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Good find Unsung, that looks like an awesome blog!

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"He dashed into the hall and threw open her door,
then froze in astonishment. The grubby little room and
its furnishings were gone. Instead he found himself
looking into a vast golden eye, with a giant black pupil
like a bottomless hole that could swallow the entire world.
Suspended before it, like a speck of dust drifting past the
sun, was Jerika...

...The eye receded rapidly, and Benedict found
himself looking out at a world like a coin, hanging
in darkness among silver stars: its mountains,
rivers, oceans, and shining ley lines encircled by a
great serpent with its tail caught between its own
jaws. The waters of the world spilled endlessly
down into the void. All around it the voices of
living stars rang like bells of silver, singing of the
beginning and end of all things."

Midgard Setting Preview: http://www.koboldquarterly.com/k/front-page13998.php#.UIGHD4VSkXk

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“Frodo indeed ‘failed’ as a hero, as conceived by simple minds: he did not endure to the end; he gave in, ratted. I do not say ‘simple minds’ with contempt: they often see with clarity the simple truth and the absolute ideal to which effort must be directed, even if it is unattainable. Their weakness, however, is twofold. They do not perceive the complexity of any given situation in Time, in which an absolute ideal is enmeshed. They tend to forget that strange element in the World that we call Pity or Mercy…”

“I do not think that Frodo’s was a moral failure. At the last moment the pressure of the Ring would reach its maximum – impossible, I should have said, for any one to resist, certainly after long possession, months of increasing torment, and when starved and exhausted. Frodo had done what he could and spent himself completely (as an instrument of Providence) and had produced a situation in which the object of his quest could be achieved. His humility (with which he began) and his sufferings were justly rewarded by the highest honour; and his exercise of patience and mercy towards Gollum gained him Mercy: his failure was redressed.”

“Frodo undertook his quest out of love – to save the world he knew from disaster at his own expense, if he could; and also in complete humility, acknowledging that he was wholly inadequate to the task. His real contract was only to do what he could, to try to find a way, and to go as far on the road as his strength of mind and body allowed. He did that.”

“That appears to have been the judgement of Gandalf and Aragorn and of all who learned the full story of his journey. Certainly nothing would be concealed by Frodo! But what Frodo himself felt about the events is quite another matter. He appears at first to have had no sense of guilt… But then he thought he had given his life in sacrifice: he expected to die very soon. But he did not, and one can observe the disquiet growing in him… Slowly he fades ‘out of the picture’, saying and doing less and less. …when his dark times came upon him… it was not only nightmare memories of past horrors that afflicted him, but also un-reasoning self-reproach: he saw himself all that he had done as a broken failure.”
- Letters of JRR Tolkien, no. 246

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Anatomically Correct Glass Sculptures:

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“Little girl,” he said, “I would have killed you seven times over, each death a death more vile. Humanity is my plaything no longer, only a toy for those that are mine under the earth. But you, you are her child. You are hers. You are Dunizel. Not mine. Never mine. Though I made you to be my curse upon the world. Though I made you to be myself. You are Dunizel, that I loved, Dunizel who was the moon and sun together. Your mother’s daughter. I could no more hurt you than I would tear the stars from the sky.”

When she stood by him, Azhrarn kneeled before her on the ground. He bowed his head, and she set her hands upon it, upon that midnight ocean of hair, that case of ivory bone beneath that held the firmament of his brain.

“Dear Father,” said the crone, “do not weep.”

He said,”That is the bane on me. I cannot.”

-Tanith Lee, Delirium's Mistress

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"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life."
-Winston Churchill

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Pictures for outsider creatures

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Great pics!

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'Crowds are attractive because of their egalitarian promise. The mob is a form of utopia. Justice arrives now, to right what has for too long been wrong with the world. As Elias Canetti wrote in his masterful psychological study, Crowds and Power, "All who belong to the crowd get rid of their differences and feel equal." In this sudden equality is part of the appeal of a lynching. But, it is a spurious appeal. As Canetti says of the equality that mobs feel, "it is based on an illusion; the people who suddenly feel equal have not really become equal; nor will they feel equal forever.'
-Teju Cole

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Bruce Mahalski’s Animal Bone Guns (Bones were found!):

http://hifructose.com/2012/10/23/bruce-mahalskis-animal-bone-guns/

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Boy_Wonder's photostream:

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frodo mikkelsen:

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Archie The RedCat:

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The corpse lurched. Slowly, arms still stiff at its sides, the dead man began to sit up. Its head started turning inch by inch, like a clockwork automaton, toward Josh Hutchins, its raw eye sockets seeking the light. The burned face rippled, the mouth straining to open—and Josh thought that if those dead lips parted he would lose whatever marbles he had left right then and there.

