#a little bit of lore

[fanta-a-a-a]

"I haven't experienced such a joy as this in seven years, Mac," Wukong whimpered. "I want to go back to being your ditzy roommate who you pretended to loathe. To your charming and excitable best friend, who thought you the only person trustworthy enough to show my anxieties. To sitting next to you as you read the required reading with me because I couldn't read the letters without mixing anything up. To sharing secrets in the middle of the night when we couldn't sleep. I don't want to be there anymore, okay?"

At that, his dream flickered, and for just a moment they were in a green and gold gilded room, shackles binding Wukong's wrists, and thick, golden bars with an extravagant design rising up to the ceiling like a birdcage, two (asleep) guards on either side. "I just want to--"

And then they were back in that field, beside that tree. "--pretend."

[zombiecicada]

Doodling more thiriomoiras, some of the other thiriomoira children! Youths that are old enough to start training are dubbed novices. Thiriomoiras do a mix of ‘everyone in the village pitches in to train the youth so they have a vast range of skills’ and individual one on one mentoring.

The first year or so is spent learning all the different roles in the village and trying all of them, before slowly everyone is filtered into a specific role that they wish to specialize in. Roles such as guarding the village and taking on threats from predators or helping minimize damage from natural disasters, healing, or crafting are all valuable roles within their community. But there’s a range of other jobs as well, from building, to hunting, to gathering, and more.

[flaming-tennis-ball]

(it sucks on a cigarette and then puffs out a large cloud of smoke.)

Ahhh… I wonder if the other balls smoke…

[not-thenauts]

Can you please draw Kwazii with his telescope? I think it could make for some really fun poses (:

I love drawing Kwazii actually, especially being a girl dad. It was hard drawing him with an object though, cuz idk? I had a lil adhd drawing him (not too badly) hopefully I delivered that! Eat up, my little munchies, also Jesus wants to let you know that you are very loved! 🥰

[askthe-iii-shipchildren]

Heres some more fun facts but not so much about the ship children

- Cabby isn't one to want kids herself BUT she loves babysitting the kids and has taken an aunt role for them all

- Silver and Knife are brothers and Knife is Candelabras uncle (bonus fact, Knife acts all tough still but is pretty soft with Candi)

- Candle owns her own crystal/witchcrafty shop so she is the main breadwinner while Silver is a stay at home dad

- Springy still had baby stuff left from years ago to reuse with Radio

- Cabby's Library is regularly visited by the kids, whether for babysitting like the first thing, or just for fun

-The youngest child out of all of the kids is Radio, and the oldest is Burrito (They all think it's Red tho)

[sherlockggrian]

congratulations joel, massive W for smallishbeans lovers :D

[mr-mangrove]

Strangely, Jax and Kaufmo had not appeared for the morning role jingle. Stranger still was that Cain didn’t even know what was going on. He had sent bubble to go check it, but bubble seemed to be strangely frightened and refused to tell Cain what happened. All we heard was them mumbling, “Too sharp, too much drool, too much...” and then they went back to their old cheery selves. Cain decided that there was no adventure today; he also seemed strangely distant, like he was scared of something… Me, Gangle, and Zooble decided to see if we could find Jax and Kaufmo. It was more of me dragging them along, but... I was a little scared.

“Ragatha… I'm not sure if this is a good idea.” Gangle spoke to me as I fiddled with Jax's door.

“It’ll be fine, Gangle. He probably overslept.” I spoke

“Kaufmos’ doors slammed shut; nothing getting in there without a key.” Zooble shouted from down the hall

CLICK 

“Doors open, lets see what that rabbits up to,” I said 

Opening the door, two things were immediately evident: the smell and the hundreds of sharp keys jutting out on each wall of the room. The smell was overpowering, rancid, and disgusting—the smell of hot spit and blood. That was when we saw the rabbit seated in the middle of the room, hunching and whispering to himself.

“No, no, none of them are really reall. Hehehe, what was that, kauf? Do we have more visitors? Another scraping for freeedom? hehehHAHAHAHHAH” It was an unsettling laugh that I had never heard before, gutral like a rabid animal.

"Jax, let me out? Hehehe, no, NO, Kauf, then Ms. Pom will wake up to….. She’ll be even more annoying than you are, screaming about being locked up… hehehehhahahah AHAHAHHHA….”

“Jax? Are you okay?” Gangle said, breaking the silence

In a horrifying display, Jaxs’ neck folded and with a sickening snap and crack, his head hung upside down, staring at us.

