#Fire In The Mountains

[vintagerpg]

Pretty much as soon as Enemy Within wrapped up with Empire in Flames in 1989, Games Workshop spun off Warhammer Fantasy Role Play to a subsidiary called Flame Publications. Same brains, same artists, different company. Sort of. Flame’s main project was the Doomstones campaign, which manifested in four softcover books, one for each of the titular stones. This is Fire in the Mountains (1990), the first part, concerned with the locating of the Crystal of Fire.

Like Enemy Within, the narrative is initiated by a chance discovery — the corpse of a dwarven messenger sent to get help in the face of an orcish siege. This leads the party to the ruins of the dwarven stronghold, sacked a century previous, though the orcs left a trail that is still visible all these years later. At the end of it might be an artifact of great power (spoiler: there is!).

Where Enemy Within leads to a web of plots and mystery that subverted a lot of my Warhammer expectations, Doomstones plays right into them. This journey, for the most part, about sticking swords into monsters. The variety of that sword-sticking is pretty good — there are chaos bands and undead orcs (I feel like the Flame era is pretty preoccupied with the undead), there are caves and wastelands and a lonely old tower. It’s fine, it just doesn’t thrill me after Enemy Within.

Tony Ackland and Russ Nicholson provide the interiors. I assume that is Ackland on the cover — it definitely isn’t Russ, and there is no clear credit inside. I am sure one of you Warhammer-heads will let me know if I need to correct that.

[denkisauce]

shoutos wedding look from the fire in the mountains series by @ellabesmirched, one of my all time favorite fics <3

i’ve wanted to draw this outfit since i first read the fic literally over 2 years ago :3 i love when authors put detailed descriptions of outfits in their stories!! the highly visual description under the cut ☺️

the description from the fic! if you havent read this fic and you like the idea of todobaku, bakubowl, deconstructing monogamy, enemies to lovers, a rich fantasy world with a lots of magic, plot, angst prince shouto, bakugou character study etcetera etcetera, i highly recommend reading it!!!

[supposethismatters]

Calling him princess to annoy him but eventually calling him princess because he is a precious treasure.

[thepixiepaige]

I think its yearly fitm reread time

[petricorah]

I love "i would kill for you" ship dynamics but what about "i would stop killing" ship dynamic??

I would lay down my sword for you. I would change my nature and go against everything i've known. I would resist the easy way out of solving my problems. I would give up the adrenaline of battle to stay by your side and make tea instead. I'm not sure I know who I am without a weapon in my hand because I've had to fight for so long but for you I'm willing to try and figure this out.

It must be hard. To put down your weapon that's protected you for so long. It's allowed you to stay alive it's kept you from getting hurt--physically and mentally. Because you've never had to worry about a real relationship if you think you'll be dead at the next battle. And you feel naked without it and it feels like you're ripping off an extension of yourself. Are you even whole without it? Are you worthy of being loved if you can't prove it by risking your life? And yet they've found someone who's asking them for something much harder than dying in battle on their behalf. They've found someone who wants them to live. And that's much more terrifying.

[blanchebees]

Mountain has to deal with a little drunk and clingy menace

Tip jar

[raycatzdraws]

Wolfie and Four friendship appreciation doodles! They're shared secrets besties! I hope Four's distrust of the shadow crystal doesn't drive anything between them. Wild found his way into this compilation with a force. It seems I can't draw Wolfie and not include him too!

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Flower Empowered.

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[flawseer]

#1 - "From a Book"

Smaugust 2024

This one is almost a freebie, considering they're all from books in one way or another. I went in this direction instead. Existential book club.

I wanted to draw a hallway in the back with flames coming out of it, to make some kind of reference to Peril, but the time I allotted myself for this drawing really ran away from me and I couldn't fit it in. Really had to simplify the initial concept. I hope it still looks good.

Don't know how many of these days I will do. I don't think all of them will have 5 characters in them. We will see.

Stay away from the blooks!

[crowcrash]

The Jade Winglet

you are welcome to use my designs as long as you credit me :)

design notes:

Moon is a dark almost greenish black color, and has a silver almost diamond shape on her nose and chest. Hatching under two full moons, she has a teardrop on the back corners of her eyes as a mark of her mind reading abilities, and a smaller front teardrop as a mark of a seer. She is remarkably large for her age, a trait she got from her father, but is still one of the smaller members of her winglet.

Not much about Winter's design. He is stocky, has clusters of darker scales on his face, a darker nose, and is remarkably shiny even by IceWing standards. He continues to wear the earring from Qibli, claiming he doesn't trust Darkstalker's magic to be entirely gone without it, when in reality he secretly likes the connection to Qibli and his winglet.

Peril is very large for a SkyWing, and is the tallest of the winglet. Shes very muscular and her scales are abnormally bright and shiny in comparison to the other tribes. She is almost iredescent in the sun and practically glows. She has VERY large, unblinking eyes that are a startling shade of blue (an eye color already uncommon in the Sky Kingdom) and is known for intensely staring people down without meaning to do so. Despite being firescales she is covered in small scars from brief nicks in battle before her opponents perished.

