TheLashuntaFromCastrovel

Lashunta Architectural Inspiration Artist: Hubert Robert With Castrovel's near constant rain, lashunta cities may find colonnaded walkways such as this highly attractive for their markets & shopping districts. Over the centuries, ruins such as this may become commonplace, especially in cities so ancient as Son or Qabarat. #pathfinder #pathfinder2e #lashunta #castrovel #rpg #ttrpg #worldbuilding

Lashunta Inspirational Memory - 2 years ago
"The Scholar" by Gilead Artist

This could almost be a Damaya scholar, and a pet baby Shotalashu? Do Lashunta have to do with 'literary Shota', in the same way humans deal with cats trying to hog the attention from the book?

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Castrovel Inspirational Memory - 4 years ago
Artist is Carolina Eade - To the best of my research, this pic comes from Paizo's Pathfinder Bestiary 3 (1E). The artist apparently used to have an Artstation page, but not any more.

So confession: I am dying to populate Alraune on Castrovel. An intellligent, carnivorous plant capable of mimicking and luring its prey, and exercising enough power to challenge the psychically endowed Lashunta? I can't resist!

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Thoughts on Part 5: Chapter 57 - Normalizing the Sensational in Fantasy

https://www.worldanvil.com/w/castrovel-28from-paizo-s-pathfinder-setting29-verrix/a/thoughts-on-part-53A-chapter-57----normalizing-the-sensational-in-fantasy-article

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Lashunta Inspirational Memory - 4 years ago
Artist is Hoang Lap - one of my favorites, who recently also been putting out some amazing stuff, this one included.

This would be a great look for a Lashunta matron. The lotus symbols would be significantly symbolic of something. Any thoughts?

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Lashunta Inspirational Pic of the Week
Artist: Frank Frazetta (one of his Death Dealer works)

A dire situation, or just a typical Treesong morning, maybe checking the pollywog traps before the dance-rite starts? I don't think I've done enough to develop Castrovel's crocodilian inhabitants, especially given the broad swamp and marsh environments surrounding the Yaro River, and the Hisyho.

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Lashunta Inspirational Memory - 4 years ago
Gold and Garnet Snake Bracelet with Heracles Knot, 4th Century BC - 1st Century AD

I have no excuse. I just like snakes.

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Lashunta Inspirational Memory -2 years ago
Franz Xaver Winterhalter

A group of Damaya females engaged in polite society. What are they involved in? What could go wrong?

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NEW CHAPTER! A Castrovel Adventure: Part 6 Chapter 32
In which Lady Vaeol, amid celebration, beholds doom.

https://www.worldanvil.com/w/castrovel-28from-paizo-s-pathfinder-setting29-verrix/a/a-castrovel-adventure3A-part-62C-chapter-32-article

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Lashunta Inspirational Memory - 3 years ago
Athena - from the Villa of the Papyri, Herculaneum, Naples Archaeology Museum

~Matarasse~ - Burning-Mother. This would be a good pose for her idol!

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ARTICLE: Lashunta Language & Creating a Worldview

https://www.worldanvil.com/w/castrovel-28from-paizo-s-pathfinder-setting29-verrix/a/lashunta-language-26-creating-a-worldview-article

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Lashunta Inspiration - 1 year ago
Arthur Rackham, 1920

Picture this scene as a Damaya warrior wandering through the rainwood's darkfloor, surrounded by baletoads Possibly a common threat on Castrovel.

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Lashunta Inspirational Memory - 4 years ago
Artist: Alfonso Azpiri, one of the cornerstones of latter-era metal fantasy.

I've often mentioned the inequalities of Lashunta Matriarchy. Yet I may have ignored one of the most important points. The basis for Human Patriarchy is often assumed to be physical strength, thus contributing to the old adage, "Might Makes Right." Yet if anything, the physical strength disparity is more pronounced between Korasha and Damaya. Furthermore, in my low-tech version of Lashunta, there is an even greater reliance on such strength.

What Lashunta trait forms the basis for Matriarchy? I have my own answer, but am curious of other people's proposals.

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As a teaser for Saturday, here's a snippet from Chapter 32, in which Lady Vaeol, amid homecoming celebreation, gets some news she didn't want...

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Lashunta Qabarat Inspirational Memory - 1 year ago
Eduard Buchler, 1861-1958

What is this? A scene down by the base of the Southern Stormshield where it joins the Marshfarthing? The area sometimes called Kasrovelarya, in reference to the ancient Azlanti colony?

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Guess What Day It is?
Lashunta Not-So-Sari Tuesday!
Artist: Antonio Reyna Monescau

Florialia was an ancient Roman spring fertility festival. Feel like a good fit for lashunta & Castrovel.

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Lashunta Inspirational Memory - 2 years ago
Maximilian Pirner - Funeral of fairies 1888

What does this pic have to do with Lashunta? Honestly, it gets me thinking about the gods, angels, and fey spirits that populate Lashunta cosmology, and moreso what they believe exists, as opposed to what actually exists. Could there be a team of angels assigned to escort a deceased spirt to the World-Soul? ...I don't know, could there be a hooded, cloaked figure with a scythe responsible for ending people's lives? Could there be a man wearing a winged hat and winged sandals responsible for escorting sould to the Realm of the Dead?

Another thing this makes me consider is funeral rituals. While in the past I've discussed some Lashunta burial customs, I have treated merely the mechanics of funeraly, aka: what to do with the body? Yet there are a whole other level of rituals involved in funerals, including such things as the body's display and preparation, the prayers or spells performed to safeguard against death's lingering taint, and lastly but not leastly, what is done to transition the survivors through their trauma. Also, within the context of a pre-modern, low-tech society, these rituals, without a vital records registry, form the basis of how a community legally acknowledges a person dead. There's a lot going on.

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Lashunta Architectural Inspiration
Hanuman, Khmer Style

...Or on Castrovel, this is Sealnearas - the Golden Monkey Hero, trickster, elevated sage-god, disciple of Yaraesa, hero of Lea, and embarrassing scourge of the royal family of Ofu-Laubu...who deny all rumors that some of their ancestors were born with tails.

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Lashunta Inspirational memory - 3 years ago
Artist is Tuomas Korpi: https://www.tuomaskorpi.com/

Here's another low-tech flying machine, maybe something appropriate to gearpunk-level adventure. Something that could maybe be a technological marvel within Pathfinder's historical timeframe.

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