#ipso facto

Gothic Beauty: Issue 11

Published: Winter 2003

Red clay

Water from a fast flowing river

(both hint at my birth grounds)

An axolotl (figurine! If you put an actual live axolotl in the concoction instead you will in fact brew a potion of insta-death (by my hand))

Weeping willow's tendril (I love that tree, it's my blog's header)

Snowflake obsidian (important symbol of love and affection (to me))

Raspberries (and like Panoramix I would insist they are ABSOLUTELY fresh)

That's how you brew a concoction of Create Mark. Coincidentally, if you swap out the water from a fast flowing river for Eva Green's bath water, you brew the concoction of Summon Mark.

Alea iacta est / Iacta alea est

"The die is cast"

Attributed to Caesar, possibly borrowed by him to others

Supposedly ceaser said it first in its more modern meaning. The old one was literally just to state that a game had started, but now its more akin to the phrase "crossing the rubicon" Also the best ending in Armored core 6 is called alea iacta est. Also also its very important in Mobile Suit Gundam: Witch from Mercury.

Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon (a river) –and hence entered Italy– at the head of his army, which was symbolically as good as a declaration of war, in order to piss off the Senate which was quite wary of Caesar's power -and eventually decided to get rid of him but that's another story)

Used in many languages to say a point of no return has been reached.

Ipso facto

"By the fact itself"

Means that something is a direct consequence of an action