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theuncrucified · 10 months
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This year was my first year doing Art Fight, so of course I had to Attack some of my Exalted peeps! Here's a selection of just the Exalted characters I drew. You can watch timelapses of each one over on my YouTube channel.
Featuring the following characters:
@shiftingpath's Glittering Blade meeting my Eclipse gal, Kalara.
Kessinder's friendly Abyssal, Cultivar of Bloodied Sunsets.
@dailydungeondelves' Pretty Boy, a moon-blessed parrot Lunar.
ArtoftheNerd's vengeful Abyssal, Cyn.
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shiftingpath · 1 year
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Exalted Secret Santa 2022 Complete!
That wraps up another year, friends. I think it’s safe to say the extended due date is a success, given how many of us were sick over the holidays, so we’ll keep that for the future, though I hope less of us will need it. Thank you all for participating despite your cold/flu/covid/injury/chronic conditions/work/family/moving stress! Together we’ve made another great collection of gifts to enjoy, and I hope the enjoyment from making and receiving them helps start the new year off on a good foot.
Take the time to check out everyone’s submissions and fascinating characters! Happy Calibration. See you next year!
-Path
to @afancyartblerg from @morpheousxo: Mountain Heart Empress to @akaittou from @mechanicalriddle: 047 “Theta” to @brimstone-and-helianthus from @maribunart: The Phantom Apiarist to @butch-king-frankenstein from @rotten-partty: Jem and Sha to @delvesdaily from @fiontan: Mystic Veil to @eatenbyfaeries from @shiftingpath: Vervain (and Sweet Jealous Penelope) to @fiontan from @delvesdaily: Gale to @fullmoonspecial from @hilow: Jo to @grimmjowjaegerjaquez from @eatenbyfaeries: Black Ice Shadow to @heedra from @moonstar-mush: Daia Shan to @hilow from @novafigura: Jumping Rabbit of the North to @hornstusksandmagic from @theuncrucified: Avery of Clan Rit'Mount (and Sugar) to @keirangoldenwatch from @hornstusksandmagic: Neiko Whisperstep to @maribunart from @raeliyah: Cathak Kilani to @mechanicalriddle from @toxinfox: Last Candle Lit Against the Dark to @moonstar-mush from @paint-lady: Tendaji Greenwich to @morpheousxo from @heedra: Seraiah to @novafigura from @delvesdaily: Oroonoko to @paint-lady from @fullmoonspecial: K’Tai to @raeliyah from @akaittou: Khulan Suchan-de to @rotten-partty from @keirangoldenwatch: Follower of Autumn Leaves to @shiftingpath from @butch-king-frankenstein: Grave Goods Gardener to @sly-works from @grimmjowjaegerjaquez: Exquisite Toffee Spinifex (and Jackal) to @theuncrucified from @afancyartblerg: Kalara Vadras to @toxinfox from @sly-works: Kaveri Shendo
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caprichista · 6 years
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Happy Calibration, @angelasasserart !!
I really enjoyed drawing Kalara! She’s planning someone’s downfall here, hopefully not mine.
Let me know if there’s anything you’d like changed!
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raeliyah · 7 years
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Kalara Vadras, the Eclipse caste Solar at some fancy digs with her circle mate Night Locust pulling bodyguard duty.  (Apologies to Night Locust’s player for... the many things I probably got wrong >_>)  I saw some pretty dresses on Pinterest and that’s really the only excuse I needed. :D @theprojectfairy
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vaultsofthefirstage · 6 years
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Business and Pleasure (Orichalcum Devil Casters ***)
These are inspired by @theuncrucified. While Koh’s character is in 2e, I loved the story and the artifacts and asked the author if it would be ok to turn them into some neat 3e firewands. If you haven’t read it, you absolutely should.
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Found in an archeological dig turned betrayal by the Merchant Prince Ahrun Vadras, the twin weapons of ancient craft, forged of the demon-gold Orichalcum were inherited by his daughter, Kalara Vadras, the Uncrucified as she fled Nexus under false accusations with the Unconquered Sun’s protection leaving all speechless staring at the newly born Anathema.
