#ethren reyes

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I've been pretty swamped with life lately, so here's a big render dump!

The overwhelming majority of my renders never make it online. Some are just test renders, others are parts of unfinished scenes or portraits that were never finalized, and some were discarded in favor of other versions of the same shot. These are some of my favorites from the last few months. It's mostly the retired sages, with some friends to keep them company. Here's some Keisha to start!

for a frame with the dialogue "Do your worst." I generally give Keisha ashy hair for the Century Conflict and silver hair after becoming sage. I have Keisha set as a born spellcaster, so I think I like the idea of her having light hair and pink eyes (despite being an Emiko Mori clone) from the beginning. I gave L (born mundane) normal human skin & eyeebrows, brown eyes, and black hair as a child. My younger Tess models also have normal skin and eyebrows.

fucked up the scaling more than a little bit here lmao - keisha and tess were invisible while I was posing him, and I thought he was going to be leaning on her shoulder 😂 He's only supposed to be 2" taller than Tess, but he's an actual giant here.

i did a render a while back with Flora (purple, Elle DeVampiro's mother-in-law/Keisha's childhood bestie who was tragically turned into a vampire) and Sabina (red, Vlad Straud's master, one of the original vampires). I don't have a huge number of OCs, but I really love these ones ❤️ I can't believe I've reached the point of fleshing out Vlad's master's love life...

I used a vampire version of Dillin Derito to generate Flora. She randomly started out with a facial scar from werewolves despite being set as a vampire. I liked the idea of her being easily recognizable in her dark form to her old friends, so I left it. not sure how she got the scar, but i'm sure it's a fun story.

best friends 😭 why did i decide to kill off flora i love her so much

ok but Morgyn looks PHENOMENAL in that coat. Never really decided what to do with these, so I've got Keisha and Ethren at two separate ages. I think I like Morgyn's outfit the best, but I do really like Ethren in that tailcoat, and I love those gloves on Tess.

pretty Tess is pretty 🖤

from an unfinished scene in which L first meets Keisha. this was quite possibly the first and only time in Keisha's life when she was able to use her height to intimidate someone. she's a tiny smol next to Tess and Ethren!

from an unfinished plot in which Tess has to dress up as a 1930s housewife - Keisha's overall response to her new look is "You are NEVER allowed to get married!!!" but hey at least her drawn-on eyebrows are era appropriate!

from an unfinished scene in which Lilith tries to teach Caleb piano, with mama and papa Vatore in the background absolutely overwhelmed by how heckin cute their babies are (my hc is that mama vatore was a piano teacher so like 😭)

just retired pals being retired pals

i've done a few renders of Tess in this dress, but this one never made it online. pretty tess is pretty!

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baguettes magiques // sages

seriously that's what you call magic wands in french

as i was testing out some spellcaster pose packs for a thing, i realized i never got around to picking out wands for the sages. now i have!

cc and wand assignments below the cut

ethren: magician's wand, because he's named after efren reyes, a poker player known as "the magician."

keisha: bone wand. it originally belonged to her best friend flora, who was turned into a vampire during the war.

L: wand of the elementals. i've seen her use it in-game before, and it feels appropriate with my hc that she found her way to the realm by stealing a glimmerstone.

morgyn: wand of the sylvan forest. i've seen them use it in-game and it matches their eyes

simeon: wood wand. i just like it for him!

tess: wand of the forgotten. she seems like the kind of person who'd have an extra fancy wand. it was supposedly forged from the spirits of the underworld, so that seems appropriate for an untamed caster.

cc

tess: hair by @simkatu

morgyn: hair recolor by me

wands by @immortalysasims

poses from: - simply wanderful by @freezerbnuuy - magica by @honeyssims4 - magical emotions by @yangsims

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Everyone say "thank you, Ethren..."

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New fish and FIRST SMILE unlocked!

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Feeding (and therefore the most important thing) is done 👍

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Great - while Ethren's here to meet his own ex-object, he can do some childcare and we can go outside (in our "too saucy for Simblr" pjs) to work on our COLLECTOR aspiration.

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season of ghosts // ethren & flora & keisha & maria & tess

i haven't been online much lately, but i was doing a few renders for my tabletop campaign and figured i'd post about it.

after going through all the trouble of making a pathfinder party with some of my pixel buddies, my partner and i ended up settling on season of ghosts, an adventure path requiring a different party composition, set in a different region (still pathfinder though). Tian Xia is essentially fantasy Asia. everyone except Tess has been rebuilt.

Something strange is happening to your hometown of Willowshore! Nestled on the banks of a river winding through the legendary Specterwood in Tian Xia’s haunted land of Shenmen, the people of Willowshore are no strangers to supernatural threat, but the danger that comes to town on the first day of summer is unlike anything you’ve ever seen before. Over the four seasons to come, you and your fellow home-grown heroes must face evil spirits, sinister fiends, and frightening curses, lest the town of Willowshore succumb to the Season of Ghosts!

i'm running this for just me and my partner, and we're really enjoying it so far! i saw a recommendation to add a dhampir (vampire spawn) to the party for thematic reasons. flora or even tess were the obvious choices, but i'm attached to their changeling/aiuvarin (half-elf) heritages and decided instead to go for Keisha, who very much looked the part once I lightened her eyes and gave her fangs.

Ethren (Aiuvarin druid, cultivation order) - the party's main healer, focuses on actual medicine rather than healing spells. It's important to have him around because Keisha, as a dhampir, is harmed by divine healing spells. I have him in the cultivation order bc of his neat trait.

Flora (changeling swashbuckler braggart) - literally her whole thing is she says mean things to her enemies and, if she hurts their feelings badly enough, she does massive damage when she eventually runs them through with her sword. also she's good at dodging. her eyes don't match because her mom was a hag (who ate her dad).

Keisha (dhampir oracle of bones) - her whole thing is being SPOOKY. a spooky spooky lady - dhampir oracle of bones??? so spooky! she's the team's backup healer and the face of the group. She isn't as squishy as Tess, but she's still pretty fragile.

Maria (human wood/metal dual gate kineticist) - the player guide recommended wood/metal as a good thematic fit, so I went with it! she hits hard, she can take a hit, and she can grow trees mid-battle that enemies will attack instead of her teammates.

Tess (Aiuvarin psychic, oscillating wave/precise discipline) - same as before, she sets stuff on fire/freezes stuff with her brain. she needs some coddling, but when used to her full potential she's the hardest-hitting spellcaster in the party. she'll crumble to dust if you sneeze on her wrong (11 HP whatsuppppp, Maria has 21), but her spells have ridiculous range (120ft for her main ice spell, 60ft for her main fire spell) so she can stay away from danger.

Ultimately, despite the fact that both Keisha and Flora went down in the first boss battle, we did very well. My team of L1 babies took down a L3 buso and 4 L1 jinkins at once. and Ethren was able to fix Keisha and Flora, so all good!

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Вот и закончилось детство в Форготне. Впереди расцвет юности в спрятанном за лесными массивами Мунвуде, но уже в другой раз. Пришло время попрощаться с Вайолет и вернуться в "круг" [спуки сизон затянулся, Ландграабы там заждались].

Я думаю добавить Ваторе с Вайолет в круговой геймплей, но тогда надо будет целых 6 семей добавлять. А с моим темпом я за год только половину нынешнего круга прошла 💀 Но если сходить с ума, то по полной, верно? Да и Вайолет умудрилась засветиться в жизни постоянницы Ризонн, а Тесс — прямой путь во Вранбург.