#raladin

[lindalofbroome]

original sketches

DELTORA FASHION CONCEPT ART V2

hello i have finally coloured some rough sketches of some deltoran fashions, a redraw of some really old sketches from ages ago.

im a pretty amateur concept artists and i hate designing clothes so truly was a challenge for me hahah BUT it has given me plenty of time to think of headcanons. im not sure what i've already posted about or not so im just gonna go ahead and rant

these characters were originally just models for me to draw the clothes on, so i didn't need to draw a new person every time; although in some of my earliest sketches of different people groups i did a bunch of people. but naturally these characters have developed a little and some of them are my beloved adin-era OCs <3

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⬜ JALIS

since the jalis are reknowned for their warrior prowess and their signature gold armour, i thought it'd be neat that even if when they're not wearing the full set, they are always wearing their arm guards. it's a sense of pride and identity, they probably receive them as a rite of passage into adulthood. not every jalis is a knight, but they value a heart of courage and great feats and they all have them, and would wear them always (or at least special occasions if one prefers not).

i headcanon that jasmine was gifted her own set of arm guards as an expression of their respect and admiration of her. her relationship with glock grew so much and was cut off, but she earned her "heart of a jalis" and we didnt get to see much of jasmine and gers together, but theres plenty of time post-DQ3. i think my jasmine and the jalis thoughts should be a separate post though, otherwise this post will never end 😂

i dont imagine that the jalis had special party clothes, i think they just turn up in their usual clothes and get drunk and dance their hearts out maybe start a brawl thats none of my business

i cant remember why i've been giving them this geometric sort of pattern tbh. i think i drew someone at some point and wanted it to look different to mcbride's design but im not sure if i like it or not. the plus is that i can make diamond motifs though!!

i also cant really remember how my brown skin gold hair came to be 🤔🤔 wait backtracking i think what happened is that i decided to draw del people as black latinx inspired, so it wasn't that big a step to make jalis also dark skinned since they're both in the south (deltora geography is weird tho so like it's not that deep) and then i think i made them blonde as i "why not??" situation but tHEN i thought maybe it's connected to their jalis gold?

my headcanon is that their armour is made of a unique metal that can only be found in diamond territory, it's super hard, tough, and light etc. so maybe whatever is In The Ground is also in them and their blood and shows in their hair????

🥳 fun fact 🥳 wasn't until i had to draw steven and glock side by side that i had realised what i'd done?? i.e. steven canonically has brown skin gold hair too¹. which now forces me to think about whether it should be a coincidence (like it is) or shall i headcanon that steven and nevets' father was jalis² 🤔 ¹ pretty sure it's about the dichotomy, to show contrast but connection between the brothers. i have many steven and nevets thoughts but that should also be another post ² i am.

🟩 DREAD GNOMES

these characters are adin-era, so unfortunately this would be when the gnomes still hunt the kin. whats weird is that i realised that i was picturing the caramelly brown fabric that this gnome is wearing was the kin pelt and not the big furry parts?? i usually picture the kin as more like velvetty. idk what the thicker fur parts would be though?? literally any other animal i guess 😅 i dont know it doesn't make sense and it's only occurring to me right now i shall have to think about it lmao

anyway made them green because why not. maybe they come in different colours idk. this gnome is pre-gellick so does go out in the sun, gellick-era gnomes would be waaaaay more paler they probably looked white. this could be similar to the jalis and like theres something in the grounddd

gla-thon claims that the dread gnomes knew that lesser gems had weaker but the same powers of the great talisman gems (sots), but im not sure if they knew it before adin. would be interesting if they did 🤔 and how they figured it out?? (side note but now im wondering about how withick knew what to write about the gems??) would imply that if they got the great emerald than they could deduce there are others surely. unless they thought it was a freak accident/miracle. anyway we know they love gems and gold etc etc so they obviously decorate themselves with heaps of jewellery

triangle motifs in homage to their mountain 💚

i gave them a sort of war paint ritual. i'm not sure if they all do the same markings, but this one was specifically to symbolise a bow and arrow (arrow going up the nose). you can see it a bit better here lol. i also decided that sometimes they wear it for purely cosmetic purposes. im not sure what the substance is exactly though. i think in my head i was imagining something similar to kohl, but maybe not.

