THE ATELIER 'Paradise' Collection (part 2)
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Anonymous asked:
hey lena, i was looking around at the patreon, tumblr, pintrest but couldn't find anything, so i was wondering if you had any inspo or description beyond when we get in game or anything for the temple in wallmire/bleakmoor? the outside in particular?
Hi anon, thanks for checking around so thoroughly! I’m notoriously bad at envisioning buildings/specific architectural spaces, but here’s some visual inspo for the outside of the temple! I hope it helps!
Anonymous asked:
Dkdkckesl this is a strange request but I was wondering if you have any description or doodle of the sun medallions that the Shepherds wear? I’d love to make one :D
Hi there, you’re in luck because I just commissioned concept art of the Shepherds’ uniform, including the sun medallion, this very month on Patreon! I’ll share the medallion just as a sneak peek:
If you were to actually MAKE (?!?!) the sun medallion, that would be absolutely mind-blowing! And of course, this is just concept art, so take it with a grain of salt: if it doesn’t fit your particular vision, feel free to go with your own direction! Thank you and I hope it helps! :)
Anonymous asked:
that ask made me realize that i have definitely been thinking of mekduk as a dirty but cute goblin and she's likely a lot more horrifying than i've been imagining lol
Yeah this is the description when the Ghasts are first introduced 😂:
Soon enough figures come into dim view, at first far ahead and rounding a distant curve in the tunnel. Your insides churn when you see that they’re crawling in an unnatural, spider-like way on their hands and feet, their limbs pale and over-long and shining, crooked strangely at the elbows and knees.
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But your thoughts abruptly go astray when you catch sight of the people illuminated by the moss’s celestial half-glow. Though they aren’t people at all—they’re Ghasts. Their reek reaches you yards ahead of their actual bodies, a stench so sickly and damp you can’t tell if it’s a physical odor or all your senses screaming in protest at the Taint—the Endarkened Rot—in their blood.
The Ghasts are crawling along the tunnel as if they’re insects, barking and chittering at each other in some animal way. There are three of them, their skin a dull fish-belly white, their wrists and ankles guarded by a jagged spur of bone. Their faces are true horrors, as if someone had taken something familiar and crudely distorted it, like taking a clay face and pulling it roughly apart. They lack eyes and even eye sockets, having only human heads with pointed, almost hound-like noses and cruel red gashes for mouths. They don’t even seem to have ears: just holes in the sides of their heads.
And this is what MC saw crawling down the tunnel lmao:
(Tip: don’t click if you don’t want to see some nightmare fuel or just want to preserve a more innocent image of Mekduk)
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Anonymous asked:
Hi! I have a hard time imagining the talismans for candle day. They're weaved with wood and flowers, but other than that how do they look? Could you show an example or describe them a bit more?
Hi, they sort of look like this, but please ignore any pentagrams or internal designs you see. Generally, Candle Day talismans can vary wildly from simple, crude circles of sticks to very elegant charms and floral arrangements, depending on the skill level of the weaver. Some do sport an internal design, generally something like a diamond to promote wealth or a simplified symbol or shape to represent one’s clan, family, or other affiliation: these more elaborate talismans are larger and are generally exclusively made to be hung over the recipient’s fireplace, threshold, or door as wall decor. Smaller ones, of the kind that MC receives in the game, are usually only big enough to wear around the neck or around the wrist and don’t have an internal design, generally just looking like a circlet or wreath woven from wooden branches and flowers. The most typical size is small enough to fit in a travel pack or hold in the palm of one’s hand. After Candle Day, they can be strung with string, ribbon, or twine to be used as a hanging amulet or charm (Shepherds usually attach theirs to their traveling packs like keychains or hang them up in their rooms on nails), but on the actual holiday itself, they’re exclusively worn around the neck, the wrist, or occasionally on the head as a crown!
