#dragon descent

[sharivers92]

I'm playing dragon descent 7800 indie homebrew game on atari vcs 800 i want to share this new video i made today!

[mkfshard]

I've officially sent my novel out to beta readers

have a celebratory Pathi! whee

[perplexingly]

It’s the last banter I really wanted to draw, but there’s another one where Merrill continues the subject, so I drew it too:

[aves-rook-laidir]

I know that The Descent DLC was designed to be post game, aka after Solas left but holy fucking shit now there’s a really fucked up hilariously dark in game reason why Solas does not utter a god damn WORD of banter or commentary during that entire DLC.

[dmmchn]

Cecil Steelhammer.

I'm playing Descent into Avernus with my friends, and I made a tiefling paladin (oath of crown) character for that. Was heavily inspired by BG3's Zevlor, ngl.

Cecil is a Hell Rider, he descended with the city, then managed to escape it (because I joined the campaign mid-way and that's how our DM joined him with the party) to find the way to save it somewhere else.

I tired to design the most basic character I could, so Cecil would stand in line with the NPCs the party met along the way. His surname, his basic horns, his typical red skin - all serve that purpose. However I did my own take on the Hell Rider Uniform - I wanted it to look more knightly with a coat that draws the guard out from the crowd, so I added embroidery with Elturel's suns.

[housederiva]

My lyrium pusher: got some straight gas 🔥😛 this strain is called “The Descent” you’ll be zonked out of your gourd 💯

Me: yeah whatever. I don’t feel shit.

5 minutes later: babe I swear I just saw a dwarf made of red lyrium running through the deep roads

My buddy Lace pacing: I̴̳̘͎̼̬͇̦̋̑S̴̥̥͈̰̓́Ä̶̰̜͍̗͚́͂̓̊T̶͕̺̝̖͌̑͂Ų̸̙̙̟̦̰̻̺̔̎̈͌̌̉͝N̸͙̓͑͆̍̑̔Ô̶̡̗̮̰̤̤͖̗̪̒̎͋̈̐̔̒̈́͝ͅL̵̡̢̛̖̫̗̗̼͍̈̈́̓̊̓Ḷ̷̡̘̖͓̳̽̀̐̊̕

[sha-lyuzar]

i will never shut up about the Titans. i will never shut up about these Lovecraftian horrors who sleep beneath their children. Whose blood shapes their entire way of life and stores the memories of every dwarf that has ever lived. Who still sing to their children, even if they can't hear them. Foaming at the mouth.

[elfcollector]

Maybe we could get you in a nice dress someday. Silk...no, maybe velvet. Velvet is heavier, better to guard against the cold in Ferelden. Dark red velvet, yes. With gold embroidery. It should be cut low in the front, of course. We don't want to hide your features. [...] You don't think so? And if it's cut low in the front, we must put your hair up. Show off that lovely neck.

[tshortik]

A devil without a name and a body of gold, dubbed "Coin" by the one he chose as his champion.

[imperatoralicia]

I think Lace "I've Already Survived One Fade Apocalypse" Harding deserves to have one of those machine guns from The Descent DLC that BioWare sort of quietly snuck into the Dragon Age universe.

[rawliverandgoronspice]

Always a bit puzzled by people saying that anyone who wanted long-term consequences for TotK Zelda's sacrifice are "edgy".

I'm not even particularly in the camp that she should have remained a dragon forever (I think this should have been Ganondorf's fate, it would have been sooo much more impactful than to explode him and move on but anyway). To be honest, I wish the rules for turning back would have been 1) clear 2) active gameplay on the player so that it feels like it's something we have earned, and 3) not make her have amnesia about it and/or at least having her gain some crucial insight because of the experience.

(also: doesn't she crave knowledge? isn't that insanely mean to have her watch over every civilization and every bit of history ever and then take it away from her? kind of dislike how totk privileges the comfort of the player's feelings over what the characters would actually want or need tbh)

To be perfectly honest, I fully expected us needing to turn her back before engaging Ganondorf so we would fight him together, especially since Zelda as a compagnon exists in the game code already (though in a very subdued state). It feels very very strange to me that all of this mechanic of Sages following us existing and yet we never have the very climactic cool Zelda-staple moment of facing Ganondorf or Ganon together (OoT, WW, TP, ST and probably more that I'm forgetting all did this in some way --even BotW had Zelda more involved than in TotK). I'm not sure Mineru was a compagnon that was needed over Zelda honestly, especially given the kind of non-insight she gives us on the zonai (even if the idea of the mecha is cool, it really could have been Zelda using her zonai + sheikah knowledge to pilot one for us or something).

But anyway: yeah, even if this isn't what I would have wanted personally, I think wanting Zelda to remain a dragon is kind of arguably more respectful of her relationship to Link, in a way, that what the game ended up doing. When she enacted this sacrifice, Zelda decided to trust him to such a extent that she lost herself, reciprocated his trust in her and his devotion to her, and now the future of Hyrule exists beyond her and beyond what Hyrule once was, but she trusts them to follow through and be happy and she will watch over them from the stars moving on. It's fine if we manage to save her from that fate, but even if we don't, honestly this sounds like a beautiful story/tragic romance to me, if you want to read it that way. Tragedy doesn't necesserily involve edginess. Fictional pain isn't always mean, or out to get you.

[potpourri-of-ecclecticism]

You served the realm well at a time of need. That need has ended. You are no longer obliged.

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON (2022—) ¤ S02E06 "Smallfolk" dir. Andrij Parekh

[mkfshard]

SO HEY! DRAGON DESCENT!

I don't know if anyone following me still remembers, but I've been working on an Epic Fantasy novel this entire time! :D And I've finally gotten to the point where I'm actively looking for beta readers! If you're someone who likes the idea of reading a 200k+ word novel about teens turning into magical dragons and being sad about it, let me know! :D

[chiefpurpleimp]

DONE ... mostly. Just the border to do.

This piece has consumed whatever little free time I have. I'm sorry for the spam 🤣. I'm just so very slow at drawing 😅.

I have other pieces planned but they will have to wait until I've finished some work and other things.

Hellriders in Avernus against Zariels armies.

[drownedrow]

Cania, The Eighth Layer (Envy)

[dmmchn]

Cecil Steelhammer, on duty.

Cecil, being a Hellrider, used to patrol streets of Elturel on horseback together with a deputy partner. I imagine he was something like a second lieutenant, higher than a private, but not that higher.

Cecil became a Hellrider at the age of 18, and he was 29 in 1492 DR, when Elturel fell.

P.S. Cecil became a fan-favourite here! Many thanks to everyone reblogging! Why do you all like him so much though? :’D