#ziren starliez

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Just some quick sketches of my character. I don’t tend to like sketching digitally, but I like how these turned out. May or may not clean them up and color them.

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Major Characters

Records of a Forgetful Deity: Lost Legends

Left to Right:

Ziren, Riden, Liluna, Pheal, Chiron, Emeira, Nephris, Juliang, Topese

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Litheliun Main Characters

Ziren Starliez - Legally known as Zirec Nascal and publicly known as Tsuor Phoslane. He is a rare Lithe formed of two gemstones, the secondary Zircon and the deity birthstone Turquoise. His mother was a Spiritual Lumina while his father was a Human Terram. He was given to the late May Deity Meric Ozciti but was named by Pheal Nascal. His official name was given to him by Diamante Herois upon his 10th Age when he was moved to Ashueall. It was plain and boring and the people were stuff, so Ziren got sick of the place quickly. He tends to run away from his problems, so he escaped to Earaat under the guise of a travelling apothecary/mercenary. He met Riden early on and was stuck with him for the remainder of his life. Litheliun starts when the two are forced apart. He’s in his 20th age. He doesn’t really know Riden’s age but he registered him as an age younger based on appearance. Like most Terram hybrids, his taste buds process virtually everything as disgusting except for Vanilla Cake. Ziren is also the Wind Catalyst.

Riden Olivyon - He was given the name Riden by Topese Zolum who found him shortly after he was reborn from the infamous Peridot Music Box. He was given his surname by Ziren when they met after his amnesia set in. Riden himself is a sort of reincarnation of the fallen warlord and August Deity Reidoux Youthly of the Millennia War and brought about the Era of Silence when her soul was locked in the Music Box. Riden, to a degree, is Reidoux. He lost his voice after being hit with a permanent silencing charm while running from the authorities. He lost his memories when Ziren dumped him in a desert wasteland with no way out. Funnily enough, Ziren picked him up again a year later out of guilt. Reidoux was resurrected from the music box by the radical group Leia by the sacrificed August Deity at the time who was just a child (hence why he was resurrected as a young boy). Riden is a Caliga-Terram hybrid. As such, the only food he can eat is Vanilla Icecream. Riden has an affinity to mind magic and light magic.

Reidoux Youthly - Reidoux was born to an Ingenes father and a Werefolk mother. At a young age, her hometown was set on fire and it’s assumed that both of her parents died. She was raised by her father’s brother alongside her cousin. It wasn’t until her uncle was murdered did she begin gathering followers to fight against the radical government. She was an August Deity (specifically Peridot) and a rare type of Catalyst that controlled both Mind and Sound. Unfortunately, she lost her life but did manage to succeed in her goals using her death. She was in her 29th age. Riden, with Reidoux’s memories, is the antagonist of Litheliun while Riden without her memories is simply a deuteragonist.

Daniel - There’s not really much to say about him except that he was born to an Elvessia father and Morphin mother. He was the August Deity but his specific birthstone was Sardonyx. His family was sort of murdered before him and he was kidnapped by the organization that sacrificed. He was in his 5th age. He had a very controlled affinity with Light magic.

Pheal Nascal - They appear to be of an ambiguous age, but he is in his 29th age. They are the third eldest of the Deities, a few ages older than Marianne Sessa. Pheal is an Agqua originating from somewhere near the Spirit Continents but his general background is shrouded in mystery. He’s the June Deity (specifically Pearl). Unlike most Lithes, they were born and raised in Gaiya. Shortly after reaching their 10th age, they travelled to Earaat and was brought under the wing of the May Deity of the time, Meric. They spent the rest of their teenage years in a healthy rivalry with Topese (aka TJ) and the later teenage years cooing over the toddler Zirec. When Meric passed away, Pheal became Zirec’s guardian. Pheal themself is a scientist that dabbles in many branches and a linguistic hobbyist. They gave Ziren their old lab coat and spurred on his collection of coats. They’re a jack of all trades, master of none. He does, however, specialize in creating vocal commands (spells) to more precisely channel types of magic without an affinity.