Anonymous asked:
Do you have any advice for newbie fantasy writers? Your characters and world feel so real. I want to reach that level. Also how did you create the language phrases in your story?
shepherdsofhaven answered:
Hi there, thank you so much, these are such high compliments! I wrote a little bit about the hardest parts of writing fantasy here recently, and of course there’s always more advice in the #writing advice tag, but I think my biggest piece of advice is to start small. Start with your main plot: who are the central characters, what are their roles and relationships to each other, what do they want and how is that in conflict (and there has to be conflict, whether internal or external; otherwise there’s no plot). Everything else–all the little details and tidbits about the culture and history and economics and politics–comes way later, and you risk overwhelming yourself if you try and sit down and outline everything from the get-go.
Like, if you know you want to write about a princess and her bodyguard falling in love, start with that and then work outward. What’s keeping them apart? What’s her job as royalty and her relationship with her family, and her family’s relationship with the public? Why are they rulers? Are they regarded favorably or not? Really basic things you need to know before you start writing. Then branch outward: are women eligible for the throne or not? How does succession work in the event of unexpected death? Is this more like a western monarchy, an oligarchy with many ruling clans as part of the court, or something else? Are there threats to the royal family’s position? What makes the bodyguard fit to be her bodyguard? Trained in secret arts, master of a special weapon, has special powers, or something else? Then you’ll start getting into whether or not magic exists in this world and how it factors into the main plot, what kinds of politics or conflicts exist, which will branch into antagonists and villains, urgent concerns and high stakes, and etc.!
Do not try to start from the beginning (like “500 years ago, there was a war between three factions over the world’s most precious resource, ferrunum, and the winning faction retained control over ferrunum, which gives one the power to grant wishes, but only people of pure blood from this one mountain clan can be the ones to ask for the wishes, leading to more conflict over time…”). It spirals out of control quickly and gets the main actual story lost in the muddle! I mean, maybe that’s just how my brain works, and outlining everything from the beginning of the universe to the present works for other people; but I think keeping things manageable and just letting different ideas accumulate over time rather than deciding everything straight from the start allows the story to build momentum, rather than stalling it in its infancy!
Another thing I would recommend is looking at many different sources of inspiration, rather than just one or a handful! Read a book (or watch a show, or read a manga, or play a video game) about merchants or pirates or spice traders or inventors rather than just princesses and bodyguards to get a feel for how things work in other aspects of the world, and feel free to explore other fantasy worlds, too–especially ones inspired by other cultures rather than just the classics, like Tolkien and Lewis. I got inspiration for how the nobility acts in Shepherds from sources as varied as Crown Duel (a YA court intrigue fantasy novel), Bridgerton (TV show on Netflix), and Curse of the Golden Flower (Chinese epic wuxia drama film). Just absorb lots of stuff and let the little details inspire you and amalgamate into your own creation!
Finally, to answer your question about different language phrases in the game, I just straight up mashed letters together until they looked right on the screen. Like, I always thought Elvish would sound very flowing and lyrical, like a river rolling over a bed of cool smooth stones or the breeze winding through grass, so I stuck a lot of l’s and r’s and e’s and a’s together until they looked right, like aya lani (“the gods smile”). And I thought Haven city slang would be sharp and guttural and cutting, so insults like muti and ketch sounded right!
I hope that helps!
Oh, and not to completely contradict myself, but if you do have your main story mostly nailed down and comfortable, and are ready to move on to more detailed worldbuilding, I have some resources in case you’re struggling with exactly where to start!
Anonymous asked:
Hi! I've started reading your work recently and I immediately fell in love! I just had a few problems imagining the world visually, like I know it's fantasy, but do you have like pictures/moodboards of environment/houses/cities that could help picture it better? Everything else is astounding and honestly I'm one of those that drools over Croelle 😩🛐
Hi there, thank you so much for your kind words! There are actually a few visual elements that might help you envision the world of Blest better!
- The interactive map gives reference pictures of most locations if you hover over or click on them!
- There are more maps and bonus materials on the Maps and Quizzes page, as well!
- There is a Pinterest account for the game, where you can find moodboards for the fashion of Blest, the aesthetics of Haven, and other locations around Blest. (However, none of these are labelled specifically, so you’ll have to extrapolate your best guess for some!)
Hopefully that helps! Thanks for your question!