#oc: eldon

[ohmaggies]

and if i said this was the most eldon he's never looked

[pinstripe-doodles]

an eldon

[leeeeeeeeech]

Eldon Headcanons

Facts about my baby boi that nobody asked for!

Full Name: Eldon Blythe Notte

Birthday: Nov 15th

MBTI: ESTP

Biteday (Day he was turned): December 5th 1456

Age: 567 (though he likes to say he's forever 21)

Height: 5'9" (175 cm)

Eye Color: Light Grey

Favorite Book: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Favorite Song: Love Like Blood by Killing Joke

Favorite Band: A Day To Remember

Favorite Foods: When he was alive, he loved a simple carbonara.

[charhounds]

the lore wiki leaves something to be desired but the way theyre actually written in game is like catnip to me and it just kicked in

just got hit with category 3 Character Thoughts i fear i may not recover

[i-mybrunettelady]

(OC question! Feel free to pass it along or skip it if it doesn't vibe with you) Where is someplace they've always wanted to visit and what would they be most excited to do while there? Doesn't have to be a physical location, can be a realm, spiritual place, etc.

oooh good question!

nyra's been to her fair share of places, for sure, spiritual or physical, and there's little where she'd like to go these days; she's seen most of tyria by this point! but when she was a kid, she used to hear stories of ebonhawke as the last stronghold against the charr and long to visit, even if she was told no. she had these grand ideas of what ebonhawke was like. she wanted to meet her grandmother emilia (who didn't come with eldon and their children to kryta) and her cousins who she wasn't sure even knew she was a thing, because remember, she is the first person in her family to be born outside of ascalon!

these days, she likes the city just fine. she's attached to it in the way most ascalonians are, visits fairly frequently and has led missions of disbandment of separatist forces still lingering there (all while wearing a charr love me separatists fear me hat probably) but in all truth, she is more attached personally to divinity's reach because that's where she grew up.

el is a huge fan of magic, obviously, so anything that's forbidden magic, ancient magic calls his attention. there are so many - isles of fucking janthir for one, guess who's tagging along to the next expac - but he'd love to explore the tomb of the primeval kings, the bone palace for its necrotic magic (and remember, he does dabble in necromancy sometimes), just to name a few :) he'd also look into ascalonian ghosts if he wasn't so annoyed about having to cut them down so many times while he's working!! let the small science plant do science ghosts!!!

[strange-alchemy]

My fourth artfight of the year, starring arwenamell's wonderful bhaalspawn druid, Dah'lia.

I really enjoyed drawing this one while simultaneously trying to teach myself how to make magic not look wildly bad, and I think it came out pretty well. I have a huge soft spot for characters that are born of beloved video game protagonists, especially bhaalspawn - that's how I got Eldon, the first OC I ever got really really attached to, after all.

I also got an absolutely beautiful revenge for this and I was very happy...

[sigilsongs-a]

carrd updates. making npcs is way more fun than it should be.

posey gardener is theo tyrell's ward & removed baby cousin (oc; underage faceless npc)

eldon estermont is cassana estermont's oldest brother also sylva santagar's forced arranged husband (canon; faceless npc due to age variation)

alohaera celtigar is quenton qoherys' first wife (unnamed canon; esther yu fc bc she's my bby)

[mysticstarlightduck]

happy worldbuilding wednesday! my question for you is: what level of education do your OCs have? & does this affect the story?

Happy Worldbuilding Wednesday! Thank you for the Ask, @cabbojage!

My question for you is: what level of education do your OCs have? & does this affect the story?

For the sake of doing something different for this one, I will do this for my cast of MC's from The Last Wrath (my dark fantasy WIP) and Tales of Wilted Flowers (my high fantasy adventure WIP).

