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Nohr, for his glory

“We must build a future for ourselves, without the need for blind faith. Without Gods. We can only have faith in each other, and it must be earned. Am I worthy of yours?”

(already did one fully shaded thing today and this guys got armour so I’m being lazy)

I’ve shown off the design of The First Nightlord in just armour, but I deliberated and decided that ultimately I wanted him to be an evil prettyboy. Because I can.

When you combine Alexander the Great, Messmer the Impaler, and Scar, that is who I envision Nohr to be.

The man who ultimately made Vetrheim, and Nohria to an extent, what it is, and began the cycles that would define life upon the land.

In my mind he haunts the worldbuilding in a wonderful way, he has been dead for so long, but the things that he did are still having their consequences.

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And to deliver on the full design, here's what I have for Nightlord Camilla.

Whilst that first portrait was coloured, and I do want her scheme to be mostly cold, dark blues (with a little gold), I just decided to go greyscale for this (except the eyes)

As you can see she is super into her branding, I probably should've made the skulls bigger, since they're intended to be previous challengers.

Also for the art itself, I don't typically do the "eyes go over the hair" thing but I just really liked how they turned out and it made me sad covering them.

Did something a little different too in that the very first sketch was done physically, before I went over it again digital. I planned to do the whole design traditional, but I liked the sketch I did in terms of proportion practice so decided to keep it untouched.

Also dresses are my cheat code for how much I struggle doing legs.

It is rather funny how this literally who character with nothing to do with the campaign took over. Quite in-character I should add.

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Thought I'd put together the Remire portraits seperately because I really do like how these turned out, I managed to put some pretty neat details in, and doing such stark shading/colouring was a ton of fun.

I also never know when to stop talking about something, so a little info on the characters and details for the lore blog:

Rom Bopulus is a Wight, albeit a pretty short and scruffy one, and he was always pretty readily referenced from Sceleritas Fel from Baldurs Gate.

Shit the Chef (canon) is a Ghast, and yeah I legitimately practised and honed his voice/personality without ever giving him a name.

Lady Kärrhäxan (known as Lady Sher), a form taken on by The Witch of The Garden in order to reclaim some debt Lord Remire owed her. Though this form is mostly reflective of how she once looked, a glassy and distant eye is indicative of her true form.

Valentine, the ballroom dancing Vampire, god what an absolute, just, bastard this guy is. Look at that smug motherfucker. I also did not mean for him to look like Matt Mercer but here we are.

The Conductor is actually a creature known as a Crypt Chanter, though in official art they are typically shrouded in robes, I just directly referenced standard Conductor attire.

And lastly Shrike, the Shield Guardian, featuring a little emblem of their namesake.

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A chill wind blows in, one that strips the last embers of orange and red from the trees. Left in the winds wake are the gnarled branches of bare deciduous trees, alongside the dark, stalwart towers of conifers. These dark woods lie between mountains, shrouded by fog, and trapped in eternal dusk, in a place known as:

I've had the idea to try create some shlocky, castlevania-inspired poster for Remire Valley for a fair while, and it was so fun to make!

Pretty much everything around the poster is based upon the third and final session of the mini-campaign, so only the final 3 party members made it. I couldn't remember a whole lot about specific design traits (they were mini-campaign characters after all), but went for "Green Evil Fucking Wizard" for Bolfar, general priestly attire for Damien, and then I straight up gave the Simon Belmont getup to the Tiefling barbarian who I have tragically forgotten the name of Zachary :)

What I surprisingly ended up having the most fun with was the starkly highlighted portraits of various characters that showed up in Remire Keep. If anything I think this style was inspired by the Cowboy Bebop intro style, but again aimed for that shlocky movie poster feel.

From top to bottom we have: Rom Bopulus, Chef (also affectionately known as Shit), Lady Sher (who imo turned out as like one of the cutest characters I've ever drawn for some reason?), Valentine (wait a minute Matt Mercer what are you doing here), The Conductor, and finally Shrike (who looks fucking awesome, probably my favourite of the portraits).

This takes the record for the most layers I've ever used (I think it ended up at like, 18 or something stupid?) and they are horribly organised so I don't have any meaningful alternatives to share.

Anyways, very pleased with how this turned out, Remire Valley will always be a special little thing to me.

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Nightlord Camilla Hresvelg

Fucking WHO??????

This part of the world is so far removed at the moment that this character is entirely OC territory, hardly counts as an NPC.

But yes, Nohria brainworms have taken root and now it is the part of the world I will write and develop continuously for whatever reason. If there's ever another circumstance to run another mini-campaign, guess where it's going.

Anyways, fuck it, here's the OC, the current sovereign of Nohria, Nightlord Camilla Hresvelg. She has ruled for the past 95 years, and is the longest reigning Nightlord ever. That being said, she also singlehandedly brings the average up by about 30 years.

She took the title after a planned assassination turned into a violent struggle, then turned into a public execution. I think that's a good starting point.

The length of her reign is also.. shall we say assisted by a certain.. quality of hers. No clue what that could be, probably nothing to worry about.

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Adventurers Guild Logo

Surprised it took me this long to figure this out, but this is the symbol of the Continental Adventurers Guild, found emblazoned across their outposts.

The sword, fist, key, arrow, and staff roughly correlate with members of the guild committee, but are just general symbols of the practices of adventuring

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Here are (most of) the little profiles I made for the NPC cards, I assume we lost Adam along the way bc he wasn’t in my bag T-T

You can absolutely tell which of these characters I’ve drawn more than once before, and the ones that I completely improvised

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Anathaema update, and a smidge of Black Flame lore

To go along with my update to Camilla, I decided to redo her opposition that she should totally just kiss, Lady Anathaema. She didn't undergo much of any design changes, but the ceremonial blade lands a definite place in her design.

To coincide, I thought I'd lay down a little more info about the Black Flame itself, since I can't recall exactly how much I've explained about it. It is the object of Anathaema's worship, and what the Lanterns have been built around, wielding it themselves for their own designs.

The flame itself differs from ordinary fire in that rather than emitting light, it consumes it, and not only that, but it can reduce almost any other material to nothing but ash and smoke. I like portraying it as basically monochrome, so even with the name it may very well display shades of grey.

As for its source, I of course can't divulge that here and now, but it is unknown to basically everyone, save very few. What I can say is that Black Flame is connected to different forces than those of the Nocturnal Storms, and the darkness that chokes all of Nohria. Multiple flavours of darkness and evil are making a fucked smoothie out of Nohria.

It is also greatly inspired by the recurring imagery employed in fromsoft games, such as the dark pyromancies in the souls series, and the godskin incantations of elden ring. Black fire is just fucking cool.