The following is a list of characters that appear in Yggdra Union, its prequel Blaze Union, and its spinoff game Yggdra Unison. The games take place in the fictional world of Ancardia, on a large, unnamed continent that is home to a number of different c
The deficiencies of the existing corps were seen within a week of the beginning of hostilities. Indeed, the extreme heroism displayed by the officers and men during the retreat from Mons only served to accentuate their ill-equipped condition. There was not a single motor ambulance; there were ...
Plutarch (in his “Romulus”) enters at length into the question, how the soul, when separated from the body, advances into the state of heroism, and from a hero develops into a demon and from a demon becomes a god. To Cicero the doctrine of Euhemerism is the core and fundamental ...
To this day his countrymen revere his memory for the heroism which marked his life and glorified his death. (Cf. the drama “Jon Arason”, by Mathias Jochunsson, Isefiordur, 1900.) It was not difficult to scatter the flock after the shepherds had been slain, especially since here, as ...
In Troilus and Cressida (1601–02), moreover, he broadly satirized Chapman’s Homeric revival and, more generally, the humanistic habit of idolizing Classical heroism. Finally, he eschewed the moralism, rationalism, and self-conscious erudition of the humanists and was lacking as well in their...
(in connection with IV Maccabees), this feature of the Maccabean heroism made a special appeal to the Christianity of the first four centuries. "The figure of the martyr, as the Church knows it, dates from the persecution of Antiochus; all subsequent martyrologies derive from the Jewish books...
Culture has found expression in forms that are the joint inheritance of all the peoples of the Arabian Peninsula, and that inheritance is shared with Arab and Muslim societies beyond the region. Poetry, religious laws and precepts, and values associated with heroism permeated the culture of the ...
The first version of the T-34/76 came as a nasty surprise for the overconfident German troops in the fall of 1941, when it was first committed en masse. Not only were they able to cope with the mud and snow with their large tracks, but they came with a perfect combination of thick ...
was so far restored that he was able to put on a common boot. He was two years with Dr Glennie, and though he made little progress in his classical studies, he had the run of his master's library, and added greatly to his general information. Before he left for Harrow he had contra...
Not, certainy, according to the ideals realized in Achilles and Odysseus, nor according to the modern ideal of gallant and advernturous heroism. A blameless character, patiently enduring much suffering, cannot arouse the same personal interest as a more energetic and impulsive character, relying on...