The Sun Lord's Dragonslayer

(( Apologies for that, I’m having issues with sub-blog mismanagement at the moment ajksdfhalsdfjkashdf actual stuff will happen I’m still ironing things out ))

OOC: Design Works

(GOT MY ARTBOOK. FINALLY. YAAAYYYY.

It’s… interesting. While it is no doubt an amazing reference and just beautiful to look through and marvel at the design work that went into this game, I’m not entirely sure it was worth the $67 I paid for it. Not because it’s not quality enough, it’s just that Play-Asia’s Hawaii shipping is horrific. I might’ve been able to get a better deal if I had waited it out, especially considering how long it took to get here.  However, I feel it’s mostly worth it, the armor and weapons alone are to die for.

One thing I really need to note is how this artwork more or less confirms that, while I DO consider this to be one of the best games ever for armor design, my favorite things in this game are still the monsters. I think the bell gargoyles and the capra demons are my favorite things (I love beastly skulls on mundane bodies, it’s just a thing for me), though Bed of Chaos is a lot cooler looking when broken down than it looks in-game, and I LOVE how the Hydra has a giant, myliobatid body under the water rather than being a generic lizardy dragon.

While I can use it to ref Ornstein, especially his leggings and back (those give me the hardest time since they’re hard to get good caps of off other people’s videos), the front-shot is pretty rough and hard to make out…fortunately, I’m pretty fine with those based on the references I do have from in-game.

What interests me is how they did something with his helmet in the concept that didn’t make it to the final, which would have made more sense. The bit under the ‘chin’ of the helmet’s muzzle looks like an overlapping plate on the final, but in the concept it is actually separate from the ‘neck’ of the helmet, and the gap between them would’ve formed the visor eyes. Given that’s how the Black and Silver Knights, as well as the new concepts out for Artorias and Gough have their helmet view ports laid out, it would have been consistent for Ornstein’s to be the same way. As it stands, though, I’m fine with it. I already make the head on the helmet move WAY too much for emotive purposes than should be physically possible, what difference does it make?

What IS interesting is a concept for his helmet that didn’t make the final.  While it would have been a pain in EVERY ASS to draw over and over, it just looks totally sweet.

I think I’d rather wear that in-game than the current helmet, honestly.

Actual Ask-related update: I’m still torn as to what I’m going to do with the Knights-based questions, though it’s looking like I may just backlog them - rather than doing away with them entirely - until more information is inevitably leaked out.  I’ve been a bit busier with life stuff lately, so art has been a little more scarce. SirKai caught me at a really good time for that request/commission/whatever that most of you have probably seen by now, but I’ve gotten a little more tied up since then.

Hope you guys are having a great April! Keep being awesome!)

OOC: Extended Hiatus

((…. I’m sorry guys I just… I can’t…

It feels like this happens to every fandom I invest a heartfelt effort into.  I find something fascinating that was left open to interpretation that I feel I can put my own interpretation to, only to have the devs throw in some late canon to derail it all.  I feel like my heart’s fallen into my stomach and dissolved.

The only difference here is that instead of just being some small personal thing confined to just me and a few friends, this is going to affect a blog that has received so much love that I wasn’t expecting to get… And that makes me feel worse because now I’m not only letting myself down, but all the people who have been expecting great things from this blog.  It makes me want to curl up in a corner and slowly disappear.

This is not the end of the blog, but it will take a while to get back on track.  All questions relating to the other three Knights are being thrown out (or, at least, put on the backburner until further notice), and as a result I need to rewrite unrelated questions because they were all playing to the mood set by unearthing background narrative that I was hoping to allude to with answers to create a deeper, more story-driven blog.

In short, thank you, everyone, for all the support you’ve given me. I feel really, really bad that I’m letting you all down for a while because of this and I’m terribly, terribly sorry.

I am still buying this game. It is an incredible game and I want to play it dearly. No mods. I want to experience it the way it was meant to be experienced, and I would like to learn the new content myself rather than relying entirely on LPs, wikis, and lore videos.

Here’s a summary for what was going to begin peeking through the cracks in the narrative starting two questions from the current. Much of it was based on a dream I had; the main reason I even started this to begin with.

I’ll just leave this here as I pick up the broken pieces of the rest of the Ask. I’ll see you guys when this blows over and I don’t feel so wrecked, to those willing to stick around. I don’t blame you if you don’t.))

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OOC: bluhhh

((Self explanatory.

The current question, while having an answer, puts me at a slight loss as to how to illustrate it appropriately.  I’ll be on a temporary hiatus at least until I get the artbook that I preordered; hopefully that’ll kick-start my motivation.

Hefty backstory fanon is on the horizon for the long-run, as a head’s up/warning. Not the immediate question, but after that. Srs questions are srs, and absolutely cannot be answered with known lore because known lore simply does not exist on the subjects.))

Worth

I apologize if you feel this challenge is too much to bear, but it is my job to judge your worthiness. If it was too simple a task, that would be undermining the magnitude of the goal you pursue.

It was not my decision to make. After all, I have been ordered to seek a successor to Gwyn, my Lord.  I would not dare to presume my strength alone would be sufficient to gauge such worth.  He was a great and powerful lord, whom you seek to follow. It is not a burden to treat lightly.

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(ooc: to comfy, EpicNameBro actually has a few things to say about the fight in regards to strategy, far better than any tips I could ever give. Worse comes to worse, though, JOLLY CO-OPERATION, GO!)

Glorious

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(ooc: if you get the joke, then you have avoided the cake or death question by requesting the chicken.  :D  have a nice day!)