#Ivander

[sweetcatmintea]

Obsidian Hand Group Shot

[Image Description: A digital illustration of a d&d adventuring party standing in front of a dark grey ring with the words 'The Obsidian Hand' beneath them. From left to right: -Ivander the elven male ranger dressed in dragonscale armour and a bear's pelt cape -Valkoinen the dragonborn bloodhunter wearing leather armour and yellow chaps -Foks the half elf warlock/bard in his long purple coat and floral shirt -Astrid the dwarven druid ready to rumble in her kilt and heavy boots -Tinker the tabaxi cleric in a button up/vest/cloak ensemble Description end]

It's been a hot minute, hope you're all doing well When I finally got all the characters done I couldn't not slap them on a page together to contextualize their heights at least haha

The good thing about not posting for a year is there's a bit of a backlog so I'll queue that up for you guys. It was an interesting year to say the least. Some stuff I can't show you in case my team sees it lol

Had a few big projects that were quite outside my comfort zone but a fun go nonetheless

[catfish-nigiri]

the guy

[recoully]

[rockerofnowhere]

MEET OUR ROCKERS

[illarian-rambling]

Yes, I should take a dinner break, but also WHOOO I FINALLY GET TO WRITE IVANDER’S DAD GETTING SHOT!!!

[illarian-rambling]

I'd argue that a lot of them can recognize ptsd in other people, but not themselves. Also, some people on that cope side are doing it better than others.

Stop equipping every character with therapy speak and instead consider placing them somewhere on this chart

[movienized-com]

Saranjana: Kota Ghaib

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[leahnardo-da-veggie]

A Tribute to Ivander Montane

So I was beta reading for @illarian-rambling's MG series, and I absolutely fell in love with her OC Ivander <3 So much so I wrote a poem in honour of him: Enjoy!

*****

I did what I must I tell myself That is a vice I do not have room for, with the shackles of fate upon my throat.

I will not look back I will not regret I will not run home It hurts

The blood in my mouth, It tells me that I am a fool. The rot of my skin, It names me traitor.

There is a rifle in my hand, Weighing on me like my sins And so God judges me unworthy. I would not sacrifice my soul for Him

I do not care.

That is a lie. I would do anything To be spared of the agony in my hands Of the blood between my tendons.

I cannot free myself.

And I struggle all the same, My soul pours out from a thousand wounds Under the gaze of an uncaring deity Is that worse than having never fought at all?

For a moment I am free. Through the lies my own lord taught me Through the machinations of man and god Through my foolish, simple-hearted desperation

It all goes wrong. A dagger through my chest A brief, blinding light, followed by Agony

Say farewell, Dear ones I loved despite myself Say farewell, To the child who believed in selflessness Say farewell,

Knowing I did what was right.

(Now read it from bottom to top!)

[kaylinalexanderbooks]

Ivander - Is this character beholden to a higher power?

Landanium - Are there any diseases unique to this world?

Nace - How does organized crime work here? Who is currently on top of the criminal underworld?

Heya! Thanks for the ask! (From this writing ask game based on your series)

I'm actually gonna answer for SOTL because it's more relevant despite being a tad underdeveloped.

Ivander - Is this character beholden to a higher power?

Saira, Amani, Faivish are the ones most devoted to a higher power in terms of how religious they are, but I haven't figured out a lot of details except that Amani technically does have a storyline where she is beholden to a different higher power: a jinn whom she promised freedom.

Landanium - Are there any diseases unique to this world?

Yep! A few related to fae and other magical creatures. Most notably, Alberto has a disease that makes his wings slowly become increasingly fragile over time, so he's unable to fly.

Nace - How does organized crime work here? Who is currently on top of the criminal underworld?

You're lucky I have the bare bones lol. Edvard, who for context is the Rumpelstiltskin stand-in, is kinda the person at the top doing the organized fraud, theft, kidnapping, demanding protection payments, etc. Y'know, organized crime stuff. That may change, his status, but he's definitely involved.

It would work in a similar fashion, but there would be more magical items or potions or drugs and the like involved in. Magic also means punishments would be much more severe and creative.

Hope this was satisfactory. Thanks for the ask!

SOTL intro

SOTL tag list (ask to be +/-): @illarian-rambling @katwritesshit @wyked-ao3

[somethingclevermahogony]

Character Interaction Tag

Thank you for the tag (x2) @illarian-rambling , to keep this simple I'll just use one of my OCs. Posting this again because I accidentally posted before I finished.

