#Pixandria

[floweroflaurelin]

Huevember day 20: Home 🕯️

Pixlriffs tweeted this photo that happened to have the Vigil in it so I simply had no choice but to make this quick lil painting <3

The photo ^

#huevember #huevember 2023 #empires smp #pixlriffs #pixlriffs fanart #empires fanart #empires smp fanart #empiresblr #the copper king #pixandria #the vigil #esmp #floweroflaurelin art #mcytblr #mcyt fanart #mcyt #this is like the sixth? time I’ve painted this one specific minecraft build #and I have no intentions of stopping any time soon

[wherearemogandpix]

Can they be in esmp i think mog deserves to be buried in sand by pix /j

today mog and pix are in pixandria!

(this is a personal message to nightshade17 on genius.com who said pix didnt have a empire under the rapture by ldshadowlady: i hate you so much you make my blood boil i love pixlriffs and pixandria)

#whereis #where are mog and pix? #mcyt #empires smp #sos smp #pixandria #pixlriffs #mogswamp

[inbetweenhours]

More of my parent/family musings about the empire characters! Got inspired and finished off my ideas for the season 1 cast!

vvv Links to other musings below vvv [Shrub here | Scott, Sausage, & Seablings here | Joel, Joey, & Katherine here]

Anyways, my art style slipped out of the cartoonish way it had been doing the others in this series so these are more normal sketches than the others.

under the cut I'll drop some quick ideas I have about the parents, like I have on previous posts for those interested :] Enjoy!

First up are LeeryDoe and KeenBronze! I'm sure the Grimland's naming scheme is making a bit of sense seeing the family all next to one another. Both the twins parents are Grimland's engineers, while LeeryDoe specializes more in concept and planning vs KeenBronze expertise in metalworking they make a pretty good team! They're a pretty normal family with their ups and downs. Not perfect by any means but there is care even when they don't necessarily fit together well. I could take about them ages but we see glimpses of them in my fic War on our Shores so I won't blab here lol.

Quick Note on Fwhips name, "Fwhip" is a nickname for FailWhip which google tells me is his old username. I have translated this to mean that the idea of "failing" isn't a bad thing in the Grimland and it has more associations with the idea of learning and perseverance or progress which is why its not a miserable baby name lol.

Pearl and her parents! I had some trouble with them since my Pinterest board for Helianthians is a bit difficult for me. But I managed! Her mum is guardian of Helianthia before Pearl inherits the title. She may be called the farmer queen by other nations, but Guardian is her official title. I don't have too many thoughts about them, they're farmers, they do politics when they need to, they're pretty chill mostly. Baby Pearl was difficult to design tho.

Pix was by far the most difficult child to design just because a big thing about identifying Pix's character in art for me is his age and especially his beard and taking that tire and age away really makes him hard to identify. I managed though lol.

Pix's parent I don't have many thoughts for outside of the idea of them being very haunted. Very tired haunted eyes, between being queen and being the keeper of the vigil I think they're a rather mourning duo and Pix's childhood was kinda emotionally weird because of that.

anyway that's all i got, so long till i figure out my season 2 cast maybe! :] feel free to ask questions about this i love my fanon lore a lot lol

#empires smp #empires smp 1 #hourspost #hoursart #pixlriffs #pixandria #fwhip #geminitay #grimlands #gilded helianthia #pearlecentmoon #i realised i made an unbalanced amount of rulers the queens by accident but thats just silly to me slay girlies #i think i tagged everyone? #esmp #esmp s1 #esmpFamilyArt #<tag just because I've done so much of them lol

[valoisfulcanellideux]

These Stones Remember - cover reveal

A few days ago I posted the full title and cover reveal for my upcoming Pixlriffs-centric (Copper King & Phantom Assassin) story, A Tale of Two Devotions. That beautiful artwork was commissioned from the amazing Sabira | @floweroflaurelin and at the end of the post I mentioned that I had one other commission currently sitting with them.

