#elden ring iji

[evs-eme]

INKTOBER 11 - War Counselor Iji, Elden Ring

The grandmaster blacksmith loyal ally to Ranni and a kind Troll.

Eme

[bowietea]

Even more blorbos made! ✨️

[natdafat]

This doesn't look good either way...

What's worse about this for me is that the lore of my main OC for this game is that, while she is a blacksmith, she was once a member of the black knife assassins

Iji was a friend, and I always forget this happens.

[lamplore]

@h2who made a great point about this; the message here might actually be from Iji. After killing Radahn, we can talk to Blaidd in Radahn’s arena, but after that, Iji immediately locks him in Darriwil’s Evergaol. While the message brings up an image of Blaidd, it makes quite a bit of sense for it to be from Iji, dissuading us from looking for Blaidd and potentially freeing him. We know they were both in the area, and the evergaol is essentially just over the hill. Iji will also not mention Blaidd’s imprisonment to us unless we find Blaidd first, and bring it up to him.

Iji also seems to be slightly more committed to the Carian family as a whole, where as Blaidd seems to care purely about Ranni. So, I buy that Iji would be the one calling Radahn a traitor here. Interesting all the same.

Hey I love your Elden ring posts. Can you elaborate on the message blaidd leaves? Is it like written on the ground by the crater or is it when you speak to him?

Yeah!! So it’s an NPC message (they have a more noticeable light effect than player ones) on the outside of the crater, before you make your way down. I only noticed it on a recent re-run.

I just thought it was interesting to call Radahn s traitor. It makes sense, he was an obstacle to Ranni’s plan, but still.

[blaiddfailcam]

here

[smorgasbort]

Something I’ve appreciated about Elden Ring is it’s use of less prominently heard UK regional accents in its English dub.

Ranni and Iji sounding Welsh makes me headcanon that the Carian accent in general is Welsh. I’d love to hear Radahn’s singing voice.

Godrick and Godfrey sound very West Country and it makes me hope that Godwyn sounded like a farmer.

And of course, the icing on the cake, Brummy Dung Eater which is complete perfection. Rodericka also has a midlands accent so I wonder if they come from similar locations originally?

[aidosaur]

PERCY’S ELDEN RING JOURNALS PART 12: THE END!!

(part 1 | part 2 | part 3 | part 4 | part 5 | part 6 | part 7 | part 8 | part 9 | part 10 | part 11 | part 12 )

Part 12 of the Elden Ring Journals of my playthrough with @ananthhirsh! Here’s my non-canon epilogue. :)

It’s now been ONE YEAR since I started these journals!!! It was such a delight to do these, thank you for following along!

(Also if you’d like to read about Percy’s actual adventures, you can read BARBAROUS for free over here.)

[galedekarios]

Tell Blaidd and Iji… I love them.

[steftastan]

Carian Stroll

“Tell Blaidd, and Iji…I love them.”

Before this piece, I had been wanting for a long time to create my own piece of Elden Ring fanart featuring Ranni. I had tried several sketches unsuccessfully, just wasn’t particularly feeling the ideas I had sketched up until that point.

One day of usual internet scrolling, I stumbled upon this gorgeous piece of art by Shimomura Kanzan.

I knew immediately I wanted to do something like this for my Elden Ring fanart. In fact, if you look at this piece, there is tons of inspiration that I drew from the original artwork, such as the style of the yellow leaves and the main subject matter being a prominent silhouette of the brightest value, placed at approximately the bottom third of the image.

The main character is cleverly shrouded amidst various layers of trees and foliage, giving us the impression that we're peeking into candid moment of their life. In the case of the fox, we caught it during a mid-day snack. In the case of Ranni and her party, we caught them in a leisurely stroll, while Iji outfits the dreaded Fingercreepers with their iconic rings.

I wasn't sure if I wanted to capture a happy moment, but Ranni goes as far as to ask us to deliver to Iji and Blaidd the message that she loves them dearly as her quest draws near its end. I would imagine they all must have had fun moments together as a family. Hey, maybe even the hands liked to be around them?

The process

I started this on my iPad using the procreate app. Sadly the full process is not captured on video, as I switched to Photoshop for the rendering phase of the illustration. This video is a fun window into my chaotic process and how I iterate on the fly on the same canvas. I probably wouldn't do that in a professional setting where you often need to have color keys and iterations to be reviewed and analyzed. I like to I cut myself some slack when doing personal art to keep things fun.

Trying and failing some more

This illustration was not a straightforward path. I haven’t been very diligent about personal art, and at some point I started deviating too much from my reference by adding too many levels of depth to the background and suffocating the piece. I got into a weird loop where I would randomly open the PSD, play around with the values, pushing Iji to the back, then bringing him back, cranking all the levers on Ranni, etc., decide it would look horrible, then begrudgingly determine I’d never complete this image and go on with my life.

As artists we likely have unfinished work sitting everywhere, be it in our sketchbooks, canvases, or hard drives. But it’s a different kind of sting when you feel like you can’t even nail the fundamentals.

Anyway, so a couple weeks ago, I decided to give it another go, but this time I would get rid of all the unnecessary stuff, even stuff that I had been trying to render for ages. I would not hold on to anything, I would try and recapture what drew me to Kanzan's beautiful painting to begin with.

After it became a matter of pushing and pulling pixels until the image was finished!

That’s about it. I didn’t go crazy in depth but lately I’ve been enjoying reading into artists’ processes and I’d be remiss to not share my own thought process also.

Thank you for viewing!

[aromiekimart]

Ranni squad (minus Seluvis because yeah)

[razables]

this is how it happened right

[snizzardd]

War Counselor Iji, Elden Ring

"I pray that you serve her well, unto the very end."

[greys-slippings]

I really do love Morgott a whole lot, I just don't draw him enough.

He's one of many in that aspect though

[jackassnews]

wip family photo lol

[mimocrocodilelol]

Under the moon’s guidance

[lady-ihcobob]

Elden Ring big boys.