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Aquilus | Bellum II | 2024

Australian Atmospheric/Folk Black Metal

Here’s the “Desmond’s ancestors gets reborn into the future as animals” idea me and @saberamane had https://www.tumblr.com/teecupangel/719043682766077952/how-about-a-reverse-of-animal-desmond-in-the-past with Altaïr as the eagle, Ezio as the bear and Ratonhnhaké:ton as the wolf (that Desmond keeps telling people is a dog even when he knew that he was a wolf). The other ancestors: Aquilus as a dog who stayed on the Farm to help Desmond escape, Haytham as a pure white fluffy cat and Edward was either a fish or a jackdaw (so we’re picking Jackdaw for this).

Other than them, I suggested the following:

Shay as a crow because of Morrígan’s primary ‘forms’

Arno as a sea otter because he shares his birthday with Rosa the Sea Otter XD

Jacob and Evie I thought of as corgis as a reference to Desmond the Dog but making them rooks would be fun. Or maybe… to mess with them. Jacob gets turned into a corgi but Evie gets turned into a rook so we have Jacob complaining that it’s not fair that Evie is the rook when the Rooks is his thing! XD

Bayek as a ram as a reference to how Amun is usually symbolized by the ram-headed sphinx.

Aya as the kind of snake she got the venom she gave to Cleopatra.

Kassandra I was going for goat because Adrestia gave goat’s milk to Zeus when he was a baby and… also… it would be funny if she thought she was being punished for the whole eye on the goat’s awss incident XD

Eivor is a raven that looks exactly like the default skin of Sýnin.

Additional ideas!

Aveline could mean ‘little bird’ so maybe some sort of small bird like a humming bird?

Adéwalé as a panther or a lion, maybe?

Nikolai as a sable.

Arbaaz as a barasingha.

Shao Jun as a red panda? Or a Chinese mountain cat?

Basim as a persian squirrel that Eivor can just grab with her beak and fly away XD

Aquilus - Bellum II 

Aquilus | Bellum II

Even though this is a blog about Halloween, that doesn't mean we can’t recognize the season of Autumn. With the season arriving, here are ten albums that I like to spin a lot during this time of the year. 

A Diadem of Dead Stars | The Furrow of Woes 

Agalloch | Of Stone, Wind and Pillor 

Drudkh | Somewhere Sadness Wanders 

Woods of Desolation | Sorh 

Drudkh | Autumn Aurora 

Panopticon | Autumn Aurora 

Coldworld | Autumn 

Aquilus | Griseus 

The Nightly Disease | Smell of Burning Wood 

Assassin’s Creed Empire The Ascentors and descendants

Desmond Miles and Aquilus of Rome

Callum Lynch and Alexios (Kassandra) of Sparta

Layla Hassan and Bayek of siwa

Otso Berg Juhani and Eivor Varinsson