THE LAST WRATH:

Raelen Ashiren - Well, most of what Raelen knows was either taught to her by her older brother, Julyan Ashiren, or she somehow managed to learn by herself (likely by stealing books from libraries and archives). She has known how to read and write since she was a young child (this she was taught by their parents when they were still alive), and knows a lot about the history of their world's magic. In the years they lived in Kestrall under the protection of General Teiva, Raelen used to go to the Dragon's Spires and its libraries where she would spend a lot of her time studying - since she wasn't an official dragon rider in training, she was at least allowed to read from their vast and ancient collection of scrolls, but she still stole a lot from the Royal Archives (because some classified arcane magical knowledge was kept there).

Zephyr Tellian - Largely self-taught, even before the Fall of Eldon, Zephyr always sought knowledge by himself - something that, as a street kid, was a very hard thing to do. He taught himself how to read, and write and learned how to do basic spells in the Order of Sorcerers from Eldon, before the war destroyed the kingdom and he had to flee. When he and Jamie managed to get accepted into the Liranthian Academies after succeeding on a tournament, that's when Zephyr was able to get most of his "formal education" as a scholar and sorcerer, though he remained extremely curious and taught himself more than anyone else ever did, until he was one of the Academies' top students ever.

Darian Caelestis - Son of a powerful - and very rich - couple of rebel warriors from Ergyre, Darian had access to the best tutors his parents could find (that would accept to teach a rebel without spying on them of course), and also was so naturally curious that he taught himself a lot of things too, especially about alchemy. He had a complete formal education, from astronomy, to arts, to history, to arcane knowledge, and to maths. In the past, after meeting Tanwin Lyrandeth, Darian learned many things about alchemical magic from his young elven friend too. Out of the main cast Darian perhaps had the best formal education.

Princess Ellinor Dallantes: Being royalty and raised by the leader of the continent's most dangerous and powerful Guild of Assassins, she was very influential. She received a professional education from only the most renowned tutors and rebel scholars in the world and was also largely taught by her adoptive father, Evren (the leader of the Guild), who was incredibly intelligent and knew almost anything about everything. Her education is so profound that it has made her one of the cleverest people on the continent, and she is proficient in almost any subject or matter, as a proper queen should be. On top of that, she received complete combat training during her years in the Guild, becoming one of the deadliest assassins around with almost any weapon one can think of.

Julyan Ashiren - Before their parents died, Julyan was a noble from the most ancient mageborn house alive. This means not only did he have full access to their mansion's library growing up, but also he had some of the best tutors (plus his parents were geniuses). But when their parents died and they were forced to flee from home with no money, protection, or anything, Julyan had to become a parent not only to his little sister, Raelen, but also to their adoptive brother, Azra, and so, despite being incredibly clever and capable, Julyan did not have the resources to seek a professional/formal education as a scholar when he actually became a teen/young adult (because it was a matter of having money to survive/buy food, so he had to work as a weapon's smith, which was one of the few jobs that hired mageborn teens like him)

TALES OF WILTED FLOWERS:

For now, it only has two "MCs" (like main POV characters), even though it has other protagonists

Lorelai Wildwood: Honestly Lorelai had a weird education. Since her father was considered "a traitor" by the kingdom, she got to learn the "other side of the story" that the history books failed to mention, plus, he taught many different things, from astronomy to archery, to alchemy and spell history. (Due to his "traitor" status, none of the city's academies or tutors would accept to train and teach her). Think the "Enola Holmes" kind of education, but factor in the fact that our Lorelai lives in a medieval world with magic. She was also fascinated by the historical tales of the bygone heroes of the past, which inspired her to dream of one day becoming one too, despite the world telling her that she could not because she was a commoner of "tainted blood."

Xarian Argyris: Xarian was highly intellectual and read almost every book the town's library and archives had to offer, as well as being taught alchemy, magic, and healing by his mother figure/aunt. Being a fairy, he learned things quickly and had a strong imagination, as well as being naturally talented when it comes to spellcasting. Xarian was mostly self-taught, even when it comes to complex subjects and difficult magic. When he was 17 he left home to attend a prestigious alchemy academy/medieval university, where he strived to become a magical physician, but there he trusted the wrong person, who majorly derailed his "up-til-then-normal" life.

