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Elves! I had a lot to say and didn't manage to fit it all in, but I fit most of it!
It's important to note that, because elves are full fae now (why they aren't in core 5e confuses me), they have a weakness to iron and take double damage from iron weapons.
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I just discovered foodtimeline.org, which is exactly what it sounds like: centuries worth of information about FOOD. If you are writing something historical and you want a starting point for figuring out what people should be eating, this might be a good place?
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Astraoimh. Also called Lights In The Void and Star Archer. God of Stars, Space, and the Void. Astraoimh Took their position shortly after their arrival from the end. Widely regarded as a comforting figure, Astraoimh swims and space swims around them, letting loose shooting stars from their quiver. Astraoimh appears as either a large akero patterned like the event horizon of a black hole, or a humanoid archer, typically with starry limbs and lapis eyes, dressed in some sort of flowing, lacy ensemble. Will respond to Aoimh (aiv) if called.
Astraoimh is considered to be responsible for most modern star showers and is a popular figure in children's books. They occasionally manifest in places other than the void but are most commonly spotted there.
Astraoimh dislikes shrines, considering the open sky to be a shrine all of its own.
Astraoimh is for the @halfstack-smp
#digital art#my ocs#original character#halfstack smp#minecraft art#minecraft oc#arte#Astraoimh#Akero#Gods#image desc in alt text
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[ID: The image shows Lyhyt, The Ephemeral and Vartija, The Quotidian. They are 20 foot swans wrapped in ribbon with glowing eyes. Lyhyt is a white swan with a blue ribbon covered in bells and blue eyes. Vartija is a black swan with an orange ribbon covered in medallions and orange eyes. :END ID]
[ID: The image shows Lyhyt, The Ephemeral and Vartija, The Quotidian. They are both large Tengu/Sirin hybrids wrapped in ribbon with glowing eyes. Lyhyt has white feathers with a blue ribbon covered in bells and blue eyes. Vartija has black feathers with an orange ribbon with a few medallions and orange eyes. :END ID]
The twin pact gods Lyhyt and Vartija, granters of wishes, scourge of the Sarvipöllö-Hollolas. For the @halfstack-smp
#digital art#halfstack smp#original character#minecraft art#minecraft oc#arte#tengu/sirin hybrid#gods#lyhyt the ephemeral#vartija the quotidian
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Orcs my large chunky beloveds. Had a few ideas regarding the appearance and culture of orcs, so I finally took the time to draw them out and jot them down.
I have more thoughts, namely that the 'orcs are aggressive' misconception comes from a deeply ingrained cultural focus on protecting those you love to preserve community. That and they have stripes as babies kinda like wild hogs but lose them later in life, but I didn't quite have enough of them solidified to make a whole third sheet.
Also I wanted them to look more like pigs and wild boars because those are cute.
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The rest of the Sarvipöllö-Hollolas (Minus Aimo)
Finished up the rest of the Sarvipöllö-Hollolas (Minus uncle Aimo because I do not have his colors yet). More about them under the cut because I wrote a lot. Massive post. Images are described in alt text!
As always, these folks are for the @halfstack-smp
In image order
Sampsa was born into the Waxcoat ships business but never enjoyed all the sights, sounds, and smells of the sea quite as much as their sister Tuulikki. They broke off from Waxcoat ships in their early 20s, traveling to the Luumuseo to take up their residence there, though never becoming the owner.
Sampsa's entire arm was blown off while he was firing a bow due to the family curse, causing more than one catastrophe that day. The arrow caught a rope connected to the main mast of one of the docked ships, setting the balance off just enough to cause all the sails to unfurl the wrong way into strong winds, immediately tipping the ship all the way over onto its side. Nobody died luckily.
Sampsa wasn't aware they were queer until one of his grandkids introduced the concept to him.
Sampsa currently works as an archival assistant at the family Luumuseo. Hannu makes sure to give them easy but interesting work and has made the space accessible to account for his missing arm. They have a prosthetic, it's just itchy and he doesn't need it constantly, so Sampsa will frequently go without it. He is married to Ilona.
Ilona was born to 'Tengu' parents with some questionable hybridization back in her lineage. She's married to Sampsa.
Ilona is an art historian and conservationist, spending a majority of her free time cleaning, repairing, and re-framing artworks sent to her for her conservation efforts. She's got an excellent eye for detail and can likely tell you who made what piece in what era no matter the piece she's shown. She's also excellent at spotting fakes or forgeries of original works, as well as legally reproduced copies. Ilona has amassed a small collection of artworks she's taken in for study and research purposes.