With a hiss and rattle of air, the mouth opened. And from it came a voice like the rush of wind through dried-up reeds. It was at first an unintelligible sound, thin and distant, but it was getting stronger, and it said:

“Pro ... tect ...” The eye sockets faced the beam of light as if there were still eyeballs in them. “Protect,” the awful voice repeated. The mouth with its gray lips seemed to be straining to form words. Josh shrank backward, and the corpse racheted out, “Protect ... the ... child.”

There was a quiet whoosh of air. The corpse’s eye sockets caught fire. Josh was mesmerized, and he heard Swan give a soft, stunned “Oh.” The corpse’s head burst into a fireball, and the fire spread and enveloped the entire body in a writhing, reddish-blue cocoon. An intense wave of heat licked at Josh’s face, and he put up his hand to shield his eyes; when he lowered it again, he saw the corpse dissolving at the center of its fiery shroud. The body remained sitting upright, motionless now, every inch of it ablaze.

McCammon, Robert R. (2011-10-18). Swan Song (pp. 203-204). Open Road Media. Kindle Edition.

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styles of armor and clothing inspired by Sigil, spikes and blades

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Great pics! (but the second one wouldn't load for me)

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Illuminated woman am I, says
led by a yellow dog across rivers and deserts
on a dry road walking, says in the day of nine dogs,
says going down to the place of weeping

This thing is big.

Woman of first star, am I woman of the star of day mysterious woman says

And Tlazolteotl says,
'I have made you strong. and wise. and incorruptible.'
'I have shown you the worst there is, and made you free.'

You who are mystery and redemption.
You who teach witchcraft and forgive all who fall.

I will crawl through [offal].
I will take all the filth of the world
And turn it into the purest gold.

I will rise from darkness,
shining like the morning star.

Illuminated woman am I, says."
--The Invisibles

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“Wishes of one's old life wither and shrivel like old leaves if they are not replaced with new wishes when the world changes. And the world always changes. Wishes get slimy, and their colors fade, and soon they are just mud, like all the rest of the mud, and not wishes at all, but regrets. The trouble is, not everyone can tell when they ought to launder their wishes. Even when one finds oneself in Fairyland and not at home at all, it is not always so easy to remember to catch the world in it's changing and change with it.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

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edit: just typed rest of the whole poem below

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"Bastard's Song" by Cynthia Huntington

Your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite. 4 On the day you were born your cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water to make you clean, nor were you rubbed with salt or wrapped in cloths. 5 No one looked on you with pity or had compassion enough to do any of these things for you. Rather, you were thrown out into the open field, for on the day you were born you were despised. 6 " 'Then I passed by and saw you kicking about in your blood, and as you lay there in your blood I said to you, "Live!"

-Ezekiel 13, 3-6

My mother was a Hittite and my father an Amorite.
My foster uncle was an albatross
and his brother-in-law ran a gambling joint in Altoona.
My cousins were stockbrokers in Scottsdale before the crash.
I was sold to strangers for a bag of wheat
and wandered the roads and the mountain passes
like a dark wind, touching and picking up
whatever came into my hands. I will stay alone many days
until I meet up once more with the men I knew in my youth:
men from Syracuse, men from Toledo,
men from Odessa and Scranton and New Alexandria,
and all those men from Assyria. They will assail me
and pinch my nipples, and pull up my skirt,
and make me pure with suffering.

My mother was a prophet and a priestess of suffering.
She walked the hospital corridors in her white robe
wringing the bones of her hands. My half-sister was a mudfish,
whispering warnings in the reeds of the marsh.
My mother was a whore, a midget, a human sacrifice,
and a candle guttering at the top of a stair. My father
came from another world that called him back,
and swallowed him like Saturn, like time,
like a world without oxygen, or a slow disease.
He was imprisoned in a tree by a sorceress
one hundred years; he rode with an army on black horses
that pounded the earth and raised dust in the mouths of settlers,
and when he died his papers were taken away and burned.
He then was drowned at sea.

