#tenos

[mcraftdoodles]

100K on Vodskall

[tassjis]

Now to convince iskall he needs plush merch

[spagnews]

Sneak Peek: Another Life

Reappearing out of the void to post a little sneak peek of the magical au I've been working on. This is from Part 1, entitled Another Life (based on the song by Motionless in White), of the series The Extant Nature of Sacrifice. Another Life itself is primarily a Spommy fic (on brand, I know). I hope you all enjoy <3

“What does it feel like?” Tommy regrets the question as soon the words are out of his mouth. He doesn’t even have to look at Spencer to know that the man has tensed next to him, grip on the balcony turning his knuckles white. “Sorry I-“ Tommy fades and purses his lips. A breeze gusts past, loud in the silence that stretches between them.

 “Cold.” Spencer says, and Tommy startles, blinking as he turns to look at Spencer whose gaze is distant, locked onto something in the distance Tommy may never see. It takes a minute for him to register what Spencer is saying, and before he can interject, tell Spencer that he doesn’t owe Tommy anything, Spencer has decided to continue to speak. “It’s bone-chilling. I always feel like I can never get warm.” Spencer pauses, licking his lips then turning to look at Tommy. “Your magic is so warm.”

There are layers to the words, a weird middle ground where reverence meets jealousy and morphs into something that resembles longing. But the more he looks at Spencer the more he feels the way their magic pulls at one another and Tommy has to tear his eyes away, has to ignore the magnetic pull tugging at the very fibers of his being. Steer the conversation in a separate direction to ignore everything else. “Have you always been forced to hide it?”

[life-winners-liveblog]

YES YES THE MAGICAL BUTTER KNIFE!! (I read a fic with an enchanted butter knife. Until further proof I am going to assume that's the knife.)

- Drexter

Drista? Why are they acting like they are familiar with the butter knife?

Oh I...uhh... I don't know..this knife was definitely not used by a Niki in order to threaten Schlatt into removing her taxes, yeah, never ever!

... Drista...

Hey! It's not my fault! it was a time loop! You should have told Wendarr to stop timelooping random timelines!

Bold of you to assume my father listens to anyone.

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What can I say? as the saying goes: A timeloop a day keeps the doctor away.

No one says that-

Tenos, don't you have anything better to do?

[marshmurmurs]

Guys I am so unbelievably excited for next vhsmp season.

[tassjis]

I want to talk about the Vault Gods and my design process

Each idol was drawn as though they were statues or altar peices, something of worship not necessarily what the gods look like but what the villagers would interpret their looks to be.

First I wanted to ensure that they looked like villagers, or have a villager template. The initial drafts has them with their arms together in a villager pose.

Each design had multiple aspects I gave them, a material, a gem, a minecraft mob, and an item

Idona The Malevolent, kill and sacrifice the marked to appease this god

The idol is designed after cinnabar a toxic red material with high levels of mercury.

Idonas item is the vault hunters altar with reference and designs inspired by Mayan and Aztec sacrificial alters.

They are designed to look like a bat and a Wolf with lots of sharp angles and shapes, with cultish and sacrifical undertones

The eyes are rubies, a gemstone that symbolises life force. They are cut with a 5 point star facet and bezel with means the eyes are also pentacles, there is also a hidden sacrificial knife in the eyes.

They say experience makes you wiser, but is it wise to give it up for treasure? Sacrifice your experience and knowledge to Tenos the Omniscient to be granted treasure beyond your wildest dreams.

Tenos is made of silver or iron, a pure metal that is reflective

Tenos has the enchanting table book, a potion of enchanting and xp balls

They are designed with a lot of softer rounder shapes compared to its counterparts and is based on a polar bear with angelic bird wings to give it a wise and pure vibe.

The eyes are sapphires, with a gemstone meaning of focus and inner vision. Tenos also is the one one to wear a gemstone accessory to give the allusion to a third eye.

Velara The Benevolent, sacrifice your health, sacrifice yourself to appease Velara, only then will you gain the riches

The idol is designed to look like oxidised copper. I wanted Valara to look like an old and ancient god from a forgotten religion, the kind where you find a forgotten statue in a forest overgrown with new life.

The like all the idols, it focuses on a theme relating to what you use to open the altars, so Valaras design is health or in this case life.

Velara has the fern and tall grass as its minecraft item.

Initially designed to be more rabbit like the design ended up becoming vague in animal and more bug like.

The eyes on Valara are emeralds that symbolise rebirth and growth.

Wendarr The Timekeeper, you only have limited time, will you sacrifice some of it to this god for riches?

Wendarr is a brass idol, a very common metal for clocks and timepieces to be made from.

Wendarr is designed to look the most like a villager with wings similar to that of DaVincis flying machine.

Unlike the other gods, Wendarr did not receive a minecraft item as I felt the minecraft clock did not fit the ancient and old aesthetic. Instead, they received an hourglass and an alluded clock face in the background, and some rococo inspired designs in the foreground.

The eyes are made of topaz, which apparently stands for manifesting clarity and astrology?

Anyway that's my thought process and some small details about each God and my designs.

[mcraftdoodles]

The cutest vault gods you ever did see

[spagnews]

Hello hi it’s me after forever of not being here or constantly saying I would come back….

But for real I may drop some snippets of an upcoming fic series soon :) it has become much more of a beast then I originally thought but I have finally made some progress in planning

Maybe I’ll drop some details if anyone wants to drop some questions about it :)