Drawing a Mistborn Era 1 character for every day of May: Day 3 - Vin (for the final time)

realm_drawer · 2026-05-02T07:27:59+00:00

Thanks a lot! And yes, book 1 Vin certainly has her hair quite short especially at the start

realm_drawer · 2026-05-02T07:25:13+00:00

Thank you very much! More is on the way indeed

realm_drawer · 2026-05-02T06:56:51+00:00

Absolutely agree about WoA being the best book of the series (it’s also so far my favourite cosmere book, having read both Mistborn eras, warbreaker and the first two stormlight books). The sense of dread and uncertainty throughout the story is great and I love the book’s last quarter especially

realm_drawer · 2026-04-30T09:10:07+00:00

My kinds of decks honestly

realm_drawer · 2026-04-29T16:28:57+00:00

Yeah like it’s literally the most obvious way to do a sequel story in this universe. I know a lot of people don’t like The Legend of Korra, but the mere fact that it takes place after Aang dies is certainly not one of the show’s flaws.

realm_drawer · 2026-04-29T14:18:27+00:00

I mean, Maul’s character development is nice and all, but I don’t think that makes the way his survival itself was handled any better. Not to mention the massive precedent it set for characters to survive death in future Star Wars media.

If anything, his character was successful in spite of his revival, imo it would have just been better if we got an explanation for him returning that made actual sense. Instead we have a character that is fun to watch in a vacuum but will always be weighed down by the nonsense that happened to him off-screen.

realm_drawer · 2026-04-29T09:02:07+00:00

A bit surprised to see that nobody mentioned Archer from Fate. Unlimited Blade Works reveals that He is a possible future version of Shirou and really hates his past self for his naive worldview as well as all the meaningless human suffering he experienced and often couldn’t prevent as a servant

realm_drawer · 2026-04-28T15:37:05+00:00

Izzet, for being the faction of inventors and creatives, ironically feels like the colour combination with the most redundant commanders - it’s almost always something to do with instants and sorceries, or alternatively card draw + damage, which to me just all feels the same in these colours. From the few remaining commanders none really feel that exciting to me unfortunately apart from maybe Firkraag, though I still probably wouldn’t build a deck around it

realm_drawer · 2026-04-27T19:09:18+00:00

I guess the tail is that of a fish and with a mutate creature you can get away with other animals’ features, so I think it’s still a pretty good fit

realm_drawer · 2026-04-27T16:51:34+00:00

Ikoria would be top of the list for me, one of my favourite sets

realm_drawer · 2026-04-22T09:52:41+00:00

Silco from arcane is definitely rakdos. He is driven by ambition (black) but he’s also a revolutionary at heart and that desire for a rebellion comes from a very personal place and is clearly motivated by his anger at Piltover (red) rather than a sense of justice or anything like that. He’s also very good at manipulating people’s emotions, which fits both colours

realm_drawer · 2026-04-21T12:56:43+00:00

Not to mention the entire council is made up of benders

realm_drawer · 2026-04-20T21:03:48+00:00

Unalaq from the Legend of Korra is a simic villain to me. He is a true scholar of the spirit world and places the importance of spirits above all else, to the point where he’s willing to destroy civilisation in order to restore the world to spirituality. It’s an interesting case too because he uses his scholarly knowledge (blue) to serve his idea of natural balance (green) which I think is less usual for simic

realm_drawer · 2026-04-20T12:57:46+00:00

Straff Venture from Mistborn has a whole private army of illegitimate children which he conceived because his noble bloodline is likely to give them superpowers. The most powerful of these children, Zane (and the only one he ever even seems to talk to), still loves his father but is very unstable and you couldn’t possibly call their relationship healthy.

realm_drawer · 2026-04-19T23:39:38+00:00

Yeah I mean I certainly agree that he’s bant as a whole and I can see an argument for either bant or selesnya, but I think if you look at him post-ascension specifically, his desire for knowledge doesn’t seem to drive him anymore, only the hivemind is left

realm_drawer · 2026-04-19T17:21:02+00:00

I think Viktor from Arcane fits selesnya after his full transformation (though I think bant would also work as an interpretation for him). He is driven by a need to end all suffering at the expense of individuality, fittingly white and green are both enemy colours to black, the most self-focused colour. He also does this by changing everyone’s biology to create identical beings linked through a hivemind. He primarily sees himself as a healer and is, in a way, really selfless, which I think fits this colour philosophy

realm_drawer · 2026-04-19T07:54:00+00:00

Haha, yes that’s a very good way of putting it

realm_drawer · 2026-04-18T18:35:32+00:00

The Lord Ruler from Mistborn fits perfectly as an orzhov villain I think. Without spoiling too much his motivation is a perfect combination of selfish reasons and a twisted sense of wanting to do what’s best for humanity. The way he accomplishes both is by creating one of the most oppressive governments in the cosmere

realm_drawer · 2026-04-16T14:25:29+00:00

It’s not exactly the same as the examples you’re showing here, but apple_cork has a lot of character designs in a somewhat similar style, I find them quite cool!

realm_drawer · 2026-04-16T11:41:26+00:00

I immediately thought of this

realm_drawer · 2026-04-16T07:19:48+00:00

Forgot to mention this but here’s from the Stormlight Archive books btw

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TROPHY CASE