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Nisarga Art Hub, Ernakulam, India,
Wallmakers,
Photography: © Syam Sreesylam
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“Chuzhi” (Whirlpool), Shoolagiri, Tamil Nadu, India,
Wallmakers
#art#design#architecture#interiors#india#sustainable architecture#sustainability#chuzhi#whirlpool#tamil nadu#wallmakers#spiral#camouflage architecture#vernacular#vinu daniel
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Wallmakers designed Toy Storey Residence in Vatakara, India -- via ArchDaily
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@necromycologist #👀 prev im begging you to elaborate on your vision for them
oh my god. im so sorry. I have can't shut up disease. so many series spoilers here we go
for context, these were my tags on user cemeterything 's post featuring this gem:
#nick & sam mutually in the trilogy postcanon I made up in my head #shut up you're not transmuting into a sword and/or stone and I'm not becoming primordial destructive light let's think this through #very much IF I CAN'T NEITHER CAN YOU
ok I gotta bring up Nehima
The ancient Clayr made sure that the sword Nehima and the Dark Mirror found their way to Lirael. Lirael in turn will find Sameth, who passes the bells and the Book on to her. Eventually, she passes the panpipes and then Nehima on to him so that he can forge what they will need to defeat Orannis. This sword bears the inscription: 'Remember the Wallmakers. Remember me.'
Now, here's this passage from the very beginning of Abhorsen, which has been the rock in the shoe of my brain since I read it:
"He was a Wallmaker as well as a royal prince, but what did that mean? The Wallmakers had disappeared millennia ago, putting themselves into the creation of the Wall and the great Charter Stones—quite literally, as far as Sam knew. For a moment he wondered if that would be his destiny too. Would he have to make something that would end his life? At least as a living, breathing man? For the Wallmakers weren't exactly dead, Sam thought, remembering the great Charter Stones and the Wall. They were more transformed, or transfigured, not that he fancied that either. In any case he was far more likely to simply get killed..."
Nehima made something that ended her life, at least as a living, breathing woman. 🤷♀️
With Sam's canonical fear of capital D 'Death' Still Very Much Existing, I feel like the best course re: future character development would have been to dig into the tension between immortality as a construct/weapon vs. accepting death and deciding to be fully human. Is that very narrow eternal life as a part of the Wall, or a weapon to be wielded, or a Charter Stone… tempting? terrifying? Does he feel becoming some kind of weapon or tool is inevitable? Has he ever wondered what the inscription on whatever remains of him should be? Has he written it somewhere and burned it like all those letters to his parents he was too afraid to send?
Time and again in the books, Sam thinks to himself how glad he is that he's not the Abhorsen and how happy he is to be able to make things, to be Of Use to the Abhorsen/the Kingdom. He feels awful about what he considers his moments of cowardice and his abandonment of his responsibilities. I think he's in the perfect pressure cooker to be an enormous idiot about what duty calls him to do, while also struggling internally with his own fears. 'I can make this ultimate sacrifice... and also not die.... am I being a coward.... no one has to know.... is this a fate worse than death?... maybe I deserve that. maybe what I deserve has nothing to do with it, and this is simply what I must do, just as the Abhorsens must walk in Death...'
I think Nick needs to kick him in the shins about it (ughgbhfhfhh there's that part in one of the later letters Nick writes in the books that's like 'come here and tell me I'm being a stupid asshole so I stop being a stupid asshole'... fave. this vibe, both ways.) Sam never got to see Nick possessed by Orannis so I feel like Nick should get to deal with Sam, sometimes unsettling conduit for The Charter's intent. ('I Didn't Get Possessed In His Place And Temporarily Die For This!')
and Nick!!! arghhh WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE THE SURVIVING VESSEL OF ORANNIS?! his skeptic's worldview is shattered! he's traumatized! he's IRRADIATED! he has sooo much to feel guilty about and thinks he has to make up for, especially with regards to what he thinks he owes the Kingdom and the survivors of Forwin Mill.... but his very existence disrupts the Charter. Not too long ago, he was walking talking anathema to life itself. also he has these weird temptations to shuck off his mortal body and become a being of pure Free Magic??? Is it worse that he's still alive, because he's so dangerous? He came back from Death, why him when so many others died? Shouldn't he have just taken what was left of the hemispheres' powers to the grave with him? I'm sure he gets in his head about 'I need to do something with this life I got to return to because otherwise...'