Turtle is very short and stocky in build, and is the shortest of the winglet as he carries himself very low to the ground. Hes very freckled and alongside the golden armband he wears gold stud earrings. His horns are twisted and almost silvery, a trait he shares with every animus dragon. He bares a striking resemblance to his ancestor Fathom, however he is shorter and stockier than he was.

Qibli is lanky and awkward in appearance, with long legs and a thin, gangly body. He is unkempt in appearence, with crooked teeth and freckles and scars covering his body from his rough up bringing in The Scorpion Den (the scar from Cobra being the two slashes on the front of his nose) and is surprisingly tall, taller even than Winter, but because of their differences in posture (Winter's being perfect to a T and making himself appear much larger than he is and Qibli's being nonexistent) he appears much smaller than he really is. Like all SandWing’s, he has a darker patch under his eyes to help with seeing in intense sunlight.

Umber looks very similar to Clay in appearance, with hazel eyes and warm scales. Unlike Clay, Umber is significantly smaller and thinner in frame and is covered in large freckles. He has a lighter patch on his chest, his ears are long and hang down, he has a long scar on his snout and neck, and his right horn has a blunted tip from the battles he fought in the war.

Like Umber Carnelian shares many scars from the battles she fought in the war, most notably being the chunk missing from her left ear and the several long slashes across her face. I like to think that had Carnelian lived longer and Umber remained in the winglet the two of them would’ve become close friends, and eventually Carnelian would’ve become protective of the other dragonets in her winglet.

I struggled getting Kinkajou’s colors right; i wanted to make her bright and include her iconic pink/yellow scales, but i wanted to make her less neon and have more believable tones down hues. I also wanted to include some orange and reds to show her more fiery side.

[secondhandtroubles]

our kibble

tried to make a design for him lol, I'm imagined him more neutral tones but I like drawing colours lmao

[hellenhighwater]

I started this painting today and right now I reaaaaally don't like it. I have a couple changes to make tomorrow but first it needs to dry

[sszeemedia]

Dharamshala International Film Festival—a visual treat for cinema lovers

Dharamshala International Film Festival—a visual treat for cinema lovers

The 11th edition of the Dharamshala International Film Festival continued to bring visual treats to filmmakers and cinema lovers with a range of screenings in the hilly town of Himachal Pradesh. The four-day film festival began on November 3 in collaboration with Picturetime’s MDMT (Mobile Digital Movie Theatre) to screen a wide range of documentaries, independent features, shorts and animation…

[c0smonox]

My ghoul lineup!! i’ve been meaning to do this for like two years but it’s done!!!

headcannons for the ghouls under the cut!

Ok so based on element

Quintessence- They have tiger like markings that darken with age and glow when they use their powers. They’re usually some sort of purple hue and have a medium amount of body fur and a medium sized tail. Their tail is stronger enough to grasp and hold objects but not strong enough to support their bodies. They have shorter and rounder ears.

Fire- fire ghouls are usually red hued, they usually have black marks that resemble volcanic rock scattered across their bodies. Dewdrop in particular has red lines resembling magma across his body resulting from his transformation. They have whip thin tails, which can really only loosely grasp objects, and long pointed ears. Fire ghouls have little to no fur bc of how hot they are, if they have any fur they look like those sphinx cats.

Water- water ghouls are usually some sort of blue hue, with bioluminescence patterns scattered across their bodies which glow in the dark. They have thick tails with fins and fins on their arms and webbed fingers to help them swim. They have seal like flippered feet which aid in swimming as well. They also have gills on their neck and chest and “webbed” ears. Their fur is short and feels like a seals.

Earth- earth ghouls are usually green or brown hued. Stronger earth ghouls can grow flowers from their hair and horns. Many times their horns, ears, and body patterns resemble those of forest creatures. Instead of paws, they have cloven hooves. They have the strongest tails, which can support their whole body weight (imagine like a possum). Their fur thickness changes with the season, being thinnest in the summer and thickest in the winter.

Air- air ghouls are usually a dusky blue/grey color. They have bright white freckles all across their bodies and their hair usually represents something cloudlike. They have the thickest fur out of any ghouls. They have short fluffy ears and thin tails like fire ghouls. They typically also have white hair. They can use the breeze to float and/or have wings that can fold into their backs and like to hang out in the rafters of the abbey or trees in the forest. They’re lighter than other ghouls bc of this feature

Multi- multi ghouls are kind of a wild card. They typically have a mixture of their elements typical traits, like quint markings or air freckles. Aurora, being an air and quint ghoulette, has both of these. Swiss, being a true multi ghoul, has most of these traits, but less noticeable than other ghouls of those elements.

idk if this was obvious but Auroras hair is meant to resemble the Aurora Borealis, she really just went crazy with hair dye lmao

[fangrurin]

Fashion of the Great Houses of Westeros: House Arryn of the Eyrie

[burntsodas]

enjoy these pictures i took of the ghouls from the mke ritual in august 🦇🖤🫶🏻🧛🏻‍♀️