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Welcome to the Master Post for my fanfic Sahuldeem, a six-part exploration of the Star Wars character General Grievous, expanding on his backstory as it has been presented mostly in Legends (but reconciling with Canon details). The entirety of the story was scripted out during the first half of 2020, and I've been adapting it to prose ever since and posting it to AO3. Every chapter is linked back here to tumblr, and is usually accompanied by an art post. The links below will take you to story itself on AO3 and to any interesting/important supplemental material that I have posted here. Thanks for reading!

SAHULDEEM Series Page Part One - Qymaen | 57-53 BBY | (complete) Part Two - Sheelal | 48-41 BBY | (complete) Part Three - Sahuldeem | 40-32 BBY | (complete) Part Four - Collector | 32-24 BBY | (complete) Part Five - Martyr | 24 BBY | (complete) Part Six - Grievous | 24-?? BBY | (in progress) Sahuldeem / Kaleesh Q&A #1 | #2 | #3 | #4 | | Language | #5 | #6 | #7 | #8 | #9 | Other Subjects Kaleesh Naming | Kuu-lir | The Word Sahuldeem | Map of Kalee | Kaleesh Religion | Motion Sickness | One of the Earliest Doodles

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Supreme Commander of the Separatist Droid Army. The Knight Slayer. A ruthless general. A renowned Jedi killer. A cybernetic monstrosity. But before that, he was something else. A legend. A warrior. A hero. The Dreamer. He was Qymaen jai Sheelal, and this is his tragedy.

#Inoni Writes #Sahuldeem #Star Wars #fanfic #Qymaen jai Sheelal #General Grievous backstory #Ronderu lij Kummar #Kaleesh #WOO MASTER POST FINALLY #gonna pin this and keep it up-to-date

Happy Pride Month! :D Realized my current/most recent/planned TTRPG characters were all queer in some fashion, so I doodled some lil headshots (and would have posted on the 1st but fuuuuuuck migraines)~ Sagan Nethersall (D&D 5e) Ferrous (D&D 5e) Dr. Valerie Fox (WoD V5) Mason Wade (SW ETU) Adrien Lamarque (PF) Fiorenzo “Enzo” Abbiati (D&D 5e)

#Inoni Art #TTRPG #character art #Happy Pride!#Sagan Nethersall #Ferrous #Dr. Valerie Fox #Mason Wade #Adrien Lamarque #Fiorenzo 'Enzo' Abbiati #gotta share more art for Enzo and Mason #my newest beebs #fun to see some of these characters next to each other #like Adrien the dhampir looks far more vampiric than Val the actual vampire lol #in other news let’s see if I can get back to posting more often or if I return to my cave wheeee

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I had vaguely hoped to complete Sahuldeem by May the 4th, but things came up, as they do, and I didn’t want to force (heh) it to happen. Instead, enjoy this screenshot from my phone of a certain familiar scene (and you can see how it’s actually formatted when I write vs how it is posted on AO3; neat!)~

The end is near….

#evening reblog #Inoni Writes #Star Wars #Sahuldeem #fanfic #excerpt #Qymaen jai Sheelal #Revenge of the Sith #General Grievous backstory #May the 4th be With You #can’t believe it’s almost done #but also I can since I’m taking forever #sigh

I had vaguely hoped to complete Sahuldeem by May the 4th, but things came up, as they do, and I didn’t want to force (heh) it to happen. Instead, enjoy this screenshot from my phone of a certain familiar scene (and you can see how it’s actually formatted when I write vs how it is posted on AO3; neat!)~

The end is near….

#Inoni Writes #Star Wars #Sahuldeem #fanfic #excerpt #Qymaen jai Sheelal #Revenge of the Sith #General Grievous backstory #May the 4th be With You #can’t believe it’s almost done #but also I can since I’m taking forever #sigh

