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Get to Know Your Character

Here are some questions to consider for character development:

What parts of their childhood trigger them?

How do they treat themselves when they're feeling sad?

What parts of themselves do they tend to hide?

How do they punish themselves when they make mistakes?

Who are they loyal to? Why?

Who do they avoid? Why?

What emotions or situations do they try to avoid? Why?

What angers them?

What are their insecurities?

What are their emotional triggers?

How do they feel about love?

What are their fears?

What is their relationship with their family like?

What kind of people do they tend to gravitate towards?

What do they like/dislike about themselves?

Happy writing ❤

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Group meeting to establish the flags: just for fun.

To take a break from Griffeuxes:

Feylands Government System!

They use to hold a multitude of Monarchies across the continent, but after several riots against the multiple monarchies and a lot of cleaning up: Six organizations came about to instill order and have been working cleanly after a few hiccups.

I have unifying colors for them and Flags!

In order:

Gis (Argriculture & Rural affairs)

Thalimis (Architecture, infrastructure & Water incorporation)

Ourinis (Communication, Transportation & Imports/exports)

Nekis (Law Enforcement & Millitary matters)

Mageis (Education)

Ygeis (Healthcare)

All the original leaders commissioned or hand-crafted their flag.

(Socialist Oligarchy With six major Organizations)

Also additional Wyverns but actual folks!

Elysi Uki'Hest, Current leader of the Ourinis Guild. A very specific Wyvern!

Grimmere (No last name), Current leader of the Nekis. Standard Cliffside Wyvern.

More Under, just names and other bits.

Grimmere’s easier to start with: He’s an extremely old man and has seen his fair share of life- he’s in his late 190’s and he’s very old. He’s rejected the idea of retiring young and has worked and worked and worked. He’s a giant also. Only known family is his younger sister and most folks are speculating he’s training up a new apprentice to take over. He’s just a normal elderly guy helping to run a nation.

Elysi Uki’Hest is from an isolated Solely Wyvern city on the sheer cliffs on the Northmost point of Feylands. They developed feathers to combat the sheer wind and water-spray. Even their wings are fuzzy! They’ve lived there for generations— and now they have feathers and a stockier snout. Some of the draconic folks develop feathers but with this city it’s pretty much all feathers and fluff. Elysi’s pretty unique in other cities due to this. She— like Grimm— manages Ourinis and frequently visits other locations to set up deals or the like.

House/structure concepts. The human characters I’m developing come from a lineage of marsh and delta-dwelling peoples that have a thriving ceramics culture due to the naturally abundant clays carried by the river and deposited on its shores. Settlements appear on scattered hilltops along the borders of the delta and the plains, which rise above the highest seasonal flooding. Temporary structures on floating platforms are common further into the delta floodplain during summer food-gathering expeditions.

Permanent homes and buildings are made from a cob-like clay and fiber mixture, often with wooden supports; young saplings are preferred due to their flexibility and can conform to the desired circular shapes. In resource-rich areas, some structures can be “fired” by filling the chambers with wood and charcoal and burning for days, partially or wholly vitrifying the thin walls. Most towns have a large central kiln; ceramics are a major trade export.

Their architecture takes on rounded shapes due to an ancient association of thrown bowl forms with the hearth and womb, though that history is not necessarily relevant or common knowledge to everyday people. Circular and spiral motifs recur in design and architectural planning due to wider cultural and religious understanding of The Spiral as the guiding force of magic and the rhythms of existence. The arrangement of cosmic bodies is conceived of as an overlapping spiral pattern, the intersections of which have tangible effects on magic-users’ ability to channel The Spiral’s cosmic power. It is said that dragons’ ichor contains fine particles of starstuff which reverberates with cosmic energy and increases their power and connection to The Spiral beyond what any human could achieve.

@shreksstepfather *collapses*

Here it is. Here it is in Tumblr post form (+ the original video since the quality got a bit *crunched* in Youtube)

YOUTUBE LINK

Hopefully I can crunch out one or two final attacks before the end of the Art Fight period. If not, I think I'm happy with this being my final attack of the year

Some additional Drake things.

It’s not just elk antlers that are said to give fertility from their Goddess or Mother Nature. Wild ram horns, Deer, moose horns- mainly Cervids. They are also good things to chew on in general.

Cups are oddly shaped for wyverns because they have no hands.

Thyne’s weird because he spent the first major years of his life partying and moving from town to town, creating a growing gaggle of kids until his final partner got him to sit down and realize he can’t keep on going like this. And also asked for help raising three hatchlings because that’s exhausting. He quit having flings after that.

What seems like a lot for Wyverns isn’t that much for Drakes.

Since we’re a few posts into this; The Feylands is a continent! I’d personally say it’s larger than Australia- or a little bit more I’m not good at sizes.

And it has a map! That I’ve redraw 3 times over the years!

Some features on the map are up for changes, like City markers being more prominent and caves/ being spruced up. There are tons of little spots around that are a bit too small to place- small ponds and streams and so.

Food and culture ideas! Notes under the cut

A majority of food comes from the ocean and shallow waters of their home world. Large-scale hunting is done on a smaller scale, ever since larger communities moved to shallower, warmer waters when civilizations began to rise. Any food items that require an ingredient from a deep sea animal is usually a delicacy.

Anything that isn't eaten fresh is preserved in a glazed ceramic vessel or sealed in a plastic-like packaging made from seaweed. Bowls and drinking cups are typically made from bone, shells, or carved stone.

Soups tend to be sent with away agents because that is one of the easier ways to make sure that daily nutritional goals are being met, while it is not often eaten on the planet itself. Large pieces of meat and fish, along with most other cultural staples, are difficult to store long-term and aren't sent with away teams.