Visualizing Zalanthas..

[Delirium]

I call shenanigans. Or misunderstandings. This is a photo from 1914:

[BadSkeelz]

Check out this guy. The picture, and the color, is legit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prokudin-Gorski

Edit: you can see our bearded, nut-scratching blue robe templar down at the bottom of the page.

[Delirium]

Now I am fucking impressed. And love that he did a print of Leo Tolstoy. Awesome.

[The7DeadlyVenomz]

That is astounding - why the hell did it take so long for this quality of photo to become common place?

[Iiyola]

NEVER DOUBT ME AGAIN

[slvrmoontiger]

I'm not sure if technically you can say the picture is 100 years old, since it has been heavily photoshopped. The original picture may be 100 years old, but the photoshopping is not.

[Iiyola]

No, it's not photoshopped. Check the wiki link Badskeelz posted.

[FreeRangeVestric]

That is truly, truly amazing. I can't believe I've never heard of anything like that before.

[The7DeadlyVenomz]

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Prokudin-Gorskii

Further works from the man - really astounding stuff considering the age and the general state of photography at the time. I'm really perplexed about why this method of photography was not more widely spread. Compared to photos of the time, these are ... I'm not even sure what to draw as comparison. Da Vinci to caveman drawings?

[Iiyola]

Hey look! Arabeti!




http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/08/russia_in_color_a_century_ago.html

[Desertman]

[James de Monet]

No, it's not photoshopped. Check the wiki link Badskeelz posted.

Actually, that version was photoshopped, in 2004, for a federal exhibit. It does use the same negatives to produce the color that the original version did, however.

Here is he original.



The reason this probably wasn't done more is that it would have been incredibly difficult, required special equipment with moving parts to take the photo, and special equipment for them to even view it.

Photographs back then took longer than they do now. And getting three without the subject moving would be an exercise in aggravation.  According to that article, most of them do show signs of movement, but they were digitally removed for the exhibit (as above).

[Iiyola]

Some more information regarding this photography stuff http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1z6kmj/friday_freeforall_february_28_2014/cfr06ny

[Desertman]

Nothing actually in game I can think of that relates, but it still feels very Zalanthan to me:



Southwest of Allanak, looking north past the city in the distance:



Applicable to somewhere, maybe the mul outpost or a corner of Luir's? Still very Zalanthan feeling:



All of those super-high-agility fresh out of character generation child PC's wrecking my 30 day assassins in sparring:





The Glorious Highlord Tektolnes: (Just joking, but uhh, seriously...Muk, get bent son.)

[BleakOne]

That last one is Globbuluk's retirement plan. 

[HavokBlue]

That last one is fantastic.

[Barsook]

I love that last one.

[MeTekillot]

The last one links to Malware, according to avast.

[Desertman]

The last one links to Malware, according to avast.

That seems like a typical Tektolnes thing to do. Fitting.

[Desertman]

Everyone who was at Tyn Dashra knows what I'm talking about...

[Desertman]

[Scarecrow]

Everyone who was at Tyn Dashra knows what I'm talking about...

Haha, awesome. 

[FantasyWriter]

Balista.... mounted.... inix. I so want to see this in game.

[HavokBlue]

Armor and weapons time! Some of these might be reposts so I apologize in advance.

[The7DeadlyVenomz]

Wow. That's so badass.