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THAEGAN AND HER BROOD!!! Thaegan's design was done by @calpalsworld and it goes so hard <3 Both of us interpreted her book of monsters design as like. Naked and covered by a veil of magic lol. So with this one, Cal was going for a mass of darkness bursting out of a cracked facade of magical energy. The rest of the designs were all me babyyy. For those, I tried to strike a balance between the book of monsters and anime designs. I really like how grotesque they are in the book, but I enjoy the pokemon-esque feel of their anime counterparts. Zod is the only one I ripped straight from the book. I also drew on a lot of different animals, obviously. I'm suuuper happy with how these turned out. And since the children will only have one talksprite each, I'll be able to go hard on texture and detail once I get to the final art.

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okay so I maybe got a little re-obsessed with Deltora Quest? Only a little I promise (I'm actively trying not to pick up the books).

This is a Jasmine design from @deltoravivisection (complete with a Kree) and I am IN LOVE WITH HER. ALL OF THEM. I CAN'T AFFORD ANOTHER HYPERFIXATION RIGHT NOW PLEASE.

Anyway as usual tumblr fucked up my quality, but hey nothing new.

@transhitman Sorry I didn't know if you wanted your vivisection tag or your normal one so I used both 😭

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Gorl as well : ] Sorry but I've always sort of hated the monochrome thing. COLOR BE UPON YE. There will also be some etchings on the armor when it's finished.

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AFTER A THREE MILLION YEAR SLUMBER IT'S TIME FOR ANOTHER SCRIPT UPDATE!!!

V1.3 PATCH NOTES

Fixed minor continuity and grammar issues in main quest

Added: dialogue files for stationary NPCs – ETHENA, FA-GLIN, FARDEEP, GLA-THON, MANUS, NANION, and ZEEAN.

Added: many short, optional scenes that can be viewed by drinking from the Dreaming Spring.

General Progress Update: I won't lie, it's been slow. General life events and getting heavy into other media have both put this project on the backburner for me. I haven't been doing much art lately, as I've been focused on spending time with my own original characters. I'm going to be taking a genuine hiatus for a bit. I've got a wild summer ahead of me tbh. My next focus is going to be captioning the first episode of the DS gameplay I recorded! I'm probably hyping it up way too much, but I'm very excited to have it translated. Episodes will also release very slowly, but they WILL come out. After that, I'll start work on the last NPC dialogue sets (the characters who appear at Steven's camp). After that will be the party, and then I'll only adjust the script as I design maps and add interactions with the environment!!! YAHOO.

Thinking way, way ahead into the future, once I'm done with this script I was toying with the idea of making a short (like SHORT short) game involving my own original characters and setting in order to get familiar with actually making games, and to test out all the ideas I have for gameplay. But I really don't know how life is gonna continue to kick me, so we'll get to that part of the timeline when we get there I guess. Anyway, enjoy the update! *Closes my eyes and falls into an eternal slumber*

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Commissioned some equipment designs from my good friend thrallcreates a while back and forgot to post them here ^___^ (can't @ him he doesn't have tumblr but go follow him on insta and twitter) SO hyped about these things. Will probably edit them a bit but you will be seeing most of these in some form or another in the game. 1, 2, 3, 4, and 14 are Lief, Jasmine, Doom, Dain, and Barda's primary/starter weapons respectively and I think they look excellent as is. 7 is a dagger made from one of the wennbar's teeth and 8 is a greatsword made of a Sand Beast's limb. The rest are miscellaneous. I'm a HUGE fan of 9c and 10b. Just fantastic.

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OH MY GOD I NEVER ACTUALLY POSTED MY QUEEN BEE DESIGN. This one is definitely not book-accurate but like... sorry. The book design is boring to me 😅 The thing on her head here is one of those medieval-style beekeeper masks. (She uses it like a sunhat when her hood is down.) Her cloak is lined with slabs of honeycomb and functions as a giant artificial hive. I really wish she was more expanded on in canon, so I rewrote her slightly and gave her a more comprehensive backstory. The long and short of it is that she was (what would in modern terms be called) an animal psychologist with a specialty in entomology before she founded her orchard. I imagine she was the bug-lover equivalent of Doran -- but not as widely published. She gave up adventuring when she had her kids and shifted focus to the selective breeding of bees and plants to bring out their arcane properties. I imagine the trees in her grove are a special type in the same order as the lilies of life, hence their invigorating and healing properties. This will probably not be all that touched-on tbh but I think "ex-adventurer turned mad scientist" is a cool backdrop for her whole deal.

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Of course Steven would be the first character whose sketches I finish. Also happy late one-year to this blog! I sometimes feel like this is going to be some kind of forever project, but when I look back at everything I've done, I realize I actually have done a lot! I'm very pleased with how far I've come, and even though it's taking longer than I expected, I don't see myself ever quiting for good. Artfight will take up a lot of my time and brainpower, so I'm gonna be pretty slow for at least another month, but I will continue to chip away at DV. Thanks for sticking with me. Anyway. Get Stevenpilled.

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Super rough Kin talksprites + finished overworld sprites ^___^