#Zenithal Najaruun

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Day 8 had Ornate and Shapeshifter as prompts, and I can't believe I spent so much time thinking about how to incorporate steel dragons into this when Zenithal was right there... Granted, I think only her cat form got an official design (and also any use in the campaign), but still!!  Her!!  And being abstract about it!!!

#Some Kinda Nonsense #D&D #DnD #Dungeons and Dragons #Dragonborn #Dragonborn D&D #Zenithal #Zenithal Najaruun #Druid D&D #HER!!!

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Tribble Month 2022 Day 22: Zenithal

She doesn’t stay in any place for long, as a rule.  Doesn’t bother with any of the people in them unless she has to.  She’ll take the shadows of mountains and forests and plains over whatever excuses she may find in the towns or cities.  But when a human child follows her through a marketplace, catches up to her on the outskirts, tugs on her cape, and asks her what it’s like to be “a real live dragon”, she can’t be too upset.

She shows them her necklace of vines and berries, the blanket she herself embroidered with the emblem of the Raven Queen, all her pointy claws and teeth and scales and frills that they find fascinating.  She whispers stories of unnatural dark, of rambunctious sisters, of so-called do-gooders who were not what they claimed.  And after much pleading, she relents and reveals her magic to them: a burst of fire from nothing, tears in fabric unmade, weeds bursting out of the ground.  Parlor tricks, at this point, but the child’s eyes go wide, and they grin so hard it must hurt.  

They ask how in the world she learned such things.  She smiles, and like so many times, she cannot tell if it’s a real one or not.

“A little bird told me.”

I keep taking the tree-related prompts and applying them to plants more generally.  But whatever works, I suppose.  Although I'm not sure it'll keep working if there's another one before the end of the month; I only have so many appropriately themed characters.

#Making Words Do Stuff #D&D #DnD #D&D Character #DnD Character #Dungeons and Dragons #Zenithal Najaruun #Dragonborn #DnD Dragonborn #Dragonborn D&D #Druid #Druid D&D #Druid DnD #Giving her child skills to ensure she isn't just a self-insert #Bonus points if anyone can tell what spells she uses

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Tribble Month 2022 Day 16: Nysdrith and Krivrinn

She found the first one wedged between the cobblestones by her front doorstep.  A tiny brooch with a fake gold frame around a smooth river rock.  Cheap, probably, but pretty.  And what good child of dragon’s blood would throw away something shiny?  She pinned it to her shirt, and smiled.

And then she couldn’t stop finding them.  Bracelets hanging on the fence of her backyard, rings scattered along her favorite path in the woods, even a necklace inside her desk at the schoolhouse.  Metal and stone and wood and twine, clumsy and skillful, but always with some way of sparkling.  She thought of looming strangers passing through town, of stories about fae whisking away greedy children, but she still didn’t get rid of them.  She couldn’t, not when they fit her so well.

She found him on the riverbank.  A boy her age, another dragonborn; one she’d seen in the square a few times, but only once at school.  In his hands, he carved a small block of wood into the shape of a dragon and put a tiny gemstone in its claws.  She marched right up to him, demanded answers, made accusations, asked if he knew how creepy he was.  And he…

He spluttered and shuffled, and managed a wobbly “sorry”, and several other things that might have been words, if he could get them out of his mouth right.  He scrambled to his feet, looked everywhere except her, and then shoved his unfinished project into her hands and ran like fiends were at his heels.  

She stared at the little figure.  The careful cuts of its scales, the gentle curve of its wings.  Its hoard of a single green jewel, glittering and winking at her.

She put it in her pocket, and tried to see where he went.

Zenithal's parents needed some backstory, so now they have some!  Emphasis on some.  Still got holes to fill over there.

#Making Words Do Stuff #DnD #D&D #Dungeons and Dragons #Dragonborn #D&D Dragonborn #DnD Dragonborn #Nysdrith Najaruun #Krivrinn Najaruun #When I first made Krivrinn I was like 'Hm I kinda wanna make him autistic maybe?' #Unaware that I was playing Zenithal as Very Autistic #You know like how that one post says all the characters are gonna be neurodivergent #Because how the fresh heck do neurotypical people even work #Anyway I am autistic and Zen is autistic and Krivrinn is autistic and honestly the rest of the family probably is too #Yeah

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Day 19!  I think I kinda botched the colored background, but it's practice regardless, so that's good!  And it was fun! 

#Some Kinda Nonsense #AoA #Art of August #Art of August 2021 #AoA 2021 #D&D #DnD #Dungeons and Dragons #Dragonborn #Zenithal #Zenithal Najaruun

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These last few prompts are just... not my thing.... but this is dumb and silly, so have it.

#Some Kinda Nonsense #OC-Tober #OC_Tober20 #DandhsOCtober2020 #D&D #DnD #Dungeons and Dragons #Zenithal #Zenithal Najaruun #Dragonborn #Dragonborn D&D #The compounded exhaustion levels of a lingering injury and customer service

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Corresponding FFM Story: fav.me/de0tz9o

#Some Kinda Nonsense #Art of August #Art of August 2020 #D&D #DnD #Dungeons and Dragons #Dragonborn #D&D Dragonborn #DnD Dragonborn #Zenithal Najaruun #Nysdrith #Nysdrith Najaruun #The Raven Queen #Shadowfell #Traditional Art #Raven #That gradient isn't that sloppy in real life I swear

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Fantasy June Day 14: Ranged

It came almost too fast to register, from a figure so obscured by the building blizzard that it was impossible to discern their outstretched hand.  A flare of brightness to rival the sun blazed down a singular path, right through her.  The wind barreling in from the ocean and the snow riding it bit frigid under her clothes, but the light was a white-hot testament to defiance that set off a bomb in her chest.  Her insides erupted.

There was no time to think, but if there had been, the darkness that enveloped her might have reminded her of home.

#Making Words Do Stuff #Fantasy June #FantasyJune #D&D #DnD #Zenithal #Zenithal Najaruun #Dragonborn #Dragonborn D&D #Druid D&D #You know that feeling #When your DM throws a level 6 wizard at your level 2 party #Along with several other enemies #And she casts lightning bolt #So you get hit from like 90 feet away #And five of the 8d6 damage dice are sixes #So you get Yahtzee'd to insta-death #But the DM is nice and lets you make saves anyway #And now your poor dragonborn has perma-exhaustion as a lingering injury? #Fun times