#skaliriens

[askloyaltywings]

doing a style test here because u only live once and lifes been tough. what if instead of putting off my personal story production i said " fuck it we ball " and just. like. went for it

if you've seen these characters on the blog before hai nice to see you i hand u a veterans discount

[themindofiris]

My part of an art trade with @askloyaltywings ! This is their character, Takashi Hexto.

[splashpaws]

Sorry I haven' been posting much!! So here's some edgy Kotra Doodles-

[skaliriens]

I just gotta ramble about my story for a second oh man

Sorry had a moment where i just needed to type things out cause i was planning things with my story and i love my kids so much but i don’t have enough posted about them on tumblr so no one understands what their about rly

But like heres the thing right,

I’ve been working with the skaliriens for ages right. I only started altering and working with the other empires history and development recently but i’m really proud with what i’ve done!

I’ve grown to be more invested with Takashis story then Kotras.

Because sure saving your own empire and rebuilding the empire from the ground up is all fine and dandy. “ and it also develops the characters from the first ark in to who they are going in to Takashis story “

But Takashis story isn’t solely about the Skaliriens!

Takashi starts off as a restless young boy who just wants to go on an adventure, Due to the broken state of the empire he was born into he didn’t exactly understand or see the appeal that both Kotra and Chioke had for their kingdom. Chioke and Kotra fought long and hard to save the kingdom and they themselves were unable to understand why their son would be so reluctant to rule over it.

In the background of all this, “ hinted out in the first ark, since the reason the Skaliriens were able to win the war was because of the Valkyrian forces being struck by some unknown second force “

There are reports of strange epidemics popping up amongst the kingdom. Not just confined to the floating islands but all around the world as well.

Takashi who is often left to entertain himself with books since he is not allowed to leave the islands begins to uncover old totems and legends about the Virus. Thousands of years ago when the empires were young this very sickness rose up and threatened all life on its surface.

The guardians have been going around to multiple young aspiring adventures, attempting to motivate the people of larthar to fight and rally the empires together to combat the sickness. Perhaps finding a permanent way to rid the world of the sickness seeing that their efforts before did not work.

Takashi is one of the people chosen for this mission and along the way he Meets Lucius” Fallen “ Who is a Solace. But just like him he is nervous, not ready to take on the responsibilities of being a Cheifrian to his people.

Latter on they also meet Edgar, who at first is very loud, and aggressive towards them but after finding out what their quest was grows a lot closer to them

Takashis biggest motivation was to at first save his mother, who when he last saw her was going through the early symptoms of the sickness. But latter on Passes away. Turning his motivation to avenging her

Edgar had noticed something off with his own mother

“ The Baron empress had casted a law several years ago. She was unable to have any eggs of her own so she made a rather selfish law. Having all eggs laid in the territories sent to her to be raised and hatched. This enforces a strengthened relationship between all of the Barons. Everyone is family and all hail and serve their Mother. Eagerly craving her attention and approval. “

Edgar is no different than the average Baron, he is just as jealous and attention craving as any other but his role as a personal guard allows him to be closest to his Mother. He notices her growing more frail and sick over time. But suddenly just like nothing happened she was well again. Of course similar effects began to fall over the barons. And Mother had become more aggressive and commanding.

The three eventually find out she is being used a Virus proxy. When someone is infected and passes away if their strength and abilities are useful to the sickness they become scouts or stronger members of the infection tasked with replacing the original person they had killed and infected and infecting those around them.

Edgar and Takashi originally hate each other, both being raised to hate each other due to the wars between both of their empires but after the Baron empress is defeated the two have an unfortunate similarity,

Edgar is torn open after aiding Takashi and Fallen kill the empress. Sure his sister had shown to be the next chosen heir to the Baron throne and she could possibly undo what the Previous empress had down to break the empire. But his mother's damage on him still remained.

Takashi and Edgar are the only two in the group who have had major family loses due to the sickness. Though its an unfortunate connection it's enough to have the two forget their differences and makes them grow closer “ I’m sorry my beautiful boys it had to be done “

Fallen feels nervous and different from the two, He was lucky enough to not lose anyone. He could see the pain both Takashi and Edgar shared and he felt powerless to do anything to help them, since he couldn’t relate. He would feel ashamed if he even tried to relate with that kind of pain.

