#pathfinder au

[bluebellowl]

Commission piece for the wonderful @lillabeast of her Pathfinder AU Ingo

Thanks for letting me go hard on the textures. This was really fun :D

[lillabeast]

Finally got my art fight profile done!! i dont have a lot of characters.. because this is my first year!! Ive been working on setting up refs and art for awhile! Art fight is Lilla Beast <3!!

[silvermistanimelover]

Hero of the Tempest

So I've been on this kick of creating Original Heroes within the Zelda realm (Linked Universe specifically). I've created five so far, so I'll probably start drawing and introducing them one by one.

Happy to introduce Linka'ar, the Hero of the Tempest. He's the fifth hero in the timeline after BotW/TotK. He's a natural-born Gerudo Male (though not the only one in his generation, it's still exceedingly rare).

Click below for more details on his story and some fun facts about him!

Though his childhood was rather rough due to the stigma of being a male Gerudo, he had a loving mother growing up. Though she was taken by illness when he was young (probably around 12), he was quite self-sufficient and already showed immense talent with the art of enchantment.

He has a particular gift with creating magical enchantments. Instead of merely carving the runes into the object he's trying to enchant, he's created a method of engraving the magic itself onto the item, allowing for an enchanter to alter or edit the enchantment when needed, as well as fit more magic and specifications on the item than the usual method would allow. As such, by fifteen, he was running a rather well-off business.

He saved a young Hylian Kestral (a desert dwelling wind-attribute bird native to the Gerudo Desert) and named her Spreena. Said bird is incredibly loyal to him and becomes his companion on his Journey.

Linka'ar begins his first Journey at age fifteen, after a dream from a Goddess warning him of a coming evil. This leads him to his Zelda—a princess whose Sheikah father has passed on the trait of white hair and an aptitude for stealth. Though her father, the former king, is no longer alive, her mother, the Queen, is very much alive and healthy and ruling quite well.

Jumping ahead in the plot, the Demon King Ganondorf (from TotK) managed to shove part of himself in a shard of the Secret Stone and over the past thousand years or so, he's managed to form another body for himself. His revival has created what people call "The Tempest"—an explosion of Malice (nearly Gloom) across the land.

Malice Storms envelop the major areas of Hyrule—from the Rito and Zora settlements, to the Hylian, Sheikah, Goron and Gerudo ones. These Storms involve high winds and Malice raining from the skies like acid. Linka'ar must use a special crystal given to him by the princess to weather these storms and destroy the core—in most cases, this is some kind of boss monster at the end of a dungeon.

Malice Storms will also occasionally travel across the land, destroying crops and harming livestock. It also can taint the water sources, so Linka'ar is forced to create purification-based enchanted items to add to the lakes and rivers.

In short, Linka'ar ends up having three Journeys, though the latter two take place in the bordering kingdoms of Rajwal and Ashtern (two kingdoms of my own creation).

His first Journey takes place when he's 15 years old. His second at 17, and his third at 18 (mere months after the completion of his second Journey).

Though he and his Zelda are not romantically involved, the two get along quite well as a pair of best friends with equally strong wanderlust.

Fun facts

At one point during his first Journey, Spreena gains a goddess-given ability to grow to something akin to Loftwing size, allowing Linka'ar to ride her places.

Also at some point during his Journey, he finds and obtains the Sword of the Hero—a blade forged by the Hero of Divinity, who comes right after the Hero of the Wild. It is said that the Sword that Seals the Darkness was lost somewhere around the era of the Hero of Ruins.

Loftwings have made a reappearance in the world by this point. There are Sky Knights who fly about Hyrule and its lands to protect the people from any airborne dangers. The Sky Knights had a lot of trouble with the Malice Storms

The Zonai Sky Isles have been re-discovered, though most of the Zonai inventions are too complex for most people to make sense of, or has too few resources for people to further develop.

The ruins of Skyloft are also still there, above a pierced cloud barrier. However, the Goddess Hylia has a secondary barrier around what is now called the 'Sacred Isles', and only those who she takes a liking to are allowed entry.

At one point, Tempest rides Spreena up to the Sacred Isles. He eventually meets the Goddess Hylia, who enjoys taking a mortal-like form and pranking the Sky Knights who she allows up there. There are rumors among the knights of a pretty girl who lives on the island, but hardly anyone actually has the chance to speak with her. Tempest is among the few who gets to sit down for a conversation.

Hylia eventually reveals who she is to him and offers him special training. Since the ruins of Skyloft are considered a realm between the gods and mortals, she's able to temporarily revive those whose spirits rest among the gods. With his permission, she calls upon the Hero of the Skies—the Link from the Skyward Sword games—to personally instruct Linka'ar on swordsmanship (he's very good with a scimitar, but a broadsword isn't really familiar to him).

I do have a story planned (not sure if/when it'll ever be written) that is Linked Universe-centric. Wild, taken from the Chain with no warning or time for farewells, is sent back by Hylia to his own lands. It takes 7 years for the TotK Journey to begin, and a year and a half to complete said Journey. When all is said and done, he's given up hope of ever returning to the heroes—it's been 9 years, after all.

