Flying back to the airship that was basically a yacht, she landed on the deck with Eri and Ravi. “My darlings, did you miss me?”

Eri looked at Annaerlitha, sensing she was hiding something. “What do they have that you want so much, Naerli?”

“Some things are best left unsaid about them and their private little villa,” Annaerlitha replied. “I’m sure our friend Comandante Luis is enjoying his stay as much as I did last time I was there.”

“As a guest?” Eri asked with some concern in his voice.

“More or less, it was from an invitation by my dear uncle Frabritheo.”

“From him? I never liked the bastard,” Ravi interjected.

“You think he’ll enjoy being stuffed in the cargo hold?” Eri mused, as a bloody ichor burst from his left hand congealing into a pair of twisted strands that tightened till it solidified into the form of a rapier with a red blade.

“I’ll make sure he’ll have a pleasant stay with us.”

Eri and Ravi watched as she flew close to the ground. As Annaerlitha approached the entrance to the villa, Eri tore open a shadowy rift with his blade bringing Ravi through with him.

Ravi prepared with shield forward and his tulwar in at the ready as he walked through the rift, spotted about eight soldiers scrambling around the grounds readying their muskets.

Annaerlitha flew over the wall of villa’s grounds, casting one of her more powerful spells. With an incantation and a circular cut of her athame, she invoked a blast of elemental cold freezing those same eight soldiers.

One of them was not completely frozen, so Eri quickly unleashed two bolts of eldritch energy as he emerged from the rift. Eri guessed that a Dwarf armed with a pistol and a battleaxe was the Comandante’s bodyguard.

Ravi hissed and ejected a stream of venom at a soldier not caught in Annaerlitha’s spell. Eri lunged through one soldier with green flames around his blade while Annaerlitha dispatched another with a ray of frost.

Left standing in the aftermath was Comandante Luis, an Orc armed with a sabre and a revolver, and his Dwarven body guard.

Ravi charged at the bodyguard taking a few swings at the Dwarf who parried each blow with his axe. The bodyguard countered Ravi’s next exchange making a superficial cut on his sword arm. The two fought as Luis tried to take some shots at Annaerlithai and Eri.

Eri vanished in a cloud of black smoke, reappearing behind the Dwarf with his blade embedded. Ravi finished off the bodyguard, as spectral vipers coiled around his Tulwar’s blade.

Annaerlitha invoked the power of nightmares that tore at Luis as he panicked. Luis tried to run away, but Ravi called upon the powers from his oath to the Naga Kings to summon spectral snakes to bind the Comandante.

“Please stop! I surrender!” Comandante Luis screamed.

“That’s the smart thing to do my dear Luis,” Annaerlitha smiled as she approached.

This time I tried to construct more of a scene ahead of time. I’m still trying to get there with backgrounds. This one of the SFW part of my cycle, is of Frelly and Qian together as one of the many couples I might draw.

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Frelly and Qian stood together in the docks of the Floating Archipelago, a city scattered among sky islands in a relatively calm border region in the Plane of Air. The city connected to a few other worlds across the planes, where the Tiefling couple were among some of the visitors that walked its streets. Perhaps what was most appealing about the Floating Archipelago was that it had a warm and mild climate, unlike the storms and constant hurricanes found in many other places across the Plane of Air.

“We’re catching this ferry to the Janni Island,” Frelly said as she held on to Qian’s arm as the a ramp unfolded down onto the ferry that just docked.

“What are we doing with a bunch of Air Genasi?” Qian asked hesitantly, as he stepped on to the ramp.

“To see the Wind Dancers in action, and to find ourselves a good airship captain for the other part of the journey.”

“That might be a bit difficult, as I got myself in some trouble the last time I was here with Kess and Thames.” Qian pondered for a moment about what the implications might be. “Let’s say we didn’t leave the best impression with the Cloud Kings, the gang that rules that part of town.”

“Were you being a little fecker about it?”

“Just a bit, I’m pretty sure they won’t try to shoot us on sight at least.”

“And to think this was going to be a boring trip, but I don’t think it was only you.”

“You're right about that, it wasn’t completely about me. It was more about these two girls, twins, that I shagged, who happened to be the daughters of a big Cloud King boss. And I somehow got into a fight with a bunch of Cloud Kings when they walked in on us.” Qian looked at Frelly, as she spread her wings and glared at him, looking like she was ready to pounce.

