Secrets: Obscured

the entire convo about how the world is "fundamentally" broken basically cements Isgarren as the ultimate idealist who, despite seeing the same things, fought for an imperfect Tyria and still tries to do the greater good while trusting in Tyrians to do the same. Isgarren and Vloxx share hubris as their flaw, but they use the same power in completely opposite ways

puts into perspective WHY the Seers hoarded knowledge and protected the Ascension ritual, and why Sidony went to extremes to punish Isgarren (but leaving a loophole because Sidony had the intellectual foresight to identify that there was a chance Isgarren sharing with "lesser" races and forming friendships could be what lets Isgarren outlive all the other Seers)

the downfall of the Seers is less the protection of Ancora and the Ascension ritual and more how the rest of their society is also very elitist and isolationist

I have finished the story already after writing these down but I feel that the rest of it didn't change any of these thoughts.

I think I have never philosophically disagreed with a GW2 villain more than Vloxx. I don't care for his character, but I do see what they are doing with him. Kuda was excellent. I also enjoyed the trials.

Isgarren's 'focus on the outside' worldview was critiqued a lot by the player, by just about everyone, but it feels more and more understandable the further we go.

Animated

Commission for Amaverra

I'm actually on team Deimos but I've drawn Cerus twice now?? 😅 Also I'm pretty happy with how this turned how with it being my first big animated artwork.

Backlog of a dumb thing I drew a while ago about my fic of Trahearne discovering Spicy Literature

Ascalonian architecture?

ORRIAN ARCHITECTURE?

Raptor: the smallest head tilt for some peripheral vision, long, confident strides and whole body movements to maintain balance. 1 bumpy ride/100

Springer: feisty little backwards hop. probably kills predators by smacking them with their butts like wombats. Absolute Power/100

Skimmer: constant tail twitch, occasional fin shudder. hates this more than anything. why would you make it go backwards??? its not made for this. 2000 disappointed head waggles/100

Jackal: starts slow, clearly nervous. needs constant eye contact and reassurance from their rider. many future ear skritches/100

Beetle: doesn’t look back at all. doesnt need to. has unquestioning faith in their rider. thank you for believing in me petey, I would die for you. 1 unbreakable beetle bond/100

Griffon: Looks back not out of mistrust but because it is an expert at backing up. probably has a nice little alcove up on a cliff it backs into to roost on the reg. 1 secure tail curl/100