#patrick hanratty

[nicstylus]

Batu's Faceless One

Completed: November 5th 2025

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Notes:

21 of 21 TFO Cards! This thing wraps up the The Faceless Ones Deck and the Faceless Trilogy Decks as a whole :D!!

I procrastinated so much on adding the entrails. I don't know if I like how they turned out tbh. Static would have done them better for sure, oh well

Like the previous two, Batu's possessed corpse is paler than the Card where he is alive.

Dirt caking it's nails from where Batu was burying the Sceptre.

I went a different route with the lines on this one's 'face'- opting to highlight the skull underneath instead of where everything closed over. I think it looks better, but I'm not changing the previous Cards to match lol

I was originally going to have the outfit in this Card match Batu's, but a few days have passed and I figure Batu would have gone out of his way to wear slightly nicer farmer clothes (to keep up Paddy's cover) for the return of his gods.

Happy fuckin New Year holy shit

Going on a Card Hiatus to take a much needed break reread and annotate/flag the Necromancer Trilogy and fill out the next section of the massive spreadsheet! (although by the time I'm actually posting this I've already reread the trilogy... So now I'm just taking a break for the sake of it lmao)

You can find my spreadsheet for this project here

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[nicstylus]

Batu

Completed: September 3rd 2025

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1 of 21 TFO Cards! So far I've struggled the most with this Deck xD

This will be his only Card (But you'll see his corpse in a separate Card :D )

Why does he appear in the TFO Deck but not the PWF Deck? Great question! Because he doesn't actually appear in the books until TFO. I'm drawing these cards in order of mention/appearance. Cameron Light woulddd kick off the deck, but he spends the entire book being dead, not unlike a certain warlord, and thus will not receive a Card until we meet their alternate selves.

One Card half wrapped in shadow won the poll, and tbh I really like how this one turned out

Batu spends half the book being an anonymous evil employer and part of the other half being Patty Hanratty, clueless mortal (who Landy actually took the time to describe!!) So hopefully this Card conveys that he is in fact, an evil mortal

I'm so proud of those solid shadows. Are they anatomically correct? Ehhhh, but at least you can tell where the light is coming from. Cough.

He kinda looks like Bilbo Baggins but we're going to ignore that...

The ring- instead of being inscribed with evil voodoo- is instead carved with binding sigils (on the inside, which is why Val didn't clock it! Although why she didn't immediately notice her magic dampening is beyond me. Too much going on at the time I guess, and to be fair she's still pretty new at... well, everything really)

I've also included a non-shadowy version because I like how the farm clothes came out lol

You can find my spreadsheet for this project here

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Decks: SOTA || PWF || TFO

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[the-timeless-children]

Valkyrie Cain: Mr Hanratty-

Patrick Hanratty: Call me Paddy.

Valkyrie Cain: OK, Paddy...

Patrick Hanratty: Wait, I've changed my mind. Call me Mr Hanratty.

Valkyrie Cain: Have you noticed any strange people in the area lately?

Patrick Hanratty: Apart from you two?

Valkyrie Cain: Apart from us two.

Patrick Hanratty: Sorry, you're the two strangest people that I've seen in a long time.

Valkyrie Cain: Mr Hanratty-

Patrick Hanratty: Call me Paddy.

Valkyrie Cain: Are you sure?

Patrick Hanratty: Probably not.