Etiam nobis aurora orietur

How now! 18+ • Currently wandering through the world of Kingdom Come: Deliverance • Fanarts (though they have a habit of wandering) • Longfic & assorted scribblings to come (RU) • Welcome, fellow web-wanderer.

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Oh! A visitor! Don’t be shy, step into my humble abode.

Once I was but a foolish fish, until the Lord, in jest, granted me legs, and thereby condemned me to wander the digital realm in search of inspiration. In my fumbling attempts to make sense of this peculiar life with legs, I somehow became a lonely and melancholy monk. And the Lord, taking pity upon His own creation, bestowed upon me the gifts of drawing and the telling of tales, that I might preserve the wonders I had found upon my wandering.

Herein are kept the pages I have illuminated and the tales I have set down.

AO3 Scriptorium — … can be heard muttering under his breath while searching the robe for the key

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Tallis: O Nata Lux - VOCES8 I think they pair beautifully with one of my favorite tracks. Enjoy ❤️‍🩹

Feeling like crap. My therapy — a 1.2-hour freestyle sketch of sweet boys.

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Flower wreaths and carefree dancing

Ancienne d'après: Kalenda maya (Raimbaut de Vaquieras) - Hespèrion XXI

I spent a couple of hours taking screenshots of these two, wondering why I never have enough time for drawing and writing… Oh… wait…

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At this point, instead of drawing or writing a new chapter, I've apparently decided to expand my accidental KCD II screenshot collection even further, and now it's the animals' turn. So behold! A modest medieval bestiary, featuring beasts ranging from nightmare-fuel cats to the silliest and the goodest boy Mutt

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While trying to tame the posing mode properly, I got a couple of decent screenshots of these two

Ora et Labora by Adrian von Ziegler

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A bunch of KCD II noblemen

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And now, the [gentle]men. The lads of KCD II

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An appreciation post for the lovely ladies of KCD II

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Imagine Henry could swim

— Having a good time? — I think I'm a little overcooked

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Here. A lockscreen background for Henry’s phone. Eventually.

Feel like crap lately and want a bit of dopamine. Yes, it’s just a piece of a more complex fanart, which I posted a WIP of earlier (and gosh, the more I work on the full piece, the less I like the whole idea), but hey, I finally managed to finish it! (Needless to say, I don’t hate Hans’ face as much as before after all those reworks, so, huge progress for me, I suppose)

A Thousand Years by John Michael Howell, JVKE, & ZVC

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Part 2

Toxicity - System of a Down (cover by Algal the Bard)

I unintentionally finished KCD2 on hardcore with all negative perks today. On its anniversary, lol. What timing. What a little happy accident. Anyway, here’s another batch of screenshots to worship this glorious game. And beautiful boys <:,)

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I swear I usually play KCD2 normally. But sometimes I run it just to ride somewhere, listen to music and ambient sounds… stare at Henry for a while… and take a loooot of screenshots again. It’s a strangely meditative process, actually. Like I’ve grabbed my camera and gone off to do a medieval photoshoot of the Lonely Squire

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Not-So-Curious Adventure of a Young Noble of Pirkstein

Veliji Dini by Panychida I just wanted to chill in KCD2, and suddenly I ended up with a pack of screenshots of Hans wandering the Trosky region alone. God help me, the in-game lighting just knows how to do its job *_*

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Part 1

Somehow, I totally missed Hans’s side quest after Maleshov on my first run… So now I’m compensating with tons of screenshots :D

Far Väl by Gustav Davidsson

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And gosh, I really love the in-game photo mode — especially when it lets me catch these small hansry moments :D Giardini Estivi by Jan Valta and Adam Sporka

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I’ve been replaying the game and… I can’t help but stop sometimes to take a screenshot, because — well — the landscapes of KCD2 are way too good. They’re almost painfully beautiful, the kind that makes you sigh and fall silent for a second. Maybe they’ll make someone else pause too.

Stella Splendens by Jordi Savall, Hespèrion XXI and La Capella Reial de Catalunya

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I just can’t let these guys go T_T A super quick silly sketch before the year ends.