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Giles Mutterscrawl @mutterscrawl.myatproto.social · 24/07/2026

Literally anyone from Supergiant games but especially the Kid or Zagreus

Zagreus from the game Hades.

A pale young man with black hair adorned with a red and yellow laurel wreath. His right eye is red and his left eye is green. He has three doglike skulls on his left shoulder. He wears a black and red cloth cinched around his waist with a belt made of three stylized skulls. His expression is a smile of casual confidence.

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Giles Mutterscrawl @mutterscrawl.myatproto.social · 08/06/2026

I... have to admit a history where resurgent lizardmen kick colonists out of the New World would be a lot of fun.

A group of lizardmen (Nakai the Wanderer a massive Kroxigor, and several skinks), overlook a burning human city and their fleeing ships.

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Giles Mutterscrawl @mutterscrawl.myatproto.social · 04/06/2026

Yulan DLC is out for #SongsOfConquest Really looking forward to the lore reveals in this one.

Images of the three 'Transcendants' from each of the Three Houses of Yulan.

On the left is an image of House Sheng's representative Yubo the Howler who has a 'Sun Wukong' inspired appearance with what appear to be amber horns growing from their face, and glowing eyes.

House Li's representative in the middle is Shan the Unbroken, a transcendant with blue eyes and flesh like cracked stone.

Meilin is the representative of House Xuan who has glowing green eyes and an appearance as if she's constantly being torn apart by lightning.

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Giles Mutterscrawl @mutterscrawl.myatproto.social · 03/06/2026

Paranatural is good, I should catch up with it.

A panel from the webcomic Paranatural by Zack Morrison

The left side shows deuteragonist Isabel while the right panel shows her spirit partner 'Eightfold'.

Text reads "The heart's the same way. It gets dirty. Things you pick up, things you're taught... they stick to it. An'there's no flutter or feelin' that isn't filtered through all that stuff."

Second panel "Having the instinct to help people is wonderful but... if you've... learned to believe that someone's less than people... that can only go so far."

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Giles Mutterscrawl @mutterscrawl.myatproto.social · 02/06/2026

Oh man this is INCREDIBLY good that they don't use AI but it's also so damn sad that something as simple as a text generator has to bother to specify that they don't use the plagiarism engines because of how cancerous LLM bullshit has gotten.

Text reading "Pixelframe is dedicated to providing quality, original, human-written content on a variety of topics in the design world, including: Expert articles, design tips and tutorials, trending topics, and culture.

Learn more about us and how the generators work (they don't use AI).

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Giles Mutterscrawl @mutterscrawl.myatproto.social · 16/05/2026

Wardrummers is a fun game. This is a really clever design for a 'divine servant' type character for a musical deity. She's a resonating crystal!

A red crystalline humanoid wearing blue clothes, their arms folded inside the blue cloth with floating red horseshoe shapes with gold runes on them.

Text reads "Greetings, Wardrummers. My name is *rhythmic sounds*, but you may call me D'jembe."

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Giles Mutterscrawl @mutterscrawl.myatproto.social · 08/04/2026

#warcraft #midnightspoilers No... No Thalyssra... no it's not? It was a nelf druid who helped you? I... am I misremembering legion yall? Because I could've sworn the belfs didn't help en masse until well after the Arcan'dor was up and running and that they had nothing to do with the fruit.

Text that reads:

First Arcanist Thalyssra says: The fruit of the Arcan'dor can cleanse all manner of magic. I'm certain it will do so here.

Lor'themar Theron says: I know this is no small thing you offer us. silvermoon owes you a debt of gratitude.

First Arcanist Thalyssra says: Nonsense, my love. That we have the fruit at all is in no small part thanks to the sin'dorei.

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Giles Mutterscrawl @mutterscrawl.myatproto.social · 04/04/2026

With the recent stuff going on in #warcraft I suggest anyone who likes Forsaken themes and what Sylv used to be before BFA/SL check out the Rise Eternal DLC for Songs of Conquest. Loth has interesting parallels with both the Scourge and the Forsaken and I'm curious to see what people think.

