancé, what more do you want?

i'm WHEEZING

#ask tag #ls asks #spoilers #do NOT underestimate this woman #she's gonna track down alex and have him object at the ceremony #she's gonna use her toast to reveal the secret of grace's dad cheating on her mom

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sarcasticsra · 2 years

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I don’t know if people fully realize how absolutely exhausting it can be to love someone who has zero regard for themselves and their own needs

We think of selflessness as a virtue, and in moderation it absolutely is

In excess, it’s watching a person you love chip away pieces of themselves all in the service of others, to make others happy, to the point where they drain themselves entirely, until they are a sad, hallowed out husk of a person, easily breakable

And you can kindly tell them to put themselves first once in a while, to remind them they too have needs and desires that are important, but depending on how far gone they are, there’s no guarantee they will hear you

Sometimes you just get a little mad that they’re treating a person you love so badly

Sometimes that’s what it takes for them to realize how bad it’s actually gotten

Rue got annoyed with Hob because they were actively wounded and wouldn’t remove pieces of arrows that were still trying to kill him… because in his mind, his own pain was less important than playing reputation games for his court

That’s frustrating as hell. I get why they were upset. You wouldn’t be upset if your loved one almost died because they were prioritizing something objectively fucking stupid over their own damn life?

#do not get people acting like hob’s priorities are…correct?#they are objectively not lmao #dude literally almost died for the dumbest reason #and somehow rue getting mildly snippy with him is unsympathetic #they fucking love him #of course they were upset!#sometimes you just gotta tell the people you love that they’re treating themselves badly and it’s not okay #sometimes that’s what they need #as if it had anything to do with ‘status’ lmao #ah yes the lesser known ‘kidnapping victim’ privilege #forgot about that one #a court of fey and flowers #acofaf spoilers #acofaf #battlemaster of ceremonies #dimension 20

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had a thought about my D&D party and how everyone goes about their grooming/self care routines and the end result is my new headcanon for elves in fantasy settings.

the reason why elves have long hair is because its a social status- not of good breeding or anything, but because braids and styles of braid indicate status.

are they married? are they in the military? are they single and looking to mingle? are they single and NOT looking to mingle? are they a noble? are they a baker?

a military man who is single will wear hair totally different from a man who is a baker and married.

anyway cute idea of the party's former military elf braiding a "married" braid into his crush's hair only to panic and want to unbraid it when they come to his home town.

"did you hear? while he was on leave he got married!" "No, really? how do you know?" "the teifling girl- look at her braids!" "oh... my.... and he didn't invite his own mother!"

"Mother, its not what you think-" "it looks like it! she is a lovely lady, very polite, if only i could have braided your hair! indeed who DID braid it for the ceremony?" "no one, mother, listen-" "YOU DIDN'T BRAID YOUR HAIR FOR YOUR OWN WEDDING???"

"Lady vantis, if I may ask, who died?" "I am mourning my son's love for me!" "Mother the wedding hasn't happened!" "I can still hear him some times! which reminds me i must teach his widow the mourning braid!"

"I don't see what the problem is, we practically are married." "The problem is there is a "to be married" braid and that would have been more accurate." "but THIS is accurate." "Please don't say that around my mother, there is also a braid for "betrayed by child" and i don't wants the neighbors talking."

#ramble #D&D #dungeons and dragons #headcanon #thoughts #elves #marriage ceremony is 100% braiding the ends of the “married” braid together #can you IMAGINE the theatrics of someone objecting to the maggiage?#D&D 3.5 elves are all about martial skill #someone is like “I OBJECT!” and slices the braid #a elf cuts her hair as she runs away from home #a sick and twisted man collects the braids of elves he fights in combat #the idea of getting deathly ill and your hair falling out reflecting how no one knows who you are anymore #a mother unties her hair when she hears her husband died at war and the messenger has to help braid her hair #OH SHOOT YOU KNOW WHAT???#its custom for children to make up their own braids they braid into their friends hair #its always childish things like “favorite color is blue” or “won at tag”#adults are encouraged to not wear these braids #but you know when they go to hang out with their friends as adults they have them

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romansmartini · 8 months

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yeah so blackbeard is more ruthless than ever — yeah he’s been on a rampage for weeks now. i hear he’s killed thousands and his ship started sinking because of all the gold he’s pillaged. he can’t be stopped. i hear he killed and ate a newborn in front of his parents. oh yeah and he also really fucking hates weddings. for reasons no one understands

#ofmd #this is what i imagine gossip on the high seas sounds like right about now #‘no one’s getting married anymore!!’ ‘yeah because blackbeard is just tracking down Every ceremony and objecting’

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jackgoodfellow · 2 years

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DEARLY SMEGGING BELOVED

Rimster wedding day. 💖 These boys are so shaped.