Liluna Maefield - She’s from a tribe of Undana that consists greatly of Troisida-Agqua hybrids. Hybrids are typically incapable of reproduction but there are some studies that point to a chance when procreating with hybrids of the same kind so Pheal took a liking to her almost immediately. She’s the eldest child of three daughters. As a Moonstone Lithe in her 12th age, she’s already considered an elder among her tribe and has a vast influence over them. Her siblings hold some contempt towards her so she left to travel the world. She has a sort of hero complex paired with her “destiny arrow”, so she finds herself in dangerous situations rather often. Her “destiny arrow” is how she finds herself following Ziren. She’s in her 14th age by then Like most Undana, she has an affinity for water magic but she also can tap into nature magic fairly well. As such, she’s an exceptional healer.

Chiron Hallows - She’s a black cat-type Werefolk. She outlived her parents and ended up living with her father’s younger brother and his family. Her best friend is her nephew, Charon, who looks outstandingly similar to her. Her mother’s family consists of a variety of red gemstone Lithes and her father’s of green gemstone Lithes. Unfortunately, none of her immediate relatives were Lithes, so she outlived her parents and eventually her nephew as well. Of all of the characters, she’s had the most stable life. It’s while she and Charon are guarding the East Gate that Ziren and Liluna come around. She’s in her 15th age. Chiron has an affinity for Wind magic (so she’s compatible with Ziren’s fighting style) as well as Earth magic, but her strong points lie with actual physical combat.

Jaden Young - Once known as Nephris Youthly, like 89% of the people of the time, he was a Lithe (specifically Nephrite). He had been away from his home village to discuss a potential long-term job that involved researching a cavern where water flows out like a flood with every full moon. When he went home, he found the entire village burnt to the ground. His wife, daughter, brother, and nephew were nowhere to be found. He threw himself into the research of the cavern and lost track of when the full moon occurs. He was in his 30th year. Before he knew it, the cavern turned into a crumbling room. He spent the next few months wandering the labyrinth that was connected to the room, rationing out what he had on him (which was quite a bit actually) until he was chased down by Ziren and Pheal; he managed to find an exit while running away. He spent the months after that roaming around confused and under an alias before realizing the cavern had time-warping properties that threw him millennias into the future. He felt a hint of his daughter’s magic around Ziren when they met again and decided to follow him, assuming that his daughter survived and Ziren was her descendant. Jaden is a subtype of the subrace Ingenes native to Earaat that dissolved centuries ago when the Ingenes left back to Yluores. He’s not particularly affinity gifted but he specializes in imbuing magic into objects. His favourite is a weapon deliez with fire commands.

Emeira Dallan - She’s a very rare type of hybrid: her mother was a Meriam and her father a Dremlin. Caliga-Undana hybrids are very rare. Unlike the other deities, she grew up in with a maternal and paternal figure for her entire life (although not blood related). She was named by the late September Deity who raised her alongside his partner, the late July Deity. Upon her 10th age, both had already passed away and she was passed over to Marianne and Pheal for mentorship. Both spoiled her due to the loneliness of recently losing the guardianship of Zirec. Even so, she grew up to be well-grounded, albeit temperamental. She did not, however, want to be tied down to the responsibilities of being the Queen of Oshiean, so she leaves that to Marianne while working on whatever she is required to do as the May Deity. She is in her 18th age when she is summoned by Pheal to assist in a mission regarding a resurrection of the August Deity banished at the end of the Millennium War. She has a very high affinity, very similar to a Catalyst, to Nature magic.

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Character Songs

• Ziren Starliez: “The Great Eecape” by Boys Like Girls

I actually sought out songs specifically for Ziren, so when I came across “The Great Escape” I was like “Yes! This is it!” It kinda actually describes his feelings while he was still in Ashueall and would occasionally run away before being dragged back. This song especially dictates his actions when he finally escaped for the last time.

• Anthony Slaughter, Lucas Astorme, Violet Arisen: “Secret” by The Pierces

“Secret” is actually the namesake for the entire series Anthony is from >w< My sister was really into Pretty Little Liars around the time that I was writing the original draft and I thought “Hey, this kinda lines up with my story. Secret will be it’s name.” Violet could be said to be the song’s actual narrator instead of Anthony as she struggles as the only one who actually knows the real secret since the other two have forgotten it. She’d rather keep them in the dark than have their lives crashing down around them.

