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Wushia is the land of light magic on the far Western border. Those people possessing horns of the unicorn own a unique power; they can see the futures of others, but never themselves.

The alternate title for this is:

The Feeling of Despair when Your Scanner Isn’t Big Enough to Fit Your Whole Paper, and is Bad Anyways.

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Rest In Peace Quality

#Thystos Art #Mommaran #traditional art

{Saint} Quekkaran of Wushia goes through a lot in her life, but ends up a mother of two, even though she can never return to her country because she broke one of their strongest tenements of life: to kill another mortal.

I was gonna animate this but man the time it took just for this.... I want to do some other things!

Progress Shots

#Mommaran #thystos art #Thystos OCs #Thystos pixels

Every child of an Elder Race has no mother,

For in their birth they spell her demise.

Ezlo is the last Blood Mage, an orphan rescued by King Gavalan before fear of the masses could spell his death. For fear of harming others with powers he views as accursed, he attempts to frighten people away with cold words and frightening dress.

They’ve all long-since realized that he can manage no harm, and his true self is one far too caring and altruistic for his own well-being.

Guard: “The head mage? That would be Ezlo. He's an Elder Race...an' probably the last of his kind, too. He's an orphan, like pretty much all of the Elder Race children, and had it real rough because his powers are a bit sinister. The King more or less adopted him – saved his life too, from what I hear.”

Guard: “He wears these scary robes and mask, and tries to be real intimidating. Loves to think that he's scary and that'll keep people away from him – I think 'cuz he's scared of people getting' too close. Everybody loves him though. He's a bit awkward and tries so hard to be strict...but honestly you're pretty likely to hear him stutter mid-sentence than anything.”

Guard: “Ezlo's power is blood manipulation. His and others both. Apparently he bleeds yellow, and it burns things that come into contact with it. Smells real bad, so sometimes after missions he comes back smelling like something rotten and burned...It takes a lot out of him. I think he hates himself for it.”

#Bug Knights #when you need a title for your project #Ezlo the last Blood Mage #thystos art

Liar Liar

#Lie #cybernetic wastelands #gif warn

Sketchbook doodles, concepts, and notes on 3, the Big Bad from Cybernetic Wastelands

#3 #cybernetic wastelands #thystos doodles

#cybernetic wastelands #3 #Magi #thystos art

thefantasticmagicianthysto

Fancy dress for half-human scarred princess

#Vixa #Dts #dts saga #Sevour the Stragglers #thystos art #thysto sketch

Picture of my OC, Lie, finished last night. I’ve been working on her story a bunch, and she’s just a barrel of fun.

#Cybernetic Wastelands #Lie #thystos art

Notebook doodles of characters from CyWa

#cybernetic wastelands #Lie #Sekka #Mongai #Heylel #Pusher #three #Cyber #Seven #thystos doodles

This time the pixel is Heylel, the boss man. He’s the shortest, poor thing.

#cybernetic wastelands #Heylel #thystos art

Sekka, the child to match with Lie!

I’m making a pixel set of all these guys, and they’re all relative heights!

#thystos art #thystos oc #Cybernetic Wastelands #Sekka

thefantasticmagicianthysto

Bounce Bounce Bounce Bounce

I was too lazy to actually animate it but it was boring standing still

#Cybernetic Wastelands #Cybernetic Wasteland #Lie #pixel art #thystos art

sailornilsdraws

Dem, Cael, and Dustin are best friends.

Cael’s probably telling them that his dad a fucking dick.

#guest art #not my oc #Demphsey

Non binary cyberpunk super cool characters coming to fuck you up

#thystos art #cybernetic wastelands #nine #pusher #sekka

aetherial

Checklist for character development.

Created by myself, compiled from questions gleaned from several sources, and some of my own additions.

It should be noted, that not every character will check every one of these things off. It is not REQUIRED to have all this information, but this checklist is, rather, a guideline for helping you think of your character as an entire, three dimentional being with thoughts, feelings, possessions, contradictions and background.

A character is 20% revealed to the reader, 80% writer/author/Mun knowledge. What the Reader sees is just the tip of the iceburg, but without the other 80% the character can’t help but come off feeling shallow. There’s nothing beneath the surface - KNOWING as much bout your character as possible, instrinsicly, in detail, intimately, can do nothing but help build believability and dimension to your character.

Use only the things on this list that you feel are important, but I would like to remind you that the reader learns a lot about a character NOT through exposition (that’s kind of a cheat, and always feels , to me, like a rather clunky way of conveying knowlege), but through their actions, quirks, thoughts, and even through the things they own and carry with them. What kind of food they eat and how they eat it. What they wear. What they carry in their wallets. I encourage you, as writers, to consider these things when creating a character, and encourage you MORE to leave the exposition out and tell us about your character through these other means!

If nothing else, this will give you a LOT to work with when writing with your character. Maybe it’ll spur you to write about the character’s parents. Or the relationship between them and their family. Maybe you’ll find yourself inspired to write something about how they lost everything in a fire - and the importance each remembered lost item held.

There is certainly no rule that says you HAVE to do it this way, but invariably, the most memorable characters are the ones that we as readers can relate with. It’s hard to relate with just words - but people - with beliefs and dreams and fears - that’s something we can get behind.

I certainly hope you find this useful, and since so many have been inclined to reblog and like this, I shall endeavor to add more character creation and writing tips, lists and excercises up on this blog!