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captainkurosolaire · 5 months

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A r i s e F e r T h' D a y l i g h t.

Does your heart resemble a den fit for a fanged king? Or simply a fragile insect, emitting desperate strength fluttering for its peace? Scars on the outside tell stories. However what’s inside… actually carries out our definition, that’s worthy of treasured representation. Are you a clutched puppet to that pledged great blue devotion, a servant of their design? Or does freedom course in your blood stream? Can you continue to bury your beloved early graves? Castaway their impactful memories that marked your days, either to fortunes or misfortunes. We lose an essence layer no matter the level of the depth of what’s cut. Is your spirit capable enough to rise to unseen heights? That tower, even the giants? Many wear masks to hide concealing those nasty truths. …Ours. Is a missing key. That door… Is what’s left. Behind is everything. Everything we can be, or left to become. Our drummed history and identity remains. There is a Power Beyond Potential in knowing and finding out all we are.

#Captain Kuro Solaire #ffxiv screenshots #Gifset #To Become.#final fantasy xiv #seeker of the sun #ffxiv #[Saltsong]#screenshots #pirate #Chart: Self Discovery #The Endless Sea #Sketches of the Future #Glorious Living #Combination of Soul Journey and Aesthetics #Ending of 2023 was my worst but we're still standing #There's grander horizons to seize

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unforeseenflame · 2 years

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For the Anon on this post.

The Endless Sea

You are the child of a simple merchant within the capital city of Allora; a position that allows your father to be able to put food on the table but holds no standing. Especially not when he was kicked from the Merchants Guild.

It’s for that very reason that you didn’t truly interact with too many kids around your age— as you spent a good deal of your time tending to your fathers shop— but one singular person always made sure to make your day better; your best friend, Caspian/Caspia.

They made your life so much easier— always sticking by your side no matter what— but then, only a few days after you turned eighteen they disappeared out to sea; a promise of endless riches they wished to acquire for you.

They never returned….

Years passed, your grief slowly turning to numbness, as your life moved on. You never imagined you’d see your best friend again until you met the familiar shade of blue across the courtyard as they’re about to be hung for piracy.

Romantic Option (Ideas)

Caspian/Caspia: Your “dead” best friend. Who happens to now be a feared pirate captain; commonly referred to as the Pirate King/Queen.

Noah/Nora: A soft spoken individual that you got close to after C’s death. Someone who has been there for you without hesitation or question.

Yven/Yvette: The heir to the throne of your home country. A person you never imagined you’d catch the attention of; until you literally crashed into them during a festival.

Alaric/Alarya: The First Mate to C. A broody individual that is obscenely loyal to your “dead” friend. You don’t know anything about them, but you’re tempted to find out more.

#heart of flames #the endless sea #told you I would do this for you #hope it’s all right for you ❤️#enjoy!

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hussyknee · 7 months

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Her final tweet on October 8 reads:

“Gaza’s night is dark apart from the glow of rockets, quiet apart from the sound of the bombs, terrifying apart from the comfort of prayer, black apart from the light of the martyrs. Good night, Gaza.”

#i can't stop crying #oh this grief. this endless fathomless grief #rest in power little sister #free palestine #hiba abu nada #i love they used the present tense for her. she IS a novelist and poet and educator and will be as long as her memory endures #save gaza #gaza genocide #palestinian genocide #from the river to the sea 🇵🇸#palestinian poetry #palestinian art #knee of huss

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river-taxbird · 6 months

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The Endless Ocean games on Wii!

Endless Ocean 1 and 2 are an awesome duology of Wii games where you scuba dive, learn about fish, and collect treasure. The main gameplay loop consists of exploring vast underwater environments, find hidden treasure, and interact with fish to fill up a fish-dex. Playing it as a kid even encouraged me to try scuba diving!

They look fantastic too, it's like, still the PS2 era graphics, but it's on Wii so it is like, the peak of that. It has that charming low poly look I have seen a lot of people craving.

Most of your time in the game is just exploring and taking in the environment, but there is always something to find. When you interact with fish, you fill up a fish-dex, and you can learn real world facts about them. If you play it, you'll have so many fish facts to share with people. (When they're accurate, the games are old)

They even have a story with pretty good human characters. The environments are fantastical, you visit ancient ruins, ship graveyards, even sunken castles, but the human characters means it always stays grounded and has some pathos.

If you are into older games and you're looking for a shorter length game with low-fi graphics, gameplay that doesn't really resemble anything before or since, and to learn a bunch of cool fish facts, I can't recommend Endless Ocean enough. I think they might be kind of rare these days, but they work great, and are thematically appropriate, on Dolphin, and should work fine with a normal controller, especially Endless Ocean 2 as it had Classic Controller support.

