#myantha

[ocpdzim]

did this to loosen up in hopes it’d help with another drawing i was having trouble getting right but unfortunately it just made my wrist hurt. oh well

[sunnycrisp]

some artfight stufff!

phoebe - froglee

riley - SolarEspeon

victor - ttrpbri

myantha - ocpdzim

[sapienthouse]

Played dnd yesterday and my character Tel unlocked forgotten traumaaaaa. By virtue of accidentally subjecting another PC, Valarion, to his own ignored traumas. Oopsie. Autism incoming

Tel is a changeling from the Feywild who wandered into the material plane, got stuck in a bear trap, disguised itself as a human, and was found by an adventuring party that helped it free and helped it heal. It introduced itself to them as Bovit (he/him), through a mix of poor wit and mishearing of another party member's name. But this party became like family, and Bovit became an intrinsic persona.

Until a moonbeam spell exposed Bovit to be a changeling. He tried to explain to his friends that he had always been one, that he had lied and he was so sorry. But they didn't believe him, most of the party insisting Tel had at some point taken Bovit's place and hurt him in some way -- those that didn't still went along as they began hunting Tel down in vengeance.

Tel was hunted for a while, the party falling apart over the issue and people getting killed, before Tel tripped into another realm, the Astral Sea. It stayed for millenia uncounted, wandering and forgetting. It learned about others, interviewing them in passing for it's own interest as it forgot itself and any sense of identity. It's memory was fractured even further after Tel made a regretable(?) ask of a god to satiate its curiosity and was met with All Knowledge Ever Known.

Being far too much for a mortal mind, especially one already with thousands of years of it's own experiences, it fucked with Tel's memory, both past and active. Everything gets jumbled and indecipherable with lucidity being a constant struggle most often needing to be focused on what's happening in front of it.

Tel describes this constant flood of knowledge as visions, visual, auditory, and innate Knowing. Valarion takes interest in finding a way to help Tel regain further lucidity, and thus his sister Myantha joins everyone, too -- the twins stuck at the hip through shared trauma and siblinghood.

Myantha is a skilled fighter weilding her father's great axe. She finds herself, sometimes, with overwhelming anger and missing time. More recently, she's started seeing things. She's very slow to warm up, but hesitantly confides in Tel about the moments she's forgotten -- knowing Tel's own memory struggles and demonstrated compassion. Tel gently expresses concern, and as Valarion, too, joins the conversation, they make a hesitant connection between Mya's experiences and the great axe, covered in strange runes.

When Valarion himself opens up to Tel about having his own visions, given to him by his god Selune, he worries his sister may eavesdrop -- and so Tel uses detect thoughts to glean what he wants to share privately. It's curiosity gets the better of them once more, and it delves deeper into his mind. Tel sees what he's been through through Valarion's own eyes -- running from an undead army, nearly dying at a Death Knight's hand before a white-haired woman saves him, cleaving it in twain.

Seeing his sister clutch that great axe, screaming in grief in front of the burning ruins of her father's home. Gently tapping her shoulder and hugging her. The first time he prayed to Selune and she spoke back, comforting and warning him even then. His visions of Myantha and his mother dead, another of Mya herself slaughtering everyone around him -- the current party killed and her great axe coated in our blood.

This particularly affects Tel, the betrayal and destruction of the party subconsciously bringing up it's previous found family -- without even knowing, it takes the form of Bovit for the first time since Astral drifting.

Valarion's mind shows it one more thing -- his love of Vanessa, a human woman with tan skin, freckles and freckles he met young. He loved her deeply, but had to leave when he was drafted against the undead army. When he, an elf and therefore hardly aged, came back, Vanessa was old and feeble. He stayed with her and grieved as she died, hating himself for spending so much of her short lifespan away from her.

It was only coincidence that Bovit had her same freckles and dark tan, but it only added more hurt to Valarion as he was forced to remember these things vividly and see his friend shift into what he and Vanessa's child may have looked like -- Bovit being a young man with her skin and dark hair not unlike Valarion's.

