Guy's Guild

A side blog dedicated to my shenanigans in Guild Wars 2. Characters, written stuff, and other hoo-ha!

[commanderyes]

The Commander And The Break

[vitaeplaysgw2]

Are you ready for Tyria Pride 2021??? Like every year I’ll attend and I’ll try to have the most fun as ever! If you wanna say Hi to me: I’ll be on NA servers both on Saturday and Sunday with Archon Saga (and maybe Joko and Jormag too?) my NA ID is “DiesIrae.5271″ Meanwhile I’ll be on EU servers only on Sunday with Joko the Inevitable ID is “palawajoko.7931″

[ruderubicante]

Page 599 - Just a Scout Page 598 , Page 600

[lootoninteract]

Mesmer type A: Brooding… Mysterious… Unreadable… his face is not his. He sees life as a game, people as a dance, and is weaving a constant web thru every new connection he makes………..

Mesmer type B:

[king-nerdlord]

I was waiting for the Svanir Shaman one day and saw the most mesmered mesmer that ever did mesmer. I’m talking bubblegum pink dyes, the short starter skirt, pig tails, and a princess wand. And I had enough time to think ‘that’s a whole lot of mesmer’ before she summoned a flesh golem.

[amnyatas]

necromancy barbie says EVERYONE can wear pink!

[commander-titania]

Guild Wars 2 Reference Galleries

These galleries contain ingame screenshots, official artist’s renders and concept art pertaining to each group. None of the galleries are complete, and will update with new renders and art as they become available. 

New galleries are being made currently and are works in progress! This post will update as those come out!

If you believe I am missing something, DM me so I can add it! 

Sylvari and Mordrem Gallery

Charr Gallery

Norn Gallery

Elonian Gallery

Canthan Gallery

Largos Gallery

Awakened Gallery

[inkwell-attitude]

all the tips I found for drawing a fantasy map are like :) “here’s a strategy to draw the land masses! here’s how to plot islands!” :) and that’s wonderful and I love them all but ??? how? do y'all decide where to put cities/mountains/forests/towns I have my map and my land but I’m throwing darts to decide where the Main Citadel where the Action Takes Place is

[fatal-blow]

okay so i know i said most of this in the replies but it might be easier to actually reblog and say stuff instead lmao

Cities - go near water!  freshwater lakes and rivers (rivers especially) are the best places for cities because A) source of water and B) travel and trade is much easier cus you can put your boats like right there.  Basically ever relevant city ever was built on a lake or a river.

for rivers in general - because gravity, rivers run from mountains (forming from melting snow and ice (this is why they get fat in spring–more stuff melting)) to lakes/ocean where they can empty out (and even lakes will have rivers leading out that eventually get to the ocean), which can help when mapping out where those start and end.  rivers are also much thinner and faster in steeper elevations and very slow and wide when the land is flat

mountains - i like to think of what the tectonic plates look like because that’s what makes mountains!  mountains are also never standalone they’re always in mountain ranges (archipelagos are really just underwater mountain ranges babey).  a cool trick I like to do is occasionally separate mountain ranges across continents, because over time the tectonic plates shifted and literally split the range in half.  These mountains are really old tho so they’ve eroded and therefore it makes them smaller and rounder (like the appalachians) as opposed to relatively young mountain ranges like the rocky mountains which have taller and sharper peaks

Another mountain trick: if your mountains run along the ocean, the ocean side of the mountains will get a LOT of rain while the other side will be very dry–almost desert-like, in fact.  think of temperate rainforests in British Columbia vs the drier conditions in the canadian prairies

forests - depends on how warm the area might be.  coniferous forests are found further north (before you hit the tree line, and then it’s only tundra onwards) but as you head south you get leafier trees, and the leaves tend to get larger too

