Endimion, of the Issyl clan

This is a role play blog of my OC Endimion. Endimion's current canonical timeline starts at 5 years after last escaping from captivity. His story's canonical setting is generic high fantasy. It often overlaps with the Forgotten Realms setting of DnD. Posts may also include themes and aesthetics relevant to other OCs I have. Most of my role play happens on Discord nowadays, but feel free to ask for more info. Side blog of SpiritImmortal.

[without-ado]

Strawberry Moon l seongmo.le

[anndr]

Kio for Mor (Zanna Poyarkova)

[yanavaseva]

Commission for @baronofcaring. This specific weapon design is custom (she has several in her reference sheet).

Here's a description:

Marked by a more adventurous streak, Farseer Sparka has taken to accompany a mysterious Imperial force when she is not performing her duties to the Exodite world known to the Imperium as Draconis. If she is doing that because of the fates or because it is her whim is never answered to her unnerved human companions or the confused Kin that encounter her in the void. Many say she is corrupted by the knight she keeps by her side but none wish to say that to one of their vaunted Farseers.

[sheilkuroi]

I recently realized the Kusuriuri are all different characters (I had thought they were all the same one just with new looks). So I wanted to draw them all together. So we got Hyper & Ri, Shingo & Kon and Ken staring at his sword wondering where the F*** his sacred form is. This was a fun piece to draw and color

[without-ado]

Strawberry Moon l seongmo.le

[yanavaseva]

The Guy Not To Worry About

This guy is actually one of the players from the sword dance picture. He’s really into bladed weapon sports and historical reenactments, in part because of the advantage in hand to hand combat due to his precognitive abilities. Well, at least against opponents that don’t also have them.

Design-wise he started off as a “someone with higher socioeconomic indicators in regards to Stabri” and so he’s got some common themes to previous pictures. And to some I sketches with notes I haven't posted because I would have to organize them better for showing.

He doesn’t hold any particularly important position (evident from all his free time) but can trace his ancestry all the way to at least one person found in a textbook and several people with titles. Through millenia of selective pressure, precognition and similar abilities (such as thought sensing) have become very common among the upper classes (as they're very useful for staying in power). He seems to do everything with effortless grace.

[aurora-rph]

reblog this if you're fine with your mutuals sending you asks unprompted

[yanavaseva]

Stars above, stars below. A traditional elven sword game. Follow the music. Cut the opponent’s ribbons during the window of time when your moves aren’t mirrored.

Over the centuries the ritualized sword dances have evolved into complex performances and also given rise to an entire category of sports with significant rule differences, and their own major leagues and events. In many of those the overall style points of the performers are more important than the hits. In some variants the ribbons have inscriptions with gameplay significance, such as requiring them to be cut in a specific sequence, or a cut changes the rhythm and tune of the music so each of the opponents can try to set their preferred pace.

Wounding the opponent incurs a major penalty, so the armored costumes used in contemporary games have special dyes that change color on impact with the blade. They still retain visual callbacks to their ritualistic origins. The traditional player/team colors are green and blue. Purple is used for accents.  

Humans stumbling upon strange, smooth-surfaced, unnaturally well preserved, fractal structures in the woods usually lack the context to know that they’re open air stages for just such dances and festivals, which tend to take place at night.

(About half of the background audience in here are not my characters, included them as a bonus, so the weird little guys and the individual climbing down the column would require their own separate explanation. Also, questionable decision on my part to include onlookers in the distance in a dark night scene)

[yanavaseva]

Commission for HobbesPrime.

A pleasant morning walk near a waterfall, in Skyrim. It's pretty cold and there is snow and lots of icicles, but that's normal for the region so they aren't too bothered.

[mooreaux]

A fully rendered bust commission for @he4rt3tart ✨💙

[mynonjo]

Deamon Primarch Fulgrim ✨️

I don't have enough color to paint the figure so i painted this instead.

[yanavaseva]

I could feel myself losing sanity points while doing the background for this.

For the regular viewers of my paintings these characters will be familiar. I even included items and accessories that they've had in various older pictures but not all of them together.

But in previous pictures one would get the impression that she's a sort of haunting presence. I wanted to make one where he's consciously and deliberately interacting with her.

Well, that and also I got prompted because I got asked whether they have ever done any strange dance-like arcane rituals (oddly specific question but I liked it).

So the new items here reflect a more occult context. The body chains are more of a playful nod to the idea of arcane binding since clearly they do not actually impede anyone. The chain around her neck would be more substantial if she didn't trust he wouldn't misuse it (it's a callback to an older one where it was on him but she didn't look humanoid in that picture).

I might have mentioned it in an older picture but her prismatic wings can refract not just light but other types of waves too, so this was my reasoning behind sometimes having a ripple appearance on objects in the environment.

The new elements like the talon gauntlets/jewellery have bits of similar shape to the centerpiece of her crown, he's wearing these because it synchronizes their appearance.

Ah, and I imagined that she's always had a resemblance to statues like the ones in the background (and can camouflage among them to pretend to be one during the day) but I hadn't drawn and of the multiple places that have them before.

[pochacco]

[littlekhada]

[yanavaseva]

Commission for Kallas1. I don't have a lot of context here but she's a RPG character from a Legend of the Five Rings campaign, and is very tall. That's all that I know.

[gaybravado]

new oc, Touchstone Arkhest. Despite his cheerful appearance, his mental stability is hanging by a thread. Candlelight shepherd save him 😔

[anndr]

my oc on the unicorn, sketch