#shepherdsofhaven

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Been a while since I drew a portrait of my @shepherds-of-haven mc! I love her so much and I’m happy with the scar. I adore my new alcohol markers and I’m excited to explore more characters and scenes now I’m in the drawing place again and I’m looking forward to improving more!

[scramblestudiosblog]

So it’s been a while since I posted here! I got a new job which is amazing but this also meant my first pay check! I spent a lot of it on a tablet to make work on! I had no idea if it would even be something I was okay at. This afternoon it arrived! And after the stress and confusion of setting it up I spent two hours experimenting to create this drawing! I’m so excited to keep practicing and get even better at it!

So here as always I started with my @shepherds-of-haven mc, a half-elf mage called Nirina who despite being hardened and grumpy by nature, can’t help but be softened by her friends in the Shepherds 💙

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Starting off my Tumblr journey with a quick watercolour sketch of my MC from my favourite interactive fiction book at the moment! @shepherds-of-haven

Their world building is amongst some of the finest I’ve ever seen 🖤

This is a small sketch in a tiny sketchbook with a 2B pencil under layer and a light watercolour wash over the top 🖤

[merrybeary85]

Just sketching lovely lady Rhiannon #shepherdsofhaven #oc #originalcharacter #drawing #sketch #digitalart #procreate (at Mulberry, Florida) https://www.instagram.com/p/CJIZXD7nGTn/?igshid=kljdvv1cpygy

[shepherdsofhaven]

Okay I’ve thought more on the Ember Island Player’s thing in Shepherds of Haven. What if the play differs based on how the public perceives you and what your reputation is at that point in the game? If you have a good/high reputation, the play will be an epic and heroic retelling of your adventures that’s just comically inaccurate (Caine is an infant, etc.). If you have a bad/negligible reputation, the play is still inaccurate, retelling the events of the game, but it leans more towards propaganda about the Autarchy and how good it was that they thought to establish the Shepherds’ Order and how the MC’s actions have largely been orchestrated by the Autarch. Both plays paint the MC in the way that the city thinks of them. 

At the end of the play, the audience members get a small keepsake from the troupe. In the “good” play, the MC gets a little doll of themselves that grants a bonus to one of their stats. Little kids leave the play playing with the dolls like action figures and yelling about how they want to grow up to be like the MC. 

In the “bad” play, everyone gets an artist’s sketch of the Autarch LOL. If the MC throws away the sketch, the Inquisitors converge and beat the shit out of them jkjk. 

[shepherdsofhaven]

I know you said it as a joke but the ember island style play could actually work. Like the reason it worked in avatar was because the overarching story was about a war and the play scene showed how the concept of war had become completely mundane to them after constant conflict, and gave the main cast a chance to reflect on their actions. So if you wanted to do something similar you would just have to find a way to connect it to the overarching story and squeeze in some character development.

I like it and agree! There is a spot for it in the main story, too–there’s a big festival that the MC can go to with a date near the end of the game–but I worry that the Ember Island reference will be too strong haha! I’m adding it to my notes though!

[shepherdsofhaven]

Besides the MC, if we adopt Caine, which of the characters does our boy hang out with the most?

Good question! If he’s recruited into the Shepherds, he most likely will be Shery’s apprentice (there are some variables that determine this), so he’s helping her out during work hours and running back and forth doing errands. 

In his free time, though, when he’s not dogging the MC, he’s most likely goofing off with Trouble and Chase. Everyone likes him (and he likes them all), but Riel doesn’t know how tf to talk to kids, Tallys and Halek are a little too calm and mellow for Caine’s super-excited personality, and he and Lavinet don’t share anything in common. (And Red and Ayla are usually doing their own separate things. Like dangerous magical research unsuitable for young boys.) Once he gets comfortable, he worships the ground Blade walks on, but Blade is usually doing commander things and is a little too busy to hang with Caine frequently.

He tried to talk to Mimir once, but she informed him that she can see how many kids he may have in the future, and now he… doesn’t hang with Mimir anymore. 

[shepherdsofhaven]

i notice you like a lot of nintendo stuff, so... what pokemon would each character have? :3 or maybe what type of trainer would they be?

OH MY GOD I NEVER REALIZED HOW MUCH I NEEDED THIS QUESTION IN MY LIFE.

(Mains are bolded)

Blade: Dark/Fighting trainer. Team: Ceruledge, Bisharp, Aegislash, Lucario, Greninja, Shiftry 

Trouble: Steel/Electric trainer. Team: Luxray, Boltund, Tapu Koko, Scizor, Pyroar, Toxtricity 

Tallys: Grass trainer. Team: Sawsbuck, Tsareena, Vileplume, Meganium, Leafeon, Decidueye. 

Shery: Normal/Fairy trainer. Team: Chansey, Togepi, Cinccino, Alcremy, Milcery, Polteageist 

Riel: Psychic trainer. Team: Gallade, Gardevoir, Alakazam, Reuniclus, Espurr, Mewtwo. 

Chase: Dark/Poison trainer. Team: Thievul, Sableye, Liepard, Umbreon, Roselia, Gengar. 

Red: Fire/Psychic trainer. Team: Arcanine, Cosmog, Noctowl, Unown, Delphox, Wyrdeer. 

Ayla: Flying/Ground trainer. Team: Archeops, Sandslash, Mudsdale, Braviary, Marowak, Nidoqueen. Bonus: Copperajah 

Halek: Dragon trainer. Team: Dragonair, Altaria, Drampa, Kommo-o, Tropius, Appletun. 

Lavinet: Fairy/Ice trainer. Team: Granbull, Sylveon, Alolan Ninetails, Primarina, Froslass, Dewgong. 

Mimir: Ghost/Psychic trainer. Team: Mismagius, Mimikyu, Wobbuffet, Gothitelle, Hatterene, Indeedee. Bonus: Jynx

JESUS CHRIST

Caine: Normal/Rock trainer. He’s only caught two Pokemon so far: Rockruff and Eevee!

Added later:

Briony: Fighting/Water trainer with some Fairy/Psychic leanings. Stufful, Milotic, Cinderace, Dewott, Jolteon, Galarian Rapidash.

Croelle: Dark trainer. Houndoom, Mightyena, Mandibuzz, Absol, Zoroark, Yveltal.