#fantasy objectoc

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She is finally complete!!! Sylvania the Elven Ground Staff in the style of World of Relics! Inspired by Sylvania of the Spirit Keep from RAID Shadow Legends.

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Playing with my war-object ocs proportions! Here's a very rough estimation of their sizes below, created from HeightComparison.com:

Most civilian objects are small, around 4ft-5ft-ish. The tallest living objects would be elementals, who can come around average human height. Refits have a wide range of sizes, from 3ft up to 20ft for both civilians, workers, and low/mid-rank war-objects. The largest refits, the Monoliths, can be up to 42ft. Relics can come between human size, or if refitted, over 50ft. The largest living object ever refitted, a project worked on by the combined efforts of allied relics and objects during the Relic War, is Flammagenitus at 68ft.

See size conversion from feet to centimeters in my article, Biology of Living Objects

Size affects how objects need materials for repairs and revivals. The larger the object, the higher the material cost. War-objects are prioritized for most revivals during times of war. Monoliths are expensive to refit and revive, all thanks to massive amounts of material used to refit them. They are restricted to one revival for emergencies. After that, they are considered a loss, and their remains are donated to their kingdoms' civilians and war-objects revival efforts.

Also, Madusa says hi!

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Living object Facial Expressions!

Might clean this up for my World Avil wiki.

Not much to say here on this, but I like having more detailed expressions for my object ocs. Their eyes are large and expressive! Kind of cute!

Some notes: Living objects tend to change the shape of their pupils for their expressions. Slightly cat-like while content, large round shapes for excitement, slits for anger and rage, and shock or horror will cause the shine of their eyes to center and expand inside their pupil. Expression creases are created by ichor pits around the eyes and mouth. These ichor pits are usually microscopic but can increase in size for these expressions. The primary function of these pits is for breathing in oxygen and for hearing.

Sleep is sleep. Ichoridic stasis is a kind of hibernation, usually seen in newly revived living objects recovering from death. Complete burnout is terrifying. Burnout is a painful event when a living object overexerts their powers, leading to rapid magical leak and overheating. Not a good way to go!

Lazarus Taxa. These images are recreations of formally extinct "mortal" fossils found around the Mundane Realm. What a strange species, either object or relic...

Sightings of these are debated among historians.

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Living object life cycle! For a more updated version, see the section Growth Rates and Stages in the article Biology of Living Objects!

Below the break, here's what it says in the images, along with some context!

Image one:

Pericarp (egg) formed in a hatchery inside of an Abbey, a place where young curios are born and raised. It takes five months to incubate, then it hatches. A team of altrices (nurses) led by a Mother come to collect the hatched baby curios and begin caring for them. After five months, the curios go through their first shed and their ichor limbs become more developed. One year, and the curios have a fully formed face and learned to walk and speak. Their cores at this point are a little more refined per shed.

Three-year-old curios can speak full sentences and their limbs are fully developed, allowing them to shift their ichor more easily. Teen curios at the age of thirteen have larger cores and fully formed fingers. They are capable of casting magic at this age. However, fragile curios must begin wearing suppressors to keep their magic from harming them. Hardy curios can go without one unless there's evidence they need it for protection.

Curios are adult objects at eighteen years of age. They are old enough to leave the Abbey and work for a living. They can do apprenticeships under the watch of their Guardian (parent figure), too. As adults, their cores and ichor structure remain the same throughout their adulthood, unless modified by refitting or permanent core and ichor injuries occur.

At 25 years of age, hardy objects can apply for specialized jobs that require refitting (core and ichor modifications), such as becoming an war-object, blacksmith, builders, etc.

Second Image:

Object lifespans. For fragile objects, 40-50 years. Later advancements in magic (thanks to Gwuenevere's discoveries) allow for an additional 20 years. For hardy objects, 90-100 years, with refits living up to 100-120 years. Monoliths can live for over 100 years but no more than 300 years. Elemental objects, 100-200 years. Past 200 they become immobilized or fuse with their environment. There is no revival possible at this point.

Elderly objects lose the luster of their cores and begin shedding material more frequently. Ichor shifting is more difficult. Limbs may shorten or wither away. Past core injury scars become more visible. In their twilight years, elderly objects begin to suffer Crumbling. Their limbs grow weaker and more difficult to move. Their eye's pupils dilated permanently. They are more prone to falls and breaks. If severe injury or death occurs, revivals may not entirely heal any new injuries. Crumbling worsen over years.

