A Miscellaneous Archive

mostly fantasy oc and worldbuilding these days :)

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SRRY FOR DELETING SOME REBLOGS

I try to only post my own oc here :)

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Heeey... how y'all doin....

Here's a WIP of my next project, voted first in the poll under the Lolth breakdown.

This is a beefy one, with a lot of detail to get into, so it's taking me awhile to finish it!

Worry not, I'll have the finished document/piece posted soon :)

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Drow deep-diving: Lolth and the Dark Seldarine

Next deep-dive/breakdown

Case study of Nytthotaes, a sacerdotal Lolthite city state

Pale/Wood elf deep-dive: Seldarine pantheon re-imagining

Species breakdown: Dragonborn

Voting ended onDec 13, 2025

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The Triton family!

This is another very broad family, encompassing all merfolk, fresh and salt water. I think Triton in the WotC 'source material' are boring, with uncreative, ugly designs, so I diversified them.

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Long time no see (again lol)! Here's some stuff about hybridization across the Orthosapiens order (which contains ~99% of sapient organisms in my designed world) :)

I focus on orcs and half-orcs here because, especially in WotC 'literature', orcs are one of the few species that seem to have always been able to hybridize on their own (without magical intervention).

Some comparative taxonomic discussion below:

While I have a scientific education, I am not a taxonomical expert and many stretches must be made to make hybridization across different taxonomical suborders and families work, even in concept.

For reference, we (humans) are members of order Primates, along with lemurs, tarsiers, monkeys (old and new world), and apes. These examples represent some of the broad suborders of primates within the order, each one having its own collection of families and genetic traits, stemming from the last common ancestor of all primates.

In our world, and using Primates for reference, chimps and baboons (chimps joining us in the hominidae family, while baboons are old world monkeys, therefore members of the cercopithecoidea superfamily) cannot procreate for a variety of reasons that ultimately boil down to: they are too genetically different for their cells to actually reproduce together and their physical anatomy is too incompatible to allow any gametes to survive and fertilize. It's, of course, a LOT more complicated than that, but those issues are what I ultimately sought to address in this! :)

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The Goblinoid family!

This is a very broad genetic family, including goblins, bugbears, trolls and ogres.

I really wanted to get away from the jkr-style antisemitism around goblins so I chose to give them (and bugbears) a new look, similar to aye-ayes and tarsiers!

I kept that theming through all the subspecies of troll with the exception of the redcap, partially because I like the idea of them looking like old human men but in an uncanny skinwalker kinda way, and also because it’s pretty funny. Look at him.

Ogres are giants in the dnd “source material” but I wanted to change that up a bit just because. Because they’re swamp dwellers, generally leading amphibious lifestyles, their aesthetic theming is pretty different from the other goblinoids! I did this mostly because I think wotc ogres are super boring and wanted to play with some different anatomical ideas.

For instance: my version of ogres have aesthetic theming based around manatee, catfish, and beavers. I thought about making them jawless like a lamprey, but it wouldn’t really work with their size and posture, so I opted for a skull like a manatee.

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Magical secret society!

I have a lot of fun designing guilds and religious sects :)

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Jötnar!

Jötnar is a family name including Firbolg and Goliath as well as more mythic “true giants”, fabled by some to be sleeping beneath the mountains.

I personally adhere to a bovine-ish appearance for firbolg because, frankly, WotC firbolg are boring and poorly written.

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Vampires!

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Tieflings!

Tieflings are not their own species and, rather than the somewhat convoluted blessed/cursed bloodline thing in WotC, I conceptualize them as half/quarter-fiends. Their relation to magical beings, similar to sorcery bloodlines, gives them both innate magics and a predisposition toward sorcery as a form of magics.

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Orcs! (Cw: discussion of racism)

Most people recognize orcs as pretty controversial, being racist in their design roots, Tolkien describing them as “m**goloid” and WotC taking that racism further in making them often dark-skinned and wide-nosed, while being brutish and violent.

In my redesign, I chose to change their appearance altogether in an effort to move away from racial stereotyping.

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Elves!

In terms of aesthetics, I think it’s more interesting for elves to be kinda funny looking but still very attractive, with big eyes, high cheekbones, and *generally slim builds.

*generally doesn’t mean elves are exclusively thin! Their skeletons are elongated and narrow but, like any of the species I’ll talk about here, they vary in shape and size :)

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WOAWOWOAOWOWWOAH UR BACK?!!! ILY MWAH!

Omg thank you!!!!

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Long time, no see!

I haven’t uploaded on this platform in a long time but I think I’ll start doing it more regularly, especially for dnd/fantasy worldbuilding like this!

In terms of art, I post much more frequently on my instagram, samsmithbutpoor :)

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another commission!

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commission :)