A Miscellaneous Archive

Heeey... how y'all doin....

Here's a WIP of my next project, voted first in the poll under the Lolth breakdown.

This is a beefy one, with a lot of detail to get into, so it's taking me awhile to finish it!

Drow deep-diving: Lolth and the Dark Seldarine

The Triton family!

Long time no see (again lol)! Here's some stuff about hybridization across the Orthosapiens order (which contains ~99% of sapient organisms in my designed world) :)

I focus on orcs and half-orcs here because, especially in WotC 'literature', orcs are one of the few species that seem to have always been able to hybridize on their own (without magical intervention).

Some comparative taxonomic discussion below:

The Goblinoid family!

This is a very broad genetic family, including goblins, bugbears, trolls and ogres.

I really wanted to get away from the jkr-style antisemitism around goblins so I chose to give them (and bugbears) a new look, similar to aye-ayes and tarsiers!

I kept that theming through all the subspecies of troll with the exception of the redcap, partially because I like the idea of them looking like old human men but in an uncanny skinwalker kinda way, and also because it’s pretty funny. Look at him.

Ogres are giants in the dnd “source material” but I wanted to change that up a bit just because. Because they’re swamp dwellers, generally leading amphibious lifestyles, their aesthetic theming is pretty different from the other goblinoids! I did this mostly because I think wotc ogres are super boring and wanted to play with some different anatomical ideas.

Magical secret society!

Jötnar!

Jötnar is a family name including Firbolg and Goliath as well as more mythic “true giants”, fabled by some to be sleeping beneath the mountains.

Tieflings!

Orcs! (Cw: discussion of racism)

Most people recognize orcs as pretty controversial, being racist in their design roots, Tolkien describing them as “m**goloid” and WotC taking that racism further in making them often dark-skinned and wide-nosed, while being brutish and violent.

Elves!

In terms of aesthetics, I think it’s more interesting for elves to be kinda funny looking but still very attractive, with big eyes, high cheekbones, and *generally slim builds.

Long time, no see!

I haven’t uploaded on this platform in a long time but I think I’ll start doing it more regularly, especially for dnd/fantasy worldbuilding like this!