The tale of the flame firing weapons did not tie itself to the name of the one bountiful Guild merchant however, but rather tales spread of the Bandit King, Koh, the Righteous Devil who freed the slaves of the East and spurred them towards the free city. And the free city was managed by the Pristine Guild and its head, the daughter of a merchant who would never again let the Guild hide its shame in her light.
She burned her enemies to ash and from those ashes rose Dinas Rhydd, the free city that would change the future of Creation.
Attunement: 5m Type: Medium (+1/+5/+3/+1/-1 ACC, +12L, OVW 4) Tag: Lethal, Archery (Short), Flame, Slow, One-handed, Mounted Hearthstone Slots: 2 Era: Dreams of the First Age
Evocations of Business and Pleasure
Forged before the fall of the First Age, Business and Pleasure’s golden hues shine brighter in the hands of the Solars they were forged for. A Solar Exalted pays no additional motes to attune to both weapons. Exalted who are not resonant with orichalcum instead pay a 2m surcharge to attune to both weapons. Exalted who are dissonant with Orichalcum must attune to both firewands separately (10m total). 
In addition, the two weapons burn brightest together, not alone. Anytime the Solar reloads one devil caster, she may reload both with the same action.
Chains Melt Away
Cost: 6m; Mins: Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: Dissonant
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite: None
Like the nails that melted to slag in the palms of The Uncrucified, with a gout of heavenly fire, the Exalted condemns the bonds that bind herself or others. This charm creates a single attack that automatically destroys mundane locks, shackles, or other implements holding a target captive. In combat, if one of her opponents could somehow contest her action, she must succeed at a Gambit (Difficulty 3). Chains, locks, and bonds made from the five magical materials are never fully destroyed with this, but instead the Exalt must make a difficulty 5 (Dexterity + Archery or Martial Arts) check to cause them to open under the extreme heat. This never harms those the Exalt frees with this evocation, but the Exalt must have at least one hand free to melt her own chains.
Special Activation Rules: As long as the wielder is not dissonant with Orichalcum, this evocation awakens at no cost after attuning to both weapons.
At Essence 3+, this evocation can be repurchased by anyone not dissonant with Orichalcum. This allows the solar to make a difficulty 5 (Dexterity + Archery or Martial Arts) check to “break” magical bondage, such as a demon’s binding or a Yasal Crystal’s hold on a spirit or even the spell Corrupted Words.
Inner Hearth Bellows
Cost: -; Mins: Essence 1
Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite: None
Firedust serves a firewand only so well, but the Exalt has no need when she herself is the flame that purifies enemies. Each of the Exalt’s firewands can be fired up to double her (current Anima Level) times in a round before needing to be reloaded, however after each action, she must still reload. As such, she may use multi-attack charms that the Slow tag would otherwise prevent, as long as she makes no more than that many attacks. For example, using Trance of Unhesitating Speed at the Dim level, she could make up to two attacks between her two devil casters or up to six while she was iconic.
Freed Heart Flames
Cost: 6m, 1wp; Mins: Essence 2
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Decisive-Only, Resonant
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite: Chains Melt Away, Inner Hearth Bellows
Like the Unconquered Sun opened his heart to Kalara, the Exalt learns to open her heart and fire its flames from her weapon. This charm enhances a Decisive attack that supports one of her intimacies, adding bonus dice to the raw damage equal to the strength of that intimacy.
Resonant: A solar, while at the iconic anima stage, may let her entire soul fill Business and Pleasure. For each level of anima she reduces herself, she may choose to apply an additional intimacy to boost her raw damage, though she may use only one intimacy of each strength (for a maximum of 9 bonus damage from drawing on a Defining, Major, and Minor intimacy).