[ID: a digital illustration, in vibrant shades of blue in a cartoonish style showing the Red Dwarf characters Lister and Rimmer getting married, officiated by the Cat, while Kryten and Holly stand to the side as the wedding party and several guests look on.

Kryten is wearing a frilly hat and blouse in "mother of the bride" style. He is holding a handkerchief and crying dramatically.

Lister is wearing a tuxedo without the jacket, shirt partially untucked and bowtie undone. He is wearing his work boots. He is smiling fondly at Rimmer, arms crossed, confident.

Cat stands in the center in a black suit with a priest collar and thigh high white boots. He is wearing blue lipstick eyeliner, as well as silver heart-shaped dangly earrings and a natural hairstyle with gray hair on the temples and a braid in the back. He is posing with his eyes closed in a smug smile, as though he is modeling for a photoshoot.

Rimmer stands with his back very straight and his arms behind his back, wearing a white tuxedo with navy epaulets. He is blushing and smiling nervously at Lister.

To his right, the head of Holly in her female form is present on a screen, which is attached to a stand with wheels. Holly is wearing pearl earrings and her hair is in a neat updo with bangs. To the corner of her screen, there is a basket of rose petals.

The wedding party is standing in front of a large window with criss-crossing lattice, looking out onto the blue and purple starscape of space through the glass.

Small text in the upper left-hand corner reads "Jack D. Goodfellow, 2022"

In the foreground of the image, some wedding guests are visible in the audience, seen from behind as though the viewer were seated behind them. the guests appear to include Hogey the Rogue-y, two of the skutters leaning on each other romantically, Kochanski, and Snacky the snack robot.

The rest of the images are all various crops of the first image for the purpose of making the detail work easier to see.

End ID.]

#red dwarf #image description #rimster #lister/rimmer #rimmer x lister #kryten red dwarf #the cat red dwarf #fan art #fanart #kristine kochanski #holly red dwarf #i think that holly integrated with the AI of the Wildfire (Molly) so she and Rimmer have bonded a lot actually #and so she is serving as matron of honor and mother of the bride and - per her request - flower girl.#forgot to give kryten tears in his eyes but also it is very possible kryten ran out of tear fluid before the ceremony even began #also present is whichever Ace took Rimmer's place when he retired #i ended up making the Cat a little older here bc old Danny John Jules is such a fucking dilf #i am almost at the end of my finished red dwarf art! most of these pieces took multiple days I'm just posting them close together #depending on where this is narratively the cats from TPL should be there too. i see this as happening after S8 and before Back To Earth/S9 #dearly beloved. we are gathered here today to witness ME! Looking FABULOUS! As i marry these two monkeys in holy whatever.#if anyone has any objections save it for the vows! do NOT interrupt me!#my art

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lairofdragonagelore · 2 years

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Exalted Plains

The Exalted Plains, also known as Dirthavaren ("the promise") in elvish, is a grassland region of the Dales in Orlais. Centuries ago, the Dalish kingdom met its end here, the holdouts of the elven army making their last stand, refusing to surrender against the champions of Andraste: the templar, the sister, and the nobleman patron. The champions' cause was just, and their faith led them to victory. The plains were henceforth called "Exalted". After the elves' defeat and the dissolution of their kingdom, Ville Montevelan became the first human settlement in the Dales, presided over by Revered Mother Amity, Champion of the Exalted March.

Currently, the region is a contested battlefield during the War of the Lions until Empress Empress Celene and Gaspard de Chalons's armies agreed to cease hostilities.

[This is part of the series “Playing DA like an archaeologist”]

When entering this zone, Solas explains that this place has a thin Veil product of the battles that happened long time ago: the Exalted March of Dales. So we know we are going to see a mixture of elven ruins and human settlements.

Scout Harding will inform us that in the area there is a group of rebels who are tired of the War of the Lions, and wants the Dales for themselves.

