#The lore saga - characters

[gigizetz]

Everyone’s Tiresias designs now be like:

twinkfication: ACTIVATE

already brainstorming ab this

[ernstiggroteadelaar]

MTG LORE FANS, please tell me about (random) characters from mtg stories you're obsessed with/a fan of/you just think they're neat, i'm trying to find the most fun bits of mtg lore

[emmieaster]

Another Lore Olympus panel redraw I’ve be meaning to redraw with my beloved Kore ✨

[dragonbloodrai]

My Hermes design, I had the idea for this a few days ago while, (once again listening to epic the musical) and sketched it out

I decided to let a few snake and bird elements influence my design (bird in the broadest term bc of the feathers) I gave him feathered ear-tips and also feathers at the napes as a stand in of sorts for the winged helmet. He also has scales like a snake bc of his symbol of power the Caduceus and snake like fangs. I really like how his design came together

Also here is the sketch, on the upper left side in the corner is the first sketch so you see all the important steps in one go xD

[moonpaw]

Fighting DEMONS rn trying not to get invested in one piece to figure out wtf you're posting about!!!!

come here cyber.... we have this thang

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[goldhawk18]

Research for Character Design: Circe

While I'm still looking into various sources and information about Circe for my final design, here we have the first doodles and drawings of my ideas for her character design!!

I wrote all the basic knowledge we have on her on a post it, and stuck it inside my notebook for reference. I also searched up Ancient Greek Hairstyles and sketched out the ones that struck me the most. Eventually I found a couple that I could combine to create the one I ended up using in the first official concept sketch that I posted a few days ago.

Next, I looked up Ancient Greek Clothing to find possible outfit ideas. It took a while to see ones that gave me Circe vibes, but I quickly drew a couple that stood out to me.

I'll continue to research more about her, and I'll keep updating y'all on the progress and show the process here until I finalize my Circe design.

[me-beef]

fell’s design is rlly cool! what kind of story do u see urself telling w her?

It’ll be a fantasy adventure and mystery series!

I tried to give as much context as I could for the story without this getting too terribly long (I failed) but I sprinkled in some sketches to make reading the post a little more enjoyable lol

it’s all based on a homebrew pathfinder game that me wife @astrmastr ran for our group of buddies. She’s been HUGE in helping me develop the story, so it’s her baby too.

It’s set in ZahKol- a world where the remains of large, powerful beings known as titans make up the landscape. The magic in the world comes from their once immeasurable forms deteriorating in the earth for eons.

The plants, animals, and people that live off the land above a titan are usually imbued with remnants of its magic over time (<- explanation for where all the magical races come from- think dwarves, orcs, bugbears, all the flavors of elves/tieflings, anything we want to make up, whatever)

Felise “Fell” Feiffer is a college student at the largest school and library in the known world- Aton’s Academy for the Advancement of Adventuring Arts (or, AAAAA. You don’t have to scream the abbreviation necessarily- not if you don’t want to. But Arbiter Archibald highly encourages it. He does it, anyways. Every single time. To everyone’s reluctant, but accepting anticipation).

The Academy includes The Mages College- an institution dedicated to the study, research, and practice of the arcane arts.

At the time the main story takes place, Fell has become a certified mage (think, high school graduate- “congratulations, we think you’re competent enough to take care of yourself out there” certification), and is working on achieving her first higher rank at the college.

Typically, you achieve ranks in the college through noteworthy accomplishments- like making a significant contribution of research to the school, leading a beneficial community service project, etc.

Fell has spent all her time researching primal magic- a theoretical source of magic derived from pure titan essence.

More than anything, she wants to prove that a theory her father had ten years ago was correct- that The Winged Isles, an ancient civilization of bird-people known as the featherfolk, really still could exist out there.

and just maybe… using this, she could solve her father’s mysterious disappearance from ten years ago…

Does she dare hope that if she can find the isles...

...she can find her father?

congratulations!! you got to the end of my wordy story summary!! your reward is: yuri!

(Avis is the Windheart- Fell grew up listening to her father talk about his theories on featherfolk society, so Avis is kinda the equivalent of Fell meeting the princess from her childhood fairytales)

I was all over the place with this, so thanks for bearing with me! If anything was too vague, or any specific details intrigue you, I can… yknow 😏 go further in depth 😏 if u leave me a reply or send me an ask 😏😏

[nightflower-stuff]

🧝‍♀️ Loreleia's GF (New OC of TDP)🌊

A/N:

I am back again everyone! 🙏 Because I am so busy on Senior High School 😔, which I haven't posted yet TwT. This is my more post consider I watch The Dragon Prince S6, When it is S7 will be on December 19.

Let's go to my explanation of my another new OC 😄.

