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Marrok Steelpaw - The Ritual

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  1. MsFrankenstein
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    Just wow, Grim. This is incredible.
    1. wolfgrimdark
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      Many thanks - probably one of my favorite posts to date!
  2. PatrickTheDM
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    Excellent set Jonathan. I like the evolving images as they get closer and closer until the change, and that image is awesome.
    1. wolfgrimdark
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      Thanks! Probably my favorite set of Marrok.
  3. lydiacat
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    Oh boy! You really out done yourself. This is amazing. The song goes with it too.
    1. wolfgrimdark
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      Thanks! Aye this is one of my favorite posts this year
  4. Corfus
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    Very cool set, love the stone magic light back drop in the main look awesome, nice poem addition too adding to the atmposphere, for a moment ithoiught this might be a vampire character but then I thought nah, this Is Jon
    1. wolfgrimdark
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      Thanks Corfus - and aye you will never see me playing a vampire in Skyrim (although I did enjoy playing one in Bloodlines ...not that you have much option not to lol).
  5. IceShotJoe
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    Great poem from Wilfred and a wonderful way for Marrok to write a new legend. Is it the Stone near Graywinter Watch?
    1. wolfgrimdark
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      Thanks very much! That is the stone right outside of Whiterun as you head east - the Ritual Stone.
  6. gakerty
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    Wow. Several levels of awesome here. Superb imagery for sure.
    1. wolfgrimdark
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      Thanks for checking out the post and the comment Gakerty!
  7. zjamz
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    This set is absolutely incredible Jon, the main image with its mysticism and mysterious qualities is superb. Along with the poem which was beautifully done and inclusion of so many brilliant images... This is one of my favourite sets from you Jon, art in many forms.

    I'm going to update the gallery too, using the main image of this set for your piece/entry within the gallery.

    Overall I'm thrilled that you shared this, really amazing work my friend. Bravo Jon!
    1. wolfgrimdark
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      Thanks Jamz! One of my rare artistic moments I guess - I don't have many of them as I don't tend to do that style myself. I tend to go for very straight forward simple stuff although I enjoy looking at what other people do. Glad you enjoyed the set as it had many things I love in it - good poetry, great music, werewolves, high fantasy and magic, and a sexy character.
    2. zjamz
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      I feel the same actually, but it being the other way around of course. As my latest shots, well the ones I've been doing for a couple of months have been rather complicated where simplicity wasn't at form (my older shots were more simple landscape, scenic shots). It's just great to see different kinds of work. Admiring it and giving the appreciation that it deserves.
  8. deleted2364420
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    amazing imagery wolf i realy like the look of the skin tone looks great as do the poses and the way the images are set up great job.nice poem as well.

    thanks wolf good luck and take care
    1. wolfgrimdark
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      Thanks Mikie! Skin tone heavily colored by the ENB I used which creates strong blue tones and tints at night due to the bloom (blue-shift).
  9. darahbiru
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    It is so amazing to me, of this a unified whole that complement and make it easier to understand the meaning conveyed.
    I read slowly and carefully, because the poem you share of this feeling I think very highly qualified, I do not know much about Wilfred Campbell's.
    this poem like a mantra, must understand every word presented. every word that means, every word of it is prayer. Thanks to share.
    I want to give you kudos, but already give before of this. so I give you a prayer, true prayer.

    intermezo;
    1. for a poem I really like the works of Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi.
    2. in my real world where mystical culture and the supernatural life still strong, such things as changes in the human form of stealth, shaman, practice seance, possession is normal in everyday life although now slowly been eroded by modern culture.

    *sorry if i wrong write in grammar or something like that.
    1. wolfgrimdark
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      Thank you very much for the comment - especially means more to me knowing you had to spend time translating and understanding the post. I really like this poem.

      Thank you to the link to Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi - I have looked him up on google and will check out some of his writings.

      I wanted to say something in regards to Intermezo item #2 on your comment. I have always loved mysticism, mythology, supernatural, folklore, and things that connect to mind and the unknown. Modern culture does eat away at all that. I am always torn between my scientific self that believes in very little and that of my mystical self that wants to believe in something more. Probably why I like writing and playing in the world of fantasy.
  10. Farvat
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    This set I liked a lot, great poetry. The video was very beautiful and appropriate. the music of the adorable Florance, as always, entranced me.

    Poetry is also very apt to your way of thinking lycanthropy, located on the fault that separates the Nordic pagan world, from Christianity.
    I think the halo, represents the existence of a nucleus, together wild and innocent and holy, inside humanity and being. A sort of archiac naturalness, a pure animality where you see an inviolable refuge, a nucleus even of violent resistance and rebellion that is opposed to the society with all its vast apparatus of exploitation and subjugation that reduces every entity to a mere instrument for its purposes of domain.
    Christianity has been the means by which this type of society of technique we live in, was manifested and taken hold, although it wasn't the exact intention. Francis of Assisi, she tried through her mystic reconstitution of a relationship of unity with creation, but it was how to stop an avalanche. Myth is dead, nature has ceased to be sacred and profane losing its pantheistict form to become gemetrical a space, made for man and to his measure. The animal, tree, grass and the moon and the universe ceased to speak to the shaman and poet, to become the means by which men would become master of the universe to make them similar to god.
    For thw video Vampires and werewolves have much in common, for this they fight. Werewolves indignantly refuse civilization while vampires, gradually abandon the exile of the tomb, groped for the return of the repressed, to integrate with the Society in the illusion of dominating and parasitic. Vampires and werewolves have in common the wolf and animality, why in the video end to mate, strange thing, as one race is alive while the other is (Un)dead. There is a vital core, which is immortal and libidinal at the mutual fund.
    This is what comes to mind actually.
    1. wolfgrimdark
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      Thanks for speaking your mind Fabrizio :-) Lately I grow more and more unhappy with what humanity does to the planet, animals, and each other ... and more and more the appeal of the werewolf calls to me. This poem was strongly influence by the Christian view as you picked up on as well. While I prefer the pagan, shamanistic, and many of earlier views on the human/beast duality aspect I did love this poem for it is very well written. The words flow so easily and beautifully and it has a very haunting and lonely quality to it even if I disagree with some of it (although I understand, I believe, where it is coming from). Anyhow it fit the post in both its haunted and sad feeling as well as the rhythm that made it feel like a ritual.

      Myth is dead, nature has ceased to be sacred and profane losing its pantheistict form to become gemetrical a space, made for man and to his measure. The animal, tree, grass and the moon and the universe ceased to speak to the shaman and poet, to become the means by which men would become master of the universe to make them similar to god.

      Is a great paragraph you wrote. Our world today has many, many benefits (health advances for one, possibly less violence and more civilized but that is a hard thing to judge and certainly anytime you watch the news you would be hard pressed to say there is less violence) but it also comes with a price, at least IMO, that is steep.

      But I have no answers. I am no genius, philosopher, poet, or mystic. I just wished we treated the world, animals, and each other better and with more respect.

      So much of human existence bothers me that sometimes I like to daydream I am just a beast (werewolf or otherwise) running in a primal forest, untouched by humanity, with my pack. Perhaps even take a she-wolf as a mate and raise pups for the pack. But I have been in a bleaker mood of late and so I think the life of an animal seems simpler and less complicated in comparison.