Something choked out of his throat; it sounded unmistakably like Kaufmo. “RAGATHA. RUN!”

Then it was terrifying. Jax sprang up and ran at us with crazed eyes and an open, bloodied mouth. Zooble got there just in time to slam the door shut and hold it against the pounding and smashing of the crazed Jax. Something then suddenly shot through the door, only stopping inches from Gangles mask, a key, razor sharp, and pointed like a spear.

We piled as much as we could on his door to stop him. It was a mountain of things; it held, but we didn’t know for how long. 

Jax seemed to stop around an hour later… we can hear him beg us to let him out, to “be his prey.” We should tell Cain, but we don’t know if he would turn this into an adventure or put Jax somewhere where it would be impossible to solve what is going on with him. 

For now we will have to wait.

heh lore be fun sometimes.

[morgana-ren]

I want more bane and bhaal lore!! (As in their followers) 😺

Well, depends on what you mean!

I am intimately familiar with two Banites, and I've semi-dissected one of them-- that being Gortash.

There are a lot more, because Banite philosophy was actually pretty prominent for a while in certain areas, including Thay (think 'the big Necromancy spooky magic place') and Moonsea and some other places that really resonated with him and his whole gimmick. Bane had 'a sort' of son who served a very particular purpose, similar to Bhaal, and that tends to be a theme between them. They despise each other, but Bane? He's had entanglements (for better or worse) with other Gods. He's actually open to working with them if it achieves his goals. There's tons of little facts about him and his worshippers, but I could go on forever about Bane and all his funky little facts.

I know a bit more about Bane because Bane is more in my wheelhouse and his lore is pertinent to some of my writing and my work. He makes for forging fascinating characters just because of the sheer complexity of the type of people he attracts as a God. It's not just raw-dog evil. There's actually good that has been accomplished under Bane. There's neutrality. It's a complex web.

Bhaal, in my opinion, is a bit more simple. He's the god of blood, ritualistic killing, and just basically the grotesque art of murder. You know who he attracts. People who want to kill other people wantonly. It's much more simplistic. It doesn't seem (to me personally) that there's a whole lot of nuance there. He's very much an evil god for evil's sake.

He is the main antagonist of most of the Baldur's Gate games. He has tons of 'kids' running around called Bhaalspawns, which is why they mention it so casually and everyone knows what it is. They actually turned on him and defeated him earlier in the series.

He's a bit of a hypocrite, because he does not, in fact, like being murdered himself.

That being said, I still do know a bit about him especially since he's such a prominent 'evil' God.

So it depends on the type of stuff you're looking for! Are you looking for just general facts about their apotheosis, godhood, subsequent fall, resurrection, etc? A dissection on the type of people they attract? A bit more about their actual history?

I'm happy to oblige anything!

[askfordoodles]

"Young man, you cut that tsundere bullshit, I know what you're doing, I wasn't born yesterday." - Secret Brat Tamer Volkarin

[iztea]

i am on her nerves i am ruining her day

[lilybug-02]

Cave talk.

Bug Fact: Dragonfly larvae and adult Dragonflies happily eat mosquitos.

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[canisalbus]

hii i'm so fascinated with the anthro dog worldbuilding and had a question about it !!! if domesticated canines exist in the world, do undomesticated canines (wolves, foxes, coyotes, maned wolves, etc) also exist? if so, what role do they play in society? ^_^

Domestic dogs are the only anthropomorphic species, they exist in place of humans.

Wild canines exist, but they're just regular wolves, foxes, coyotes and so on. Anthro dogs view them the same way humans view apes and other primates. They recognize that wolves are superficially similar to them in some uncanny ways, but have no gualms about hunting them. To a dog living in the pre-Darwin era, a wolf isn't a distant relative, it's a wild beast that will eat their livestock.

Actual pet dogs are entirely absent.

Other domesticated animals exist as normal. Anthro dogs keep cats as pets, raise chickens and ride horses.

[littlecrittereli]

Elemental AU my beloved

They're so dear to me

I'm working on refs for the villains but I don't have much energy for colored stuff rn

[a-scary-lack-of-common-sense]

A phone call between brothers (takes place AFTER this incident and Fiddleford's phone call)

Sorry if this is OOC!

[filurig]

SO my old basilisk refs and things felt grossly outdated esp now bcs i have changed some things about them. So now have a new ref and some more extra informations about them. or at least the basilisk community most relevant to pareidolia...

[wyvernity]

been thinking about the sinnohtrio lately......plus misc other stuff

also, casual ko-fi drop!! get something in this sketchy style starting at $10 woop woop