🥳 fun fact 🥳 bre-tak and az-zure are lesbians (i make the rules)

🟦 MERE

oooooh baby this is my guy my babygirl my everything

okay so i think this headcanon developed recently when i last drew sky of rithmere and i thought that mere superstition encouraged them to wear their charms in random spots to avoid them cancelling each other out. it could be construed to be they were inspired by the night sky and the pattern of the stars perhaps. this led them to prefer asymmetrical fashions, mostly prominent in the armour i put badr in

🥳 fun fact 🥳 badr means "full moon" 👀

i think i originally decided the mere had leather armour just to give them something different iirc but the mere characters we see are usually the lithe, speedy, crafty type, so maybe light, mobile armour does work for them lol. anyway the main reason is that i had the image of studded leather, and i was like ohohoho STARS

i generally think of them with muted colours but sometimes they have a bold blue for their prized garmants. like zillah and co, the leaders of rithmere in adin's time were described with bright blue and starry cloaks. (i checked the wiki just to check zillah's name lol and apparently it's actually canon they have leather armour?? so not sure why i thought otherwise) anyway i do currently have minecraft brain but i did vaguely remember that people made ultramarine pigment from grinding lapis lazuli into a powder and im not sure if thats something the mere would do or if there's some strong blue dyes they can get from plants or something native to their territory 🤔

actually im liking that idea now? it would be incredibly time-consuming and labour-intensive but that would add to its value?? real world lapis lazuli has a horrible yield rate of 1kg lapis to 30g of pigment apparently, but it's a strong pigment (unless i misunderstand). alternative name for ultramarine is "permanent blue" apparently so. anyway ultramarine irl is more of a paint pigment, but in roddaverse maybe the mere make a lucky blue dye to use on cloaks and scarfs and shawls etc for good fortune?? me frantically checking that i put badr and luisa's wedding garb in bold blue lmAO oh i did but it's a little muted. they mix in oils and stuff to make the paint, so it doesnt seem like a stretch that they can mix different ingredients or ratio to make a cloth dye (to my very amateur understanding).

so im imagining now that they have a special (probably secret within the mere) process to create bright blue thread speckled with white (also gold to me. im pro deltora lapis with gold) and weave it into their beautiful starry night fabric. the amount of labour and the use of their prized lapis lazuli makes it very special, and maybe some people think it's the lapis that makes the fabric lucky or maybe some people think it's the work of love and time that makes it lucky, maybe both.

🥳 fun fact 🥳 i forgot that "bless your lucky stars" is like a real saying until recently lol

a starry cloak is probably something only the really rich could afford, but i think that they are more like heirlooms and states of office? im not sure if these pieces are things that one would purchase or something they would receive. bit hard to imagine people doing it for free but maybe it's one of those staple things that they revere and everyone else works to support them as well etc like the cooks in noradz are prized. idk. but yeah like a poorer family couldn't get a new one, but they would have one that has been in their family for generations you know? and i think that there would be something about like. idk youre meeting up with your doctor or something and youre nervous and you put on your family's best clothes (the most lucky ones) and maybe youre cynical about the whole good fortune stuff but there's something comforting about wearing the cloak your mother wore and your grandmother and your great grandmother wore, who also had to do such things. something something gives you the confidence to make your own luck because youre no longer pessimistic and allowing avoidable mistakes to happen

this means that the mere giving adin a cloak was a REALLY big deal because they definitely dont just go throwing those around and they would probably only give it to an outsider in trade for a steeeeeeeeeeeep price. which of course means that there would be knock offs with bad quality dye. lmao thats perfect actually. like 10000% there would be merchants in rithmere trying to sell cheaper versions to people that are expensive but still affordable to the average person. some would be different shades of blue, but the more crafty might have dyes that are strong but not lasting.

