Friday, August 29, 2025
Wednesday, August 27, 2025
Lotus Clan - Battle Realms
The Leaders and Apostates of the Lotus
The Lotus Clan’s masters are not generals, but sorcerers and heretics, each a twisted monarch over some forbidden aspect of reality. They are not bound by flesh, time, or reason, but by corruption the black pact of the Forbidden Path.
Zymeth — Lord of Storms and Decay
Zymeth, the ageless tyrant, has ruled the Lotus for as long as memory persists. Some whisper that he has lived for four generations of men, others that he has never lived at all that he is but the storm given flesh. He summons rains to nourish the fields, yet wields lightning as his true gospel, calling spears of heaven to shatter his foes.
No one knows how he has endured so long, but all agree it is bound to his pacts with the occult. He rose to supremacy by murdering rivals, casting down Sethess, the high priestess who would have been the rightful heir. His treachery is legend: deceiving the Serpent Clan’s Lord Oja into building ships meant for freedom, ships cursed to drain life until their crews were husks. From that betrayal, war was born, Wolf slaves revolted, and the isles drowned in blood.
Zymeth is a terror on the battlefield a figure who walks calmly amidst carnage, summoning storms from the heavens. Those who approach him with steel find only annihilation, as blasts of searing magic erupt from his hand. He favors stillness, conserving his breath until the skies split, lashing all who dare defy him. In union with his consort, Mistress Yvaine, he brings despair: she encases enemies in ice prisons, while his lightning rends them from above.
Soban — Master of Matter
Soban, Zymeth’s second, is the alchemist of torment a mad artificer, forever whispering to things only he can see. Once dismissed as a fool with trinkets, his genius has become monstrous: he breathes mockery into clay, raising golems of stone and sinew. They toil as slaves, explode as weapons, and are discarded as husks when spent. His obsession with form and substance has made him both indispensable and terrifying, a man who has long since lost sight of humanity.
Koril — Master of Space
From afar, Koril seems a radiant maiden, haloed by dancing lights but step closer, and the truth curdles. He is an ancient warlock, wizened and cruel, and those lights are not fairies, but the souls of the slain, tethered forever to his orbit. Koril bends space with a flick of his hand, vanishing from danger or appearing where none expect. Arrows twist away from him as though the world itself denies his death. Among the Lotus, he is both venerated and feared, for none can say where he walks when he slips beyond the fabric of sight.
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| Battle Realms Koril re-imagined AI |
Issyl — Master of Time
Issyl is a paradox of existence: an old man who grows young. His mastery of time’s unraveling has cursed him to walk backward through his own years. His face flickers between senility and youth, his voice at once cracked and childlike. None know whether he will one day vanish into nothing, or collapse into an infant corpse. Yet his dominion over time itself makes him indispensable, for to him seconds are clay, and eternity is a wound he can reopen
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| Issyl By Diwataero |
The Brothers Lythis, Sekh, and Tausil
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| Art by Kevin Edwards |
Beneath the rotting boughs of the Tree of Corruption dwell the Brothers Lythis, Sekh, and Tausil. Once guardians of life, they are now parasites of death. Each offers blessings to the faithful, yet each blessing is a curse, requiring the consumption of a negative orb. Their voices seep from crypts, whispering bargains to those who dare to listen. The Lotus do not revere them as gods, but as unholy patrons, feeding corruption into the veins of their disciples.
Mistress Yvaine — Bride of Ice and Chains
Yvaine is Zymeth’s consort and confidante a woman of ice, both in magic and in heart. She presides over the shale mines where Wolves once bled and starved, lashing them with cruelty, mocking their broken pride as “slaves” even in freedom.
She is clad in a gown of midnight, her back bristling with spider-like limbs of shadow. Her sorcery is frost itself: waves of cold that burrow into bone, shards of ice that pierce and then shatter into a thousand knives. She imprisons her prey in crystalline tombs, watching as they freeze alive before Zymeth’s lightning finishes the slaughter.
To her, life is a thing to be smothered in frost. Yet her ambition was her undoing: when she sought to defile the White Wolf Skull, she was consumed by its purity, annihilated by the very relic she thought to corrupt.
The Lotus leadership is a coven of monsters, each a master of a cosmic blasphemy storm, matter, space, time, frost, and corruption itself. They are less a council than a gathering of calamities, bound only by Zymeth’s storm-crowned will.
Friday, May 9, 2025
Wednesday, May 7, 2025
Blade anime mananagal episode
Friday, May 2, 2025
How to Watch Fate anime in order.. i think
Okey nakakalito talaga ang Fate franchise, i admit pati ako nahilo. feeling 10 years old ata ako first time ko to nadiskubre
The Fate anime franchise is famously confusing because it has multiple timelines, adaptations, and spin-offs. Here's a clear and watchable order for newcomers, focusing on the main series and the Fate/Grand Order: Camelot movies.
Main Fate Series Watch Order (Recommended for Newcomers)
1. Fate/Zero (2011–2012)
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Prequel to Fate/stay night.
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Sets the stage for everything.
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Watch first even though it was made later.
2. Fate/stay night [Unlimited Blade Works] (2014–2015)
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Focuses on Rin and Archer.
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Best animated route for beginners after Zero.
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Skip the 2006 Fate/stay night unless you're curious later.
3. Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel Trilogy (2017–2020)
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Three movies.
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Darker route focused on Sakura.