End of life. At end-stage crumbling, elderly objects lose limbs if enough of their core sheds away. Their mental state is lost in past memories and dreams of their progenitors' lives before them. They are given hospice care in an Abbey.

True Death. Revivals are impossible at this point because the kernel yielded by the deceased is withered. The germ is extracted and put in a material pile in an Abbey's hatchery. The deceased's remains are then donated to the material pile for future baby curios.

Quick supplemental note!

Crumbling can occur early for living objects who are revived past their revival limits. There's a risk in future revivals may worsen crumbling injuries for young or adult objects. They can still live well with it, but need to avoid any injuries or deaths to avoid making it worst.

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Troubleshooting design concepts for World of Relics:

Spending time figuring out living object anatomy!

That reminds me, I still need to research how material composition may affect anatomy, function, and durability! Along with environmental factors, too. Still researching the topic of alchemy for my magic system.

For the first image:

Object anatomy in its most basic form is easy. But I still like some subtle details like "ichor pooling" to affect how their limbs and facial features work. An object's ichor in its most base unraveled form is a mess of slime-like tendrils. The texture of an object's ichor would feel slightly damp, but not soggy, clay.

Second image:

Head shapes are going to be very interesting to design. It's pretty straightforward with basic shapes but gets weird with irregular shapes. Like, I can see how a hammer can work, what about a halberd??

Look at this pointy boi!

Last image:

The sketch thumbnail I used for Prince Luther and Gwuenevere illustration inked and a few sketches figuring out my sword anatomy. I wanted the swords to float to move around, both in and out of combat, but I need to figure out where their hands and limbs go. Originally, their legs would be their handle. They use their legs normally when walking around, but while fighting other swords or war-objects, their legs become the handle and their hands would grab it, using themselves as an actual sword.

Eh, I decided that would be silly and instead have the mass of the sword's lower limbs absorbed into their upper limbs during the refitting process (objects modified into a new shape). So instead, they would float. During combat, they will use themselves as normal swords (with the ability to cast magic and stuff). For small living swords, they only need one hand to hold themselves and another to grapple with. For larger living swords, both hands are needed to hold themselves and direct their attacks. They will only free one hand for grappling if fighting a flying poleaxe or shield.

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Update on Pyroblast the War-Torch (Paintbrush II fanart)

I sketched out their facial and head anatomy. I like a naturalistic style with my object characters, so I added a slight curve on Pyroblast's head. I also gave them a fuller pompadour bristle style, too! Details below!

Wing anatomy was something I was stuck on for a bit, mostly because I was bouncing between robotic wings vs a more naturalistic bird-like wing. While designing this, I realized that polearm war-objects like Pyroblast would need some protection on their wing joints and shoulder. So I added a pauldron over the should joint that overlaps with the start of the wing and a segmented couter(?) at the elbow. I also added segmented bands over the metal primary feathers of Pyroblast's wing.

As for the material makeup of a polearm's anatomy: Both flying and ground polearms are made of strong light metals and wood. The wings of a flying polearm are made up of aluminum/thin steel sheets (still researching this) enchanted with spells to strengthen them for combat, flight, and high temperatures. Pyroblast is a Heavy Class General Dread-torch, so their materials need to handle stress from high heat from their fire magic, extreme turbulence from the dynamic flight, and from any attacks from other Dread-torches.

Lower rank war-torches are mostly for aerial attacks on ground armies, while Dread-torches are castle destroyers. Castles would need defense against Dread-torches, either from using Dread-torches of their own (provided from their kingdom's capital, usually for heavily targeted castles) or using other means of anti-air defense.

I'm thinking about using this design for future flying polearms set in the Mundane Realm. For RFR, I might use a more simplified style to show how the first flying polearms still kept most of their original weapon shape before the Inversion Event.

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Menathrenna and her spring-chicken running under the shattered moon over the sands of Journod.

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I just celebrated my birthday yesterday! I really wanted to post this drawing of Menathrenna yesterday, but it took a bit longer to complete!

Thank you, everyone, for following me and my art! I am grateful for your support! Thank you!