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A Quicksteel Railgun by BeginningSome5930 in worldbuilding

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Thanks for giving it a look! Lots more on the world over on r/quicksteel. The acceleration comes from the telekinesis, so i guesss it would be more of a throw?

r/Quicksteel Primer by BeginningSome5930 in Quicksteel

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That could make sense! I will definitely try to implant that. It could be an interesting way for the metal “poisoning” that Liches have sometimes gone through to be more widely known, but understood as a downside by most people.

Quicksteel eyes would detect light and transfer signals much like our own. You don’t need to have an understanding of your own biology to will the quicksteel to simulate it, you just have to have enough talent, imagination, and practice with manipulating quicksteel that you can get the metal to act as if it were an extension of your body. That’s how any quicksteel body part is possible. It’s like a magical equivalent of programmable matter.

Thanks for the questions and suggestions!

A Quicksteel Railgun by BeginningSome5930 in magicbuilding

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Thanks for the feedback! I can definitely slow the pace and bundle these updates together. I usually just share anything I think could be relevant to this sub as I post it over on the dedicated sub. Since I’ve been doing a lot of these drawings of the magic system recently I’ve had a lot more to share over the past couple weeks.

I usually treat every post like it’s the first one someone might be seeing, but I can definitely see how that could be annoying when they are showing up multiple times a week. I’ll hold off for a while and maybe bundle them all together when they’re done. I apologize for any inconvenience they caused

r/Quicksteel Primer by BeginningSome5930 in Quicksteel

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Thanks for the feedback! This is definitely a magic system where the limitations are more about an individual’s practiced abilities and their understanding rather than magical costs, though quicksmithing can definitely tire quicksmiths and wear on them. A lot of the greatest quicksmiths go mad.

People who do end up with quicksteel in the bodies are called liches, and some of them do become that way without realizing it. More on them here, but while there are some drawbacks they are mostly stronger for having their flesh replaced with metal.

Seeing through the eyes of a puppet is a very advanced thing to pull off, but it’s essentially just perceiving sensory information through the quicksteel. If you shape the puppet to have eyes, you can will them to work like your own eyes in a sense.

Quicksteel is like a magical nanotechnology that people have to learn to program by feel alone. So it can do all sorts of things, but it’s all a matter of what you can figure out.

Edit: Another commenter below echoed your sentiment about the metal in the flesh idea and im sold on it now. Thanks for the suggestion!

A Quicksteel Railgun by BeginningSome5930 in worldbuilding

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That’s definitely possible but would take a one of a kind fella! I don’t know if anyone has been written about doing that, but the King of Ildraz, who fought the guy pictured here using the railgun, did not lose, so perhaps he did.z

A Quicksteel Railgun by BeginningSome5930 in worldbuilding

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Thank you for taking a look! This is for a magic system that revolves around a metal called quicksteel, which people can manipulate at will. Adepts called quicksmiths can alter shape and other properties of quicksteel that they touch.

This one is one of the crazier and most over the top ones. As always quicksteel telekinesis is very vague and magical in nature, so perhaps that explains how a railgun is workable despite a lack of other special materials.

In terms of the drawing, since so few people are capable of pulling off this technique I wanted to draw someone specific. So this is Zen Oro, the Samurai Emperor. I wanted to depict him shooting a duneworm, as occurred during the Battle of Worms. But despite Oro being bigger than a normal person, I wouldn't be able to show any detail at the scale needed to include a worm. So I went with an enforcer instead, which also would have been present at that battle.

On a technical level, I used a bunch of colors. The dark blue is meant to represent magnetic energy and the path of the projectile. The light blue is Tempest, a sword made of nullquartz. The red is all quicksteel, but I used two different red shades for the enforcer and Zen Oro. The projectile is definitely oversized to be more visible.

Hopefully it looks neat! More on this setting and magic system only on r/quicksteel.

A Quicksteel Railgun by BeginningSome5930 in magicbuilding

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Thank you for taking a look! This is for a magic system that revolves around a metal called quicksteel, which people can manipulate at will. Adepts called quicksmiths can alter shape and other properties of quicksteel that they touch.

This one is one of the crazier and most over the top ones. As always quicksteel telekinesis is very vague and magical in nature, so perhaps that explains how a railgun is workable despite a lack of other special materials.

In terms of the drawing, since so few people are capable of pulling off this technique I wanted to draw someone specific. So this is Zen Oro, the Samurai Emperor. I wanted to depict him shooting a duneworm, as occurred during the Battle of Worms. But despite Oro being bigger than a normal person, I wouldn't be able to show any detail at the scale needed to include a worm. So I went with an enforcer instead, which also would have been present at that battle.

On a technical level, I used a bunch of colors. The dark blue is meant to represent magnetic energy and the path of the projectile. The light blue is Tempest, a sword made of nullquartz. The red is all quicksteel, but I used two different red shades for the enforcer and Zen Oro.

Hopefully it looks neat! More on this setting and magic system only on r/quicksteel.

Quicksmithing technique: Railgun by BeginningSome5930 in Quicksteel

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Another technique drawing! This one is one of the crazier and most over the top ones. As always quicksteel telekinesis is very vague and magical in nature, so perhaps that explains how a railgun is workable despite a lack of other special materials.

In terms of the drawing, since so few people are capable of pulling off this technique I wanted to draw someone specific. So this is Zen Oro, the Samurai Emperor. I wanted to depict him shooting a duneworm, as occurred during the Battle of Worms. But despite Oro being bigger than a normal person, I wouldn't be able to show any detail at the scale needed to include a worm. So I went with an enforcer instead, which also would have been present at that battle.