Well, that commission is now complete, and ready to share with you.

It's the cover for my 178,000-word fic These Stones Remember, and I'll admit that seeing this final image got me feeling incredibly emotional. There may or may not have been tears shed. There were. Oh heck, there were.

So here it is:

I spent almost a year of my life writing These Stones Remember, and Sabira has more than done justice to these characters and this world. The Copper King, Onorait Paix al-Lareiff. His 2,000-year-old present-day version, Pix al-Lareiff. His devoted and faithful Chaperone, Mhenheli al-Q'isaraf. His adorable little soul companion kitty, Malin. And the Vigil and the Statue, and so many other tiny little details that you probably won't even realise have been inserted into the illustration unless you've read the story.

To say that I'm thrilled with this cover would be the understatement of the year. (I know this year is still young, so let's include last year, too!) It was a delight to work with Sabira, and to see the in-progress sketches and eventually this final render, with the beautiful hand typography for the title.

And, if the cover has piqued your interest but you've not yet read the story? Welp, here's a taxi to some sweeping ancient history :)

"The past changes a little every time we retell it." A wandering scholar and his ethereal companion find a long-abandoned treasure. At first glance he thinks has simply stumbled upon a ruined ancient capital, filled with the promise of incredible archaeological treasures and riven through with the history of a long-dead civilisation. But when he wakes up one day and finds the city has come alive around him, its people bowing to him as though they know and respect him, he has unknowingly begun a journey toward redemption for a terrible mistake he made two thousand years ago.

#these stones remember #empires smp #empiresblr #pixlriffs #empires pixlriffs #empires fanfic #mcytblr #mcyt #the ancient capital #pixandria #the copper king #mhenheli al q'isaraf

[hewmitcwaft]

HEY! HEY!!!!!!!!!!!!! TELL ME ABOUT PIXANDRIA!! DO U HAVE ANY BRAIN THOUGHTS ABOUT THE ANTHILL?!

OH BOY DO I !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#pixlriffs #pixandria #worldbuilding #empires smp #the archives are something that can be So personal actually (one of my favorite bits of my pixandria worldbuilding) #maybe not as great of quality as my copper inlay comic however #its midnight and i am Tired #and wanted to get this out to the world #does this comic make sense? it feels kinda rambley lol #if u have any questions lmk! send em my way :-) #theres stillquite a Bit more on pixandria so :-)))) #ask me things #the anthill being a dead volcano makes so much sense in my brain btw #initially i thought itd b cool bc copper is formed in igneous formations #and then i thought ab the hot springs and went AUGH thats geothermic caused !!!! #and boom ! #pixandria founded on the corpse of a once intimidating volcano #the magic around pixandri a...... teehee ......a sk me about it ill be normal i promis #:-) #sorry for inventing like 5 new locations in this post #its my demons #it makes Sense to me okay #its an empire its gotta have a capitol and a castle . okay

[artfulbassoon]

Prompt 1 Week 3 of @shepscapades Hermit Designs

The Royal Horticulturist of Pixandria 🌼

I got hit by artblock around week 2, but I'm pulling in right at the end of week 3 with another Stressmonster >:D

I felt like putting Stress right in the middle of a desert would be a really interesting challenge to work with, so that's how she ended up in Pixandria. The red flowers in her hair are from ocotillos, which are native to the Chihuahuan desert (the only desert that I know the plant life of intimately). In my mind, she's the head of research in the royal court and spends a lot of time outside exploring the kingdom's ecosystem. She brings a new sense of life to the kingdom, often seen followed by a trail of colorful butterflies that like to keep her company.