I know it might be a cheesy story about three characters from different walks of life who at the start know nothing about each other and their culture, even hating each other but learning about each other and growing closer as friend while the world's ending behind them but i’m really Happy with the word and the characters I’ve made!! Like!! I’ve been watching them grow up and i love it!!

I’m like invested in whats going to happen to them, I feel proud whenever i see them succeed or take a huge step forward in their story towards their goal and like FUCK i love my characters a lot and i have so much god damn shit on them that i can never really explain or get all down in one sitting or conversation but god dammit one day I hope i can make an animation, a movie a show or a comic series. A webcomic or something with this story. I hope all the work i put into it is enough for people to at least check it out. Tell their friends about it. I wanna see people guessing to see what’ll happen next. Maybe coming up with head canons or theories that i didn’t even think of but it makes sense!

And i say all this shit as if i have like enough stuff out there on my characters but nope

Its all stuck in my head

And god dammit it i don’t wanna burn myself out with this i’ve had these characters for so damn long and i’m so god dang proud of my babies

[askloyaltywings]

im posting for mYSELF !!! i miss posting often and u know what thats okay schools been hard. but doodling takashi like this reminded me of when i was in highschool and i would just doodle ... mindlessly... it was nice to just doodle and not try to draw anything big and fancy

[askloyaltywings]

After 4 years !!! The map of Larthar got a MUCH NEEDED !!  update ! I’ve been working on this for the past few weeks and i’m SO HAPPY WITH THE END RESULT !! 

I care a lot about my personal little story.. just, so much and I’ve been wanting to share small glimpses of it here and there ! I’ve been really hush hush and on the down low for the most part because i do want to publish content with this world like seriously.. But I’ve included some information about some of the locations !

To show how long i was working on this heres the old map from 2016

And i’m pretty sure this is a map from anywhere between 2013 to 2014 so if you remember this one you get a veterans discount

[askloyaltywings]

saw this floating around and i didn’t want to spend tooo much time on it so i kinda rushed it..

[askloyaltywings]

Was feeling rusty and really just wanted to colour and paint a complicated design for fun was doing some explorations with my character Larthar ! the lava haired gal is still here just a past incarnation of her ! was exploring a new colour palet and comparing it to the old one

[askloyaltywings]

i havent drawn my son In a while and i think i need to..... adjust his colours a little bit

[askloyaltywings]

The original poster girl of the blog.... she’s grown up alot

[askloyaltywings]

I NEEEEEED TO DRAW CHIOKE MORE OFTEN hes so pretty any who... i’ve imagined skalirien magic looking like long threads that they weave in to stronger spells but i’ve never actually..... drawn their magic like that so i tried to remedy that

[askloyaltywings]

Its art fight time ! and that means !! REFRENCE UPDATING !!! i didn’t give my sweet purple boy any love this year and this was an attempt to remedy that ! I’m dusting off his story and freshing it up ! letting go of and adding new things i was two afraid to because of nostalgia

[askloyaltywings]

This just in folks, despite the amount of times i’ve updated and tuned the skaliriens story. i doubt anyone would remember this. But Kotra’s ‘ evil ‘ purple coat is still alive ... i don’t know if its because i genuinely can’t think of anything better. but in my head this girl even in death, towards her horrible undeath STILL is wearing this dumb cloak.

But any who,,, Plague Kotra! thought it was fitting cause its spooky season.

also thanks tumblr for ruing the quality... i’m getting back in to digital art sloowly,, maybe i’ll stop just drawing one character,,, standing

[askloyaltywings]

LOL I TOTALLY FORGOT I COULD HAVE POSTED THIS,,, I THINK I WANTED TO ADD MORE BUT UH/... WHOOPS... SOMETIMES I GO ALL OUT FOR REFS AND SOMETIME I ... DON’T ...

[askloyaltywings]

Fixed their colours !!! its not a lot but its something !!

i might draw them some more since i’ve been working on some tertiary and side characters for the Skalirien story.,,,

[askloyaltywings]

heyo!!! sorry for the lack of art !!! have .... a character design i’m working on ...