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[mauvedraws]

cw: blood

My cleric, V'nemre, had to watch the rest of the party die an alarming number of times during that final battle... but I'm sure by now her dreams are nothing but peaceful and allllll of their blood washed out of her clothes ☺️

[[This version was already posted but I love the purple version and wanted it to have a spot on my blog too! ✨ and I like having both versions together ]]

[mauvedraws]

I haven't posted art in ages, and also I'm not sure when any of these WIPs will make it out of purgatory, so I'm going to drop them all here and keep my fingers crossed for the right inspo to hit 🙏

the Arcane brainrot never stops ✨

[mauvedraws]

I need y’all to watch my Vlad edit and join in on the brainrot 🙏

He’s been my main hyperfixation for 7 1/2 years and I can’t believe it’s taken me this long to try making an edit !!

[patientno7]

the suffering never ends

[sinksanksockie2]

This is the real process

[thewritingbeast-blog]

Resources for you!

Character Ideas:

Character creation masterpost

Character Alignment Chart

More character alignment descriptions

Muslim Character questions

Characters with magical powers

Building a new character advice

How to create a character for an online or tabletop RPG (also a good guide on creating characters in general)

Royalty/nobility TV Tropes page

Basic character profile

OC masterpost

Random character generators - (1), (2), (3), (4)

D&D Character Building Tool

Character Design Ideas:

How clothing affects a character’s personality

Character Design Inspiration blog

Concept art, fan art, cool art to be inspired by

Character design references and inspiration

Sources for POC character design ideas and models

Create your own character model using HeroForge

For horned characters

Body and hair types guide

Random outfit generator

Naming Help:

Amazing site with an endless amount of naming resources

General advice on avoiding naming appropriation

Hispanic Surnames

Gothic Victorian names

Huge master list for character things in general

Masterlist of names of all types - including but not limited to ancient/old world names, Celtic, African, Northern European, Southern and Central American Native names, Japanese, Chinese, Mongolian, Polynesian, and more

Another name masterlist

How to pick a character name guide

Yet another names masterlist

Creating Background/backstory:

Character Sheet/Development Sheet

Another character development list

In-depth character personality, motivations and traits sheet

320 talents and passions for characters

On writing likes and dislikes that aren’t frivolous

Why you should write non-human characters non-conforming to the gender binary

Stereotypes, tropes, and archetypes

Random backstory generator

Assassin and thief character tropes to avoid

Character Interactions and putting your character into your world/story:

Comparing character height/height references

Characters who are scientists and writing about them doing science

Describing what different voices sound like

Describing skin tones

Writing friendship interactions that are platonic

Why having one character knock their friend unconscious to prevent them from doing something is a bad idea

Advice on shipping OCs with canon characters and what to avoid doing

Sweet Polly Oliver and Sweet on Polly Oliver situations (think of Disney’s Mulan for an example)

How to write multiple viewpoints/juggling a main cast of more than 4 to 6 characters

How to make readers care about your morally gray hero/anti-hero

On platonic OC and canon character relationships

How to avoid Godmodding in RPs

When it’s cheap to kill off a character

Writing dialogue

Things you shouldn’t do to canon characters

Avoiding purple prose in writing and RPs

Slang resources

Dialogue tips

Websites to chart your story/plot/character relationships

Bonus art masterlist!

[brucewayneright]

BLESS EVERYONE IN THIS POST.

[jasmehraj]

Oh my God!

It’s amazing, some links aren’t working for me but those who are, are spectacular.

[tamsinswriting]

Reblogging because NAMING IS HARD

[writing-prompt-s]

!!!!!!!

[some-pers0n]

You ever look at some art your mutual made and you just sit there in stunned silence and awe that one of your friends is out there making jaw-dropping beautiful art just for the hell of it

[some-pers0n]

How it feels when your friend who you have wacky and silly conversations and jokey-joke haha times with makes something that's so good it changes your brain chemistry

[mauvedraws]

I started drawing this as a bit to myself about how he didn't look too hard to draw and here he is and no I don't know why I did the lights like that

[mauvedraws]

They heard you were talking shit about Silco 🤨😠

~ Feat. two purple Arcane OCs ~

Left: Cordelia / "Cord" 💃🦈 (belongs to me)

Right: Elisa 🌙🦈 (belongs to @fantadym 💜)

[deathdetermineslife]

"I don't want ppl to think I'm cringe—" NO. you go draw yourself smooching that fictional character RIGHT NOW. they LOVE YOU. be FREE. you have an entire community of ppl who support you, now shoo, go write that drabble!

