Whoa! Ray's Worldbuilding

Ray's worldbuilding blog! For the high-fantasy world of Aanrah! The baseline of the blog and WorldAnvil are still a WIP, but the plan is to have at least weekly anthology chapters and art!

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Welcome!

This blog is a side account of @heart-of-vecna for my world Aanrah - a largely high fantasy setting I plant to try to do a anthology of stories for. As of current, my plan is to likely just post online as I know publishing is, you know, not easy. My plan is to work on a Patreon in the future and ramp up in doing this regularly, but for now we are in the setting up / WIP stage!

Aanrah is a world where deities are frequent and active parts of the lives of mortals, and as the millennia pass mortals and divine come to odds as mortals gain more control and understanding of magic and, with that, more power. 

As of current, it is planned to be high fantasy with some low tech (see: basic trains) and a lot of romance / probably romantasy tropes. There will certainly be 18+ content, including NSFW writing and art (all of which will be tagged appropriately or posted elsewhere).

My WorldAnvil for this world is currently UNDER CONSTRUCTION!

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Two more deities -

Left: Criuchaer, oemeo God of Arrogance, Pride, & Disobedience

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Right: Sioa Angdóisa, lanncám God of Music, Storytelling, & Bards

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Emrul, the 'True' god of Magic, Spells, Arcane Knowledge, & Mages. He is the creator of the system in which magic works off of on Aanrah, which originally prevented learned magic from being widely available. Since his slip up with a mortal king that caused what is known as 'mortal magic' to be available to anyone, Emrul has reluctantly stepped up in trying to choral mortalkind into you know. Not destroying themselves or the gods.

He's not doing a great job.

While he normally appears as a not-quite-correct humanoid, his 'true form' as a n'ghftu is a writhing mass of darkness and devoured stars.

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Did some thumbnailing for artwork for here, decided to give gradient map painting a go with this one! It was fun, and I have a lot to still understand with this, and BOY I forgot how fast I grow bored of rendering but!

Xutlātl, the intermediate god of Ascendance, Ambition, and Sought Power! He was originally a ordthay (human) who wanted to understand the way in which xeith ('demon') True Names work, and then attempted to give himself one - turning himself into this monstrous xeith-like beast. His body is extremely long and consists of lengths of 'torso' with arms - like a centipede. It winds through the submerged volcanic tunnels of the mountain he resides in, and he's not even sure where it ends! Just that somewhere in there, he's stuck, so he's not actually able to leave his mountain domain.

Xutlātl rules over his followers from the Ascendant's Spire as a king and as a god, and is one of the few deities that either cannot shift to a divine plane, or cannot pull his divine plane away from the material of Aanrah itself.

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At long last, the base art for (almost) the races of Aanrah! Excluded are one very localized, tiny population species that I'm not quite settled in design for yet that I'm frankly in no rush to design, and the two hyper diverse races of the n'ghftu and 'monsters', who are just so disparate in look and size from each other that I'm not 100% sure how to represent them for the chart. I'll have to post individual posts for each race at some point, maybe after I get their clothed versions done!

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Okay I need to just like. Queue up some thoughts over here to get this blog rolling more then just 'I finished a art.'

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Not what I meant to be doing today but! Another shot at Kht'oth, the N'ghftu Elder God of Light, Spectrum, Energy, Movement, & Precipices.

The first to arrive to the well of power where Aanrah would eventually be made, Kht'oth is a incredibly ancient eldritch being who's seen the rise and fall of many worlds. Though he was convinced not to consume the power and allow a world to be made out of it, Kht'oth assumed he would care little about the inhabitants of Aanrah - as he had with previous worlds. Alas, a human sacrifice opened the door to the world of Feelings for a few brief and fleeing years, and now Kht'oth is a brooding, ticking timebomb, one mild inconvenience away from ending Aanrah once and for all for hurting him.

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Trying to decide how I want to do art for characters for WA articles going forward - kinda thinking of just doing whatever vibes with them instead of trying to force them all in one style. Two I've messed around with - not settled on either piece, but!

Left - Kht'oth, the N'ghftu ('Eldritch Monstrosity') Elder God of Light, Spectrum, Energy, Movement, & Precipices - A bismuth and opaline skeleton light construct that is one hair trigger away from deciding it's Over for Aanrah

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Right - Raisa, the Nuríian ('Unseelie' Fae) Intermediate God of Medicine, Restoration, & Resurrection - A very old ascended mortal fae who is very much sound of mind and body, does not have a complicated relationship with the Twilight King, and is definitely not doing modern-day drugs he's stolen from other planes.

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Been frustrated so I was jumping around but we have a kīaezxīātl (left, ie 'endbringer') of the six-legged quadrupedal form!

I need to remember to just start posting thoughts here too hhh

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The yamahaeyuyud (dark elves) are done! Primarily residents of Aanrah's underground the yamahaeyuyud were originally shéngǒnshān (moon elves) belonging to the first moon, Gǒngbě. When the moon was destroyed, the newly-created god Oreik saved as many of the moon's residents as he could, who took to treating him as their patron. They were changed to their current form by Oreik to honor him and distance themselves from their original culture, although its influence is still obvious!

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First two sets of art for my various races! The Nuríians (left, the "twilight fae") and the Nymauti. Messing with new brushes so it'sssss a lot of learning. Might redo the Nuríian woman...

(uncensored art for the Nymauti can be found on my BlueSky)

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Uuu working working working. Finally getting around to drawing all my races, and Szaifudrus getting a facelift.

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A piece of art for stub articles that I put next to a stub article summary to work as a hold over until I can flesh it out more. Featuring Sioa Angdóisa (right, wood elf) and Lurga'bundell Book-Bringer (left, gnome), a pair of once-mortal gods associated with history!

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Realizing all my old stuff had ttrpg tags but now I’m not actually aiming to make a campaign and just do writing instead. I’ll have to figure out new tags to use too

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And it's done! I need to find somewhere else to also use the title because I put too much detail into shit I knew wasn't going to be visible whoops.

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Working on banner stuff! My plan is to try to at least post a chapter a week of sort of anthology-ish work + hopefully more artwork so! At least that will be a start to getting things done. At some point I'll clean up the backlog here and spruce this up but! Also, post my current and I swear to god final WorldAnvil link for this world :"U

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OKAY I am. Doing what I SWEAR will be my last huge overhaul, and then I want to really start to focus on this seriously. It's becoming my focus project while I'm still recovering from surgery and figuring life out. Hopefully stuff will start being posted on here soon, as well as a link to the WorldAnvil page.