#myirdroth

Summer heat gave me brainrot, so I joined an RP discord and stuck Myirdroth in there.

Now I have to figure out how this old lady looks all over again. As much as I like how her markings look in-game, trying to figure out how to draw them is hell.

Bit late posting, but I wanted to show this picture of Myirdroth I had been working on today.

Dragons in Istaria seem to use magic for most things: flying, crafting, building, fighting, etc. And their armor and weapons seems to be magical too, in how it interacts with their bodies. Its described as reinforcing and enhancing the scales and claws, acting as a second skin.

I got thinking, what if dragon armor worked less like armor that is worn, and more like body modification/augmentation. I love the idea of body horror type armor, and it sort of fits in with the alien nature of dragons. What Myirdroth has on now is not too spectacular, the most that stands out is her head scale, chest scale, tail scale, and her claws.

When she puts her armor on, it becomes part of her scales and claws. For instance; her claw weapon turns her talons to emerald to protect them from damage and makes them better conduits for primal magic. Her ceremonial chest scale melds itself into her belly plating, keeping its striking visage as a warning to all opponents while imbuing her with its gifts.

The effect is not permanent, as she can take them off, her scales will return to normal, and her armor will return to how it usually looks in her inventory.

I realized I never messed with how Myirdroth’s scales worked when she took on Khutit form. Her usual adventuring scales still augment her appearance to look demonic with the usual flourishes. Eyes, faces, tongues and teeth, the webbing for her wings works well for a skirt/skilt look.

Her crafting scales tend to be more utilitarian, less effort put in to make them frightening. She still uses her wing webbing/frills for decoration. I figure the overall look includes something akin to a blacksmith apron.

I’ve had an itch to draw Myirdroth again, somewhat out of interest in revisiting her design, and another coming from looking at her often since I’ve spent some time messing around in Istaria lately instead of drawing so much.

I felt like she needed more barnacles on her, and messed with her face a bit.

I’ve been messing with this for the past few days. I recently decided to dip into a crossover type RP and stuck Myirdroth and Gargeth in there to see how it goes. During the first few nights Myirdroth took night watch and has seen some very new animals that neither of them had ever seen in Istaria.

Such as Homotherium, which is much smaller than I thought it would be. My girl could pick one up like a toy and fling it over the horizon.

Might be a tad early to post this, but I really wanted to take another shot at illustrating the magic scales Myirdroth uses. It might be difficult to discern, but what she’s got going is the Ceremonial Chest Scale, spiked emerald tipped claws, and some sort of homemade amalgamation for her head scale and foreleg scales.

I’ll probably do some more ideas for this, its too much fun.

This probably is not the best time for uploading, but here’s a doodle of Myirdroth I finished recently. Her crafting equipment is not augmentation heavy as her fighting scales, but her tool claws still show some augmentation on her forelimbs (mainly imbuing her claws with adamantum(?) and her forelimb scales too so they don’t break when gathering materials like stone or metal).

Also more excuses to draw her using her wings as a pair of legs.