King Titarion's girlfriend

Alyn Shir 🗡️

a lorestone may tell you it’s secrets if you listen close enough ✨

a lorestone may tell you it’s secrets if you listen close enough ✨

"There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance."”

Also, story wise? The concept of the Fae and their cycles and fate and so on in the universe is so... Well done and gorgeous? Yeah it is changing but still! Like the House of the Ballads and the Tellings and when we think that At Some Point in the Past these Tellings hadn't happened yet but now they are so integral to their worldview... It is well done. Very well done.

Also the world is amazing and I had forgotten how damn pretty and inspiring the fae places are. I want to enter the game and sink in the waters of the City of Ysa. I want to paint while in the House of Ballads. I want to sit and just Exist in the numerous old places of their people.

Ending the year right with a new game (Kingdoms of Amalur) and some Astarion doodles.

This was the year of self-indulgent art and relearning how to draw for myself after college. Things didn't take off until October, but they did take off.

Had a number of false starts on several projects, abandoned a few, went weeks without posting (or drawing), but I managed to eek out at least one finished piece every month this year (and learned a ton in the process)!

Aw, I’m so glad to hear you got a chance to play it! It did kind of disappear into the void for a while, so I’m glad that you got a chance to return to it! There are so many good games out there, and only so much time to play them, so thanks for spending your time on one of my babies!

So, I was responsible for building the main questline (along the broad story outlines of the higher-up folks, of course), and I still have fond memories of working on it. My favorite was writing for Agarth, which makes sense when you realize the character’s broad personality was basically just me. Originally, he was supposed to die early in the story, but people liked the character so much we kept him alive and made his inexplicable survival part of the story!

As for darlings that ended up on the cutting room floor, there were lots (as there always are for big games like this), but the one that hurt was the original plan for the final boss fight. Originally, you were supposed to slowly learn how to summon those alternate versions of yourself, and you beat the boss by summoning every infinite alternate version of yourself to team up and defeat them — literally using the freedom from fate as your weapon. But the realities of production meant that fight scene had to be scaled back and those “alternate selves” became enemies you fought. Not as narratively satisfying, I felt, but that’s how games go.