oh also i headcanon that palace fashion was a conglomerate of aspects from all the tribes but this should be it's own post i think. but i just remembered that i put gold thread in badr's braids in the formal wear sketch. i did that to tie in with the veins/flecks of gold (technically pyrite) in irl lapis lazuli. as such, people at del palace were inspired to weave gold into their hair too.

also gives me another thing to ship badr and luisa lmao. badr can wear some gold and luisa can wear some blue as a treat for me <3 moon and stars ocs beloved

🟨 DEL

alright. okay so del is definitely very white western patriarchal coded (most just a bias of living in that type of society i reckon) but it sucks and i'm passionate about making del NOT that. i think i've said this a million times now but this should be it's own post too, but most succinctly del is a very vibrant, curious, and daring sort of culture (e.g. their recklessness, exploration, trading). they were already marrying non-deltorans before adin (i imagine that some might have dared to marry outside of del, but it would have been way more politically complex so it was rarer and often kept quiet and rural). people of del were moving to other countries (like dorne) and people were probably moving to del, so del is definitely a big mix of different people and languages and superstitions and stuff.

but anyway i wanted to set a sort of base for before that. i've had art on the wip pile for YEARS about this and i'd flesh this out properly when it's done lol (hopefully we see that day) but since the topaz has the power to summon spirits, i really wanted to develop an aspect of del culture around that? i was inspired by Día De Los Muertos (Day of the Dead) and i still want to do some more in depth research and explore it more properly, but i like the idea that del will celebrate their lost loved ones life, coming together to remember, if they were lucky the got to see and even talk to their spirits. maybe pre-talisman they did know about topaz properties and they had a big deposit of gems that they would wheel out for the festival and the huge pile under the full moon would be enough to allow the spirits and people to interact? anyway this is a longwinded explanation of why my sketches of del fashion could be latinx inspired.

circle motifs in homage to the moon. the trim decoration on luisa's scabbards are based on moon phases :D

i also arbitrarily decided that del people love swishy clothes. they're all about the drama of cloaks and twirling in sundresses etc it's fun. not sure if i will actually follow through with that lol or maybe that can just be luisa.

🥳 fun fact 🥳 i think hearing luisa laugh would heal me

there's no particular reason for why i've been drawing a lot of del people as black, other than maybe spite lol. i think i drew jasmine and that got the ball rolling. del is a blank enough slate that they can be anything. im tired of white people being the front runners asldkjfhalsdf. bUT again del is multicultural, so there isn't a particular look for anyone in del. being del is more a state of mind and being part of community i think. you move to del and you participate in their society in one way or another and boom youre del now they adopted you.

🌈 PLAINS

hiran attire inspired by french aristocratic fashion. i cant remember who posted about it but pretty sure this was something that circulated around the fandom at least a little bit at some point.

added some subtle rainbow to harlow's outfits because he's the strong silent type. but i suppose there are so much more gaudier and extravagant outfits.

i was going to say this was just hira fashion and not like, rural plains fashion but i guess this is the same for all of them. it's just like a general direction for what someone might wear.

the swirly patterns?? i dont know. i drew them when i did adin's pre-battle speech as the last supper but i dont think there's a particular reason. i remember that i was trying to do something unique because lief recognises the cup in the city of rats as the same/similar to the one in noradz, so there had to be something to be recognisable lol but i probably just did it this way because it's relatively easy to doodle, just takes a bit of time.

