#Otzara

[collabwithmyself]

session zero for a funny little heist! featuring:

@merimutt's tabaxi rogue Renard

@artsy-dragoness's owlin bard Otzara

@concord-and-cliches's elf monk Jake

@aistrial's dryad druid Xafarr

my dragonborn artificer Jackie

@maxmmpow's orc warlock Macee

hosted by my wonderful qpp @wizardmolars!

[littleladymab]

FebruarOC - Altra

KICKING US OFF on a month of me talking about characters, we got Altra! The god of death from one of my by-the-wayside campaigns affectionately called the BAND Band (Bell + Ashe + Noelle + the Dude). He is one of the major NPCs that helps the team get off on the adventure because his three sisters each had their object of power stolen from their main temples, and he's currently the only one who is able to do his job out of the four of them. 

So he approaches the party to put them on the path of finding the objects, because Bell is a former priestess of one the sisters, and Oztara said "listen, if she doesn't want to help you help me, then I greatly misunderstood her, but I'm pretty sure I'm right". And she was right. 

His symbol is rabbits, and he collects the recently departed to deliver them to his older sisters so that they can actually process the dead. Sestra takes the heart, Mittra takes the mind, and Otzara takes the soul. Without their objects, they're locked out of their realms and Altra just gets a backlog of dead running around his garden. 

A few years ago, back in 2021, I participated in a zine that was focused on original mythology called False Gods, and I had put down several options having to do with my Mutiny campaign but the one that got picked was Death and His Three Sisters! Which at the time was a bit of a panic because I knew the least about him as far as mythos went, but I had a lot of fun fleshing out their aspects and roles, and the artists I worked with were AMAZING. I've included the two illustrations here; the black and white one is done by Lewis and IS TRADITIONAL I have one of the original sketches saved and like HOT DAMN!!! and the colored one is done by Maria and I absolutely love the colors, I have a few of the other drafts and they're simple shapes but so well defined with colors. 

Here is the pin board that I made for the project, and you can find the short story I wrote for the zine over on patreon!

[danoea-dossier]

PINNED MOBILE POST SO I CAN LOOK AT MY LITTLE GUYS IN A BOX FASTER

[joselure]

Comercial para CGBarrios Comunicación

Presentación del Proyecto Euskal Gaztak del Departamento de Desarrollo Económico, Sostenibilidad y Medio Ambiente del Gobierno Vasco y HAZI. 6 Nuevas Variedades de quesos vascos a la prensa.

Fotos © Joselure www.joselure.com

[littleladymab]

“Thank you,” he replies, because it’s the easiest thing to say. “I…” 

“Don’t apologize. It is not your fault.” She reaches across the table and covers his hand briefly with one of her own, golden and jewel encrusted bangles jingling with the movement. Her touch burns, but leaves no mark. “Just like me, you did what you could.” 

He swallows down another attempt at an apology. Did I? he wonders, not for the first time. 

There was plenty he could have done. Gone to seek help from other gods. Gone to the mortal world sooner. Had more power than a simple ferryman to bring the dead to those who actually do something — because now he cannot help them pass on. Now he has a backlog of dead from across the world that are unable to move beyond the half-state that they are trapped in. 

“I can feel them slipping through my fingers,” he confesses, and Otzara’s flame-bright eyes burn into him. “I know there are dead that I am missing, because I am trying to keep a hold on the ones I do still have. I know that there will come a time, soon, that they too will be taken from me.” 

Otzara tilts her head. “You mourn a lack of power, little brother?” 

“I mourn for your loss. I mourn for those who will be lost, and have already lost.” He resists the urge to show exhaustion. “I have not lost anything of my own, but I am afraid of what I will be unable to stop.”

HEY SUPER exciting news, the original myth zine I’m a part of over at @falsegodszine has PREORDERS UP!!!! You can find my story, Death and His Three Sisters, as well as the FANTASTIC illustrations that accompany it (I already reblogged this amazing one from Lewis!) 

It features ten original myths, each one with two full illustrations, in-line doodles, and a piece of merch! (If you get the Tier I bundle, the sticker is from my story ;))

I had a lot of fun writing this and working with the awesome team. Go check them out and snag a copy!