#guild wars 2 awakened

[alma-draws]

It’s been a while! I promise I still exist!

Here’s a little portrait of Sivaun, pre-Prismaticite. They covered their face often and avoided direct attention.

I had some fun with various pattern brushes to add interest and texture.

[system-architect]

Enlightenment always comes at a price. Now you must pay for what you've learned.

i was both shocked by the lack of kudu fanart and the fact that i had never drawn him before ssoooo.... yknow 💃

[heart-of-tyria]

BEHOLD — "Draw two of your comfort characters like this" meme

10/10 absolutely recommend this if you're sad bc this consistently made me burst out laughing whenever I'd zoom out

[scribesofcalamity]

My last few Art Fight attacks for GW2CC.

Masiki belongs to @praise-joko

Pun belongs to @scuffedclang

Lady Nimue belongs to @solvevi

[littlefoxgw2]

one of the prettiest maps to chill in ^_^

[charrcoalart]

character by @commander-wame

[spinnando]

Ancient Choya

Necromancer (Scourge) // Sylvari (Choya)

The awakened choya scourge.

Has three outfits: Natural Outfit, Royal Guard Outfit, Jackal Warrior Outfit (yesss, it's a bun head, but...)

Ancient Choya is a scourge, and a loyal follower of Joko.

He is an awakened choya, and has been a member of Joko’s high court, going back to Joko’s early reign. Betrothed choya might even be a descendant of his!

He is a powerful a scourge, and his sand ghasts resemble angry choya faces, instead of the usual humanoid faces.

[glitchpirate]

April’s VSArtParty batch!

Aether: @flower-crow

Carduus: @siins

Lily and Ray: @drewcakemix

Seong Jin: @awakenedsylvari

Luqqah: I sadly don’t know, someone please help out ;w;

IDs in alt!

Sorry for the inconsistent everything sdjkfshkj

[blackbackedjackal]

Awakened Canid Champion Nepheretes (Guild Wars 2)

[yall-hate-kids-tourney]

Severa (Fire Emblem Awakening) vs. Taimi (Guild Wars 2)

Y'all Hate Teens Tourney, Round 2B

(Propaganda linked in the title)

[scuffedclang]

Wanted to draw my fish eyed Awakened Asura Vivvus. Still debating on if she is still with the Inquest or not.

[el-is-away]

mordrem waexie !!!!! oh no!!!

also forcibly awakened laiz!!!!! noo!!!

[moontheoretist]

Asking for a friend

I need to know how many of my mutuals or people who observe me play the same video games as me. I'm curious! Show me I'm not alone.

Dragon Age Series (whichever game counts)

Star Wars The Old Republic (MMO)

Neverwinter (MMO)

Guild Wars 2 (MMO)

Genshin Impact

Honkai Impact 3rd

Honkai Star Rail

Dislyte

Baldur's Gate 3

Divinity Original Sin 2

Anthem

Dream Daddy: a Dad Dating Simulator

SpiritFarer

Thea: The Awakening

[commander-gloryforge]

Ayzeelia dreamed of endless deserts, of raptors, of guns and blood dripping into sand. Ayzeelia dreamed of sun in her face, wind on her skin, heat and leather and blades. And when she woke, she learned of Elona. Her true home. Until she died, and her home became a prison.

Ayzeelia was killed during an ambush and awakened soon after. She lived a simple (after) life under Joko, mostly tending to animals in a little village. It clearly wasn't what she had wanted when she was a sapling dreaming of the vast desert, but that didn't matter now. It wasn't like she could complain, or think on her own at all. It wasn't like she could run away, she was a slave, with no mind. Until he died, and her prison became escapable.

And if there's one thing an outlaw is good at, it's escaping.

[guildtree]

WIP Wednesday Sketchdump

It's Wednesday! Have some random stuff from my folders. We've got ideas for some OCs, concept art for Awakened Marjory, and putting pirate tattoos on Mai Trin.

[bigsnaff]

So!!! Here's that Merlish post mentioned several months ago that I'd write pretty soon after the first SotO update dropped (I did not). But here it is now!

So, in all the time I've had Merlish, I've never really had a solid story for him. He's my second oldest character right next to Cyna, being 8 years to her 11 years (the 3 year gap being because he's the only other character that survived deletion from that period), but only in the last 2 years has he had any... actual substance.

Anyway, disregarding previous incarnations of him, Merlish Cendigg is a ghost of Ascalon, except he's not bound to the same limitations that all of the rest are.

I'm not nearly as familiar with GW1's lore and have only played a couple of hours of it, so inaccuracies and headcanons that are contradictory to canon are probably impossible to avoid while developing a character that's literally from the time period of said canon, so... bear with me a bit. But Merlish was in King Adelbern's court. His specific role, I'm not entirely sure. But suffice it to say, he was, and still is, an extremely powerful sorcerer - enough so that he drew the attention of the Astral Ward, probably became a member somewhere along the line, and was seriously considered a candidate for ascension. Until the Foefire.

Merlish had taken some precautions. He embedded his soul into his spear. His body was incinerated by the Foefire and he became a ghost as all the other humans did, but he was spared of many of the limitations that the other ghosts suffer. He has retained his awareness, consciousness, isn't just a complete rage-blinded specter (though his emotions are far more volatile than they were when he was alive, and he is much more prone to anger and restlessness), and he is overall more independent.

But, nonetheless, he is entirely bound to the spear, and remained dormant within it for centuries, until it was eventually plucked from the rubble by a member of the Ward and brought to Isgarren.

The spear happens to be the very same staff skin that Isgarren actually carries in-game! This was completely coincidental, as I had already been using that skin for Merlish since it was released, but it stirred a lot of ideas in my head and is what spurred a lot of this post to begin with.

But anyway, the post-effects of Merlish finally being awoken from his dormant state after his discovery are still TBD, especially on account of the fact that we haven't really figured out Isgarren's actual angle in SotO yet, but I'm assuming that either:

1). Isgarren felt some amount of guilt for Merlish being imprisoned for centuries in the ruins of Ascalon, and is looking to rectify that in some way, which is why he's carrying the spear in-game as we can see.

Or, the other option, (which is probably more likely tbh):

2). Isgarren is using the spear, and by extension Merlish, as a conduit for his power, strengthening his own magic. He regards this as a necessary sacrifice of Merlish's own autonomy in order to ward off the Kryptis.

Either way, I think eventually Isgarren hands Merlish off to Cyna (a precaution for her while in Nayos, as Merlish is a very valuable ally and formidable foe, and portable, no less), which is when Merlish finally regains much of his autonomy, and Cyna finally gets to experience at least a little bit of what revenants have to go through with a ghost rattling around in her head. Which, added with Peitha, is not a very good time. At least Merlish is a little more polite though, if angrier.