Pixel art of an undead man in a hood holding a purple banner and a book, standing in a graveyard.

The text reads: 'Dirt... pressure... reach... pull... pull... pull... Free.'

Pixel art, an undead man in a hood stands in a graveyard with the text "Bound to Her"

A living cultist in purple robes stands across from Kastus Maal an undead man in a purple hood and carrying a banner and a book amidst blighted ruins and graves.

The text reads : "Not all who swear the Oath do rise. Wait. You are different from the others. You speak coherently."

An undead man in a purple hood, Kastus Maal, saying "The oath can be sworn without being truly believed. Words and mind need to be aligned." to the cultist amidst the blighted graveyard.

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Giles Mutterscrawl @mutterscrawl.myatproto.social · 01/03/2026

leading a bunch of half-mindless bones jumbled up together or fed to rats that desiccates the land around them. "They'll TOTALLY fix the environmental damage later guys, honest! But in the meantime, Utopia Justifies the means!" Kastus is called out as a family man, a husband, a father.

Kastus Maal, A skeletal figure in a fine purplish-blue hood with fine gold trim.

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Giles Mutterscrawl @mutterscrawl.myatproto.social · 24/02/2026

One of the things I love about songs of Conquest is it gives SO MANY different perspectives through each of the campaigns, you get an understanding of how each faction sees all of the others and why they don't get along and they're ALL right and wrong in their own ways.

Cecilia Stoutheart, the Arleon campaign protagonist, stands over a body.

The text reads: "A dead Commander: The dead commander wore Stoutheart colors and the distinctive sign of the Corvus Reserves. Stolen ore was one thing, but an uprising against Stoutheart troops was more serious."

The Rana campaign protagonist Rasc stands in the smoldering ruins of the mine he was freed from in front of the Mercenary Captain Silkspool who freed him.

The text reads: Rasc of Southcreek Flats had been a slave of the Baryans since he was taken from the Marsh as a youngling. Day after day he and the other spawnlings toiled in the mines. He had accepted his fate, and the fate of the Rana, for it all seemed hopeless. That was, until today.

Baron Aldus, the first character you play in the Loth campaign but NOT its protagonist, stands above text in a dark forest on the path to a Shrine.

Collecting The Tribute: Baron Aldus of Loth had traveled to the southern point of his barony to collect the taxes owed from his remote villages and to claim a hefty sum of gold from the Baryan House of Fairbrand, who hd been leasing his lands in exchange for gold.

Bihgli Satherdown the Baryan protagonist stands above text in a rugged canyon:

A Debt To Pay: Bihgli Satherdown, an old tinkersmith from the Azure Oasis had received a letter from his Debtholder Xavier silkspool. Now he was on his way to deliver troops and his services for Debtholder Silkspool's new contract.

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Giles Mutterscrawl @mutterscrawl.myatproto.social · 21/02/2026

Sand Manta ray! Manta ray of the sand! Another Rise of Legends monster.

A brown manta ray that hovers over sand and has glass spikes grow out of its body, it has a saddle and other adornments on it.

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Giles Mutterscrawl @mutterscrawl.myatproto.social · 21/02/2026

The Alin are such a cool faction, I wish the Rise of Legends games got a revival or something in that vein, it's such a shame for a game with such a distinctive visual identity to essentially be forgotten cause the old source code is gone.

Damanhur a fiery winged dragon woman with a serpentine lower body.

Andromolek a middle eastern soldier with an arm mounted crossbow.

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Giles Mutterscrawl @mutterscrawl.myatproto.social · 21/02/2026

Gotta shoutout this cool rune-bear-man from Rise of Legends cancelled 'Skald' faction.

Skald Unit Ideas by Jason Gillen 2006

It shows a massive bear man that has a somewhat baboon-like face shape, a mohawk, glowing blue rune sigils on each of its arms just below the shoulder, and shields braided into its fur around its chest and shoulders.