🥳 fun fact 🥳 harlow was a cook before the shadow invasion. out of desperation, he and many others had to train to defend hira. he's big with natural balance and reflexes so he excelled and is a pretty adept warrior, but he will always think of himself as a cook first, warrior second.

now the armour!! freshest headcanon piping hot. yesterday when i was colouring i was sitting there like wow you look like a tin can man and you are so boring. we went from pretty colours to blank. im almost certain the hiran soldiers were described as silver with white plumes, so i was planning on doing that but they had intricate details on their armour because they are Extra, so it has the swirly patterns you can see on harlow's coat.

but then suddenly i was like. what if. pearlescent.

and honestly i loved it so much i didnt care i was setting myself up for some difficult work ahead lmao. but my general idea was that they're armour looked like it was silver, but if the light catches it at the right angle it exposes the rainbow in it. most of these headcanons i've had baking for at least a year, but this is very new so i dont any hard details yet. kira mentioned enamel or ceramic and lowkey interested in having a look into that so that theres another armour material. maybe it's gonna be like special jalis gold and special plains silver. maybe something else. i also just remembered bismuth exists (same boat as gold as very heavy and soft) but i think maybe it's too loud, i think im liking the more subtle pearlescent thing aLTHOUGH it's a good metallic rainbow reference 👀 maybe there is an esteemed plains warrior with a rainbow sword

ANYWAY pearlescent armour really hit my heart because oh my god once upon a time the plains had a shore and they could visit the sea,,,, lowkey ocean vibes without an ocean [screaming crying cat spinning in a void.gif]

🥳 fun fact 🥳 i have NO idea what food harlow has made. i think i had ratatouille on the brain at the time????

🟥 RALADS

⚠ PROPAGANDA ALERT ⚠

ruby territory best territory. ruby symbol of happiness. warns of danger AND antidote to poison. double helpful. ralads are so sweet and so smart. architectural and engineering marvels. living in harmony with the land and beasts. D'OR!!! manus and nanion friendship underrated and so special to me. horse girls. AND. broome. god theres so much i could say about broome that i cant say anything. anyway you guys know im normal about broome yes of course. separate post etc etc

i think technically this is a headcanon but it's not that big a stretch surely but as above i always picture ralads as in harmony with nature. never take more than they need, know how to work with not against, theyre not the main attraction but an equal part of the bigger picture.. this isn't even about how smart they are with engineering and their perfectly round houses with bricks that are cut perfectly. im thinking about their knowledge of their world is so strong and wide and diverse. they have the most vibrant and potent dyes and pigments around, they have the most colourful fabrics and clothes around. the plains has many colours but it can't compete, and they have different styles. i think that the hirans would trade for the dyes though (maybe undercutting pre-adin, maybe more equal post-unification). i think that they would also have a pretty decent blue dye but it is still inferior to mere lapis lazuli blue. it is probably a dye that could be used for a mid range mere garment?

maybe it's the anime fault but i do usually imagine ralads as barefoot but i also drew iris with construction tools and just the idea of ralads walking around a construction site barefoot was not fun to me. but it could be a hobbit tough soles situation. anyway i drew some shoes so i had a vague reference if i wanted to draw ralad shoes.

obviously had a problem drawing warrior attire for a non-war race. but i thought what if i leaned into the stories the hirans tell about how the scouts and soldiers they send into the ralad wilds never returned and were often found dead with broken bones or whatnot. definitely big watching but never seen vibes imo. so i decked iris out in some camouflage lol

🥳 fun fact 🥳 im sure the ralads can whistle and whatnot to make birdcall signals, but i thought it was fun for iris to be able to make birdcalls with her flute

HEY ALSO headcanon about ralad hair. i was making some dragon art from a doran pov that i was going to save for that but i cant wait now. but we know from Tales that the ralads had a good relationship with the ruby dragons, could even summon them (unless im misremembering and it was more like a premeditated calling) but i was thinking about how they nest with .. human? hair. and i was thinking what if they grow out their hair? and then they offer it to a dragon when they are ready? i dont know if there's a nesting season for dragons but it could be something like that? ralad-dragon ceremony and party time. this isn't a rite of passage type of thing, just something that they like to do. not everyone does it probably, but most do it once, some people do it several or many times in their lifetime. it's an honour, but not really a sacrifice to them. it's part of the world balance and theyre willing to serve the dragons as the dragons serve them as they water the plants and the plants feed them and they feed beasts and beasts feed them.