If you think about general elevation too, you’ll have places that might be swampy (wet + lower).  if your world has an ice age like we did, then glaciers may have carved the land, leaving piles of soil in the south that was left when the ice receded and places where the bedrock has been bared north of that (like the Canadian Shield in Canada–the reason we see that is because of the glaciers)

You might also have a land that’s dotted in a shitton of freshwater lakes as well because the meltwater filled the holes that the glaciers scraped out (this is why canada has so many goddamn lakes)

and if the ice age was more recent than it was in our world, then you might not even have the forest re-growth and it could be a lot of open plains

tl;dr i like to think of major climate events that might have also shaped the land on top of some basic rules

[possiblypedanticrpgideas]

The Artifexian has an entire series on building your world from literally the stars down and then the ground up.

Worldbuilding Videos - YouTube

All my worldbuilding videos

Though, for fantasy, you can make the world operate on entirely different principles:

With that done, the actual topic of city placement can be covered by videos like this:

Or

Once you have your places, if you want help naming them in realistic ways, this video can help:

This one is on architecture, which is definitely a subset of cities:

But for a more relevant practical guide on making settlements realistic:

Here’s a quick guide for making demographics:

[inkwell-attitude]

holy shit?

[pulledrosepetals]

#CANTHACONFIRMED

[commander-titania]

Doodle ay hee hoo

Feat. Snorkle Gooslorp ala @commanderyes

[cakedrawsthings]

Got some monster kids here up for adoption! DM or comment to claim!

[commanderyes]

Episode 3 more like

[commanderyes]

One last hurrah before Pride Month ends

Don’t let this hellyear get you just yet, you’re all amazing and you’re valid as valid can be, now and forever

[cakedrawsthings]

CakeAndCrows Shop | Redbubble

CakeAndCrows is an independent artist creating amazing designs for great products such as t-shirts, stickers, posters, and phone cases.

I opened a Redbubble again! I don’t expect to make a whole lot from this, but here’s hoping…

I don’t feel like I should have to explain my entire situation or divulge big details about my life in order to gain sympathy from others these days; everybody’s kind of going through it. But I’ll just say what folks have heard on every artist’s promotional thing right now, because it’s true for me as well;

I’m a trans artist from Minnesota, and I’m not able to work my normal day job (barista work) because of fear of covid-19. I also unfortunately don’t have a working car, so even if I wanted to go back to work, I don’t really have the means right now. I’d really love to get my car fixed just so I can use it if I need it, but that requires a bit of money that I don’t have.

I’m doing commission work as much as my mental health will grant me (which isn’t much right now, I admit; I’m maybe able to complete a simple single piece every two weeks it feels), so I scrounged up the energy to put together this Redbubble account. I don’t feel right hiking my margin to such a point that it makes the merch too expensive for people to afford, but I have it currently set to a 30% margin.

If folks could take a look at my page and buy a single pin or even just a single sticker, even the little bit of income this would grant me could help me fix my car and, well, do other things than just sit around and stress out about money. I don’t normally ask for help or signal boosts, but I could really use it these days since art is sort of my only income all of a sudden.

So please reblog this; don’t just like it.

PLEASE REBLOG THIS; DON’T JUST LIKE IT.

I could really use the support right now. I’m gonna be uploading more of my art and my designs as options as the days go on, so please check it again when I re-boost this.

[adurolobe]

Jaehm and Kyett, for Pride! Drawn by the wonderful @radioactivesoda-gw2 - they’re both bi/pan! And couldn’t be happier together. =)

Happy Pride/Wrath Month!

[radioactivesoda-gw2]

Happy to do it!! Happy pride everyone! 💞

[guildwars2]

Visions of the Past: Steel and Fire arrives March 17 with new story missions, replayable Living World Season 1 story missions, new rewards, and more! Watch the full trailer to see what’s coming soon in this content update, and visit the release page for more details.

[asura-sisters]

Just a flesh wound…

[kissingagrumpygiant]

more tomato 

[lionsarchlabs]

Expression practice with Trig’s sister Brekke.