#mcyt #shepshermitdesign23 #stressmonster101 #empires smp #hermitcraft #pixandria #stressmonster #i've never made a design for pixandrian fashion before #hopefully it comes across well #craig art

[darubyprincx]

i'm just sorta laughing while also still crying because pixl never cleaned up his fucking house. theres still shulker boxes and barrels and chests of random shit everywhere. random dents in the floor (which is still made out of sand, by the way). a full double chest of terracotta in the Anthill. its like he could log back on any day and keep building things, the ghost of the Copper King still carrying terracotta to the top of the mountain when the sun sets, legends say sometimes you can hear footsteps barely a whisper above the sand when dawn comes. but he won't come back this is a singleplayer world and that's what makes it so fucking heartwrenching to walk through here. i will never be normal about this place in a million years never if i tried do you see where i stand now? do you see why i can't let go of this for anything? my fucking god i love empires so much. we've been crying on and off about this for a full hour.

#ray's tag #mcyt #empires smp #empires smp s1 #pixlriffs #pixandria

[minecraftbookshelf]

Pixlriffs: Continued

#Tbh i think “immortal who wanders off so frequently his entire kingdom is just used to it” is so much funnier#He just misses a council meeting and everyone goes “well I guess we're a democracy now” and they do that until he comes back#Where's he going?? They don't know and it's futile to ask#They don't even throw “welcome back!” parties anymore he just makes himself a cup of tea and goes to bed and that's that#It's been like this for hundreds of years

(via @wodniars-void )

bestie i need you to know that every since you said this i have been rotating it in my mind like a rotisserie chicken.

Just

Pixandria functionally being Not A Monarchy At All and Pix himself being barely a figurehead at this point. Council members are elected by the citizens and they have the understanding that actually they are the government rather than advisors to the government /monarch.

Pix doesn't even have that many ceremonial duties because they can't guarantee he'll be there for the ceremonies.

It's not even just the exile thing its his tendency to wander off and live the wandering trader lifestyle for years at a time.

They have a cork board in the council chamber entirely for recording sightings of their king in case they actually do need him for something then at least they know he was possibly in Mezalea two weeks ago.

There are literal generations worth of Pixandrians who have lived under this system of government. He is a cryptid in his own nation.

Pix's one, indespensible role, other than Keeper of the Vigil (which is religious, not political, though the lines do blur) is Fighter of Wars.

Because several, several centuries back, there was a war. And Pix showed up to the war, not realizing what was going on, all by himself. No army. And it was so awkward for all the other rulers that they ended up resolving the conflict via single combat between the leaders of the various factions.

This is how wars have happened ever since. For this and this alone, Pixandria loves their king and will not be overthrowing or discarding him anytime since.

There have been a few exceptions to the War Traditions, mostly wars of extermination-style campaigns of the War Crimes variety, such as the one waged against the ocean empire that resulted in Lizzie becoming queen of the survivors.

#pixlriffs #empires smp #empires s1 #pixandria #marriage of state au #mos: worldbuilding #mos: pixlriffs #mos: pixandria

[relgnira]

The Vigil, Pixandria

Very quick, i wanna try doing some environment type things for empires week! Since I try to avoid backgrounds usually… haha. I loved Pix’s empires videos and though I like the vibe of his s2 better Pixandria is just so beautiful!

#empiresweek #empires smp #pixlriffs #pixandria #empires s1 #relgnirart #pixlriffs fanart

[redwinterroses]

People always forget that the Copper King was a beekeeper. Which is just... the image of a beekeeper in the middle of a desert is such a delightful, peaceful, pastoral image and it needs more love.

#also it means that Pixandria did in fact have at least one queen but that's getting into another topic #Pixlriffs #Pixandria #empires smp s1 #esmp1

[doodle-list]

What if the Copper King is like the King Arthur of empires where theres barely any evidence of him existing because Pixandria mainly practices oral tradition, and the only thing we *cough* archeologist Pix *cough* have noting down his existence is like vague references of him in other empires texts (Like maybe a line about him disappearing in a uncovered play transcript written by the Ocean Queen herself? 🤔)

Like obviously theres archeological evidence of Pixandria existing and the inhabitants that live there, but The Copper King who could summon lighting down from the heavens, the valiant warrior king trickster who cared for his people and his allies and mysteriously vanished when the world needed him the most rapture happened? How do we know he was an actual dude and not some mythological figure

#this might be an instance where im spitballing without remembering important details in the series #that makes this headcanon moot #but oh well #ive been researching king arthur for my uni term so nfnv #empires smp #empires pixl #pixlriffs #copper king #pixandria #just thoughts

[floweroflaurelin]

Huevember day 5: Bright Lights

Back to my roots with the Copper King ✨ I just think the new copper bulbs and copper grates would feel so at home in Pixandria!!