Its posture is mostly bipedal with its foreclaws in front of it almost as if it would walk on its knuckles like a gorilla.

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Giles Mutterscrawl @mutterscrawl.myatproto.social · 08/02/2026

Really love the #SongsOfConquest game, it's very similar to #HoMM so I definitely encourage anyone waiting for #OldenEra to give it a try. What's your favorite faction? My personal favorite is the Rana.

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Giles Mutterscrawl @mutterscrawl.myatproto.social · 24/01/2026

Commissioned so many years ago I tragically cannot remember the artist who did the work, I was young and dumb and thought my memory would be perfect for Important Things forever.

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Giles Mutterscrawl @mutterscrawl.myatproto.social · 13/01/2026

Man I really love this map from #SongsOfConquest Though it makes me want one made by the Rana for the Deep Marsh to show how they view the world... or a map of the areas they've taken from Barya, which would be fun symmetry. Barya doing the Map of the Marsh and the Rana doing the Map of Barya.

A map of the Marshes of Rana by the Explorer's Guild of Easthaven

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Giles Mutterscrawl @mutterscrawl.myatproto.social · 13/12/2025

Behold my new OC Ssah'lar! Blessed Spawning of Chotec, Devoted of Sotek, and bringer of fiery death to servants of Chaos and the Horned Rat! #lizardmen #skink #wfrp Art I commissioned from the very awesome www.instagram.com/divide.art/ from the Lorebeards / Loremaster of Sotek discord. 1/5

Ssah'lar A teal scaled skink (a form of 'lizardman') priest from the Warhammer Fantasy setting. They have an orange frilled crest and a golden headdress containing a large orange jewel with grey feathers attached, the headdress has beaded chains two of which hang free and one of which runs to their nose.

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Giles Mutterscrawl @mutterscrawl.myatproto.social · 02/12/2025

Does anyone have a version of the #Torchlight 3 map without the logo?

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Giles Mutterscrawl @mutterscrawl.myatproto.social · 01/12/2025

Rise of Legends, yet another game that had the misfortune of trying to be a unique new RTS at a time when Warcraft, Starcraft and Command&Conquer dominated the market. Behold the Industrious Vinci, the Magical Alin, and the Enigmatic Coutl!

A giant mechanical spider with drill arms

A glass dragon, the main body is tan, with its eyes and the spines along its back being like pale green and blue glass, while its wing membranes are purple with patches of green and purple coloration.

Coutl 'God' statues, made of grey and brown stone for the moon and sun gods respectively, with teal light animating between sections of stone and a glowing blue light in a halo above the moon god while a glowing orange light hovers above the sun god.

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Giles Mutterscrawl @mutterscrawl.myatproto.social · 01/12/2025

Universe at War, another game that deserved more love...

Masari figures, godlike beings that resemble humans but have golden armor.

Novus figures, silver and blue robotic beings utilizing nanites.

Hierarchy figures, grey aliens with ominous red and black armor, using sickly green radiation weapons.

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Giles Mutterscrawl @mutterscrawl.myatproto.social · 01/12/2025

This setting had such potential, shame it never got any sequels or spinoffs. But Goblin Commander will always have a special place in my heart.

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Giles Mutterscrawl @mutterscrawl.myatproto.social · 01/12/2025

I frickn love this art but I have no clue who did it.

A lineup of various gryphons in styles inspired by different cultures.

On the left is the Axex with a slender feline body, wings, and a black mark on the neck, then the Hieracoxphinx with no wings and a falcon head and a lion body, then a Minoan Griffin which has a white body rarely has wings and red feathers on its head, a Classic Griffin with donkey ears and eagle forelegs, an Opinicus which has lion forelegs and no ears and a camel tail, and the Keythong which are all male and have spikes but no wings.

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Giles Mutterscrawl @mutterscrawl.myatproto.social · 01/12/2025

Banner Saga had such an amazing art direction.

