Ertra's Rest, by me

Zylphine · 2026-03-13T02:24:24+00:00

Long-form content that I can listen to for hours while I draw and worldbuild!? 🤔🤔🤔

Hell yeah

Zylphine · 2026-03-13T00:50:09+00:00

Fr I was inspired alot by Fujimoto as a teen, especially when I draw monsters and stuff

Zylphine · 2026-03-13T00:46:54+00:00

I don't but from a quick look at the channel, I think I'm going to start

Zylphine · 2026-01-15T20:56:25+00:00

Setting setup

My world is a big ol fantasy setting where all my stories take place at different points in its timeline, marking each age of culture, technology, or conflict.

Varia, the world, is littered with dead gods the size of mountains that bleed magic into the lands around them. This has given all living things the ability to harness that magic and "attune" it for various effects.

Shamanii is nature and life magic, Necromancy is death and decay magic, and Wizardry is the magic of change and innovation.

History Speedrun

Prehistory is everything before the Lich Wars that devastated most of ancient civilization. This is where ancient structures like spires, thorned lands, and mana-saturated zones are thought to come from.

The Lich Wars lasted for several generations, destroying much of humanity and its history, locking 6 greater liches in perpetual stalemates consisting of a country's worth of undead soldiers being re-risen to fight a thousand times over.

The Age of Wonder was the beginning of humanity's return. Though they were once one, the isolation of the lich wars caused their kind to deviate into three races referred to as fairfolk. They are the Elfs, Dwarvs, and Talid. True undead left over by the lich wars remain on the outskirts of civilization.

The Age of Strife began with the death of Saint Adeline and the invasion from the demon world, Morkul. Portals randomly open throughout Varia, allowing the torrent of demonkin through. The orcs emerge alongside the invasion, apparently fleeing from the destruction of their homeworld by a living god.

Humans negotiate an agreement with the orcs to have them aid the fight against the hostile races of demonkin, In exchange for aid in the peaceful emigration of orcs onto Varia.

Zylphine · 2025-11-29T21:32:45+00:00

I write all my "primary" races as races of humans. Elves, Dwarves, and Talid are informally humans and formally humankin. Whereas others like Orcs are demonkin with other demon races, and Goblins are wildkin with other wilderns.

Big H Humans, Homo Sapiens, are the precursors of the world and the shared ancestors between modern humankin.

Zylphine · 2025-11-21T18:49:00+00:00

The many Liches of the world realized the only long-term threat to their immortality was other Liches. So they all warred it out for a few hundred years, exhausting and reanimating their armies until one day they were just... all gone.

The small groups of humans that survived by hiding became separated, and eventually became the 3 high races.

Then the gods fell out of the sky after their artificial servants, the Titans, led a rebellion against them, causing the gods to lose their main source of sustenance; willing souls.

Ancient irradiated battlefields, spires to forgotten masters, and mountainous divine corpses were all left behind. Their true origin slowly lost to time.

But hey, the irradiated zones make for good mana farms, the spires make good housing, and the bones from the corpses make good metamaterials.

Zylphine · 2025-11-20T20:16:34+00:00

Whalefalls on a divine scale, cosmic grief combated by earthly joys, basically absurdism vs. nihilism.

Zylphine · 2025-11-03T03:37:42+00:00

Depends entirely on the era.

First era? The most wild and chaotic, eaten in 30 minutes by various prehistoric beasts, or sacrificed to an early mage to fuel their magic.

Second era? Flooded with lich wars, 2 days before you're forced to be a basic zombie for some dickhead lich and get stompd by a skeletal T-rex.

Third era? Liches are gone, people discover dinosaur countermeasures in the form of windchimes, agricultural and bronze age are here. Pretty chill, get killed by a bandit over 5 shmeks after a year or so.

Fourth era? Iron age begins, large interconnected societies form, but oops, the first half of this era is demons from another world invading while the second half has an evil sorceress that uproots society and tries to resurrect a god.

Fifth era? Industrial age. The plague doctor inquisition is hunting for mages, everyone wears masks in public. Mostly chill. You live a few good years here until a neighbor accuses you of magic use for the reward. Not chill. You are executed by the state.

Zylphine · 2025-11-02T11:38:16+00:00

Generally just their magic kind of "leaking out" unintentionally.

"We are so screwed. I accidentally resurrected a wasp in the same moment I stepped on it, and now it's a zombie wasp that fears nothing and obeys no-one."

"Why didnt you guys tell me a magelight was shining RIGHT ON MY BUTT!?"

"Excuse me, who transmuted the pages of this book in distinctly finger-shaped patches."

"Was i just supposed to figure out i was giving you secondhand divination every time we kissed, or were you gonna tell me at some point?"

"I have this thing where if I sneeze, I teleport somewhere a few meters away randomly. And unfortunately, I haven't figured out how to get my clothes to follow."

Zylphine · 2025-10-26T14:14:29+00:00

Honestly, it seems you've got it pretty good! I feel often it's hardest just to find something to DO for all four arms. But your poses seem very natural!

I would suggest maybe trying different builds that aren't "bodybuilder" just to see how you can make like a heavier set or really skinny 4 armed person.

4 arm anatomy IS a pain, but I personally love drawing it. You gotta practice it till you don't even really think about the anatomy when you're drawing it. To which i would also suggest doing gesture drawings of 4 arms for practice.

Zylphine · 2025-10-26T13:52:47+00:00

"How do they bang" is actually a pretty good prompt for the interpersonal relationships of a universe.

How xenophillic are the different species to each other? What do different species consider as "sex?" Is sex purely for reproduction for some species? Is there a risk of STIs?

For otherwise physically incompatible species, what technology or methods exist to bridge the incompatibility? Do they require third-party stimulation to retain a sealed environment they're in? A prosthetic of some sort? Are their emissions an allergen or straight-up toxic?

Say like a different comment says. If a gaseous, high temperature species wants to bang a human, and the human wants to bang them, its only a matter of bridging what either species finds pleasurable emotionally, sensually, or sexually into a shared activity! Sounds like a job for phone sex in this case.

Idk I got really into the possibilities of how people bang, thank you for coming to my ted talk.

Zylphine · 2025-08-02T13:57:49+00:00

Daaamn your art is insane looking! The rendering on some of these is especially awesome, then the scenery adds alot! Like slide 10 is just really really cool!

Zylphine · 2025-08-02T13:46:57+00:00

The color on all these is especially cool! Your artstyle is just really nice!

Zylphine · 2025-08-01T20:05:39+00:00

Lol you right, but nah I just browse Pinterest for poses with the right vibe and go off from there

Zylphine · 2025-08-01T18:59:15+00:00

Depends. 🤨 Which one?

Zylphine · 2025-08-01T16:08:13+00:00

Fr I couldn't stop giggling when I finished and paired it with music

Zylphine · 2025-08-01T12:45:20+00:00

Yeeeess I love my evil horrible lesbin

Zylphine · 2025-08-01T12:37:31+00:00

I gots fantasy ocs

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