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ariadnethedragon · 1 year

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THE LAST KINGDOM: SEVEN KINGS MUST DIE (2023)

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uhtredswordofuhtred · 5 months

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they own my heart ♥ thinking about them 24/7

#osferth #uhtred of bebbanburg #the last kingdom #the saxon stories #ewan mitchell #alexander dreymon

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butts-art · 6 months

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siarexkh · 8 months

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I don't know who were the writers who read Alfred and Uhtred's last conversation in the books and said "Cool. Now make it gay." , but I hope they are having a great day.

#the last kingdom #alfred of wessex #uhtred #uhtred of bebbanburg #uhtred ragnarsson #the saxon stories #alfred x uhtred #uhtred x alfred

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gaelicfiddle · 3 months

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Father Beocca, Father Pyrlig, Father Willibald: the Uthred's Cleric Protection Squad

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(Beocca)

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(Willibald)

#i sooo love the three of them and love how different they are from one another #honestly it's such a shame Willibald was cut from the series he's such a ray of sunshine #although i love the series portrayal of Beocca and Pyrlig I tried to elaborate their character design out of my imagination while reading #the last kingdom #the saxon stories #father beocca #father pyrlig #father willibald #bernard cornwell #tlk #tlk fandom #digital art #my drawings

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finanhasmyheart · 5 months

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Finan's backstory in the series (my theory)

I've been working on this theory for a while, and I've finally written it down in full!

Well, we know that in the books Finan was born into nobility as crown prince of the Ulaid kingdom. A marriage between him and the princess of the Ui'Neill was arranged, but Finan fell in love with his younger brother Conall's wife, a simple dairy maid. They fled south to hide. But the Ui'Neill along with Conall pursued them, the girl was killed in front of Finan, he was stripped of his title and wealth and eventually sold into slavery to Sverri.

But I have some reason to believe that Finan's backstory in the show may be different. There are only three little facts we know about his past, according to the brief comments he made in the third and fourth seasons.

Finan's father died before he was taken into slavery, and Finan was apparently physically abused by him (at least as a child).

Finan's mother seemed to be a wise woman, and apparently also died before the events on the slave ship.

Finan saw members of his family in Ireland die from the same sickness seen in season four.

I took some of this information from an interview with Mark, where he says that this background was given to him by the director. So this could mean that those "men as strong as bears" he was talking about were members of his family... maybe that's how his father died?

These facts lead me to believe that Finan did not belong to a noble family, but to a family of warriors in the service of a King or a Lord. So they would have been more exposed to the horrors of disease.

I also think Finan's reaction to Uhtred's ascension to the throne of Mercia is indicative of this, as he was very happy and proud to present himself and the rest of the boys as royal advisors, as if he had never had such a status before.

Finally, the official fact sheet of the series introduces Finan as "a former warrior of Ireland". Other characters such as Steapa are also introduced as "warriors" without giving them any other title.

In addition to all this, Mark has mentioned in some interviews that although he had hoped that Finan's past would be mentioned in the series as in the books, the director not only had no plans for this but did not even confirm that the two pasts are the same.

After this analysis, I come to the conclusion that Finan definitely did not belong to a noble family but was a warrior in the service of one.

Now, how did he end up on the slave ship? I guess we will never know, but I theorise that after the kingdom of Ireland to which Finan belonged was stricken by disease, it plunged into a socio-economic crisis, for medieval Ireland was not known for its resources, it was considered a poor land unlike England. So perhaps the ruler decided to sell some of his warriors as slaves in exchange for goods, remembering that Sverri's ship was a merchant ship. Perhaps this idea could explain why Finan tried to excuse Halig's mental breakdown to Sverri by saying it was the fever.

This wouldn't be the first time that the show has made a change of origin to its characters, for example, although not very significant, in the books Aelfwynn is Aethelred's daughter and not Erik's, Aethelred is Uhtred's cousin on his mother's side, among others. Not to mention the radical changes in the personalities of some other characters such as Aldhelm.

I may have theorised too much and filled in all the missing gaps with my assumptions, but with the little data we have this is the conclusion I came to after some time of thinking...

