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My reign of terror with a razor continues

#i no longer believe this is a joke anymore #my art #the pale beyond #bellular studios #disclaimer I do NOT hate beards i love them i just think it'd be funny to shave them

[imayooshi]

Introducing: The Pale Beyond - Barbers Update

Have you ever wondered what secrets the crew hide behind their beards? Wonder no more! The Barbers Update adds a grooming station for the crew to use at their leisure, and you might just catch a glimpse of their chiselled jawlines and perfectly shaped lips in all their cleanly-shaved glory!

#my art #the pale beyond #bellular studios #the first thing I draw after a long break is this for april fools #bellular please hire me <3 #jess i'm so sorry i peeled your boys it WILL happen again

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that masked knight got another upgrade - closeups below the cut!

for hands of gold are always cold but the hands of a king are the hands of a healer

#dug myself into a huge pit trying to make metal look expressive #my art #imayooshi's ocs #tiberias #illustration #historical fantasy #paladin #digital painting #photoshop

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Pencil things from last week

#thank you moleskine paper for being the real mvp #it's been three thousand years since i did any pencil work #sketch #my art #studies

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running repeatedly through a brick wall goodnight

#wip

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5 and 9 for the artist asks!

Artist asks!

5. Estimate of how much of your art you post online vs. the art you keep for yourself

I think it's more or less a 1:1 to be honest, I don't really draw for myself or my own characters but I really want to change that in 2024!

9. What are your file name conventions

Surprisingly normal actually - I start off with exactly what the file is and then tack on numbers at the back as I make increasingly more iterations (e.g. hussar > hussar 1 > hussar 2 etc)

And then sometimes I do shit like this:

#asks

[imayooshi]

the annual roundup with an unusually large amount of animals this year!

#this has been a YEAR #of growth and putting my hair up #thank you rebelle for being my lifesaver in 2023 #artvsartist #artvartist #hey look it's me! #another june birthday mug from the bathroom floor

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on the first day of christmas my true love gave to me-

There were many Roscreans that sought power. They pledged their lives to old and dead kings, chasing after the shadows of the past. But Thorkell the Axe, mightiest of all of Roscrea, cared little for fate, for prophecy, for history. Were they not the empty words of long-dead men? Some say that he conquered all of Roscrea - not in the name of a rotting corpse, but for himself and his own desires. Few remember Thorkell's name, and none dare to speak of his deeds. They say he vanished, leaving behind mountains of treasure somewhere on Roscrea. On cold nights, one can still hear his thundering steps booming over the mountains and across the seas.

#he is my heart and soul my sun and moon my- #my art #the helmet is for all the sutton hoo fans out there I see you #he's the gods' (my) favourite jarl and special-est boy #beyond skyrim #beyond skyrim roscrea #roscrea #the elder scrolls #tes #skyrim #concept art #concept illustration #viking #barbarian

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So the Lord opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw, and behold, the mountain was full of horses and wings of fire all around Vienna.

#my art #hussar #winged hussar #for all intents and purposes this is absolutely not historically accurate #monday has been sponsored by season 1 of the crown #poland

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-spits blood out of mouth- i hauve covid (Amlaug Elkenbrand)

Bonus little custom MTG card:

#my art #amlaug #it's 6am and i need to be at brunch #i'll be riding this post-art depression for the next week <3 #imayooshi's ocs #barbarian #druid #dnd oc #tes oc #reachman #forsworn #the elder scrolls #skyrim

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I have made a terrible decision

#wip #ramblings #my sistine chapel is crumbling like the notre dame but by GOD am i holding it up like atlas and the world

[imayooshi]

experiencing profound joy and immense sorrow (just dropped 17 hours on The Pale Beyond)

#ramblings #expect art to follow after november

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No arrest in Her Majesty's waters No victory for the mothers and fathers Of the young and the damned The guilty walk free To continue their trade on a cruel black sea

#my art #one down seven more to go in twenty two days #if you've seen the last two versions of this not-maa painting no you didn't <3 #(please don't tag this as MAA or darkest dungeon this is supposed to be an original piece) #also first time running glaze! #landsknecht

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I keep using the same MAA painting as a springboard for totally unrelated things I feel like I'm committing some cardinal sin

#wip #tfw you haven't drawn a single thing in months and somehow the muscle memory is still there

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Having a lot of thoughts and feelings about the "Shadowheart is Ketheric's daughter" headcanon tonight:

Shadowheart, while in service of Selûne as a cleric, was lost, her body never found. The years that followed were not kind to Ketheric: he turned away from the Moonmaiden and sought consolation in the Lady of Loss and the Lord of Bones - after all, they had already taken everything from him, what's one more piece of his body and soul?

