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Diversity win! This guy used to be a bird

Godforged by Daniel Denova

I swear I'm alive! Something I've been working on is redeveloping my older OCs Haelda and co into my Godforged worldbuilding project. So far I've just drawn Acathera and Haelda, but I at least know what I want to do for everyone!

Haelda is a Tenku from a wealthy family. Her father was absent her whole life, breaking up with her mother when he found out she was pregnant and was never seen again. Her mother passed away when Haelda was very young, and she went to live with her aunt, uncle and cousin. Her aunt and uncle always saw her as something of a burden and disliked her for a variety of reasons, which made home life difficult. She is kicked out upon turning 18 despite her cousin's attempts to smooth things over, and forced to find her own way in the world. She's not sure what she wants to do with her life yet, but probably something with animals.

Acathera is a human werecat from the city. Infected when she was a teenager she's honestly pretty chill about the whole thing, she thinks its kinda cool and would shift more often if it wasn't for it being a somewhat painful process. She works at a cafe in the heart of the city, and volunteers at a cat rescue on the side. She has an interest in medicine and nursing but thinks she's too dumb to try it out.

Chigo is a human-deer chimera from a small rural "community". The leaders had a strong obsession with chimeras and were illegally turning infants born in the community into chimeras. The cult was discovered and appropriately dealt with when Chigo was still very young, leaving them in foster care. Chimeric sophonts are very taboo, Chigo luckily passes as a Satyr but despite that had trouble fitting in and struggles with their self-identity. Their foster parents meant well but had a hard time with Chigo's identity and giving them the support they really needed. Chigo started volunteering at the library as a teenager, and pursues it as a career in tertiary education.

Hava is a karura from the same town as Haelda, and briefly even went to the same school as her when they were younger. He aspired to be an athlete and was showing a lot of promise, however an injury took him out of it permanently. He's an optimist though and didn't let that stop his love for sports, coaching kids games and studying sport science.

Jack is an elven shapeshifter who can turn into a dragon. He grew up in a somewhat close-minded town, and while his parents really loved him they had a hard time coming to terms with him being trans + gay, which made his teenage years turbulent to say the least. Developing a shapeshifter form was a way for him to both feel out his identity and deal with dysphoria + dysmorphia, as well as rebel against his parents. He spent nearly all of his time as a teenager in his dragon form, though these days is coming around to his human form again. He's currently in art school.

Quick doodle I did of Kobolds. In this world dragons and wyverns are not very closely related beyond both being reptiles, with wyverns being an archosaur closely related to dinosaurs, and dragons being part of a group of 6-limbed lizards. Both dragons and wyvern have developed sophont species, the former being Dragonborn and the latter being Kobolds.

Kobolds are short, crafty and curious people. They are very intelligent and are fantastic inventors, excelling in crafts ranging from blacksmith to tinkering to engineering. However they have an unfortunate reputation throughout history as being unintelligent due to their grasp on language being rather different. They have a hard time understanding and using the grammar structure typically present in sophont languages, resulting in them sounding more “childish” to most. With a lot of dedication and training they can learn to speak “better”, however this is more down to memorizing how certain phrases sound than actually learning the grammar structure. This means they often struggle finding and holding a job that’s more than just an apprenticeship. Kobolds are responsible for some of the most pivotal inventions in history though, with recent breakthroughs such as the radio and photography. Some historians even suggest that it wasn’t humans that first used fire, but Kobolds.

Pixies are a type of fae, within the Dryad subset. They are created when weak magic infests a plant or fungus. Part of that organism, typically the fruiting body (flower, mushroom, fruit, nut) will then drop off and transform into a pixie. On occasion other parts of the organism may form into pixies too, such as leaves or tubers. The shape of the pixie varies, but will usually create anatomy that "makes sense" from the plant/fungus given.

Pixies are simple and lack any higher intelligence, being fairly animal-like in nature. They do not have mouths so cannot eat normal food, instead only being able to feed upon other magic sources. Most pixies however struggle to find sources decent enough to survive off of, resulting in most pixies dying within a couple of weeks. Despite this they are a fairly common sight in uninhabited wilderness where magic naturally flows.