I would love to hear your opinion on this theory and I don't know, perhaps come to a new conclusion✨️

#i apologise if I went on too long #my restless mind compelled me #i am a simp and finan consumes all my thoughs...#ohh it breaks my heart to think of all that Finan had to go through #whether in the series or in the books #but in the end he never ceased to be the precious ray of sunlight that he is 🥺#finan #finan the agile #finan the last kingdom #finan tlk #finan my beloved ❤️#the last kingdom #it's finan friday!!! 🍻#the saxon stories #my theory

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illustratus · 2 years

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The Flame Bearer by Sergey Shinkin

#the flame bearer #sergey shinkin #art #bernard cornwell #history #england #anglo saxons #saxons #the saxon stories #the last kingdom #uhtred of bebbanburg #flames #torch #torches #anglo saxon #saxon

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timetravelingpenguin1066 · 2 years

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"And so was he?" I asked, and she just nodded. "And the last two nights," I asked, "after the feasting was over?" I did not finish the question, but she answered it anyway by nodding again.

The Empty Throne, Bernard Cornwell

Prompts: angst + romantic + book Tags: @tlkafterparty

#tlkafterparty #the last kingdom #sigtryggr #stiorra #sigtryggr x stiorra #stiorra x sigtryggr #mine: edits #the saxon stories #bernard cornwell #mine: ps #tlk edit

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ariadnethedragon · 1 year

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JACOB DUDMAN as OSBERT

THE LAST KINGDOM: SEVEN KINGS MUST DIE (2023)

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uhtredswordofuhtred · 8 months

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i just love book!osferth so much, he's so husband material.

#osferth #the last kingdom #the saxon stories

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butts-art · 7 months

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Telling the Saxon Stories

(I know the books are written memoirs but this is always what I imagine)

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#the last kingdom #the saxon stories #the last kingdom books #uhtred of bebbanburg #painting #illustration #the last kingdom art #tlk #tlk uhtred #butt art

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siarexkh · 8 months

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I have to say that I'm not a fan of how some fics describe Conall as a terrible guy who hit his wife. I think he adored his wife, that he was deeply in love with her and he treated her like a queen. She was literally a nobody and Conall was a prince and he married her anyway.

And then Finan happened.

She liked Conall, but then Finan and her fell in love and runaway. Thinking about Conall's perspective is so interesting because that man must have gone psycho. Finan ripped apart his life, not only he "stole" the woman he loved, but he abandoned his place as a future king too.

Conall was not prepared to take that place, he hadn't been raised for that, it was never meant to be his destiny, but he took it anyway.

He had to marry Finan's wife, he had to raise his kids, he fulfilled his duties and took the place his older brother selfishly had abandoned. He couldn't live his life. He lived Finan's.

And then imagine the horrible situation when they finally captured them.

Finan had to see how they raped and killed his lover but Conall had to let it happen. I think Finan would blame him for that, he had the power to stop it and he did nothing, and Conall would blame him because he put them in that position. He didn't want any of this to happen, he didn't want her to die, he didn't want to hate his brother, he didn't want to send him to slavery.

Finan should have been king and Conall should have been fighting at his side and that dynamic makes me INSANE.It's just SO GOOD!!!

I love to see Finan being a man who fucks up, a person that took selfish decision and without intended it he made irreparable damage.

I think Conall and Finan had a weird relationship before all of this. Not quite bad, not quite good, but they loved eachother in that way only brothers can and that's the worst. Now they hate eachother guts and both have solid motive to do so!!!

#I want to explore this someday but right now I have my hands full with two Uhtred/Finan fics lmao #Finan my beloved you deserve complicate relationships with your loved ones too <3 #I hope this post is well written because it's 4am in the morning and English is not even my first language lmao #the last kingdom #finan #finan the agile #warriors of the storm #Conall #the saxon stories

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calyssmarviss · 2 years

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#i spent 7h30 doing this according to procreate stats #i don’t know what happened but it happened #oh wait actually i cried at some point #finan x sihtric #finan the agile #sihtric #the last kingdom #the saxon stories #uthred’s pretty boys #tlk fanart #my art #look there need to be fanarts of those guys and i volunteered #listening to #ardan - banks of irland

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weakling-grace · 10 months

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My mom watched a good bit of The Last Kingdom with me some time ago and now that i'm reading the books, i update her regularly about our bestie Uhtred and his silly little thoughts on things

#the last kingdom #the saxon stories #uhtred of bebbanburg

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brisbookmark · 1 year

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Took a break from fics today to paint this custom Osferth pop of mine isn’t he so cute 🥹😭😭

#osferth #the last kingdom #tlk #Sihtric #uhtred #the Saxon stories #Ewan mitchell

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