My grandmother lived to ninety-seven years
through cunning and fornication,
but never came to visit or to claim me.
I was found beneath a tree by a herd of wildebeests
who fed me on salt water and tears of the dead.
I endured innumerable blows inflicted by hypocrites.
I lay cast out on the ground. No one
pitied me or looked on me with kindness.
A woman bore me and consented to have me killed.
I believe I have a human soul.
My name is Sorrow. I fell into the earth like a seed
and grew like the grass of the fields
and I am alive today by no one's grace or will.

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Rot, a stop motion by Erica Luke:

http://origin.juxtapoz.com/Current/stop-motion-rot-by-erica-luke

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Nathan Spoor:

http://www.nathanspoor.com/NS_allworks.html

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Leontine Greenberg

http://leontinegreenberg.tumblr.com/

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I really like that last one. And I meant to say something about Bastard's Song, but I'll just settle for saying I like it.

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Bastard's Song was a good rec from a friend -> I went back and corrected my typos, sorry 'bout that!

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More NC Winters:

http://ncwinters.com/

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Outlands village about to be slaughtered by Blood War spilling over ->

Taylor Swift ft. The Civil Wars - Safe & Sound (The Hunger Games):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzhAS_GnJIc

"Don't you dare look out your window, darling,
Everything's on fire
The war outside our door keeps raging on
Hold on to this lullaby
Even when the music's gone
Gone

Just close your eyes
The sun is going down
You'll be alright
No one can hurt you now
Come morning light
You and I'll be safe and sound"

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NC Winters Flourish/Fauna:

http://411posters.com/2012/10/flourishfauna-series-by-n-c-winters/

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"The good that men do is oft interred with their bones. But the evil that men do...lives on." :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aQhRE24jjQ

Dreams of Mirrors:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyoZkUzaUV4

"Have you ever felt the future is the past, but you don't know how...?
A reflected dream of a captured time, is it really now, is it really happening?

Don't know why I feel this way, have I dreamt this time, this place?
Something vivid comes again into my mind
And I think I've seen your face, seen this room, been in this place
Something vivid comes again into my mind....."

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"To reach the throne requires that a man journey. Even a path paved with good intentions can lead to hell, and my intentions were never good.

The Hundred converge for Congression to politic upon the corpse of Empire, and while they talk the Dead King makes his move, and I make mine. The world is cracked, time has run through, leaving us clutching at the end days, the future so bright that those who see it are the first to burn. These are the days that have waited for us all our lives. These are my days. I will stand before the Hundred and they will listen. I will take the throne whoever seeks to thwart me, living or dead, and if I must be the last emperor then I will make of it such an ending.

This is where the wise man turns away. This is where the holy kneel and call on God. These are the last miles, my brothers. Don't look to me to save you. Don't think I will not spend you. Run if you have the wit. Pray if you have the soul. Stand your ground if courage is yours. But don't follow me.

Follow me, and I will break your heart."
-Emperor of Thorns:

http://princeofthorns.com/

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Another Celestial Anthem => Kansas - "Carry On Wayward Son" =>

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CB17uWuBrL0

"Once I rose above the noise and confusion
Just to get a glimpse beyond this illusion
I was soaring ever higher, but I flew too high
Though my eyes could see I still was a blind man
Though my mind could think I still was a mad man
I hear the voices when I'm dreaming,
I can hear them say

Carry on my wayward son,
There'll be peace when you are done
Lay your weary head to rest
Don't you cry no more..."

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Incredibly Beautiful Fractal Flowers:

http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/silvia-cordedda-fractal-flowers

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"There's a passage I got memorized. Ezekiel 25:17.

"The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of the darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy My brothers. And you will know I am the Lord when I lay My vengeance upon you."

Now... I been sayin' that [stuff] for years. And if you ever heard it, that meant your ass. You'd be dead right now. I never gave much thought to what it meant. I just thought it was a cold-blooded thing to say to a [person] before I popped a cap in his ass.

But I saw some [stuff] this mornin' made me think twice. See, now I'm thinking: maybe it means you're the evil man. And I'm the righteous man. And Mr. 9mm here... he's the shepherd protecting my righteous ass in the valley of darkness. Or it could mean you're the righteous man and I'm the shepherd and it's the world that's evil and selfish. And I'd like that. But that [stuff] ain't the truth. The truth is you're the weak. And I'm the tyranny of evil men.