Silver-Tongued Devil Style
Cost: - (10m, 1wp); Mins: Essence 3
Type: Permanent
Keywords: Mute
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite: Chains Melt Away, Heart-Eclipsing Shroud (Exalted 400)
Inside each of the firewands is the story of Koh, the Bandit King. This evocation creates an immediate persona for Heart-Eclipsing Shroud that does not count against the Solar’s maximum number of personas. While players may choose to add additional intimacies, he always has the following
Defining: I will end the profits made on the scarred backs of fellow men
Defining: The slave trade of the Guild will be brought to an end
Major: The Guild is full of real monsters
Major: My heart knows the fire’s path and my enemies are purified in its flames.
Major: The people, are the perpetuators of change. Their dreams will shape the future of Creation.
Minor: I am possessed only by my own passion. I am no Anathema.
In addition, Koh lives in the legend of the Righteous Devil. The Exalt may learn Righteous Devil Style charms without a tutor, however these charms may only be used while adopting the persona of Koh. Should the Exalt find a proper tutor, she may spend the normal training times to use these charms equally across any persona she dons, including her original self.
Golden Devil Castigation
Cost: 7m, 4i, 1wp; Mins: Essence 3
Type: Simple
Keywords: Resonant, Dissonant
Duration: One Round
Prerequisite: Freed Heart Flames
As the Exalt takes a moment to simply stare down at her foes down the barrel of a devil caster and they freeze up. She does not enslave them, they bind themselves in the chains of their own twisted sins. The Exalt rolls (Charisma + Presence) against the Resolve of all targets out to Short range. If they defy one of her intimacies, she gains that many bonus dice to the roll. If she is successful, she may initiate an immediate grapple gambit upon all of them, rolling her full initiative and using Charisma + Presence in place of Strength + Brawl. The Exalt may act normally and is not restricted by this grapple, nor is her defense penalized. Targets who would be considered innocent by the Exalted or who the Exalt holds a positive intimacy towards are unaffected, even if they currently stand against her. While her foes still take the -2 penalty to defense, -1 (or -3 for two handed weapons) to attack, and are incapable of moving until the end of her next turn, the Exalt may not take any normal grapple actions against them.
While the Exalt’s anima is displayed at the iconic anima level, these chains become visible golden constructs binding her foes. 
Resonant: Resonant wielders extend the range of the grapple effect to Medium range.
Special Activation Rules: This evocation cannot be awakened with experience points. Instead a non-dissonant Exalted must complete a Major, Defining, or Legendary Social Goal that is compatible with the intimacies of Koh, the Bandit King (see Silver-Tongued Devil Style). Dissonant Exalted cannot awaken this evocation by any means.
Golden Devil Judgement
Cost: 5m, 3a; Mins: Essence 3
Type: Simple
Keywords: Decisive-Only, Resonant
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite: Golden Devil Castigation, Silver-Tongued Devil Style
Resonant: Only wielders resonant with Orichalcum can learn this evocation.
Seeing the chains that bind those who stand against her, the Exalt aims Business and Pleasure down and burns them away. Those caught in the blaze burn only from their own wrong-doings. This charm can only be used the round after Golden Devil Castigation while the Solar is iconic. All opponents caught in the grapple are immediately consumed in a golden fire, a special savage attack made by this evocation that gains the benefit of Freed Heart Flames automatically.
This evocation can only be used once per story unless reset by completing a major, defining, or legendary social goal compatible with the intimacies of Koh, the Bandit King, though the Solar may wear any persona to perform the deed.
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theuncrucified · 2 months
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Excavating my old sketchbook turned up these first sketches and a group shot of our circle of Solars from our Sorrow Resplendent game from 2014. I never did finish up any of these, sadly!
This many years later, they're all overdue for a redesign if only so I can polish up this cool group shot of us.
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theuncrucified · 2 months
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I've been working on the website for my Exalted fic project and needed to make a cover so this old short story would look pretty in the library area.
For those who might've missed it, this story wraps up my Eclipse character's revenge arc from our 2e Sorrow Resplendent campaign and doesn't require much knowledge of the past campaign, as it's a self-contained character vignette at a breezy 3k words.
