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[themetaisfutile]

TMiF Presents: Histories of Ulei'Var - The Risen War

Welcome to TMiF's homebrew world of Ulei'Var~

On the continent of Auscives, in the northern hemisphere of Ulei'Var, the country of Greymoor has seen her king fall at the hands of her Crown Prince. Unrest and necromantic magic ripples from the capital, Iron Pinnacle Keep in Vilimond, on the eastern shore. The new King, Edmund Morvaine, has his sights set on raising sleepy Greymoor to new heights of conquest on the backs of her people.

Alive, dead, or undead.

metaisfutile - Twitch

[themetaisfutile]

Tonight: Episode 93

Continuing down the road to Bleakfield, the Heroes came upon a second cart, this time with living horsepower and men: Crownkeepers. Hoping they might go unaccosted, they didn't stop to help or to kill, to find later a Crownkeeper riding hard towards Bleakfield-on-the-Moor.

This would prove an ill omen, as that night, there came more Crownkeepers who knew the Heroes' reputation and appearances. The Heroes opted to come quietly, and met the Kingsguard in charge of Bleakfield: Daviin the Executioner.

But with help unsought and unexpected, the Heroes were spirited away to safety! Join us tonight at 9pm Central/10pm Eastern to watch the unfolding of the Bleakfield Theatre of The Risen War!

[themetaisfutile]

TMiF Presents: Histories of Ulei'Var - The Risen War

Welcome to TMiF's homebrew world of Ulei'Var~

On the continent of Auscives, in the northern hemisphere of Ulei'Var, the country of Greymoor has seen her king fall at the hands of her Crown Prince. Unrest and necromantic magic ripples from the capital, Iron Pinnacle Keep in Vilimond, on the eastern shore. The new King, Edmund Morvaine, has his sights set on raising sleepy Greymoor to new heights of conquest on the backs of her people.

Alive, dead, or undead.

metaisfutile - Twitch

[themetaisfutile]

Tonight: Episode 93

Continuing down the road to Bleakfield, the Heroes came upon a second cart, this time with living horsepower and men: Crownkeepers. Hoping they might go unaccosted, they didn't stop to help or to kill, to find later a Crownkeeper riding hard towards Bleakfield-on-the-Moor.

This would prove an ill omen, as that night, there came more Crownkeepers who knew the Heroes' reputation and appearances. The Heroes opted to come quietly, and met the Kingsguard in charge of Bleakfield: Daviin the Executioner.

But with help unsought and unexpected, the Heroes were spirited away to safety! Join us tonight at 9pm Central/10pm Eastern to watch the unfolding of the Bleakfield Theatre of The Risen War!

[themetaisfutile]

TMiF Presents: Histories of Ulei'Var - The Risen War

Welcome to TMiF's homebrew world of Ulei'Var~

On the continent of Auscives, in the northern hemisphere of Ulei'Var, the country of Greymoor has seen her king fall at the hands of her Crown Prince. Unrest and necromantic magic ripples from the capital, Iron Pinnacle Keep in Vilimond, on the eastern shore. The new King, Edmund Morvaine, has his sights set on raising sleepy Greymoor to new heights of conquest on the backs of her people.

Alive, dead, or undead.

metaisfutile - Twitch

[themetaisfutile]

Tonight: Episode 92

A couple weeks have passed for the Heroes and their new compatriot; time desperately needed to recover and get their minds and hearts back in line for the war efforts ahead.

And now, it's time to forge the path forward, to take towns back from the bloody hand of Edmund Morvaine, disrupt operations, and sever supply chains that provide resources for the Morvainean army. The Heroes chose a backwoods path to the city of Vilimond, to find ways to put the thumbscrews to Morvaine's loyalists.

They found a cart'o'fun(dead) along the back road, readily dispatching the necromancer's horrific underlings, and continue on their way to Bleakfield-On-The-Moors.

Join us tonight at 9pm Central/10pm Eastern!

[themetaisfutile]

TMiF Presents: Histories of Ulei'Var - The Risen War

Welcome to TMiF's homebrew world of Ulei'Var~

On the continent of Auscives, in the northern hemisphere of Ulei'Var, the country of Greymoor has seen her king fall at the hands of her Crown Prince. Unrest and necromantic magic ripples from the capital, Iron Pinnacle Keep in Vilimond, on the eastern shore. The new King, Edmund Morvaine, has his sights set on raising sleepy Greymoor to new heights of conquest on the backs of her people.

Alive, dead, or undead.

metaisfutile - Twitch

[themetaisfutile]

Tonight: Episode 92

A couple weeks have passed for the Heroes and their new compatriot; time desperately needed to recover and get their minds and hearts back in line for the war efforts ahead.

And now, it's time to forge the path forward, to take towns back from the bloody hand of Edmund Morvaine, disrupt operations, and sever supply chains that provide resources for the Morvainean army. The Heroes chose a backwoods path to the city of Vilimond, to find ways to put the thumbscrews to Morvaine's loyalists.

They found a cart'o'fun(dead) along the back road, readily dispatching the necromancer's horrific underlings, and continue on their way to Bleakfield-On-The-Moors.

Join us tonight at 9pm Central/10pm Eastern!

[zenaquaria]

Guidance Liesterden, my Abjuration Major wizard from a one-shot in TMiF's The Risen War! And another humanoid import of an old pony character~

Guidance is a tiefling (known as Infrilim in Ulei'Var) born to elves, which in Ulei'Var means that she will be around a long time, as the fiendish blood is an addition over a base race. And she was a student in the Vaeleryn Arcane College before the Risen War called up a voluntary draft, as the forest went to war against the invading eastern kingdom of Greymoor. She was felled in battle, her body collected for parts, but her story wasn't over just yet.

Through the altruism of a menace of a druid, she managed to escape, and has since returned to the College to recover and continue her studies, FAR away from the front lines.

Do not repost, edit, alter, trace/copy, use/redistribute my artworks without my permission.

[zenaquaria]

More of my girls!~

Kenku at the top is Plink! She's one of the unusual Kenku of Ulei'Var, in that she has accepted the gift of Actual Speech (supernatural race-wide gift that not all of her people have accepted). But her hero is the legendary bard Swan Honk (@cpttritium 's Kenku), who uncovered the Great Lie that originally took the corvidfolk's ability to speak for themselves.

Then there's Hestara~ Hestara is a face I haven't drawn in a minute, since the CoS game she was in ended, I think. Right now she's in the background of The Risen War, as one of the displaced Gatewatch families, and not having the best of times, but at least she and her family are getting by!

The next is Vess! "But Zen, isn't Vess a blue-eyed vampire?" Yes! This is still her, but disguised as the mortal half-elf she was registered as in the Grim Knights. This face is the face of her alias, Vaila Fowler. It's a low-effort disguise so that she doesn't have to create so big a lie to hide what she is.

The twins... Oh, the twins. Sylvania (front) and Sylene (back) Yllunera, half-drow, half-changeling pranksters and incorrigible menaces fluent in Whymsical (fey/sylvan) humor and speech! They are a handful and a half and are not sorry about that.

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[zenaquaria]

A fun fellow I got to play in a game run by @gentlemanpirate in October 2025! Hitoruinë Aolotharō (hee-toe-ROO-een-eh ay-oh-loth-AH-roh) is his name! That's the Surname-First Name format, as in Japanese~

He's a spacey, gentle soul who was affected by fey magic when he was younger, and really and truly wants to bring good in the world. Truly a good bean who is rather naive, but still packs a punch.

Aolotharo here is a multiclassed Samurai 3/Bladesinger 2 high elf. His entire gimmick is that I was given the reins to go whole-hog weeaboo theme, and little kid me would have LOVED the opportunity so I unabashedly did JUST that!~ He is an embodiment of the Shonen Hero and Samurai tropes, tempered with the aloofness and innate wisdom of Tolkienic-derived elves.

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[zenaquaria]

Boy am I rusty...

Anyway, headshots of my Falke women! And their predecessor, a Falkenrath woman!

Saede (sah-deh), like Vess, is an Undimmed Soul. In fact she's partially the reason why Vess was targeted, and later why Gael was targeted. All without her knowledge, minus the fact that she knew Alistair Lyon. Tor's Return is equivalent to real world April~

And then of course Vess and Gael. Middenmonth is equivalent to June, and Chillwane to March.

Was good to shake off the rust by drawing distant family members, and to see how well I could still maintain the distinctive Falke features. Also fun to compare and contrast them! :D

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[themetaisfutile]

TMiF Presents: Histories of Ulei'Var - The Risen War

Welcome to TMiF's homebrew world of Ulei'Var~

On the continent of Auscives, in the northern hemisphere of Ulei'Var, the country of Greymoor has seen her king fall at the hands of her Crown Prince. Unrest and necromantic magic ripples from the capital, Iron Pinnacle Keep in Vilimond, on the eastern shore. The new King, Edmund Morvaine, has his sights set on raising sleepy Greymoor to new heights of conquest on the backs of her people.

Alive, dead, or undead.

metaisfutile - Twitch

[themetaisfutile]

Tonight: Episode 91

A sparring match between Boffin and Marius nearly went severely wrong, if not for Giselle's intervention by fetching Siegfried about it. As the days go by, the Heroes recover piece by piece, bit by bit.

Edwin spoke with Siegfried specifically, sharing some information and getting a project to help pull himself out of mourning.

Boffin, on the other hand, received a visit from an old friend~ And made a deal with said old friend. Surely this will be fine!

Join us tonight at 9pm Central/10pm Eastern for the continuing story of The Risen War!

[themetaisfutile]

TMiF Presents: Histories of Ulei'Var - The Risen War

Welcome to TMiF's homebrew world of Ulei'Var~

On the continent of Auscives, in the northern hemisphere of Ulei'Var, the country of Greymoor has seen her king fall at the hands of her Crown Prince. Unrest and necromantic magic ripples from the capital, Iron Pinnacle Keep in Vilimond, on the eastern shore. The new King, Edmund Morvaine, has his sights set on raising sleepy Greymoor to new heights of conquest on the backs of her people.

Alive, dead, or undead.

metaisfutile - Twitch

[themetaisfutile]

Tonight: Episode 91

A sparring match between Boffin and Marius nearly went severely wrong, if not for Giselle's intervention by fetching Siegfried about it. As the days go by, the Heroes recover piece by piece, bit by bit.

Edwin spoke with Siegfried specifically, sharing some information and getting a project to help pull himself out of mourning.

Boffin, on the other hand, received a visit from an old friend~ And made a deal with said old friend. Surely this will be fine!

Join us tonight at 9pm Central/10pm Eastern for the continuing story of The Risen War!

[zenaquaria]

A funny doodle of summer-afflicted Thunder!~

Axia is hot tropical weather; Thunder is a big thick-furred lady (like a Siberian, Norwegian, or Maine Coon). So teenage Thunder got her fur shaved into a lion cut at least once while she was living in Curoq. xD

Do not repost, edit, alter, trace/copy, use/redistribute my artworks without my permission.

[zenaquaria]

This is Maggie! My halfling Life Cleric of Heriot, featured in a short Side Story, Nalson's Crypt, in TMiF's The Risen War!

Magnolia Ambersprout was born to a Bregarrian halfling family of good standing and fair means, so she was sent to study the Ardur and become an Ardurist.

But she was also born with a wandering streak, and that got her disowned by her family. So now she adventures with other riff-raff rag-tag adventurers to try and keep them alive as best as she can!

Do not repost, edit, alter, trace/copy, use/redistribute my artworks without my permission.

[zenaquaria]

Made this in 2025, but this is Saede Falkenrath! Predecessor of the Falke lineage that has begat Vess and Gael!

Saede is from Northreach in Ulei'Var. She's a Beastmaster Ranger with a primal beast companion, and a member of a faction called the Hands of Kharthos; adherents to the aforementioned Huntsman Ardur.

Her beast companion is Arngeir, a Nighthawk. Nighthawks are spirit beasts connected to the Huntsman, and he serves as her familiar and her friend.

She is also an Undimmed Soul. Same as Vess. She is an ultra-rare example of an Undimmed Soul who kept the curse at bay well enough to have a family. Her two sons (only mildly touched by her curse and mercifully had un-cursed mortal children themselves) went on to extend the family lines through the Reaches and down in to Greymoor.

Saede herself is a quiet open secret among her chapter of the Hands in Wintergate, the city where she lives. She styles herself as a blue-eyed elf to keep most nosy people from bugging her, and to keep the general public safe.

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[zenaquaria]

Gonna try and do some doodles this year! Repping the edgy Team Mystery! xD

Art Fight

An art gifting game

[zenaquaria]

Couple of portraits of @rosexknight's girls, Giselle Midayne and Milana Brightwater!

Was further shaking off some rust and needed to doodle some of Rose's characters at the same time, and I'm pretty pleased with how Giselle and Milana came out here~

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[ieattitansforbreakfeast]

theres something i need people to understand: just because an artstyle isn’t in accordance with your personal tastes, that doesn’t mean its a bad artstyle. and shitting on people who’s art isn’t perfect, wether its because they are a beginner or not, doesn’t make you cool. it makes you kinda pathetic and stupid actually. because if they’re still developing, and you discourage them from improving by shitting on their art, then whatever fandom they’re in could end up missing out on a great artist in a few years, because the person you shat on decided to stop entirely or simply stopped sharing their art online. beginner artists, artist who aren’t satisfied with your art, people who feel stuck at a certain level of artistic development, artists who shockingly are not on par with literal Leonardo Da Vinci yet, You are valid. Your art matters. You will get where you want eventually. Never stop, keep going! I believe you can achieve anything you set your mind to, so don’t hold back for anyone!

[zenaquaria]

Couple of portraits of my Shadowvale bard boy, Cellyndir~

Bit of a before freedom and after freedom comparison. He's a fullblooded elf, but half is drow, the other half is high elf. At the age of 45, he had not yet been sold into the career path that would cage and shelter him for many decades to come. So he still bears the collar that his "family" marks their property with.

The second portrait is him after he's free and learning to be a person man of Axia~ With his hair brushed back/left unstyled, and without the mask his owner manager made him wear any time he was public-facing.

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