There is still a week left to go for this horror inspired challenge! We'd love to see what you can scare up!
#UnofficialChallenge #Thegreattree #Spooky
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UNOFFICAL CHALLENGE!
I'm in a spooky mood, so The Great Tree is proud to bring the community yet another Challenge! Horror, fear, the unknown. What keeps you up at night? What lurks in the dark corners of a quiet house? Is your mind playing tricks on you? You could have sworn you didn't move that chair. You could have sworn you were alone here.
I want to see what you can come up with, I want you to keep us up at night. I want you to flex those creative muscles, and scare the hell out of us. Keep us thinking about it. More info and more here! More unique badges!
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The challenge marches forward!
Currently, we have 7 amazing entries with a wide variety of interpretations to the prompt! I have even found a few worlds that I've taken an interest in, sometimes the amazing authors on WA go unnoticed. But, wow there really are a phenomenal amount of creative minds here!
The challenge is still running until Jan 14th, so plenty of time to relax over the holidays, belt out more lore for your worlds, railing through World Ember content, and maybe finding new inspiration!
I've started drafting some ideas for the hidden badge and I'm happy with some of them. Others have already been scrapped, but nonetheless! I'm looking forward to seeing what ideas come out of the community!
#UnofficalChallenge, #Reverie, #WorldEmber, #TheGreatTree
The challenge is still running until Jan 14th, so plenty of time to relax over the holidays, belt out more lore for your worlds, railing through World Ember content, and maybe finding new inspiration!
I've started drafting some ideas for the hidden badge and I'm happy with some of them. Others have already been scrapped, but nonetheless! I'm looking forward to seeing what ideas come out of the community!
#UnofficalChallenge, #Reverie, #WorldEmber, #TheGreatTree
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Slight Intentional Delay
Well, after a conversation with someone who has much more patience than me, we are going to hold off on my Unofficial Challenge until after Novelember. Plus we have Tyrdal's short challenge going on! Highly recommend taking a look and maybe participating!
We are going to hold off on mine until December, I really want folks to participate in it and I want to give everyone a good shot at its competition. So that being said, now that I have a little more time, I'm redoing the badge for it. I like it a lot, but it needs some reworking. But, there is a cash prize for the top three articles 0.0 $100 USD, per top slot!
Anyway, Tyrdal. I don't know how. I don't know why, but your prompt was lore pertinent to me today. So I'm pleased to give even more Mistwalkers LORE!
#Unofficialchallenge #Aransha #Thegreattree
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A little something special
Well, I had an instant idea for something. The Predator Prompt for Spooktober held a certain something for me. Well, how about I just go ahead and drop the first chapter for one of the Novellas I'm working on. SO, I'm pleased to present this teaser into The Great Tree Origins: The EndSong!
Enjoy as Gjorn has quite... the time of of his life!
The rest of the Novella will be released at the same time I get done with the Main first book, Soft and Subtle Wind. I need to finish up some artwork and editing, but I think I'll actually be publishing both sooner rather than later. Like, actually publishing, physical copies and all ;P
#Spooktober #Horror #TheGreatTree
Enjoy as Gjorn has quite... the time of of his life!
The rest of the Novella will be released at the same time I get done with the Main first book, Soft and Subtle Wind. I need to finish up some artwork and editing, but I think I'll actually be publishing both sooner rather than later. Like, actually publishing, physical copies and all ;P
#Spooktober #Horror #TheGreatTree
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SPOOKY SEASON IS HERE
Well, I ran through the list for spooktober, and saw one that caught my eye right away. OH BOY, have I decided the vast majority of these are going to be about The Shadows. Now, as of right now, The Shadows have only been talked about in all of about 3 articles. I haven't really gotten around to them, though I have an enormous amount of canon about them, just unpublished.
Either way, whether anyone knows it or not, the Shadows are not... pleasant. Nor do I actually want anyone, including my own characters, to learn all that much about them. The only ones that do, are here in the world, but being here is rather a vague term, isn't it? Those that are gone, but not lost. Here, but also not.
