#random citizens

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Graduation exam day at Crystal Cliffs

I’m going with the hc that Crystal Cliffs is magic schools and inject my love for school uniform in it. These would be highschool students

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hi i just wanna say i found ur designs for the cod/ocean empire and mezalean rly frickin cool and it made me so excited about the potential for worldbuilding/fashion and all that jazz :D i was wondering about your ideas on the grimlands? i feel like since the grimlands is more of like land owned by count fwhip (rather than a whole empire) and he takes in lots of outsiders that he saved from being a zombie, so the fashion would be super diverse, but probably have like.. similar color schemes?

Thanks for the compliment, and here's my ideas on Grimlands

I think that fWhip being a count is title he gave himself as a legal loophole that left him with rule of the land and none of the anti-magic laws that comes with the throne. Grimlands still has a throne, but with its deepslate redstone finally being put to good use and its people prospering, no one's calling him out yet.

Despite this, life in Grimlands is, well, grim. Dust storms kicked up from gunpowder and deepslate harvesting, undead crawls the land, scars from the many, many wars it's been through (fWhip's specialty on the server is custom weapons and gear, I want to include it somehow).

Outsiders who come to Grimlands are mostly from the Lost Empire or one of the mountain communities. The style that is in Grimlands, though, favors practicality. When your king- whoops, count, runs around in safety goggles and blacksmithing gloves, looking fancy is frowned upon. This doesn't stop the rich and bored to push things in ridiculous manners, though, so you get neat, tight buns and rugged (make-up) scars under a military hat with gold embellishments. Trenchcoats and batons that's never seen a day of combat.

They look like dieselpunk fashion, is what I'm saying.

As for actual normal people clothes, it's the same thing, only less neat and put together. The average working class person knows how to customize the fuck out of their clothes. Patches, embroidery, buttons, dyes if they're brave enough. Gas masks and goggles abound.

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A pair of fauns and a human for scale. I love my fauns on the tall side. Here we have a Farmlands fancy gal and a blood sheep priestess

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Grimlands miner if your still taking random citizen thoughts?

A chat in the blast mine

Grimlands throw me for a loop bc fwhip’s skin is a 19-sth aviator outfit, his builds are dark fantasy, his trade includes gunpowder, and there’s that business with the deepslate redstone. I just aimed for sth vaguely industrial here, bc the fashion I intend to give his empire (dieselpunk) doesn’t have a lot in terms of work clothes

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Okay this isn’t in the list of suggestions (thanks y’all that’s gonna keep me from combusting from shit brain disease) but I’d like to revisit the first random citizen, a Pixandrian beekeeper

Beekeeping in Pixandria is mostly done in greenhouses, but there are a few nomadic beekeepers who roam the outer desert, chasing cactus flowers in the summer and an ever-shifting map of water wells, aquifers, and oasis in the winter. It’s a dangerous life, but cactus honey is a Pixandrian delicacy, and the honey trade is so profitable it gained the nickname “liquid copper” (and you’ve seen how much copper trades for on the server).

The symbols on the hives are to mark their growth, once the bees cover up one symbol with a layer of cells, the beekeeper draw the next, counting outwards until it’s time to harvest

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Seadweller fashion for the Ocean Queen! Being one of the richest empires (ocean’s blessing is both a greeting and very literal), everything is just extravagant and decked out in jewels, gold, enderpearls, prismarine scales, and coral. The patterns on their outfits are inspired by flapper era dresses and made out of intricate glass beadwork. A lot of big poofy sleeves but no long trailing bits bc those are a pain to deal with in water. No shoes either. They also uses glittery body paint to trace the patterns on their face and limbs sometimes.

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Next up are Mezaleans! They are ceramic and clay constructs powered by joel’s very own souls. Every time he dies he powers a new one.

The style here is on the formal side, lots of bright colors and patterns bc glazed terracotta, gloves bc clay smears everywhere and jewelries (mostly in the form of pins) worn close to the body bc ceramic is fragile won’t take getting hit by a pendant well. Fabrics are always waxed to trap moisture in and stop the soft clay bits from baking in the hot dry air of the mesa, or if you’re really fancy then it’s silk

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Some Pixandrian border guards on a slow day

Pixandria is one of the few empires that actually have to guard its borders due to its pillager patrols problem. They’re split into 2 teams: one with Loyalty tridents for ranged attacks, and one with shortswords and really good speed and stamina. Focus on the tridents and you get a backful of stabbing, focus on the shortswords and they’d just lead you away from the border and hide (that’s what the double sided cloak is for). There’s comms in those helmets, hence the antennas.

They have a custom of carving a face or an eye on the back side of their helmets. It’s been so long no one remembers exactly why, some says it’s to make it so that you’re not turning away from the empire, some says it symbolizes vigilance. They all agree that it should look kind of spooky, but skill level varies so some carvings come out looking incredibly derpy