Princess Umberspore

I love Igneous... I liked the idea of her having olm characteristics given that she's a deep dragon who lives underground. I'll eventually get around to drawing Elzor too, but for now... enjoy!

Ellzor and Igneous Umberspore! Big fan of these two so had to draw them.

Dwagon

We drew this idea on a whim after reading through some of Fizban’s and seeing the new design for the deep dragon 😂 definitely a fun look!

Knowledge Revenge.

It's Always Sunny In Ferelden

So one thing I’ve noticed is that people’s DnD characters may vary but there is usually an underlying thread that they all have in common. This thread is typically related to what that person struggles with the most.

For instance, my betrotheds DnD characters: a bitchy warlock we had to bust out of two different pacts, a sassy barbarian, a reformed drow cultist, and a sunshine fighter cleric.

All these characters were wildly different but at their very core struggle was them grappling with their self worth. My betrothed struggles with their worth a great deal and even with different facets showing their characters all have that too.

Mine all tend to contend with different themes of loneliness and acceptance. Surprise, surprise, the little autistic gremlin yearns to have been met with more love and lasting friendships.

So we’re at breakfast. I am meeting a new friend of my betrotheds for the first time. It’s been twenty minutes since I’ve met this man. I say my theory. He laughs. He starts to describe a few of his characters but specifies that he often has healing aspects. He gives a very broad overview of their character arcs.

I ponder for a moment then said, “Would you like to have my assessment?”

He laughed, “Sure!”

“We’ve just met. It’s gonna get real.”

“Bring it on.”

“I think your struggle is that you feel you must offer something of value or service to people to be worthy of their love.”

His jaw dropped. His fork froze midway to his mouth. A potato fell. He stared into space as this sank in. Quietly he said, “Oh.”

why are pipefish so ugly

YOU MADE HIM CRY. TAKE IT BACK!!!

To honor Akira Toriyama i drew future Trunks aka my first ever crush

you wouldn't last a day in the asylum where they raised me

“For the chance to be by your side I would storm the Dark City itself. Never doubt it.”

The deep gnome bard Ijech in our DnD party is often seen by my dark elf Deimos as 'just a small gnome'. But often this small gnome is truly the leader and negotiator of our group the Grey Wardens.

Lately Ijech seemed to be a bit lost however. I suppose dying during the dragon fight and getting revived through magic does that to you. :( Ijech saw things when she died and has now started to question the legitimacy of the gods and she's seeking guidance elsewhere. So of course Deimos will provide~

Deimos started working on a new spell of his: Dream. I talked this plan over with the GM of our DnD campaign and he agreed to let me cast this spell on another partymember. When the night fell the GM asked everyone else to leave the table except for Ijech and Deimos.

I described that Ijech in her dreams wakes up in a luxurious mansion. Tall windows looking out over the vast dark elf city of Menzoberranzan. As Deimos approached her Ijech suddenly went: "Oh, it's the Deimos dream. Again." This took Deimos by surprise. Deimos: "Again? You dream about me more often?" Ijech: "Wait?! You're really here???!!"

The Dream went on with Deimos explaining that he needs Ijech's help. He needs to reach the famous city of magic: Ephelium.

Extra: Ijech's player later described the start of the scene so vividly saying: "It's a moment of terror when the GM turns to the drow player and just says 'Take it away'!"

(Claudia voice) babe wake up I'm about to cast the most morally abhorrent soulbinding spell on us

Day 17 - Strange

Valammar.

A list of potential cures for the Calling, that we know about, that BioWare has apparently forgotten

Andraste's grace: it's not specified whether the flower the kennelmaster has you pick in the Korcari Wilds is Andraste's grace or if the game just needed a one-off asset and decided to reuse one they already had. However, in the dark future in DAI, Leliana is found to have unusual tolerance for the taint, and in DAO she talks about her mother pressing her laundry with dried Andraste's grace flowers, so it makes you wonder. Anyway, the flower stops Barkspawn becoming a ghoul and seems to make them immune to the taint from that point on.

Maric's longsword: he finds it in the Deep Roads and is suprised it isn't covered in the same Blight-rot as everything else - until, that is, he touches the sword to a patch of it and sees it wither away. Whether it's the dragonbone the sword is made of or the runes on the blade is difficult to say, though if it was just the dragonbone then it would make sense for that to be a more well-known property of the material (and would have been an interesting reason for why dragons were hunted to extinction). If Alistair carries it with him, doesit slow the progession of the taint through his body? Does he know its effects, and give it to the HoF to help keep them safer on their journey to find a permanent cure?

That obsidian dagger Duncan finds in The Calling: the dagger belonged to First Enchanter Remille - who also gave the expedition members brooches that accelerated the spread of the taint. iirc the both the dagger and the brooches are made by the Architect with Blight magic, which means the darkspawn magisters have more knowledge of how the Blight works than the Chantry attributes to them.

Whatever the fuck is going on with Avernus: he hasn't managed to cure himself yet, but he's managed to make it to 200 and the Warden can let him continue his experiments if they don't kill him - and he'd be a really useful resource if the Warden later wanted to send him other potential cures for testing.

Dragons: they have an ability to isolate the Blight in their bodies by forming crystaline cysts around the initial infection to stop it spreading. Useful if it can be more widely applied. Also, it's implied that Maric's reaver blood, which Calenhad gained by mixing his blood with a dragon's, is what somehow cured Fiona of the taint, kinda like a reverse STI, BUT in the Deep Roads they went through an area where the walls were coated in a pale, chalky substance suspiciously devoid of Blight-rot and she touched it, so I'm a bit suspicious of that.

Blood magic: makes sense since the taint is a problem that starts with infected blood. There are two major instances in DA canon where blood magic has been used to purge the taint from an object or being (both by elves btw). The first is Isseya using it to draw the taint out of a clutch of unhatched griffon eggs, which she says is only possible because the taint hasn't yet taken over the hatchlings' bodies to the same extent that it had with the adult griffons. The second instance is Merrill purging the Blighted eluvian in DA2. It's insane that Anders - who is a reluctant Warden and who possibly knows the HoF seeks a cure - isn't more excited about this. She literally removed the Blight from a fully tainted object. Since Isseya proved the same can be done with living tissue, it's probably the closest we've come to an actual cure, but since it also took years there's no telling if it could be a practicaly solution for all Wardens