Art from Piratecat's story hour

My interpretation of The Ivory King.

Here's a second link, just incase the one above goes down.

The Ivory King.

Comet Cycle

Hey, PC, did you ever have a description of the star formation that was supposted to trigger the comet cycle? I have an idea for some thing, but I’d like too make it look right if you had something specific in mind…

And of the stone seal on the Carceri portal, to, please?

Wheee!

Craer, that's officially creeping me out. I keep looking at the blank holes for eyes and the little tail. . .

The star formation that triggered the comet cycle was never specified, so it can be anything you want. The shooting star (comet) that was pulled from the sky by the Imbindarlans came from a constellation known as the Gander, and specifically served as the goose's eye. The Imbindarlans triggered the spell that yanked it from the heavens and created the conjunction by starting a war, sending thousands of captive commoners onto the battlefield disguised like real soldiers, and using their life energy as they got slaughtered to trigger the spell. Then that night, they used the remaining energy to cast a massive animate dead so they could have a real army. . .

Tovag Baragu (stolen directly from Greyhawk, thank you very much) is on top of a desert mountain way out in Kanach'Hur, the desert of the screaming sands. The stone circle is made up of three concentric circles of massive stone plinths. Odd lights and visions play between the stone uprights. The exact center of the stone circles is a shallow vertical cave, and that's where the actual seal is. This is where Velendo fought his nemesis and lost much of his strength before using his shield's talisman of pure good to send the man hurtling eternally to the center of Spira.

Here's ANOTHER Mara. Would have been more than just a mugshot except the rest of it started to bother me. Not all that happy with this either, but I figured I'm too critical on my own stuff. The armor is roughly based on her armor from littlejohn's awesome picture of her on the first page.

I'll have something better eventually. Not just Mara either, hopefully.

Eye of the Gander

Well, my attempts at Tovag Baragu and star formations aren't really satisfying me (may head up into the mountains and get some pictures to Photoshop), but here's what I do have so far...

Destil, wow, that's just. . . wow.

Gorgeous.

I wish I had it as an illustration when we ran those games.

A-MG, thank you! you can never have too many Maras. (see today's story hour update for proof of that.) I'd love to see more.

Run for your lives. It's the return of the bad stick art! Spoiler stick art no less. For your consideration, Mr. Cat, a picture of Mechanus.

I'm attempting to commission from my wife a picture of Malachite and Mara standing over the beaten Ivory King. I gave her a few pictures of villains and heroes I imagined them like and Pkitty's description of the scene but she's not a regular reader.

She's kinda busy, but I've been reading this story hour so long I feel invested in it and would like to see us give a contribution.

Here's hoping.

Piratecat said:

Hmmm - with the Piratecat.info site offline, some of the art has disappeared. I'll try to track down new links from (contact)!

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Malachite:

Craer said:

My interpretation of The Ivory King.

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Don't tell David Hendee, but this is my favorite drawing in this thread.