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KrzyΕΌowiec (Crusader) Seweryn Thollot.After the oil crisis off 2015 and the breakout of the first genetic plague in 2017, the former world order collapsed and a new era known as the second dark age begun.
The Weimar triangle Kingdom was built upon the ashes of Poland, Germany and France and became the last island of civilization in an european ocean of barbary.
During year 2053, mutants where declared as heretics at the Council of Warsaw, and Pope Gelasius III called upon all Christians to join a war against them and to find the root of all evil.
As the genetic knights [link] were patroling the borders and hunting down the mutants roaming the marches of the kingdom, the Crusaders led punitive expeditions deep into the wasteland.
They soon acquired colossal amounts of plunder and built dominions becoming more and more independent from the royal power.
Generations later, historians discovered that this expansion period was also built on numerous exactions, including against non-mutant populations.
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Great piece "hermano". Love the background and those birds up in the sky. There must be death all over this here place. Even with the background all blurry, I can still smell destruction, hunger, andger and disease. Not that I'd like for this to happen to us, but as far as art goes? You did make me feel like I am that guy. Standing guard, ready to shoot all those who come close to my beloved city. Can you imagine?
Any way, sorry for the long, long story. I can't believe I have to type 100 words as a minimum.
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Hello Vilk! Hope you're doing well?
Nice work this one, by the way. It's very vivid and realistic!
Although I must say I loathe crusaders. And templars and paladins and anything of the like. Too self righteous.
But if I was to live in your futuristic world, I would probably be a genetic knight, guarding the borders. Unless there is some sentient mutant village in the wasteland to retire to.
Purge the crusaders!!!
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Hi!
Good to see you're still around
As usual, i like to mix future and past to paint the picture of a cold and desperate era.
You perfectly noticed the ambiguous image of the crusader portrayed here.
I sure will explore this futuristic world again... and i like the concept of sentient mutants.
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It's good to see you too, Vilk!
I've been busy with university exams and preparations for the last semester, so no much time to devote to art seriously.
I'm always interested in this concept you've created, I remember the genetic knight and some of the mutants from your older works. The idea of roaming alone in a vast wasteland, collecting the relics of your civilization to survive is deadly of course but also somewhat romantic.
And I know that "guardians" have an opposite meaning in your works, while stranger beings may seem more neutral or benevolent. I like this portrayal as I believe it to be true myself.
Of course, I'm looking forward to introductions with a sentient mutant!
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Romantic is always a good word when talking about ruins. As i said before, i used to explore modern ruins a few years back. I'm still facinated by places like the forbidden zone around Chernobyl and the city of Pripyat. A kind of modern Pompeii. The modern ruin is always, a palpable remnant of a lost future, whether utopian or dystopian; and then, the Romantic impulse is to valorize the very decay of the modern artifact.
The guardian symbolic is dual and ambiguous: guardians protect from outer threats, but also keep things and people inside boundaries, whatever cruel, brutal or absurd they could be.
I notice that your interested in sentient mutants. i'll keep that in mind
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Yes, I remember our discussion about urban exploration. There are many abandoned places in my city as well, but it's just difficult to visit them since they're mostly closed down and barred. Still, I do my share of exploring whenever I can.
My mother was pregnant with me when the accident at Chernobyl happened. Greece is geographically close, so the irradiated clouds reached us pretty fast. People couldn't eat vegetables, drink milk or anything of the like for a while.
I heard about the ruin of Pripyat and how it has been preserved. It's tempting to visit these places but being part of the "radiation generation" somehow makes my stomach churn just thinking about it.
I agree, the romantic eye does not fixate in the loss about a ruin, but rather what can be gained from it, spiritually and intellectually. You see the destruction but think: I could build something new from this.
I think "guardians" are an illusion. "Protection" is a noble excuse for subjugation and power-holding, under the pretense of safety and stability. Why do they underestimate you like that? Why don't they teach you to protect yourself, so you don't need them? Just my honest opinion.
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You resumed the horror of radioactive pollution from the most pertinent point of view: the one of a mother of a child to come. Present day is here to remember this, alas. I was a young boy when the Chernobyl accident happened, but i remember the the oficial lies (cold war wasn't over... but is it over now) and the diffuse fear and resignation.
Concerning ruins, i'm curious to hear more from about tha way you apprehend them. after all, you'll have to spend your time among ruins and traces of a distant past. Does the professional approach modify your perception? I'm talking about the instinctive one: the eyes of the soul. Do you (and do you need to) 'feel' the site, or not? Could that interfere with a scientific method?
About the guardian concept, I'd make a distinction between this concept and the 'protector' one. Guardians may be protectors (of the widow and orphan: chivalry stuff) but there is a major condition: ethics. Morality has been hijacked a long time ago by religous, and the repect of the law brings no guarantee of ethics.
On the over hand, protectors may not be guardians. A mother and father will protect their child. Firemen a re protectors but not guardians.
I partially agree with you when you say that we could protect ourselves: some people just can't do that because they are to weak, old, young or ... well, stupid
I think we all need the protection of a third party person sometime.
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Twenty years later and it's like Chernobyl never happened. They're only just starting to recognize the problems cropping up in adults (hormonal imbalances mostly but also degenerating diseases).
