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Hello! Here's a more recent Tarot Commission for someone on Bluesky. The character's named Sinara ✨A gorgeous blood-elf that I absolutely loved painting.

I think the hardest part was to find a suitable pose for this kind of framing and balancing all the elements + the magical effects in order to have a good composition that doesn't feel too overcrowded. I even changed the position of the head long after I had rendered it just to see if it looks better and re-painted a lot of things.

Took me about a month to finish this but I'm very pleased with how it turned out.

Thank you for the support!

My commissions are also open for June and July, with limited slots. Check out my info HERE

I also made a quick GIF with the process:

happy valentine’s day from the scourge ♥♥♥

"some of your talents have been reset due to changes in the talent tree."

But i must speak my truth. There is no way alphinaud wouldn’t have a beach outfit almost EXACTLY like benoit blanc’s swimsuit in glass onion.

That little nerd would dress in a swimsuit that was designed 100 years ago and you know it. And a necktie.

a far sky

Endwalker Week - Venat

All is excruciating pain. I breathe fire and torment. I birth a world of suffering to mire and plague. In one fleeting moment, lives come and go. Ever moving towards the unknown. And in that fleeting moment, they cry for the answer to the question:

Why, given life, are they meant to suffer? To die?

Each of the Ascians is characterized to at least superficially match their sign. Emet-Selch seems like a Gemini, seemingly on both sides of every issue. Fandaniel seems like a Leo who wants to be the center of attention. Lahabrea, The Creator, seems like an artsy Pisces... just...y'know, a horrible one.

And it's not as if "terrible, messed-up version of Zodiac symbol" is new here. Tactics definitely had that already. The thing ffxiv adds to the trope is the presence of the Sun.

Azem's symbol being the sun and not a constellation tells us exactly what their role in the Convocation was supposed to be. The sun's path through the constellations is what gives all those signs their meanings. You can't be a Gemini unless the sun is in Gemini. The sun's passage through the zodiac is supposed to illuminate the best way forward. This is why Emet-Selch calls them both "Shepherd to the stars in the dark," and "Counsellor to the star's people." They're meant to inspire people to become their best selves. This is inadvertently what WoL does in numerous places and times across the game, (and one of the ancients in Elpis even comments on it) because apparently repeatedly dying at the hands of their coworkers and friends for eons did not get them out of having to do their job.

When the sun protested their unspeakbly terrible plan, they went all in on their hubris by casting it down forever. They never replaced Azem. They don't even want to remember they ever had a sun. They don't have the light that illuminates their best selves, their better future. So they can't find it anymore. They don't know how to be themselves anymore, in Azem's absence. In Elidibus' case, literally. He is so desperate for the guiding star he can't even remember having, that he constantly, instinctively, seeks out Azem in different forms. Wearing Ardbert's corpse, and wandering up to WoL for awkward chats, and looking back to the heroes of the past who were definitely Azem shards.