#ayerias

[jyxyj]

My final project before I graduated from college: An Excerpt from the Ayerias Ultima.

Made with Adobe Photoshop and Adobe InDesign, 2025.

Please read text right>left. Background information will be under the cut!

Ayerias is something I've been thinking about for several years now, but it's such a monumental project, it's very hard to present it in any way it actually makes sense. So, over my final semester, I've worked to create this booklet as sort of a way to document some of my ideas with Ayerias!

This book is written by the Children of Nyl in collaboration with the Court.

Any "blank" areas are intended: this was printed and I customized each booklet by hand writing a phrase in Uuriamytrix where the translation guide should go. (The phrase is untranslatable without enough information, but it read "The Court refuses")

All writing is my own, and most (95%) collage pieces have been gathered from Old Book Illustrations. (If you look through the animal section, it's not hard to find which pieces I've used.) Other pieces are from Pexels and public.work. All images used are free use.

This booklet is inspired by many things: bestiaries, collage, my intaglio works, Gravity Falls, Monster Hunter, and Lovecraft all play a role in how and why this was made.

Here is my piece, The Dreamer, the thing that kicked this entire thing off:

You can even translate the text to see what it says!

(Final fun fact: the reason An Excerpt from the Ayerias Ultima is written right>left is that, when I was making the script for The Dreamer, I wrote the figures from left>right on the plate, forgetting that printing reverses the text....)