Moose's thought Archive

Hey I blog about mostly gaming stuff. Currently focused on Guild Wars 2, add me if you want: Mountainmoose.8095 (icon by @astralarias)

[meeeeeeese]

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And there are more posts that don't fall under any of these categories, good luck finding them

Brief OC introductions below

(my dumb worldbuilding sideblog)

1: Rugan Coppertail (he/him)

Pact Commander, master engineer and overall mess of a charr. An iron legion centurion by technicality, though his dragonslaying duties mean he isn't around much

2: Falx Ghostclaw (he/him)

Rugan's terrible spoiled brat of a cub, an iron legionnaire with an ego the size of the black citadel who, unfortunately can partially back up his wild claims with a talent for necromancy

3: Cara Silvertail (she/her)

A very normal charr who is definitely not an emissary of an outer god slumbering in the depths of the mists. Nominally part of the legions, though the incredibly suspicious power she wields and the nature of her origin means she kept under watch

4: Ibex Azureblaze (he/him)

A former flame legion tribune who was exiled in disgrace after a risky attempt to gain power blew up in his face. He now spends his time sulking in the wilderness being bitter.

5: Teghror (he/him)

Rugan's other cub, concieved during his stay with the olmakhan and raised without his father knowing of his existance. he's now on a journey to meet and possibly punch his sire in the face.

6: Zerek Mindrend (he/him)

An old ash legion mesmer, one of the few front line fighters of Tyria's sneakiest legion. He's a part time primus and a full time grump, but he's also very talented at chaos magic and chronomancy

7: Sarro Aquaburn (he/him)

former female and flame legion shaman, he left the gold legion due to their regressive views on gender and now travels Tyria as a free charr to perfect his elemental magics

8: Sarvius Longshade (he/him)

an ex-flame legion mercenary whose uncontrollable shadow magic bears an uncanny resemblance to the void.

9: Buffalo Mozzarella (she/her)

An incredibly angry asura hunting down her inquest parents for the crime of... giving her a really stupid name

10: Archeologist Siv (he/they)

An archeologist whose life work was to delve into the depths of Tyria, and recover relics from the destroyer-haunted ruins of the underground asuran civilisation. But after a doomed expedition left him the only survivor, he returned to the surface with a new god. He had seen the all, and personified the error in the geometry. He had found The Bent God.

11: Helga Flamewaker (she/her)

A powerful elementalist and havroun of the volcano spirit, she seeks to ensure the course of nature is not disrupted, which brings her into conflict with others who'd rather volcanos not erupt thank you very much

12: Grace Alderspin (she/her)

A former novelist turned adventurer who seeks to conquer Tyria's toughest environments

13: Captain 'powderkeg' Rowan (he/him)

A former slave who escaped his pirate masters to become a bounty hunter specialising in capturing pirates

14: 'Fern' (he/she)

Mordermoths backup body in case the Trahearne plan failed, Fern bides her time in the eternal battlegrounds, waiting for the moment he may return to Tyria and reclaim his place as elder dragon

[brightwingedbat]

I love this orange charr who tells you to paint him orange and call him Rusty. Like he isn't orange already.

[lady-quen]

How mine n @snakeparks runs be going (Royalties enforced by hunkiest steed)

I got lazy drawing clads hands but shh

[66-eyes]

transparent/individual ones under the cut

@dukevindication for these first two

@ ??? oops - pls tag them if you know

@shroomlet for this one

[mekanikaltrifle]

what a mood wee man what a fuckin mood

[mekanikaltrifle]

The Defect, and sharing sleeping quarters with it...

(thanks to my brother for his defect hc which spawned this silly doodle)

[lady-quen]

Isgarren's architectural choices

Featuring @shroomlet 's beautiful art with permission ¬‿¬

[wilsons-journey]

Rhon boy for my dear friend @brightwingedbat ♥

[i-had-bucky]

Y'ALL!!!!

Look at this beautiful portrait @zlideart did of Keres. The idea was for a sort of in-universe portrait with her beloved minion and it turned out soooo beautiful i am absolutely obessed with it. I love every single thing about it.

[ghostlycoyote0]

Would Charr prefer to use bows horizontally? Their hunched posture means there’s more room to draw it back, and their horns would mean using it vertically could snag and end badly

[feathered-dino]

this intrigued me so.....:

ranger shortbow 1 :

ranger longbow 1 :

ranger shortbow 2 is horizontal:

shortbow 2 being a horizontal shot does have a farther drawback because of a charrs hunched posture.

renegade 1 is the same as ranger shortbow 1:

but renegade 5 is also horizontal:

If you look really closely at Liza's (purple) horns in the renegade 1 it would be likely it could snag on her horn. but in Trylan's (brown) shortbow 1 he moves his head enough to the side where it wouldn't. even if he had bigger horns. it would depend on the type of horn but if a charr has in general shorter horns vertical is fine.

now my research continued:

Skorch actually leans his head further back in the shortbow 1 animation to try and minimize horn clipping. (this could be a engineer vs ranger thing but i digress). Unfortunately it dosen't seem to help Thaaaat much? as there's still some obvious horn snag.