#huevember #huevember 2023 #empires smp #pixlriffs #pixlriffs fanart #empires smp fanart #empires fanart #empiresblr #the copper king #empires pixlriffs #pixandria #esmp #floweroflaurelin art #mcyt fanart #mcyt #mcytblr #long live the copper king #if I do say so myself this one turned out SO PRETTY #my new desktop background for sure #it is on my print shop also!

[ducksbyday]

Empires concept where empires s2 pixlriffs continuously starts finding ancient artifacts on the riverbed of a small stream nearby.

Things like potshards, copper plaques and tableware are deeply embedded in the mud, probably having been there for hundreds of years. Pix immediately takes interest in it, thinking it must've belonged to the people of the ancient Capital once.

It doesn't take long to realise that it's in fact not from the Capital. The art on the shards and the plaques show that the items have a way Eastern origin. The river must've taken it miles away from its homestead, seeing how the waves of the river are inbedded in the broken plates.

Pix starts collecting them, meticulously gluing pieces back on their respectful place and unraveling the story of these people that have long left this realm. And so, slowly but surely, he tells us the story of what really happened to the Copper King and the empire of Pixandria.

#empires smp #empires smp s2 #esmp #pixlriffs #empires smp s1 #pixandria #Day their super cool epic hashtag for headcanons and stuff #I have never heard anyone say 'I would explode" in a positive way before but that is now my favourite phrase that is SO funny

[hermitarchive]

"I know when I'm going to die."

#the hermit archives #HAPPY OCTOBER! #THIS HAS BEEN GOING FOR NEARLY A YEAR NOW #from the archives podfic project #from the archives #pixlriffs #empires smp #esmp s1 #pixandria #Youtube

[valoisfulcanellideux]

So yesterday's post was mostly me gushing about this beautiful commission from @floweroflaurelin for These Stones Remember, and I only realised after the fact that embedding it in the middle of a text post meant that it was:

too small for many of the details to be appreciated

hidden for those who have 'collapse long posts' enabled on their dash

So I'm posting it again, but this time it's actually an image post in its own right. And - because I am NOT OVER THIS - I want to go into detail about, well... the details.

This is going to make most sense for people who have already read These Stones Remember, but maybe other Pix peeps will find something in it, too.

So let's go behind the cut, and look at some of those details, because boy did Sabira include some lovely little nods to the story! (Warning: There may be spoilers.)

The light of the Vigil

Not only does the warmth of the Vigil's light reflect from each character (with the exception of Malin, because they're already lit from within by their own soul light) but she also reaches out to touch each character with those tendrils of light emanating from her spire. And in the story Paix becomes the living embodiment of the Vigil once the Great Caravan leaves the ruin of Paixandria, so the Vigil truly does touch every person he comes into contact with.

Malin's 'soul energy trail'

Malin (for those who haven't read the story) is Pix's ethereal cat companion, who is made of soul energy from the gratitude of everyone Paix/Pix has guided or helped in some way over the course of 2,000 years. But Malin is not only a companion; they are also a protector and guardian of their eternal/immortal friend. Thus the trail of 'soul energy' that emanates from their tail in the illustration wraps around not only Pix and Paix, but also around the sword of the statue, which represents protection.

The Silver Ant

The Silver Ant is the old Paixandrian name for a long-period comet whose orbit sees it visiting the world every 200 years. In the illustration we see it visiting the past (left side of the image) and the present (right side of the image).