The first thing we see when we enter this zone are these statues that, design-wise, they are very, very close to the Humanoid Dirthamen/Falon'Din. Humanoid Dirthamen/Falon'Din is a squatted hooded figure, who doesn’t have any object in his hand. This one holds a plate which works as a brazier. In fact, the elven statues are placed in this entrance, but on the Emerald Graves side:

They are called Guardians of the Path, and by the note they trigger, they are Andrastian. Still the striking similarity between these statues and the one we associate with Dirthamen makes me suspect that, once conquered, the Orlesians repurposed the native statues.

The first ruin we find, which surrounds the camp, is an elven one, with a dragon painting on one of its columns.

Besides the path there is a rectangle statue which on its top has a star-shaped fountain with a dove. On a side there is a reused elven/dwarven relic tablet that will trigger the codex Memorials of the Second Exalted March which will be updated as we read all these stones spread in the region. They explain how the “battle” against the elves was happening, mixing Andrastre’s tale with probably bits of History. It’s very curious how this piece of information depicts the elves as proud and murderous, far away from the Maker and Andraste, which is clearly a lie when we analyse Di’nan Hanin; these Dalish, unlike modern Dalish, had fused Andraste cult into their elven pantheon, not without reason: It had been some decades since they had recovered these lands thanks to Andraste’s promise.

The zone has several ramparts where the imperial army [either side] is trying to retake control from the undead and the demons. Recovering each of these is quite a repetitive task all over the place.

The only important comment about these ramparts is that they give us some idea to understand the function of these Strange Skull-Dragon totem : They seem to hold barriers around pits that allow the dead to rise, and also as columns surrounding zones with many undead or demons. They seem to be related to summoning rituals.

Along the region we find several Andrastian statues and the typical orlesian style in the remnants of the houses that still stand.

Fort Revasan shows the standard elven patterns of any elven ruin. The Orlesian occupation built extra, less durable additions with chess-like floors and decorated wooden elements.

Close to Fort Revasan there is a sealed entrance that requires a war table operation to be solved in order to open. It shows a Fen’Harel statue, guarding the entrance. It’s a nice detail to see that the base of his statue shows an eluvian-like pattern worth to keep present.

Very far away in the North, over the mountains that surround this region, we see a big Fen’Harel statue observing the Exalted Plains. It’s hard to guess what this zone represented in the time of the Elvhenan [not the Dalish kingdom]. This place has 3 main elvhen ruins: the one in the North Rampart, the Ghilan’nair’s grove, and the Graveyard Var Bellanaris. There are more than these, but they are too destroyed or small. It’s hard to ponder if all of them date of the same time.

At some kilometres of distance from the Fen’Harel’s statue, we see a tower of radical different style. At a single glance, we can see it’s Tevinter. More details of this in the Post about Exalted Plains: Citadelle du Corbeau.

Riverside Garrison is another elven ruin which patterns make it look like Elvhen: flower pattern, square pattern and swirl pattern.

Inside, we find more elements that allows us to suspect this is Elvehan from the time when the Veil did not exist. There is an elaborated tile that we will see in puzzles in the Temple of Mythal, and one of those rounded trees, growing out of it.

With the exception of the rounded tree, the decoration looks like an elvehnan crypt; its style is the same one we found in the crypts of the Temple of Mythal. There are bodies, skeletons and urns everywhere. Of course, DAI has several bodies and skeletons that they use for everything dead, so I won’t focus on the armour or the details of these objects. They are always the same no matter what kind of dead you are looking at: an avvar body, an elven body or a dwarven body.

Close to Revasan Fort, there is a collapsed bridge decorated with a statue of Andraste and a landmark called Pont Agur. It explains with dubious accuracy that after the Exalted March of the Dales some villagers drown trying to cross the river, so the mayor built this bridge and dedicated it to humans and elves too. This started a rumour about the mayor having elven blood, and had to step down. I think this shows how complex was this land after the March; these things [elves and humans in relationships] have been happening since long time ago, as the Tomb of Elandrin shows us with the incident of Red Crossing. For more details read Emerald Graves: Din’an Hanin, Tomb of Elandrin.

Beside Port Agur we find villa Montevelan, where this story of the mayor happened. This was the first human settlement after the Exalted March of the Dales. It’s all destroyed now.