In the present day, Shadowheart has no recollection of her life before she came into the service of Shar. What she does know is that the mysterious artefact she has in her possession is important somehow, and all the signs point her towards Moonrise Towers, and so she follows.

What she does not expect however, is her memory and life to slowly return to her, insistent and persistent just like the wound in her hand.

Least of all return to the home she was raised in.

Ketheric grieved for a daughter whom he thought was dead, and for a man who had everything in the world, all he could do was to build an empty tomb in the family mausoleum in her name.

And yet there she is before his very own eyes: Jenevelle Thorm.

Shar is a cruel mistress: she warped and shaped each of them for her own devices, and now she turns blood against blood, reuniting father and daughter again after a sundering orchestrated by her own hand. The Lady of Loss gives nothing and demands everything from her servants, and on this day she asks for a fight to the death.

Ketheric may have sold himself piece by piece to Shar and Myrkul, but he will not sell a single hair on his daughter's head to anyone for anything. If his gods were to strike him down where he stood, let it happen while he protects his daughter.

"For the land to heal, Ketheric Thorm must die."

Perhaps the Moonmaiden would be merciful. He prays that she will be.

#ramblings #actually a little disappointed it turned out that it wasn't the case but ah well #larian please hire me as a narrative designer I do have experience pretty please (this is a joke...unless??) #sharran!shart would require killing ketheric #selunite!shart requires sparing #Q: how is shadowheart still alive after a bajillion years? #A: Myrkul. Next question. #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #baldur's gate 3 spoilers #bg3 spoilers #shadowheart #ketheric thorm

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no thoughts head empty just trying to figure a painting out and dip back into my comfort zone

(pulled the sketch from this one and turning it into a lotr piece i’ve wanted to do forever)

#shameless self reblog #literally just going to keep putting this on my own radar until I pull it out of wip purgatory and work on it

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Thinking about how in the final battle if you choose to side with the Emperor, his abilities are just "normal" Illithid Powers, and doesn't even have all of them. He has a grand total of seven mind flayer-related abilities including Fly and Tentacle Whip, and none of the passives to boot.

Orpheus on the other hand, has sixteen (including Fly and Tentacle Whip), with seven mind flayer passives on top of that, and also has Permanent Mind Sanctuary.

Some more interesting details and some notes and my thoughts below the cut:

I could chalk the "The Emperor is not hosting a mind flayer parasite" part down to just a simple dev oversight or just NPC coding (companions who aren't infected, like Halsin and Jaheira also get the same text when you pull up the Illithid Powers menu on them) - but I'll get back to this later when we get to Orpheus.

The Emperor doesn't gain frankly...anything after you give him the Netherstones and let him assimilate Orpheus, not even Permanent Mind Sanctuary. What he does have however, is his staff, which has some really interesting flavourtext:

Ceremorphosis eradicates great swathes of the consciousness that came before... but not everything. Touching the staff, a fragment of the Emperor's memory slithers into your brain - you see sea waves foaming into spume, and feel the explorer's exultant joy. Then the image is gone, like so much silken night under a cut-shade sun.

Okay, let's move on to Orpheus now.

This is where it gives me pause - "Orpheus has undergone a magical transformation" - it makes me think that "The Emperor is not hosting a mind flayer parasite" might be intentional on Larian's part and not an oversight at all. But then again, it might just be a case of game mechanics, since the Emperor technically doesn't consume the Supreme Tadpole in the game, and the Permanent Mind Sanctuary effect could be directly tied to the consumption of the tadpole (if the player character chooses to become a mind flayer, they also get Permanent Mind Sanctuary, same as Orpheus)

I'm inclined to believe that "The Emperor is not hosting a mind flayer parasite" is nothing more than a dev oversight, as much as I love the alternate, unlikely theory that he somehow maintained control over the parasite that turned him and suppressed part of his mind flayer nature, and the staff is the last concrete tie he has to the physical world, something that is truly his own, and can't be wrested away from him unless he dies - he can't let go of his love of the sea and the joy it brings him.

Recommended reading:

The Illithiad - Bruce R. Cordell

Lords of Madness: The Book of Aberrations - Richard Baker, James Jacobs, Steve Winter

#DISCLAIMER I wrote all of this half asleep and parts of it are bound to be non-lore compliant even though I checked two books on the topic #I literally just woke up with this in my head and rolled out of bed to make this post #feel free to chime in with your thoughts #I have a lot of ThoughtsTM about the Emperor and Balduran and Ansur and Orpheus #I specifically stress that it COULD be a dev oversight because I work in game dev and things get through the cracks all the time #bg3 spoilers #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 spoilers #balduran #the emperor #orpheus #bg3 emperor #bg3 orpheus #ramblings