Guild Wars 2

The Reaper: Necromancer’s Elite Specialization
My contribution for last Atomic Friday (Our art jam group here)
The theme was: RPG

Check out what the others did at
https://www.facebook.com/atomicfridayartjam

Hope you guys like it
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Black Ballpen
Warm Grey tone Markers
Black marker
Unipin pens

Quite a while ago this recipe appeared on the GW2 Tumblr and I permatabbed it because mmmmmaaaaaan did I want to eat it.

And then I forgot, over and over, to make a shopping list of the ingredients, remembering each week at the store “oh right, I wanted to get that.”

I finally remembered this week, and I just made it, and it’s the best thing to hit my tastebuds in a long time. I used 1 lb boneless ribeye, which made six skewers (bamboo, and I did soak the skewers for hours, and I still set off my smoke alarms) of 6-7 cubes each and exactly fit on my small broiling pan (no grill, had to broil). If you like peanut marinades on beef, you gotta try this.

http://culinarycosplay.tumblr.com/post/114706628784/charr-meat-on-a-stick-its-meatoberfest-in

I feel like you just want to stare at boobs and butts.

the hell am i reading? play a norn then.

(facepalm) What’s sad about small breasts?

Even the Norn supports France! You should too for a day.

http://i.imgur.com/d8n9Dla.jpg

Dear Marshal,

I don’t know what to say, and so I decided to write you a letter. I know you will never read this, but I just wanted to put things in perspective for myself, seeing as I still can’t believe what happened, and give my sadness a place.

I do not care anymore. My efforts to save you have been in vain and I feel I lost not only a brother, but a great friend as well. I saw your death coming, the moment I gazed upon your abused body. I just didn’t want to believe that after all you’ve been through, and after all we’ve been through, this would be the end of your story.

I remember when I was newly awakened, how you didn’t care about my lack of knowledge of anything. You were my older brother and happily joined me on my adventures. You saw me grow from a sapling to a strong commander, and I saw you grow from an expert of Orr and solitude to a leader of Tyria’s largest military organization. I like to think you are as proud of me as I am of you.

Without you.. I am not sure what to do. A gaping hole has taken residence in my heart and I find myself wishing to trade in anything -and anyone- to get you back. What use is there to go on adventures if I can’t talk about them with my dear brother, and then accompany him on his missions? I found joy in that, in you being always there, it felt secure in one way or another.

My dear Marshal and beloved brother, I wish you peace, wherever you are.

-Your Commander

Hi shilane!

Just wanted to tell you that i greatly admire your art! Awesome stuff amongst it; especially the way you capture the “spirit” of certain characters by movement and facial expression is fantastic!
Do you do solely commissions or are you sometimes also sitting in front of the graphic tablet, drawing what comes into your mind… If yes, please share! Would be nice to see more from you!

kind regards
Benjamin

Teaser:

Void, empty, alone, abandoned to despair.
Floating in a sea of nothing, soul’s vessel sallies forth.
Consigned to that which can have no fathomable existence.
In the coldest depths of oblivion, hope glows ever bright.
Undaunted, hero’s essence begins anew, Weh no Su.

Author’s Note:

This is the beginning of Book III of the Forsaken Soul Novella entitled “A Tangent Askew”. If you have already finished Book I & II and are looking to start the new chapters, then you are in the right place.
If on the other hand, you have not yet read both the first and second book (linked below), the third book will be extremely confusing.
The previous Books can be found here:
Book I – Forsaken Soul: A Path to Enlightenment
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/community/creations/FanFic-Forsaken-Soul-A-Path-to-Enlightenment/first#post4559076
Book II – Forsaken Soul: A Path Familiar
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/community/creations/FanFic-Forsaken-Soul-A-Path-Familiar/first#post5153921

Please Note:This will be the Final book of the Forsaken Soul series. I will be releasing at least 1 chapter per week and would expect this book to run between 20 – 25 chapters in total.

If you find this Book III continuation of the Forsaken Soul Novella enjoyable, please put your (+1’s) on This first post of Book III to better reflect your approval.
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Table Of Contents:

Teaser:
Preface:
Chapter 0 – Sight Within Sight
Chapter 1 – Weh No Su
Chapter 2 – The Adolescent Years
Chapter 3 – A Royal Decree
Chapter 37 – A Proud Father
x21.0113-.0118
Chapter 38 – Called By Name
x21.0137- ????
Chapter 39 – Hopes And Dreams
Chapter 40 – Fade To Black
Chapter 41 – Skip In Time
Chapter 42 – What Future Holds
Chapter 43 – Friend In Need
Chapter 44 – A Friend Indeed
Chapter 45 – Search For Enlightenment
Chapter 46 – First Is Trust
Chapter 47 – Council Of Elders
Chapter 48 – An Ancient Answer
Chapter 49 – To The Vale
Chapter 50 – A Weapon Reforged
Chapter 51 – Time Is Nigh
Chapter 52 – Déjà Vu Too
Chapter 53 – Fare Thee Well
Epilogue

Forsaken Soul: A Tangent Askew
Preface

In the beginning, there was nothing.