Rules: post the OCs of the people who tagged you and one of your OCs and say how yours would interact with theirs

Katie's OC #1: Ivander Montane is a 30 year old corrupt detective from the trade city of Unity. He has blue blood and double-pointed ears, wears fancy suits, and walks with a cane. His estranged family runs the banks of Unity, however he left them years ago, and in doing so, broke a divine contract, which left him cursed to slowly and painfully be transmuted into mist over the course of many years. Personality-wise, he's kind of a privileged shithead. He's got the catty attitude and love of gossip of a middle school girl, and can insult your outfit just as acutely. He doesn't have a sincere bone in his body and is afraid of any form of intimacy. However, deep down, he really just wants a friend and to not be in pain anymore. Show him the slightest hint of compassion and he will crumble. His hobbies include being a hater, fashion, and marksmanship (he's a crack shot with a rune rifle). All in all, he's got the snark of a drag queen, the heart of a lonely noir detective, and a body that's been through a cheese grater.

Katie's OC #2: Djek Kagura is a young man (19 in the first book, 23 in the second two) with a shifty appearance, red eyes, and a constant squint due to poor vision. He grew up on the streets after his parents tossed him out to cut down on mouths to feed, only to later join the brutal Tunnel Wasp smuggling gang, which he later split from due to his aversion to violence and need to do what's right. As a person, he's always quick with a joke or snide comment, loves sarcasm, and lies like a fish breathes water. His bad habit is that he loves to annoy people on purpose. At his core is a deep sense of self-loathing and abandonment issues, but he covers these with humor. He tends to try to find peaceful solutions to situations and has a bit of a bleeding heart, even if he pretends to be tough. His friends mean the world to him and he's loyal to the point getting himself hurt in fights he can't win. Also, he's surprisingly in touch with people's emotions and always trys to make them feel better, even he does it with a bad joke or by irritating them to action. He has a weak form of sorcery, specializes in shadow magic, and has incorrigibly sticky fingers.

My OC: (As of the start of Book 1) Narul is a 23 year-old slave at the Palace of Labisa, the Great City by the Lake. He is a forestfolk, a person or group of people who have been mutated or altered by the effects of wild or ambient magic. His birth mother was a priestess, his father is a mystery. He was adopted by an enslaved woman as an infant, thus how he ended up in the servitude of King Hutbari. He is a giant of a man, literally, at just a hair under nine feet tall. He is additionally quite bulky, much much larger than even the biggest human. He is so large that the door into the slave quarters had to be reconstructed just to fit him as he grew up. Aside from his size he is also just a bit rough in appearance, hairy and broad, picture a DnD Dwarf, just sized way up.

He is inhumanly strong, a fact that causes him a great deal of distress. Because of his size and strength, Narul has the potential to be quite dangerous to normal humans, as he has been repeatedly reminded of since his childhood. Narul has a great deal of anxiety around his body and his potential to accidently hurt others, as such he is quite timid and careful. He has a tendency to mumble when he talks, which unfortunately due to his low voice, often makes it sound like he is growling.He is a gentle person, he likes flowers and abhors violence. He cries relatively easily and gets easily anxious or overwhelmed.Despite all of this he is fiercely loyal and kind. He doesn’t talk much but loves to listen to others. 

His fatal flaw is a healthy dose of self-doubt and self-loathing. Narul hates his body, it scares him, and he believes that it scares others. He is often self-deprecating, though not in a joking way. He feels an intense jealousy towards those around him that are able to live normal lives and pursue normal relationships.

How they would interact: Ivander’s propensity for expensive clothes, his snarky attitude, and his privileged attitude is something that Narul is fairly used to, Ivander would fit in well with Labisian Nobility. Upon first being introduced, I imagine that Narul would be polite but ultimately not particularly interested in interacting with Ivander as a person. However, I think upon realizing that Ivander is having his own issues with his body (that pesky mist curse), Narul would begin to empathize. In a funny way, I think Ivander’s cocky exterior and his hidden longing for a friend would remind Narul of Ninma, and even though Ivander is older, I think some of Narul’s fatherly instincts would kick in.

Narul would get along fine with Djek. Personality-wise, Djek seems very similar to Narul’s adopted brother and best-friend, Suru. Both are witty, sarcastic, and quick to make a joke. The big difference between Suru and Djek is that Suru doesn’t have that sense of self-loathing. Suru is quite aware of his flaws and is happy with who he is, even if he isn’t happy with his situation (also Suru is a scrawny guy, with 0 magic and 0 fighting skills, Suru couldn’t hurt a fly not from want of trying, but because in a fight the fly would probably win.) Narul would enjoy having Djek around, so long as Djek didn’t pick on him too much. Narul would eventually try to help with that self-loathing, though with how awkward Narul is, and how deeply his own sense of self-loathing is, it seems doubtful how much he could actually help.