obligation v. guilt v. desire. basically so much trauma and also Need To Make It Right. Sam would kick him in the shins about it except then he'd have to recognize the self in the other and 😬 he's probably still emotionally recovering from Nick saying those exact words to him and coughing his dying blood on his face. I digress
I think too that even though nick's irradiated and the Charter goes all wonky around him, the fact that the baptism took and the mark stays Means Something, and I choose to believe that in this strange way Nick is the new walking talking Destroyer, and that remnant of the Destroyer which exists as Nick wants to be a part of the Charter this time around, and with Sam having so many of the bloodlines it's just.... the most bizarre mutual understanding of what being alive means, as kids who used to vault desks at boarding school and also as... living manifestations of the cycle of creation and destruction. and they both have to constantly grab each other by the scruff of the neck to remind each other they're allowed to live too, not just throw themselves "into the making" like the Bright Shiners
(at my Most Bittersweet I think about how maybe it's Sam who passes away first, and until the very moment he goes, Nick can't quite believe he actually decided to die a man and not forge himself into some other thing. they had of course talked about it before but there was always a part of Nick that wondered...
and when he does cross into the River, Nick is the one to perform the final rites and burn his body so it can't be used because oh boy he Gets It)
#SORRY I'VE BEEN THIS WAY ABT THESE TWO SINCE LIKE 7TH GRADE#I THINK I STOPPED MAKING SENSE BUT. WHATEVER I LOVE THE WALLMAKERS I'M ROTATING THEM IN MY MIND ALWAYS#long post#under the cut at least dkfnf#also they should kiss#old kingdom posting
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'toy storey residence' designed by wallmakers (architects) in vatakara, kerala, india. photos by syam sreesylam and posted to archdaily
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Old Kingdom au!Fëanor wants to he Abhorsen like his father before him so bad that it makes him look stupid. He wants to be Abhorsen like his father before him so bad that he makes an entirely new set of Charter-infused necromantic bells just to prove that he can wield such powerful, important, approximately sacred tools. He manages this because he is, of course, a Wallmaker, not an Abhorsen. They do become the Abhorsen’s main set henceforth, after the originals are destroyed when Fingolfin tries to 1v1 Orannis.
Hm, actually, the relationship between divinities and people is all but inverted between these two media. I need to think about this some more.
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Spiral house in India
by Wallmakers
#architecture#arquitectura#art#diseno#arquitectura contemporanea#architectural design#contemporary architecture#design#diseno arquitectonico#houses#contemporary houses
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I'm curious as to why the Chief Librarian of the Clayr has a sword (probably made by the Wallmakers) named Binder. It's for me thinking that the Great Library of the Clayr has always been a repository for the Free Magic beings they couldn't destroy easily and could only bind. That the Library maybe used to send out teams to bind creatures and bring them back for storage (and probably stored ones bound by the Abhorsen outside of what could safely be stored under the House). That to be Chief Librarian means to be a master combat wizard (but probably meant that more in the beginning and during the Interregnum). I would love to read a story of an acquisitions team in any era of the Old Kingdom.
Additionally, who made the decisions about how to "shelve" these acquisitions? Who decided to build the rooms the Stilken was stored in, with the seven plinths and the oak tree? Was the tree a seedling when planted, or an old oak even then?
I could read entire series about just the Great Library of the Clayr.
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3-Minute Corridor Pavilion by WallMakers https://thisispaper.com/mag/3-minute-corridor-pavilion-wallmakers
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For the drawing ask-6 for the Old Kingdom royal family-either siblings of Ellimere and Sameth or any permutation that you'd like but a combo with Sameth. He's my favorite and there's not enough art of him. Love your art.
Drawing Ask Game: 6 - A family dynamic
Sameth & Ellimere (Old Kingdom/Abhorsen Series)
Thank you for the ask! There really isn’t enough art of Sameth or Ellimere, so this was fun to do. I have this headcanon that they visit Ancelstierre once in a while mostly so that I can dress them in, uh, contemporary clothing. I also like the idea of Ellimere in pant suits. Can’t remember if there are colors associated with the Wallmakers, so Sameth is in the blue/silver of Sabriel’s abhorsen coat, and Ellimere is in the royal red/gold of their father.
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99 luftballoons and dealers choice
99 91 cause your girl did not have enough songs.
Arrows in the Night--Sword. So have an Abhorsen/Old Kingdom Trilogy AU
The wraith aren’t the only thing to be frightened of, in Pegasus. They’re the main thing, but not the only thing.
Ronon has spent many hours, many days, many years being frightened, being anxious, being hunted—by Wraith, by the undead, by various necromancers seeking to use him as bait—and he’s used to it, used to fighting and running and the slide of his sword through undead flesh. Used to waiting through the long, cold dark, a ring of torches and a diamond of protection all that stood between him and the Final Gate.