So, why not get started in my usual way. Let us throw it in the deep end.
Also, I like to point this out every once in a while. Almost all the images in every article I have written/writing, have extra lore or commentary. You just need to click them. ;P
#SPOOKTOBER #SPOOKY #horror #TheGreatTree
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Sometimes you just gotta write an idea out
Did I intend to make such a long article? No. Did I feel like writing a short story? Yeah. BUT! I also wanted to try and start building up one of the four main Religions of The Great Tree. In this I wanted to try and get across that the whole point of this religion is all about love and compassion. Despite (while this is kinda only know to me as of right now) it's much darker point of origin. Despite all that, the faith remains strong with what it's core focus is. Love is an odd thing isn't it? It doesn't necessarily mean that its a physical relationship or even one of emotional attachment. There is beauty in all things, so why can't empathy be a form of love? Or even just goodwill in general.
The Sorority is the embodiment of this ideology, despite many of their practitioners... questionable... attitudes. Either way, I am happy to present the first step in fleshing out this Faith with the Head of the Church!
#TheGreatTree #goodtimes
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And We Have GOLD
Well being that this was the stated goal for SC, I feel like this is pretty satisfying! But, I also want to see what the week of decay has in store for us all! SO IM THINKING ILL GO FOR DIAMOND WHILE IM AT IT.
That being said, I've been working on quite a few things, I finished on of the most detailed pieces of artwork I have ever personally done, if you'd like to see that one you can find it on the Instagram page (it's...uh... a little NSFW, so it's not getting posted here) To which in terms of practice and progressing as an artist, wow. I feel like I can tackle much more challenging illustrations now, really do feel much more comfortable with the style I'm settling into! So here! https://www.instagram.com/thereasnwhy
Well to the nuts and glory of it all. Not all of these are for SC, I wanted to work on one character while I was at it!
The Institute that Pioneered modern medical practices for those with the ability to heal with magic.
A document that had far reaching ramifications due to it's blatantly false pretenses.
The "Paladin" Of the Shrine Guard
A disturbing children's tale
The Holy Symbol worn by the Clergy of the Sorority of Azu
And Finally, we may or may not have entered into a bit of a collaboration world with quite a few other authors. Some of you, I know you are here ^^
#Summercamp, #Thegreattree
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On My way to Silver Celebrating a milestone for myself!
Well, I don't really know what to say? A little over a year ago I started actually engaging with the community to a larger degree, I had thought that only a few people would be interested in seeing anything I put out. But, I didn't think that I would get 50 followers at some point! To some that may seem like a small fish in a big pond, but it's a big deal to me! Now if only I could get this kind of engagement in the other circles I'm trying to establish lol
Nonetheless, I thank you all for your interest in my strange little world :P even more so that a few of you exceptionally diligent followers and your dogged task of keeping up with all the oddities I make!
So, only a few days into the new wave of prompts and looking back at the whole camp, so far I surprised myself with writing nearly 20k something words for the 13 articles out now for the region of Huron! Seriously I think I need to keep these shorter, wow I get going when I have an idea in my head.
THAT BEING SAID! Here ya go!
The main story hasn't been forgotten about, it's still being plugged away in the background! I'm thinking I'll just write the bridging chapters and release the rest of it in one go, I keep picking at the chapters in tandem too much. So when that happens *cough* seven chapters are going to be released at once, finishing Arc ONE!
#Summercamp, #TheGreatTree
The Great Tree: Soft and Subtle Wind
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Did I spend a straight 7hrs on this? yep.
"A character that goes through a great change"
My my my, have I been meaning to finish this character for months now! By and large she is going to function as one of the MC's for the Great Tree. Along with Ilgor of the Skullbrood Clan, she is going to end up playing a massive role in the story as it continues.
I am pleased to present this wallflower turned War heroine!
God thank SC! I was looking for some motivation to get this done!
#SummerCamp #anvilspace #TheGreatTree
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