Tagging @roach-pizza , @mk-writes-stuff , @dyrewrites , @finickyfelix , and @kaylinalexanderbooks

[illarian-rambling]

Here's a question for all you writers out there; which of your protags would make for the best president, and which should be kept away from political office at all costs?

[tiredporkchop]

12/12/2024

it is too bad i am not good at photographing the colors! i will get better. 💪🏼

🎧 olivia rodrigo - favorite crime

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(trying a new format tbh idk if i like it)

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eyes:

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[illarian-rambling]

In my world, curses are treated like a magical subset of diseases that spontaneously happen sometimes. Magic is also sort of radioactive, so sorcerers can get speed cancer and drop dead if they overdo it. Either way, love this concept!

I am thinking so much about magical illnesses today. Specifically illnesses brought about by magic, as a side effect. Like you know how agent orange exposure in war can cause Parkinson’s years later? Fire magic that doesn’t kill you unless you’re caught directly in the blast but twenty years later you find yourself choking on smoke, your scars burning. Poison or plant magic to hinder armies that leave seeds/spores/some trace in your body that grows vines around your organs if you make it out alive. Etc. please give me more ideas if you have them!

[roach-pizza]

Thanks for the tag @illarian-rambling

Rewrite Tag

My line: For a brief moment, Ivander considered what would happen if he said yes. He would sit in her compartment, the razors piercing through his flesh all the more sharp for the need to laugh through them. He might put a hand on her knee and pray it wouldn’t leave a blue stain as blood seeped through his gloves. She might reach to touch his face, only to be horrified as what she felt failed to match up to what she saw.

My rewrite: For the briefest moment he thought about accepting her proposal. Reality soon swept in and destroyed whatever joy Ivander temporarily got; if it wasn't the consistent mind numbing pain he was in, it was his face. What the woman saw was not what he looked like, and he knew both would leave the whole experience worse than the short lived melancholy from rejection.

Your line: A man's tan hand swept across a giant chalkboard as he took the other one and pulled a joint out of his mouth. Smoke lazily poured from his lips as he placed the eraser back into position. His tired, hazed baby blues then scanned the desk where pastel colored papers were in an unorganized pile with an ashtray next to the mess.

I'll tag: @somethingclevermahogony, and YOU. Please feel free to tag me in your post.

[sweetcatmintea]

We Will Be Watching

[Image description: A grey scale digital painting with pops of accent colours, primarily yellow, of a person floating suspended in front of a giant lightning filled eye. There are purple/pink lines holding him in place and connecting him to the four scenes below; a tabaxi covering her ears in front of a clock face, a dwarven woman looking up at a massive tree, a dragonborn man kneeling in front of a grave stone, and an elf reaching out towards a castle he is floating above. The following images are close ups of each scene and one in which only the eye and floating man are seen with the text 'We Will Be Watching'.

Description end.]

So it was my DM's bday in January and I decided why not try to capture his homebrewed session in a picture. How hard could it be? Like 100 hours later, I finally had this to give him haha I wanted to play around with perspective to give a really of kilter, dreamish feel to it. My tone work still needs a lot of work but I'm really happy with how touchable Ivander's coat came out ^u^

Check the reblogs for the speedpaints and the context of the session is in the video descriptions if you're after that.

[goose-books]

3 for Anna and Errans, and also 20 and 21 :3

i meant to remember to answer these before the last day of pride month. and then! anyway,

3. How did your oc discover themself? Did something cause them to question, or did they always know?

(godsong WIP page with links) (for context, anna is god's specialest girl ever and the main character, and she's a transfemme nonbinary lesbian. errans is a minor side character with terrible sideburns and transmasc unswag)

anna grew up in a city where priests have a special gender and pronoun, and she was designated a priest at age 11 by the gods, so her transness started as sort of an occupational thing; she was like, "okay, i'm priestgender," and then progressed to, "wait, i like this gender stuff." you are allowed to be priestgender and also another thing, and getting to explore her presentation at the temple lead to the realization that her Other Thing was womanhood (nonbinary-flavored). more a sister than a woman etc <3