With so many insurmountable challenges rising to threaten the Circle and Creation, the Circle must get their final affairs in order before their eventual victory or defeat. For Kalara, only one last task remains – revenge against the Guild Factor who framed her for the murder of her own father and upheaved her whole life into misery. Will she give in to the vengeance she has been dreaming about for years or rise above the impulse? The former could mean a renewed war within the Guild, but satisfaction for herself, while the latter could sustain the peace between factions she has worked so hard towards. Only one last connection to her mortal life remains to be cut.
Read here and enjoy:
Archive of Our Own
Fanfiction.net
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theuncrucified · 1 year
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Huzzah! My first art of 2023! Tabletop tokens inspired by The Uncrucified. Next up - Night Locust, Kalara's faithful and trusted Night Caste bodyguard.
Painted in Procreate.
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theuncrucified · 1 year
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I refreshed the Exalted Art Challenge with a couple of new topics and a list of weekly topics for the slow folks like me! We moved right in the middle of this challenge for October, so I only had time to partake in the weekly topics, instead.  Still, this challenge is always a lot of fun and a great excuse to experiment with different methods and styles!
Read more about the lore of each drawing and watch time lapses of their creation here.
Week 1 - Your PC - Laughing Fox, my Changing Moon Lunar
Week 2 - A Meal In Creation - A Feast for The Plentimon of Dice
Week 3 - Fave Charm - Archery (plus some exploration of Kalara's anima)
Week 4 - Fave Fashion - A Chiaroscuro Glass Gown for Kalara
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theuncrucified · 1 year
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Calibration is upon us, which means the Exalted Secret Santa is nigh! I'm offering two different flavors of Kalara this year - Solar vs Abyssal! Check out the details behind the cut.
Kalara Vadras, The Uncrucified Solar Exalted, Eclipse Caste, Righteous Devil
A passionate Merchant Prince (though most people refer to her as a 'Merchant Queen'), Kalara can often be found traveling Creation using her charm and wit towards the cause of achieving a more equitable economy and the abolishment of slave labor throughout the threshold.
While she has a friendly public face, her enemies whisper of her spy network, Kalara's "Tongues", who work quietly throughout Creation eliminating threats to her ambitions for Creation.
For more reference, see Kalara's full bio for more pics, etc.
Art Notes
She has a scar from a failed crucifixion on her left hand only, not both hands
NSFW art is ok! She's quite famous for her tastes in brothels and being a free spirit with multiple unattached partners, but please nothing too hardcore into chains. This lady likes luxury. Tis silk or nothing!
Fashion
Feel free to play with her hair and clothing style without sticking too close to the ref. Kalara mixes things up a lot to either blend in on her travels OR to make a big impression, depending on the occasion. She's quite the fashionista! Note that in her art she's dressed in everything from a Chiaroscuro glass gown to more casual wear with her green shirt. The look with the teal and gold with the jacket resting on her shoulders is her signature look, however.
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Iconic Anima
Her totemic anima involves chains of sunlight wrapping around her arms and ankles as the links fall off one by one. Spikes of sunlight, which do not harm her, appear in her hands and melt away. Behind her, a phoenix with a long, trailing tail rises up behind her.
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Weapons & Combat Style
Kalara prefers not to let others onto the fact that she's as powerful as she is and has created a whole other persona named Koh to do her gunslinging. She and Koh are rumored to be lovers, much to her amusement.
However, if she's ever backed into a corner as Kalara, her fighting style involves acrobatic agility while dual-wielding two Prayer Pieces made of jade and orichalcum with the punishing glory of the Righteous Devil martial art.
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The Crucified Dreamer Abyssal Exalted, Moonshadow Caste, Deathknight of the Lover
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This alternate universe version of Kalara spends her time wandering Creation nurturing revolutionaries and visionaries...then leading them to their beautiful deaths after they follow her pursuing their foolish dreams. Those she finds useful, she scouts as possible servants for her Deathlord, The Lover Clad in the Raiment of Tears.
