HATE . GROUP . FILM.
okay that has nothing to do with anything.
this, does.
It's been a long long time since I've been this into a novel. And although I don't really want to use a novel as reference, this kind of give me a lot of impression of those time.
I can picture Carthage a tiny bit clearer (but not so much, since this first part of the story, we haven't seen Carthage itself, only New Carthage in Iberia.
I'm loving many characters in this book, especially the Barcas. Hannibal and his brothers. Not only they're so cool, they really feel human. This guy can actually write. Even if a character has only appear for a page, I can already feel his or her personality.
It's great.
and here.
As fun as it is to draw Portugal as a lady. It is even more fun to draw her as a child.
She's fierce, innocent but not naive. I am never going to get over Lusitania.
This one, though, is a little ironic. I'm pretty sure someone (probably Mila or Julia) told me about Portugal was quite into slave trade.
But this here is an image of a slave girl. For Carthage, for Rome, Vandals and Visigoth, then Umayyad before finally free and become today's Portugal.
Because of this, Iberia seems to be an odd place with an oddly mixed cultures from the past. I can't help but think that that is also why they set out for the world. Could it have been frustrating? Conquered over and over again. Growing up on flesh and blood and corpses of civilizations after civilizations.
I just like these kind of things.