#The Sand Nomads

[kc-rising]

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🍋What's the most dramatic/emotional moment in your lore? Explain it, or write one short paragraph of prose set during that moment

Hmm, going to the Nomads for this one.

My most emotional and dramatic scene would probably be the moment Imani had to tell Zahir that his father had finally lost it and was killing civilians, and their escape from the empire thereafter. Prince Zahir had known his dad was into some Bad Shit™ before then, but was still very much in denial about how evil he actually was. So suddenly waking up to be told that he was killing their people indiscriminately to fuel his own lust for power came as quite a shock.

I want to write this scene out for real at some point, but I unfortunately do not have time right now XD

[surfer-roo01]

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Model: ayshi wan kenobi

Byron Bay, Australia 🇦🇺

[dark-overlord-of-rainbows]

Drawn Mar 27 2024 wanted to do some fanart for this one for a while now, Nomads by @captain-juuter Dunno how long I've been reading, definitely before it became a webtoon original, not sure if I've read since it first started? but anyway a few months back the second season ended and I reread the entire thing and I like it a lot. It's just a fun fantasy adventure, and I enjoy fun fantasy adventures. I want to do more drawings, don't know if I will.. (me n my executive dysfunction amirite) It's coming to print soon too, probably gonna get a copy of the first book

[maulfucker]

a handful of oc concepts

[jeanambrojo]

@j_ambrojo

[no7er]

Wastes of War Digital artwork by me, 2022

[lokiina]

Dino who doesn't sleep well, and his boy who usually sleeps like a rock unless something is really eating at him.

I imagine he deals with a lot of discomforts involving past injuries/his cyberware, phantom pains, things like that. Numerous factors in combination.

Zayn knows, when he does happen to find Dino asleep, to just let him sleep and not disturb him unless it's truly important cuz he doesn't get enough.

[weasterberry]

A:tLA has a lot of great things going for it but, and I cannot stress this enough:

You cannot call a nation that keeps 100% of their population in 4 relatively small and ancient cities, with no travel besides visiting each other to fuck, """"Nomads""""". Nomads, by definition, wander around and lack a permanent home. The fire nation being able to kill the entire nation (except Aang) in a single coordinated strike, AND feel confident they had done so, only works because they are the least nomadic people in the entire avatar universe. If they air nation were nomads the entire plot of the show would not have worked. They are the air MONKS. The air COMMUNE perhaps. Maybe even the air CITY STATES but calling them the air NOMADS is just lying.

[totentnz]

i should make a nomad v

[downfalldestiny]

Nomad life 🐫 !.

[kc-rising]

WBW, YEAH! Since I've been thinking about it with my lair specifically (shhh, don't ask), do you happen to have a dragon that's just MESSED UP? Whether evil or just kind of demented, any which way you might imagine them to be! I'd love to know about them and what they've been up to!

Oh hell yeah, I love this ask, you have no idea! I am about to go off about My Fucked Up Guys™ (this isn't even all of them tbh, I just don't have thought-out lore of the others)

First, Kraigen. He's the commander of my clan leader's 'Swarm' (a group of Veils tasked with overwhelming and overpowering any threat to Zeare's life). Kraigen's Plague magic is very powerful and as a result has twisted his body and mind into something only vaguely resembling a Veilspun. He isn't what I would call evil, but he does enjoy causing pain. Before he joined the Outcasts he was a war priest, but when his previous clan discovered that he was experimenting on the bodies of his enemies rather than disposing of them they chased him out.

Aja is a member of the Neon Fangs Mafia. He has visions of the future that have ruined his mind to the point of insanity. The twist is that he only sees disasters, it can be of a place or a person and the Mafia exploits this for profit as often as they can. Aja doesn't mind, he had nowhere to go before they picked him up and he barely knows what's going on half the time anyway. They feed him and give him a place to sleep and only sometimes complain about his screaming and night terrors. (He is essentially meant to be Anxiety given form, always predicting the worst outcomes to things and unable to think of anything else)

Those Who Devour the Moon is a cult that exists in Coglight City alongside the Neon Fangs. Dannosa is the daughter of the leaders of the Those Who Devour the Sun cult (owned by @jedicreed-fr) and decided to spread it's message after she left home. The Cult's primary goal is to create their own Emperor. Her parents are trying to create one and so is she. They believe that Emperors are dragonkind's saviors. Some say she's close to reaching her goal, but those are probably just rumors...

Jarl, the Sand Nomads' big bag. He is Zahir's father and ruler of an Empire. When he was very young he discovered a book of black magic, written in an ancient language, and devoted most of his life to deciphering it. He finally managed to while Zahir was still a hatchling and discovered that his son's pearl was the key to everlasting power. From then on he focused on training Zahir in powerful magics, feeding the pearl more and more as he grew, at the same time he began snatching dragons no one would miss from the streets of his city. He drained these dragons of all their magic, killing them in the process, but it was never enough. Zahir was an adult by the time he lost his patience and allowed the magic of the book to fully corrupt him. Zahir and a small group of his followers are now on the run.

[surfer-roo01]

Photo: cleocohen

Australia 🇦🇺

[traduttrice-errante]

Interview with Liz Shipton, indie author and digital nomad

New article! Interview with Liz Shipton, digital nomad and author of the Thalassic Book Series! #lizshipton #digitalnomad #interview

I’m sure you already know Liz for her Thalassic book series and her super funny Instagram profile… and if you don’t, well, go on and read about her! I came to know Liz thanks to Instagram and she was so kind to accept my interview. So here it is: everything you need to know about being an author, writer and digital nomad living on a boat (amazing, right?)! I hope you enjoy the interview as much…

[notdrifting]

do you ever think about bumi always wearing plain sand-ish coloured clothes when he’s not using a uniform instead of traditional water tribe or air nomad clothes/colours bc is just one of the many ways he externalises without saying it that he never felt like he belonged, to either of them (water tribe and air nomad cultures)?? cause i do, i think about it a lot.

[no7er]

Distant Lands Digital artwork by me, 2022

[houseplantcreature]

Inktober Day 10: Nomadic