Scug Knight Designs From The Other Day

scug knight designs from the other day

actually i saw this on dash and i might as well ask!!

List 5 things that make you happy, and (if you feel like) put this in the askbox for the last 10 people who reblogged something from you! Get to know your mutuals and followers.

Only if it sounds fun to you! :D

Oh shit thanks for the ask! I could use some positive thinking.

Sunlight. Or just clear sky in general so that I can see it change during the day. My room doesn't catch sunlight anymore, I really do miss the times when I woke up to sunlight. Since the weather isn't too hot yet it feels pleasant to sun myself outside.

Anything my mom cooks. When I was little I thought I was biased and that I would grow out of it sooner or later, but well, it hasn't happened yet!

Music. I mean, everyone likes music, but recently I went back to my old favs playlist and was like "it really is this easy to make myself feel better." I do tend to revolve around music I already know but discovering new ones can be exciting. A while back I discovered this through a silly animation video and I couldn't stop looping it over and over. It's a precious feeling when you randomly find something that really clicks with you.

I know I just talked about music but sometimes not-music can be real soothing to me. More specifically I really like listening to washing machine sounds. It's relaxing but also loud enough that I don't feel lonely. White noises (the good ones, at least) are my secret beloved.

Doing tasks/things that will never reward me, because they will never stress me. Like making art or writing down random thoughts or making useless charts. I could do those all day lol.

Because the Wolffort clan and the Darkwood/Greenwood (Woodlands) are my chosen spots of interest, carryover notes so that I can refer back to it later if needed:

The Hawk and the Wolf: legend goes that the Wolffort ancestor was lead to their approximate current residence under the guidance of a hawk. The hawk then becomes the united clans banner as seen for House Wolffort for pride and fearlessness.

A possible design angle from a team to approach not naming the current dominant family name (Wolffort) after the hawk (like a name like "Falkes") was to be signifiers of both Draefendi's companions: the hawk and the wolf, as according to the Octopath TTRPG.

The hawk of legend would be the literal placeholder to the companion while the other is honored in namesake and so meant to be seen as the vehicle for the Huntress. This also amplifies itself with Serenoa as a unit, ex. Hawk Dive, battle dialogue "when a wolf is cornered," therein taking both companions. Then, noting that Draefendi's ring is the plume (CotC), the hawk likely has more significance in regards to the goddess and would then be more readily recognizable imagery in local legend.

If Wolffort's ancestor was an emigrant of the Darkwood/Greenwood, the symbolism of Draefendi and the old Wolffort legend seem less of a fanatical myth and more of an actuality that happened reasonably where Wolffort's ancestor was able to understand the desires of that one hawk, provided the latent ability of those clans to possibly borne a child able to connect/commune with beasts a little more readily. Of course, visually both the Wolffort demesne and Woodlands share a lot of the same inspiration, but that's understandable on a surface level for far simpler design reasons.

This ancestor then sees the two feuding tribes, Falkes and Telliore, as ancedote to the Darkwood/Greenwood peoples and so unites them as an opposition to Orsterran history.

In a completely different direction from left field, the parallels and crossovers between these people and/or similarities of Orsterra and Norzelia is that Triangle Strategy's stories might be a collection of Orsterran fables or cautionary tales (or a story a novelist made up for fun. Triangle Strategy could just be someone's choose your own adventure story, which would be funny). This really has no grounds other than the usage of "ser" and maybe possibly the cardinal directions somewhat being used.

As a fable anecdote however, it would make the tie in much cooler and more powerful as a story of "old versus new" or "light versus dark" and such in the sense that weather or not the old gods of Norzelia are actually the Osterran pantheon is individual headcanon, but then Serenoa as protagonist, as a Wolffort tied to the "old gods" through iconography and symbolism and the Scales themselves, facing off against not only something that was created by human hand in hatred and pride, the Goddess of Salt (the "new," the sacrilege of it) but also the powers of what is more tied to the fallen god, Galdera, than its namesake, Aelfric, and an Osterran would likely recognize those connections for hopefully easier digestion about the lesser clean cut parts in both Osterra and "Triangle Strategy."

Part of the tragedy of Pyre being such an overlooked game is that absolute banger tracks like Knights of the Sea, Dread Design, and Rage of Demons are totally unknown to most people

Links if ur not familiar and curious (or just wanna listen again) :

Knights of the Sea

Dread Design

Rage of Demons

The whole soundtrack (for Pyre and every other Supergiant game) is completely free-to-listen and iirc also ad-free on the studio's YT channel too!

there she is......