[mauvedraws]

Name: V'nemre ("Nem" for short)

Race: githyanki

Class: (ex)-cleric of Vlaakith (it's complicated :-/ )

((more under the cut ))

Eyes: slight heterochromia, with her right eye a pale blue "opal" and her left (often hidden in the shadow of her loose hair) a pale green "opal"

Hair: dark black with a slight raven/blue tint in some lighting; braided on her righthand side

Skin: her githyanki markings (I call them frog spots, does anyone else(?)) are somewhat similar to Lae'zel's and others seen in game, but her more defining markings are those across the bridge of her nose and spanning the tops of her ears

Scars: a thin slice down her right cheek from days spent learning under her creche's sa'varsh, courtesy of a zealous peer with quicker reflexes

Accessories: both ears have been pierced in multiple locations with small gold or silver rings in a slight alternating pattern; she also wears metallic eyeshadow in a gold similar to both her earrings and the small details of her irises

((spoilers for act 2, I'm mid act 3 as of writing this))

Following their rift with Vlaakith, Lae'zel and V'nemre both struggle to shift their view of the world knowing what they now know about their queen. On more than a few occasions, the pair found themselves sitting together in silence as the rest of their companions slept, unable to put words to the thoughts running wild in their heads.

Nem struggles particularly in corralling her clerical abilities now that her trust in Vlaakith has been shattered, calling to question how she hasn't been cut off from the source of these abilities altogether. Nem begins hoarding potions of healing for the party in an attempt to squash thoughts of self-doubt following multiple ambushes from Vlaakith's forces, and she finds that 'guidance' in particular to fumble the desired outcome more often than not. She falls further into her soldier roots, but is constantly reminded why hand to hand combat has always been her last resort.

If you've read through all of this, thank you! I'm trying to get into a better habit of sharing about my characters rather than being too embarrassed and just keeping them locked tight in my thoughts 😅

Are there any other githyanki clerics out there I should know about? 👀 I would love to see some githyanki tavs or tavs you have that you think might get along with Nem!

dividers by cafekitsune

[mauvedraws]

You can rez your party as many times as it takes.... but you still had to watch the light leave their eyes.

✨ #justclericthings ✨

I just completed the game for the first time through and I'm still reeling from everything that happened!!

[mauvedraws]

Name: V'nemre ("Nem" for short)

Race: githyanki

Class: (ex)-cleric of Vlaakith (it's complicated :-/ )

((more under the cut ))

Eyes: slight heterochromia, with her right eye a pale blue "opal" and her left (often hidden in the shadow of her loose hair) a pale green "opal"

Hair: dark black with a slight raven/blue tint in some lighting; braided on her righthand side

Skin: her githyanki markings (I call them frog spots, does anyone else(?)) are somewhat similar to Lae'zel's and others seen in game, but her more defining markings are those across the bridge of her nose and spanning the tops of her ears

Scars: a thin slice down her right cheek from days spent learning under her creche's sa'varsh, courtesy of a zealous peer with quicker reflexes

Accessories: both ears have been pierced in multiple locations with small gold or silver rings in a slight alternating pattern; she also wears metallic eyeshadow in a gold similar to both her earrings and the small details of her irises

((spoilers for act 2, I'm mid act 3 as of writing this))

Following their rift with Vlaakith, Lae'zel and V'nemre both struggle to shift their view of the world knowing what they now know about their queen. On more than a few occasions, the pair found themselves sitting together in silence as the rest of their companions slept, unable to put words to the thoughts running wild in their heads.

Nem struggles particularly in corralling her clerical abilities now that her trust in Vlaakith has been shattered, calling to question how she hasn't been cut off from the source of these abilities altogether. Nem begins hoarding potions of healing for the party in an attempt to squash thoughts of self-doubt following multiple ambushes from Vlaakith's forces, and she finds that 'guidance' in particular to fumble the desired outcome more often than not. She falls further into her soldier roots, but is constantly reminded why hand to hand combat has always been her last resort.

If you've read through all of this, thank you! I'm trying to get into a better habit of sharing about my characters rather than being too embarrassed and just keeping them locked tight in my thoughts 😅

Are there any other githyanki clerics out there I should know about? 👀 I would love to see some githyanki tavs or tavs you have that you think might get along with Nem!

dividers by cafekitsune

[marciaillust]

[mauvedraws]

We need some gith marking options in game!!

I don't think I ever posted this tiny little edit (paint over(?)) I did earlier this year to try and get my Tav looking more how I picture her ✨ so here it is~

(original screenshot under the cut if anyone wants to see the before)

[mauvedraws]

Lae'zel and my githyanki ex-cleric, V'nemre (Nem for short)

[color-palettes]

Warmth of Someone There - Submitted by Galaloser

#DCB9C1 #A26E74 #922D50 #501537 #3C1B43

[mauvedraws]

Long time no see friends 💕

Here's a WIP of my arcane oc Cordelia in Silco's coat (post-s1) 🦈 I had an idea of a chembaroness au sort of thing, I'm not sure what will come of it besides maybe just this outfit and some ramblings to my friends 😆

This is a part Cord's giant ref sheet/"paper doll" project I've been chiseling at for a long while (trying to get those Arcane/Zaun vibes down on the turnaround I made ✨)

Hopefully I can polish off one of the outfits to share something a little bit prettier sometime soon 🙏

[mauvedraws]

They heard you were talking shit about Silco 🤨😠

~ Feat. two purple Arcane OCs ~

Left: Cordelia / "Cord" 💃🦈 (belongs to me)

Right: Elisa 🌙🦈 (belongs to @fantadym 💜)

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