#mass effect alien

[spazecatart]

I drew a gorgeous original dnd character as a Quarian from Mass Effect for a fandom-crossover art event called Fandom Mayhem on Insta!

character belongs to marumi.arts!

[fiddlesticksss]

I still can't draw for shit but I just had to get in on that trend of drawing yourself as your favourite alien! So here is Salarian May in her comfy jumper.

She's opinionated.

[yesiplaygamez]

Me playing mass effect:

[not-a-newt]

Salarian drawing practice (not really sure how to draw them in my style)

[sentinelcore]

How do you flip someone off with only 3 fingers?

[thenerdcommander]

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I now officially have voice acted my own turian and given her a face.  The only thing she doesn’t have is a name.

She was my first shot at shading without a reference and god dang, never again. She took two days to color.

Also, with that in mind, I didn’t draw her.  I got the base on Deviantart.  The original is here: http://xxalexalancesterxx.deviantart.com/art/Female-Turian-Base-Alternative-506739962

The eye and skin color were pulled from one of my selfies.  Figured that if she had my voice, she may as well have y eye color and skin color.  Tweaked of course.  I’m a pale bean and my eyes are a little more blue/brown than that.

The colony markings are loosely inspired by those seen on Castis Vakarian (Garrus’ father).

[yesiplaygamez]

Me when I play mass effect

[myths-of-fantasy]

Codex Entries (Tulua): Eidolons

Within the ranks of the tuluan military there is one mostly unspoken but highly regaled rank. Once referred to as The King’s Hands, Eidolons are a special force of agents with a certain disposition and sense of honor instilled in them from birth. Historically, the first Eidolons were the highest ranking members of the Royal Guard - the people who carried out the King’s orders directly against the people - who grew disgusted and uncomfortable with the suffering of the commoners. Eventually they teamed up and doxxed not only the crimes committed by their kings but also security flaws in their palace, their true homes, where they slept and the blueprints to their palaces.

All the original King’s Hands were executed for their actions but they are credited with being the ones responsible for official starting the rebellion that would eventually be known as King’s Fall that saw the bloody end of the monarchs in just 30 years.

Though Eidolons had become an unofficial force within the tuluan military long before the turian Hierarchy angrily went after them for activating all the mass relays within their space, when they were faced with the existence of many other species - most of whom didn’t jive with their culture - the tuluan Union wordlessly began actively appointing Eidolans.

Picking the most promising military recruits and individuals with a personal flare and evidence of grand potential that ping on individual members’ radar. Eidolons receive no official training prior to their appointment and though their existence is known about throughout tuluan space, no Eidolons are known by name and there is no officially kept record of the number of Eidolons in operation.

Despite their lack of training, there is a wordless bottom-line that Eidolon perspectives are expected to meet;

They must be fluent in at least two xeno-languages without the use of a translator excluding languages of their own species.

They must be comfortable walking the line between law enforcer and fugitive, understanding that there will be times that the Union cannot and will not protect them.

They must prioritize the safety and sanity of those incapable or merely less capable of protecting and defending themselves over those that can and especially over those of law enforcement

They must be willing and capable of making hard choices when defending the innocent and vulnerable, willing to bloody their hands to preserve others

Everything an Eidolon touches is liable to wrapped in red tape and scoured with a black-out marker, filed under the agent’s codenames. Despite all this, Eidolons do have a biochip that is untraceable by most technologies that operate as a form of digital badge when encountering other Eidolons who possess the only readers of this information. The tuluan Union isn’t stupid either and ensure that each recorded code-name has all the missions that agent was on and if there’s proof that an agent is going rogue, another Eidolon is sent after them.

In order to maintain a decentralized rule of Eidolons, not everyone in the Union knows most or even many Eidolons. It’s generally accepted in fact that you will only know the Eidolons you coined and any that chose to work alongside them. This was  the problem the Citadel Council ran into when they discovered the first Eidolons who were operating outside the Paradise Systems and tried to demand the identities of all current Eidolons. When the Eastern wing head, Ahat flatly informed them that she knew of exactly one Eidolon - who was dead - they switched gears and instead pressured the tuluan Union into accepting the SPECTERs and Eidolons’s Agreement.

The agreement dictates that the Citadel Council can direct and give missions to Eidolons as if they were SPECTEREs and within Citadel Space, obeyed Council laws. If a rogue Eidolon begins causing galactic wide problems, the Citadel is allowed to punish them - up to and including, stripping them of their Eidolon status. Though the agreement was signed, there is still some lingering resentment from the Paradise Systems towards the Council about this considering the Asari Justicars were left relatively untouched by Council law.

Eidolons are officially classified as a sub-branch of SPECTERs in the Council databases and all information about Eidolons is suffocated and hidden for fear that the other races - particularly the Krogan despite their own lack of centralization - may follow in their lead with high-flying secret agents.

The nature of Eidolons as a form of “dirty secret” often results in the Council quietly ordering them to perform missions and deeds they can’t afford their precious SPECTREs taking part in for fear of political retaliation. These are frequently missions that occur in the Terminus Systems, interacting with both the heads of Omega and making under the table deals, erasing “dangerous intelligence” from the databases.