Inside some ramparts we can see big trees that got my attention: I don’t know if they can be considered the original vhenadahl, the trees that the city elves try to grow as a memory of their Dalish roots. These trees can be found in ramparts as well as in the Citadelle du Corbeau. In many times, they show bodies hanging from its branches, so they inspire some murderous sentiment to such an elven symbol [if these tree are supposed to be vhenadahl, I’m just guessing since these can’t be found in other elven ruins, so they seem to be more Dalish than Elvish to me.]

In this rampart in particular, we find a difference in comparison with the rest of the ramparts in the area: there is a small tower which construction date is hard to guess. It could have been built during the Exalted March or a bit earlier. The entrance is decorated with these enigmatic tablets, depicting the Razikale Ceremony and the Horned warrior holding a sword. We have established they were Tevinter due to their presence in Coracavus and The Still Ruins. Inside the tower we find a Tevinter inspector, Tevinter containers, and minor, decorative Tevinter elements. Inside this tower there is a codex about Legend of the Three Sisters: Book 3, which makes the player aware of how stories change depending on factors such as historical-political situation, countries or censorship. This is yet another call out that the game does to us, players, to not take every single story we read as 100% true.

It seems that Tevinter mages were present in the Exalted Plains at some point in History and performed some magic or experiments. Considering the Strange Skull-Dragon totem and the undead all over the place, I would be inclined to think that some faction during the Exalted March invited Tevinter mages to provide efforts in the battle. Which is a very odd concept if we remember that it was a war between Elves [many of them coming from families who had fought Tevinter by Andraste’s side to recover their freedom] and the Chantry of that time [which always had some frictions with Tevinter].

I thought in a possibility to explain this Tevinter presence: since many of the elves that fought in the Exalted March belonged to families that had been former slaves of Tevinter mages, some of them could have developed a vast knowledge of Tevinter arcane magic. I have the impression this is more or less proven in the Citadelle du Corbeau, where elves may have installed a Tevinter defence system in an elven ruin. Because of this last fact, I’m a bit inclined to think this is the reason why we find Tevinter elements in this region. However, that doesn’t add up that we find these tablets, which are more related to Tevinter gods and ceremonies than Elven ones. I can imagine elves resorting to Tevinter devices against the Chantry, but hardly performing rituals to Tevinter gods.

As a conclusion I don’t think we can make a decent explanation of why we find so many Tevinter objects in the ramparts and elven ruin when there is no Tevinter building in the whole region.

We see this rock with an eye in many places of Exalted Plains, usually, but not exclusively, representing the attack of Orlesians [at least in the context of Exalted Plains and Emerald green]. During the main quest, in the attack to Adamant Fortress, it was the Inquisition who used these stones. Clearly a reused asset with little meaning, so I will skip it.

In Victory Rise we find more Elven ruins: we can see the elven patterns of swirls and flowers around this door. In this place we find the codex of Legend of the Three Sisters: Book 1.

In Enavuris [such a name to confuse it so easily with Evanuris] we find a ruin that, after inspection, allows you to follow a quest to look for ancient elven glyphs. The power that the note The Elven Glyphs talks about ends up being the “Dirthamen’s wisdom”, a strange shield that can be found at the end of the exploration of the Lost Temple of Dirthamen which has an oddly Tevinter look. [See the post related to the Lost Temple of Dirthamen]. It’s hard to understand what each of these symbols that appear in the glyphs mean. Clearly, all of them are secrets, such it is the nature of Dirthamen. A brief, potential analysis can be found in the post of the Lost Temple of Dirthamen.

In Halin’sulahn we find a very small Dalish clan. They are placed close to a rock which shows the usual painting of a yellow halla, and the one that looks like a battle with many elves on hallas. There is also a statue of a hart. After talking with the Keeper of this clan we are informed about several elven-issues that the War of the Lions has caused.

The encampment shows the typical Dalish symbols: these fences with ragged hides and tree branches paint in red or green on them.

I always like to highlight that the Aravels keep these undulating lines that make me remember the undulating patterns in many, if not all, murals found in DAI. It is also worth remembering that the aravels were prison-ships filled with slaves that sent elves to dwarven cities [check The Horror of Hormak].

In search for those ancient elven glyphs, we explore a zone called Ancient Baths. By its name it seems to be an elven building which allowed baths in the river. Its entrance is decorated with two archer statues, and two wall paintings: the yellow halla, and the black twisted halla with white elves wearing vallaslin [the Dalish “remember” that golden hallas guided The people to places where they needed to be, specially in desperate times. The truth behind that probable is more twisted]. Every time I see these paintings I suspect that this building was meant to be used by slaves.