#Endless Ocean #Endless Ocean 2 #Wii #nintendo wii #old games #game recommendation #gaming #scuba #marine biology #sea life

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marinememes · 26 days

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IF YOU HAVE A NINTENDO SWITCH AND LOVE MARINE BIOLOGY I WANT YOU TO STOP AT NOTHING UNTIL YOU OWN THIS GAME

#endless ocean luminous #endless ocean #fish #marine biology #gaming #deep sea #sharks #oceanposting #sea creatures #ocean #aquarium #marine life #fishes #science #nintendo switch

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lowpolyanimals · 9 months

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Sea Pigs from Endless Ocean: Blue World

#sea pigs #fish #Endless Ocean Blue World #thank you for your submission!#underwater dryer balls

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ablueorangeintheocean · 2 years

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The Endless Sea

#The Endless Sea #iggy pop

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mgdeerla · 26 days

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ashamed to say that i already have over 4 hours into this game

#endless ocean #endless ocean luminous #marlin #sea #fish

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legendary-cookies · 3 months

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CW: NSFW implication

Like I still don't ship anything, but on occasion ships help me push my Tired Wind agenda

Original meme:

I don't actually know where it comes from

I just know the meme lmao

#sea fairy cookie #moonlight cookie #wind archer cookie #have this while i try to finish my endless list of other projects lmao

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nyaskitten · 3 days

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One the One Hand I think all the designs of Wu, FSM, and Lloyd with non-human features (big chompers, claws, horns, tails, etc) are Extremely cool I love them keep up the good work gang, on the Other I think it's really funny to draw them all as Just Some Guy and then Garmadon is just there, the Least human .

#i like the idea that when fsm ran away he concealed Everything oni and dragon ab himself and made himself look like the humans #he saw in other lands .#i like to think when he escaped thed first realm he was running thru portals across all the realms and found the realm of the endless sea #ninjago #raine's rambles #raine's shitposting #wu ninjago #ninjago wu #master wu #first spinjitzu master #lloyd ninjago #ninjago lloyd #lloyd garmadon #ninjago garmadon #garmadon ninjago #lord garmadon

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felassan · 21 days

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this post is under a cut in case anyone would consider it to be DA:D spoilers, as the things it mentions came from the leak a year ago (spoiler warning for link) that included screenshots and a gif of the game. (the things this post mentions are therefore not new information and this does not reference a new leak)

I'm just thinking again about Rook (which seems to be the PC's name or title) and the imagery conjured by the name. ◕‿◕ this post is just speculation and overanalyzing for fun. also this post is a now-finished draft from my draft section from a while back.

I think it would work as a surname (like "Hawke") or a codename (think Leliana's spies and contacts such as "Butler", "Farrier", "Butcher", "Charter", etc although these are all professions that end in "-er" or "or" iirc). it could also be a title (like Warden, Hero, Champion, Inquisitor, Herald) or a nickname - like maybe it's short for "Rookie", it's a Varric-assigned nickname and it references how the DA:D PC is the newest member of the team after he recruits them?

I think it sounds catchy, and cool - it's snappy and short, Hawke-like in this way. and it sounds like the kind of name a spy or secret agent might have in a fantasy, superhero or sci-fi-type setting.

a rook is a black bird, Corvus frugilegus, a member of the corvid family. rooks have been perceived as vermin and nuisances by people in the past, and persecuted due to this. they bear a resemblance to their crow and raven relatives, both birds which have a large cultural footprint and lots of symbolism in areas such as folklore and art. Hawke obviously also had a bird motif going on from their surname and associated art pieces. corvids also bring to mind the Antivan Crows (assassins, thieves, & spies), reminding of the stuff about how in this game the PC may be trying to operate under the radar, and the reporting on a previous iteration of DA:D which had the game concept as being focused on spies and heists. rook plumage is inky black, bringing to mind darkness and shadow.

from the bird angle, a "rook" sounds neat opposite a "wolf" imo. wolves are obviously another animal that have large footprints in culture, myth and folklore. in the natural world there is symbiosis sometimes between wolves and corvids when hunting/feeding. there are lots of photos of wolves and corvids together.

a colony of rooks is called a rookery. of course, the fortress of Skyhold has a rookery. it's from there that Inquisition Spymaster Leliana operates (operated) sending her black birds on missions with letters and messages to her many agents and spies throughout Thedas. what if Rook is one of Leliana's... "rooks"? a spy or agent of the remnants of the Inquisition.

