#relics of ruin

[jorgesantiagojr]

Relics of Ruin came out today! Here’s some of my inks for a promo illustration I was commissioned to make by the awesome author, Erin M Evans!

Relics of Ruin is the sequel to Empire of Exiles, and it’s a fantasy mystery series set in a world of intrigue and scheming factions. This world is really interesting and the mystery is an absolute page turner! Erin is also the writer of the Brimstone Angels Saga, which are some of the best D&D novels ever written!

Check out Empire of Exiles and Relics of Ruin, they can be found at any bookstore thru Orbit Books, as well as in ebooks and audiobook!

I hope you’ll check them out because I have more art for this series coming soon, so follow along with me!

[erinmevans]

It's been one week since RELICS OF RUIN came out, and it's one week until RUNESCAPE: THE GIFT OF GUTHIX arrives! Brace yourselves.

[geeklyinc]

Relics of Ruin Review - Secrets Shared and Sharpened

Relics of Ruin Review - Secrets Shared and Sharpened

Relics of Ruin by Erin M. Evans, the second book in Books of the Usurper series does what every second book in a series should do: expands the world, digs deeper into the characters, introduces new information, and builds on what was set up in the first book while raising the stakes with new conflicts.

[to-be-read-piledriver]

I’m doing free marketing for Orbit and Erin M Evans because I love this book. definitely pick up this and the first book Empire of Exiles.’

[kitausu]

Tunuk my love you truly are my favorite

[biblionerdreflections]

ARC Review - Relics of Ruin

Hello, everyone! Today I’m reviewing a sequel that I’ve been looking forward to for a while, Relics of Ruin by Erin M. Evans. I enjoyed the first book in the series, Empire of Exiles, and have been so curious to learn more about the world and the characters. Did I love the sequel? Read on to find out! 🙂 Continue reading ARC Review – Relics of Ruin

[choccy-milky]

how seb and clora get together in my fic 💕bc what better time and place to confess and share your first kiss than around a bunch of inferi + the dead body of a man you just killed?? 🥰💖

[thesilicontribesman]

Roman Inscription And Dedication Stones, Hunterian Museum, Glasgow

[driftingballoons]

It’s like having a purebred dog and a possum you found in the dumpster

[mipmoth]

Love this. The Creature.

[csolarstorm]

N's Void Cube - Animated Model

For too long, The Pokemon Company has been portraying N's iconic Void Cube with simple gold sides, erasing the beautiful quadrangular symmetry of the gold lines it was designed with. Today, I am stepping up to give N Harmonia's most prized possession the proper representation it deserves.

Here's the design I started with in Blender. I started by tracing the cube in N's official BW art, but making a new one made things so much easier.

If you don't count the center, N's Void Cube is only made of two distinct blocks, just rotated in different directions. The designs on these blocks are pretty cool, and there's actually some symbolism to them!

The first block, the ring/sun, fittingly resembles the classical symbol for the sun ☉ which is also the alchemical symbol for gold. A lot of classical Sun and gold symbols often correspond with symbols for "God", considering our history of solar deities.

This symbol is also known as the circumpunct. It also resembles evil eye protection talismans like the nazar. (I figured this was relevant because of the scary eyes on Ghetsis' cloak!)

The second block, the circle symbol with the floret pointing toward the corner definitely resembles another alchemical symbol for sun, gold, and "God":

Source: utf8icons

So there's definitely a theme here! Documents from the Teraleak suggest that N is the descendant of the ancient king buried in the Abyssal Ruins. Motifs like the sun, gold, and "God" all correlate with kings and the idea of divine right.

In my post "The Original Dragon of Unova and Wuxing" I theorized that the Original Dragon of Unova is based on the Yellow Dragon of the Center, who would be a golden dragon that glows like the sun. And the machine translation for the Abyssal Ruins glyphs depicts a creature with a very Reshiram/Zekrom type body that is "known as God". This glyph is supposed to refer to the ancient king.

Source: Pokeleaks, via ImmaculateOne-Browne on Reddit

Long story short: I think N has the ancient king's Void Cube.

[jorgesantiagojr]

Yinii is a character from @erinmevans’ Books of the Usurper series, and is one of my favorites! I’ve drawn her a bunch but she always changes shape in my mind, but she is such a cool character. If you dig on fantasy and mystery books, check out Empire of Exiles and the brand new Relics of Ruin and see why Yinii is the best!

[robo-dino-puppy]

horizon forbidden west | erend 48/?

[proffbon]

Every time I think about Lords of Fortune and their cultural sensitivity I have to go 'Don't think about it' like that Portal 2 scene, because I get too invested trying to understand the logic behind it and eventually short circuit.

[bestworstcase]

this is a spinning-circles-in-the-office-chair thought but how did salem find out how the relics work. she knows the lamp has a “password” and a limited number of questions, and that using the staff to create something will destroy its previous creation.

we know she’s never used the lamp before, otherwise she’d have known jinn’s name. it’s possible she had the staff at one point and lost it, although i’m skeptical of ozma’s ability to get it back from her if she did—man is a dreadful strategist. she doesn’t seem to know what the relic of choice is: the lamp, the staff, the sword, and “the beacon relic.”

spins chair.

the way her expression changes when ruby says “we’ve seen what you’re capable of. the lamp showed us.” salem doesn’t react to the interruption in any way until she hears the lamp showed us.

from ironwood, we know that ozpin told the inner circle that the lamp can answer three questions per century and that the questions were all used up before ozpin sealed the lamp in the vault. we also know that ozpin used the staff to raise atlas at a point when ironwood was already part of the inner circle, meaning within the last couple decades, which necessitated giving a similar explanation of what the staff can do and its limitations to the whole inner circle; in v7 ironwood knows the staff can only make one thing at a time.

salem is startled, and then coldly irritated, when she hears ruby say the lamp showed us.

she’s not upset because the girls learned the truth; she’s upset because all the information salem has about the relics came to her via member(s) of ozpin’s inner circle, and ruby just revealed that at least one thing ozpin told his acolytes was a lie. as far as salem knew before that moment, the lamp was dormant. useless to her. when ruby says “the lamp showed us,” both the assertion that the lamp is out of questions and that the lamp only has a finite number of questions it can answer are thrown into question.

given what salem does immediately after getting her hands on the lamp a few hours later…

“the lamp showed us” switches salem’s train of thought to “the lamp is still usable?” and then to “if that’s so, i could ask it questions myself” and then to “we still haven’t uncovered the location of the beacon relic” and she’s only half-listening to what ruby says to her while she turns this over in her mind and what comes out of her mouth is “your mother said those words to me,” because summer rose is the one who told her, per ozpin, that the lamp was all out of questions. “she was wrong, too.”

[kitausu]

Me during Empire of Exiles: I like Richa and I like him with Amadea! He's a cutie.

Me during Relics of Ruin: NOBODY TOUCH RICHA OR I'LL SCREAM. How DARE his crazy toxic ex boyfriend show up like this???? Let him be happy!!