Unlike Kalara, the Dreamer was never saved from her death by crucifixion by The Unconquered Sun. Rather, the Lover came to her in her final moments after a torturous three days and nights and offered her a chance to equalize all in the embrace of death.
Her full name is The Crucified Dreamer Veiled in Truth.
Art Notes
The Dreamer has crucifixion wounds in both hands and both feet that never heal. She tends to 'dress them up' with jewelry and henna.
NSFW art is ok! She's very BDSM-themed as-is. You know she gets up to some kinky vampire stuff!
Fashion
The Dreamer prefers gold and finery usually with a subtle skeletal theme. Gold, fire opals, and garnets suit her well. The three tears below her eye, however, are not makeup, but etched by blood ink into her skin when the Lover 'welcomed' her as an Abyssal. They traced the last tears she would ever shed.
Weapons & Combat Style
The Dreamer doesn't usually engage in direct combat, much preferring to seduce her victims, but if she is driven to conflict, she utilizes the Laughing Wounds martial art, a set of bejeweled claws, and a segmented whip sword with a blade like sharp gold vertebra as it unfurls.
I have no references for her whip sword or battle claws yet, so go wild with your interpretation!
Iconic Anima
The Dreamer's aura flares as her crucifixion wounds seep streams of blood that form tendrils and wrap around her arms and legs. The blood also pours to the earth where scarlet Spider Lilies spring up from the droplets. Behind her, a glowing red mandala materializes with the lotus pointed downwards.
I have no reference of this anima yet, so feel free to go wild with your interpretation from that description!
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That's it for now! I hope my Secret Santa has fun. I can't wait to see what they’ll choose!
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theuncrucified · 4 years
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The Righteous Devil form isn't merely a martial art, but a spiritual reckoning.  When you draw on this art, you're pulling from that turmoil deep down, from all the sins you've ever committed, and all the sinners you've ever reckoned with.  All that roiling guilt and anger and painful understanding refined and channeled into the flame of your soul, of your weapons.
It took me years to even begin to master it...and it almost destroyed me.  Only one who can understand their own sins can channel what it means to be not only a Devil, but a Righteous one.
- Memoirs of Kalara Vadras, The Uncrucified, RY 800.
Painted in Procreate. 
Read the full write-up here.
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angelasasserart · 3 years
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So I've been art blocked for a long while. Life's been busy and I needed a break! Who knew the silly shirt cut meme would be the thing to break me out of my block? It's a fun excuse to put Kalara in pretty dresses! Powerful god-tier businesswomen need to have fun too, right? I'm going to share my topics one at a time till I reveal the final collection and stash these individual entries.
Fashion inspiration from Eli Saab and Sherri Hill.
For those who don't know this character, Kalara is from The Uncrucified, my fan project inspired by the Exalted TTRPG setting.
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angelasasserart · 3 years
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Kalara's Shirt Cut Meme continues! It's a dangerous move to wear your Anathema caste mark in your jewelry, but it's a perfect way to keep your enemies guessing & distracted. Is it an ornate circle or a sign this lady's Trouble?
Kalara Vadras, the main character of my story, The Uncrucified, inspired by the Exalted TTRPG. She's a high level businesswoman, Guild Master, and lady with a score to settle.
Fashion inspiration Mollyca, Stephane Rolland, and Eli Saab.
Made with perfect pose reference from AdorkaStock.
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theuncrucified · 3 years
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Finally calling my try at the Exalted Art Challenge inspired by @theonyxpath ‘s Exalted setting is complete! You can see the entire set of images with links to each collection’s lore and concept notes at the post. Lemme know what your fave topics were!
The collection post:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/art-collection-47395427
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theuncrucified · 2 years
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It's that magical time of year again for the Exalted Secret Santa! It’s also time for a new reference collection now that I have some new art to share this year. My Secret Santa has 3 options behind the cut. Choose your poison!