But I'm tryin', Ringo. I'm tryin' real hard to be the shepherd."
- Jules Winfield, "Pulp Fiction"

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I'd be kind of curious to know what ended up happening to Jules after Pulp Fiction, or what happened to the Vega brothers before Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs. Pretty unlikely now, given the age of the actors, but Tarantino has talked about writing novels in interviews.

The Tea Party- ‘Moroccan roll’, as it was dubbed at the time:
http://grooveshark.com/#!/playlist/The+Tea+Party/79502882

Andrew Bird’s Bowl of Fire- Music for Blood War war brides and little villages on the edge of the Hadean front:
http://grooveshark.com/album/Oh+The+Grandeur/1496853
Really, pretty much anything by Andrew Bird is good:
http://grooveshark.com/album/Andrew+Bird+and+amp+The+Mysterious+Producti...

Gentle Giant- ‘70s progressive with baroque influences:
http://grooveshark.com/playlist/Gentle+Giant/79503226

Poetic titles, atmospheric instrumentals, lengthy runtimes:
http://grooveshark.com/#!/playlist/Earth/79504183
(Most of the band’s albums evoke the infinite desolation of the Lower Planes, but the later albums’ (Hex: Or, Printing in the Infernal Method, and The Bees Made Honey in the Lion’s Skull) also bring in a stronger filmic Western quality. The high desert and the wide frontier of Westerns have always put me in mind of the Outlands, and their infinite potential.)

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Great finds guys. I'm enjoying the music!

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I have dreamed such dreams.
I was a man dreaming I was a god.
I was a god dreaming I was a man.
I have known passion.
I have known loss.
I have known the stars.
I have known failure.
I have known pain.
I have known war. And the end of all things.
And then I/And then I/And then We - went to sleep.
And went away.
And were no more.

And then...
-Thor, J. Straczynski

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A couple of oddly inspiring io9 articles:

10 Bizarre Death Rituals from Around the World

15 Obscure Historical Monsters Who Would Improve Halloween Immensely

And Monday's season premiere of Adventure Time was parallel multiverse awesomeness - the "it's for kids, but..." disclaimers are rapidly falling away from my enormous affection for this show.

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"Am I a butterfly dreaming I'm a man? Or a bowling ball dreaming I'm a plate of sashimi? Never assume what you see and feel is real!" --Chrono Trigger, with apologies to Zhuangzi

I've always liked the idea of sky burials. This is the first I've heard of the suspended coffins, though. I really wish the links had more to tell about their purpose. Tch. Ah well.

What not to do on the Beastlands:
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Good stuff Atomicb! I'll definitely have to explore the funeral rituals more.

eta: Unsung, had this window open for awhile and missed you posting. I like the comic. Eye-wink

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Poets of the Fall, Carnival of Rust:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKk1u5RMTn4

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D.H. Lawrence: Maximus

God is older than the sun and moon
and the eye cannot behold him
nor voice describe him.

But a naked man, a stranger, leaned on the gate
with his cloak over his arm, waiting to be asked in.
So I called him: Come in, if you will!
He came in slowly, and sat down by the hearth.
I said to him: And what is your name?
He looked at me without answer, but such a loveliness
entered me, I smiled to myself, saying: He is God!
So he said: Hermes!

God is older than the sun and moon
and the eye cannot behold him
nor the voice describe him:
and still, this is the God Hermes, sitting by my hearth.

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Breaking news! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BuZamufWAs

Oddworld http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2010/354/d/2/oddworld_dual_screen_by_d...
More Oddworld http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8o6F6fBlBtk&feature=relmfu

Fleet Foxes - The Shrine/An Argument http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yAxIdkF2Qo

Unkle- Eye For An Eye http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqZtWzPNEJw&feature=BFa

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I love Oddworld. I like the Fleet Foxes vid, seen that one before! Smiling

The Unkle one is definitely a plane somewhere. Makes think of the planes beyond the Great Wheel, but not the cliched Far Realms.

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He sleeps where he lies, on the cellar floor, walked across by spiders. He goes to his dream desert. He walks his sand. He hears the howling of lost soldiers. The foundation stretches up for countless thousands of yards, for miles. It has become a tower in the charred sky. It is all the same material, the dead, only their eyes and mouths moving. Little clouds of sand sputter as they speak. He stands in the shadow of the tower he was made to build, its walls of shredded khaki, flesh and ochre skin, tufted with black and dark red hair. From the sand around it oozes the same dark liquid he saw in his own yard. Blood or oil. The tower is like a minaret in hell, some inverted Babel that reaches the sky and speaks only one language. All its voices still saying the same, the words he has heard for years.

