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Rome wasn’t burned in a day.

hey look I did digital art (shh pay no heed to the stock photos)

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The Bounty Syndicate Tidbits

So here is the group of fantasy characters I made to satisfy my creative OC-making urges while making the pirate crew.

The Syndicate itself is a large web of alliances and partnerships between bounty hunters and regular citizens or wanderers or adventurers who became friends or informers for the hunters. The actual group of bounty hunters at the center of the syndicate, to which the name is usually attributed, is fairly small for the ground they cover. The syndicate disbanded as Roielt, its informal leader, set off on her own personal mission refusing the help of the other bounty hunters for the most part. Several former members have since passed away, and others returned to their old lives or adapted versions of their old lives. They wait. (WIP post).

Roielt Rivenhallow: Informal, respective leader of the Syndicate. She is of the Sa'iyr race, and through her personal mission’s wear and tear, and time, her facade has deteriorated to a macabre, gnarled appearance quite useful for frightening others. She is a falconer, but the bird that she chose and bonded with is an Arur Vulture (basically a bearded vulture). She has an older brother and a younger sister, and weak relationships with them.

Deaxis: A close friend to Roielt. She is a shapeshifter of sorts, who chooses to take on a more humanlike appearance (species a work in progress). She is much stronger and denser than she looks, and prefers to attack from the back of a big beast who technically is actually Roielt’s pet.

Voronin and Xena Wintervellen: Voronin was once the friend who completed the iconic bounty hunter trio at the head of the Syndicate (alongside Roielt and Deaxis). After it disbanded leaving him unfulfilled and aimless, he settled down for a short while and had a daughter he and his wife named Xena. It is in Lycaentes culture not to baby their children and to, instead, teach them a trade and common skills. Thus, Voronin continued bounty hunting, with a young apprentice at his side, despite his wife’s worries.

Serj Rivenhallow: Roielt’s older brother, slightly estranged, especially after the Syndicate disbanded. He tries to hold nothing against her, and is grateful that at least he was able to get more into reconnaissance and assassinations. He only wishes there was someone to settle down with.

Urien: His relationship with the material world is foggy. (His brief relationships with Baruska and Deaxis are also foggy). Not fully corporeal, he is often held in the material realm by a shifting source (if he’s weak, usually it’s some part of his skeleton that remains physical, like his skull or ribs). He manages a strong connection to hard light materials, and enjoys boxing. He grew particularly fond of underground fighting rings once the Syndicate disbanded and he no longer had people to help.

Baruska Lignsilva: A very uppity Sylphet, who took a liking to technology and used it to build herself a pair of wings to fly. She also enjoys dual wielding, and medicine practices, which she angles towards poisons and rescuing her friends. Since the disbanding, she’s lost herself in the clouds.

Leocadia Ark: A particularly gifted human in that she’s mastered magics, especially runes and flames. Though from the pacifistic nation of Abatwa, she joined the Syndicate initially when she was still a teenager, after losing her own family, not expecting to find another. When they disbanded, she continued to check up on everyone, and meanwhile took a liking to law enforcement.

Somerset Coleor: An unusually peaceful Xoukhos, he started out as a shepherd with three Angiaks he once found as pups in a storm and hand raised. Though he enjoys that peaceful life and was originally an informer for the Syndicate, he found a comfortable niche among the bounty hunters after a near-death experience and the loss of all his livestock. When they disbanded, he became a sort of adventurer.

Taurhin Rivenhallow: Roielt’s younger sister and originally one of the hunters. Through unfortunate circumstances caused by her sister, she was left with one eye, scars, and broken horns (she now grinds them down and wears a mask and goggles). She then resigned to the role of an informer at Serj’s insistence, and quickly became a handyman and wandering mercenary as the Syndicate disbanded.

The Angiaks, Barghest, Fyglia, and Kul: Though their species is quite known for trickery, haunting raids, and a general aversion to non-angiaks, these three bonded strongly with Somerset after he rescued them from a storm as pups. They still tend to revel in tricks on humanoid races and other animals, but they show only love and obedience to Somerset and even like to include him in their play, as if he were more their parent.

Virikas: A large lonesome beast Roielt once found severely wounded in the forested mountains. She saved his life and went on her way but he followed her to camp and stayed with the hunters for as long as they allowed. Roielt soon took him as a pack animal and a mount, loaning him to Deaxis now and then, but after disbanding the Syndicate, she gave him to her dear friend Deaxis as a gift before disappearing.

Bear: An Urisk who, with its mother, approached the hunter camp once upon a time due to Urisk habits of seeking out companionship, and was cute enough that they allowed it to stay. They took it with them as they traveled and it liked sleeping in Deaxis’ lap the most so she kept it and named it Bear.

Hellebore Mokhir-juri: He is the wayward son of a vishapin Duke in a long line of “knights” of the vishapin dominion. Known to other languages as dragons, the vishapin people are old guardians of the land who prefer to stay hidden or high above the ground. The Mokhir-juri line is a family of mostly blind and venom-spitting dragons who prefer to live in caves and water sources. Hellebore decided this life was not for him, and using vishapin resources to glamour himself to appear bipedal and stand as short as “common people”, he became a travelling healer, offering his services and knowledge to those in need instead of standing by selfishly as his people do.

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Inktober Day 4: Underwater The wreckage of the Avalon that killed six beloved crew members, wounded five more, and nearly drowned the Captain.

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To be a man who regrets? Or a monster who forgets?

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The Avalon Tidbits

(Because the amount of information I’ve been gathering on these guys is starting to pile up and I need to remember it. Will fill it out and reblog whenever new info is added.)

In parentheses are ranks, full names, semi-nicknames, and aliases used. “A.B.S.” just means “able bodied sailor” and is used for those who regularly switch roles around the ship.

