#merilwen the wood elf druid

[slightlyhopefulromantic]

"but what do i know? i'm just a simple honeymooner."

[shutupeiffel]

Inspired by @hanauclear's amazing art

[flutterbyhime]

A wild idea. Hear me out.

What if Liliana has a crush on Corazon?

I say this because I was thinking about Oxventure things and I realized if I was Liliana, I would have ransacked Necropolis on Sea for all the valuables and then burn it down to the ground. Deny my mortal enemies/consistent nuisances a safe home and harbor.

But she didn't do that.

She's taken up residence and has been having Bismuth tailoring Corazon's clothes to fit her. Which, I know it's probably just a bit. But I can imagine her developing a begrudging crush on him. Like, she wants to kill him but she does want to kiss him. Just full tsundere when it comes to Corazon.

Because he's a dashing pirate who is pretty simple to understand (for the most part).

The chaos it would cause would be glorious. The simultaneously ego boost and terror from Corazon. The potential heartbreak and jealously from Dob. The confusion from Egbert and Merilwen. Prudence (and probably Merilwen) trying to use this to their advantage.

Just imagine it.

[randomthunk]

Picked up a piece I sketched back in November and really enjoyed getting it over the finish line. They’re Team Nature for a reason.

[doeheart7]

Some old Oxventure fanart I did way back when

This blog has been dead for literal years lmao

Time to bring it back

[paperturtle]

Been watching classic monsters movies and I can't stop thinking about the Oxventure crew dressing up as old school monsters for Halloween.

Corazon 100% dresses as a vampire only to have Prudence one up him as a vampire queen. Dob goes full Frankenstein. Merilwen, maybe some kind of werebear/werewolf or as a kraken but with fake paper mache tentacles that Dob puts together for her. Egbert would go as a ghost because "We're dressing up as fake monsters, right?" And it's just a bedsheet over his head.

[slightlyhopefulromantic]

sleepy lil kitty

[stahp-right-there-peasant]

Dine Hard has given us shipping fodder for Egbert ships, specifically Egbert/Merilwen and Egbert/Corazón (both of which were never thought of prior). Plus they’ve canonically talked about PolyOxventurers in Fools of Engagement so, they’re giving everyone that shipping fodder to work with

[hanielm-art]

Merilwen, the Wood Elf druid
Merilwen is a Wood Elf druid huntress with a fierce love and protectiveness for nature, and respect for its animals. Fan art piece of Ellen Rose’s D&D character, from the Oxventure guild. I wanted to portray her as if from an actual MTG card. 
@outsidexboxofficial

[fairy-of-rhine]

[oxguild]

*      MERILWEN,  THE  WOOD  ELF  DRUID    —    MINI  BIO,  PRE  STREAM 

born   to   a   large   family   in   a   small   community   of   wood   elves   in   geth,   merilwen’s   mother   taught   her   and   her   sisters   the   ways   of   druid   craft   before   merilwen   leaves   to   care   for   her   grandmother:      another   druid   deeper   into   the   woods.      her   grandmother’s   methods   of   rearing   children   are   not   so   soft   and   gentle   as   merilwen’s   parents’;      she   teaches   merilwen   much   in   the   way   of   magic,   but   she   teaches   her   the   harsh   adherence   to   nature   and   the   ways   of   protecting   animals   and   the   wilds,   and   the   mistrust   of   creatures   outside   their   woods,   particularly   humans.      when   her   grandmother   dies,   merilwen   remains   on   her   own,   hunting   and   surviving   alone   until   she   finds   a   snared   wild   cat.      she   saves   the   cat,   who   then   becomes   her   companion   ‘simon’   until   his   eventual   death,   at   which   time   merilwen   learns   her   first   wild   shape:      a   wild   cat.   

[jenjensd]

For me, it’s about setting the tone in a session zero to determine what people want from their experience. When you do that and let people know your plan and ask how they feel about it you’ll likely end up with something that makes everyone happy.

For funny start that stays funny, just look at the Oxventurer’s games. Outside Xbox and Outaidr Xtra on YouTube are often making funny list videos and games journalist reviews and commentary. Add to that one Enby journalist/reviewer/fun person in the form of Johnny Chiodini and you have an experienced DM with new players who all know how to keep it light while still allowing their characters to develop.

Sorry I didn’t mean for this to turn into another Oxventure promotion, I just love those funky little guys and their funky little group.

Every DnD game that starts out with a serious “Lord of the Rings” type of tone turns into a Monty Python sketch and every DnD game that starts out like a Monty Python sketch turns into Lord of the Rings

[good-or-bad-luck]

ive been watching oxventure for a very long time and its a crime I haven't drawn any of them yet

[adveanture-archived]

i’m dogsitting, and i’m up stupidly early, and i barely slept because of this creature.  so here’s a starter call for muses i don’t currently have threads for in my drafts lol in order to keep me sane.  all of them are either dnd characters themselves, or they have verses i’ll include, since a lot of ya’ll follow me from caleb / critical role.   