• [Lore Story Explained]:

- This is Valindra, She is the tidebound elf of Xadia & the daughter of Queen Lythienne, knowing as she's a royal princess of the Tide Pools & Oceans/Sea. She has to break her mother's rules since she told her daughter not to go on the land, because of elves & humans have legs then they are too dangerous for Valindra. As long as, Her mother Lythienne will protect her kingdom, people & her daughter. 😄✨

- Valindra will stay underwater & her palace, her form was a siren/mermaid that turns into her legs to walk on the land, She loves to swim & some problem she's stuck on the net, she sees a Moonshadow Elf was Loreleia. Loreleia will free Valindra & these two became childhood friends, Ethari called his daughter get lost & Loreleia went back to SilverGrove, after Loreleia introduce to Valindra & she's introduce her father Ethari, the guards called Valindra, Two Moonshadow elves notice about Valindra was a real princess. Many next year, they met again & they became couple as they're girlfriends each other of their love ❤️🥰

Hope you like them ❣️🤗

• Bio introduction:

Name: Valindra

Species: Tidebound Elf

Occupation: Princess (She's born as monarch)

Age:

18(S8)

17 (S6 & S7)

16 (S5)

15 (S4)

12/13/14 (Through the moon, not here)

10 or 11(S3, not here)

8-9 (S1-S2, not here)

Birthday: October 24

Sexuality: Pansexual & Demigirl

Type: Ocean Primal

Home:

- Oceans/Sea (Kingdom)

- Tide Pools

• Relationship:

Queen Lythienne (Mother)

Mage Akiyu (Royal Advisor/Master)

Loreleia (Childhood friend & Girlfriend, moonshadow elf)

Rayla (Sister-in-law & Friend)

Runaan & Ethari (Parents-in-Law & Friends)

Humans (Neutral/Friends)

Dark mages (Enemies)

Next Gen OCs:

• Loreleia (Daughter of Runaan & Ethari)

• Valindra (Daughter of Queen Lythienne)

[bhaalstemple]

i need to become a billionaire for the only reason to buy bioware, hire previous writers and devs, officialy make datv NOT canon and let them make a new game for years to fix this mess and make an actual game that is a continuation of previous games lol

[lore-of-the-mushroom-kingdom]

In Universe Mario Stage Plays & Movies

So there is an old hypothesis that claims all the Mario games never happened, and are all stage plays or only Super Mario Bros. happened. This hypothesis was created due to a misunderstanding about something Miyamoto said which I addressed in a previous post. However, there is some merit behind this hypothesis, just not in the way it's treated. We know the Lakitu Bros. record Mario during his adventures and important events like the unveiling of a Time Machine. In addition to newspapers reporting on events as well. Characters in universe like Goombario are fans of Mario knowing about his adventures. Well also in universe the adventures of Mario and friends are retold told in stage plays performed by the Mario and friends. These stage plays are show in various posters advertising them, all probably organized by Broadway Musical Entertainment.

These plays include ones like The Mushroom Moon, Chase! Mario's Adventure, and the Mushroom Kingdom Musical.

The Mushroom Moon's cast includes Mario, Peach, Yoshi, and is implied to also have Petey Piranha in it. These plays are also probably of unseen adventures given they don't seem to be about any previous game due to who all participates in it. In Chase! Mario's Adventure the cast includes Mario, Peach, Bowser, Luigi, Toad, Yoshi, Bowser Jr., and Donkey Kong. The Mushroom Kingdom Musical's cast includes Mario, Peach, Toad, Yoshi, Rosalina, Daisy, Bowser, Bowser jr., a Koopa Troopa, a Shy Guy, King Boo, Wario, Waluigi, and Pauline.

Now one would ask, why would the characters agree to allow Bowser and Bowser Jr. to be part of said events. Let alone why Bowser would agree to be part of them. Well I address this in a previous post I have made when addressing why Bowser goes go karting with Mario and Co.

There is also a poster for a movie titled Wario in the Yoshi Theater in Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga.

There is another stage play, this one seems to be a retelling of the events of Donkey Kong because of the name and steel gutters. This play is called Donkey Kong and is labeled the best musical. It also appears to have Donkey Kong III playing the part of his grandfather the original Donkey Kong, something I talked about in a previous post.

We see something similar to this in Super Mario Odyssey with the Festival that is head to celebrate the beginnings of New Donk City. The Festival in question celebrates and retells the events of Donkey Kong.

This could also be used to explain Miyamoto's comment about Super Mario Bros. 3 being a stage play, while all the games imply the events of SMB3 happened as I've talked about in a previous post. SMB3 is probably a stage play made by Broadway Musical Entertainment retelling actual events.