They both cried, and Valarion leaving curtly after Tel let out a meek, sincere apology -- it believed itself to have irreparably ruined it's connection to Valarion. It's own pain doubled as the indescribable ache and familiarity of Valarion's pain revealed itself in the mirror. Seeing Bovit's face brought those forgotten and buried memories of his adventuring party back, and Tel was that scared, betrayed, and guilty young man again.

Tel cursed it's own curiosity, hating itself for hurting someone who had been so vulnerable with it -- believing itself to have inadvertently ruined the growing trust between it and Mya, too, over hurting her brother so deeply. Tel was convinced it would make this party fall apart, too, and so isolated itself for a week, spending much of it as Bovit, going over his memories again and again and again. Self destructive.

As the party all came together once more, in a surprise, unintentional teleport by powerful mages, Tel sees the twins and quickly shifts to something as different as Bovit as possible -- and someone much shorter, too, itself feeling small. After the party learns their place in a grand plan to defeat Vecna, Tel learns Valarion hadn't told Mya what it did -- as she comes to Tel with an update about her great axe.

Valarion unknowingly interrupts near the end of the conversation, Tel peaking it's head out to see him in the doorway. He says he forgives it, explaining his words and feelings as Tel is grateful and explains its own. Myantha overhears, particularly when Valarion implicitly asks it to tell Mya what Tel saw, saying he can't bring himself to do so. Tel shifts throughout the conversation, growing taller as it grows more secure.

THEY ALL THREE MAKE ME INSANE YOUR HONOR. There are 3 other PCs but they are not relevant to this. Also Mya's whole thing is that her axe is sentient and evil, and corrupting by taking advantage of her grief and subsequent protectiveness of Valarion, her closest living family. Despite the fact they were separated at birth and only met as adults during the war. Trauma bonded siblingssss.

This a Vecna Eve of Ruin campaign btw, if the defeating vecna and being teleported by powerful mages didn't make that obvious.

Tel needs to learn it does not destroy bonds, and also that its curiosity is a boon so long as it doesn't cross boundaries. I need Tel to learn that Bovit did not destroy his party, their distrust of him did. I need Tel to learn selfhood again, because for millenia it's thought of itself as nothing more than a vessel for knowledge and experiences and music (tis a bard -- w 5 paladin lvls!)

I need these 3 to heal from their traumas, and Mya and Tel especially to break away from their past pain still controlling them. OUGHHHHHH my blorbos from the table 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[mortarik]

[maltdrawings]

Inktober Day 28

Hello everyone, I hope you’re fine :D

Today I’ve drawn two of my wardens (Myantha Mahariel and Daylen). They’re two idiots in love but I love them so much ;^;

I hope you’ll likeit and have a nice day :D

[heroineimages]

Muskets and Snow: Hero Forge Miniatures

So about the time I finished my Desert Elf designs, I started working on a series of Frost Elf designs as a counterpoint. Little did I know (but should have expected) that it would be the start of another epic fantasy setting. I now have all these ideas for the story of a Frost Elf queen uniting the fragmented northern tribes against an encroaching commonwealth superpower. I started by designing the Frost Queen and her twelve wives (1 for each D&D class), and in the next post I want to include the Commonwealth general and her twelve officers. @weareadventurers​, @fuckyeahheroforgecreations​

Part 1: Brides of the Frost Queen

For centuries, the Frost Elf tribes and the Commonwealth have maintained... icy but tolerant trade agreements, with occasional border skirmishes caused by territory disputes or some mouthy, xenophobic merchant. Recently, however, greedy mercantile families in the Commonwealth convinced the council to further open up Frost Elf territory, in hopes of better access to goods like amber, furs, mammoth- and walrus ivory, dyes, and even slaves. Four Commonwealth legions marched north with orders to open up northern trade--forcefully, if necessary.

Despite their guerilla tactics and home-turf advantage, the Frost Elves met numerous defeats and only minor victories, having never before faced the full might of the Commonwealth’s well-trained infantry, multi-role cavalry, advanced magic, and top-notch muskets and cannons. Coupled with lack of unity and coordination between tribes, much of their southern territory was lost within the first campaign season.

