#sheperds

Elegant Shepherdess Listening to a Shepherd Playing the Recorder in an Arcadian Landscape

Artist: Govaert Flinck (Dutch, 1615-1660)

Date: 1654

Medium: Oil on canvas

By Airk Seablade

Shepherds is a Powered by the Apocalypse game of hopeful JRPG heroics. You play as members of a League of professional do-gooders that works a little bit like a fantasy humanitarian aid association.

Strongly inspired by the Trails series of JRPGs, Shepherds tells a tale of young people doing their best for others, and forging bonds of friendship even as they struggle with their own issues and stand up to the machinations of tragic villains. They'll give heroic speeches, throw themselves into the path of danger, and draw strength from the people they've helped along the way.

Features include a selection of archetypal but highly customizable Stories that provide background and XP triggers; resources that help you succeed and avoid harm and which are restored by talking to your friends and helping people; Trust, which grows as the Shepherds work together and allows them to face more dangerous obstacles; a process of Growing Up where the actions that get you XP change as your character advances.

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The Adoration of the Shepherds

And a farmer who herds sheeps is a sheepherd,

And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid. I bring you good news that will cause great joy for all the people. Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is the Messiah, the Lord.

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Luke 2:8-11

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         Merry Christmas my dear followers!! This blog will be completely impossible without you, and with that I want to say my deep and heartfelt thank you!! To celebrate the yuletide mood here are different depictions of the Gorgeous Paintings of the Nativity, Magi, and Shepherds

link:http://www.catholichousehold.com/birth-of-jesus-in-art-20-paintings-of-the-nativity/

1. The Adoration of the Kings from the Monforte Altarpiece

2. The Adoration of the Shepherds also by Hugo van der Goes

3. Adoration of the Kings, by Abraham Bloemaert

4. Adoration of the Kings by Giuseppe Chiari

5. Adoration of the Kings by Gerard de Laresse 

6. Adoration of the Kings by Master of Perea

7. Adoration of the Kings by Joseph Adam Ritter von Mölk 

8. Adoration of the Magi by Peter Paul Rubens