The funny thing is that amidst the chaos in Japan, some nuclear plants have apparently exploded, resulting in high radiation levels that prevented help from approaching. And of course, some of that radiation will spread.
Of course, perception interferes with logical and professional methods and vice versa. You can't avoid that in anything. I think it's a matter of experience to keep both your senses and knowledge working together, without hindering each other, at least to a great extend. Team work is important so that many views and interpretations are examined. And you have to accept that there's no singular truth, only facts.
Sadly, most ruins are so ravaged that there's hardly any energy left to feel, but you still get some hunches. It's no coincidence that a church or monastery lies directly above every major temple/worship site of antiquity here in Greece.
Yes, I agree in part. As you said there are things like religion, general social beliefs and expectations/roles that govern a guardian's and/or protector's behavior. But ultimately, I think every person behaves differently, according to his view of himself and his role. I don't think I would agree with a "norm" on ethics, however noble those may be. Everyone is free to believe what he wants.
The complete lack of ethics, however, as you said is the real problem. As a result, the terms: weak, old, young, stupid aren't at all straightforward and can be abused for imposing power.
Unfortunately, the only solution can be given through social means, in my opinion. Present society has grown stale and needs to redirect its goals, develop new codes and ethics. For example the growing environmental awareness to battle the degrading planetary conditions. The alternative, as we sadly know, is terrorism (governmental or otherwise).
Oh, well, yes, when you love someone you want to protect him, even if you sometimes overdo it (e.g. overprotective parents). That's different. I guess we all have our weak moments. If we have someone we can count on, we're lucky.
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I can see that you have an acute perception and a deep personal reflexion of social norms. So i'll have to be more precise myself. When i'm talking about ethics, i think about some general ethics establishing criteria to act freely in a convenient situation and make choices in respect of oneself and others. The purpose of ethics is thus itself a practical activity. This is not acquiring a knowledge for itself, but to act with a sense of social responsibility: an individual matter.
I agree with you on most of the over points, except terrorism. In my opinion, it is not a true alernative but only a subproduct of the system. Terrorists want to impose their solution on others. They are mutineers who want to change the crew, but not the boat itself.
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Well, ethics are inevitable since we have a society. And I can propose no alternative to society, for maintaining a relative peace and independence. It is , however, in need of drastic improvement.
Under that light, I agree with you on the practical nature of ethics. Of course I can appreciate certain ethics spiritually more than others, but that's a personal matter, as you said, defining my own personality, as is with anyone else.
On the other hand, established ethics, no matter how generic and over-encompassing, will always be confining or conflicting with someone. Any society develops individuals who reject it and those become the core of the next change. That is the process of growth and evolution.
I like that you used the word "social responsibility", which is also an ethic, albeit one I consider very important. I would wish for a society that is governed by social responsibility, both politically and culturally. Perhaps that is the key: respect for yourself and for others. Can those with power be like that, I wonder? Can there be a social mechanism that keeps power in check?
I agree with you on terrorism. It is a result, not a solution. I used the word "alternative" as something that does happen not something I believe should happen. On the other hand, I don't believe oppression and exploitation should happen. Also governments use military and mental terrorism to keep their population in check, not just small extremist groups. But what is the middle ground?
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I can see that we have close ideas on ethics
I don't believe that much in established ethics (even if they are better than no ethics at all). During all my professional life, i've been dealing with conflictual situation... and i know that ethics (military ethics, professional ethics, deontology) can be comfortable things because they may give a way to avoid disturbing question on oneself action.
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I agree completely about established ethics being a safety zone to move in society. It's conformity. People will admit to believing something, sometimes fervently so, just to fit in, even if they don't. Others will stand beside a belief regardless, without first questioning their reasons, simply because everyone seems to believe the same. Those that don't conform are ostracized, as you know.
And generally, it is easier (in the negative sense) to simply accept something as it is and not make an effort to question or change it.
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I would so love more of these types of guys.
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Wow, once again you managed to build something really special. 
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Thanks a lot for the kind words
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spoko, lubie poΕΔ czenie takich klimatΓ³w
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Zimno
Zdesperowany
Zanieczyszczony
(excuse me please if my syntax is not correct, because polish is not my first language... but my grandmother was polish
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WH40k has inspired me to some extent, so did Michael Moorcock's "History of the Runestaff"... and many over things
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Always good to see that some deviants are old enough to know Gamma world (or Aftermath, the Morrow project, Twilight 2000 ...)
I feel less alone
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Ahhhhhhh twilight 2000 that is one of my favorites. The only problem was i couldn't find enough people to play it with.
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I know what you mean
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hahaha, this is awesome!
they should definitely make a game based off of what you just did there... even if it would be just like every other post-apocalyptic game out there... but hey, i would pay to play a game as an anti zombie crusader!
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What about a "S.t.a.l.k.e.r 2 - 50 years after"
Could be great!
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as in: 'stalker 2: 50 years after' or 'stalker: between two and fifty years after'?
but yah, it would be great. until the zombies get the pope that is
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'stalker 2: 50 years after' of course
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I love this sort post apoc revamp of the Crusaders of the future, makes great backstories! Nice job man
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Future, past i love to mix them
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Awesome and innovative. Well done. Kind of a Warhmmer 40k vibe as well.
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Thanks a lot!
40k is cool, and it blends medieval and sci-fi stuff in a very cool way.
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