It was not the nothing you would experience as a lack of symbols on a blank page, nor the nothing that you would find as an absence of substance in an empty room. Not even the nothing as one would expect in the vast void beyond the stars. No, for in essence, they all imply either directly or not that nothing exists in relation to something.

This nothing in contrast, is that which exists without a complementary counterpart. This is the nothing that cannot be measured, quantified or experienced. This is the nothing purely beyond conceived thought and far removed from the bonds of reason. And it is from this infinite, utter lack, which our story begins.

In the beginning, there was nothing- and then, there wasn’t.

How this happened is volumes above the purview of this story; so let us just assume, for all intents and purposes, it just… did. Let us call it a miracle if you like, for something from nothing is truly miraculous indeed. In all that encapsulates that which is not, a consciousness was born.

Now for those of you who exist in a world of something, I am challenged to define the inconceivable consciousness in the absence of stimuli of any kind. Like trying to describe color to one blind since birth, there lies no frame of comparative reference.

Yet the consciousness did exist; though it just did not know it, as there was nothing for it to yet know. Without form or structure, without desire or purpose, the slumbering consciousness endured, unaware. And so it was, and was and was, and then something new appeared.

It began as a speck, a pinpoint of a thing smaller than small, utterly redefining infinitesimal. Now you would think that something so ridiculously miniscule would be far-reaching any capability of notice, but the consciousness noticed. In a domain of nothing, something or anything, no matter how diminutive, was in fact, a very big thing indeed.

The speck started to grow. Now not in size mind you, for the speck had no length width or height and so size was immaterial. No. The speck’s existence in the nothing realm grew in power, and as size did not exist to the little speck, its power grew massive. And so began the existence of the first speck of time. Though it had no knowledge of its own being, the miracle, was now fully aware of the speck and so it started to observe.

The more the miracle observed the speck, the more the world began to change. The first thing observed was that the speck was there and the consciousness was here. In the nothing world, two uniquely individual things must by their very nature, be separate and such a separation created a distance between the two, thus into the world of nothing, length came into being, solely defined by the difference between the two dissimilar things and the world became one dimensional. Now once the first dimension formed, continued observation quickly spawned the following two, bringing us now to a comparative frame of reference for those of you from the something world.

Now in this brand new world of something spawned from nothing, both entities thrived. The speck, being now infinitely powerful and without awareness, seemed perfectly suited to exist as a zero dimensional thing in a three dimensional world. The miracle though, was not content, for it was now sentient and with sentience comes a need for understanding.

It pondered. How could a zero dimensional something, exist in the Miracle’s three dimensional world and then came the first epiphany; the speck was the creation, the beginning of all things but itself. And with Miracle’s realization the Universe was born, cradled by Time.

 
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^ Didn’t think about those guys. They’re basically Guild Wars 1’s Destiny’s Edge.

If it followed those guys I’d hope we see some of Eve the necromancer. Who, despite being on all the Prophesies cover art, we barley see.

Who knows, maybe they could drop a Pyre Feirceshot cameo to foreshadow the Eye of the North sequel too!

Hope you’re writing this down Anet!

We’ve seen the Wow trailer and can pretty much tell where they’re going with that.

But if Guild Wars had a movie, what do we reckon it would be based on? And what would you want to see the most?

Would it be during The Searing? Set between the games? Based on one of the Novels maybe? Or skip to GW2 timeline?

So long as it involved realistic looking Charr I’m happy.

(Hint hint Anet, movie in 2020! You can do it!)

I for one am really happy that new maps are so…platformish

no regrets

Why do people feeld they MUST get what they want HERE AND NOW?

And here’s last year’s that I never shared. My mad king pumpkin. =D

My first try at illusion knitting! Original Charr artwork by ArenaNet, knitting chart made by myself. Basically, illusion knitting is a technique that makes the knitted pattern (or image) invisible when viewed from the front, but it will start to appear if viewed from the side.

After finally seeing the project completed, I am mostly happy with it, but I see there are some ways in which I can improve my chartmaking. A complex subject such as this will read better if I remove stray pixels/stitches or group them in the larger color area to make them either stand out or disapper completely. Also, the midtones don’t read quite as well as I thought they would, so they might need some extra dark edging or accents.

Still, overall, I really like the way it turned out! From start to finish, I worked on this for a year and a half, on and off.

Finished size: 117×85 cm

Original post on tumblr

Ahhh! jumps with you I’m so happy you like it! And thank you very much for the recommendation

Hi Slayer! Here is your finished commission. I didn’t put any background because I felt it would ruin the cool color contrast. I hope you like it! If you have any file quality or zoom problems just let me know and I’ll try to get you a better file! Thank you~

Me Like it and wouldnt mind to have it in a big flag in my front yard.

Scare some postmen off…

Drew this image last december and showcased it on reddit. Took a while to complete since I was trying some new rendering techniques, but happy with how it came out.

Full-res image (10.000×6.000) if you want to look at it like super up-close.

Being able to see all my characters on the screen at the same time would be awesome. This is my main issue with the current layout. The other changes you suggest are great as well. Hopefully someone from Anet will see this.

- Needs more warriors