#of sentinels and starry skies (DQIX)

[lucdrawsthings]

"thus do the voices of the mortals plead, ever hopeful of proof of our existence..."

RIP Toriyama. He may not have influenced it quite as much as Dragon Ball, but his art gave Dragon Quest so much of its charm, and IX in particular means a lot to me.

[azraels-eden]

Please take these Corvus drawings as ads for dqix

[mirielsart]

Headcanon: The companions don't actually know they have a Celestrian in their midst until they get to Wormwood Creek.

[celestrianprincess]

[tiny-cloud-of-flowers]

My friend @dragonsmooch once asked me to tell them a little (or a lot) about one of my oldest OCs, so I decided to look through my F/O lists and see which OC who is also an F/O is the one I've had for the longest time (since.. this is my selfship blog, haha). The answer turned out to be, on a technicality, Iris!

I say on a technicality because Iris is an OC I originally created for Splatoon, as part of a big group of OCs I made during one very very bored week at school where I had to try and do something that looked like revising but wasn't. Which is why she counts as an old OC. However, I more recently ported her into Dragon Quest IX, which is the version of her that I see as a platonic F/O (as well as her FFXIV version, too!). This is what she looks like in my game!

In terms of personality, Iris is energetic and fun-loving, always eager to take up a challenge and easy to make friends with. She is very creative (especially when it comes to art like drawing), and she can have a certain flair for the dramatic, which helps her out a lot with her vocation.

Speaking of vocation, Iris is a luminary! These superstars are charming performers with considerable magical aptitude, able to fight with fans, whips, or boomerangs. Iris uses the first of these options in tandem with magic, which encompasses both healing spells and wind-element damaging spells. She has a lot of different spells and abilities at her disposal, allowing her to play almost any role within the team as needed! I'd say a jack-of-all-trades, master-of-none, but.. that's actually a boss in this game, haha

In terms of how she fits into the world, Iris appears in the story of my selfship with Pavo, which is essentially "my version of the events of DQIX". She used to be a performer in the Quester's Rest inn, until spotting what looked like a burst of light falling from the sky one late night, and deciding to run out and if she could find where it would land. This falling star turned out to be my self-insert Ardea, whose wings had been lost in the fall and whose halo broke upon hitting the ground just outside the eastern entrance to the Hexagon - inadvertently showering both Iris and Avalon (an adventurer who had had the same idea) with Celestrian power, allowing them both to perceive things like spirits and the Starflight Express. After bringing Ardea back to the Quester’s Rest, and subsequently hearing her story from both her and newly-visible Pavo, Iris decides to accompany the Celestrians on their quest to both recover Ardea’s lost angelic traits and reunite with Aquila, Pavo’s brother.

I hope that this is alright!!

[void-kissed]

"When I look to the night sky.. All I can think about are the others. The rest of our kind. They have taken their places at last, and will shine there eternally. ..We were meant to have joined them there, once. We were meant to be stars - but now, beneath those starry skies, we're still, and will always be, together."

(Anyone is welcome to comment on and reblog my work if desired, as long as my DNI is respected! Tag list and description are under the readmore.)

Tag list: @sol-rbs | @dragonsmooch | @bugsband | @sunlight-ships | @friezaforce | @hallowed-nebulae | @stargazer-sims | @potionomic | @detective-with-one-arm | @deepsea-loves | @sunshimm | @artificervaldi | @thatslikesometaldude (To be tagged in my work in the future, please see this post!)

This is a render that I've been working on this evening - it's my first one using Ardea's new outfit, which was a bit of a pain to try and approximate through MMD but I'm happy with how this piece turned out in the end! It maybe isn't the most outwardly romantic of renders, but I still think the vibes are good ^-^

I've had the phrase "we who were meant to be stars" in my head for a while, which describes Pavo and Ardea perfectly, so.. I wanted to make something based aroud that. The reason for it is that both of us are Celestrians, whose eventual fate is to become stars in the sky once the World Tree Yggdrasil bears fruit. When fyggbloom does finally happen, it unfortunately coincides with the Observatory being attacked, which is the incident that causes Ardea to fall out of the sky and lose her wings and halo. However, once the game comes to a close, the Celestrians finally achieve their prophesised fate to become stars - with the exception of Pavo, who remains on the Protectorate due to her work with the Rapportal. The player also stays on the Protectorate due to having become mortal by this point, but in their (and also Ardea's) case they are also tasked with continuing to directly be a Guardian and protect the mortals from monsters. That's why the phrase fits them both.