As we proceed, we find a point where we need to jump off. This chamber, in its configuration [not grandeur], looks like the Temple of Mythal's main chamber where the priest stays in a high place, inaccessible to reach [no stairs in this chamber], looking from above down to the petitioner.

This section has ancient elven decorative elements: two inuksuit decorated with red swirls and a central squared stone, both elements used for the elven dead. More than half of the ruin has fallen apart but it seems to give an idea that this building was meant to be used to see baths in the river.

As it can be seen, the decoration is ancient elvhen.

As we explore the map, we find this statue which triggers Andruil's Messenger, a codex that produces more confusion than understanding of who is the god behind the owl symbol. There is a painting of a yellow halla beside the statue. Since it is an information given by Gisharel, it may be extremely wrong. The tale almost hides a command: the people, aka the slaved elves, will follow Andruil, she will tell them when to hunt, when to raise hallas, and when to settle down. And for that, she will use an owl. Since we do not truly have better sources confirming that the owl, crow, or raven are Dirthamen’s sacred animal, it’s hard to suspect how much of this tale has been twisted along the Dalish history.

In the open we see more of these four painting together: The row of slaved elves, The Armoured Figure, The Vallaslin shifting halla, and the black halla with elves wearing vallaslin. All these paintings together seem to speak about elves being capture, alienated [ they have no face nor heart] under the control of a symbol we have seen a lot: the golden ring, and these slaves are related to vallaslin and deformed hallas that shift. For more detail, see the post Nation Art: Elvhen.

Several times in the open we can find these owl statues or the archers. Sometimes even marking a path, as if they were guiding us to some places. Sometimes they are accompanied with the paintings.

The Path of flame, a name designated by the Chantry to this part, looks like the entrance of a bigger elven ruin, which is protected by two big Fen’Harel statues. The landmark we trigger around this area, extremely unreliable, suggests that this place was an elven arena. I hardly believe it, but certainly there is something about gathering many elves and forcing them to walk certain paths [aka, a path to mark slaves? considering the paintings]. The truth is, that the game has showed us two elvhen arenas already: In Emprise du Lion, called currently by orlesians names since the original ones were lost to the ages: Etienne’s Ring and Leontine’s Ring, which are now used by dragons. So, I have to say that despite not trusting this source in the slightest, the Ruined Arches of Exalted Plains have a similar look to those we see in Emprise du Lion. So maybe elves had rings after all but the purpose of them is completely unknown.

In this zone, we find a solitary statue of Fen’Harel on the waterfall.

Some meters away from it, there is a Shrine to Sylaise, which entrance is decorated in the same fashion than the Ancient Baths: two archers indicating the entrance, and two paintings depicting a yellow halla and a black halla wtih elves wearing vallaslin.

When we enter the temple, we only find crypt-related elements: inuksuit and urns, and a codex of Sylaise is triggered: Sylaise: the Hearthkeeper, which is the usual one we find in DAO, and extremely unreliable.

Inside the temple there is a small corner covered with a barrier, where a body can be found. This body has a valuable historical talisman of the Dales elves, and an ancient elven robe. It's not clear to me how to understand the situation in which we find it.

This talisman belonged to an historical warrior of the Dales, and since we find a Robe that looks like the same one than the Keeper of the Clan we met, I assume this body was an ancient Keeper who wanted to protect that talisman from the shemlen, and made a barrier with themselves inside, or they activated some trap of the small shrine and got caught in it..

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#Exalted Plains #elven design #Andrastian design #guardian of the path #paintings #Strange Skull-Dragon totem #Sitting Fen'Harel statue #Razikale Ceremony #Horned warrior holding a sword #Tevinter objects #aravel #dalish design #elvhen design #Elven Owl statue #Elven hart statue #Elven Archers #playing DA like an archaeologist

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jacky93sims · 1 year

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Sweetheart Wedding Cakes Functional for The Sims 2

4to2 conversions from Kerrigan House Design. I reduced the polycount. As title, these cakes are functional, but you will not see them "open". However there is an "half stage".

Benisrael Cake Facecount=3680 Vertexcount=2914

Rosegold Cake Facecount=4312 Vertexcount=3790

Slice Facecount=238 Vertexcount=292

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