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    Iron Fist by Manky
     
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    Heh. That does remind me a bit of the Garro audio dramas, in which Malcador, as Garro's boss, has a very Palpatine-esque voice.
     
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    Starkiller Base concept by Andree Wallin
     
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    Biig sword by Y-Naf
     
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    Khosrow II of Persia by JFoliveras on DeviantArt
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    KHOSROW II “PARVIZ”, shahanshah of the Sasanian Persian Empire from 590 to 628 AD, sitting on his throne, which according to Byzantine and Islamic sources had an automaton that represented the Cosmos, simulating the movement of the stars, the Sun and the Moon by means of a complex mechanism. Other automatons, which I’ve not included here, surrounded the throne. I also represented the crown suspended with chains, because Khosrow II and other Sasanian kings had crowns so heavy that their neck alone could not support their weight.

    Considered the last great king of the Sasanian dynasty, Khosrow II was born in Persia the year 570, the same year that the prophet Muhammad was born in the Arabian city of Mecca. His reign was marked by Persian territorial expansion in the context of the war with the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire. In 626, Khosrow made an alliance with the Avar Khaganate and the Slavic tribes of Eastern Europe to besiege Constantinople, but the city resisted.

    According to Islamic tradition, Khosrow, an adherent of Zoroastrianism, once received a messenger from prophet Muhammad himself, demanding him to submit to Islam. Khosrow refused to convert to the new religion and tore Muhammad’s letter to pieces. When Muhammad was informed about Khosrow’s response, he promised the destruction of Khosrow’s empire. Only five years after Khosrow’s death, the Islamic conquest of Persia began. Khosrow’s grandson Yazdegerd III was the last king of the Sasanian dynasty, and Yazdegerd’s son Peroz III spent the rest of his life exiled at the court of the Tang emperor of China. The exiled Sasanians convinced the Chinese emperor to help them retake Iran from the Muslims and restore Sasanian power, but the Turkic nomads attacked the Chinese army before it could reach Iran, which was then part of the short-lived Rashidun Caliphate.



    Agilulf of the Longobards by JFoliveras on DeviantArt
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    THE LOMBARDS were a Germanic people of Scandinavian origin who ruled most of Italy. Shortly after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in 476, the Ostrogoths, a branch of the Goths, formed their own kingdom in Italy. The Ostrogothic kingdom was destroyed in the 6th century by the Eastern Roman general Belisarius, and Italy became part of the Eastern Roman Empire of emperor Justinian the Great (died in 565). Until then, the Lombards had been living in Pannonia, and in alliance with the Avars, a nomadic people from the Asian steppes, they defeated the Germanic Gepids. Shortly after Justinian’s death, the year 568, king Alboin, fleeing from their former Avar allies, led the Lombards across the Alps into Italy, where they were joined by the remaining Ostrogoths and found resistance by the Eastern Romans. The Lombards successfully conquered northern Italy, and shortly after they expanded to central and southern Italy. Only the territories of Ravenna, Rome, and the southernmost part of Italy, remained under Byzantine rule.

    The Lombards, whose name literally means “long beards”, were unlike other Germanic peoples such as the Goths, the Franks or the Vandals. While these earlier migrators rapidly became Romanised and Christianised, the Lombards preserved their pagan Scandinavian deities and traditions for much longer, mixed with Arian Christianity, until they gradually converted to Catholicism. A hammer-wielding god in a stone relief from Novara has been interpreted as Thor, and runic inscriptions from the 7th-8th centuries have been found in Apulia. They were also influenced by the nomadic Avars. The Lombard kingdom of northern Italy fell to the Frankish king Charlemagne in 774 and subsequently became part of the rising Carolingian Empire. The Lombards retained control of southern Italy until the Norman conquest in the 11th century.

    The Lombards of northern Italy have been credited for the early development of an art style that they exported first to the Catalan Pyrenees, and then the rest of western Europe, replacing earlier styles. This artistic movement, which combined Late Roman and Germanic art with Christian iconography, is known as Romanesque.

    Replicas used:
    - Ring sword: Patrick Bárta.
    - Axe: Cristiano Da Mont’Olmo.
    - Lamellar helmet: made by Stanislav Ermakov, photo from one of Satine Zillah’s reference packs: www.artstation.com/satinezilla…
    - Lamellar armour: Invicti Lupi reenacment group.



    Tang dynasty general by JFoliveras on DeviantArt
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    CHINESE GENERAL OF THE EARLY TANG DYNASTY (7th century), wearing an armour based on “lokapala” tomb guardian statuettes. These opulent armours would have been made of lacquered leather with colourful painted decoration, reinforced in some areas with iron lamellar and scale, which could have been lacquered too. These armours may have included silk decoration as well, and usually had faces of ferocious mythical beasts on their shoulders (usually a pair of Hindu-Buddhist makaras) and abdomen (usually a lion or tiger). According to written sources, it seems that battle masks were also used by some generals. The sword is based on a find from Shōsōin, Japan, which is a Tang Chinese import. Reconstruction made following the advice of my friend www.youtube.com/c/EquusBallo (he only has videos in Spanish for now).

    The Tang dynasty ruled China from 618 to 907. During the first 43 years of the dynasty, they were contemporaries with the Sasanian Empire of Persia. When the Arabs of the Rashidun Caliphate conquered Persia, the last Sasanians fled in exile to the Tang court. The Tang were also contemporaries, and enemies, of the early Turkic (Göktürk) khanates. After the fall of the Sasanian Persian Empire, a succession of Islamic caliphates took its place: first the short-lived Rashidun, then the Umayyads of Damascus and finally the Abbasids of Baghdad. It was the later that in 751 defeated a Chinese army of the Tang Empire at the battle of Talas, in modern-day Kyrgyzstan, halting the westward expansion of the Tang.
     
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    Undrask by Chris Rallis
     
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    Calling the owls by LD leoteduran
     
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    It still amazes me just how good some of the art is here
     
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    Dragon Ride by Jannis Mayr
     
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