(It also applies to my other DQIX self-insert, Linaria, who is also a Celestrian - but, the reason why she doesn't become a star is either due to having left the world entirely by that point in her normal course of events, or it is the same as Ardea's - i.e. being tasked with staying on the Protectorate to continue helping mortals directly - in AUs where she replaces Ardea as my "player character replacement" for the game. It was through RPing as her that I came up with the phrase, actually.)

Thank you very much for taking the time to read all of this!! It means a lot to me that you have done so ^-^

[paigelts05]

Clestrian [DQ9]

https://www.deviantart.com/paigelts05/art/Clestrian-DQ9-949917904

Published:  Feb 17, 2023    

My dragon quest 9 hero. Yes she has my name. Last time I drew her was 2018. I'm now lv99 +1 in my main class (martial artist) and have sunk so many hours into skill points for the other classes so I now have over 100 MP as the class that has next to no MP. I've been playing on the same profile since I was 10. Back in 2011. Starts out with eyes starrier than the skies. Beat the game in 2013. Over the next 10 years (300 hours of gameplay), she became more of an adventurer and slightly jaded as she realises how messed up everything was for her (remember the goretress). She really misses her wings and halo, especially since she realises that she's spent longer without them than with, but the fake halo somewhat fills that void, but not enough. Celestrian yeeted from the observatory by the lightning storm. Misses her wings and halo. And she is the reason why my main OCs have pink pigtails.

[maddymoreau]

YESSSSSSS AND I LOVED IT!!!!!!!

Requested by anon

[daisydesetoiles]

Friendship Day 2024 !

We're the 30th of July ! It's the International Friendship Day !

I love Friendship. Friendship is life <3

Thank you to my favourite friendships to (have) existe(d) ! Also to those minor, sweet bonds that I think to only when I'm really into it. But here, it's about 10 between the ones I love the most !

Napoléon Solo & Illya Kuryakin (Des agents très spéciaux / Man from U.N.C.L.E)

2. Ophélie & Octavio (La passe-miroir / The mirror visitor)

3. Étienne de La Boétie & Michel de Montaigne

4. Geralt & Jaskier (The Witcher)

5. Yuma Tsukumo & Astral (Yu-Gi-Oh ! Zexal)

6. Héroïne & Stella (Dragon Quest IX : Les Sentinelles du Firmament / DQIX : Sentinels of the Starry Skies)

7. Jessie, James & Miaouss (Pokémon)

8. Robin de Locksley "Robin des Bois" & Pierre Dubois (Robin des Bois : Prince des voleurs / Robin Hood : Prince of thieves)

9. Napoléon Solo & Illya Kuryakin (Des agents très spéciaux : Code U.N.C.L.E / Man from U.N.C.L.E)

10. Jaden Yuki & Syrus Trusdale (Yu-Gi-Oh ! GX)

[legiongamerrd]

#Gamefemerides

Hace 15 años llegó Dragon quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies. Un RPG por turnos desarrollado por Level-5, publicado en Japón por Square Enix, pero publicado en Occidente por Nintendo, para Nintendo DS. Es el segundo juego de la saga con numeral lanzado en Europa y Australia.

Dragon Quest IX introdujo la funcionalidad de multijugador local a la serie, así como compatibilidad limitada con la Connexion Wi-Fi Nintendo.

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[levienjoyer]

HELLO MY LIKE 5 DQ FOLLOWERS!!!!

[maddymoreau]

[azraels-eden]

IM COOKED YOU GUYS (REF USED)

[mirielsart]

I'm playing Sentinels of the Starry Skies again.

[celestrianprincess]

he was always such a flirt and for WHAT

[tiny-cloud-of-flowers]

I was going to make a post on my DQIX blog and then reblog it here, but the link isn’t really working, so I’m just going to gush here instead.

WE GOT MORE PAVO CONTENT (courtesy of the DQIX event coming to Dragon Quest Walk!)

This is a really good model for her! (Especially compared to some of her precious ones, which have historically been a bit.. showy.) The new gold and green details work together really well, and it almost looks like she’s cut her hair shorter, which is a fun change. I also don’t recognise the staff that she’s holding, but it looks like it might be themed after Celestria, which is neat!

I’m just really, really happy that current Dragon Quest games are featuring her ^-^ DQIX means so much to me as a game, and that’s a big reason of why I’m so attached to Pavo. So, seeing new content for her is always incredibly appreciated!~