I was bored at work today and decided to make my d&d character Val and her family in this lovely picrew! I've always had an idea of what they all look like, but I thought it was high time I put it down somewhere solidly.

In order, top to bottom and left to right, we have:

Valtish Ankara-Hillcrest (my first and best girl, reluctant paladin of Fharlanghn, former sailor of the Tempest and professional shield of Fortune's Favor)

Mareen Ankara (Val's beloved mother, credited with almost all of her good looks, wandering do-gooder before Val ever picked up a sword)

Cairon Ankara-Hillcrest (Val's dad, family golden child gone family disappointment, graduate of Sendra's bard colleges, where Val got her chronic romantic streak)

Imren Hillcrest (local Cool Uncle, definitely not a member of a thieves guild, consistent family disappointment according to his dad and the one who gave Val her first knife)

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Oh you guys are like... real pirates. Cool. Coolcoolcool

fortune's favor - v, s, m

"You impart latent luck to yourself or one willing creature you can see within range."

Doodle prompt: Essek’s infographic on the optimal bowl of soup.

Today's flavor: blended zucchini soup with herbs, black pepper, lemon, and a splash of oat milk

second chances

version without the light on his forehead bc im so proud of how I rendered his face

An assortment of sketches of my favorite guys

Fortune's Favorite

It's time! Time for Fortune to learn the literal ropes

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Leave that boy's nose alone!

-tokoyami and kuroiro arguing about whether or not their hero team would sound better being called the unholy quartet or quaternity-

Izuku: I mean… I don’t really care as long as I get to team up with Hitoshi..

Shinsou: we can call ourselves the four horseman of the apocalypse.

Tokoyami, kuroiro and Izuku: ….

Shinsou: I call being pestilence.

although i frequently post about funny things that pliny the elder wrote in his natural histories i have to admit that the funniest thing about him is that, when he was sailing toward mt vesuvius to investigate the eruption/help with evacuations, he was told to turn his ship around and sail back, refused to turn back, told his crew "fortune favors the brave," and then died almost immediately after

if wriothesley doesn't appear in any quest once we get to remuria, what even is the point?

the parallels between wrio and king remus are crystal clear. remus who descended upon meropis (a name very familiar to anyone who knows of the fortress of meropide) in his golden fortuna, the legendary ship of remus that is also called the bringer of civilization and glory (wrio who built a ship to deal with the misfortune upon fontaine) is an example of it.

wrio also has connections to hades with the cerberus motif as guardian of the underworld. it's curious that the tower in remuria is described not only as not built to receive heavenly oracles, serving as a guide to ships traveling between islands, but also as a border of reality and dreams. if this is not necessarily literal but a metaphor or allegory, it could fit very well with the idea of a portal between domains or realms, like life and death.

wriothesley also parallels another character in the genshin universe and that person is arlecchino. they were brought up as orphans, taken in by an institution with corrupted leaders, which they reformed and achieved a leading position of. and funnily enough, she has ties to purgatory (a place for punishment, much like the fortress). as i have said in another post, purgatory has been described by dante as a tower leading to heaven. but we also know that celestia in the genshin world is associated with the demon realm - archons being named after ars goetia, an anonymous grimoire on demonology. although the concepts aren't the same in theory, is it impossible that the game has used elements of both? wriothesley and arlecchino's themes are similar enough to overlap. even though i don't expect wriothesley to be lore revelant anymore, i do think his ties to remuria and his role as someone who punishes others for their sins, much like arlecchino, is very much purposeful.

“…. Why do you get the weirdest fucking anons?”

@coffeebleeds