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[shadowknight19kay]

Rook Wednesday: ✒️ Codex / Journal ✒️

Decided to do Rook's schedule from this list, since that is what Silver's notebook is mostly filled with together with recipes and schematics and research notes

6:00 wake up, stretches, exercise, maybe sparring with Davrin

7:00 check in with Lace, see about any plans for today, look over messages from factions together, schedule a proper date

7:30 breakfast and check in with the team

make sure Bellara and Neve eat something (collect them from their rooms if need be)

see if they figured out anything during the night that needs to be looked into

listen to everyone's plans for the day, see who needs to go alone and who should have allies with (perhaps pair off Taash and Emmrich? they need to hang out a little more, Taash could use the exposure and Emmrich needs to interact with people who aren't academics

go through the list of necessary resources, repairs, shopping list etc. Lucanis said he'd handle food, but ask if he needs help

8:00 go out in the Crossroads

check the paths, clear of dangers, especially the ones the team wants to use for the day

clear other paths of Blight, see if you can find other, more strategically positioned eluvians (Minrathous might be good, the high city maybe)

see if the gathering spirits need anything (talking with them still difficult, but I'm getting better at my ancient elven)

11:00 pass through all faction headquarters

leads for Minrathous and the Venatori, follow throw on what Marcus sent about those young scions of powerful families, put in charger of the defence of the Archon's Palace. Some of them have to be in with the Venatori and they are weaker targets than the older, more experienced target (see if Lucanis is willing to join)

see Antoine's progress on Blight research

almost forgot, but lunch with Davrin in Lavendel, he is far too convinced that Anderfels food is all bad and I can't let that stand

the Mourn Watch mentioned that a new corridor suddenly opened, with elven influence in the architecture, take Bellara and Taash (might be too much for them) to investigate, possible piece of the Shattered Library

the Lords have information about some elven ruins that apparently Venatori tried to get into, see what that's about

Taash said they want to see if the Antaam in Treviso also dabbled in dragon kidnapping

Emmrich mentioned some sort of increase in spirit activity in a stretch of Arlathan, check if the Veil Jumpers had any trouble

18:00 hopeful return to Lighthouse and dinner

check in with the team, make sure all went all and everyone returned from their task hale and whole

gear check, none of these people take half as much care of their weapons and armour as they should

18:30 go convince Neve to let you join on her field trip to check a possible lead, especially if she didn't leave the Lighthouse all day

20:00 help Lace with her research, see if she needs any elven texts translated, also continue with gear repair

??? (hopefully no later than midnight): sleep

Note at end of day: I fought a giant mishapen monster made entirely of bones and pieces of masonry, a dragon, even more new kinds of darkspawn and some form of utlra-strong Venatori blood engine. No, none of them happened in the missions I expected them to

(no what are you talking about she isn't too busy)

[shadowknight19kay]

A Signature Scent

Thank you @redaresss for tagging me in this, this was a fun thought experiment.

Here's the picrew I used.

Silver Iseril Thorne

Silver would wear something with notes of leather and pine, but also floral notes, something like rose and lavender, something that feels very natural and wild. Most of this comes from the soap she uses, but she does end up asking her mother for help in making a perfume to wear when she wants to be fancy.

Iustinian de Riva

Iustinian wears perfume as part of his disguises. Scent is very important for memory, so he uses to throw people off his trail or put them more at ease. But the few times he would wear his own scent, it would be surprisingly simple and airy, something with linen and sea-salt.

Gently tagging @woundedsoul12, @in-the-drowning-deep, @larknnightingale, @apothe-cary, @zennihilation, @stormemes11, @teamtakagi, @vishantikaffar, @vanerberries, @wolfmoonwildflowers, @danananab, @amoaliquis, @tieflingsorcerer, @mushrooms-x-moss, @amateursillyman, @onward-dweller, @k1dspl4t, @therivercrow

[croustiluune]

I'm always happy to see Alix and Lucanis together 💖 Thanks @comfortyart for this wonderful illustration of them 💖💖

[amys2885]

Day 2: Injury

[d7kyoshi]

A have zero shame in catching up on lost time with memes. LET THEM KISS SLOPPY STYLE!! @dragonagekissweek

[huehoos]

sorry for absence my life fell apart . but im back w the the poly. and extremely bad sketch that will grow tomorrow but for now i must sleep

[d7kyoshi]

Another fantastic, amazing, wonderful work of art by @acwhiteart!! Thank you so much for knocking it out of the park again with my sweet pair!!! I adore how soft and sweet Lilja and Harding are with each other, especially Lilja Thorne the Hopeless Romantic. I've been staring at this nonstop for days. But can you blame me?! Look at them!!

[the-sparrohawk]

Ghilasara portrait

She is so beautiful. Thank you for letting me paint her, @flowersforthemachines!

More on my process and art journey below the cut, for the one or two of you who may be interested.

So, I really, REALLY would like to learn to paint portraits in a much looser style. There are a couple of artists on here in particular that I absolutely salivate over and I've been trying to learn to create similar pieces. One thing that makes work like this easier is dramatic lighting, and when I saw Flower's recent photoshoot post, I had to give it a try.

And this portrait did start out much looser! My original sketch was very simple.

All her face except the vallaslin was painted in a single additional layer. I did use more layers for her hair because I wasn't totally sure how I wanted to render it and I didn't want to mess up all my good work on her face.

In the end, I think this portrait is lovely and I'm quite happy with how little time it took me compared to similar work I've attempted in the past (the whole thing was pretty much done in a few hours on a single day). There was a time when a three-quarter profile like this would have take ages just to sketch, let alone paint. But inevitably I get dissatisfied and I tweak and fiddle until I've gone way beyond that loose style I'm craving.

I think my next step is to try one or more of the following:

do a stroke-for-stroke repaint of one of the portraits I really admire

set my brush size fairly large and force myself to paint the entire portrait using only that brush

Emmrich Week is coming, so maybe I'll have something to show for my practice then!