[jetfuel-08]

This is Eldon Flintace! Technically my first oc out of all of these! I say technically because it was an edgy self insert persona I made when I was 10 and listened to a lot of Eminem. He was cursed when he was younger and is physically fused with a cursed abyssal ribcage. He’s a bit of a hot head.

[csleko]

"Hey, look! It's me!"

Because not ALL my OCs can be perfectly recreated with Hero Forge. I've had the idea to try turning my Leko model into a miniature for a while, and it seemed like a good time to give it a go.

Pull in the model, scale to mini size, pose it, add base, delete the rig, re-mesh to combine individual pieces into a single solid model, crank up the detail, hope my computer doesn't crash while regenerating a couple million polygons, decimate polycount to reduce eventual file size without compromising detail, export STL.

Worked without a hitch, except I had scaled Leko down to be about the size of my halfling miniature, and it was immediately clear to me that would have caused structural issues regarding his extremely thin arms and legs. So I scaled him up closer to a regular human size and hoped that would keep the small parts from being too fragile when I printed it.

Oh, I also had to remake his head because the original model is actually hollow, which I had completely forgotten about until the re-mesh completely broke it.

It looked to be printing perfectly fine, but I was still nervous about those limbs. They're thinner than the light supports I use on minis! Hopefully my flexible resin mixture will keep him bendy, and not breaky. Getting those supports off is going to need surgical precision.

WELL, CRAP! Surprisingly, though, the failure point was actually his ankles. After those broke I gave up on trying to save it and just ripped the rest of the supports out without care, which is actually when the arm and leg snapped off.

Luckily, I had the foresight to put an extra on the plate in case of just such a catastrophic failure. I was a lot more careful with this one.

Success! After a few minutes in the curing bucket, his fragile looking limbs are actually quite bendy, and not as brittle as I worried they'd be. I'm not going to put the mini to any harsh durability tests, but he stands up to some reasonably forceful poking, so my fears of Leko being obliterated by an errant dice throw are *somewhat* lessened.

Now that the anxiety part is over, we can get to the fun part. Let's paint this little guy!

I thought the dark metallic base might let me get away with not having to manually paint the more detailed darker pieces (upper limbs, waist, neck, palms,) but it's a little too shiny and not quite as dark I would like. Not that I'm going to complain about having to do more manual painting. Like I said, this is the fun part. It's just that getting good results from laziness is also fun when it works out.

I don't know why, maybe it's just me, but I think most of my painted minis look absolutely horrendous in closeup pictures, even though they look pretty good to my own actual eyes. Like the silver parts in this final paint job look really spotty and messy in the picture, but they're honestly not! It's like my phone camera has some "make painted minis look extra crappy" setting that I can't figure out how to turn off or something. I dunno. I've been looking at getting a decent camera for future video making purposes, so maybe it'll be able to take decent closeups.

ANYWAY, Leko's OC gang is all painted up and ready to kick some multiversal butt!

Leko: "My scans indicate that these creatures have a durable exoskeleton, and some sort of corrosive retaliatory defense mechanism. I would highly advise ranged attacks."

If for whatever reason you want to try printing your own tabletop mini Leko, the STL will be available on my PATREON, and nowhere else! It'll only cost you a single American dollar! Besides the occasional exclusive downloadable stuff like this mini, sometimes you can find higher resolution, non-watermarked, or even alternate versions of stuff I've posted elsewhere!

[vampire-society]

smithin’ clothes

[ohmaggies]

it's my oc's birthday today and i'm allowed to laugh at what a dumbass he is so here are some of my favourite lines of dialogue i've written for him over the past seven and a half yrs ❤️

[pinstripe-doodles]

wasn’t able to line & colour all 31 of my OC-tobers but i did at least sketch them all out 

all 31 sketches are up on patreon but if i finish colouring them ill prob upload them up here too

[fatedroses]

“He laid there broken.

