#gilfaeth

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day 5: re-draw an old pic

re-visiting this gil from 2017 that I’ve always liked a lot

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OC-tober 14: Legend

OC: Gilfaeth

Thief King Gilfaeth of Nara-En:

Gilfaeth is the founder of the Gilfaen School of Logic, which was implemented as the basis of all academic curricula in his home country shortly after his death. It still continues to be used as such two centuries later.

He is credited with the invention of the first fully automated irrigation and plumbing system in the world, the first functional, non-magical prostheses, a number of revolutionary medical techniques and the world-wide popular strategy game Zuga.

While Gilfaeth’s academic achievements remain relevant to this day, the more personal aspects of his biography are still based largely on speculation. The at the time illegal nature of his research and social activism would have forced him to lead a secretive, isolated life. It is widely assumed that he operated alone, kept few if any personal connections and dedicated himself entirely to his cause.

Meanwhile, actual historical Gil: Happily married, surrounded by found-family-trope, social and outgoing

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mARTch 16: warm colors

yes I’m a day late leavemealone

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OC-tober 28: Disease

OC: Gilfaeth

this was so rushed I hope it’s at least halfway comprehensible🙈

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OC-tober 17: Lie

OC: Gilfaeth

this one’s late because BOY does gil lie a lot. I couldn’t decide which ones to draw

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OC-tober 8: Graceful

OC: Gilfaeth

Gil, like most of the younger children who can’t work the fields yet, has been on corpse duty for a year now.

With all the dead bodies he drags to the fire pits every day, he's learned a couple of things about how it all fits together. How joints move and muscle pulls and where all the bones are supposed to be, even if he has to reverse engineer some of that from the broken stuff he usually sees.

He has overestimated his own understanding. These bodies aren't joints and muscle and bone, they are water.

He has to learn that.

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*throws a bunch of OC drawings around* LOOK AT MY SON!!

It’s Gilfaeth, or Gil for short! Precious smartass who loves life and music and cries at cheesy romance plays and constantly gets himself into trouble because he can’t keep his goddamn mouth shut and something about cats and curiosity

Also while editing the story I’m writing about him I noticed this particular trend:

*something terrible happens*

Gil: *manic laughter* nO BuT LIstEn IT’s fUnNy iF yOu ThInK aBoUt iT!

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Ok wow, I just wanted to draw a sweet little scene from my novel and I got carried away by details o.O

Those are my characters Ysp and Gilfaeth - and no Gilfaeth is not a child, he’s just a very tiny man^^

Anyway, be nice to your visually impaired fire mages and invent glasses for them please. They’ll become so much better at burning things down.