also dont remember why i did the hair so bright and orangey??? genuinely perplexed lmao. probably was leaning into irl ginger but like THEYRE BLUE so i could probably make them actual red. not sure if this is also like a "theres something in the ground" situation also that makes their hair red but maybe 😂😂

side note but it's lowkey so wild to me that rodda was like yeah these guys are blue-grey with red hair, and then everyone else is like an average person, BUT the mountain people are short. like they're all just some guy basically???

it does make return to del so so funny because fallow is like AYO look at these MONSTERS they are UGLY and WEIRD

but i guess thats part of the motivation to give the deltora tribes some basic unique traits.

🟪 TORANS

okay so toran robes as inspired by japanese fashion is definitely something that's floated around the fandom for ages. i can't remember if it was before or after seeing posts about it that i started my first concept sketches but i think it probably had a hand in helping me visualise what rodda was talking about when she described their robes as butterfly wings when they speed-travelled. like yeah big deep sleeves and floor trailing hems WOULD probably look like colourful butterfly wings in the wind,,

🥳 fun fact 🥳 azami be always hungry. if only she knew someone who liked to cook 🤔

i don't have much to say design-wise, kinda just did various doodling. they would probably be second in extravagance to the plains, but it's a different sort of detail? they are probably a bit more refined and elegant than the hirans who are probably more bold in their designs. torans grow to be vain and selfish (it's already started by adin's time) so they probably have a high value on the beauty of their belongings, and it probably began with imagery of beasts and plants and dragons in amethyst territory, "true" pictures. but as time went on it probably distorted a bit and became idealised and/or fantastical etc.

OKAY SO my brain bluescreened just now for a moment trying to figure out how a people who use magic to make life easier, were also the ones known for their weaving, a manual hands-on task (lief's cloak is praised as being worthy of toran looms, implying high grade; pretty sure this was supposed to be a hint that his mother is not who he thinks she is also). some conclusions are 1) they weave with magic (sad, horrible), 2) they weave as a past-time, for fun etc (okay) but i took it to a third option

for a long time ive been thinking about toran magic as like, a balance and an energy thing (because i like that stuff lol) they cannot create something from nothing, only change things. they couldnt summon a fire, but they could change a piece of wood to fire and start a campfire, or those more advanced could even change the air into fire. but honestly it's left me a bit unsatisfied. like how does that explain the tora-del highway? hELL tora itself? what happened to the marble that got carved away? also how can that mountain have been so perfect there was no cracks or seams?? or did they carve those bits out lol. questions for another day.

anyway i was thinking about how hobbies are good for you, you dont have to be good at something but it's good to do stuff for fun and when you do crafts you get a cool thing at the end of it that you made. but it's also like skills you can develop? and i wondered what if weaving is a starter skill that they learn, some of them at least. maybe there are different activities, and they do the one that speaks to them the most. there were other types of artisans in tora, just not as talked about (i guess they're robes are pretty iconic so it's easy for people to go wow robes wow weavers who made fabric for the robes so soft) like i distinctly remember barda remarking about how tora was untouched and why bandits wouldn't have stolen the carved box that ended up holding the auto-reply letters from the palace.

so what im thinking is that maybe this builds a foundation to help torans visualise and perform their magic?

it actually solves a problem ive had in my headcanons i feel like ive got seven eyes open rn 😂😂 but in relation to del culture and traditions, i've been thinking about there being a physical and spiritual realm of course, and maybe it's the comfort of threes but it felt like something was missing.

