#ithilrin starfall

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maum0raart over on twitter did a lovely commission of my girl Ithilrin Starfall, I'm beyond delighted!

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I got to draw @/sniperct 's beautiful OC Ithilrin Starfall!

I'll try to remember to record more timelapses of my art process!

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Ithilrin Starfall, Chosen of the Moon

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Moon Temple

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I don't think the wine meets Rin's approval

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@/yuksiiis over on the birb app did a lovely rendition of Ithilrin for me, I'm starry eyed! She's so glowy!

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Grey Havens

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Some of Rin's video game forms.

First, Black Desert, which I used as her original reference for comms.

Lord of the Rings Online, Baldur's Gate 3 and Diablo 4. And FF14.

LOTRO is very limited in how I wanted her to look, but that should change when the update the elvish models.

Its surprisingly difficult to get the right look for a character I would cast a pacific islander actor like Shushila Takao to play.

In WoW, I leaned heavily into the moon aspect of her, in large part because playing around with various skin and hair combos none of them looked good lol

I plan to roll her in ESO eventually, and she'll be my Rook in DA4.

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A slightly spicey Rin I got awhile ago from NeebulaArt over on the birb app

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Ithilrin Starfall

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Got a nice sketch ko-fi comm over on Bluesky from @beatorichie.bsky.social and Ithilrin looks so lovely here! She's still doing them if anyone wants to check it out.

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hullo! I suppose I've just been curious about Ithilrin, your elf OC. How did she get started? What universe(s?) is she a part of?

So for years my wife and I have taken our LOTRO characters and played and RP'd with them in various AUs and universes before we started to write something original with them (in a sort of technomagic type setting with fae, elves and humans(there's a human city that's more advanced in tech and certain kinds of magics, while the fae courts are high magic with some tech, and the elves are more like wood elves and traditionally naturey. But are related to fae. There are also dark fae which play an important role), along with air aspected dwarves). These are elves and rangers and regular folks who all kind of became interconnected over time playing the game and writing them.

And as we were writing some of this in that setting she just kind of popped into my head and announced her existence as the younger sister of two of our elves (granted she's still many thousands of years old, 8200 in LOTRO, 2800 in the original setting)). She ended up filling in some key missing bits in their backstory and is now firmly one of my favorite OCs. Everything tends to revolve around her siblings and her (and their immediate circle which ended up with several polycules)

So was easily backfilled into LOTRO and quickly spread to other MMOs I play lol this got long. But her most filled out settings are LOTR and the original universe. I don't actually play her in FF14 but she's a viera there, I did roll her up.

In the original setting (which is super self-indulgent ngl) she was presumed to be dead for a few thousand years, due to being run through by her father but had been revived from near death and working with a group that was uh, they do a kind of ritualistic sex work. Magic that improves the harvest and the planting, and also a lot of general therapy type stuff. (in hindsight, the companions from firefly and Inara in particular may have played a subconscious role in developing Rin).

Because of that and assorted past trauma's she's a champion of consent/safe words, and a very do-what-you-want-but-don't-harm-others kind of person.

In most settings she's a noble at best (in LOTRO she's the High Elf race, specifically a Noldor from Valinor. High Elves in LOTR are those that saw the light of the trees).

In the original setting she and her siblings are the heirs to the Lunar court and also aspects of assorted concepts and gods. Her brother is the chosen of war, her sister is death, and she's chosen of the moon. Chosen in this universe act as both high priestesses and also vessels of their goddess(sun/moon/various seasons, etc) and will all eventually replace their goddesses by taking their power into themselves, but as themselves rather than being deities themselves.

So right now she's the Queen. Her brother is older but he married the Sun chosen so is king there now. Her sister was removed from the line of succssion. I could go into all the other characters (like the mermaid pirate captains and the messengers called the Crows and Lomea the Queen of the summer court who long time followers may have seen in other forms ;) Or Rin's brother in law who has the gift of seeing the past clearly.

And then there's the heir to the abyss who's mother is the mother of monsters and rules over the city that is the last safe place for the dark fae and adheres to darkness doesn't necessarily mean evil)

So they need to replace their gods and then kill God himself because he keeps 'restarting' time since nothing goes right and there's always darkness. So that'll be fun. Oh but first they have to kill their father, who's basically satan, three times as was foreseen. And then the fatesinger (this was before endwalker lmao) will speak and undo the world so they can sing in a new world, imperfect, but a world of their choosing. And darkness must exist for there to be light, etc etc. The mother of monsters is very invested in making sure there's room for her and her kind in this world. (and they have to kill god before remaking the world, or before he remakes it, of course)

(Illidan voice: I AM MY SCARS)

Her lover is an elf who's a wolf-spirit/shifter and said shifter's twin sister is also often involved, while also being with the Summer chosen maiden.

(My PFP is Ryscewen, aspect of Chaos, and one of the few who remembers the worlds that came before. (She started out as Fox in another original setting my wife created many years ago that we would like to also finish some day) her love is raven, who is the fatesinger who cannot speak because if she does it will kill those around her. Hence when she speaks it will end the world)

She became, in a way, a vessel for exploring darker and more taboo subjects

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My bard being a bisexual disaster, and also a snack.

+ bonus, her sister seducing the mage

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apparently didn't have any screenshots of her lusting over karlach either

do have wyll tho! they danced. Unfortunately there's some major spoilers in his uh..appearance lol