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stigmatam4rtyr · 3 months

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Vengeance is Sworn (1851, oil on canvas) | Francesco Hayez

#art #fine art #painting #oil painting #19th century #vengeance is sworn #francesco hayez #revenge triptych

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thehiddenbaroness · 1 year

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Vengeance is Sworn -- Francesco Hayez, 1851 || Supporter -- Nick Alm, 2016 || Tell me Everything! -- Vittorio Matteo Corcos, 1883

#vengeance is sworn #francesco hayez #supporter #nick alm #tell me everything #vittorio matteo corcos #art parallels #friends in art

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mote-historie · 1 year

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Francesco Hayez, Vengeance is Sworn, detail, 1851

Oil on Canvas, 237x178cm.

Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna

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onlinesweetheart · 8 months

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#instagram #pinterest #art #classic art #painting #oil on canvas #romantic art #victorian art #romantic period #victorian period #victorian era #classic #romantic era #history #art history #Vengeance is Sworn #İntikam Yeminli #Francesco Hayez #19th century

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hauntedbythenarrative · 2 years

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#you can't sit with us #sunmi #meme #mine #Vengeance is Sworn #1851 #Francesco Hayez (Italian #1791-1882)

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alcowarlock · 8 months

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I remade my drow-boy and hnngh, he's too hot now

note to myself, besides stop making OCs I fall in love with - to STOP MAKING THEM BETTER

#baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #bg3 tav #drow #drow paladin #half drider #oc: draven #oc: Di'Lirdtel #Di'Lirdtel of Rilynvirr #dnd character #oath of vengeance #in future oathbreaker I guess #lolth sworn drow

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alicelufenia · 16 days

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Thinking about my last reblog and how Baldur's Gate 3 character creation kinda fucked with my perception of paladins in the bg3 setting (it's specific version of the Forgotten Realms at least)

Since paladins don't get to select a deity at CC, I got the impression that paladins who's oath was not sworn before any particular god were more common than they really are.

There's technically a "Paladin of X" tag in game for dialogue, but the ONLY way to get it without mods is to also take a level of cleric and select a deity that way.

So when I made Alice as essentially a renegade paladin whose oath was sworn before no one except through her own conviction and fervor to self-actualize (she's Oath of Glory in canon) and that manifested divine power anyway, turns out that's really weird and uncommon in setting where most paladins swear an oath before a deity, and thus presumably are bound to tenets dictated by said deity (or the order of paladins they belong to, whether that reflects the true will of the god or not)

This is, in my defense, NOT how it works in tabletop 5e, where paladins select an oath but are not required to pick a deity (they still can pick one like many characters do, even those with no levels in divine casters). Giving a paladin a deity is more a nod to tradition, but RAW you're free to hold an oath without following a faith, just like you can be any alignment regardless of your oath (except maybe oathbreaker. BG3 even turns that on it's head by making it possible to be 'Good' as an oathbreaker, even restoring your oath, which isn't a thing in tabletop unless it's to repent for breaking it but without going full oathbreaker subclass)

Enter the most prominent paladin in Baldur's Gate 3, Minthara

Don't have any art saved to my phone so enjoy plushthara instead

She originally swore her oath of vengeance while in service to Lolth, to seek out and eliminate the enemies of the faith in Menzoberranzan (essentially part of the Lolthite Inquisition). This, by the way, is why she's so insightful when it comes to the other companions; it was literally her job to get good at reading people to find out what their deal was.

Her crusade against the enemies of Lolth led her and an army of House Baenre soldiers to Moonrise Towers, but instead of putting an end to the Absolute cult, she was captured, tortured for days, her soldiers killed or enthralled, and finally tadpoled and made to turn all that religious ferver and devotion towards serving the Absolute.