But this time, he’s not alone.
Teyla, Abhorsen-In-Waiting, sits beside him, her own sword drawn. There is frost riming her eyelashes, her bells and her blade, and a chill emanates from her skin as she walks in Death, searching for her father.
There is a scion of a forgotten crown standing on Teyla’s other side, dark eyes glittering in the dark, menace in his drawn blade. John—such a prosaic, commonplace name, for one who would be crowned—provided, of course, they didn’t die tonight.
And their final member, the Wallmaker—chatty and volatile, usually: but tonight he is silent, pouring over the notes left by a long-dead Abhorsen, desperate to find a way to increase the power of the bells, to defeat the Wraithqueen once and for all.
The abandoned shack is rickety, and the fire is low; they may not make it out alive. Ronon's used to that.
But then, they might; and Ronon, for the first time in years, has hope.
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Wallmakers designed Chuzhi House in Shoolagiri, India -- via ArchDaily
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Hi! I said I wasn't going to write it, but now I'm working on a Witness/Abhorsen cross over. (Hopefully something will actually come out of it that I can post.) But! I was wondering if I could bounce ideas off of you for how an Abhorsen could fit into Witness' religious hierarchy? I like Witness' set up but I also like the hereditary nature of the Abhorsen, so I've been trying to decide how to fit the Witnesses vel ama alongside the office.
ouuu yeah, this is the big question, isn't it!!! i keep poking at it too (hopeful project once celebros and i knock the pirate au out) and it's so tricky to tweak the old kingdom lore to fit!!!! i'd be super happy to brainstorm with you!!!!!!!
i've been thinking about witnesses vel ama as sort of third party bastions of the charter as a whole, either for individual charter stones, or representatives of the four bloodlines (like you have a Witness for the Wallmakers to represent their interests in total—which gets especially interesting if you elect to play with a kingdom closer in its political climate to the first old kingdom book, wherein the old kingdom's government is entirely destabilized and they've lost track of all the bloodlines but the abhorsen and the clayr, bc a witness for the wallmakers gets especially heady in an instance where they're speaking for a bloodline thought to be extinct!!)
but then you could have a sort of religious hierarchy built on the Nine Bright Shiners, which would absolutely rip, like taking the goblin emperor's pantheon and translating them into free magic entities?? imagine like... salezheio....... as a mogget analog............ (i know mogget isn't one of the bell spirits but come on, if salezheio was anyone, she'd be the tricksiest little shit) and astarael -> ulis?? orshan -> kibeth, and thus the disreputable dog????? very very good—and then a faith system that still cleaves to the shiners as protecting spirits of a sort that have been immortalized as gods??
plus!! then you get a deeper allegory of spiritual corruption on the part of necromancers who warp the bells' power to defy the charter and raise the dead, rather than quelling them—literal rejection/bastardization of the gods of the land and the system of power they gave to the world
god and like... there could be a fun but probably useless bit of conflict about there being a witness vel ama for the abhorsen (think like the witness vel ama for the emperor) but thara is also the witness vel ama for the dead as a whole? witness v witness, FIGHT!!! no idea who that other witness would be, but it's just fun to think about!!!!!
sorry this got away from me uHH feel free to DM me and we can chat there or i'd be happy to transition to discord!!!!!!!!! this is such an exciting thing to poke at!!!
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i think abt this mashup like once a week at least
#but bc my brain works the way it does it's not about ff7 it's about prince sameth oldkingdom#SPOILERS BUT#realized on a drive that the wallmaker thing hurts my feelings in a way similar to the cetra#i am shaking that series like a vending machine for scraps of wallmaker lore c o n s t a n t l y that shit is fucked up!!!!!!!!!#what do you mean you gave the kid who ends up afraid of death the legacy of those with life eternal but at the cost of their humanity#AND ABSOLUTELY NO GUIDANCE. HE'S THE ONLY ONE. THEYVE BEEN GONE FOR MILLENIA.#and the narrative just. didnt. explore that exact particular thing.#im filing for custody of character#that kid had to transmute a sword that was already once a human into an executioner's blade which would 'die' once it met with its purpose#I AM IN THESE PARTICULAR NARRATIVE WALLS EVEN IF NIX DOESN'T WANT TO BE#also also. I just think he could open his mouth but belgaer is the one speaking. sometimes. just for fun.
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Hogar indio recupera más de 6.000 juguetes desechados Toy Storey de la India, de Wallmaker... https://ujjina.com/hogar-indio-recupera-mas-de-6-000-juguetes-desechados/?feed_id=563325&_unique_id=65f869177aba5
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