I volunteer at two libraries. I sort donations and stock them in the bookstore at one, and I play D&D with the teens in the basement at the other. Libraries are amazing.
🐺It's My Werewolf Girlfriend's 1 Year Anniversary!🍰🎊
In light of this, I wanted to redraw the first time I ever drew Cinna and Fleur together, WAAAAY back in 2015 when they were both still Dragon Age OCs.
Thank y'all so much for reading MWG! It's truly a dream to get to work on this comic full time!
This is the guiding NPC and their partner for my current DND campaign.
More information below.
I found the past pose on Pinterest, but there was no credit to the original artist, so if anyone recognizes it can you let me know who drew it? I feel bad for not being able to credit them.
In my campaign(as the Dm) Minty, the teal haired colored one with iridescent-ish wings, is the main NPC I voice, the campaign revolves around good bit around them. Riddle, Minty’s partner, is corrupted in the campaign; as a villain took her wings. The drawing is of them before the events of my campaign, when they were able to be together.
Minty: Rain fae. They/them/he
Riddle: Spanish lunar moth fae. She/her
I want to clarify real quick: Minty’s clothes aren’t actual fae wings, just patterned fabric
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(Due to spoilers for Virgil's personal quest [up until you first visit Caladon], the rest of the audio and transcriptions + Hall of Records follow-up will be beneath the cut)
Virgil: "Oh…I'm sorry…I, uh…I had something to do, here. I'm ready to go when you are…"
Living One: "Virgil…what are you doing here? Whose grave is this?" | "Uh…Virgil…what you dong here…?"
Virgil: "Nothing…I…" [He lowers his head.] "This is...someone I used to know. Many years ago…I…just thought I should stop by and pay my respects…"
Living One: "Lawrence Brummond…? Was he a friend of yours?" | "Uh…Lo-re-nc-ce Br-r-um-m-ond? Who that…?"
Virgil: "Lawrence was my…uh…my friend. We grew up together. In Tarant, actually. Our, uh, families…moved to Caladon when we were older. He died in an…accident." [He struggles with the words.] "A terrible accident…."
Living One: "What happened?" | "Whut happen…?"
Virgil: "I don't want to talk about it. Please…let's just be on our way…"
Living One: "Fine. Let's go…" | "Okay…"
Virgil: "I'm sorry…I…well, forget it…"
Living One: "Why don't you just tell me, Virgil…" | "Whut going on, Virgil…?"
Virgil: "Perhaps another time…"
After the cemetery scene, you can then visit the Hall of Records in Tarant and ask the clerk about Lawrence Brummond. She will hand you this newspaper (transcription here). If Virgil is in the party, he will have the following reaction...
Virgil: "I suppose you're wondering what the newspaper is all about…"
Living One: "Virgil…what is this all about?" | "Uh…what this about?"
Virgil: "Lawrence Brummond…he was…was my brother." [Virgil looks away, pain evident in his eyes.] "I told you that he'd been in an accident. Well, you see the kind of accident it was…"
Living One: "He was murdered, Virgil! What happened to him…?" | "Somebody kill him! What happun Virgil?"
Virgil: "I…uh…look, I just don't want to talk about it, anymore! It was so long ago…I've buried those ghosts. I don't want to let them out again…"
Living One: "Listen, Virgil…you can tell me…" | "You can tell me stuff, Virgil!"
Virgil: "No! I don't want to speak of it ever again! Just leave me alone!"
Living One: "Fine, Virgil. Let's go…" | "Okay, Virgil…"
Virgil: [Whispering.] "I'm sorry, Lawrence. I'm so, so sorry…"
Arronax: "Most certainly. I have had two thousand years of my grievous errors in judgment replaying themselves in my mind. One tends to grow a bit of a conscience in all that time."
Z'an Al'urin: "'Grevious errors in judgement…' That's what you call the horror that you visited upon Vendigroth? Upon all of Arcanum?"
Arronax: "Hmmm. Hello. Aren't you just a smarmy young lady. Tell me, just who are you, madam…?"
Z'an Al'urin: "I am Z'an Al'urin of the Dark Elves, Arronax. The Dark Elves who have worshipped you, despite your defeat at the Ring of Brodgar. Seeing you here in this prison, it seems that little has changed. Great Arronax, the eternally vanquished…"
Arronax: "I'll disregard your comments for now, young woman. You seem rather bitter towards me, and I suppose you have good reason…"
Z'an Al'urin: "Good reason! Do you have any idea what your bravado did to our world? To my people? My whole life, I have been taught that the elves are somehow better than the other races. Great evil has been done because YOU taught us to think this way! And that is wrong, Arronax. Terribly, terribly wrong, Because of you, there's not a day that goes by that I don't curse the blood in my veins…"
Arronax: [Arronax sighs, softening.] "Listen, child. If there was a way I could travel back to those days and change them, I would. You've no idea how sorry I am that things have turned out this way. But I can tell you this…it is not the blood in your veins that makes you, its the heart that it travels through…remember that…"
Z'an Al'urin: [Resigned.] "You know, there's only one reason I am here. When my visions showed me what was to come, I saw a way to right all of the wrongs that have been done by my people. I came here to kill you Arronax. I could not longer live with the shared guilt of the Dark Elves, and your death seemed the only way to make things right…"
Arronax: "And now, child? Do you still feel that way? I can tell you this…once this is all over, you can have your chance. That is, if I can manage to get out of this bloody shell…"
Z'an Al'urin: "No…I don't think that is the way. I have no reason to blame you for the evil of another. And, more, importantly, you've shown me that I have no reason to blame myself." [She closes her eyes.] "And I see you Arronax…sitting in an old elven grove, and bathed in sunlight. And you are free, Arronax, you are finally free…"
Arronax: "An interesting vision, child. Let us hope you are as clairvoyant as you are outspoken."
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