For this failure, Lolth abandoned her. As a Lolth-sworn drow (a problematic term basically made up for bg3 but works here) losing Lolth's favor is the most devastating thing possible, and there's almost no chance of going back. After being released from command of the Absolute by the Prism, she was, spiritually, alone for probably the first time in 250+ years of memory. Unless you come from a religious background only to lose faith later in life, you can't imagine what that's like (I don't ftr, but this is how I have come to understand it based on @spiderwarden's analysis)

And yet, despite this severing from a god that works Her way into every facet of Udadrow life, her oath endures. She remains a faithless (really faith-orphaned), but still undeniably spiritual paladin, bound to an oath that, for now, has her carrying out the same objective that sent her out of the Underdark before—destroy the cult of the Absolute, and seize that godlike power from those who control it.

When you rescue Minthara after romancing her in act 1, she says "You came. I prayed that you would, but there are no gods left for me." That raw-as-fuck line also spells out her current relationship to religion; IF a god would have her, she would be devoted. She even calls out to Lolth who, if the Spider Queen were to somehow take her back, she would in a heartbeat. With none answering her, she has no one but her savior, Tav/Durge, and their companions (whom she is now oath-bound to help whether she likes them or not)

And her natural inclination is to channel all that hurt, all that resentment and humiliation at being left with no divinity to know and to be known, into abject RAGE. Though she doesn't show it, I believe she is angrier and meaner NOW than she's ever been in life. That's why she talks about spitting on a shrine to Lolth, why she disapproves of offering tithe to any god at the Stormshore Tabernacle. Why she wants to BECOME a god, to become Absolute.

Hate is love betrayed. And I believe she had a LOT of love for Lolth.

Anyway this started as me musing on the spiritual nature of 5e paladin oaths in bg3, and kinda turned into character analysis for Minthara. Still, as the game's biggest example of a paladin who no longer serves any god but still commands divine powers to ⚔️SMITE Evil⚔️ by her oath, I think it came around in the end.

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starmocha · 1 month

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This was so fucking satisfying lmfao 😈

#love and deepspace #love and deepspace rafayel #finally #vengeance is mine #i will absolutely not go easy on him next time tf #we're sworn enemies when it comes to kitty cards

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firein-thesky · 9 days

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——————————————— Arowyn ——————————————

vengeance-sworn. night-eater; the promise of the cold, blue dawn. jury, judge, and executioner. their own pallbearer. the sacrificial lamb. god-starved. taught to lie still with their neck bare, to not wince when the knife gets too close. the phantom that haunts. the reckoning of the past, of all your wickedness and more. sin-bearer. iphigenia at heart; she was always supposed to die at aulis. the unrelenting reminder of evil——of your evil and his and hers and theirs. jesus in gethsemane. agony in the garden. forsaken, forgotten until its too late——

#i may come back and add more details to this post but #this is arowyn…..they are a vengeance sworn paladin #who was supposed to be a sacrifice for bhaal as a child #and has large burn scars over their face and body for it #but they survived #and promised vengeance #also arowyn is madly in love w shadowheart like fell in love w her almost instantly #and low key arowyn is a bit of a player on accident #ppl like the stray starving dog look to them #and they don’t really realize it until it’s a bit too late #arowyn is kinda gruff and rough around the edges and sorta dry #but really very kind at their core #low key so thrilled to have friends 😭 like starved of it #anyways #cielo rambles!#arowyn #bg3 #arowyn the foresaken

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silverskye13 · 10 months

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My last Helsknight drawing has breeched containment and been reblogged by a paladin blog. He has been tagged with Oath of Vengeance and... Accurate.

#spazzcat barks #delete later #god im rereading the vengeance tenets and--#faced with the choice of fighting my deorn foes or combatting a lesser evil i choose the greater evil #ordinary foes might win my merch but my sworn enemies do not #by any means necessary. my qualms cant get in the way of exterminating my foes #if my foes wreak ruin on the world it is bc i failed to stop them. i must help those harmed by their misdeeds #that lines up with his personality well i think XD #also one of the channel divinities inflicts fear on people #also vow of enmity where you hate someone so much you get advantage when you try to kill them #relentless avenger. if someone tries to run away from you and you hit them with an aoo you chase them #also avenging angel as the lv20 #my next paladin is going to be Oath of Vengeance Helsknight and none of my DMs are on tumblr so they cant stop me #please ignore the many spelling mistakes im sleeby and on mobile

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palidoozy-art · 2 years

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the druid of Twilight Woods is dead.

