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i realy love the way you have poses set up fantastic
also great lighting
thank you and good luck
I replied to the message on the one were you were giving a little insight on Kartika. I sent you his personality on the same message since you wanted to know it so it would help you use his character.
If you did not get it I can resend it to you, anyways if you did get it I hope it helps you.
Thanks for your comment my friend.
Edit; It is always a pleasure to view and read your posts, Sir. Today I took the time to read in full the dialog between you and Wolf, Not because it was long or by whom, last night something caught my eye in that text that made me need to come back. Both your and Wolf's view is far more educated than mine and many bright and dark points to the study of how we relate to monsters and why people take the paths they take, without choice, only to find it was bad path.
To take the path of the Illusion mage is my favorite style and possibly the hardest that I have ever played and it was wolf's statement about taking the high road that caught my eye.
IMHO, This literary banter between the two of you is very much "taking the high road" to the people of the Nexus that need it the most, when they need it the most. Kudos to both of you.
The road we take is the result of a journey often very bumpy, but it is also the result of our choices, we build our destiny. In the case of the story the character falls into the temptation to give up their hope and aspiration, to tip over and become the destroyer and the opposite of what he dreamed. On one side is right Wolf that there are different kinds of heroism, and the hero is the one who defeats his dark shadow, not necessarily the one who defeats dragons . But the hero is the one who realizes his potential and becomes himself, no one who does what the society and its values command.
Thank you very much for the compliments and your appreciation.
One thought I did have is that the allure of the vampire, or say a werewolf, and often evil in general, is the wish fulfillment to be *somebody* which you very aptly showed in your writing. The nobody, the peasant, the factory worker going numb from repetitive work, all the people in life in general who come and go without any notice except for their own small circle ... for them the allure of the chance at becoming powerful in a quick way - a way that is more open to them - is that of the vampire. Perhaps that is some of its appeal. To make a somebody out of a nobody.
One might say better to take the high road, the good road, and earn ones place in the world. Sadly that is rhetoric that seldom actually exists. Words that those in power like to say to make themselves feel better for treating their peons like crap. There are those who simply do not have such an opportunity. Only a few manage to find away outside of their box, to move beyond it, and find their own personal greatness that doesn't rely on the confirmation of others to satisfy their need for recognition.
We all want to be someone, our civilization is the image and the fame and success of the highest value. That's oldest form makes memory and song of the bards how to celebrate the immortality that would typically gained through a heroic life and great value. Hjoromir in my interpretation resembles, to boys who in europe, second or third generation immigrants, who first try with music, singing or doing Dj, integrate and follow the illusions that the system provides them. But when they realize that from that, they will not find recognition and money, they turn to the reaction against the system that apparently challenged before maybe, but in fact worshiped. Then leave and join a terrorist group Islamic, to fight against the West, because they understood that they were excluded.
Evil lurks in this act by reaction, because it is not a real choice. Hjoromir, becomes a vampire because once he aware that his hopes of a heroic life are illusions, for reaction is happy that is offered the chance to become a vampire. Its strengths are only labor pains, He does not choose but he leaves groped by bad reaction. If you can not become a hero then it will be the monster, the bad. If women do not love him, then take him by force and will drink their blood. Once you realize that doing good, the gods paternalistic, with no reward merit, then their law no longer applies, and everything becomes possible. Even Emmanuel Kant asserted that it is necessary that God grants an afterlife reward for a virtuous life. But Hjoromir, discovers that the universe of the elder scroll, pre-Christian, the poor and the humble are worth nothing for the Gods. The heroes are only stored in their havens, but when hjoromir realizes that he will not become what he dreams, then the gods cease to be such. If they do not guarantee the premium for a life of virtue and righteous, then the gods are no longer such. Before Hjorimir kills his father, who was the "principle of reality", then kills the gods whose father was a direct manifestation. The good son, choose not to be such.
