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Oh thank god it’s FINALLY LETTING ME UPLOAD it only took six tries and restarting my internet browser.

I have saved SO MANY Inktober prompt lists that I’m just picking whichever themes speak to me on a particular day. Today’s mix is ‘The Warden’ from dankou’s combo Dragon Age list, ‘Dragon’ from cryingmanlytears’s D&D list, and ‘Overgrown Ruins’ from lonelytofu’s Worldbuilding list, so I drew Hestrel Mahariel bow-hunting a dragon.

(This picture is from her darkest/canonical timeline; in my head, she and Tamlen got a happy ending and they’d be dragonslaying together.)

(The Tamlen thing was NOT OKAY oh my god I’m still not over that.)

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Inktober Kitchen Sink, Day 17

Prompt: Yuan-Ti

Behold, one of my old Mary Sue characters! Ariashkona was one of my Baldur’s Gate 2 MCs (or CHARNAMEs, if we’re going properly old school) - I didn’t even play the first Baldur’s Gate until high school, but Shadows of Amn was a favorite from the time I first discovered it, back when computer games were sold in big, clunky cardboard boxes.

I eventually downloaded a few mods, among them one that let you play a ‘holy liberator paladin,’ which was allowed to be Chaotic Good. Ari here was officially a half-elf, but by the time I was done with her she had a large helping of Yuan-Ti Pureblood and Aasimar in her, too (my excuse for making her a hundred different things was that the cult DELIBERATELY bred her to hold the Slayer, since it... really did not make sense for a yokel from Candlekeep to have THAT MUCH of a specific slice of Baal’s power, given the other siblings you meet in the ToB expansion. I had a rationale! It was not a GOOD rationale, but it existed).

This is also reminding me that I have always loved creating overpowered/cheaty characters and I have always looked at the story laid out for them and gone, ‘but can I make it Worse?’

(I wrote fanfic for her; I even still have some of it!)

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Kitchen sink Inktober, days 5, and 6 + 8 (I am getting lazy):

Day 5: DA2 romance, weapon, cave entrance

I am Really Into the idea of Fenris eventually not getting triggered by his girlfriend healing him. Also my main Hawke, Rowena, was a sweet creampuff who desperately wanted him to feel safe and happy, so I feel like this would eventually be a thing that could happen even if it would probably be a That One Person kind of exception, several years post-game.

Day 6: DAI romance, magical artifact, rocky ruins + Day 8: favorite concept art, flower witch, star, hall of deities

Day 6 made me think of the last part of Trespasser but, look, I don’t like being sad, the real world does enough Making Me Sad, so I sat on the idea and then hit Day 8 and got the rest and was like ‘AU! AU God statues! In the Crossroads!’ and this happened. So we have kind of a Hades/Persephone thing going on in a world where they manage to only KIND OF destroy the world to root out the Blight and other assorted problems and Lavellan gets credited with keeping things alive and Solas pretty much gets cemented as the god of rebellion and destruction and both of them are like ‘please stop mythologizing’ and the world goes, ‘shan’t.’

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Inktober Kitchen Sink, Day 2

Today I am revisiting my Forsaken Priestess, Aifhe, because I love her and because ‘zombie’ was on one of my prompt lists. She’s healing an owl. Maybe it got hit by an AoE while she was smacking something to death with the Light?

(I know you can’t heal critters, shhh, we’re pretending.)

Prompts for this one were Skeleton/Zombie from the D&D Mix & Match list,  Owl from Ranefea’s Elves prompt list, Tranquil from the official Inktober list, and there was some inspiration drawn from Nature Untouched from the World Building prompt list, although it’s really not foresty enough for me to feel that I did that one justice. I’m honestly mostly hitting that list up because I never draw backgrounds and I should stop being lazy and art like a grownup at some point before I’m 40.

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Inktober Kitchen Sink, Day 3

For the prompts ‘the Inquisitor’ from the Dragon Age list, ‘roasted’ from the official Inktober 2018 list, ‘pet’ from Nadja Wieland’s character building prompt list, and ‘ancient tree’ from the world building list.

So here’s Ameneth, post-game, camping out somewhere in the Emerald Graves and cooking supper while her hart takes a nap.

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Inktober Kitchen Sink, Day 4 (incomplete)

In theory, this was for the prompts ‘DAO Romance,’ ‘deer’ (with a halla instead for Reasons), ‘home,’ and ‘deep in the woods’ which I did not get to but may revisit at a later date (I was gonna put a few other elves around them and a woodland but OH MY GOD did I ever bite off more than I could chew with this).

Here’s Hestrel again, in the universe where I let her use the Sacred Ashes to stabilize Tamlen long enough for him to get the Joining, too. Everything went very wrong in that universe but it also meant that at the end of things she ran off into the woods with her boyfriend and they were very happy for probably a solid decade before either the world caught on fire or the Calling hit like a freight train.

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I am posting this to remind future-me that I didn’t SKIP today, I wrote 7KPP fic that I can’t post because it’s speculation based on alpha content. Also there’s a drawing but I’m not sure that’s going to be done before midnight.

WHAT IS TIME MANAGEMENT

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Inktober days 1-3 is Dancer Inigo from FEH, because IS gave us cheesecake dudes and I am SO APPRECIATIVE. Also this boy wrecks shit with the right setup. It is hilarious. In other news traditional media is torture, where is my undo button.