“Oh for ****’s sake! Am I going to have to give you spanking later on?”

“Maybe, I just hope there aren’t any other surprises. Kess and Thames also got in some fights with the Cloud Kings too.”

“This might be a long ferry ride, me love,” as Frelly took a seat on the main deck of the ferry.

“Enough of that, we’re still on vacation, let’s enjoy the view.”

Frelly kissed Qian on the lips, “Whatever would I do without you? You need to show me what you did with those girls, as I think there’s still a spanking you still need to get.”

I haven't done art of something that isn't a fictional character in a long time, but this ship might as well be one, considering its importance in my story, Parallels. This is the Barracupid, a decommissioned steam-powered airship that was bought at an auction for Priscilla Sauveterre by her father for her high school graduation. It's named after the barracuda, due its appearance, and Cupid, due to its "fins" being "wings". Priscilla uses it to travel around the world and to find inspiration for her art.
The idea of the ship was inspired mostly by the Saint Nazaire from the CGI cartoon, Skyland. This is also a color concept, I might make some changes or add more detail, but the general shape or form is final.

had our first pc death last session... the airship is gonna be real quiet without her

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This character served aboard an airship and took on the caste title of aeronaut. So too, he or she gained considerable knowledge of their own region, having visited most barter towns, digger forts, trade outposts, farming villages and any sprawling slum cities which might exist in the area. Likewise, this balloonist has memorized the details of the terrain below their vessel, including the rivers, old war zones, ruin sites, swamps, impassable mutant forests, and treacherous mountains and badlands.
https://www.outlandarts.com/expansionrules.htm

From left to right (Conrad Forsythe, Eitana Velocico, Priscilla Sauveterre, Rhys Jin, Quentin Pryce, Harmonia Sinclair, and Augustus "Gus" Renoire).
They come from one my stories *Parallels* and all seven of them are the main characters, hence the "Parallels Gang". (I don't have an official name for their group yet, so I'm sticking with it for now.)
I don't want to share too much of the story, but it takes place in a parallel universe in the distant future. The airship on the left is Priscilla's and is named the Barracupid. It's the main mode of travel the gang use to get around. The city in the background is a floating city called Collisia, which resembles a familiar city.

I attempted OCtober in 2018, but never finished the month. Day 7 was Frelia.

There isn't much to say about Frelia: she was originally created for a closed RP set in a fantasy/steampunk setting and was part of a clan descended from dragons. Frelia recklessly charges head-first into battle and usually refuses to retreat. She has an aversion to technology and dislikes the idea of flying on an airship.

the mistwatchers & their airship

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The Royal Researcher, a form of scientist hired on by the 'King and Queen' of the Commoner monster kingdom. She holds herself high and strong with confidence and a near unbreakable will to keep pushing further into her field of studies. Fearless, she travels in her own Airship and takes on tasks that usually brings her out into the field where even hunters can fear to step foot in. While at the same time has proven stubborn and will refuse to leave her line of work even when the very area is under monster attack. While not being hot headed when Nature's monsters interrupts her studies and/or new discoveries, she is very calm, collected, cunning and a well thought person when in conversation. Very knowledgeable about the lands of Valgustra, she isn't shy to become an open book on any (and I do mean ANY) topic large or small, important or useless in nature though will always decipher just whom she is speaking to to know where to limit herself on giving out particular knowledge to a random stranger. Bearing a strong raw power over the gravitational pull in the form of a powerful magnetic field, she is able to effect the world around her near or far and even apply this ability onto others should she see fit to display her abilities.

Despite being seen as a very reliable and sawt after ally, when behind closed doors she can easily lose that strong headed demeaner of hers as while others may see her as valuable and important, she truly believes it's due to her knowledge that the people seek and without that, she is overly looked. She keeps her persona of being a powerful woman which she now doubt is, but she lacks great self-esteem and doesn't see herself as desirable. Often times she will daydream into her random fantasies, often loving to sing and even dance when she truly believes she's alone but will internally die should she get caught doing so--which a certain furball of a skeletal hunter is quite good at doing on her.~ Though this also leads to things being thrown at him if he, himself, isn't the object being tossed about. While she doesn't see her own value in herself, she does her best to aid those in need, even if it puts her in highly dangerous situations in doing so which she usually goes in with a plan. While not fast on her feet, she can out-maneuver many runners via rolling up into a ball and rolling out with great speed. Her back plating is made of a extremely hard carapace that allows her to roll around at great speeds over any kind of terrain, though this ability of hers can also lead to a few downsides like the local kids using her as target practice with their bows and she not even notice. What makes her highly dangerous to others however, is her arcane abilities over the magnetic pull of the world around her.