During the winter after the Commonwealth legions withdrew south, Chieftain Lialee of the Immianthe tribe arranged a series of marriage alliances between herself and twelve other powerful tribes. Lia loves and dotes on all twelve of her wives, but also expects them to cooperate with each other, rule their tribes wisely, and lead their warriors well. The unity created by these marriages has lead to excellent coordination between tribes, hopefully reversing their fortunes against the invaders come spring thaw.

A skilled sorceress and druid, Lialee became a princess and a powerful mystic theurge at a young age, and by the time she became queen, she was both a political powerhouse and a spell-casting powerhouse. https://www.heroforge.com/load_config%3D13504731/

Queen Tanila is Lialee’s third wife and is the youngest daughter of the chief of the Heilee tribe. A skilled axe- and spear-warrior, Tani and her tribe are frequently on the front line against the legions. Though she dislikes muskets and cannons, she understands their usefulness and is currently working with her mahouts to mount mortars and falconets on their mammoths’ backs. So far, the animals have been... resistant to this idea. https://www.heroforge.com/load_config%3D13505206/

Queen Dessielle of the Ravagella tribe tries out this strange new instrument that her warriors captured from a Commonwealth officer. Prior to marrying Queen Lialee, Des used seduction and negotiation to unite under her banner six badly fragmented tribes who were nearly wiped out by Legion VIII. Cornered and suffering heavy losses, her people used a timely blizzard to escape and seek refuge with the Keahice tribe. Now part of Lialee’s court, fellow chieftains and emissaries frequently call on Des to sing, dance, make love, or tell stories. She’s very good at all four. https://www.heroforge.com/load_config%3D13505714/

Queen Alea was originally a priestess who united the remnants of the coastal Gillen tribe after their chief and his family were wiped out in a series of battles with Legion XII and the Commonwealth navy. She’s frequently led defenses against enemy beach-storming, keeping them from breaking inland but never completely driving them back. Alea’s guerillas scored a major victory a week before the winter storms set in, using explosive-filled rafts to damage and sink a dozen men-of-war moored in a secluded fjord. Impressed with her tactics, Queen Lialee seduced Alea and made her her first wife. https://www.heroforge.com/load_config%3D13506444/

Disinclined to lead, Queen Chandrelle found herself forced to step up as chief of the Torlee tribe when her brother fell against Legion XIV. Though not great at inflicting enemy casualties, Chan proved adept at preserving the lives of her tribes-people, using deception and knowledge of terrain to get them out of harm’s way. Her greatest victory came after liberating a POW camp, just as the Commonwealth began their march back south and weren’t in position to retaliate. Freeing hundreds of Frost Elf captives was an impressive feat that immediately got Queen Lialee’s attention. https://www.heroforge.com/load_config%3D13506779/

Heiress to the best dire-wolf breeders in the north, Queen Elisen of the Keahice tribe was lover to Queen Lialee years before the Commonwealth’s invasion. Though her tribe has been relatively unaffected by the invasion so far, Elisen has spent a huge amount of time studying Commonwealth cavalry tactics, combining them with wolf-pack tactics in hopes of offsetting or even neutralizing that particular advantage. https://www.heroforge.com/load_config%3D13507674/

The Naevys tribe has always excelled at alpine guerilla tactics. Granddaughter of the chieftain, Queen Adrel and her warriors strike swiftly and skillfully from the trees, fog, snow, or even blizzard before disappearing without a trace. But of late those skills have been employed more at evasion than attack--small-scale ambushes proving a mere annoyance to the number of cannons, horses, soldiers, and mages brought by the Commonwealth. By marrying the Queen of the Immianthe, Adrel hopes that improved coordination between tribes can drive these invaders back south for good. https://www.heroforge.com/load_config%3D13508861/