Kalara Vadras, The Uncrucified
A passionate Eclipse Caste, Kalara can often be found traveling Creation using her charm and wit towards the cause of achieving a more equitable economy and the abolishment of slave labor throughout the threshold. While she has a friendly public face, her enemies whisper of her spy network, Kalara's "Tongues", which work quietly throughout Creation eliminating her enemies.
For more reference, see Kalara's full bio for more pics, etc.
Art Notes
She has a scar from a failed crucifixion on her left hand only, not both hands
Feel free to play with her hair and clothing style without sticking too close to the ref. Kalara mixes things up a lot to either blend in on her travels OR to make a big impression, depending on the occasion. She's quite the fashionista!
Her totemic anima involves chains of sunlight wrapping around her arms and ankles as the links fall off one by one. Spikes of sunlight, which do not harm her, appear in her hands and melt away. Behind her, a phoenix with a long, trailing tail rises up behind her
NSFW ok!
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When she can't talk her way out of combat, Kalara uses a set of 'plainer' artifact firewands (pictured on the right below), though she prefers to leave the gunslinging to her alter-ego, Koh.
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Koh, the Silver-Tongued Devil
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Sometimes when Kalara requires more "discretion" on the road, she travels in the guise of her male persona, Koh, the Silver-Tongued Devil. Rumors swirl around about how this infamous gunslinger and Righteous Devil led a rebellion and rules a network of rebels, escaped slaves, and bandits in the forests between Nexus and Dinas Ryhdd.
Much to Kalara's amusement, there's even a rumor that the two are lovers after her Night Caste companion shapeshifted into Koh so they could pose together at a party to throw off suspicion.
Art Notes
Koh appears male with dyed brown hair, though the disguise in my ref image is slipping a bit with Kalara's red roots showing and her shirt open.
The round-rimmed glasses are Koh's signature, feel free to take liberties with everything else, though Koh's appearance tends to channel Kalara's Southern heritage
Koh uses a set of dual Prayer Pieces
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Night Locust, the Kindly Reaper
Kalara's right-hand ninja, head of security, and leader of her black ops, "The Embers". The two formed a strong familial bond as fledgling Solars, as the young Solar took his second breath at the age of 19 when he refused to murder his assassin partner, instead taking the life of their assassin clan's leader in a blaze of sunlit fury. Night Locust met Kalara in the wandering time after, Kalara giving him a purpose and compassion he did not have in life.
Night Locust may project an aura of calm sagely wisdom, but he is a prankster at heart and a keen edge on the battlefield. He uses a pair of short diaklaves and a dual-bladed scythe. He is not a fan of pointless murder, however, and also does his best to avoid violence.
Art Notes
Kalara and Night Locust are not lovers, but rather have a found-family relationship. Please do not draw them in a romantic situation.
Night's totemic anima is a cloud of blackness that breaks off into countless locusts
He enjoys a nice cup of tea and meditation
No NSFW topics
More reference images here.
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Kalara and Night Locust by Sam Hogg
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Kalara and Night Locust by Raeliyah
If you're interested in learning more about these characters, check out The Uncrucified for my Exalted art, fiction, etc.
Can't wait to see who is chosen this year. Have fun!
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theuncrucified · 4 years
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Exalted Art Challenge - 2 - Regional Fashion
I wonder sometimes if I would even recognize myself back then. I still remember the soft light of Gem's crystals and the teeming underground marketplace that never slept. As a slave of Iblan, I was dressed in attire to represent the household of my master, an aging master goldsmith.
I owned no finery of my own, not even the bangles I wore which served as an example of Iblan craftmanship for all to see and admire, for even their slaves must convey everything about their stature as Gem's famed goldsmiths. Instead of gems sewn into my shawl as any fine lady of Gem might own, mine was painted and embroidered to mimic gems. I was a pale imitation of what a noble Iblan lady might be.
- Memoirs of Kalara Vadras, The Uncrucified, RY 800.
Read the full write-up at The Uncrucified’s blog. 
Painted in Procreate! I have been so very slow, but enjoying exploring with the topics at my own pace.
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