The split between past and present

On the left we see the past; golden and warm. The glorious city, the ivory and copper tones of Paix's raiment, all the regalia of royalty (crown, trident, cloak, ring), the faithful and devoted presence of Chaperone Mhenheli. And on the right we see the present; blue-toned and holding a heavy weight. The ruined city, the blue of Pix's shirt and the teal of Malin's form. Even the statue - though she's built that way in canon anyway - mirrors this, with her feathered wing in the warm past and her skeletal 'sextant wing' in the present.

The expressions

I have to point this out, in case you've not picked up on it. I described modern day Pix to Sabira as follows:

In the story, he is the same person as Paix; just 2,000 years later. So hair colour, general facial features etc would be the same. His eyes are more weary, though, because he's carried the guilt of what he did back then for those 2,000 years.

LOOK AT THOSE EYES

Modern-day Pix's expression is warm and open with a faint hint of a smile, but his eyes are guarded and weary. They're even a little bloodshot. Contrast that with the placid serenity of his past younger self, his clear kohl-lined gaze lifted as if looking up at the Vigil.

People, I AM EATING THAT DIFFERENCE UP WITH A SPOON, IT'S SO GOOD.

The royal regalia

The symbols of the Copper King's reign are:

the copper crown

the ring

the trident

the regalia cloak

The copper crown is Sabira's original design (which, in fact, inspired my description of it in the story) except my version has the two copper nodes exchanged for a tiny glowing conduit that lights his face, and an emerald. Both of these rest in their corresponding 'cradles' on the crown (shh, it's magic) until worn by the rightful king, at which point they both move into their 'hovering' positions. Looking at the image above, Sabira has even captured the glow from the conduit, reflecting from its surrounding cradle.

I gave Sabira free rein with the design of the ring, having only ever described it loosely in the story as a copper band surmounted by a cut emerald. And I was delighted with their resulting design, which mingles the shape of many candles (or even the surrounding pillars of the Vigil) with the conduit cradle, and then the emerald.

The regalia cloak and trident are both Sabira's own beautiful classic designs, which most (well, all) of my followers who like Pix will already be familiar with.

And, lastly, one other little detail so small that you probably didn't even notice it unless you zoomed in closely...

The earring

Paix's deepslate emerald teardrop earring (no connection to Max's earring at the end of the story) was his own personal thing. We all know how Pix canonically loves his deepslate emerald, so I figured that I'd have him wishing the ring had that stone in it rather than a pure, cut emerald. Instead, he opted to wear a deepslate emerald earring. He wears small copper hoops in both ears, but from the left one he also has the teardrop earring.

But look closer, at both his earring and at modern-day Pix:

Can we all just please admire the fact that modern-day Pix has a piercing hole because he once wore those earrings, and that the weight of the deepslate emerald earring worn by Copper King Paix actually stretches his piercing hole a little?

Details, people. DETAILS. This is why Sabira is the fucking BEST. GAH!

Anyway, this took almost my entire lunch break to write, so I'm now going back to work xD

#these stones remember #empires smp #empiresblr #pixlriffs #empires pixlriffs #empires fanfic #mcytblr #mcyt #the ancient capital #pixandria #the copper king #pixlriffs fanart #flower of laurelin

[hewmitcwaft]

FUCKING TELL US ABOUT THE COPPER INLAYS

OKAY BEAST CALM DOWN HERES AN INFOGRAPHIC THING I HOPE THIS FEEDS YOU WELL

#am i maintagging this #yeah #pixandria #worlbuilding #pixlriffs #SO !!! thats what the designs i have on his skin r #and im an immortal pixlriffs believer so . they end up oxidizing as he forgets how to care for them #which is what the teal on his s2 design is :thumb: #im actually insane about this concept btw #even though it is #an insanely small bit of worldbuilding ive done #lmao #its cool though i think #i could go more in depth with other pixandria ideas if anyone wants :-) #my art