#skelligs

[aquitainequeen]

Rather more success in capturing the Skelligs when there's daylight.

#Skelligs #Skellig rocks #My life #Ireland #inspiration

[pickleforstony]

Siren!Jaskier hitting on Geralt.

#geraskier #I killed hundreds of sirens today and I needed some comfort so #ugh skellige #geralt of rivia #jaskier #the witcher #the witcher netflix #twn #the witcher fanart #jaskier x geralt

[bergwerkderbilder]

Ard Skellig

endless Witcher 3 gifs

#witcher #witcher 3 #tw3 #the witcher 3 #witcheredit #the witcher #witchergif #dai's gifs #gamingedit #gamingscenery #skellige #skellige gif

[geraltyen-of-corvobianco]

𝘈 𝘓𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘎𝘦𝘵𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘭𝘶𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘚𝘬𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘦...

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Because where else can the Queen of Skellige go to take a breather?

#Ciriys #the witcher #the witcher 3 #witcher fan art #ciri #cerys an craite #cerys #ciri x cerys #skellige #archive of the continent

[bookcalanthedaily]

Heart beats fast, colors and promises... How to be brave? How can I love when I'm afraid to fall? But watching you stand alone... All of my doubt suddenly goes away somehow.

#cirilla of cintra #cirilla fiona elen riannon #ciri of cintra #cirilla #princess cirilla #cerys an craite #cerys of skellige #cerys x ciri #ciri x cerys #the witcher #the witcher 3 #the witcher 3 mods #tw3 #tw3edit #cirys

[laurikarauchscat]

Empress Cirilla, it is said, has had four great loves thus far during her reighn.

One was Queen Cerys of Skellige.

The two came together in solidarity, as the young empress was still being tutored for her role, years ago. They would meet upon Skellige's stormy shores, and would dance, and love, and make merry... taking solace and wimsy from one another in the stolen hours between duties and obligations.

Their entanglement lasted, in near perfect bliss, untill Queen Cerys took her husband to wed.

You see, while our Empress and Emperor Consort had been more than content with their own arrangement, each allowing the other passion outside the palace walls, it is said that Queen Cerys yearned for something altogether more posessive. She demanded from her spouse a sort of love still foreign to her own queendom... and was willing, in turn, to forsake her wandering lover to achieve it.

Today, all that remains of the love affair between these two powerful women is a lingering mutual affection, a steel clad alliance between nations, and the occasional wistful sigh.

#traditional art #the witcher 3 #the witcher fanart #the witcher #nilfgaard #cirilla fiona elen riannon #empress ciri #ciri x cerys #ciri x morvran #skellige #Cerys #cerys an craite #witcher #ciri #Queen cerys #cirys #wlw #wlw love

[witcherscreenshotsdump]

𝕎𝕚𝕥𝕔𝕙𝕖𝕣 𝟛 𝕤𝕙𝕚𝕡𝕤

| C E R Y S x C I R I |

#cirilla fiona elen riannon #cerys an craite #Ciri of Cintra #ciri x cerys #tw3edit #Ciri #cerys of skellige #Cirilla #the witcher #the witcher 3 #tw3 mod #the witcher mod #the witcher 3 mod #cerys x ciri #shippy stuff #dock kiss set #still wish i could find a way to make gender locked animations work for normally fo #r all :/ #like male anim on a woman char looks awkward but it's even worse for fem anim on male char #linke the fingers are all mangled #:(

[witcheringways]

The Cave of Dreams

{ The Witcher 3 : Next Gen }

#the witcher 3: wild hunt #wiedźmin #game photography #tw3 screenshots #geralt of rivia #skellige #the witcher 3 next gen

[galasgamingcorner]

The Witcher 3 Scenery | Skellige

#thewitcheredit #tw3edit #gamingedit #dailygaming #gameplaydaily #the witcher #tw3 #tw3 remaster #scenery #skellige #mygamegifs #skellige my beloved

[slimemanagement]

This is my senior thesis from all the way back in college! It's about a 12th century monk who is forced to travel from the Skellig Islands to Rome when his monastery is abandoned. I'd love to revisit it with everything I've learned since then.

#original work #skellig michael #comics #illustration #monasticism #monks #I DID THIS WITH DIP PEN AND LOOSE BRUSHES!!! insane #i was quite literally insane #Slimemanagement

[ophierian-vp]

#tw3 #the witcher 3 #the witcher 3 wild hunt #the witcher #CD Projekt RED #cdpred #skellige isles #geralt #geralt of rivia #geralt z rivii #video games #gamingedit #virtual photography #Gaming Photography #photomode #nvidia ansel #videogamemen

[aquitainequeen]

I can't pass a stay in Ireland without straining for a glimpse of the Skelligs.

#Skelligs #Skellig rocks #My life #Ireland

[eagna-eilis]

Ach-To and Irish Archaeology

The sequels were my entry into Star Wars and I never would have gone to see The Force Awakens if I wasn't an archaeology nerd.

During the production of Episode VII, a decent number of people with an interest in our archaeological heritage here in Ireland were quite worried about the impact of filming on one of our only two UNESCO World Heritage Sites, the island known as Skellig Michael down off the coast of Kerry.

I went to the film to see if any potential damage was worth it, or if they'd do something unspeakably stupid with it in-universe. I wanted to see if it was respected.

