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After mentioning this on one of @tinotika-arts posts, I realize I've never fully showcased the sheer insanity I've done in making so many Alts of Novus Angellite.

There used to actually be more, but they were removed in favor of other OCs or cosplay alts instead without buying more character slots. Most of them have some cipher variation of Novus's name, others have silly names (ex. Time Loop Prisoner is the Key Farmer, and One Man Raid Squad because HOW was that name available when the game was over 10 years old when I tested it?)

I have two more on my Alt account and I have a human variation on this one that wasn't included in the shot.

It started as me just wanting to try different classes, but not wanting to make a brand new OC from it, or not able to think of a pre-existing OC for the class. Then it just got a little crazy.

There's at least 1 Novus for every one of the 9 base classes, and several extra mesmers.

Bonus: There's at least 1 alt Novus on a friend's account.

Total, I think there are 17 Novus Angellites in the Tyrian Timelines. Some have lore. Most do not.

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On one hand, lag spikes are horrible.

On the other hand, lag spikes are hilarious!

'hey why is nothing happeni--'

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Local old man and cat cheat at boat race. (turns out passengers get credit)

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Congrats to Engie on FINALLY getting magic.

RIP to everyone's nice carpets...

I've already set my own silly headcanon up that Kaushue becomes an Amalgam because of all the stuff he eats off the ground across the past decade and a bit finally catching up to him via eating the ooze that decides 'mmm, host body now'. Silly cat can't figure out how to stop turning into a liquid and ruining the upholstery.

Novus belongs to @thornandshield

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The servers brought out the avian side of Novus today... (Featuring the wonderfully talented @icebrooding as my guest!)

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"I am Fire! I am War! WHAT ARE YOU?!"

"Still standing!"

I have been wanting to draw this since the day I first defeated Balthazar in Guild Wars 2, but I never had the confidence in my skills to pull it off. It's been a journey of re-learning to love myself, my art, and to say "It's okay if you don't get it done right the first time. You can do it again later."

Who knows, we may revisit this again in a few years, now that it's finally out!

A lot of HC heavy things here, such as the wound Balthazar being inflicted upon Novus being filled with Necrotic energies, as he's still on the mend from returning to the land of the living. Sohothan having pink fire for the Mesmer magic flowing through it. And of course the outfit I'd chosen for Novus's time in Elona being partially burned away from the combat.

I am so happy it's finally done!

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My friend Novus at @thornandshield told me that the Inquest are about to become relevant again after... I don't know how long? So even though I haven't played for almost three years now I kinda had to make this.

Many thanks to Novus for giving me some story screencaps to work with. :)

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how we feeling trahearne gang

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The cope finally paid off somewhere!

Now excuse me while this ends up being the ONLY utility I use in this specialization and end up on everyone's block list!

Your art is amazing as always! It was already a bright start to my morning waking up to see this and now it just got even better that it ended up being canon!

(Still admire that you pulled off the instrument so well holy moly)

Turns out the image I drew for @thornandshield the other day is literally canon! Serenades the beloved Marshal with tales of his own heroics (he deserves it!!)

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Attempt #2 to upload a classic clip because tumblr ate it the first time. I miss the old raid days.

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The Moa Population will never be the same...

After a few weeks of intense grinding, finally I have this one dang part of the leggy backpack done! This was actually pretty fun, because we (me and @/thornandshield) farmed out pretty much every ingredient ourselves, while also receiving blessed donations from @/eparch and another wonderful guildie ;w;!

The power of stinginess and being stubborn as all hell

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If a sylvari discovered sex by doing it for the first time in their species' history, did they have to airdrop their sextape to the dream for other sylvaris to learn ?

Anon I want you to know this was the first thing I saw when I woke up the other day and it kept turning in my brain like a rotisserie chicken.

I have actually written a very silly fic based on how the sylvari race learned about sex, and now thanks to this ask all I can think is

Bonus: Cadeyrn being instantly traumatised the moment he awakens from the Dream (vaguely NSFW)

Straight up having war flashbacks because he learned things in the Dream about Trahearne that he's not really sure he wanted to know.

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some little doodles of two of my favourite malyck ships =v=

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The Marshal's beloved cat =w=

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i think bangar ruinbringer should have had promotional material including dolls of bangar. so the cubs could do what babies do with barbies. which is strip them of all their clothes and smash their faces together

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My cat has the zoomies...

(Graphics have been broken and hilarious for myself and @icebrooding since the last update)

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it's been a very hot minute since i last tried to draw him all messed up by plant grandpa, so i'm trying to... figure out some way to draw his face first of all lmao