[ch3rryb00m98]

I’ve been watching Soul Eater, can’t you tell?

[zephyr-rat]

Green Giant Saga: Twitch Character Insights

"My subjects will be like the books of the humans and the sumps, but the tale of Twitch would be even greater. No humans of course, and even in those heroic tales, there were always twists and turns. There were always traitors. Twitch knows better. The sumps taught me so. This bronze brace of mine always reminds. Everyone’s out for themselves down here. But there’s a way for better subjects than those! Creation. Sentience. Life!"

-- Twitch from The Sentient Potion

(You can also read this as "what I do if I have control of Twitch's LoL lore”) (Based off of how I write the characters for The Green Giant Saga)

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It’s hard to find a place to start with Twitch because, currently, Twitch has no lore. Unfortunately, Riot did not give the poor rat an updated bio when the big Piltover-Zaun update came at the beginning of 2017, and ever since then, he’s been sitting with a pathetic two sentence placeholder  bio that says essentially nothing about the character. That being said, to advertise for Twitch’s release in Wild Rift on April 20th, 2023, Riot did release a series of shorts called Twitch Chat: Sewer Tour in which Twitch gives a poor human victim a tour of his collection before presumably shooting him to death. The shorts characterize him as arrogant via his self-proclaimed superiority in taste and cruel as he goes off to test his poisons on an unsuspecting scuttle crab. He comes off as a Looney Toons punching bag. A stupid villain with very easy flaws to exploit for a clever Bugs Bunny type character (probably Ekko or Zeri) to outsmart and make a fool out of. 

While this is a valid direction to go with Twitch (more valid than what the new lore did with Zac), I think it flattens him into this two-dimensional obstacle for better characters to overcome. It also throws away a lot of the motivations, depth, and predefined relationships hinted at the old lore. In the old lore, he joined the League of Legends with the goal of recreating his sentience, making more mutated plague rats like himself, but by joining the League and collaborating with Zaun, he’s now under the possible exploitation and control of the Zaunite government. You could say that he’s one of Zaun’s weapons in the old lore. However, the League of Legends is gone and, with Twitch’s updated voiceover for his visual update, paranoia becomes a huge part of his character, to the point where I just don’t buy Twitch working with filthy topsiding humans anymore. Where does this leave us?

Well, I wanted to explore one particular line found in the old lore: the idea that one of the biggest challenges for him recreating his sentience is “his own insanity”. Where did such insanity come from as someone mutated from the sewers of Piltover-Zaun and how does one overcome such a great challenge? I wanted to lean towards the paranoia of the character and explore how such a mentality formed without contradicting his funny pompous arrogance. In fact, I found a way in which both aspects reinforce each other.

(Art by Martina Matteucci)

Green Giant Saga Twitch:

In my series, Twitch shares the same character base as his VU version in the League of Legends game: a maniacal mutated rat who believes everything in the world should be his, murdering anyone that would get in his way. He’s paranoid of everyone, thinking that they’re aiming to exterminate him and take his stash away from him, and, by all accounts, he’s not entirely wrong.

Twitch is, both figuratively and literally, a product of his environment. He was mutated in the Sumps, the lowest level of Piltover-Zaun, a level that’s so polluted that Zaunites have considered it utterly inhabitable without proper equipment. Down in the Sumps, resources like food and water are extremely limited, forcing the mutated animals to become territorial and aggressive as they fight to find resources just to sustain themselves. Twitch is no exception.

(Art by Cryspan)

One of the most recurring symbols of the entire series is Twitch’s homemade rusty arm brace. In Twitch’s character design, it’s the main component contributing to Twitch’s asymmetry. Usually with a character like Twitch, asymmetry can represent how a character can be off-kilter and uneven. In the context of the story, Twitch sustained this injury after fighting a monster after he asked for food. It was a violent battle, leading to a broken shoulder, but out of that, he gained not only the food he wanted but a corpse to feed on and make poisons with. His stash got way bigger than if he just shared parts of the monster’s food like he asked, and, therefore, he can live longer from the new resources gained than if he did the other option.

The brace is a reminder of what the sumps taught him and he took it to heart. He became one of the fiercest monsters in the Sumps, obtaining a stash that could, in Twitch’s words, rival that of kings. He’s proud of this arm brace as a warrior is proud of their scar after a war. He was the one that killed the monster that day. He was the one that created the cast himself when no one would help him. He earned that monster’s corpse and his food, just like how he earned everyone else’s goods and belongings when he killed them. 

However, the brace wasn’t made well. It might as well be made with shoestring and duct-tape. If he ever made the wrong move, it can be easily ripped off and the arm can be undone. When he gets nervous, he turns the bolts on his brace, tightening it ever so slightly in the hopes that it will stay on, but it will never be enough. No amount of resources can make Twitch feel truly safe.