A lineup of various Banner Saga characters, with a human bowman on the far left, then a human 'weaver' or spellcaster, then a Varl with one broken horn and two axes, then a centaur woman, then a member of the 'Dredge' or Stoneborn, then a human shieldbearer, another smaller Stoneborn with a sling weapon, a varl with a sword and shield, a Varl with a two handed sword, and another human archer.

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Giles Mutterscrawl @mutterscrawl.myatproto.social · 01/12/2025

Man I REALLY wish more concept art from SEVERED were on the internet, this game had SUCH a cool spooky eldritch-organic vibe going on.

A young woman with a severed left arm in a tan dress with a purple sash around her waist. She has light brown skin with black hair, yellow eyes, a red band in her hair, and she is splattered with blood.

She is looking into a mirror holding a sword, its hilt is vaguely organic with an eye on it.

A creature with a mouth but no eyes, a ribcage but no skin or flesh, wearing a dark black cloak, offers an organic sword with an eye on the hilt to the viewer.

Its body has no legs or internal organs, it floats and appears to be made of red organic strands that run through its ribcage.

The young woman, adorned with the bodyparts of many monsters, and having recovered her arm, though it is warped by the realm she has traveled through, looks into a mirror.

She is almost unrecognizable, looking much like the monsters she has slain in her journey.

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Giles Mutterscrawl @mutterscrawl.myatproto.social · 01/12/2025

Well that is definitely some Hashalaq Quori vibes eberron.fandom.com/wiki/Hashala...

Hashalaq are vaguely humanoid in shape, but the resemblance is so slight that it barely applies even to their silhouette. When viewed in detail, hashalaq quori have a centipede-like body structure, but one that is made up of countless swarming blue tendrils. The tendrils that make up their many appendages form the vague implication of hands at the end of their arms. Where the head would be, there is instead only a glowing blue light that shines from within the tendrils, and in place of humanoid legs the tendrils trail off into a whispy, tail-like structure. Though this is their default and most common form, hashalaq quori are said to be able to use their flexible tendrils to reshape their bodies into myriad other forms

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Giles Mutterscrawl @mutterscrawl.myatproto.social · 28/11/2025

Just realized I never posted this Art I commissioned from the amazing Janjems www.artstation.com/janjems_1210 Featuring a fun crossover between the worlds of #SongsOfConquest and #Warhammer Tehenhauin and Rasc are both Prophetic heroes with 'Beast' based magic and Hillar and Ikit are mad scientists

Four characters battle, on the top left is a Warhammer Fantasy character Tehenhauin who is a Red Crested Skink Lizardman and Prophet of the serpent god Sotek wielding the Blade of the Serpent's Tongue in left hand and the Sacred Gold Plaque of Sotek in his right, opposite them on the top left is Ikit Claw a type of rat man known as a Skaven, who is the chief Warlock Engineer of clan Skryre and adorned in warpstone power armor

Bottom left is Rasc, a Frogling from the Rana faction of Songs of Conquest wielding the ingame item 'Beak of the Beast' in both hands and having a 'Clockwork Bird' on his shoulder, facing off against Brother Hillar, a human Magus of the Unseen Society and part of the Loth faction, he wears fine purple clothes and a cloak, as well as a gold headband.

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Giles Mutterscrawl @mutterscrawl.myatproto.social · 30/10/2025

#DispatchGame This is... honestly one of the funniest bits in the game so far to me, I love how matter of fact the two of them are about it.

Phenomaman, a powerfully built older male hero with brown hair, in a red, gold and blue outfit, with muttonchop mustache/beard and brown hair, and very dark circles under his eyes from serious emotional distress. He has a serious expression, and a hand on the shoulder of a skinnier man with no beard and lighter brown hair who is facing towards Phenomaman.

The text reads

Phenomaman: "It seems the velocity with which I sat up has shot shards of glass into your chest."

Robert Robertson the Third, a thin man in a blue shirt, looks down at small shards of glass sticking through his shirt and embedded in his chest.

The text reads

Robert: "Oh, shit."

