will it be ok to order if our character refs are a bit of a wip? i havent finished mine but id love a commission from u. its ok if not!
on principle I'm fine with it, but please note that the digital ink commission category does not have sketch revision and I will not be altering the finished piece after it's been sent, so I'd recommend only commissioning if you're sure I'll interpret the design correctly, or if you don't mind some variation to how you envision it!
ok so im going to keep this singular ask topical (the others r goign to b unrelated) and talk about my bitch Norve & co. Note, im following my own lore and taking what i like from canon and doing what i want with it. not following canon strictly WHATsoever
This is the Great King Norve, or most commonly known The Holy Flail/Jhortanas Holy Flail. have his sexy gijinka wip too
as his title implies, he belongs to the Plaguebringer! Norve is said to be among one of the first followers of the Plaguebringer, but he wasn’t quite a dragon when he was born. He was more of a bundle of untamed magic that managed to gain enough sentience to begin trailing after a god, which happened to be a really young Plaguebringer. The Plaguebringer saw just how fucking Potent his magic was at the time and was like wow, that could be useful, and snapped up this ball of magic and forged him into a Flail to be used during battle.
Any time this mf struck something, it would basically be an insta kill. His spikes were always coated in Plaguebringers most dangerous shit, like wyrmwound soup type shit, on top of being coated in “perfumes”, so even breathing too close to him could get someone very sick very fast.
After the war between Plague and Nature settles slightly from the beginning, he gains a physical dragon form, which ideally would be an imperial but i dont see that happening for me anytime soon, but also like he wasnt really a modern dragon breed ofc. He was like, a REALLY really proto-type plague breed that never saw the light of day for a good while, but eventually he would be pushed into other forms because of how unstable it was, on top of his already fucky magic.
Norve. LOVED the plaguebringer. VERY passionately. he had no basis of what is considered modern romance, so for us in the present time, he would seem near obsessive of her. He was at her side at basically all times, if he wasnt in dragon form he would be a flail latched onto her in some way, etc etc etc, she did Not leave his site, and vice versa. This dedication to her became pretty well known, so he’s documented in a view historical texts as a Worshipper & Weapon of the Plaguebringer.
so, BECAUSE of how much he adored her, a lot of mfs are confused as to like. why the hell he’s against her now. After a more “recent” aka 2000 years ago war between Plague & Nature yet again, Norve very Very suddenly pulled away from the Plaguebringer with little to no stated reason why. He was still a dragon, he had his Own following under the plaguebringer and was responsible for a lot of shit, he was event connected to the sprites and goblins and shit so its like. Hello? but he was like. Fuck you guys. and dug a hole in the ground as far as he could. which is how he meets Pentes!
Pentes is the Lord Alluvium! He was quite literally mud when King Norve found him, and norve only realized he was even there bc he tried digging into him and pentes was like Hey. Kill Yourself. and norve was like wow. ok?
So norve puts this mf in a JAR and carries this sprite bitch around until Pentes eventually gains a “Dragon” form by pure exposure from Norve. Norve, again, is a very potent magical guy, so its stupid easy to just gain magic if you cant die from poison from him. which is what happens with Pentes! Pentes had his own magic tbf considering he had sentience, he just didnt have enough cultivated to take on a proper form that wasnt Mud.
But he does take that form! They become besties, and Pentes eventually takes over an old Plague civilization and becomes the Eternal King, which is how he ends up marrying Xanthia, and he gets his own mess of drama because Pentes is for a lack of better words a cunt
anyways while Pentes is stirring shit, norve heads over to Old Light Area and finds Trolen!
trolen is a Proto-Imperial, meaning he was one of the very first made, and is absolutely RIDDEN in shade-muck, so much so that he can technically be considered an Emperor due to accidentally absorbing some mfs. It’s only really apparent in his horns though
so instead of just suibaiting norve, Trolen actually tries to kill him when they first meet.
Im still hashing out the details of their first meeting bc its supposed to be really intense, but these guys are gay. they end up just infatuated with each other. its supposed to be “downlow” but deity esque beings really dont know how to be downlow, so one of Trolens titles is literally King’s Wife. She’s old as hell, makes emperors bc she thinks its funny, and eventually moves down to the giant fucking hole that Norve dug and turns it into a literal castle that has the same vibe as the Lord Darkness’ castle from Legend 1985 LOL
slightly before they met though, Trolen created Anura
anura this sexy bastard is a problem child. to Trolens standard. hes also very much a “YOURE NOT MY DAD” kid to Norve, so while Norve claims him as his son when it comes to religious shit surrounding him on top of political, they dont really talk. LOL. so norve doesnt rlly care about whats going on between anura and trolen in the present, he only rlly cares if trolen starts to get like, actually upset by whats happening, but trolen doesnt take anura seriously enough rn to be mad abt him rebelling LMFAO.
more recently tho, Anura got a baby Emperor sister named Marigold
and this one norve DOES claim to be his little baby daughter that he loves so much and spoils to death because HE helped make her (he chose the imperials trolen used)
Marigold is really obedient, but Anura is like 90% sure its because of how young she is (shes 50~ yrs vs Anura being a couple thousand), so hes holding out on her starting to turn on Trolen, which is when he’ll take her in. She doesnt really like Anura rn tho. but she LOVES norve and if she isnt hanging out w her mom she is hanging out with her dad. No one knows why Trolen made her tho bc he was pretty blatant that it wasnt for any sort of “family” thing, he wouldve just revived a singular one instead of using a lot of energy for a triple head, so its made a lot of dragons anxious bc whoops another holy war might happen heehee!!!
which that fear is only worsened bc norve is having gay sex with the harvest god.
So. Norve created the dragons of vermin right like theyre the vermin thats what all of these guys are apart of, and as of 100 years ago, Locust joined the dragons of vermin. he is one of the twins that make up the Insecta Kings, and they are the gods responsible for Harvest and etc. Right. so theyre the opposite of the vermin! So why the fuck is one of the harvest gods in the vermin gang and banging the leader.
thats something trolen also wants to know, but many are speculating its because of Norves recent call to murk the fucking Grand Deities (aka Plaguebringer/Gladekeeper/etc.). Locust is a very sleazy/greedy bitch and he wants NOTHING more than to gain as much power as he genuinely can. Hes unfortunately a very polar opposite of his brother Mantis, and just does Not give a proper shit for the people who worship him, and its mostly because hes had no genuine exposure to “human” (dragon rather) mortality or in general experience. Basically he cant bring himself to have empathy for something he knows nothing about personally
anyways so hes been striking deals with Norve in order to push for the killing of the Grand deities, and in the mean time norve accidentally informed him hes gay, which really sucks for the last two wives that Locust killed bc he panicked when he started talking to women. like you couldve told him that sooner?
ok thats all i have for my brain right now. my Lorekeeper Adrasteia holds a current wip that goes into a bit more detail of the individual vermin bitches, on top of the lads having tidbit information in their bios themselves except for like, Norve and Marigold.