As time went on, he started to get more interesting loot. Books of fantasy and romance enraptured him. He envied the kings of those pages. Sure he might have everything the sumps could offer with his gigantic collection, but those kings had something he never had: loyal subjects and friends that would follow their leaders anywhere, but this fantasy is contrasted with the cruel reality Twitch lives in. What do we do when the stories we hope for are so different from the life we really live? You make them happen. With hope, you try to make them fit. If he can’t recruit existing subjects down here, he, like in the old lore, would have to make them himself.

(Art by OrlandoFox)

And he successfully did with Zac! (kinda, not really. Read The Sentient Potion for the story) However, he’s not the devoted subject he wanted, and he can’t replace him. After so many failed attempts and dead rats, Twitch has to make this worth it. As the story goes on, the tension between what he was “promised” by the fantasy books he reads and the reality of what he has grows more and more. It reinforces the themes of fantasy versus the reality we have to work with that’s present with Zac’s story. His relationship with Zac challenges his ideas of loyalty, kinship, and what makes a great king. Does he want true friendship with Zac or does he want complete ownership and control of him like the Chem-Barons of Zaun? 

In the Zac character insights, I mention a lot about the idea of individualistic beliefs in the face of systemic problems. In his mind, Twitch thoroughly believes he earned his lot as the sump king of Zaun. He fought through all the monsters and earned his stash fair and square, yet that learned cruelty, greed, and bravado won’t get him what he really wants with Zac. Zac can try to help Twitch be “better” through actions and kindness, but that won’t change the fact that he’s always surrounded by evidence that he has to be the way that he is to not only survive, but thrive. Twitch is ultimately a product of his setting, one that was unintentionally made by the Chem-Barons and Pilties through utter neglect and careless profiteering. To him, this is the only option in the Sumps. He can say that he’s a special king all he wants, but he’s really just another mutated sump creature. 

Twitch’s story is ultimately about how an environment creates us and whether or not we can break away from that environment to grow and change. It’s a story of the ways friendship can enrich lives, but only if one allows it to, and it can be hard to allow it to. After all, who can say no to being the sewer king.

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If any of this is of interest to you, you can read the story here

[sometimesraven]

It's Erik's birthday today so I thought I'd put together a lil aesthetic based around his star sign!

Virgos are grounded Earth signs, deeply rooted in their ways and perfectionists to the core. They are your best friend, extremely dedicated and loyal, and will work hard to maintain their relationships. That perfectionism can present kind of neurotically, however, and you'll often find Virgos overthinking and meticulous in their persuit of that perfection.

Erik is the quintessential Virgo imo, I love them to pieces! Every Virgo I've ever met has a lil Erik in them and I love that for them.

Erik is a supporting character in RECKLESS TRUTH and primary love interest in BITTER TRUTH, books 1 and 2 respectively of THE TRUTH SAGA

Check out The Truth Saga

Children go missing all the time. That’s what they’re told. They run away, they’re kidnapped, they die. Scattered throughout Scotland, a handful of families remember the truth of what happened to their families. The violent, paranormal attacks that destroyed their lives and took their children from them.

Twenty years after the first incidents, the disappearences are happening again. The missing children are adults now, and reconnecting with the people they lost, but everything has changed. There is something sinister casting its shadow over their heads, and now they must fight to return the light to their lives. To learn to love and laugh and carry on living – while the truth of their history threatens to destroy them.

Combining science fantasy with interpersonal drama, The Truth Saga is an ongoing series following themes of love, family and grief wrapped in a bundle of supernatural mystery and violence. Step into the Controller’s world and you may never turn back…

BOOK 1, RECKLESS TRUTH, IS AVAILABLE NOW TO BUY FROM YOUR FAVOURITE BOOKSTORES

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@smallvillecrows

[lilyvalleyinfo]

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Lilies are the stars of the ground

Stars are the the flowers of the sky

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In Lily Valley, lilies, the six-petals flowers, and stars, the six-pointed lights, are two of the most symbolic symbols to find.

“As so above, so below”

[koskela-knights]

Kinda sad that Alan Wake 2 Final Draft is probably the last we'll see of most newly introduced characters outside Estevez & Zane (i mean he isn't new, but we finally have a face)

The DLC only focused on a very limited cast (Rose, Scratch/Alan, Tim + Jesse) and filled it with random, generic NPCs and it seems the Lakehouse DLC won't feature major characters outside Estevez at all.

[im-all-out-of-ideas]

just binged the majority of the idw storylines for sonic the hedgehog

it's peak you guys it's so peak archie could never