as for the lesbianism, i don't think that was ever a discovery for him; there's no homophobia in ivander and his parents are in a bisexual polycule, so i think he just always knew his future person would be a woman. (i say "person" because ivander doesn't have legal marriage, but there is a religious equivalent if you want to dedicate yourself to someone long-term; otherwise you can just do Whatever. city that is absolutely bursting with gender and fruitiness)

errans i'm less sure about dskhfkdsfkdsnfsd. i know he came out as trans when he was around sixteenish; i think he knew he was bisexual first, and the image coming to me is errans experiencing the "do-i-want-to-date-that-guy-or-be-that-guy" about someone he probably never actually spoke to. i don't get a vibe like he ever loathed being a woman, more so that eventually he just realized he could simply be a man. for free. and was like. "well this is clearly so much more what i'm supposed to be doing"

now i'm thinking about awkward teenage errans and his awkward genvy crushes. god bless him

20. Have your ocs helped you in self discovery? How?

sigh. well i have to tell the story don't i. POV: you are [max], age 12, working on the first iteration of the story that will become TMR (my on-hiatus YA transgender evil-faerie high fantasy). you give the character who will become moon marigold all of your uncomfortable feelings about your body, feelings that are certainly not physical dysphoria because you are cisgender. about a year or so later, you realize that this WIP is full of cishet white people (i have since remedied this), and you should really add some diversity. hey, moon's got weird body feelings! what if you made her genderfluid? that sounds great! you are not thinking at all about where those weird body feelings may have come from or how this may reflect on anything at all.

POV: you are [max], still age 13ish, and you've got a new WIP (it's my also-on-hiatus NA monsters-in-NYC thing). you are going to put a binary transgender person in it. not for any specific reason. you just wanted to. who can say why. certainly not you. anyway you've never done this before and you are a little nervous because how can you, as a cisgender person, accurately represent a trans character? you muse about how to write dysphoria as you dress up for an orchestra concert, in an outfit that is extremely feminine. halfway through, you get derailed by crying real tears about said feminine outfit, because now the boy who sits beside you in the orchestra will know that you are a girl (because your long hair and name clearly couldn't have tipped him off beforehand). could you draw on this experience to describe dysphoria, you wonder? or maybe that other time you cried in the shower? but that's bad and wrong, isn't it? because you're cisgender. so comparing your own... whatever this is... to dysphoria would be an APPROPRIATION of dysphoria! how villainously cis of you! how horrible! you'll have to figure out some other way to write this character.

...anyway. thank you to moon and augustus for that. my kings my brothers in arms. and they BOTH do arson in their respective WIPs, so maybe i have another plot twist in my future?

21. Free ramble card wee

FREE RAMBLE WEE... hmm, well, since i've already touched on it a little in this ask, one of the most interesting things about worldbuilding for godsong is that most of the major settings don't have homophobia/transphobia/misogyny the same way that our world does. (i say most because ambergris is stuck in misogynyville. it's probably fine and i bet she won't get violent.) i honestly didn't think super hard about this; i just wanted to write a high fantasy world where women and nonbinary people and bisexuals and lesbians can hold positions of (sometimes corrupt) power, or where the chosen one can be a transfemme lesbian whose issues aren't transphobia but how to complete her quest.

except then i realized that not having homophobia/transphobia/misogyny invites so many other questions about the social fabric of a society. i mean, the modern legal concept of marriage is rooted pretty solidly in heterosexual relationships wherein women move from one family to another, right? so if gender relations are entirely different, do these places even have marriage? do these places even have gender? this is something i'm still figuring out (and honestly, if anyone has suggestions for media that pokes at this kind of thing, i'd love to hear them!). the two main cities in godsong are ivander (a theocracy) and farria (a democracy with a new revolution every tuesday), and i've been playing around in my head with some of the differences--for example, in ivander, being trans is generally considered holy, because the city's patron god is many-gendered; in farria, being trans is something nobody thinks twice about, because everyone is focused on Just Getting By. in ivander, there are at least three defined genders (man, woman, and priest) which can all overlap. in farria, gender doesn't define social relations so much as a parallel hierarchy of military and/or governmental power--eg, farria's very own neopronouns marc antony isn't afraid of "emasculation" in the gender sense, because xir gender is "if you like me you're gay," but xe's terrified of emasculation (for lack of a better word) in the sense of being seen as weak/submissive. in farria these things are way less connected than they are in our world. i'm still working out a lot of the details, but it's been a lot of fun to think about :3

wow that sure was a free ramble. thank you for the asks rook i love you so much <3

(pride asks!)