i dont know what to call it yet, but im thinking the third thing is like the glue, it connects all things, it's in everything. it's like a third realm but also more of like a medium maybe? kind of sappy but we can just call this the magical realm for now. i actually used to think of toran magic as being like a subset of the greater deltora magic, but now im thinking it's more like torans are more receptive to the magic realm, as del are to the spiritual, and the ralads to the physical; theyre the experts in these things, which is why unified deltora is important 😂; likewise dread gnomes specialise in gems, jalis in combat, mere in cunning, plains in hope perhaps? literally never thought about it quite like this so maybe i will process it different later and designate different specialties.

so when the torans are young, they learn a craft and these skills help them sort of "tap into" the magical realm. so in the case i first thought of, when a toran weaver starts to see and interact with the magical realm, the easiest way for them to engage with it would be to think of it as weaving. they might see the magical realm as threads that connect everything, and weave things together to get what they want. a potter might see it as a malleable mass and sculpt what they want. a carpenter might see it as something to carve, something to break and put together.

the magical realm is not a concrete thing at all, up to interpretation, perhaps a unique experience to anyone who could glimpse in; don't strictly have to be toran, but they are perhaps naturally receptive to it or it could even be entirely a knowledge thing and that they are taught about it more; someone like verity who had her eyes opened to this realm, and learned to interact with it on instinct. does open questions to what the hell is up with the plains lmao but i think thats another post.

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sorry about all the "i'll tell you in another post" i was attempting to stay on track 😂😂 also there's a 90% chance im gonna forget to come back and write about them so if anyone is dying to know feel free to send me an ask or something???

also if you want to know more about these OCs let me know 👀 i can find an ask game or something maybe. it's a case of i know a lot but will forget it all if asked to speak freely, i need specific questions. i have also developed the first four a bit more, but the last three are not without character so they can still be included. maybe it will be a group effort and they will have Background.

[calpalsworld]

Ralad oc using @transhitman's design for the Ralads

[deltoravivisection]

WAKE UP DELTORA NATION. IT'S TIME FOR A DV SCRIPT UPDATE!!!

V1.2 PATCH NOTES

Fixed minor continuity and grammar issues in main quest

Added: several files pertaining to SHOPKEEPER DIALOGUE for AVA, STEVEN, and TOM

Added: ORIGINAL CHARACTERS – SIMMONE and ZA-VAN – as shopkeepers in Raladin and Dread City respectively, and documents for their dialogue

General Progress Update: Was focusing on artfight pretty hard this July so I didn't get any art done. Progress on the script was slow as well since my work schedule has been absolute ass. I had originally said that Steven would get his own update, but I included him here for the sake of completing all the shopkeepers at once. I'm saving the party for last in my infinite madness, and will be working on another set of NPCs next instead. This will either be area-locked NPCs like Gla-Thon and Zeean, or the NPCs that are able to appear at Steven's camp. I'm not sure yet. I'll be taking another short break and will decide in the meantime. But for now, ENJOY THE UPDATE!!!

[shionshot]

Roddacember Day2∶Place

This was a difficult question to answer.

Especially when it comes to the places in Rodda's fantasy, because I would think that I would be much more comfortable staying where I am than being there.Even if I think about living there or going there, it's just not going to be safe and comfortable, is it?It makes me feel like I'm not going to be able to do that.

If I had to say something strong, my favourite places where people seem to live are Broom and Raladin, the territory of Ruby in Deltora.They are not urban, but they are not as dead as the Emerald territories, because people can live in nature.Besides, where I actually live, there are no big, deep bush or wide plains like that.Most of the time, people live crammed together on narrow plains between mountains or between mountains and the sea.

So from my own experience it is difficult to imagine such deep bush and wide plains.I can only try to think of small forests, mountains and rural landscapes that I have actually been to, superimposed on what I have read in books or seen on film.

I guess there are places like that in the world, but for me it's more like a fantasy.

In Rodda's book, there are several people who see the sea for the first time in their lives, but it could be similar to that.

