I have often pondered whether people in this current age are really interested in awakening or not. But I think I have a different question to ask.
What is the purpose of awakening in this age? I am sure it is the same in the past but the difference is that people nowadays have been more focused on materialism and material things. And since awakening is about the self, it has to do with the self and the self is not materialistic. Is it that people nowadays are more interested in awakening or is it that awakening is part of a new kind of awakening that is more materialistic?
The secret of Kells is an old movie about a man who is trying to be awake in his life. The main character is a very materialistic person and is always looking for something more material, more expensive, more glamorous that he has in order to wake up and he is constantly chasing that dream of awakening. But he just can't find it. So he resorts once more to materialism and spends more than he knows. And this time he is right, because it is true, the material world is beautiful. It is beautiful. It is a new kind of awakening that is more materialistic than the others.
As explained by Shiro-4, every Fallen house has a Splicer sect, made up of the House's best scientists and engineers. The biggest, obvious examples are the Devil Splicers and their reign over the Plaguelands with SIVA and the Wolf Splicers allowing Skolas to raid the Vault of Glass and summon soldiers from the past.
Whether or not they were the Dusk Slicers exactly, the Kell's Scourge already canonically stem from the largest Fallen house in history, so the their accomplishments are obviously beyond the Devils and Wolves, as they've occupied 2 Black Armory forges, managed to build a towering mechsuit for their Prime Serivtor, and invaded the Last City with a Nuke in its back.
The Kell's Scourge have their own symbol (https://imgur.com/n8ysahc), but it only appears on Siviks, Insurrection Prime, and Anarchy, the last two being Sivik's stuff, so that can be simply classified as his own unique marking.
While those events fit the general explanations of what Splicers are capable of, the only potential evidence for my claim is that they bear the same House banners as the House of Dusk, but that could just be on Bungie for not using different models or even simple recolors for the Kell's Scourge grunts.
Overall, a minor and likely flawed theory, but I figure posting about it is the best way to verify it via feedback and such.
Stumbled across this trove of scanned images from the Book of Kells and thought it might be of interest to some of you.
I'm not sure where it came from, as there's no 'cover' or copyright info from whoever put it together, it's pretty bare bones. Anyway, here's the link:
https://yadi.sk/i/YWno7XAfs7oygg [537 MB]
Some of the bakes on the wee characters are a laugh like. They look like they just saw their ma in the nip.
I get ready for a frustrating experience when I get Kell's Grave, especially when coupled with Scorn, but that lava pit in the middle is not even consistent with the game's own universe. Everywhere else in the PvE world, it's only damage over time, not an instant kill. See, I can walk over this without killing myself immediately -https://postimg.cc/jDscsnJX
Why on earth is it different in Gambit then? Even falling on only the rocks down there doesn't help. You still die. It's immensely frustrating when you're getting primeval-stomped and phalanx-bashed into it constantly.
In the Novel Nemesis, a Horus Heresy book about assassins, the Callidus assassin Kell is mentioned numerous times as having assassinated not just an Astartes, but a brother-captain of the Astartes. The idea of a mortal killing an Astartes is startling in 40k, but one killing such a high ranked one before the Heresy is even more shocking. Who is he? Do we ever find out? Inb4 lost legion?
“Among the top percentile of field-deployed special operatives. Fifty-two confirmed kills, including the Tyrant of Daas, Queen Mortog Haeven, the Eldar general Sellians nil Kaheen, Brother-Captain–”
“Valdor held up his hand. ‘I don’t need to know his record. I need to know him.” ...
“Capra gave a slow nod. ‘Kell’s right. The Astartes are formidable, but they can be beaten.’ He gave the Vindicare a level stare. ‘Tell me they can be beaten.’
‘I killed a Space Marine,’ said Kell. Koyne’s bland expression flickered as something like surprise crossed the other assassin’s face. Kell ignored it and went on. ‘And I’m still here.”
...
“Did you really terminate an Astartes?’ said Koyne.
‘You know the rules,’ Kell replied, without looking away. ‘A clade’s targets are its own concern.”
To the fallen, the Kell of kells is the one who will be chosen by the great machine and unite all of the houses. Skolas crowned himself with the title but he never showed any being chosen by the great machine, however Mythrax is actively trying to ally himself and othe Eliksni with guardians and the traveler. Mythrax is trying to form the house of light, and fight alongside guardians, which makes me wonder that if he winds up being chosen by the traveler/receives a ghost, and unites all the remaining fallen under the banner of house light, will Mythrax be the true Kell of Kells.