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Should be watched after UBW, preferably.
🏰 Fate/Grand Order & Camelot Placement
The Fate/Grand Order series is separate from the Fate/stay night/Zero timeline. It's based on the Fate/Grand Order mobile game. You can watch it after or parallel to the main series.
Fate/Grand Order Watch Order:
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Fate/Grand Order: First Order (2016) – Pilot movie.
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Fate/Grand Order: Camelot - Wandering; Agaterám (2020) – 1st Camelot movie.
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Fate/Grand Order: Camelot - Paladin; Agaterám (2021) – 2nd Camelot movie.
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Fate/Grand Order: Babylonia (2019–2020) – Anime series, set after Camelot.
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Fate/Grand Order: Solomon (2021) – Final movie in the arc.
Thursday, April 24, 2025
"Snow, Glass, Apples"
"Snow, Glass, Apples" is a 1994 short story written by Neil Gaiman. It was originally released as a benefit book for the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund and was reprinted in the anthology Love in Vein II, edited by Poppy Z. Brite.[1] It is a retelling of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale Snow White, but from her stepmother's point of view.
The short story begins with a magical woman telling the reader that had she been wise, she would have killed herself instead of meeting her husband and stepdaughter, who killed her own mother during childbirth.
Eight years prior, the narrator meets the widowed king of the land after sixteen years of dreaming of their first encounter. The king and the narrator fall in love, with him visiting her regularly until he takes her to his palace and marries her. The king has a six-year-old white-skinned, black-haired, and red-lipped daughter the queen becomes stepmother to. The queen, however, is scared of her husband's child, who never dines with them.
One night in winter, the queen is sewing in her chambers when the princess enters asking for some food. The queen gives the princess an apple, observing her bite into the fruit with unusually sharp teeth. Briefly losing her fear, the queen caresses the princess's cheek with her right hand, only for the child to bite into her stepmother's thumb and drink the blood. The queen is horrified by her stepdaughter's actions, and when the girl has finished, her stepmother's wound instantly heals and scars. Fearing for her life, the queen has the blacksmith forge iron bars for her windows and nightly locks herself in her chambers.
As time passes, the king himself also falls prey to his own daughter. Every night, the princess bites her father and drinks his blood, leaving his entire body covered in scars similar to his wife's. The king eventually succumbs to his daughter's vampirism, leaving his widow to rule the kingdom as queen. After her husband's funeral and her own coronation, the queen has her huntsmen take the princess to the forest and cut out her heart, which continues to beat even days after being removed. The queen ties her stepdaughter's heart with rowan berries and garlic bulbs before hanging it in her private chambers and having the iron bars removed from her windows.
For six years, the queen's reign over her kingdom is mostly peaceful, with the people respecting her authority and looking forward to the annual spring fair. With each succeeding spring fair, however, a number of travelers and merchants disappear, depriving the people of their livelihood and driving them into poverty. To solve the mystery, the queen looks into her mirror and sees the culprit: the undead princess killing a pedophilic monk before feasting on his blood. To save the kingdom from her monstrous stepdaughter, the queen uses magic and her own blood to create three enchanted apples which she brings to the princess, who has been living in a cave with dwarfs.
The queen flees but knows that the princess has eaten one of the apples when the girl's heart finally stops beating. Come the next spring fair, the people are able to trade in business again. Although the queen is displeased to see the dwarfs buying pieces of glass, she does not respond due to her stepdaughter's heart being silent, thus ensuring the safety of the kingdom.
Two years after poisoning her stepdaughter, the queen is visited by a prince and she plans to marry him and unite their kingdoms. However, the queen is unable to sexually satisfy the prince, who is clearly a necrophiliac, and he leaves. On his way home, he encounters the princess's corpse encased in glass and being guarded by the dwarfs. Indulging his necrophilia, the prince rapes the princess and unwittingly dislodges the piece of apple stuck in her throat, resurrecting her.
Back in her chambers, the queen awakes to her scarred right thumb aching and to blood dripping from her stepdaughter's heart which has begun to beat again. The prince and the princess barge into the queen's chambers and have her arrested on the charge of witchcraft. The princess then reinserts her heart into her chest, and she and the prince announce their plans to marry and unite the kingdoms.
The prince and the princess have the queen imprisoned throughout the autumn, turning the people against her by vilifying her with lies that would morph into the famous fairy tale of Snow White.
Come midwinter, the prince and the princess have their wedding, the queen is incinerated in a kiln, and the story is revealed to be her final thoughts as she begins to burn to death.
Publication
Snow, Glass, Apples was written in 1994, and was first published by Dreamhaven Press as benefit book for the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund.[2] It was included in Gaiman's short story collection Smoke and Mirrors (1998).
The story was adapted by the author into an audio drama, which was produced by Seeing Ear Theatre in 2001, starring Bebe Neuwirth. This was the second of two collaborations between Gaiman and Seeing Ear Theatre, following Murder Mysteries, and the two adaptations have been released together on CD under the title Two Plays for Voices. In 2012 it was adapted into a play by the Edinburgh University Theatre Company.[3]
In 2019 it was adapted by Colleen Doran into a graphic novel published by Dark Horse Comics.[4] The adaptation won the 2020 Eisner Award for Best Adaptation from Another Medium.[5][6] The Horror Writers Association also presented the "Snow, Glass, Apples" graphic novel with the Bram Stoker Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel Award
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