Why hullo, Adrien Lamarque, dhampir Oracle of Bones who is pure of heart but dumb of ass, and who I just finished playing in a homebrew Pathfinder mini adventure (aka "Chillfinder")~ Basically the elevator pitch was: "low int/wis pretty-boy dhampir who has been tracked down by his estranged vampire dad and is so desperately happy to have a real family that he’s willing to do ANYthing that Father Dearest asks him to do for a crumb of attention/affection". Cue a bunch of jokes with the DM along the lines of "I’ve always wanted a father and he promised to play catch with me after I help slaughter his enemies!", followed by the misadventure of us figuring out what Father Dearest looked like and accidentally making legally distinct Castlevania Dracula before leaning into it (neither of us know shit about Castlevania lol oops; THEN we found out that Alucard's real name is Adrian??? skfjsklfjsd OOPS AGAIN). Anyway, poor Adrien's Oracle curse is essentially vampirism, but he's a good boy and has fed on animals all his life—until Father Dearest surreptitiously introduced him to Not-Animal-Blood, for...reasons? :Uc So now we have a dhampir being sent out on missions and unknowingly rewarded with humanoid blood each time he returns successfully to his father's estate. Which is fine! Adrien's so happy! Tasty blood in a glass! SO fancy! :D Aaand then he's sent on a mission that reunites him with his old adventuring party (this is a high-level campaign, so we imagined this was a reunion for a group that's traveled together for quite some time). The mission takes several days, meaning Adrien can't return to the estate to feed like he normally would. Animal blood doesn't taste the same. It's hard to focus. He's so hungy. :( And his old friends are rightfully concerned and suspicious. It all came out in the third session (thankfully in a far less violent way than it could have). Poor lad was pretty distressed to realize he's been drinking and craving people, but one of the other PCs grabbed his face and told him to channel that anxious energy into killing the big bad evil guy once we find him. The player described the moment as the Idiot Sandwich meme, so...couldn't resist. :'D After our party defeated the BBEG (in the most excessive way imaginable; we did a group charge and brought him down from nearly full health to -289 hp), Adrien called up Father Dearest on his rocky-talky to confront him about "feeding me people blood, why didn't you tell me, frowny-face". Father claimed he wanted to ease Adrien into it without upsetting him (being sensitive about his curse), and that the blood he was given was ethically sourced...and since Adrien really wants to believe his father has his best interests at heart, he is cautiously content to return to the estate. Is it a happy ending for this lad? Is he being hopelessly manipulated? [yes] Will he be happy either way?? Who knows! But he was super fun to throw together for this little adventure, and a welcome inspiration for some doodles and comics~

Say hello to Ferrous, my warforged Fighter/Rogue who is actually a former human soldier whose soul was ripped out and stuffed into a shell of Infernal origin and didn’t ask for ANY of this shit~

This is one of the more unusual characters I’ve rolled up, a collaboration with the DM wherein I essentially placed most of the backstory in his hands and let him feed my amnesiac scattered memories over the course of many sessions to reveal more and more about who the hell they had once been and who had done this to them (all I knew was the elevator pitch of “former human, now warforged, have escaped control”). It’s been wild going from waking up in a box in Session 0 as an almost mindless war machine, to a robot-like being with a limited vocabulary describing their flashbacks/memories as “head-pictures”, to growing protective of and attached to the deep gnome crime family that took them in, to understanding that their sister was dead but not fully processing why they should mourn her, to learning they once had a wife that they held and kissed but could not presently attach any love to her memory, to having enough insight to ask our artificer if she could look inside their body to figure out why the connection between their fragmented memories and emotions felt so muddled.

After a little cranial exploration from the artificer (who did technically receive consent from Ferrous to do this), we learned that Ferrous’ BRAIN(!) was preserved inside their head, and a piece had been cut out of it(!!). The artificer decided to galvanize the damaged region with an electric shock, and a BIG chunk of Ferrous’ human memories and emotions were restored. At this point they discovered that between the day they were ripped from their human body and the current time, EIGHTEEN YEARS have passed, during which they have no idea what the empire forced them to do. So here they are, no longer just a big, agreeable, almost childish automaton for the artificer to tinker around with, but a full-ass grown adult with a shit-ton of trauma. This is where the RP has been difficult but so fascinating, since essentially at this turning point I started playing a new character. NEAT.

The latest development has been the artificer drumming up an item that allows Ferrous to use Alter Self, which is a HUGE step up from the Goggles of Disguise they’d been using before having their personality restored. Being able to take a real human form again means the world to poor Ferrous, and beyond that, it apparently disrupts the empire’s ability to track them when they are human instead of warforged (yeah, they are being actively tracked, EVERYTHING IS FINE). Needless to say, it’s a lot of fun to RP Ferrous relishing mundane human activities, and just as exciting to realize the spell has more value than merely a way to help them feel better about their circumstances!