Greatest snow-flier of the north, Queen Qamara rules the Wyndan tribe. Descended from a clan of winged-elves who interbred with the Frost Elves, one in three children of the Wyndan are born with the power of flight. Unfortunately, this made them a target by Legion VIII, who killed over a hundred of their snow-fliers and took dozens of their people captive. Qamara feels indebted to her sister-queen Chandelle for freeing many of her tribes-mates from captivity. Qam hopes that her marriage to Queen Lialee will help her drive back the attackers and keep safe the rest of her surviving people. https://www.heroforge.com/load_config%3D13534231/

An alpine ranger since childhood, Queen Shalaevar and the Reyvyre tribe have led some of the more successful ambushes against Commonwealth Legion III. Instead of attacking the main army, the Reyvyre have been hitting the enemy supply trains and reinforcement columns. The fast-response time of the legion cavalry has severely limited their successes, unfortunately, driving off Shala’s guerillas before they could inflict heavy casualties. In the upcoming campaign season, Shala hopes to coordinate her guerillas with Elisen’s wolf-raiders to neutralize any cavalry reinforcements. https://www.heroforge.com/load_config%3D13534330/

Part of a hostage exchange for a trade-agreement decades ago, Queen Riniya of the Faepetor tribe might possess the best understanding of Commonwealth tactics and mindset of all of Lialee’s wives. Having studied multiple languages during her captivity, Rini has proven a first-rate infiltrator, able to listen in on conversations in common, high elf, orcish, drow, or even infernal. Several times her espionage skills have kept her tribe and others’ out of harms way. https://www.heroforge.com/load_config%3D13535144/

Despite being one of the most powerful cryomancers in the north, Queen Myantha of the Qingwyn only barely survived an encounter with a well-armed band of dragoons led by a centaur warlock. Buying time for their escaping clan-mates, Qing and several of her guards held a narrow pass for two exhausting hours. Severely wounded and having lost all of her guards, she managed to inflict heavy casualties and was saved by Lialee and Alea. Owing them her life, Qing has rallied her remaining tribes-people under their banner. https://www.heroforge.com/load_config%3D13654782/

Embracing the Elabalar tribe’s warlock heritage, Queen Amedee rose through the ranks to become adopted heiress to the chieftain. A tribe of mammoth and woolly-rhino riders, the Elabalar were masters at riding their beasts into battle while throwing hex-bolts and magic-missiles at their foes. Unfortunately, this didn’t gain them shit in the face of the XXVII Commonwealth Cuirassiers and VI Commonwealth Field Artillery. Most of her tribe cut to pieces around her by superior gunnery and horsemanship, Amedee only survived by ending up half-buried by her own fallen rhino. Though not pleased at marrying her former rival Lialee, Ame realizes that this is the best hope of being able to drive the attackers from Frost Elf lands. https://www.heroforge.com/load_config%3D13655193/

Queen Siraye of the Ilipeiros tribe has always been a devotee of arcane experimentation. In the same way that arcane-archers once made up the backbone of high elf armies, Sira has recently started experimenting with using the same strategy to imbue bullets with magical energy. Results have been good so far, but she’s a long way form making it accessible to all of her tribe’s musketeers. Regardless, Sira and Lialee hope these new magics will give the beleaguered Frost Elves new advantages with the onset of a new campaign season. https://www.heroforge.com/load_config%3D13661408/

Thanks so much for reading, folks! As we speak, I’m also working on minis and discussion for a general and officers in Commonwealth Legion XIV.

[little-amb]

Myantha & Aradicia Duskwood; the twin daughters of Nature ♥ Characters (NPC and player’s character) from a D&D campaign I run!

[maltsblog]

3 OC facts

I was tagged by @occorner (thanks :D)

I will talk about some of my wardens

I tag @xenomorphvevo if it’s ok for you ;D (and anyone else who wants to do it)

Myantha Mahariel:

1. She learned sword fight with Tamlen, who was the only one to accept her as she was. However, she was better than Tamlen.

2. She aimed to leave her clan because almost everyone was transphobic with her (Tamlen was her only friend). After the accident with the Eluvian, she accepted to follow Duncan and become a Grey Warden. She thought becoming a kind of “lonely Warden” by fighting the darkspawns by her side.

3. She’s vegeterian.

Daylen:

1. He’s orphan and even if he hides it, it’s difficult for him to trust people. When he trusts someone, he could do anything for this person.

