Cadell and Vorell sneak off in the night for some privacy.
Cadell mine
Vorell is Necro's <3
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Pred that doesn’t want to eat you but might by accident, like you were a bug in a salad. If they knew u were there they would think it’s gross and wouldn’t eat you, but it might happen anyway
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Photo credit: Martin Vorel
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“The brain’s genius is its gift for reflection. What an odd, ruminating, noisy, self-interrupting conversation we conduct with ourselves from birth to death. That monologue often seems like a barrier between us and our neighbors and loved ones, but actually it unites us at a fundamental level, as nothing else can.”
Diane Ackerman weaves a rousing narrative of our mind as it relates to the thing “shaped a little like a loaf of French country bread”: our brain.
[The Sun Magazine]
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The Dragon God of Renewal, Vorel
Vorel, my dragon world's god of renewal and new life, son of Io resurrected by Tiamat, patron saint of whelps!
Anyway, here's some more context, and maybe a story:
Sometimes on Twitter I'll write little dragon scenarios and worldbuilding that I can't seem to draw out at my glacial pace, nor get commissioned with my light wallet. I notice Easter comes around and I want to do one related to it, but I feel it awkward doing Easter in a world which while the holiday is based in Christianity, the world has tangible gods. These tangible gods I basically ripped off the ones from DnD (Io, then Bahamut and Tiamat), and gave my own spin on them. This is where I find a blurb that says that Vorel was Io's creation earlier than Bahamut and Tiamat, more innocent than the two but still loved by Io all the same. Indeed, just as it is there, the feud between Bahamut and Tiamat builds because of the latter's jealousy over the former giving so much love and attention towards Vorel, and just the same Tiamat kills Vorel and frames Bahamut, but Io knows all and banishes her. Just the same, this starts many years of rift and history between Tiamat's chromatic dragon army and that of Bahamut's metallics.
Here is where D&D and I converge: Fast forward to the waning days of the medieval era. Many wars, famine, strife, and glory not only of dragons but of many races later; but now the Black Death has come and ravaged the medieval population all over. Tensions between dragons and humans already strained, for the next couple of centuries humans would start hunting down dragons in a fever pitch, metallic and chromatic alike. Indeed, a weary Tiamat, her cunning and evil worn down by the changing times, does what she previously thought unthinkable; go to Io's temple and ask for his and Bahamut's forgiveness in one last desperate gambit, knowing full well that she had done too much over the many ages to warrant it. However, Io and Bahamut are more than forgiving, the latter willing to open his heart back up even to the most intense of rivals. Bahamut and Tiamat embrace, and Vorel's ghost appears to them; he also embraces the dragons and especially Tiamat. Vorel then offers to be resurrected as an egg as a token of his forgiveness, and Tiamat, though unfamiliar with feelings of love and motherhood, accepts. The desperate gambit is a success: Bahamut and Tiamat create a new distant world along with Io, with many diverse landscapes, double the size of Earth, and several smaller moons.
Once they get to the new world, Tiamat lays the egg, and sometime later, Vorel hatches anew and begins his second chance at life. This signals a fresh start for both Tiamat and Vorel, and of dragons as a whole; distinction between chromatic and metallic becomes blurred, and both types live together, beget each other, and enjoy their company (of course, some factions that resent this union will exist, but that's another story for another time). Indeed, she raises him as her son, learning how to love and how to be a mother. And they visit Bahamut, and even Io, a lot, too!
Vorel, being a dragon god, focuses on renewal and of new life, as well as being a patron saint of childhood too; many holidays that celebrate these concepts he loves to celebrate as well, and involve stories involving him and the elder dragon gods. Some say his adoration for bunnies is the source of the dragon world's concept of Easter, or in some places within known as "Voreltide". While his scales are light blue and silver, they give off a bit of a rainbow sheen; his pupils, horns, footpads, sails of his wings, etc. shine with each known color and possible dragon color; the tailtip is diamond on one side, spade/heart on another, club on another, signifying the possible tailtips dragons can have. Dragon gods have a special birthmark which can sometimes be hard to see, but is prominent somewhere on his body; Vorel's is of a dragon's egg right by the base of his tail. While he's been alive for several hundred dragon years (also as long as the dragon world has been around), he maintains an innocent and childlike mindset, and very rarely seen outside of a whelp form.
So of course, it's very hard to translate all of this when you're working with colored pencils, but I hope this does it well enough. Hope you enjoy!
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Lemon tree!!! #twbd #therewillbedungeons #dragonnash #nash #vorel #stanleybillings #hope #dnd (at Fleetwood, Surrey, B.C. Canada) https://www.instagram.com/p/ChEVLKuOFuX/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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Necro linked me this vid : https://youtu.be/AHB071sYAwg
All I could think about was these two. :)
Vorell rocking it, Cadell not so much
Vorell is Necro's
Cadell is mine
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I have two commander decks. One is blue-green, led by Vorel of the Hull Clade, and focused around building up as many +1/+1 counters as possible on a single evasive creature. I love it on a philosophical level because all the art and flavor text is about the freedom and power of bodily transformation and, as a trans woman in the early stages of feminizing my body through hormones, I jive with that.
The other is a white-green, led by Sythis, Harvest's Hand, and focused around buffing creatures with auras, with a sub-theme of token generation. I love it on an aesthetic level because all the art is of elves and dryads and lady-knights, with a sprinkling of cute fey creatures, and it's all very lush and cottage core and divine-feminine, so basically my transition-goal mood-board as a commander deck.
I told all of this to a friend from my commander pod as I tried to decide which one to bring to our next game night, and after I got through all that florid description, he asked me, "Well, which one is better?" And that's when I had to admit that, in terms of actually winning the game, they're both utter shit.
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Biomass Mutation
"A regression to ancient forms? A glimpse of future evolutions? Or a fleeting alteration of the present?" —Vorel of the Hull Clade
Artist: Dan Scott
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