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Day 12 Mask; Unlucky Unkar and Gentle Gogun are making masks for the Day of the Dead. Unkar is an expert with wood and makes a skull mask for his nephew, Troll Jim, and Gogun makes a mask for Clara. The already made masks are in a box for the Day of the Dead event.

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Thought out man kind, Humans and Trolls have been protected by the Trollhunter. Using the Amulet of MOONLIGHT.

Jim: A Troll who is found and helped by Barbara lake. Is Bular younger half brother, who despite his great size is more of a gentler side with a love and care for humans but can and will tear apart anything that hurts who he cares about. Is chosen to become the Trollhunter after the death of the last one. Needless to say, He was not trilled.

Jim is more of his beast form here, with markings that glow red when angry.

Toby: Still has the same role, and is Jims best friend. Met Jim on an outing one night and after the two hit it off. Oh the other hand, Toby is also maybe-kinda a Changling who may sort of have feelings for his firend.

Claire: A Sorceress of shadows who studied under the Mistress Morgana, She has been alive for some or so decades, waiting til the time her Mistress said she be needed. She and her friend Darcy work at Hextech part time most days. At least til the troll stuff happened. Has a bunny familiar cause i think it fits.

Tellad-Urr the Terrible: A former top soldier of Gunmar. He is a grumpy and premissic Troll who on mosts times helps with the training of Trollhunters or just looking after his Home. Not the most well liked, but no one is openly hostile with him. Mostly csuse he can still kick their butts.

Unkar the Unfortunate: The most brazen and sometimes cocky troll, he helps Tellad when it comes to training the trollhunters, when they need. Gets underestimated cause of his size not being as tall as other Trolls in the market, but is also one of the most skilled. You know when he's not getting overly cocky.

Douxie: A young wizard in training, he attends Arcadia oaks high, while working part time at a library. He is still learning the ropes, but is vastly good at his spells....most of the time. He still has Archie.

You know the stones that Vendel showed Jim to test out with the amulet? For example, when he misused the Aspectus Stone, also known as the one that created one too many Jims. 

I’d like to believe that some of the stones in that box were crafted with dark magic. Vendel specifically instructs Jim to not even dare try them, for no one knows what those stones are capable of and whether their effects are everlasting. They create risks not worth taking.

But Jim being Jim, doesn’t listen and believes that if he could make it out of the Darklands with the Triumbric Stones, which are literally tied to Gunmar’s lifeblood, then he can probaby handle other stones as well. Not to mention Claire can wield a freaking Shadow Staff and has learned dark magic too technically. She’s still getting used to it but he believes in her. And if he can believe in her, why not himself?

Yeah, kind of a bad idea. Dark magic tends to, if not always, bring out the darkest in you to face and Jim struggles with his dark side immensely. Since he has a pure heart, his dark side is even stronger. 

This is the opportunity that Hisirdoux waits for and he offers Jim help as voice in his head. Jim, misreading the situation as a past trollhunter trying to guide him (like Unkar the Unfortunate who taught him why he must be a trollhunter), accepts the offer and is then possessed.

Supergroup!

Wikipedia tells me that in music, a supergroup is a group composed of artists who have been successful on their own or in other bands. For the last week+, we have seen a series of geologic formations that make up the Grand Canyon Supergroup. Aside from making beautiful rock music (ba-dum tss), what is a supergroup to a geologist, or for that matter, a formation?

A formation is the building block of the geologic history of a spot. Geologic formations are sections of related rocks, deposited together, where the rocks have similar properties. We started at the bottom of the Grand Canyon in the Vishnu Schist – a formation defined by having been heavily metamorphosed. The Grand Canyon supergroup includes a number of different units – the Dox Formation, the Hakatai Formation, the Cardenas Formation, etc. Every one of these has something in common – the Cardenas formation is a series of igneous rocks, the Hakatai formation is a shale that has mostly turned reddish.

When you look at the Grand Canyon, you see a stairstep sequence on the side. That stairstep pattern is defined by formations. Some formations erode easily and they step backwards, some formations are strong against erosion and they stand up as cliffs.

Formations are named based on some property of where they are first described, often at an example or “type” location. The Shunimo formation, for example, is named for a site in the Grand Canyon known as Shunimo wash.

A “Group” to a geologist is made up of several formations that are somehow related. The Grand Canyon Supergroup contains 2 major “Groups” – the Unkar Group and the Chuar Group. The Unkar Group is made of the Bass Formation, the Hakatai Shale, the Dox Formation, the Shunimo Formation, and the Cardenas Formation. The first 4 formations are sedimentary rocks that formed over a billion years ago – they record sea level rising and flooding the area that is today the Grand Canyon at that time. The Cardenas formation is an igneous rock that sits on top of all those units; these rocks likely represent what was happening in the Canyon Area as a Precambrian Supercontinent formed – the predecessor to Pangaea, a supercontinent that formed about a billion years ago is known as Rodinia.

The Chuar Group contains sedimentary units including the Nankoweap Formation, the Galeros Formation, and the Kwagunt formation. These rocks represent sediments deposited in this area about 800 million to 700 million years ago – they were deposited as Rodinia rifted apart. Sediment stopped being deposited in this area at the start of the Cryogenian, a time when the full Earth’s surface was covered by glaciers.

The Chuar Group, the Unkar Group, and one more formation – the Sixtymile Formation – all of these rocks are considered part of the Grand Canyon Supergroup. The Supergroup is a package of tilted rocks found beneath the flat-lying sediments deposited in the Paleozoic. The rocks in the Grand Canyon Supergroup were once deposited as flat-lying sediments and a basaltic lava flow sequence, but a series of faults allowed those rocks to tilt early in the Cambrian. Today, the Grand Canyon Supergroup tilts off to the East by about 10 to 30°. In this photo, all of the rocks that tilt off to the right side - those are the rocks of the Supergroup.

-JBB

Image credit: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Precambrian_-_Cambrian_Unconformity_in_Grand_Canyon.jpg

Forces of Destiny

Day 14 Stone; Unkar is carving a large stone statue of Kanjigar for the museum that will soon open in Mercatroll, Kanjigar is amazed seeing how Unkar's work turns out, sometimes Unkar makes stone statues since he works more with wood.

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