So when a portal appears, he's sick with hope and worry. He's overwhelmed with disappointment when he realizes it's not a portal to bring him back to his brothers, but a portal for him to gather new ones.

Wild becomes the leader of a group of 5 heroes—all ones who come after him. They look at him with the same admiration as the others would look at Time. Somehow, Wild becomes the leader of this new Chain, the 'Old Man', if you will.

The plan for the story is to have them stumble upon the original Chain a year into their travels, merging the two together and letting chaos ensue.

The story's concept is called Pathfinder.

I hope you all look forward to seeing the other heroes in my Pathfinder AU.

[waitlexist]

Ok, so what if i do the writing I planned today--

"NO."

w-wha.

"AZUL ASHENGROTTO CHARACTER SHEET."

h-huh-- wait -- well, fuck.

yeah... i have too much free time on my hands.

[1fr0rg]

BOOM- Sally!!!

So, some little teeny tiny bits of Lore(???)

She an astral elf Bard :> (But she came down to earth [mayhaps because she missed a certain person wink wink nudge nudge])

She plays a small harp as her primary bardic weapon, and the strings turn the colors of the pride flag when she plays it!

She also knows how to play the Violin, Flute, and Trumpet

By far, she is the sassiest person you will ever meet, the only one who can calm her sass is Julie hehe

She loves putting on a show with her instruments to anybody willing to listen, especially when thieving

Speaking of which, before finding Wally and joining the Commune, she was a simple pick pocket that wandered from city to city, conning, picking, and pocketing whatever she could get her hands on!

[iulie-o]

Trying to get back in thorki mood by dicking around with some old ass concepts, since I took a couple of weeks off and wanted to rework some pages - 21, brush-inked, years old pages, at that - I did on an old Pathfinder thorki AU.

Man, I really hate working on layouts… I’m, like, one week in and I only did those for the first three pages! (T▽T)

[luz-is-a-dice-goblin]

Luz becomes a dice goblin

Alright, so let’s start things off with some headcanons concerning how Luz get’s into Pathfinder/DnD and Tabletop RPGs in general, and then summarily starts roping in everybody into playing with her in the Boiling Isles.

-Luz, being a young teenager firmly in the grasp of loving fantasy, and having just finished one of the Good Witch Azura books, immediately starts scouring the internet for all things fantasy, hoping to find something to hold her over until the next book comes out -This, crossed with her enjoyment of anime (looking at you FMA), is what leads her to discover, but what else, a lovely little show on the internet where a bunch of nerdy-ass voice actors sit around, and play Dungeons and Dragons. Because of course -Now, she absolutely gets hooked, and spends many a night binging CR, but soon switches to listening to the podcast to be able to listen-in while doing other things  -This leads her to start looking into DnD, but since she was early on in the campaign when doing so, discovers Pathfinder at the same time -While she does get a bit turned off by the sheer amount of rules content Pathfinder 1E has, she does see that they’ve just released a brand new version of the game, in Pathfinder 2nd Edition. -(Yes, she pirates the PDFs, we’ve all done it, and she’s 14. She ain’t got the money for this habit. Also all of Pathfinder’s rules can be found online for free, on an official site no less.) -(She does still buy some sets of Chessex dice, because pretty click-clacks are addictive as all get-out) -So she gives it a bit more of a look, and starts looking into the adventures and the setting for Pathfinder, and finds herself diving deeper and deeper into just how much of the world is fleshed out. -Like seriously, we’re talking a full-on, multicultural world, that takes inspiration from cultures all over the world. (though I’ll fully admit, it’s definitely on the darker side of the spectrum) -As opposed to DnD and... the generic stretch of fantasy that is the Forgotten Realms. -All this to say, she loves the world, but doesn’t really get all that much of a chance to play before eventually getting whisked off to the Boiling Isles. -She does try a few times to play online with randos, but none of them are good experiences. (I speak from personal experience on this one, honestly) -Her first character is a Half-Elf Witch named Luzura, because of course it is.

-Once in the Boiling Isles, PF obviously takes a bit of a backseat, as Luz is now back on her GW Azura hyperfixation, having recently been able tog et her hands on Book 5, and has been able to geek out about that with Amity. -But eventually, one day, while everyone’s over at the Owl House, Gus asks after certain human games, and which leads Luz into the tangent of dice, which leads into her explaining the concept of TTRPGs to the curious witchlings. -Reactions are, obviously, mixed. -Gus is obviously fascinated by humans’ attempts to use math-based systems to be able to experience the wonders of magic themselves. -Willow thinks it’s a neat idea, but is a bit hit or miss on actually wanting to try it out. -Amity thinks it’s somewhat weird at first, but with how passionately Luz goes into it, and how it’s a perfect way of being able to live vicariously through the actions of a character, she starts to warm up to the idea. -Eda mocks the whole affair, and while King initially shares this opinion, he is easily turned around by the ability to lead grand armies against his enemies. -So Luz runs to her bag, grabs her dice and her phone, and starts introducing them to the wonderful world of Pathfinder.

[etherealfaun]

fuck around and find out

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