Her carapace has many copper-based spikes that conducts the shocking element at will and not only influence those around her with a gravitational pull but also all kinds of conductive and magnetic metals that lurk under the earth's crust. While a harbor for such raw arcane control, she chooses the life of a researcher as she doesn't want her secret status of a highly powerful Ancient be at risk of being discovered via living the life of a Monster Hunter. While living most of her time in solitude, she still has those she calls friends living across the land--though most live the frozen lands of the North in the Hunter base of Snowdin. Least she still has her radio to get into contact with any of them, or vice versa, during her travels in her love of discovery and have tales of which to share.

**[Image:** Pact Marshal Trahearne and Commander Yuri Six-Cants contend with Mordremoth, at the heels of defeat. The Dragon commands earth and sky, with the moon, clouds, and airships looking like toys in its coils. It sinks its teeth into Trahearne as he raises up the legendary sword Caladbolg, intending to drive it into his own heart. Yuri climbs up the Dragon’s maw and catches the blade by its edge, before he can do the deed. The sword is raw and splintered, and cuts deep into his palm. They look at each other for what seems to be the last time. Yuri weeps.

Maguuma and the Pact watch from beyond the brambles. On one side, there are the Mordrem: A Vinetooth, a rearing Teragriff, and corrupted Faolain, joined by an unsympathetic Lastborn. Faolain averts her eyes, looking uncharacteristically small and resigned. The Lastborn doesn’t flinch as he watches.

On the other side is the Pact and its allies: Captain Logan Thackeray, Caithe, and Commander Atropos, along with her hawk, Sappho. Logan’s expression is brittle, while Caithe’s mirrors Faolain’s. She grips her dagger tightly. Commander Atropos watches with resolve.]

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> shoulda never let you go (everybody knows, everybody knows)
> [three years and baby, don’tcha know, it’s time to let it go](https://youtu.be/2euSIh_oeJk?si=PSvAenfX_Jw_fJQm)

My piece for the [Commander of Your Heart zine](https://gw2zine.itch.io/commander-of-your-heart). This was such a blast to be a part of, getting to see everyone’s pieces develop over the last few months and learning about their relationships with their Commanders… I only started playing Guild Wars 2 in ~May of last year, and yet the community has been so warm and welcoming to this newbie. Thank you for bringing me aboard, it was a pleasure and an honor!

As for this piece… I originally wanted to do something saccharine-sweet for Valentine’s Day, but Heart of Thorns won in the end. It’s been living rent-free in my brain since snoodles and I finished it last year. I’ve been acting accordingly normal e.g. constructing elaborate Trahearne AUs and putting Commander Yuri Six-Cants into situations, which is outside the scope of this description, but if you want [you can see it all here](https://m0r1bund.com/guild-wars-2/).

YIPPEE

Yes, I wanted to do one of Bowser, since he's on the list of who I want to do for this crossover. And I'm halfway done with the crossover, too (I plan to do 20 total).
While Bowser and the Bullet Bills were pretty quick to finish, the airship made it take longer. HSR typically has human or humanoid characters as playable, so adding a character like Bowser would be out of place. However, because I'm only doing characters that inspire me and Bowser is one of them, it felt necessary to do one of him. Also, splash arts typically have the character front and center and bigger than everything else, but because of how I planned the composition, I had to shrink Bowser down and push him back; I didn't want it to look like he would get hit with the propellers.

This is a concept for one of the three largest airships which are part of Ruen and Ziren's (my main characters) world and story. This one is the Ka'on, build and owned by Ziren's homeland. The others are the Baryon (Owned by Dacae) and the Hadron (owned by Aeterna).

I forced myself to finally try my hands on giving form to something more tech/vehicle related. I feel very uneasy drawing technical designs. But since they ARE part of Ruen and Ziren's world I will need to learn this at some point and get familiar with the feel of drawing such stuff (,: