Excuse me, waiter? Sorry, it just seems like there’s a lot of blood in my dating simulator.
This might be my most ambitious project yet! I’ve been working on it since February and it’s finally done! I tried to mimic The Arcana the best I could - I am amazed by that original style. It’s so beautiful and clean and Dana Rune, Nikolai Ladizinsky, and Veronica Lieske created so many illustrations that are decadent as a chocolate fountain. I also found the original font and altered it slightly to make it feel a smidge more stylistically cohesive.
I chose the Shadowlands camp as a setting since it seems like that tends to be the relationship solidifying set for a lot of these characters. Who’s your go-to choice?
The wonderfully talented and kind @magspeaches (@painterlypeaches) created some beautiful art of my Eilistraee worshipping, Seldarine Drow Paladin. My girl, Xae.
Please check out the rest of her art. It's incredible.
I wrote some poetry to go alongside her.
The Dance of the Moon and the Spider
A conflict as old as the darkness itself;
Lolth, and the child who defied her.
The Queen in the web and the silver-haired maiden,
The dancer who out-spun the spider.
The web weaver’s poison will crawl through your veins,
And snuff out each bright flame within you
She’ll silk-wrap and drain each cord of your heart
‘till sapped into hollowed-out sinew.
My lady sings clear under moonbeams and treetops
Her silver-soaked spellsong a vow:
Through sorrow and fear, hope will burn on -
The Spider will not harm you now.
Her melodious voice halts the lure of cruel chaos,
But venom can mute dead the lark.
So with vengeance and honour, In Eilistraee’s name,
My oath is her blade in the dark.
My beloved sole survivor oc Cecil and his ghoul boyfriend who he had no idea he had a crush on 200 years ago. (Yeah I know he calls him Cooper in this, Cecil hasn’t put it together yet)
So we all know there are several things Muriel doesn't do - drinking, singing, dancing - but I keep getting hung up on those second two
Imagine (if you will) rancher!Muriel who lives out on the plains with Inanna and a trusty horse and thick boots who meanders into the nearest tiny town once a month for rope and tools
Muriel in a cowboy hat and flannel being taught how to line dance in the barnyard by an MC determined to have him as their dance partner at the next get together -