• Nyt Tama, Reo Hatchet: “This Means War”

“This Means War” is basically a song about the lack of emotions that come after a breakup and that the singer would rather be angry than emotion, so that probably changes your perception of the song. I absolutely adore this specific song and I think it’s a perfect description of Nyt and Reo. I have short story that’s a general summary of their full story that’s called “Third Time’s The Charm” because of how often they get together only to breakup, with the third time being the time they assume will be the last time they see each other. Nyt actually cut the soulmate string between them, hence “I’d rather be a riot than indifferent.”

• Joseph Bryght: “Cinderblock Garden” by All Time Low

Joseph is one of the two protagonists of Game of Chase even though the narrator is Skylar. Joseph is singing this to Skylar, insistent that they could settle down and make a relationship even though Skylar is always running around looking for something. Skylar doesn’t believe they could stay together with his life the way it is even though Joseph is optimistic. Ironically, even when Skylar moves to the other side of the world after they finally start up their relationship, Joseph manages to keep each other in contact.

• Jamie Rowan: “Pompeii” by Bastille

Even though Jamie is the one I’ve listed for this song, it could actually apply to all of the main characters. It’s a song that applies to them after their tragedy ends and they’re just sitting in timelessness, pondering existence. It’s pretty straight forward.

• Avery James: “Wait For It” from Hamilton

While the song is not essential to the plot, it does fill in her character. AJ is patient, watching and waiting for the time to move. She’s always been like that. However, she is envious over how her brother Avalon is able to act on sheer spontaneity and receive better results that she does.

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Introduction To: Records

Genres: Fantasy, Adventure, Mystery

In the world of Litheliun, deities walk amongst mortals. The Divine of this world are just as human as everyone else, just far longer lived with the threads of eternity at their finger tips. They weave the tapestry of fate upon the fabric of the universe, a future of inevitability.

Records of a Forgetful Deity follows an entire timeline of events spanning approximately ten thousand years throughout multiple generations of deities and the multitude of people involved in the grand scheme of life.

The primary plots can be separated into three different eras: The Millennium War, The Lost Legends, and Eternal Life.

Lost Legends

The connecting, overarching story is the Lost Legends era as it digs into the history of the Millennium War and preludes the Eternal Life era. The story primarily follows Ziren Starliez, one of the many immortals that wander the world. There’s a lot more to him than just that, but he’s spent the past five hundred years avoiding it.

Ziren’s personal story revolves around his status as an immortal through the mistakes he’s made throughout the centuries, the consequences of his actions, and the relationships he’s made and lost. His perspective is the result of dozens of butterfly effects, whether he realizes it or not.

For the most part, his perspective is heavily influenced by the other characters. His own personal goal is to simply follow a pre-planned routine, but other characters pull him in different directions with varying degrees of benevolent to malicious intent. Whether he is dragged into his estranged family’s research or given a child or two or seven or stuck to a prophecy, Ziren’s life is constantly spiraling out of his control, and he just goes along with it.

Millennium War

The Millennium War takes place in the divine dynasty preceding the current deities. By the present day of Lost Legends, the people of the Millennium War have all passed through the veil and reincarnated into the present characters.

The Millennium War itself is viewed through the lens of history, recorded solely through journals and letters and word of mouth. It is a story being uncovered within another story because rediscovering the real events and finding lost artifacts and knowledge from the Millennium War is the main goal of many of the present day characters.

The story of the Millennium War follows the life of Reidoux Youthly, better known as the War Goddess or Evil God. Her story follows her from childhood and through the events that led to her becoming the rogue War Goddess, all the way to her death by execution. Her story is a tragedy as recounted by the people closest to her.

Eternal Life

Eternal Life’s driving plot begins a couple centuries after Ziren’s arc ends and the children divine have grown up. It’s technically later within the same era as Lost Legends.

The leading character of Eternal Life is Phiran Nascal, a young divine who just appeared out of nowhere and seems to embody the unnatural and taboo. He seems to be the only one who can properly function in the face of the Cult of Leia whereas all the other deities seem to vaporize.