Captain Lucky: (real name: Benjamin, unknown last name; has three aliases used: Roneden Conmuir, Jain Kysely, and Accian Sevik)

Quartermaster Stranger: (essentially first mate; real name: Gael Grons, keeps last name secret; uses aliases: Corvos Kysely,)

Chief Engineer/Boatswain Hemlock: (last name: Bauer; also responds to “drunkard” when called, alias: Locke Bauer)

Steward Errol: (Last name: Saffeh; uses no aliases)

Medic Mak: (last name: Vidal; no aliases)

Chief Gunner Garrick: (last name: Lewis; one alias: Garrison Lewis)

Chief Rigger Atoria: (also ship’s cook; her name isn’t said in public, no aliases needed; responds to “Rasoiya” which is “the cook” in Hindi)

Nenno/Nen: (best gunner; last name: Osiris; one alias: Jerem Voronin)

Darrow: (senior gunner under Garrick, last name: Maekel)

Firion/Fi/Firi: (gunner, last name: Kir)

Ferro: (rigger, last name: Kir)

Raewyn/Rae: (rigger, last name: Bauer; alias: Reina Bauer)

Rusty: (ABS, real name: Andreo, no last name given)

Finn: (ABS, best swimmer, full name: Finnigan Vervain)

Hato: (ABS, last name: Ruso)

Ignatius/Iggy: (ABS, last name: Esposito)

Sisk: (ABS, real name: Siskin James)

Love: (ABS, real name: Javikan Lovell)

Orion: (ABS, full name: Tal Orion)

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Putting a bit of effort into some busts of my new pirate characters. Because they are Libera and their features are anatomical rules (not style choices like when drawing anthros/furries), I had to reference my older drawing of Saker in which I’d decided on Libera facial anatomy.

I’m still having trouble consistently getting the jaw and skull shapes correct, though. Several years of work on their design and you’d think I’d be able to do that by now.

Lucky, Gael Grons (a descendant of Saker or Saker’s siblings), and Atoria are Wolfen Libera with their genes based in timber and Arctic wolves. Hemlock and his daughter (the unfinished circle sketch) are Felid Libera, of a line with snow leopard based genes. Garrick is also a Felid, but with his ancestry in mountain lion based genes.

I have yet to decide the types of most of the other crew members and I do plan on drawing their busts too, as soon as I figure out their appearances and clothing.

So far, though, Errol the steward was of spectacled bear descent (an Ursal Libera), Ferro may be of Iberian wolf genes, and Andreo (aka Rusty) is an AI robot, not a Libera.

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Cassius KYMBEL 0113 tidbits

KYMBEL 0113 is not part of this boy's name but it is part of what he is. Cassius is a stray dog trapped in the body of a mislabeled Kymbel bot via an unfortunate accident.... of sorts. He's a sweet boy who's just very confused and it's the future where bots are industrialized and weaponized for ease of human tasks, except the company making them has been using questionable methods for most things they do. He wants his life back in a world where it was probably terrible anyways, and he needs help.

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Incoming#SelowvOCs posts

I had a bunch of tag your OC posts saved in my likes to do them later so... I'm gonna do them Also maybe gonna update some Tidbits collection posts too

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Teil [Thel] tidbits

Teil (pronounced like Thel if we go by English pronunciation spelling rules) is the main character in a completely separate sci-fi-ish story. He's one of the creatures I call Zaolvia (add a 'u' to the end for plural) that live on the planet Sepevio. Zaolviau are fairly intelligent with their own language and a kind of religion/history told through stories. Teil is from a small-ish tundra island where everyone mainly keeps to themselves and never fight unless their lives or their cubs are endangered. In the mainlands, Teil learns about war and spilling blood. He happens to be one of the fastest Zaolviau around, very lean, and clever in a fight but that don't mean he enjoys it. Or does he?

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Saker Grons tidbits

Saker is by far my favorite child (I mean if I called them my babies which I don’t…maybe) and like I said Jockey’s like the oldest kid, Saker is the equivalent of the favorite youngest of the family. He was young and reckless and power hungry like his pops. As a pup, he was traumatized and fearful and bullied for being different until he learned through battle that fear and intimidation made a better life for himself… That is, until he was smacked around by his now best friend, Justin Tanrel, and was taught of mistakes and forgiveness and what it meant to lead. He along with Justin and Jockey make up my oldest main OCs and my warlord trio, though war follows them and their descendants for decades to come.

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"Jockey" Stilshine tidbits

Jockey is like the oldest kid of the family. He was technically my first OC, made in like 2nd grade, but there’s been a shit ton of revising and changes since then. He’s essentially a kind of cyborg prototype made by certain parties I won’t name, and he’s the leader of a group of a couple hundred others. I say he’s like the oldest kid because that’s p much how I regard him and how him and my other two bbs (Justin and Saker) interact with each other, though he keeps his distance and isn’t quite in charge (probably more like the adopted older brother). Jockey is a nickname this guy has had since he was a pup, and only maybe six other Libera know his real name.

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Justin Tanrel tidbits

First off, the Tanrel line and so many of my other characters belong to the Libera species created by Dr. Marie T. Joakim. Most Libera have ancestry in normal non-extinct (at the time) animals like wolves and lions, but the Tanrel line is special in that they were born from an extinct animal that Marie had essentially recreated: the saber toothed tiger. Now hold up, that creation was never the exact same as nature’s original, but Marie took a liking to them and they were the first of her Initium and Libera species to exist.

Justin Tanrel is a warlord of sorts leading hundreds of Libera warriors in what could be considered an army if you didnt care much about the organization and neatness. At some point he eventually led his group alongside Jockey Stilshine’s, Saker Grons’s, and a few other large groups.