01.  corazón de ballena  ( oxventurer’s guild  /  dnd, human pirate rogue )  02.  gorgug thistlespring  ( dimension 20′s fantasy high  /  dnd, half-orc barbarian-artificer )  03.  dob  ( oxventurer’s guild  /  dnd, half-orc bard )  04.  prudence  ( oxventurer’s guild  /  dnd, tiefling warlock )  05.  merilwen  ( oxventurer’s guild  /  dnd, wood elf druid )  06.  dick grayson  ( dc, batman  /  dnd, monk-rogue )  07.  prince topher  ( rodger’s and hammerstein’s cinderella  /  dnd, human paladin )  08.  tj lionett  ( critical role’s campaign 2  /  dnd, variant human ranger-rogue )  09.  gregg lee  ( into the woods  /  dnd, half-elf rogue )  10.  ned nickerson  ( nancy drew books and games  /  dnd, human cleric )  11.  garrick rowes  ( space oc  /  dnd, half-elf ranger-rogue )  12.  spaulding stormcrank  ( dimension 20′s pirates of leviathan  /  dnd, gnome sorcerer )  13.  jarett howarth  ( critical role’s campaign 1  /  dnd, human rogue-fighter )  14.  elizabeth swann  ( pirates of the caribbean  /  dnd, human rogue-warlock )  15.  sirius black  ( harry potter  /  dnd, high elf wizard-fighter )  16.  kendall knight  ( big time rush  /  dnd, human barbarian-bard )  17.  milo  /  the celt  ( pompeii  /  dnd, tiefling ranger-fighter )  18.  proteus  ( sinbad: legend of the seven seas  /  dnd, high elf paladin )  19.  satin  ( a song of ice and fire  /  dnd, half-elf bard-rogue )  20.  lyanna stark  ( a song of ice and fire  /  dnd, wood elf fighter )  21.  lance mcclain  ( voltron: legendary defender  /  dnd, half-elf paladin )  22.  jason todd  ( dc, batman  /  dnd, rogue-fighter )  23.  sansa stark  ( a song of ice and fire  /  dnd, bard ) 

[doeheart7]

[slightlyhopefulromantic]

i was gonna wait until i finished the bitd and deadlands line-ups before posting these, but i'm not gonna get those done before the final season starts, so might as well bite the bullet now XD woohoo, oxventure d&d designs! i'll go into further detail below the cut for all of my thoughts on these designs and reasoning for smaller details, but for now, just know that i will never draw a cape. i simply cannot do it. hoods and weird draped fabric or nothing XD

okay i put like. waaay too many thoughts into a lot of these small details so im gonna allow myself to geek out here X3 firstly - though they're way too small to read properly, i did the little symbol eye shines i used in my first art for them! dob gets music notes, prudence gets fire, corazón gets hearts, and merilwen gets flowers. i usually draw egbert's pupils pretty thin to resemble a reptile, so he just gets normal eye shines, but i probably could have given him some here... he would get suns if i thought of that

dob - muscular in a wiry and dehydrated way, lol, hence having a more defined stomach/hips despite not being as strong as prudence or egbert. he has sad/down-turned puppy dog eyes at all times because i think the big-eyed endearing look is fitting for him, though i do make them darker blue than his canonical baby blues because i just... like how dark blue eyes look, lol. i'm pretty sure he canonically has the stomach scar, and obviously his facial scar has always been there, but i gave him a couple other ones just to show that hes pretty reckless. and he gets freckles because even though they arent mentioned in the dragon dogma's video, i noticed luke added some and. i like freckles a lot

prudence - i've said this before, but i love the thought of pru getting muscular after the werebear bite <3 i just think she should be a little bit hench. as a treat. once again, the heavy stomach scarring comes from the dragon dogma's video, because i found their design choices in that really fun. i change prudence's outfit the most out of any of the characters, just because her canonical outfit confuses me. i'm really bad at understanding/drawing fantasy wear as is, but her fit... i'm lost entirely XD so i free-balled a bit. her inner sleeves that hook around her fingers are based on jane's various prudence looks, and then the looser outer sleeve is just because i love prudence with a dramatic sleeve. originally the colors were closer to her canon outfit, but it just looked messy without all the details of the original, and then i tried red like jane's prudence looks but it didn't contrast enough with her skin. so i restricted them to just deep purples and black with pops of gold and dark magenta!

corazón - what can i say besides. transgender. LMAO honestly though, besides adding the top surgery scars, i just really like his canon look. i simplified the details, obviously, but i really love his big coat and his tall boots and the earrings and the black-on-black-on-black of it all. i didn't particularly feel like drawing hats when i was doing this, lol, so i stuck with a red bandana instead. the beads that are strung from it are black, red, purple, green, and yellow to match their guild's canonical color associations/the colored name plates they get in later seasons :] because corazón is the sentimental sort, even when he won't say it. also he gets a little cateye for his eyeliner, i dunno if i've ever said why i do that before haha

egbert - egbert my dearly beloved. literally just his canon look except he has la vache mauve on his tunic instead of fire! and the nose spikes i give him, i guess, but i forget those aren't canon. i actually usually draw him in mike's egbert get up, with the black robes and the golden dragon sigil, but i kinda wanted to move away from that to lean more into the end of legacy of dragons, where egbert fully commits to never going back to the dragon d'or. also i just love drawing little cow heads <3 also! i like the idea that rather than typical scar tissue, dragonborns grow thicker scales over places where they've been injured. so the thicker patches of small scales on egbert's body are meant to be scars! including his kidney scar, lol. the larger scales and the ones on his face were always there though, that's just dragonborn biology baby

merilwen - if i said i based merilwen's body on cartoon bears, would you forgive me... i just think it's cute LOL tummy <3 for the final dragon dogma's video reference, that's where her freckles and tattoos come from. ellen was right, merilwen with floral tattoos fucking rules. who am i to deny it. as a hairy woman myself, i also like making merilwen a hairy woman. she's a hippie, she would NOT shave. i also really love the red earrings she wears in her canon art, so i tried to carry that through to some other small parts of my drawing for her, and landed on the bands she has on her pants as well as the odd feather for her arrows. fun archery fact, for those who may not know - in modern archery at least, you usually will have a differently colored feather (or for my arrows, rubber fins lol) that indicate how youre meant to string the arrow! so i took advantage of that to give merilwen some more red, hehe