Moonlit Hunt

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Arslan for the character bingo?

Can you tell I adore him?

“The First Bell rings for Chaos, the Second for Order.

The Third Bell rings for Truth, the Fourth rings for the Oath.

The sound of the bells shall reverberate, break the heavens like dawn over the mountains.

One day shall the promise be fulfilled, and only then true tomorrow will arrive.”

Not entirely satisfied with this, just throwing things at the wall lest I forget later. I haven't even decided on the number of bells, and there probably should be a couple lines in-between, telling the tale of how the fourth bell was never finished or smth to symbolize the broken oath. But ah well, in the meantime have this.

Narsus head is so winding that he himself does not know whats going on.

He is going with the flow 😂

Ok not really but this is the only option I can thing of this crazy mind

Say what now?!

All this time I thought it was on the northeast not northwest??? Y'know, near his former domain????? What.

Excuse me ex-fucking-cuse me what do you mean it's on the northwest?! West of Atropatene?????

I'm sure this will actually end up making sense logically in the end but right now I'm losing my mind and I need to confirm it myself. It's fine, absolutely fine, it's just me misremembering shit, but my god what.

So hm, according to my past calculations Ecbatana to the east border is 200farsangs or thereabouts, the whole length between the east and west borders is around 347.8farsangs, ish. Which would mean the distance between Ecbatana and the west border should be around 148farsangs.

I'm sure Narsus' mountain villa doesn't quite go as far as the border, so some distance will have to be reduced, and Atropatene is not Ecbatana so, again, reduced.

I don't have my ruler w me so eh, let's just roll with estimations. I'm sure this can't go horribly wrong.

It can't be that far so I can believe they got there in a day of riding bc one can apparently cover 20-30miles (~32-48km, aka ~6.4-9.6farsangs) on horseback in a day. Probably.

It was the 16th of month 10 that the first battle of Atropatene took place. It was around... the same time, ish, two months later that Arslan and co. finally arrived at Peshawar, according to the fanmade timeline.

The distance between Narsus' villa and Peshawar could be around ~90-100farsangs perhaps? Just an estimation. Which means it'd take around 10-15 days, in ideal conditions (which they were not in), on perfectly smooth, flat terrain (absolutely not), with no interruptions forcing them to go in circles (not), soooo yeah. No wonder it took like two fucking months. Poor Team Arslan.

Don't mind me, don't mind me, just freaked out for a hot second after I realized I must've misremembered things, and ended up dumping my thoughts here since I didn't have a notebook within an arm's reach, whoops. Probably should've gone and grabbed a notebook but lololol eh you guys get to see me running around like a headless chicken so here you go, enjoy my chaos, I guess.

At least my mind can be put to ease with this, else I would've been wondering all the time. I thought before that they went all the way from Atropatene to around Daylam in a single day which didn't make a whole lot of sense considering the distance, haha.

What was I doing again? Oh, yes, the reread.

Man. This is horrific. Look at the man on the bottom right, he must've been trying to climb back up the pit and... yeah. Fuck. This hits harder after 121.

I wonder if being given a position at court or smth could be turned down or it would be seen as a great offense— Narsus clearly didn't want to be there (neither did Lushan, if I remember correctly) but he still stayed until he couldn't take it anymore, same with Lushan.

That aside though, I dig their clothes here.

Food ref food ref food ref food ref

I wonder what Narsus is thinking/feeling in these scenes. What assumptions did he have about Arslan, and which ones are being overturned? He was still at court when Arslan entered the palace, right? At least in manga canon. What did he know about Arslan? I don't think they ever came face-to-face, what did he think of the young prince back then?

(from a much later chapter) This panel too. Why does he Look Like That. Why so sad? What's going on???

Answers, Arakawa. I need answers. NARSUS TELL ME WHAT'S GOING ON IN THAT HEAD OF YOURS.

This is freaking awesome!!!!!

Drawing other characters: damn I always use the same angle Drawing ✨Hinata✨:

That sounds so interesting. I am definitely enjoy the little sneek and peak of your art. Can’t wait to see the full result and the story behind this Oc. 🌸

FINALLY WORKING ON SOME ART AGAIN!!! This is something I wanted to do for a while now and I finally got the time to work on this.

This is a sneak peak at my Arslan Senki OC, which I discussed with @tired-reader-writer under this post of theirs. (BTW I still love Farangis' design here to death)

I plan on properly introducing her with the finished work and maybe show her story in a fancomic-style AU or something like this. You are not ready for what's to come😏 But nether am I. I already see my brain melting (why do I always create so much fanon stuff to my OC's🫠)

Also, I maybe posting some other OC's of mine here, but for now, it will only be her.

I hope you enjoy her journey with me together and I hope you enjoy my art ❤️