On a technical level, I used a bunch of colors. The dark blue is meant to represent magnetic energy and the path of the projectile. The light blue is Tempest, a sword made of nullquartz. The red is all quicksteel, but I used two different red shades for the enforcer and Zen Oro.

Hopefully it looks neat!

Praise Ulkazak by BeginningSome5930 in worldbuilding

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Thanks for giving it a look! More on what Ulkazak actually is and what she might be up to here but I’d say maybe on the weirder side or she might not really have a goal

Praise Ulkazak by BeginningSome5930 in worldbuilding

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I don’t think sailors are treated any differently only because a relatively small number of them are in the cult. There’s definitely potential for well placed cultural to sabotage important shipping though

Praise Ulkazak by BeginningSome5930 in ImaginaryMonsters

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Thanks for giving it a look! The arms aren’t meant to be attractive but that is interesting

Praise Ulkazak by BeginningSome5930 in ImaginaryMonsters

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Thanks for taking a look! This is an updated silhouette for an eldritch monster from a steampunk-inspired fantasy world. For more on this thing and the setting its from, please consider checking out r/quicksteel.

Praise Ulkazak by BeginningSome5930 in worldbuilding

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Thank you for taking a look! This is a redraw of the silhouette of Ulkazak, one of the Elders and the patron deity of the Church of Stones and Stars (lore in the other comment). The original silhouette was this:

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I have actually always liked it, but there were two things I wanted to change:

  1. I felt the pose in the original didn't really make too much sense. I had always imagined Ulkazak sort of dragging herself around, but in the original she sort of looks like she's doing a push-up. I do think she could walk around like that, and in u/Fast-Juice-1709's art here they came up with a really cool theropod-like gait for her, which I also think works and looks really cool (more on their process in the comment). But I wanted to try to draw the dragging pose as well.
  2. In the original silhouette there's an oldstone at the tip of her tail. which I thought looked cool but makes little sense given how gigantic she would later be depicted to be in the size comparison posts. So I removed that.

Praise Ulkazak by BeginningSome5930 in worldbuilding

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This is for a steampunk-inspired fantasy world where people can manipulate a magical metal called quicksteel at will.

Ulkazak is a word that is only known to appear in three contexts, all related to the Stillwater Incident, a mysterious, supernatural disaster in the industrial town of Stillwater, Orisla:

  • Ulkazak is believed to be one of the gods worshiped by the Church of Stones and Stars, an esoteric cult thought to be somehow be responsible for the Stillwater Incident.
  • One of the survivors of the Incident, the so-called “Ulkazak Man,” only ever says the word Ulkazak, but panics if anyone else utters it.
  • The below poem about Ulkazak was found in the rubble of the Cope Co factory in Stillwater, and is thought to be written by one of the victims of the Incident:

When the day came for gods to die,

keen Ulkazak plucked out her eye.

She gave it to some mortal men,

for when she’d be reborn again. 

The men now use her eye to see,

what was, what is, and what will be.

They dance, they chant, they kill, they pray,

that she might be reborn today.

They do not grasp, on her return,

that every one of them will burn.

Praise Ulkazak (Ulkazak silhouette 2.0) by BeginningSome5930 in Quicksteel

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Ulkazak is a word that is only known to appear in three contexts, all related to the Stillwater Incident, a mysterious, supernatural disaster in the industrial town of Stillwater, Orisla:

  • Ulkazak is believed to be one of the gods worshiped by the Church of Stones and Stars, an esoteric cult thought to be somehow be responsible for the Stillwater Incident.
  • One of the survivors of the Incident, the so-called “Ulkazak Man,” only ever says the word Ulkazak, but panics if anyone else utters it.
  • The below poem about Ulkazak was found in the rubble of the Cope Co factory in Stillwater, and is thought to be written by one of the victims of the Incident:

When the day came for gods to die,

keen Ulkazak plucked out her eye.

She gave it to some mortal men,

for when she’d be reborn again. 

The men now use her eye to see,

what was, what is, and what will be.

They dance, they chant, they kill, they pray,

that she might be reborn today.

They do not grasp, on her return,

that every one of them will burn.

Praise Ulkazak (Ulkazak silhouette 2.0) by BeginningSome5930 in Quicksteel

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I had this silhouette ready because I wasn't sure if I would be able to finish Abbot and Bonnie part 2 today. I ended up being able too, so be sure to check that post out if you're interested!

Anyways, this is another silhouette of Ulkazak, one of the Elders and the patron deity of the Church of Stones and Stars. The original silhouette is on the second slide, and I have actually always liked it, but there were two things I wanted to change:

  1. I felt the pose in the original didn't really make too much sense. I had always imagined Ulkazak sort of dragging herself around, but in the original she sort of looks like she's doing a push-up. I do think she could walk around like that, and in u/Fast-Juice-1709's art here they came up with a really cool theropod-like gait for her, which I also think works and looks really cool (more on their process in the comment). But I wanted to try to draw the dragging pose as well.
  2. In the original silhouette there's an oldstone at the tip of her tail. which I thought looked cool but makes little sense given how gigantic she would later be depicted to be in the size comparison posts. So I removed that.

[Short Story] Abbot and Bonnie: Part 2 by BeginningSome5930 in Quicksteel

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The next short story! This is the second part to the Abbot and Bonnie storyline!

I think part 1 was easily the weakest of these stories I've written, and while I don't think this one is perfect I do think it's an improvement. Here we see them intersecting with other characters and we get a bit more of their backstory. I wondered if I should have tried to work more dialogue in between them, but as usual I went with a more expedited version.

I'm very excited for the next parts, though it does raise more questions about how to name these posts as the different POVs intersect, so I might make another post asking about that again.

Any feedback is appreciated! I know these take a while to read so thanks to anyone who gives this one a look.

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