2. He always lived in the Circle and was surprised by everything outside, that seems incredible to him. That was one of the best side of becoming a Grey Warden for him.

3. He is sometimes overconfident, but he’s more objective to recognize others’ abilities and has no problem to recognize when someone is better than him.

[ocpdzim]

world’s cringest fairy since she has finally shown up as an npc in our monster of the week campaign. also check out her playlist i finally posted. she sucks <3

[ocpdzim]

if you like the fae social drama good news! i have LONG documents.

rundown of what the fuck myantha’s problem is: https://docs.google.com/document/d/18rpOyTr5azEGJESExeNuZw2GPGuPhxiBHVoup18nTM8/edit?usp=sharing

accompanying explanatory document for the filonyn’s issues chart I posted previously: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dEPsprBsbrL6BomrKsCA_kIk23KotxiLJTiMUSd2A6c/edit?usp=sharing

Not so much about the other fae aside from Filonyn and Myantha here, but I can always write more up if anybody wants it

[ocpdzim]

Everything is going so bad in Monster of the Week right now but at least Myantha is having a great time?

[ocpdzim]

here is a chart explaining what is going on in filonyn’s core fae social group by the way. it’s a huge mess. all of these characters have many other relationships outside of the chart but they’re the fae filonyn most often interacts with. pierre belongs to @spacediscoverer and they also added his opinions to the chart.

clockwise starting from the top: kimdyn, lavinia, kitty, myantha, filonyn, pierre

important to note is that this is essentially the equivalent of the weird kids’ table for immortal fairies - filonyn, myantha, and pierre are all widely avoided in the local fae community due to centuries of drama (pierre’s drama is different from filonyn and myantha’s drama, but they’re some of the only fae who don’t care about his drama, because filonyn doesn’t want to lose their 1 remaining close friend and myantha thinks she can convince him to join the unseelie court with her since he got kicked out of the seelie court). lavinia hangs out with them because she wants to be able to report the drama to her real friends, kitty hangs out with them because she thinks myantha is cool and impressive even though she’s scared of her, and kimdyn hangs out with them because he will hang out with anybody and will never miss an opportunity to attend a social event even if the event sucks real bad. they all hang out at myantha’s tea parties even when they’d rather stay home because no one wants to find out what she will do if they stop going. it is basically a hostage situation with fancy pastries

[ocpdzim]

also drawing of myantha when she was younger in like the middle ages. she used to be friendlier. she’s having a 500 year long breakdown right now that’s why she’s like that

[ocpdzim]

ok more art. non-canon fursonas for filonyn and myantha because art fight is coming up and i wanna throw the “only draws furries” people a bone since i don’t have that many furry ocs

[ocpdzim]

ironically enough despite all the effort myantha puts in to being cool and with it, filonyn, who is also like 1200 years old but puts in 0 effort what-so-fucking-ever into emulating youth culture and in fact actively avoids it, has done a way better job infiltrating a human college than myantha ever fucking could in her life, just by wearing full victorian mourning garb, mostly refusing to talk to anybody in favor of standing near conversations staring and obviously eavesdropping on what people were talking about, and occasionally speaking up to say shit like “your life is in grave danger here, you must leave.” which was weird enough that people apparently just thought they were a very dedicated goth. if myantha was tasked w infiltrating a human college she’d fuck it up so bad immediately. she’d probably say something to blow her cover and/or implicate herself in a murder in an attempt to establish street cred within 5 minutes but even if she didn’t do THAT the vibes coming off her are just so painfully awful that the college students would set upon her like a pack of pissed off wolves.

[ocpdzim]

since you all liked that picture of myantha here’s her doing the tails gets trolled face which i drew ages ago but don’t think i ever posted. inspired by the time her tea party got crashed by not 1 but 2 angels and one of the angels got in a fight and blew up her house

also you should all know she’s like 1200 years old so keeping up her on-trend barbie aesthetic takes significant effort for her. she wants to be hip w the youths so bad but sometimes she’ll accidentally say some shit like “wherefore”