She dabbles in a little bit of painting herself and all of Sampsa's prosthetics have hand-painted details from her.
Severi is a fashion historian and regularly works with Ensi. to reproduce and preserve old fashions and sewing patterns found through the Family's archival efforts. Most gifts from either of them are immediately recognizable given that they're a handmade garment 90% of the time. Hannu's Shawl was a birthday gift from Ensi and Severi.
Severi does not have a personal clothing brand but does sell some of the things he sews or crochets on the side that she doesn't want to keep.
Severi's legs exploded slightly due to the family curse shortly after her 17th birthday. She uses a wheelchair to help him get around now. He let his kids decorate her wheelchair when they were all young and still lets them do so if they ever want to. She lives close to his great aunt Ensi and the two of them regularly swap patterns.
Saana is a talented linguist, specializing in the discovery of old languages, their reconstruction, as well as the creation of conlangs. Saana has created more than a few conlangs for her husband Janne's books and is always credited in the back.
Saana developed her passion for linguistics from a young age, spending most of her free time learning anything and everything she possibly could about all different languages from the resources her parents could provide. She's fluent in at least 5 languages and regularly makes up new conlangs for fun. Saana sometimes teaches linguistics courses at the same college Hannu graduated from.
Janne was born to tengu parents in a spruce taiga home. He is married to Saana Sarvipöllö-Hollola. He writes fiction and fantasy books mostly aimed at child and young adult audiences, telling grand stories of worlds that do not exist like their own. He has a science fiction publication but that one was enough for him to decide that he never wanted to write sci-fi again.
Columba was born to Tengu parents in a birchwood forest home. He has no siblings and is married to Severi. He came out as trans at age 13, allowing that experience to be a part of their fashion concepts moving forward. He'd already begun taking sewing classes several years beforehand and started to make clothes that would both bring him some comfort and look spectacular.
Columba creates and sells 'designer' style clothes under the brand name Dove and Raven. Dresses, skirts, blouses, shirts, all made by hand and fit to each origin's particular requirements on sizing and shape. He occasionally gifts clothing to his family members but it's a bit difficult to get them all done in time so he mostly offers sewing classes.
Corvus is an avian origins weaponry expert and, as such, spends quite a bit of time around Inka. His kids love it there because Inka shows them cool sharp things they usually aren't allowed to touch. She spent quite a bit of time around her great aunt Inka as a child, leading to him developing a passion for avian origin specific weaponry. It keeps an unsafe amount of claw extending knives around the house but doesn't seem to see the issue with having them, much to the delight of her partner.
Emille assists her with with reproduction copies of old avian origins weaponry, some to send to the Luumuseo, some to keep at home, and some to bring to fairs for entertainment's sake.
Aquila is an avian origins architecture expert, focusing on the preservation and restoration of Tengu and Sirin ruins. There's been some debate as to whether or not feathered draconis count as avian, but Aquila includes them in xir research anyways.
Aquila spent most of his time sketching as a kid, drawing building after building and floorplan after floorplan. Once he found the original building plans for the Sarvipöllö-Hollola Family Luumuseo, Xir love for architecture only grew. One of his notable contributions was the addition of disabled avian origin friendly architecture in both the Sarvipöllö-Hollola Family Luumuseo and The Downfeather, calling on older blueprints for similar structures that had fallen out of modern usage.
Emille reproduces both actually dangerous and child-safe versions of historically avian origin produced weaponry. The dangerous reproduction stay at home, go to Inka, or go to Hannu at the Luumuseo. The safer reproductions are sold at fairs for entertainment's sake for younger audiences and also occasionally given to Raine and Siv as both education and a way to entertain them.
Emille picked up their love of blacksmithing from the local Daystone population, being taught by a smith that they remember as having iron inlays and strong but gentle hands. As such, most of their crafts are intricately detailed and tend to resemble the works of a daystone rather than the works of a faun.
Raine fancies themselves a writer and is working on their own vast, interconnected web of lore for their 37 magical wolf oc's. Ae has always been a particularly ferocious reader, regularly demolishing upwards of 40 books over the course of a few months or so. Currently ae's obsessed with aer uncle Janne's book series, A Dance of Stars and Storms.
