The Death Of Orpheus (c.1870) - Henri Leopold Lvy

The Death of Orpheus (c.1870) - Henri Leopold Lévy

Clearly, it's not easy to hide your relationship in Vesuvia. Especially when it looks questionable. Problematic. But only for the people around, of course. And none of these two cared about it. Valdemar despised the opinion of the crowd (and people in general) — and this is a huge understatement. And Doctor №069… Oh, he was too passionate and devoted to think about it. He couldn't hide his feelings.

Surely, one would notice, that Julian Devorak spends too much time in the Dungeons. That he blushes every time someone mentiones his mentor's name. That Valdemar walked with this young man down the streets of Vesuvia side by side — and usually they showed no love, interest or even mercy for the humankind.

- Are they lovers?

- No, they're worse.

/© Apostle Jay /

Was randomly looking for background references when i started noticing how similiar some places looked to some of the arcana locations and i think it's amazing 😭

First picture to the left: Methane Bubbles under ice in Alberta, Canada.

First Picture to the right: Frozen lake, The Arcana.

Second picture to the left: Poveglia Island, Venice, also called "Lazzaretto".

Second picture to the right: The Lazaret, The Arcana.

And nothing to say, I just love spotting these kinds of locations artists took as references. Also Il Lazzaretto was really used for the plague back then.

Julian likes to call Valdemar "my personal 11th plague", that's all. Period.

/according to canonical information about Jewish references to Devorak family and my headcanon about kinda Egyptian origins of Valdemar*. Yes, this is Biblical allusion, if you want to know./

P. S. I would like to add: Valdemar usually responds "Surely, doctor №069, Egypt fights back", but there's no "Egypt" as it is in the Arcana world. But if there is a Temple district in Vesuvia and if there are many confessions similar to existing IRL, events in "the Book" definitely can have similar lines.

P. P. S. Valdemar is well familiar with "the Book" contents. Indeed.

*P. P. P. S. Here are some considerations in this regard, with more details.

'Salome'. Georges Desvallières. 1905.

Don't be shy. Drop the whole Valdemar x Julian playlist

With pleasure, if you're curious, but let me compile it first.

I prefer to group tracks by categories and explain why I HC this way. Maybe, I'll keep going to drop it slowly. :D

/Lunatic Sun/

P. S. Maybe, my co-author can drop the whole playlist… I need to ask him.