The Lashunta from Castrovel (va-vara-varru)

Lashunta Architectural Inspiration
Artist: Hubert Robert

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...Not only as a warrior culture, but as a psychic, highly empathic species, a shieldmate's loss - someone with whom you've trained, fought, and risked lives - is a close, traumatic blow. The living strive to be worthy of their fallen comrades' sacrifice.

...This is a funeral illustration, and while I think #Lashunta views of death and the afterlife are distinctly different than Humans', I believe they devoutly honor their dead...

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Artist - Knut Ekwall, 1876: illustration for Wagner's opera: Siegfried. A company of warriors wearing winged helms and cloaks bear spears. They stand around and upon an outcrop, atop which a lone tree stands.

Lashunta Inspirational Memory - 1 year ago
Knut Ekwall

An illustration for Wagner's opera: Siegfried. This may just be me being silly, but from a distance, the wings on their helms could almost be antennae...

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Qoaronae: the Triple Goddesses of War

Article: Qoaronae - the Lashunta Triple Goddesses of War
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...Also, since ERB wrote buch of this work in the 1930's, by extension, I would argue that both the Art Nouveau and Art Deco movements had influence into the look and feel on which his worlds are based. So let me start with something simple. Maybe we will make this a weekly thing.

...It includes the cover art over the years for the works of Edgar Rice Burroughs - who wrote Carson of Venus and La of Opar within the Tarzan Saga, on which much of #Castrovel is inspired. Therefore, all the pulp art illustration done over the decades falls within inspiration...

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Statue by Erte - woman stands wearing a headdress like a peacock tail. A shroud wraps foldingly over one shoulder, leaving half her bosom exposed.

Lashunta Inspirational Memory - 6 years ago
Artist: Erte

I'd like to try something new. There's not a lot of #Lashunta or #Castrovel art out there. Yet there's a lot that is inspiration, perhaps foundational to their development...

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...It's another thing to imagine the challenge of living in such an environment, out in the jungle.

Imagine Tarzan being the norm for travel. Ninja Warrior and Parcour being everyday skills to get by... It starts feeling like the apes and the Sealnea (Vanaras) might have a significant advantage.

Art by Eddy Jones - two figures struggle to climb up a tree-like structure of vines, boughs, and ledges.

Castrovel Inspirational Memory - 2 years ago
Eddie Jones

It's easy to talk about an arboreal environment where people find it easier to live up in the giant megadendra trees than on the ground...

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~Noelaura~ - How Do Lashunta Perceive the Elven Gods?

Article - ~Noelaura~ - How Do Lashunta Perceive the Elven Gods?

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Article - Let's Insult in Lashunta!

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Art by Mostafa Khaled (artstation) - four figures in environmental suits stand along giant prone statue half-buried within a field. It is carven to show as a hooded figure holding a greatsword before its feet.

Castrovel Inspiratational Memory - 2 years ago. A little more Starfindery than I usually post, but Ima run with it.
Artist: Mostafa Khaled (artstation)

What have they found, and who left it here?

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Art by DancinFox (artstation) - Naga Bride. A giant half-man, half-snake figure reclines upon his coils, while his lower tail wrappingly holds a humanlike woman against the wall. She is naked but adorned with golden bands and henna markings. His giant hand reaches for her.

Castrovel Weekend Inspiration, Part ~Zhoa~ Artist: DancinFox, artstation ~Zhiquael Nauzhe Moqevae~ - Zhiquael, Thrall of the Moqeva - is a work of Shamyudi (erotic literature) written by Theiahe of Nivaea in the 23rd Millennium. However, its subject is so morally inflammatory that it has been banned in many lashunta cities. It continues to survive underground in places like Nivaea and Qabarat, where dilettantes appreciate its noncomformist shock value. It tells of Zhiquael, the sister of Tess, who is captured as part of a moqeva raid and brought to Hoshiasa, and then is traded further southward to Yaethitha, where she becomes thrall to a powerful snakefolk lady and made part of her harem. She becomes the moqeva lady's lover and rises to a position of authority within the estate. She also bears a clutch of eggs sired by one of the male haremmates, which hatch into half-lashunta moqeva children. She chooses to stay with her ladylove's household and children, but assists other lashunta thralls rebelling against the moqeva, and who found Cursed Ylisaeua. Afterward, her subterfuge is discovered. Yet she willingly goes to her execution after her ladylove begs forgiveness and promises to keep her children safe. Scholars categorically judge the work as fantastical. However, Theiahe the author insisted it was inspired by a memory discovered within a soul-tree while visiting the ruined site of ancient Yaethitha. The story has engendered speculation that a lashunta slave-class might have existed under the moqeva's alien rule, and thus could explain the mystery of Cursed Ylisaeua. It has also led to wilder speculation of a secret remnant of half-moqeva survivors who can pass as lashunta. No scholarship takes this seriously, although inquisitors have been known to take an interest in anyone found with the book.

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...Could this explain such historical mysteries as Cursed Ylisaeua. Was this a society founded by revolting #lashunta slaves, even after they had been corrupted?

What stories of these lashunta thralls under the moqeva might have survived?

...Storytellers still regale audiences with Tess the First Queen and how the serpentfolk once hunted the Children of the Milktrees.

Yet what if the truth was more complex? What if the moqeva took #lashunta as thralls, forming a servant underclass for their empire?

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Art by Javi Laparra - a gorgon stands up on a ledge, surrounded by columns and hanging lanterns in the background. She has no legs, but her serpent coils loop behind her. She bears an arrow quiver on her back slung from a baldric.

Castrovel Inspirational Pic of the Week
Artist: Javi Laparra

Moqeva - the ancient ophidian empire makes up the lashunta's oldest legends and still haunts their nightmares...

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...Queens who presided over an unprecedented age of peace. Matrons of philosophers whose schools and teachings survive down to the present age.

Rulers who wielded ~rali~, the psychic powers of the mind.

Lashunta Inspirational Memory - 2 years ago
Romain de Tirtoffe (Erte)

Who were the Sage-Queens, the rulers of #Castrovel 's classical, almost legendary golden age?

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Lashunta Word of the Week Mihoeshassi: to bet; wager; enter or engage in a challenge Along with comprehending sport betting, this word may also refer to engagement in formal challenge, such as a duel or judicial combat. Although Lady Vaeol has engaged in more serious, life-threatening challenges, today’s wager with Captain Ashi as part of A Castrovel Adventure: Part 6, Chapter 26 is a friendly, flirtatious device, in which they casually challenge each other to see who can kill one of the banethings attacking. When they both succeed, and since they forgot to set the stakes, they share a kiss afterward with the phrase: ~Lome inyaeame,~ - “We all win.” This word has a complex etymology. The prefix ~mi-~ is an inclusive modifier, indicating a common or shared action. The root ~hoeshi~ is archaic in contemporary Lashunta and rarely occurs standalone. It means action or status as a champion, and itself is a contracted compound, deriving from ~ho~ against + ~heshi~ - service. Related Terms: Mihoeshi (spiritual): a betting, risk-taking, or gambling spirit or sentiment Mihoesha (common): a wager or bet; the terms defining the wager Mihoesho (neuter): stakes; the prize dependent on the wager’s outcome

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