To be honest, the Blue Mountains is the place I've been most interested in ever since I saw a video of Rodda's house in the Blue Mountains on YouTube.And as an added bonus, it's there in real life.

[treecereal]

Fictional Guidebooks

This may be a niche topic but it's something that I realized while I was reading a “world building” book. You know those books which are separate from the main series but have the  aim to flesh out the world more (I’m talking about the handbook style stories and not novellas or prequels). Is that some authors don't quite get what people want from a “world building" book.

I’m going to be using two books for comparison (because one, I've got no idea what this genre of book is called and two, they’re the two books I was originally comparing), The Secrets of Deltora and The Ever Never handbook. They want to achieve different things but the issues are not to do with the ideas itself.

Anyway, I think these styles of books even though appearing to be unbiased and a clear look into the world really would benefit from having a character to tell these things through. It gives the book a voice and makes you more engrossed in the story. Secrets of Deltora does this well by saying it's written by “Doran” and having his thoughts and opinions shine through. The Ever Never Handbook attempts this by including quips and extra pages of Hester but it struggles as it attempts to give everyone a say in the book. The Hester parts were really nice but it's barely a 5th of the book's contents.

As well as that the areas the two books decide to expand on are really different. The Ever Never Book choses to focus on how the school is run and what changes Sophie is doing to the School which would be great if it was more focused on specific stories and aspects instead of giving a soft brush over it all. I feel as though a reader wouldn’t be as interested in the types of meals and the random statistics of each school as readers would be in I don't know the layout of the school, creatures and classes. Yes they are there but it essentially has the same presence as the less important aspects of the school which isn't the best ratio if you want to be engaged fully. Meanwhile Secrets of Deltora takes a special interest in the land, its people and customs, it doesn't dwell on stuff like what to take on the journey and details of the gemstones and things like the Raladins pictograms. It does focus on many things just like the other book but it gives the majority of its time towards Doran’s thoughts and his goal of checking on all the dragons.

Ultimately I feel like this comes down to how much story you want to put into a guidebook. If you put Hester as someone who seems to be meddling with the book I’d like her scribbles to be on just about every page and how she would run the school or even her just giving opinions on the stories that's already in place. Also I’ve got a special place in my heart for secret clues which the secrets of Deltora has plenty of and guess what it adds to the worldbuilding giving us a bigger idea of what his plan was and how he ended up where he did in the main series. I might be quite biased towards my favourite series but it really did a good job of that world building.

[youcantstopthisname]

Part 6 scheduling who? Ya girls being organized bet

Azu noticed that Sasha had started to glance up at the clock more as afterschool hours started to get closer. Azu would’ve rather kept talking to Sasha, but she seemed to be in a rush and Azu figured it was best to let her leave if she had somewhere to go. Azu was sure that Sasha had more important things to do than entertain Azu with more of her stories.

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    That night, as Azu enjoyed a quiet and overall boring dinner, she kept thinking about Sasha. She had been so quiet at first but as they talked Azu got to see more and more of who Sasha was. She noted that despite how well Sasha managed to blend in, Azu was finding it difficult to not think about the hairpin curve of her nose. Even as she dozed off in bed, Sasha’s stature kept reappearing in her head.

[theravenlyn]

Manus: I arrived quickly because Nanion brought us here by horse

Manus: He's better with horses, than I am

Manus: He can reach the stirrups

Nanion: He complained sO MUCH

Nanion: ThanK GOD WE HAVE ARRIVED SO I DON'T HAVE TO LISTEN TO HIM

Manus and Nanion: *friendship intensifies* *flowers everywhere* *sparkles showering*

[incorrectdeltoraquotes]

Jasmine: I'm willing to do a lot of things.

Jasmine: But admitting to Barda that I'm cold after he told me to bring a jacket is not one of them

[arthulol]

this is ... "Raladins"?

