The Sun Lord's Dragonslayer

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!)

At a loss

…

…These dark times have incurred great losses for us all.

We must remain strong in order to survive the ordeals these shadows call upon us…

But…

A little kindness…

…can create the warmer memories that keep us moving forward.

OOC: driving myself bonkers.

((Currently trying to reconcile height differences.  Had an initial height setup but then got it in my head to use the sword at Artorias’ grave as a benchmark and cross-reference it with player character height, then cross-reference that with player height vs Ornstein, then cross reference that with the player-wieldable Greatsword of Artorias, and then loop it all back to the size of the sword at the grave.  All I got out of it was a headache and the knowledge that Artorias is either effing huge or I ignore in-game size reference for the sake of artistic license-to-make-this-easier-on-me.  I’ve done the latter before, but it still bugs me a bit.

Or I can just say it’s because Miracles. 8S

I’m almost ready to pick up again, at least, just in case people are getting tired of all of these OOC asides and just want answers to resume ASAP.

Here’s where my self-referencing stands, as well as some scattered little pieces of how -most- of these answers start off.

Do y’all even care about accuracy to in-game resources for a bunch of pseudo-canon character interpretations, or am I being way too nitpicky over this and should just chill out?))

OOC: last core concept

((Alright, last but certainly not least, the ever-enigmatic Artorias, the Abysswalker.  At least, my interpretation of what his armor might’ve looked like along the lines of going animal-themed.  Still done with Alchemy. What can I say, I forgot how much I love this program for helping me with designs like this.

The other two can be found here.

Questions about the other knights were inevitable. While I still need to fuss with the details a little more to get them consistent, these will be a basis for how I draw them for this blog unless/until something official comes up.))

OOC: More Delays

((It might take a little while longer to get out the next one because it involves some extra concept work (which will be relevant to more questions after the next one, so it’s not like I’m wasting time… not horrifically, at least) that’s been giving me trouble.

However, I think I got past the hurdle now that I broke down and went to the one ‘cheap’ program that I usually reserve for conceptualizing this sort of thing.

For a preview for exactly what I mean by this, have the first one I’ve gotten to a point I like.  It was done in Alchemy, with gratuitous abuse of its live-symmetry feature.

Edit: Either people are still too busy flailing over the Facebook wall, or that Read More tag slid this under the radar. Never the less, poof.  Also, managed to get one more done.

May see some tweaks for detail and consistency-to-the-game’s-style, but at least I’ve got a core aesthetic going.  Artorias is difficult to get looking like the armor will live up to his importance; I don’t follow the school of thought of him being on the EU/NA covers, because that just looks like the Elite Knight set that happens to be wielding what looks like his sword and shield, possibly just because that sword and shield are awesome and western marketers seem to prefer game covers looking awesome.

inb4officialartbookruinsmyshit))

Someday. Maybe.

As much as I would love to help out another kingdom in need, I cannot abandon my obligation to Gwynevere. Perhaps when everything is done and I am allowed to move on… if that day ever comes.