The man wakes. He listens. For a long time he is motionless. Everything waits.

Looking for Jake, By China Mieville (Kindle Locations 369-375).

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Mechanical Hybrids and Organic Angels: The Art of Richard A. Kirk:

http://weirdfictionreview.com/2012/11/mechanical-hybrids-and-organic-ang...

(artist site -> http://www.richardakirk.com/)

"There is, within the aesthetics of the grotesque, an unsettling interconnectivity between the organic and mechanical, between the hybrid and the cohesive whole. We don’t mind when we can give such hybrids a name (such as the Borg) and relegate them to the realm of science fiction or fantasy. But then there is the art that tends to defy all known scenarios, refuses to be so easily placed in a narrative...."

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"In the midst of winter, I finally learned there was within me an invincible summer"
-Albert Camus

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The Murder of Dionysos
By Florence Major

Le sacre du printemps
Nijinsky, Paris, May 29, 1913

I have been offered a cup of alien wine,
ruby red, drawn from a blooded mind.
Nijinsky died looking at the sun
dreaming of trees falling
one, by one.

Paris, city of wizards waving wands of impatience,
quick men of words with wide capes
aflourish, spinning in measured rehearsals
where fawns die, looking at the sun.

The wine spills burning, firebirds
fly from my cup. The music of yesterday
still turning en pointe, his
tattooed mind still singing, son
of the Steppes, little boys from lands
of ice dance fastest, and
still I hear him singing.

My ears open to the wind;
tears of snow burn the cheeks of the dead
and everywhere,
the scent of oranges.

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“For years, it was said that nobody had ever reached the centre of the Vorrh. Or, if they had, then they had never returned. Business expanded and flourished on its most southern outskirts, but nothing was known of its interior, except myth and fear. It was the mother of forests; ancient beyond language, older than every known species and, some said, propagator of them all, locked in its own system of evolution and climate."


“Dizzying abnormalities of compass and impossibilities of landing made it a pilot’s and navigator’s nightmare. All its pathways turned into overgrowth, jungle and ambush. The tribes that were rumoured to live there were barely human — some said the anthropogphagi still roamed. Creatures beyond hope. Heads growing below their shoulders. Horrors.”

“He had to find [a] way of stopping the wretched Englishman from being butchered in the Vorrh as he tried to pass through it for a second time. Nobody had ever accomplished such a thing; the great forest protected itself by draining and erasing the souls of all men; all except this one, apparently, who walked through it with impunity, even appearing to gain benefit from it. Sidrus did not know how or why this unique possibility had manifested itself, although he guessed that the witch child of the True People had worked some blasphemous magic with her protégé. What he did know was that if the Englishman passed through the forest again, he alone would have the opportunity to understand its balance, its future and maybe even its past. Not since Adam had such a single being altered the purpose and the meaning of the Vorrh, and now he was being hunted by a barbaric mercenary.”

-From Tor's review of The Vorrh:

http://www.tor.com/blogs/2012/11/wandering-the-weird-the-vorrh-by-b-catling

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That trickster is a boundary-crosser is the standard line, but in the course of writing this book I realized that it needs to be modified in one important way, for there are also cases in which trickster creates a boundary, or brings to the surface a distinction previously hidden from sight. In several mythologies, for example, the gods lived on earth until something trickster did caused them to rise into heaven. Trickster is thus the author of the great distance between heaven and earth; when he becomes the messenger of the gods it’s as if he has been enlisted to solve a problem he himself created. In a case like that, boundary creation and boundary crossing are related to one another, and the best way to describe trickster is to say simply that the boundary is where he will be found— sometimes drawing the line, sometimes crossing it, sometimes erasing or moving it, but always there, the god of the threshold in all its forms.

Hyde, Lewis. Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art (Kindle Locations 232-239). Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Kindle Edition.

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Yor-Art:

http://yor-art.deviantart.com/#

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Lucas Ruggieri:

http://lucasruggieriillustration.com/

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Source: http://yog-blogsoth.blogspot.nl/2012/10/news.html
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