[zahroreadsthings]

As Sharn herself lay lost in sleep, the Dread Gnome Gla-Thon, Steven of the Plains, Zeean of Tora, Manus of Raladin, Gers of the Jalis, Doom, Barda and Jasmine gathered around the bed of Lindal of Broome [...]

A neat little detail is the way that this is almost exactly who was present for renewing the oath of loyalty in 1.8 (including a poisoned loved one!) but! Every tribe except the mere has a representative! What is this LMAO

[lindalofbroome]

inspired by this art trend

i was just drawing the characters mostly with the colours i associated with them but now im reading way too much between the lines and thinking about colour theory and the relationships between colours and the relationships between characters oh my godd uhh im so normal about deltora quest

version with names under the cut:

[calpalsworld]

We have got to go to Raladin

[deltoravivisection]

Uggghhh Dread Mountain and Maze of the Beast are both like. Really long sequences that really don't have a good midpoint to stop at and break up the quests for the player and it's just like. Hellish to write. Like all the other books have two or more acts that I've been able to break them into (ie: saving Manus and escorting him to Raladin but not actually going to the Lake of Tears, going to Noradz but not going to Hira directly after, entering the Rithmere Games but not going directly to the Shifting Sands) but Dread Mountain and ESPECIALLY MOTB are going to be A Lot at once. The main issue with MOTB being that after Dain gets captured the party can't really Not chase the pirates, and I'll have to include Tora as the quests endpoint instead of it ending after they get out of the Maze like in the book. Doing so much mental calculus to make this thing work and be relatively open-world but I don't think I can fix this one without seriously compromising the plot........

[princeliefofdel]

Manus Appreciation Post Part 1.

Okay, not going to lie. Manus is one of the cutest characters I have ever seen and you can’t change my mind. I love him so much, and I wouldn’t even mind if he had his own book that also went even more in depth about the Ralads and Raladin. 

[youcantstopthisname]

I just realized tht Sasha and Azu have contrasting color schemes and color placement! Cuz Sasha has v pale skin while Azu has darker skin and Sasha wears v dark clothes aka black and Azu wear v bright pink clothes! Like its small and minute and 10/10 not tht interesting but i was bamboozled!

[ethanlivemere]

Roddacember 2019 Days 13 and 15: People group/Location

Because I am a couple of days behind and because they are thematically similar, I have combined 13 and 15.

Out of all the Deltoran tribes, I’d say I find the Mere tribe the most fascinating. I like their superstitious and gamble-y nature, and their fashion sense. Blue and silver robes and long dark hairs? GURL you looking FINE. I just love the “starry sky” aesthetic everything related to the Lapis Lazuli has.

Rithmere also is my favourite city. First of all, what a cool name, “Rithmere”. It’s also the city I would choose to live in during the Shadow Lord’s reign, because if we look at the other options: Del seems like a miserable place, D’Or is no more, Raladin forces you to live underground, Noradz is a Mr. Clean dictatorship, Hira speaks for itself why I wouldn’t want to live there, Shadowgate is like the least inviting place in the world, Where Waters Meet and all other towns along river Tor regularly get attacked by pirates, Tora got its population cursed, and Jaliad is never described during the Shadow Lord era but considering what happened to the Jalis tribe it can’t be too good either. (Broome also seems pretty good though) Living conditions in Rithmere seem better than in most places at that time. The people even get amusement from the Rithmere games, which may be a way for the Shadow Lord to kidnap people, but as long as you don’t participate in them there’s nothing negative about them. It reminds me of the panem et circemses principle from Roman times.

Fun fact to prove Rithmere is a nice place to live: in the anime, when they first enter Rithmere, some of the footage is reused. This same footage was used in the first episode when the narrator explains that ‘things weren’t always this way’ and there’s a flashback to better times.

In fact, while taking these screenshots I noticed they even used the exact same city establishing shot.

So either they used the same image for both Del and Rithmere, or that flashback in episode 1 just shows Rithmere.

Anyway, see you later today for another post.