Hello kittens,
Or should I say To Whom It May Concern:
Or should I say pay up Quince, island sartorialist and king of my heart.
In the week past our merry band of varying talents saved Locke and his sticky fingers from a ravenous mimic, a victory that yielded us one (1) ruby, which we are currently figuring out how to split into five parts. Hahaha just kidding, I kept it.
The mimic waylaid us only briefly on our way to the main attraction, a vast and very old graveyard full of long dead bodies and gravestones marked in some indecipherable language. A curious find for a brand spanking new island. Let it be noted here that Locke wanted to leave early and often.
The graveyard was tended by a mage with a very long beard and very strange relationship with the truth. "How long have you lived on the island?" "What island?" "Do you not know this is an island?" "What's an island." etc etc. Tiresome. I started to take rubbings of the gravestones which sent him into an absolute tizz and before you know it we were off to the races, and by races I mean a long battle with a lot of undead.
Fortunately, Seraphina put half the enemy to sleep, Kells fought off about three undead single-handedly, Locke did something (?), and Faustroll smited (smote?) everything in spitting distance. We ganged up on the mage and sent him off to whatever afterlife mages believe in. A celestial library? I don't know. He's dead.
Here's where it all went off the rails, kittens. We popped open one of the graves, found a staircase, wandered down it because why not, discovered a summoning circle with summoning and binding spells written in my mother tongue, and were about to leave it well enough alone when our dear paladin friend lost his tiny mind and accidentally started summoning a devil. See he's obsessed with REDACTED and is searching for a number of REDACTEDS so he can craft some REDACTED to help him REDACTED, honestly I wasn't listening.
Let's talk about FLANKING. If there is one enemy and five of you, simply surround said enemy and take turns hitting him over the head until he cries for his devil daddy and pops off back to hell. That's FLANKING, in case you missed it.
Now we're all safe home and I'm deciphering about five different grave rubbings. If you want to know what they say, I accept money, back rubs (if I like the look of you), cake, fine wine, compliments and jewelry but PLEASE no opals, are you kidding me.
Until next time, all of you friends as yet unmet -
Natasha 'Tash'
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https://www.ishtar-collective.net/cards/dregs-promise?highlight=dreg%27s
TLDR: Variks is the character described in the Dreg's Promise and is with concrete evidence the true Kell of Kells
Essentially the Dreg's Promise was another version of the Kell of Kell's prophecy but spread among the Dregs in each of the Fallen Houses to raise morale. However a specific sentence in the grimoire card states that "...the star-catcher would lead the Fallen, rising from the lowest station to the highest exalted peaks." This means that whoever would lead the Fallen and become the Kell of Kells would have to rise from the lowest station of a Dreg all the way to the position of Kell.
Following the events of Forsaken where Variks abandoned the Prison of Elders and rose to the station as the last surviving Elder Kell we have some concrete evidence to connect Variks with the Kell of Kells prophecy. You see, Variks was wrongfully docked by Skolas during the Reef Wars which prevents his arms from properly regrowing (other Eliksni have their lower arms docked, but Variks lost his upper arms) essentially branding him as a Dreg forever. Knowing this and the line from Dreg's promise we can connect the two to see that Variks rose from the station of Dreg all the way to Elder Kell just as the prophecy foretold.
Better late than never mods, thanks for changing the banner to honor Josh Beefrick :)
While we have plenty of details on dromma and a few details of the daughters, they often feel under developed in terms of what powers and resources they bring to bear together. While the point of the daughters is the dread of living legends, like meeting the bogeyman, as well as a sense of mystery, they still seem like they could be fleshed out more.
What would be the spells or abilities they could use as a coven, what would be their hag eye and would it have any special abilities? Might any one of the sisters have a favored servant to call upon? How would you design a fight against them, any one of them or all at once?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2xam6mzh_E&spfreload=10
A full video will be uploaded soon. at 5/19/15 @ 5:18pm EST
Like that's the only Kell's Scourge on the Moon, ONE Servitor, in the Archer's Line Lost Sector. A Guardian like me wonders what is it doing there?
To everyone coming for Paddy's Day,
"A further measure which is being implemented from 1pm today (Tuesday, March 10) is the closure of the Book of Kells exhibition and Old Library, the Science Gallery and the Douglas Hyde Gallery. Notices of these closures will be posted online and at the main entrances to the college.
Both of these measures are being taken in the interests of your health and well-being and to decrease any potential impacts on the larger community. The decisions are based on the concept of social distancing which has been recommended by many experts. Our goal is to decrease the number of instances that lead to students, staff, and visitors coming together in large groups in close proximity with each other."
- Trinity College Dublin
