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And here they are! Pips finally got a proper ref just in time for artifight!

We've also been wanting to write a little blurb about them, seeing as they are one of the main characters, so here that is~

Pips is a water elemental from a story set in a world of natural forces that we would call magic. On their planet - Ithiir, two races emerged with intelligence enough to build societies. Taurs and Elementals. Taurs are what to us is the equivalent to most mammals in on Earth while Elementals are people who can shape the world around them. Both species can house magic, but use it differently... In Pips' time, the world is attempting to rebuild after (another) apocalypse. A blight covered the globe, darkness filled the skies and the dead rose as ravenous beasts that devour the magic that all hold in their bodies... the rest of the world is free of this darkness, but not Tealloch, or more often called "The Wall." A country which has been locked in a siege for hundreds of years, surrounded by towering walls that keep the worst of the hoards at bay.

Despite being an elemental, Pips can't use normal magic very well if at all. And yet, they volunteered for military service and with their friend MK were accepted into a specialty army called an Itinerant that's main purpose is to go where called for search and rescue or intel gathering in the deep Wastes. And they always have a story for everything. Their old man found them in a ditch and raised them in a secret commune (they swear it's not a cult). The scar over their right eye was from an epic fight. The one on their gut? Oh, my girlfriend accidentally stabbed me. But how much of that is true is very hard to tell. Pips is not what you would call a reliable source. But what they are is self confidence in the flesh, and they have the fighting skill to back that up. 

The truth however is stranger than any of their friends would believe, or want to know. Pips was not born in the Wall at all, but in the Wastes, and their old man named simply Zed is behind the great War itself. And they have a mission to get him, and his army of undead inside the walls. And the reason why is simple. He wants to cure the blight that he released into the land hundreds of years ago with the massive deposit of Ferrin (more commonly just called healing crystal) that grows right around the Crystal Citadel. The war initially started right in Tealloch when they attacked his family, and the blight he released in retaliation swept the entire globe into an age of darkness... A choice he now regrets but what's done is done. He now needs to clean up his mess. Unfortunately he is running out of time. The blight is slowly eating away at him, and if they wait too long then he will become nothing but a mindless hunger and the apocalypse will start again. Pips ran away from home in a desperate plan to infiltrate the walls and tear them down from the inside.

Happy pride month!

Updates Keev's ref with current lore and new art! You can find him on artfight too~