Siv is going about her life as any 10yo child does. She is ABSOLUTELY convinced that she's an aspect of Aelrys. She isn't, but she has horns and wings and so does Aelrys so she's 100% convinced she is.
If you've somehow read all the way down here, thanks! I'm going to go dunk my head in cold water to cool off my brain.
#digital art#my ocs#halfstack smp#original character#minecraft art#minecraft oc#arte#tengu#faun#hybrid#Sampsa Sarvipöllö-Hollola#Ilona Sundberg#Severi Sarvipöllö-Hollola#Saana Sarvipöllö-Hollola#Janne Huuhkaja#Columba Auremir#Corvus Sarvipöllö-Hollola#Aquila Sarvipöllö-Hollola#Emille Ahlgren#Raine Ahlgren#Siv Ahlgren#The Sarvipöllö-Hollolas
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[ID: Tuulikki is an elderly Tengu with greying red hair and feathers. She has several freckles, deep brown eyes, and dresses in a blue turtleneck tanktop and sunhat with gold jewelry. Most notably, a bell necklace, a nose ring, and a triple piercing in one of her ears that contains a sapphire. :END ID]
[ID: Olavi is an elderly Barn Sparrow colored Sirin with a very humanlike face. He wears a cream colored shirt with a ruffled collar that sits open on his chest and a straw sunhat tied around his neck with a red ribbon :END ID]
[ID: Pyry is a middle aged Sirin/Tengu hybrid with greyish-blue skin, ice blue eyes, and black hair and feathers with grey streaks. They have a gold lower lip piercing and gold piercings in one ear with a black chain. Faer other ear's piercings are black. Fae wear blue lipstick and a little blue eyeshadow which contrasts with their red shirt. :END ID]
The current co-owners and faces of Waxcoat Ships, a business inherited from Maarit and Reiju. Tuulikki, Olavi, and Pyry.
Tuulikki and her husband Olavi have taken over their parents business, Waxcoat Ships. She runs it in tandem with their kid, Pyry. Tuulikki is the primary manual labor force in the business due to being the strongest. She's had to get a couple other workers recently due to (accidentally) blowing her back out, but has been getting back into the swing of things.
Olavi can't do much of the actual building due to Sirin wings and so mostly helps Reiju with the schematics.
Pyry is the most people-forward of the Waxcoat Ship staff, mostly taking care of orders, issues, and selling folks on ships.
Fae don't do any of the building because that isn't their specialty. They are, effectively, customer service.
Tuulikki, Olavi, and Pyry are for the @halfstack-smp
#digital art#my ocs#halfstack smp#minecraft art#minecraft oc#arte#tengu#sirin#tengu/sirin hybrid#Olavi Mustakaihara#Pyry Sarvipöllö-Hollola#Tuulikki Sarvipöllö-Hollola#The Sarvipöllö-Hollolas
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Selkie molting season
im sorry seals molt? my association with that word is insects so i am confused and intrigued
They do! I’d say most species of animals sloughs off “old” parts of their bodies at some point of their lives in some capacity. The word “molting” is used as a catch-all term for this process, although exactly what body part they shed and how they do it varies from animal to animal. Arthropods grow an entire new exoskeleton and shed the old one, but for most other animals, this process only involves shedding the outermost layer of their bodies, the pelage and/or their first layer of skin. Reptiles are quite famous for this because they sometimes manage to come out of their old skins and leave them almost fully intact as if they were kigurumi pajamas:
Mammals tend to mostly only shed fur or hair, growing thicker fur during colder months and losing it in favor of shorter fur during warmer months. How obvious this is depends on the climate, though. It’s quite perceptible in mammals that live in the arctic whose fur changes color depending on the season:
But even the difference between the summer coats and winter coats of domestic dogs can be palpable if you live in places with colder climates!
(I’m quite fascinated by this because I was born and raised in a tropical country and my dogs look the same all year round heh)
But back to the seals. Pinnipeds don’t really use their fur to keep warm like other mammals do, but they still have it, and they have to shed their old coats and grow new ones accordingly, which they do once a year!
In elephant seals, this process is so sudden and so extreme it’s called catastrophic molting. They don’t only lose their fur, but also a layer of dead skin all at once and this forces them to stay on land for a full month without swimming (and therefore, without hunting and eating) until the process is fully done. Because molting requires redirecting blood flow towards the skin instead of to their vital organs as usual, if they swam in the cold waters they’re usually accustomed to while molting, they’d freeze!