Vampires, they look very devilish and are much more complex than werewolves. The werewolf is a happiness forbidden in the liberation of the instincts that society, the need to suppress. But the vampire rebels against God, like Lucifer, because he feels the victim of an injustice. Why hjoromir should be good farmer, settle for a miserable life of exploited and be loyal to social rules, even if the afterlife will find recognition for having bent his head to the rules? The world of elder scroll has reincarnation but not a system like the Hindu Karma, which guarantees that a soul, that expiate his sins, can actually ascend socially through a new birth. Here there is no guarantee that Hjoromir in a new life can become what he hopes. So why keep to the rules? Might as well rebel. If God does not exist or does not administer justice, then everything is permitted. This freedom, this ability to break the rules, however, is the real fact that makes the consciousness fully human. the point is that consciousness to evolve demands purity and autonomy. You do not do good because in return is expected to receive a fee, but it does good for good. So perhaps it for evil. Good and evil are played out the fate of the subject, each indicating a possible way to absolute freedom and divinization. Evil, and convinces the man tries to become "like" God, turning every thing and person to means to an end. Good places the chance to make of all the means, the end itself. Kant said this but fell into the error of thinking that to do this you need a reward. Instead the good for the good requires the lack of reward, as those who reach this stage, sees every part of the universe as an end and not as a mere means. Love is the meaning of everything. An unconditional love that once realized, does not make us "like" God. Because only a God can love unconditionally. The dreamer and the dream, are reflected as one inside the other, united by a love that does not admit exceptions. This is Amaranth, but by its nature is not that a stage that you can get, because everyone is already always and forever, inside it.
But to understand this, to make this possible, there must be freedom, such as the possibility of rebellion. Vampires are therefore needed, as the night of the soul, before dawn.
Thanks for your comment and for your message very welcome at a time not too pleasant for me.
There is one thing I do disagree on or perhaps it is a different view point on the matter. This is the bit about only heroes have a place in Heaven (could be any reference but will stick to TES). In general the Princes appear to only make a home for their followers and since the Princes are often viewed as evil, their worship often banned, this seems like the only easy way to get your place in a confirmed after-life versus the dream-sleeve (although that may be preferable to some of the realms of oblivion).
To me a hero is not one just one who slays dragons or becomes a famous general. A hero is the one simply conquers the darker side of themselves and is able to see beyond themselves. The poor soldier who sees a farmer girl about to be raped who finally says enough and is enough and risks everything to prevent it (even knowing next time he may not be able). The poverty stricken dock worker who spares a meal with a beggar. The man who risks his life to save someone who fell through the ice. Every day heroes who may find a place in some form of afterlife. I do not even see Sovngarde as just a place for a hero - it is a place for a man who lives his life with honor and, perhaps, dies in battle (the viking view point). The dream-sleeve, to me, is not the place the non-famous go - it is more the place for people who gave up and never tried to better themselves (not in a material way but by bettering their soul); the bitter, the lost, the self-involved. It can also be the place souls go for another chance at life, for whatever reason. Some people might even choose it over some other version of heaven. A form of reincarnation in a sense.
Or perhaps I just view the TES world wrong but in my TES world that is more how I view things. Being good tends to take more effort than doing evil which is one reason evil is often the most attractive path to take.
EDIT: Perhaps I will add that I am perhaps too idealistic. Also that I expect my soul would go to the DS as well. Not because I am bad but because I settled for being just another nice soul versus an exemplary one - and I have only myself to blame for that. I have been happy with my own mediocrity with no desire for fame, wealth, power, or to be a saint. Anyone can strive to be an exceptionally good person - class, station, rank, matters not in this case. Of course I simplify for brevity - as there is far more to the matter than what I said.
Poor Hjoromir the vampire. Now, he's Hjoromir the damned. And he has a new mother to prove it!
Dragomira is a vampire of Cyrodiil that following the lore they look almost human tranquillamante and mingle among the living, even being able to walk in the sun, whether well fed. But behind the seductive look, she is still a vampire, from spicologia decidedly complex, thought to be an ideal anti-Serana.
Thanks for your comment, I really appreciated.