Dragon warband (1305 AE, 16-17 years old, at graduation from the fahrar)
Ardea Dragonblaze - Legionnaire, elementalist
Aurelia Goredragon - Ardea's partner, warrior
Sidonia Chaindragon - Ardea's older half-sister, guardian
Odhran Dragonfly - Obsius's albino twin, mesmer
Obsius Dragonprowl - Aurelia's best friend, thief
Kouran Dragonheart - the mom friend, engineer
Reeva Dragonblast - the one with the joke, engineer-ish
Lupita Wilddragon - the quiet one, ranger
Rorick Dragonbreath - the Orr nerd, necromancer
Can't believe I had them since late 2017, but years later they finally have a design!
Now to draw them around 15 years later, and finish their small refs for their fullbody design... sometimes in the future, gotta catch up on the easy oc-tober challenge first (9 out of 31).
Some trivia from the wip, and some new trivia!
- Having just gotten out of the fahrar, they're full of confidence and bravado. Granted, they're quite capable, more than their age shows, but they still have some important growing up to do at this point.
- The necklace Ardea wears was made from an amber gem Aurelia found during training when they were younger. She gifted it to her because it was the same color of her eyes and Ardea had it made into a necklace.
- When they became official, Ardea started braiding unruly tufts of her mane with locks of Aurelia's (she keeps it short anyway).
- Sidonia is not only more buff and tall than most female charr, but she's also extremely fluffy, especially in winter. She doesn't mind it that much, and luckily her sister is always up for helping her out with grooming.
- After Rorick, Lupita gets along the most with Obsius and Odhran. One wouldn't say so from how the twins mostly ignore her (she's always quiet anyway), but there's never been a team like them in the fahrar when it comes to kitchen raids and similar nighttime expeditions.
- Reeva never really figured out what she wanted to be, which played heavily into her insecurities during the first years in the fahrar. Kouran helped her a lot after she stopped bullying him, and she became a bit of a jack of all trades. While she doesn't like calling herself an engineer, she considers herself a top-tier engineer assistant.
- Rorick got quite fucked up during a spell gone wrong, months before he joined the fahrar when he was still figuring out his magic. The result was much uglier and zombie-looking for a while, as the spell had quite literally consumed life force out of his body, with his face and hands having taken the brunt of it, but after lots of healing his skin became just furless and kind of wrinkly (think of a sphynx cat, but less squishy because it is technically all scars). Too bad his fur remained thin and sparse all over, never regaining its full strength.
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I was writing, but then I ended up sketching how the Dragon warband looked in their early years (after they left the fahrar at ~16yo), right before the mission that led Kouran to retire from active duty in 1308 AE. After that, they decided to rename the warband to Wing, and continued their streak of successful missions (or "creative interpretation of orders").
I really want to finish this headshot lineup, but I gotta determine some design elements first (and fix those things that aren't supposed to be there yet oops). Maybe I'll even do a 12 years later pic.
Some fun facts in the meantime:
- Odhran and Obsius are non-identical twins, which is obvious given that the first is albino while the rest of their family has dark fur. What they lack in strength and bulk, they make up for in craftiness and trickery.
- Ardea and Sidonia are half-sisters, with the first being almost a year younger. Their mother was a Flame Legion refugee and the only one of her family to reach safety when she was just a cub, and taught them not to be ashamed of their powerful fire magic.
- Aurelia and Ardea are fahrar sweethearts. Gross and cute at the same time, I know.
- Aurelia and Obsius became friends the day she arrived the fahrar. Specifically, she saw Obsius being picked on for being scrawny, decided she'd protect him, and then proceeded go to pick him up in spite of him being a few months older than her.
- Kouran and Reeva were a thing for a few years in the fahrar, now they're insufferable besties.
- Kouran is the designated group mom.
- Lupita and Rorick were thought to be a couple, but they've always been just close friends. She was non-verbal cub and he liked hanging out with her because she didn't mock his furless face (result of a spell gone wrong) and liked his stories.
- Aurelia is the tallest, Sidonia is the buffest, Obsius and Odhran are the smallest (Obsius is lither).
I'm in waaay over my head with the warband portraits since I want to add small refs for body markings/general body shape next to them :')
Tried to keep these on the same base, buuut then started changing the lines and that quickly got lost in transit lol... and yet I didn't scale them properly because of that >:T
Probably just gonna clean these sketches up and quickly slap color on them + the "pelt" view I made... or keep the heads and then put them on the same one lol
Bunch of Aurelia from 2021 + Aurelia with Obsius and Ardea fresh out of the fahrar (they made the centurion pretty mad indeed, but everything went so fine they weren't punished for it and making their own call became a pretty successful habit)
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Since there were enough votes to enable me to post old stuff, I'm gonna start!
Here's the old (old as balls!!!) first ever sketches of Aurelia from 2018 (I refuse to believe that's 5 years ago), when she graduated from "scariest angriest lady charr I can make" to actually having a backstory and some connections to other characters (aka when I decided she should have had a proper warband before the personal story and I got started down the rabbit hole of making GW2 OCs).
Read more for context and backstory rambles
Her horns were different back then (I initially made her with Rox's horns), while the whole "the braid was made by Adamas" thing I mentioned in this post [bottom right] was one of the first few things I ever decided for her character (Adamas wasn't supposed to happen and she had her valid reasons to keep a certain distance, but that was the one of the small things that betrayed a much deeper care for her cub than she let on).
Her warband was her whole world, and at its center there were her, her Legionnaire and mate Ardea, and her best friend Obsius [here before his design was decided]. Aurelia was the brawn to Ardea's brain, and Obsius had always been Aurelia's shadow since their early days in the fahrar, so they grew to be extremely close friends, so much so Obsius ended up becoming Adamas's sire (their idea was for him to be the sire of Ardea's cub, but many things didn't go exactly as planned). The warband's name used to be Dragon (cringe happens when you let overachieving teenagers pick a band's name), but they changed it to Wing after a certain mission brought big life changes to all of them, including Aurelia finding out about Adamas.
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I made these with the initial idea was to make a few illustrations with her [top right was supposed to be set in the desert, low central one was cut from a fullbody], but things fell through as I was busy with finishing school and then focused to an unhealthy degree on commissions.