#runesmith Caryll

[karnaca78]

[choiraugur]

coolest of byrgenwerth and micolaurence

[fareehaandspaniards]

[mensiscollar]

pardon the inactivity i have lotsa shit goin on but here's some art

[subzeroparade]

[galaxirin]

Soulstober day 21: Hunt

[rubia-peregrinart]

the faceless : text-only appendices

[synthwayve]

Before drawing a bigger piece I usually make some un-postable warmups. Here’s one of Caryll that I liked enough to color a bit!

[nameless-headless]

Bloodbornisms

[mangledskull]

What does your Caryll look like? o:

I’ve been waiting for someone to ask me about Caryll!!!!!!!!!!!! :DDD

Ok ok so, I had never drawn them before but I ran to draw this rq when I got this ask

I had this idea where Caryll is always portrayed as this mysterious, shadowy figure. Like that one cartoon trope where a character’s face is always obscured.

They were the recluse of Byrgenwerth, no one really saw them much, even before the runes came into question. The students began to consider Caryll to even be a myth because of how reclusive they were. After Byrgenwerth, they spent the rest of their life locked up in their abode in Hemwick, addicted to transcribing the Runes.

I might make an actual reference of what they *actually* look like someday, but for now I like this idea a lot :3

[katyspersonal]

On Caryll's identity

(Ignore outdated Yurie, she turns out to be blonde according to game's data) I really think I should go back to this Caryll 🤔 And I feel like I am ready to. I just think it is the most likely interpretation that she was the unseen third Witch of Hemwick

1) In Hemwick's mansion, we fight only two witches that keep resurrecting one another, but the arena features a statue of three witches; two by each side and one in the middle:

2) We literally find Caryll's Rune Tool in Hemwick, but the body we pick it from is NOT Caryll: it is one of the commoners that got trained to be Yharnam's Hunter by Ludwig! They (set is male) appear to also be tied, bleeding and surrounded by multiple pages, suggesting some sort of experiments:

3) Statue just behind Memory Altar has surgical stitch on its forehead:

This statue also being used by the passageways in Chalice Dungeons would still make sense to be Caryll, since hunters were roaming the dungeons for multiple years and seem to have established help to themselves (like it happens with real places of archaeology)! It would only make sense to honor Caryll as guide and help in their travels, since Runes were huge help for Hunters!

4) Hemwick citizens likewise have had something done with their skulls:

Considering two main Hemwick Witches are fully covered in eyes and others of their kind roam around stealing eyes (literal enemy called Eye Collector), and statue's scar, it is possible ALL of Hemwick went for craze of literally surgically inserting eyes in the brain!

It just makes a lot of sense that Caryll would be mysterious third witch of Hemwick from their main ones, who went into Byrgenwerth (possibly before other scholars that we know of) and had a surgery on her brain in order to get attuned to Great Ones akin to radio receiver, so their sounds could be recorded and translated! That possibly shortened her lifespan, hence why martyr-like statues to honor her! But her "success" possibly infected her home place, Hemwick, with madness... it just happens.

At some point I've split the character in two, and to be honest it was still a fun thing to consider; that the witch would be her own character offering her brain as sacrifice, and Caryll (now a scholar from Cainhurst, who also painted those portraits) would be the one to write down signals coming from her and have capacity of turning them into symbols. I've drawn him since then several times, like height chart for Byrgenwerth or that cool beach episode drawing x)

It is not a bad idea, but like I said, THE problem with it is that "the roots are rotten". I've only split the characters because I've made a mistake of becoming emotionally dependent on the guy who loathed my Hemwick Witch Caryll idea for "being woke and relying on dumb reused asset" and after many arguments (and passively-aggressively always addressing Caryll as 'him' when I was saying 'them' to include any interpretation in the convo) I've given in -_-" I blame my own spineless attitude and this alone. I just didn't think creative disagreements were worth conflicts and friendship, but we've split in the end anyways and it's been over a year.. But only recently my mind started to do actual movements towards uprooting every pain and fear he left to me, and undoing creative changes brought by him was a part of it. Like I also originally had my own vision of Damian, but "corrected" him to attune to his better, and recently I start to backtrack to my OWN look at the character.

I don't feel like nuking the redhead-Caryll out of existence second time tbh :/ After everything I've put the character through, I think he deserves to exist SOMEhow, even if just a Cainhurst OC. (heck, all portraits were STILL done in the same style! ONE person drew them, lorevice!) Besides, having either a Choir OC or a Cainhurst OC is a proper Bloodborne experience 101 fshfhds I'd finally fill the gap XD Also don't mind my autistic ass speaking of characters like they have feelings fdshhdds I also don't think drawings including this version are "wasted" too. They still fit into the pool of 'content of Runesmith Caryll' and it will remain so, especially since witch of Hemwick version is a theory rather than something stated. I guess I just need to do it for my own sake... I've been doing many things this winter to uproot everything. Losing that relationship was like cutting the tree that grew, but roots are still in the earth and now rotting, so I need to go further I guess.

[choiraugur]

For doodle requests, how about a Caryll? If you don't have your design for Caryll yet, the Byrgenwerth Gatekeeper x)

my caryll design feels almost embarrassing to share bc of how self indulgent it is... i love caryll so much there is no lore significance to this design at all they are just my little silly thing (i use it/they pronouns + hc them as agender also. really I’m having a blast with caryll from bloodborne my oc) this doodle is from the not so terrible byrgenwerth days

[fareehaandspaniards]

I want to put all the guys here in good resolution and also resave them hehe

[fantomette22]

- I think i don’t see well anymore…

- CARYLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!! Noooooooooo!!!!!

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And that’s how Caryll became blind… and even more enlighten💀 Be the host of a great one parasite... what a great idea… No they’re not gonna turn into a fish i swear it!

* yeah so hm i imagined that at some point Maria did stole the remains of the orphan to burry him back to the hamlet 💀 that’s why… (that's a story for later but that's when she abandoned her Rakuyo too! And officially quit being a hunter. She got into trouble too...)

[subzeroparade]

woe! rarepair be upon ye a lil doodle of my Byrgenwerth-era Caryll/Rom.

Caryll is a linguist, and a foreigner; Rom is a Yharnamite historian.

[galaxirin]

Rom and Caryll are next!