He laid in a pool of blood without a wound. He feared the beasts had made their way in and had gotten to him somehow. But instead, tall, proud, and maniacal, was no beast.

It was his own son. Disgust and anger ran through his mind as the hammer of light flew out his hand and past his son’s head. A warning.

But the knight pleaded for their mercy, and no sooner had he found them, had they fled. So he sat there, and cradled the orphaned knight to himself, his heart and mind numb to the blazing fire and the war that waged on not too far from them.

Nothing could be the same. Not after this.”

[cultheir]

@empathreading​ “I’m here- I’m here, now." prompt | please send it

he doesn’t know eldon overly well, is far closer to his sister than he is to him, but the sight of the boy brings a relief that vinnie wasn’t expecting to feel. being kidnapped was, undoubtedly, a terrifying experience. dried up blood coating wounds that were days old, usually so calm and collected boy curled up in fear. normally he’d be embarrassed by the patheticness of his vulnerability, but he was far too focused on the numbing pain in his legs. 

and while eldon’s presence definitely makes it slightly less terrible, it doesn’t exactly make it better. as nice as eldon seems, he doesn’t exactly project a vibe of being able to fight off vinnie’s captors if it was needed. “gonna get yourself killed.” spoken as eldon works to untie him, slightly sarcastic in tone but words only tell the truth. “but thanks... for finding me...”

[alliedn]

What started as a Pathfinder ratfolk character (Zozka) evolved into a bunch of non-TTRPG original characters :3

Meet the Neyans! Most of their designs are inspired from D&D’s schools of magic, some are definitely not. What a bunch of posers. More details under the cut.

Side note: in my “story” witch and wizard are gender neutral terms that refer to different types of spellcasters. A witch has innate powers, a wizard has to use a magical focus (wand, crystal, whatevs) and study hard to practice magic. Also familiars are a witch thing- wizards’ familiars are more pets than assistants. Also there’s no such thing as “schools of magic”- nothing against D&D, I love it!

(In case tumblr dot com messes up the order of the pictures:)

Zozka (she): witch, firstborn. A “late bloomer”, she was the last in the family to develop her powers. Her coat is a lucky charm- she used to think it was her focus. not straight, doesn’t dislike boys tho

Eldon (he): wizard, secondborn. Exorcist, pretty good at handling the undead- not so good at handling demons. He travels with his barn owl Alba (she). oh yeah he’s also a trans man and a disaster bi

Vellian (she): witch, third child. Excellent at teleport spells. She rides a “probably slightly illegal” modified motorcycle. Chaotic hothead and flaming pansexual, wo hoo

Nova (she): wizard, 4th. Navy astronomer, nerd, bookworm, naive sweetheart. Pretty good at fencing and polyglot. most anxious lesbian you’ll ever meet

Virgil (he): witch, 5th kid. Chill fashionista. Best friend with his crow familiar Andante. Theatre kid, could have a great career but he prefers adventuring. Flirts a lot but only with boys, and asexually.

Ari (they): wizard, 6thborn, Rebus’ twin. Unwilling soothsayer, history major. Sometimes they read minds on accident- sometimes they pretend it was an accident. Sarcastic. “I may be aro, I might not be. Meh.”

Rebus (they): witch, 6thborn, Ari’s twin. Nobody knows how they lost their limbs: they tell a different story everytime. Enfant prodige, they taught themselves 5 languages (2 of which dead) with flashcards. Can be sincerely terrifying if angered. The bells on the coat are silent. “Labels? I prefer waffles thanks.”

Olissa (she): witch, mother. Goth. Loves black roses, tea and esotericism books. Powerful -yet humble- spellcaster and summoner, has several demon familiars at her service- Plague (he) is her favourite. Very wealthy. Likes to tease people, especially her husband.

Fergus (he): wizard, dad. Grumpy man with a heart of gold. Can be surprisingly insecure at times. Bookworm, devoted to his family and his studies. just ask him about Olissa and he’ll start ranting about how smart and amazing and sweet his wife is.