#lethan for pride month...

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[minuanobolt]

Happy Pride Month from them !! 🏳️‍🌈👨‍❤️‍👨👬

[kroashent]

Pride of Alvez '23 - Heroes of the Past

Kroashent is intended to explore the themes of acceptance, identity and love that Pride represents, and I hope that you come to love these characters as much as I do. I plan on doing a few for this set over the next month, sharing the different identities of Alvez, and of course, our own world. 

Happy Pride from Muldumarec and the rest of the Kroashent cast (and of course from Val as well!).  Neutral acknowledgement from Talus. Stay proud, stay strong and stay seen!

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Val's Notes: I actually drew this one a year or two ago, but never got a chance to finish/post it (Hence the slight differences in style and composition).  I've briefly introduced Muldumarec before, while this is the debut of Talus, the Man of Iron.  I hope to draw more of them and their allies in the future though.

The Alliance of the Brekilien were a group of adventurers roughly 800 years before Kathalia's time, and while they do not appear in the present-day, their presence is continually felt by the main cast, and they are known as legendary heroes of times past.

Muldumarec Artegall, AKA the Goshawk Knight, was the Princet of Cleopolis, an Eladan City-State in the Fortunate Isles, and Leader of the Knights of Maidenhead, a Knightly Order of the Sidhe.  Seeking adventure, they set out for the continent as a knight errant, coming into conflict with the Lethan warlord Conomor.  Muldumarec positioned themself in opposition to the Black Dog, becoming his primary adversary.

Talus, the Man of Iron, is the precursor of the Brassguard, complex automata that are found across Alvez.  Signficantly more powerful and complex than these later creations, they appear singleminded in their actions, but act according to their own unique agency, unlike those that follow them.  They serve as Muldumarec's companion, for reasons no one can quite figure out, as the flamboyant, passionate Muldumarec and the taciturn, calculating Talus seem like odd friends, which the former insists they are.

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Deep cut notes: Muldumarec is inspired by a combination of two sources. Firstly, Edmund Spenser's the Fairie Queene, a 1590 epic poem that somehow manages to play the tropes of Courtly Love and Knights in Shining Armor completely straight, and yet surprisingly innovative and subversive for the time, with female warriors kicking ass, non-traditional romantic relationships and robot superheroes (Again, this is 1590).

The other inspiration is the Lai of Yonec by Marie de France, a Medieval poem about a princess and a shapeshifting knight that starts as Rapunzel and ends as a revenge plot. Its pretty amazing, and, together with a few others of Marie's works, is a foundational part of Kroashent. The Knight, Muldumarec, is a fae shapeshifter, who at one point very casually takes the Princess's form and place to prove they are not a demon. So, when developing Muldumarec for Kroashent, it seemed a good fit for the character to have that same casual fluidity.

Talus is another character borrowed from Spenser, because there was no way I was going to find out about a Renaissance Vigilante Robot superhero and not make use of that. Talus is a mechanical man, the companion of Sir Artegall, and the embodiment of untempered justice. While Artegall represents Justice balanced with human empathy, Talus is Justice in its purest, coldest form. Its a pretty intriguing allegory that just happens to read like a medieval Justice League.

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More Kroashent Pride:

Alptraum: https://www.tumblr.com/kroashent/719492538159988736/pride-of-alvez-23-ace-inventor-kroashent-is?source=share

Marie deCygne and Morgiana: https://www.tumblr.com/kroashent/719679929331204096/pride-of-alvez-23-song-and-dance-kroashent-is?source=share

Kathalia Bisclavret and Gwae: https://www.tumblr.com/kroashent/720040226101313536/pride-of-alvez-23-gwaethalia-kroashent-is?source=share