#palidoozy arts #comic #d&d #d&d art #digital art #artists on tumblr #this is especially sad because the reason Kjosev was targeted #was because he recognized the Queen as the Lord of Twilight Woods in disguise #picking out his voice #and the kings were like a dad to him #and he just straight up disintegrated him #also this is the first face-to-face encounter the players have had with the lord of twilight woods (technically in disguise as the queen)#and i have succeeded because they now fucking HATE HIM #and have sworn vengeance #the party does not have wish yet and does not have true resurrection #so he's just gone #upcoming session is the party grappling with that

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sharktoothmark · 4 months

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FMK all minthara except i want kill to be me. i want her to fuck marry and kill ME.

#bg3 #minthara #minthara baenre #wifous fury #wife of vengeance #wife sworn drow

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invinciblerodent · 5 months

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what do you mean i have a problem

..... i'll finish all of these (i have not finished even one of these)

#squirrel plays bg3 #today I wanted to dick around and made the current iteration of one of my normal DnD characters Phyr #(which is very close to Petyr now that I'm looking at it- i do pronounce them very different tho)#she was once a completely different character; a drow sorceress- now she's a tiefling oath of vengeance paladin #we'll see how long she lasts before breaking that oath (probably not long tho)#just to summarize the rest...#Petyr is the ranger-rogue half-elf boy i have for Shadowheart an Halsin #Gryven is my partner's half-drow druid for Shadowheart also #Iona is Iona; the elf sorceress for Astarion #Arvid is Gale's dwarf cleric husband and my first/main character #Tulac is my partner's human barbarian; we're unsure how he fits in #Mara is my Lolth-sworn lady-drow Dark Urge monk for Karlach #and Ray is. well he's Ray. human fighter; ex-inquisitor; fairly recent widower starting over with Wyll #I made Locust my nb dragonborn druid too tho I didn't save that #i'll remake them.... maybe sometime

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redrobin-detective · 2 years

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I’m aware that in comic book land nothing really sticks and normal rules don’t apply but I’m still lowkey surprised that Gotham let Bruce adopt Tim, Cass, (sorta) Dami and Duke when like, he had a previous foster kid die under his care in mysterious, unexplained circumstances. Like, despite his money and fame I feel like Gotham social workers should be a little more suspicious of this aloof, billionaire playboy’s activities when he’s adopting more kids after what happened to Jason.

#and you know a lot of Gotham SWs are crime alley kids grown up trying to make a difference #they take Jason's death PERSONALLY and have sworn vengeance on Bruce Wayne #AU where they make it damn near impossible for B to adopt his subsequent kids #they're doing constant spot welfare checks and pulling the kids aside and begging them to go somewhere ANYWHERE else #the Jason is legally brought back and everyone is thrown #Bruce who has been fighting for years to claim his kids suddenly gets all 4 approved in one day

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onlinesweetheart · 8 months

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#instagram #pinterest #art #classic art #painting #oil on canvas #romantic art #victorian art #romantic period #victorian period #victorian era #classic #romantic era #history #art history #Vengeance is Sworn #İntikam Yeminli #Francesco Hayez #19th century

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githvyrik · 3 months

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you ever get to a point of the dnd campaign where it’s completely unreasonable for your character to be anything but horrifically depressed

#she’s been through a lot okay #all her friends are dead or left and one of the dudes she’s been trusting to have her back for the past several in-game months #has turned out to actually be super in favor of the empire his parents have which she didn’t rly know about #and now since she’s an oath of vengeance paladin sworn to kill imperialists that’s um #not great for her mental health #and everyone’s like omg just kill him he sucks and she’s like yeah I know. that doesn’t make it easy #like ok I’ve started with depressed characters before and technically she also was that #but like. it hits different after 4 years of a campaign lol

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