Soooo, yep. That’s Ferrous! Not actually their name, though, still waiting on that memory to unlock as of the time of this post~ :P

#Inoni Art #TTRPG #Dungeons & Dragons #Ferrous #warforged #D&D #Vaapi #Pliny #deep gnome #goblin #already posted that first page but wanted to compile all the art here #the DM made them Grievous-coded and it wasn’t even my fault #I actually was inspired by Ramattra #because one of their quirks is that Ferrous has multiple ‘modes’#Combat Mode/Stealth Mode/Neutral Mode #and each mode has a unique character sheet #ANYWAY #fun and tragic character is fun and tragic

I was inspired to scramble together this sloppy and silly animatic from our last D&D session; starring Kenrith and Sagan and part of their drunken conversation inside the Magnificent Mansion~ (DM confirmed that he would have made Kenny pay for it if he were to use Daern's Instant Fortress inside the mansion) (and yeah, one of our players records ALL of our sessions and even writes up timestamps so we can easily refer back to what happened previously, which was super handy when we had a less consistent schedule, and ALSO handy when I want to reference dialogue for comics or, apparently, use it for animatics!)

#Inoni Art #animatic #TTRPG #Sagan Nethersall #Kenrith #bard #wizard #Bardic Rockstar #D&D #Dungeons & Dragons #video #sound on #I'm so happy the party loved Kenny's big smile here xD #may have to do more of these wheeee #I've actually been working on a much longer/more complicated animatic on and off for a while now #almost straight-up animation in some places oops #(featuring Sagan and one of the 90+ songs from his playlist)

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More SW fanart. Well, I cant say "more" here since I just started posting on this site but I assure you this is a 'more'. Heavily inspired by the incredible art and writing of @inonibird ♡♡

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Eyyyyyyy WOW this Ronderu looks amazing!

#reblog #not my art #keelahbutts #Star Wars #Ronderu lij Kummar #Kaleesh #fanart #honored to have inspired because this is awesome :Uc #(*meanwhile glances nervously at the last...one or two chapters of Sahuldeem*)#(...someday....)

Can I ask about what hair dye/color you use to get that nice white? Been wanting a similar color myself. Cheers from one Ace to another! 🙂

I actually get it done at a salon, BUT I do use a pretty strong "silver maintain" shampoo/conditioner (Alterego). Also I have naturally dirty blond hair, so it bleaches well. Cheers back and good luck! :D

#Inoni Answers #ravij #hair stuff lol #it's a bit more yellow straight out of the salon #I just immediately go home to wash it and cool that shit down

Happy International Asexuality Day! 20 years since discovering I was Ace, damn.

#International Asexuality Day #Inoni Sighting #Ace #aroace #am old

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When an evil entity claiming to be Beelzebub (The Fly) wants to use you as a mortal vessel to recruit souls for Hell and has been haunting your every waking moment, getting your mind hijacked by an illithid who forces you to hurt your friends is a reasonable time to have a panic attack. Poor Sagan. :')

#self reblog #Inoni Art #Sagan Nethersall #TTRPG #D&D #Dungeons & Dragons #Bardic Rockstar #my poor lad is crashing out

When an evil entity claiming to be Beelzebub (The Fly) wants to use you as a mortal vessel to recruit souls for Hell and has been haunting your every waking moment, getting your mind hijacked by an illithid who forces you to hurt your friends is a reasonable time to have a panic attack. Poor Sagan. :')

#Inoni Art #Sagan Nethersall #TTRPG #D&D #Dungeons & Dragons #Bardic Rockstar #we the players know it was a mind flayer #the wizard made an educated guess #but the PCs never actually saw it themselves #so you can't blame Sagan for being unsure #especially when The Fly has already compelled him before #my poor lad is crashing out #and will probably keep up his unhealthy coping mechanisms #(his Magnificent Mansion enables SUCH bad habits)#(to the point that it seems to be by design)#(oh no)#(anyway we still don’t even know if it is Beelzebub)#(it just claims to be x_x)

aladurmash = twin soul / soulmate

#Inoni Art #Star Wars #Sahuldeem #Qymaen jai Sheelal #Ronderu lij Kummar #General Grievous backstory #The Dreamer and the Dreamt #Kaleesh #fanart #fanfic #unexpected QxR art #I got a new ipad and it is smoooooth y'all