TLDR:

in game because of limits of animations and model types, Charr still mostly do vertical shots. but in art and fan creations it would probably make more sense for Charr with wider horns to use a horizontal shot more often.

[ghostlycoyote0]

So different adjustments for different horn shapes!

Maybe vertical is more accurate, since it’s more aligned with your eyes, so it’s a precision vs power tradeoff

Renegade 5 is a shockwave shape, so that would make sense for benefitting from being horizontal; don’t need as much precision for a wide sweeping attack

[froggychairmimic]

Every now and then, by following trace remnants of the magic that lead the human gods to Tyria (and with a little help from the Spirits of the Wild), a small soul can find its way through the Mists and be reborn again…

commission by @scourgeblooms of Pierre, my recently departed kitty. after 14 years earth was getting too boring for him, and he left us to start a new adventure in tyria :’)

[lonicera-edulis]

Commission for Tepidtea on FA.

[alta1r1an]

Maybe it's the lack of sleep. But I feel like sorting out my thoughts and kicking it out there in a tumblr post on the tendency for alot of big fiction to do "big upheaval" plots that then... Dont get a resolution.

It is with Phyrexia where you have a ton of settings that are wild and interesting but then supposedly are all torn down by war yet... No care given into what that means! Is the setting still there or do the scars of war irrevocably change them?

And the cynical part of me thinks this is with the Charr after their civil war too. I can't help but feel there is less Charr focused people around after that plotline

But maybe, I am also feeling like my own life went through a great upheaval that then had no payoff. Just a senseless continuation.

[mchi22]

i fuckin hate games where u furnish/decorate a house because it reminds me i truly have no fucking idea what youre supposed to have in a room

[mchi22]

[alta1r1an]

One must imagine Tribune Brimstone sweating away doing menial labour. Hard at work showing he is reintegrating with the legions, wiping the sweat of his brow as he continues his work. A refreshing shower and a nice bath is only waiting if he impresses the one overseeing the labour

[meeeeeeese]

you gotta respect the hustle

[icebrooding]

Running through Twilight Arbor again to see my favourite tomato, I ended up thinking hard about something that had somehow never stood out to me before. Incoming hyper over-analysis!

Cadeyrn's tree.

I've already rambled in the past about how the entire location is just one huge reference to his complicated issues with his mother; the whole area is full of trees with white bark and very light leaves. They're all 'pale trees'. The location is also named 'Hall of Heart's Remorse', which is clearly indicative of his emotional anguish regarding everything.

But it didn't really clock to me before; of course the very center of this massive, beautiful room is a singular tree that's grown rather different to all the trees surrounding it. While the other 'pale trees' in the area all managed to grow upright, this one started twisting over very quickly.

It's possible that Cadeyrn may have planted this tree himself, essentially trying to create a surrogate 'mother tree' as a way to comfort his turmoil. The center of Cadeyrn's life, much like with this room, is the Pale Tree. And just like how things worked out with the real Pale Tree, this one also failed to be what he hoped for; twisting over and 'failing' him. Yet he stays close to this tree; it's where his default position is.

The other trees in the area grew upright, as mentioned earlier, but they also haven't fared much better.

These don't appear to be above-ground roots, but rather, branches. The trunk is also somewhat oddly shaped. It leads me to believe these protrusions are branches that turned downwards into the ground.

Kind of like Cadeyrn himself; the tree growing in both directions is a reflection of how he wanted to grow and become something more than he is, but was cowed into submission, retreating away.

And finally, the sky.

Or rather, the lack of it. Much of Heart's Remorse is 'closed off' from above by the canopy of the trees.

Which would go hand-in-hand with Cadeyrn being a relatively isolated person. He doesn't seem to have any friends, nobody to mourn or care for him after his passing despite being the first of the secondborn, the founder of the Nightmare Court. Cadeyrn doesn't have... anyone.

Cadeyrn's whole arena is a closed off space filled with his yearning for his mother to have noticed and loved him, seeking comfort with what he wanted so badly his entire life. He's isolated himself, chasing after even a fake version of the validation and affection he yearned for.

A tragic arena for a tragic man.