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artparty april 2026 !!!

i didn't quite get everyone i screenshotted, but I tried my best 😭🙏🏼 it's been a while since ive gotten to do art party and i had so much fun :D (im still sad i was late to EU...)

closeups below!

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

In 2021, I began a project to dig through the Guild Wars 1 websites of all the languages, mostly hoping to recover trailers that were lost to time (mostly successfully too). I also found some lore articles that weren't available to western audiences. Such articles were known to exist - mainly lore on Abaddon for Nightfall - and those were later (mostly) canonized by ArenaNet in Guild Wars 2.

So I decided to gather and begin slowly translate them. They are now completed. And I am making this post as a link to the other posts:

Lyssa

Abaddon

Dwayna

Balthazar

Grenth

Melandru

Disclaimer: While there is overlap with canon lore, there is no guarantee this is all canon as well. China is known to have alterations to the story to account for regulations in that nation, so it is unclear how much of this is expanded canon or simply reworked for China and thus non-canon.

May artpartaaayh

@ruafaoladh - Nentres

@lady-quen - Maelmordha

This piece of my commander Fenrele has been in the works for literally over a year because I am trying to be as detailed with her as I possibly can...