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I've got a multi-month backlog of art featuring my increasingly traumatized bard Sagan Nethersall, so...tadaaaaa, TTRPG dump~ • Sagan got zooted out of his brains one night (par for the course in his Magnificent Mansion) and we discovered that our wizard (Kenrith) is a terrible trip sitter, sending him nonsensical statements all night as if they were cryptic messages of import. They were not. • Sagan yelled a priest to death (Vicious Mockery). It was extremely cathartic. He was a bad person. He deserved it. It's fine. It's all fine. • Our cleric Aoife was stressing out (for valid reasons) and Sagan tried to help calm her down by shotgunning weed into her mouth. Kenrith in particular has the wrong idea about Sagan and Aoife's relationship, so I meme'd it (and tossed Eloi the monk in for fun because apparently I had to make life difficult for myself by drawing a dragonborn from the front view -_-). • Kenrith almost fell down a slippery spiral stairwell as we descended to the Underdark; Sagan rolled high enough Dex to save him. He still made a stink about it (everyone has been enjoying the pleasures Sagan's Mansion has to offer, and in Kenny's case, endless muffins). • Whilst in the Underdark, an illithid attacked us from the shadows and really said I WANT THIS TWINK OBLITERATED, hitting Sagan with two Mind Blasts before taking control of him and forcing him to attack the party. (a couple Magic Missiles to the butt snapped him out of it) • Sagan did not enjoy having his autonomy taken away, considering he's already living in constant fear of demonic influence/possession (see previous links, lol). Our party NPC, Tarma, also did not enjoy having Shatter cast on her. Words were loudly exchanged. Spells were spitefully cast. Everything is totally fine here. :')

#Inoni Art #Sagan Nethersall #TTRPG #D&D #Dungeons & Dragons #Bardic Rockstar #Aoife #Kenrith #Eloi #Tarma the NPC #tw: drug use #long post #my dumpster fire muse

I've got a multi-month backlog of art featuring my increasingly traumatized bard Sagan Nethersall, so...tadaaaaa, TTRPG dump~ • Sagan got zooted out of his brains one night (par for the course in his Magnificent Mansion) and we discovered that our wizard (Kenrith) is a terrible trip sitter, sending him nonsensical statements all night as if they were cryptic messages of import. They were not. • Sagan yelled a priest to death (Vicious Mockery). It was extremely cathartic. He was a bad person. He deserved it. It's fine. It's all fine. • Our cleric Aoife was stressing out (for valid reasons) and Sagan tried to help calm her down by shotgunning weed into her mouth. Kenrith in particular has the wrong idea about Sagan and Aoife's relationship, so I meme'd it (and tossed Eloi the monk in for fun because apparently I had to make life difficult for myself by drawing a dragonborn from the front view -_-). • Kenrith almost fell down a slippery spiral stairwell as we descended to the Underdark; Sagan rolled high enough Dex to save him. He still made a stink about it (everyone has been enjoying the pleasures Sagan's Mansion has to offer, and in Kenny's case, endless muffins). • Whilst in the Underdark, an illithid attacked us from the shadows and really said I WANT THIS TWINK OBLITERATED, hitting Sagan with two Mind Blasts before taking control of him and forcing him to attack the party. (a couple Magic Missiles to the butt snapped him out of it) • Sagan did not enjoy having his autonomy taken away, considering he's already living in constant fear of demonic influence/possession (see previous links, lol). Our party NPC, Tarma, also did not enjoy having Shatter cast on her. Words were loudly exchanged. Spells were spitefully cast. Everything is totally fine here. :')

I was considering making dumb little valentines for my various TTRPG characters, but in the end the most amusing (and least currently tragic) candidate ended up being Dr. Valerie Fox, my Tremere blood scientist/mage from our WoD campaign who also happens to be aroace~ It's a Val-entine! 8D oh god she's going to make my veins explode for that pun

#Inoni Art #Dr. Valerie Fox #TTRPG #Vampire: The Masquerade #World of Darkness #Chicago by Night #V5 #VtM #WoD #yeah all of my characters are going THROUGH IT #like Sagan would normally be great for Valentine's Day #half-elf bardic rockstar who ain't picky about who he sleeps with #but last time he took someone to bed she was killed and he was horribly scarred both physically and mentally so naaahhh #and then there's Ferrous my poor ensouled warforged #who just got their memories/feelings/personality back and found out their wife has been dead for EIGHTEEN YEARS #these would be very depressing valentines :'D #(all Val has to worry about is stupid vampire politics mostly lol)

Have I mentioned that I was recently introduced to StarKid's Hatchetfield musicals?

#Inoni Art #StarKid #Wiggly #Wiggog Y'wrath #Hatchetfield #The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals #Black Friday #Nightmare Time #Nerdy Prudes Must Die #needed to draw the eldritch fwendy-wend #I was shown Black Friday first so it's the softest spot #but the premise of TGWDLM is just utterly delightful #and all the Hatchetfield content has been a grand ol' jam #(plus all the Michigan easter eggs please me as a former denizen of the Great Lakes region)

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