A rook is also defined as "A cheat or swindler; someone who betrays" [noun], "mist, fog" [noun] and "to cheat or swindle" [verb]. it's also a type of trick-taking card game. these sorts of things bring to mind a rogueish, stealthy aspect, and the shady, shadowy dealings and card-game played in Minrathous Shadows.

a rook is also a chess piece. they're castle-like (since "rook" can also mean a castle or fortification) and usually have their top in the shape of a battlement. they can move in any direction along a rank or file on a chessboard on which they stand (horizontal/vertical, not diagonal). they can also do the "castling" move. in history, rooks have also been called towers, castles, rectors and marquesses. in chess, each player starts the game with two rooks at opposite ends of the first rank. chess itself is a game of strategy and tactics. "the chessmaster" as a trope is a character type who manipulates events, tugging on strings and moving 'pieces' into place on a metaphorical chessboard. [Solas' DA:I dialogue about his past, like the one he has with Sera about cells of spies/agents, hark to this]

in the castling move,

"Castling is a move in chess. It consists of moving the king two squares toward a rook on the same rank and then moving the rook to the square that the king passed over. Castling is permitted only if neither the king nor the rook has previously moved; the squares between the king and the rook are vacant; and the king does not leave, cross over, or finish on a square attacked by an enemy piece. Castling is the only move in chess in which two pieces are moved at once."

castling rules often cause confusion, even occasionally among high-level players. historically the move has its roots in the "king's leap", of which there were two forms and which arose in part it seems due to increasing importance of king safety as other pieces were given increased powers through time as the game developed. "the king would move once like a knight, or the king would move two squares on its first move. The knight move might be used early in the game to get the king to safety or later in the game to escape a threat." basically it moves the king away to safety and the rook to a more active position. there is also kingside castling and queenside castling. I wonder, symbolically.. is Rook more the king's rook, or the queen's rook? (reminds me of the Left Hand and Right Hands of the Divine hh). who or what is the king in this hypothetical analogy? the World of Thedas itself? as a castle or fortress.. Rook is the bulwark against what's to come? [over-thinking ik ik, tis just for fun hh].

by now we're all familiar with the chess game Solas plays in banter dialogue with Iron Bull during DA:I. in the in-world chess game, rooks are called towers. Solas moves his right-hand tower once. at a later point in the game, Iron Bull's "Arishok" piece takes Solas' left-hand tower, getting a check and leaving him feeling triumphant. Bull asks Solas wth he is doing as Bull takes Solas' remaining tower. "Your last tower, by the way". Bull, a spy and liar himself, bears down on Solas' pieces "with his full army", thinking a win is in sight. Undeterred, Solas executes a few moves in a sneaky plan and entraps Bull in a checkmate, winning the game after sacrificing various pieces to enact his plan.

rook also brings to mind the Tower tarot card and its meanings. it's associated with sudden, disruptive revelation and potentially destructive change. it connotes danger, crisis, sudden change, destruction, higher learning, and liberation, as well as adversity, calamity, deception, ruin and unforeseen catastrophe. reversed, it connotes things such as negligence, carelessness, apathy and vanity (vanity.. pride). in this depiction of the Tower tarot, lightning strikes from the sky, striking a crown (hubris) off the top of a tower and setting it alight as people fall from the tower to their doom. this imagery and the upright meanings of the card bring to mind the sudden massive change Solas seeks to bring about (destroying the Veil), the revelations and liberation for some that it might bring, his identity as Fen'Harel Lord of Tricksters (deception) as well as the destruction he seems to think the Veil destroying action will cause ("as the world burns in the raw chaos"...). the 'Tower scene' has also already played out once before in Thedosian history, when Solas created the Veil and sealed the Evanuris away, leading to the fall of Arlathan and its wonders. in modern Thedas, Morrigan and Flemeth (as well as possibly some side 'prophecy' type things) both allude to a big change coming to the world.

in DA:I, the Tower tarot card is ofc none other than Solas' ending card, if he is not romanced. in the DA:I version of the card, we see Solas, cloaked in a dark robe and holding a mage staff under a half-moon or eclipse. darkness seeps from his shadow, stark against the orange sky, and blends with the giant black Dread Wolf, looming ominously and open-mouthed above him with its many eyes. (the Tower tarot card Solas scene is later referenced in DA:D promotional art and DA:D-era in-world murals). it makes sense to have assigned this to Solas given the above discussed meanings of the Tower tarot card, but it's a verrry inchresting choice imo to then give "Rook" as a name/title for the DA:D PC.

and most inchrestingly, there's the symbol from the front of Mark Darrah's mysterious Red Book. this mysterious red book shows "a flaming rook" on the cover. the book was an internal guide for developer and publisher eyes only that summarized the vision for DA:D, in its Joplin iteration. we know that the Joplin project has since been revised to an extent that it was the newly codenamed Morrison instead, but the red book is known to still contain plenty of ideas likely to appear in DA:D. most pages of the book remain highly classified. it's the symbol on the front that's of most interest to us though for the purposes of this post. there is a castle, tower, or rook, like a fortress or the chess piece. above the tower, a fire burns, reminding us of the burning tower from the Tower tarot card imagery and what that symbolizes, as well as Solas' "world burning in the raw chaos" line from Trespasser. inside the fire is a wolf, the Dread Wolf, in a now very-familiar and repeated motif in DA:D art, merch, murals, teasers etc. whatever else "rook" may connote, it feels like it's not an accident at all that the PC's name is apparently "Rook", given this depiction of a fiery rook and the Dread Wolf together.