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Giles Mutterscrawl @mutterscrawl.myatproto.social · 29/10/2025

#SongsOfSilence So continuing our lore discussion and early analysis of the campaign with Queen Lorelai we're going to talk a bit about the neutral units, starting with the Vogelfrey Infantry. The Vogelfrey flavor text helps put something I love about the setting's worldbuilding into context 1/7

Songs of Silence unit Vogelfrey Infantry with the traits Starborn, Infantry, Rogue

The image shows three individuals with blue feathered clothes, one of whom is bald with an orange scarf and two others whom are hooded, trading with a merchant in more typical blue and gold clothes, with piles of coins and scales on the table between them.

The text reads:
Marauders who find strength in numbers.

There are many reasons for which one can be expelled from a High house - theft, blasphemy, treason, or simply a cheeky mouth. The outcasts bear the mark of Ezra the Traitor, often accompanied by the horns of Talis if they have joined the Konkorda rogues.

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Giles Mutterscrawl @mutterscrawl.myatproto.social · 27/10/2025

The Starborn and Firstborn, and this extended to the Celestial gods and Primordials. Ultimately the Starborn were victorious, but at the end of the conflict the 'Arch-Traitor' Ezra divided the world into two, so the Firstborn and Starborn could each have their own home, but as a consequence 4/15

A man with no eyes, wavy brown hair, and a white shawl over blue clothes, stands with arms outstretched, behind him an immense golden aura with a similar appearance stands, but the aura has eyes.

The text below him reads: "in a desperate bid for survival, Ezra the arch-traitor and his Firstborn kin tore the world asunder"

Two planets, the one on the left, Irdheim, is cloudy grey with lines of gold stretching off of it, while the one on the right, Sonnan, is much more earthlike with blue seas, green continents, and white clouds.

A red orb with a black core and tendrils tinged with gold sits between the two worlds, connecting them and consuming them, representing The Silence and its Purgatories.

The text below the image reads: A Force beyond even the reach of gods.

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Giles Mutterscrawl @mutterscrawl.myatproto.social · 27/10/2025

Lived in a world of darkness under an immense layer of clouds, these are the 'Old Race' or 'Firstborn' faction, in classic tower of babel faction, their ancient civilization built tall towers which drew the attention of Celestial gods which gave humans eyes, unfortunately war broke out between 3/15

A primordial god, a vaguely humanoid figure of stone with veins of light running through its body on the left, faces off against a celestial god on the right, a golden being with many arms and blazing fire coming off of is body.

A mountain and a flock of birds is caught between them to show the apocalyptic scale of their conflict.

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Giles Mutterscrawl @mutterscrawl.myatproto.social · 27/10/2025

Whew, very busy last few days, sorry all, but it's time for our lore review of the Thousand Kingdoms faction, the World of #SongsOfSilence as a whole, and the early campaign! Here's the game manual bit about the Thousand Kingdoms, mostly mechanics focused (which we'll touch on) but it sets the 1/15

The Thousand Kingdoms faction from the Songs of Silence game manual

An icon in the upper right shows a Thousand Kingdoms city in Sonnan, the world of Light with tall towers flying blue banners, a noble on the street amidst a crowd, and two onlookers on a wooden platform in the foreground.

in the bottom left three icons showing gold coins, stone and wood, and starlight, sit on a connected circle.

The text reads:

The Thousand Kingdoms focus on reclaiming their lost lands and have an expansionist playstyle. They are at home in the World of Light, Sonnan.

They need to protect their locations and see them grow to high Prosperity Levels. This will unlock powerful units and bolster a strong economy.

Since they are prosperous and blessed by the Celestial gods, all of their locations grow at a rate of 2 Prosperity points per turn, twice as much as other factions! In addition they have access to buildings which increase the Prosperity growth further.

The Thousand Kingdoms use Gold to recruit basic units, and Building Material to upgrade their locations. Their unique resource is called Divine Favor. It represents the support they receive from the Guiding Star and its pantheon of Celestial gods. It is mainly granted through temples and spent on summoning Celestial units or blessings from the gods.

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