Redesign of another old oc!

Halflings are some of the only cultures to take care of people mutated by curses or otherwise corrupted by magic.

Halfling lycanthropes are usually just sent out to the woods to hunt during the fool moon, and are useally known in the community so that people can avoid them.

Zombies are thought of as sick instead of dead, and are useally kept in safe places by their families, sometimes used to guard crops if they need to.

Vampires are treated as those succumb to illness as well. They're useally fed the blood of their families to keep them healthy. Because of this they don't even see them as dangerous or evil.

Half orcs, half goblins, and half humans are useally accepted and respected for their strength, and commonly work jobs that require more physical prowess. Even if they were born from unfortunate circumstances.

Even people maddened by eldrich horrors are thought of as mentally and tend to be taken care of by their community, heavily decreasing the amount of cults.

Because of this, attacks by such "monsters" are rarer with halflings then any other race.

oh sorry, did you think that last post I made was a final design? I've been working on these assholes for over 2 years straight and there are versions of them that will never see the light of day; I'm not about to *stop* just because I posted one online 🙃 I spent a few hours writing up a lore dump for these guys before deciding it should wait until I have a lineup with more variants

I think dwarves as a fantasy race could really easily be finnish coded why do they all have to be Scots or something

Sea Elf playing with her pet Icthyosaurus communis

Why the claim like that of extra credits that fantasy races have a good/evil alignment being wrong, so wrong that it can't be applied in media, is itself wrong, is what I am going to argue here.

I think what is necessary to fundamentally express why their opinion is wrong, is the background of why they made it. They made it aligned with the academic view that man is purely a blank slate, with no rationality, no genetics shaping him in anyway, and are ultimately a product of their nurture rather than nature.

One aspect I want to point out is they often claim, "this is morally flawed" only because they try and relate them to real kinds of people. Or that "this is boring" or "this is lazy writing" or some other claim.

It isn't because they believe these things are argued on that basis, because they don't as they don't argue on that basis, it's because claiming its boring changes the debate from them applying their ideology directly to an issue as in "my ideology, which you don't practice says this is wrong" to "this is boring" which is an aesthetic debate rather than the naked policing of other people.

I am not adding what they are policing people on. Which you gain the police someone on their hobbies you do it on the rest of their life as well.

Fantasy races, are not just some endless variations on human. Whether defined by evolution, science fiction, magic and etc, they are different from humans, in both form and/or nature in some way.

This is why you make a fantasy race to show, create and strain the contrast that comes in comparing the fantastical to what is human.

It's why humans are often the everyman of every setting because while human nature can be complex, the fantasy race is the contrasting element, the nature of the contrast can change by degrees but not that it is a contrast.

They fundamentally must be of a different nature to us, even if we are blank slates which we aren't, that fact alone provides the contrast. You could do culture differences but then you have to constantly deal with the fact that contrast when it erodes the very second that race is separated or living in shared space. The inherent to the species implies the constant application of that contrast and how the human deals with it.

In short, their series of videos on the topic are just wrong. Races of evil or good nature are not boring, lazy, or whatever aesthetical judgement they are pretending it is, and the view of humanity in regards to the blank slate is fundamentally wrong.

Some facial explorations for a fantasy race of mine, the Draavik.

The Draavik were intelligently designed by the first sentient creatures in the universe, the Dragon Brothers. They were designed as efficient killing machines, and were feared throughout the universe for their brutality. After the end of a great war, the Dragons created a final resting place for what remained of their children, a small planet called Draa. The Dragons' final testament was that the Draavik would never leave their planet, lest their nature lead to another endless war. Instead, the Draavik constructed a government that mandates constant war between factions. The war is called the Game, and is both an honorable pursuit for young, able-bodied Draavik and a great source of entertainment to the public.

Endgame Lae'zel

Some goblin girls.

Recently I've seen my old plus-sized fantasy creatures get some love from you guys, so I made two more lovelies!!

The last elf made it to the information age. She's doing her best, in a city mostly populated by humans, with a few hobgoblin and vampire enclaves. She's utterly alone in a way nobody from her race ever was before.

She's happy not to be a meusum exhibit like her brother was. But she wishes there was still something to fight for. Her ancestors fought battles, and made sacrifices to keep their people alive. But there is nothing she can do now, her species will be extinct the momment she dies.

She lives her life. Goes to a big college in the city. Every few months some important mage or journalist will contact her about her position. But useally she just lives the life of a normal person. She still sings the old songs, prays to the elven gods in her own way, knowing that if it ends for her it ends for the world.

Even though she has freinds there will always be a way that she's alone. Ways that nobody else can understand. Her experience alone is unique, her culture being held onto by such a small thread, the weight of a million years of history all resting on her shoulders until its time for her to finally fall.

Every spring flowers bloom in her hair. And she sings a song from pure instincts, what used to be a mating song. Her bodies waits for someone to sing it back, but her mind knows that there's nobody there.

Clothing :)

Some of the color choices seem.. off, so if you have any advice I’d love to hear it!

Lil Goblin girl, veryyyy proud of this one

Hear me out: dwarf gender is just about whether you are a power lifter or a body builder or on the spectrum between the two.

Character design for a cactus person