And holy hell I was NOT disappointed. I think I walked out of TFA sniffling to myself about how beautiful the Skellig looked and how it seemed like its use as a location was not just respectful but heavily inspired by its real history.

See, Skellig Michael was a monastic hermitage established at a point when Christianity was so new that the man who ordered its founding sometime in the first century CE was himself ordained by the Apostle Paul. The fellah from the Bible who harassed all and sundry with his letters, THAT Apostle Paul. This is how old a Christian site the Skellig is. It predates St. Patrick by at the very least two hundred years.

The steps we watch Rey climb were originally cut NEARLY TWO THOUSAND YEARS AGO. They have been reworked and repaired many many times since, of course. Still, the path the camera follows Daisy Ridley up is as much an ancient path built by the founders of a faith in real life as it is in the movies.

A hermitage was a place where monks went to live lives of solitude and asceticism so as better to achieve wisdom. The practice is common to many of the major world religions, including the myriad East Asian faiths which inspired the fictional Jedi.

It is said that the hermitage and monastery were originally built with the purpose of housing mystical texts belonging to the Essanes, one of the sects of Second Temple Judaism which influenced some of the doctrines of Christianity. They also, according to what I have read, characterised good and evil as 'light' and 'darkness' and were celibate.

As such, the use of the island in TFA and TLJ does not merely respect Skellig Michael's history, it honours it. It is framed as somewhere ancient and sacred, which it is. It is framed as a place where a mystic goes to live on his own surrounded by nature that is at once punishing and sublime, which of course it was. It shown to be a place established to protect texts written at the establishment of a faith, which it may well have been.

This level of genuine respect for my cultural heritage by Rian Johnson in particular is astonishing. I don't think anyone from outside the US ever really trusts Americans not to treat our built history like it's Disneyland. Much of the incorporation of the Skellig's real past into a fictional galactic history occurs in TLJ, which is why I'm giving Rian so much credit.

It's Luke's death scene which makes the honouring of Irish archaeological history most apparent though.

Johnson takes the archaeological iconography back a further three thousand years for his final tribute to my culture's beautiful historical temples. This time, he incorporates neolithic passage tomb imagery, specifically that of Newgrange, which is up the country from the Skellig.

I think if you understand what the image represents then it makes a deeply emotional scene even more resonant.

The scene I'm referring to is Luke's death.

As he looks to the horizon, to the suns, we view him from the interior of the First Jedi Temple. The sunset aligns with the passageway into the ancient sanctuary, illuminating it as he becomes one with the Force.

As for Newgrange, every year during the Winter Solstice it aligns with the sunrise. The coldest, darkest, wettest, most miserable time of the year on a North Atlantic island where it is often cold, wet, and miserable even in the summer. And the sun comes up even then, and on a cloudless morning a beam of sunlight travels down the corridor and illuminates the chamber inside the mound.

You guys can see this, right? The similarity of the images? The line of light on the floor?

Luke's death scene is beautiful but I think it's a thousand times more moving with this visual context. Luke's sequel arc isn't merely populated by a lore and iconography that honour the place where the end of his story was filmed, I think that incorporation of that history and mythology honours Luke.

We don't know for sure what the Neolithic people believed, religion-wise. We know next to nothing about their rituals. We know that there were ashes laid to rest at Newgrange. There is some speculation that the idea was that the sun coming into the place that kept those ashes brought the spirits of those deceased people over to the other side.

It's also almost impossible not to interpret the sunlight coming into Newgrange as an extraordinary expression of hope. If you know this climate, at this latitude, you know how horrible the winter is. We don't even have the benefit of crispy-snowwy sunlit days. It's grey and it's dark and it's often wet. And every single year the earth tilts back and the days get long again.

The cycle ends and begins again. Death and rebirth. And hope, like the sun, which though unseen will always return. And so we make it through the winter, and through the night.

As it transpired the worries about the impact of the Star Wars Sequels upon Skellig Michael were unfounded. There was no damage caused that visitors wouldn't have also caused. There also wasn't a large uptick in people wanting to visit because of its status as a SW location, in part I think because the sequels just aren't that beloved.

But they're beloved to me, in no small part because of the way they treated a built heritage very dear to my heart. I think they deserve respect for that at the least.

#star wars meta #ach-to #irish history #Irish Archaeology #first jedi temple #skellig michael #newgrange #luke skywalker #the last jedi #early christianity #neolithic #historical parallels in star wars #star wars and history #star wars and mythology #star wars and archaeology

[bergwerkderbilder]

Ard Skellig

endless Witcher 3 gifs

#witcher #witcher 3 #tw3 #the witcher 3 #witcheredit #the witcher #witchergif #dai's gifs #gamingedit #gamingscenery #skellige gif #skellige

[essskel]

The jumpscare in every ‘fantasy instrumental’/‘forest ambiance’/‘fantasy reading’ ect playlist out there

#I like to listen to these while I read but I ALWAYS recognize this gd soundtrack and I cannot focus with it #Im immediately in a field in skellige or something and I have to skip it #tw3 #double shot

[ladycibia]

We love you Cibia and hope life gets a little easier and calms down soon ❤️

Thank you ;v; I'm looking forward to summer vacation!

#I don't have any plans I just want to take a break ahah #dandelion you'll catch a cold you're in friggin' Skellige #jaskier #jaskier dandelion #geralt of rivia #geralt and jaskier #the witcher #the witcher fanart #chibi witchers saga #chibi jaskier #cibiart #mine:witcher