Bonus fun fact: despite having lost their fur during the evolution process, cetaceans like whales and dolphins also go through a molting process where they lose a layer of dead skin, which they scrape off by rubbing against rocks and rolling on sand banks.
It’s been recently discovered (as of 2020!) that the reason whales migrate annually from arctic waters to tropical waters is the exact same reason elephant seals spend a month on land: to molt! It’s much easier for a whale to keep warm while shedding its skin in warm waters than it is in cold waters.
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Hiya first post - Here's a way i found to make Minecraft roofs easier :)
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[ID: Talc is a nearly pure-white Daystone with golden filigree all over their Tapir shaped head. His golden eyes are framed by ruby red inlay into his stone skin. It wears a red, gold, and blue outfit ensemble. :END ID]
Talc is for the @halfstack-smp and is Juha's Husband (Neutral).
Talc made all the art for Juha's books, earning some of the money from the published and sold copies. Additionally, it creates and sells filigrees, inlays, prints, and sculptures of its own so others may have its art in their homes. Of course, His and Juha's home is full of projects and art pieces as well as several rough drafts written by Juha.
Talc still hasn't quite grasped the fact that fleshier origins cannot have inlays or filigrees but has been introduced to the concept of tattoos.
#digital art#original character#halfstack smp#minecraft art#minecraft oc#arte#daystone#The Sarvipöllö-Hollolas
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[ID: Maarit Merikeiju is an elderly selkie/tengu hybrid. She has plentiful freckles and deep brown eyes and her brown hair has greyed to nearly almost white. She wears a cream colored shirt, a warm grey sealskin, and a Hannunvaakuna medallion necklace. She has one earring with a ruby and a shark tooth strung up on it. :END ID]
Another member of the @halfstack-smp and Reiju's wife. Reiju, Maarit, and a few of their kids started an avian friendly ship construction business in the 70s named "Waxcoat Ships". They're still technically the owners of the business, but Tuulikki, Olavi, and Pyry have largely taken over the business end of things. Maarit still takes care of most of the drafting and planning for the ships that Waxcoat produces, with a majority of them being personally designed by her.
#digital art#halfstack smp#minecraft art#original character#minecraft oc#arte#tengu#selkie#Maarit Merikeiju#The Sarvipöllö-Hollolas
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Not so much question as statement but holy moly your art and story work is breath taking and has me utterly giddy to hear and see more of
Ah! Thank you! There's definitely plenty more coming very soon.
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Images are described in Alt Text because they would've been too long to put down here!
The Eldest Living Sarvipöllö-Hollolas, Juha, Ensi, Reiju, and Inka. (Order of the individual images. The Top Image in order from left to right is organized Ensi, Inka, Reiju, and Juha.) Great aunts, uncles, and grandparents (in Reiju's case). They all remember the founding of the Sarvipöllö-Hollola Family Luumuseo, with most of them being born before it was even built.
Juha currently works as a caver, having passed his prime of archaeological expeditions. Ensi is a fashion historian. Reiju is the co-founder and current co-owner of Waxcoat ships. And Inka is a weapons restoration expert.
The Sarvipöllö-Hollolas are for the @halfstack-smp
#digital art#my ocs#minecraft art#halfstack smp#minecraft oc#tengu#arte#Juha Sarvipöllö-Hollola#Ensi Sarvipöllö-Hollola#Reiju Sarvipöllö-Hollola#Inka Sarvipöllö-Hollola#The Sarvipöllö-Hollolas#Old people are so cool I wish they were real/j
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Equinox Sage
[ID: The image depicts Equinox Sage, a white and grey furred Tonttu/Imp Hybrid, multiple times. He dresses in a simple cream shirt, brown pants, and a wide brimmed brown witch hat. They have a cape made of orange and yellow autumn leaves and bright blue eyes. :END ID]
A new(ish) halfstack oc and one taking over an old role. Equinox is an adventurer, traveling half the year and staying with their QPP Cygnus for the other half. He's a prolific alchemist and a talented herbalist, always happy to help Cygnus stock up on both normal and questionable potions.
As we can tell, Equinox has largely taken over Averett's role as Cygnus's partner. But Averett isn't gone! They're still floating about in the ether of characters in need of designs
Equinox Sage is for the @halfstack-smp
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