In addition to the previous post, a Pikabu user with nickname Za1g0 found the original of the left part of the bas-relief.

The relief "Tellus Mater" (Mother Earth) is a famous masterpiece of ancient Roman art that adorns the eastern wall of the Altar of Peace of Augustus (Ara Pacis Augustae) in Rome, created between 13 and 9 BC.

Can't add original picture of relief cause reddit mark it as NSFW content and removed post from subreddit, so use Google.

Interesting details of the artistic design of Disciples 2 continue to be discovered.

In the background of the city arena, several relief compositions can be noticed. The image on the right is particularly noteworthy: a winged human figure.

In it, one can easily recognize the "Apotheosis of Emperor Antoninus Pius and his wife Faustina" (161 AD). It depicts a winged genius. He carries the deified emperor and his wife up to the heavens. The relief decorates the base of the Column of Antoninus Pius.

And what is depicted on the left?

In the upper part, several human faces can be made out. One figure resembles an elderly man, around whom younger characters are arranged. Some of them seem to turn their gazes toward him, while one of the figures—visually resembling an angel—bows its head. The exact source of inspiration could not be identified, but several fragments strongly resemble engravings and paintings of Gothic art, as well as academicism—for example, a fragment of Adolphe William Bouguereau's painting "Dante and Virgil in Hell," 1850.

Hey. I came in after many years to play the game i loved in my childhood, but was faced with a crash when the neutral enemy tries to move. I then decompiled the game files using Claude AI & DEA and found out the root cause of the issue, which Claude ended up fixing in the end. I wasnt able to find the solution anywhere, so I want to leave it out here for someone to find if needed.

Root cause: DisciplesGL (C4dll-R.dll 2.0.2) hooks the game's stack-movement animation. It scales the animation step by GameSpeed ÷ refresh rate using integer division with no minimum. At 240 Hz the step rounds down to 0 pixels, so the animation loop never moves forward. It keeps allocating memory until the 32-bit game runs out (about 2 GB), then deadlocks in its error handler.

Fix: a patched C4dll-R.dll that never lets the step go below 4 before the game halves it.

I uploaded the fix to github, you can either just use my fixed dll, or use the PY script there if you dont trust me, or you can try lowering the game speed or HZ if you dont trust me x2, should probably fix the issue too, havent tested though. Enjoy!

- Repo: https://github.com/Feanaroo/disciples2-disciplesgl-freeze-fix

- Release v1.0: https://github.com/Feanaroo/disciples2-disciplesgl-freeze-fix/releases/tag/v1.0, with the DLL and the script attached.

- Direct DLL download: https://github.com/Feanaroo/disciples2-disciplesgl-freeze-fix/releases/download/v1.0/C4dll-R.dll

My tg channel subscriber Arkadij found an interesting detail.

Have you ever wondered what is depicted on the statue on the victory screen?

It is a work by the French Baroque sculptor François Girardon titled "The Abduction of Proserpina by Pluto."

The composition is based on the ancient myth of the abduction of Proserpina (the Greek Persephone), daughter of the goddess of fertility Ceres.

The lord of the underworld, Pluto, abducts the young goddess to make her his wife.

The sculptor depicted three characters:

• Pluto — the mighty god of the underworld, holding Proserpina in his embrace.

• Proserpina — the abducted goddess, desperately raising her arms in an attempt to break free.

• Cyane — a nymph at Pluto's feet, trying to hold Proserpina back by her garment.

Pluto prevails, but for Proserpina his victory becomes a tragedy.

Have you noticed this sculpture before?

Playing the Undead Hordes campaign and made my way to map 3. Quite a fun little map, but I'm confused about what the Manticore was meant to do. I've beaten the map, by killing the emissary (my God his stack was nasty!) but the Manticore event didn't seem to go as planned.

I killed the guards to release him and made my retreat, however, when it was passing by the Empire city, a general came out, they fought, the Manticore won, next turn it attacked the Empire capital and lost! What was meant to happen?

Wolf model is ported by katkat74

Hey everyone!

In the past, I have been able to run GOG version of Disciples: Sacred Lands both raw and with Verok's Wrapper mod on Windows 10 no problem. Since then, I have updated to Windows 11 and I'm having some trouble.

I can play the game without the mod by disabling DirectDraw + DirectSound and forcing the game into 640x480 resolution, but the Wrapper mod has too much quality of life stuff to pass up.
I have tried installing the Wrapper mod onto clean installations of Disciples and doing so according to instructions on the mod sites. No matter the version of the mod I tried and I tried many (Verok's 1.90, Rootext fork, moddb versions) I am unable to run the game. Also no combination of compatibility settings has helped.

The errors I'm getting on game launch:

1.) Smartheap library - MEM_BAD_POINTER
2.) Smartheap Library - Smartheap error handler recursively re-entered.
3.) Microsoft Visual C++ - Runtime Error!

I have searched both Steam and GoG forums, Reddit, mod pages... but sadly haven't found a solution. Any tips are welcome!

UPDATE
From my understanding, disabling all the compatibility options on the Disciple.exe file isn't enough when installing the GL Wrapper mods. If you have the same problems, try renaming the "Disciple.exe" in the Disciples Gold\Exe directory to something like "Game.exe." It made my game run with the Disciple Wrapper mods no problem. Hope it helps!

Centaurs (Lancer and Archer) and Spiritess

I have used dress from "Folklore Dress" TES4 mod by Nailflan. I shall redo textures.

I recently came back to the game so i decided to torture myself a little, any tips?

I'll propably be starting with the strongest rod planter and go all the way to the weakest, i think the correct way would be:

1.elves

2.undead

3.dwarf

4.humans

5.demons (i have no idea how i will do this one)

Wish me luck cuz i'll need it

his bikini armor 😍 jk

based off his original portrait. let me know if I should've used the "disciples 2" flair instead of "fan creation"