Eternal Life is less character driven than the previous eras. It’s the natural disaster following the flap of a butterfly’s wings thousands of years after, so it’s very scenario driven. It also further explores the magic system of the world than the previous two eras have as the driving force of the plot is to rebalance the divine and natural cycles after they had been thrown off balance by the actions of the previous deities.

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This is a compilation of the eight main characters' descriptions and full backgrounds. I might add images some time in the near future.

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Designs over Time

Even though it says “designs”, it’s actually referring to their appearances as they age. Riden had one more design than Ziren, but I made up another design on the spot in order to even out the designs. For Ziren and Riden, their ages from left to right, are 10/9, 14/13, 19/18, 20/19, 22/21, and 25/24. Ziren is the equivalent of a year older than Riden. In actuality, it’s a 130 years.

I absolutely love drawing out the relationship between these two. Ziren and Riden as themselves have a pretty peaceful co-existence, although they both have two sides. Riden can be easygoing and passive-aggressive as a Lapid or the heated perfectionist of Reidoux. His mental stability is iffy and is similar to a split personality disorder, but not quite. As for Ziren, he actually has a minor case of ADD. Life in Ashueall is similar to the Olden Days, where disorders were treated violently. Sometimes he reverts to the way he acted in Ashueall. With Reidoux’s personality resurfacing as Riden ends his life as a Lapid, the two of them clash.

~Ashe~

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Photographs of Litheliun: Short Stories .... This is what I did in my spare time in my sketchbook during the weekend. I might... Might transfer it to digital if either Aimi or myself have the patience to trace it. But yeah. These are important photographs that took place during the first book and Eternal. The only photo that isn't is the one in the middle of the crew of the first book. ~Ashe~

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Ziren Starliez (age 9, 14, 17, 20)

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Riden and Ziren from Litheliun

I drew their placement in the little group photo I have. I’m probably going to do my other characters too. One day I’ll do them all together in color though, but I’m saving that for SAI. Also, where can I buy syringes? I need to reactivate my CG3 and CG0.5 markers since they’re drying up. Usually, if I leave them alone they start working again, but I probably won’t be able to leave them alone anytime soon. A lot of my character designs use greyscale (aka my main characters of every story).

~Ashe~

Also Speedpaint: https://youtu.be/_nHmwDq7B-g

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Despite the fact it says preview, this is actually the entirety of Chapter 1. I’m not planning on posting any other chapters until I’ve completed the fifth draft (this is currently the fourth draft). I’m open to any comments, suggestions, and questions!

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Height Chart - Litheliun MCs

I had created paper draft and was redrawing it on my computer… When my tablet stopped working. So yeah. I’m probably never going to finish it even when my cord finally arrives (IN DECEMBER), so I thought I’d post it here. The camera angle is terrible. There’s some cute things in here that you’d only get if you read my story. Which you wouldn’t have. Obviously.

~Ashe~

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The December Birth of Litheliun

Time: 4 Hours

In order, it’s Tereq of the Millennium War, Ziren/Tsuor of the Main Story, and Ziren/Zirec as a Lapid from his Short Story. I got bored and wanted to draw Tereq, okay? I couldn’t decide how to do him... So I just made this. It wasn’t supposed to be a GIF, but hey.

By the way, Tereq was Reidoux’s cousin... Although, not directly. Tereq’s half-brother is Reidoux’s cousin and they share a mom. Paulo (rei’s cousin), is related to Rei since their dad’s are twins... Yeah. SOAP OPERA, MUCH? By the way, Tereq took his stepfather’s last name.

~Ashe~

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Ziren Starliez from Litheliun

Time: 30-45 Minutes

He looks way to happy in this...

~Ashe~

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Riden and Ziren for Day 1 - Maids/Butlers

Time: Give or Take 20 Minutes

They are not enjoying this. Ziren is so much fun to draw with his bangs pulled up.

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Take One of Riden Using a Crystal Recorder from Litheliun

Time: Literally less than 6 hours.

I’m dead. I can’t sleep. I have places to be. Things to do. I AM BEING PRODUCTIVE TODAY. The actual animation will probably happen in week or so.THat will be the actual take. This is actually really terrible and I hate how the program I used didn't have the ability to adjust the length of each frame. I couldn't find a decent free program either.

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