#lightning mage

[somethingwickedarts]

Commission of Helaena, a Baldur’s Gate 3 OC who stirs hearts as easily as she stirs a pot—equal parts tenderness, thunder, and spice.

She’s the kind of woman who will feed you soup with a smile and strike down your enemies with lightning in the same breath.

Thank you to the commissioner for the joy of illustrating such a radiant soul.

(Please do not use without permission.)

[jiyura]

Name: Luana

Age: 36

Height: 5'8

Gender: female

Magic: Lightning

Familiar: thunder bird

Family: Helgrath(brother)

Affiliation: Alder Berry School

Occupation: teacher

Luana is the teacher of the students in year 1 at Alder Berry! She uses lightning magic.

[trashmancer]

I said, oh girl Shock me like an electric eel Babygirl Babygale Turn me on with your electric feel

[acquired-stardust]

Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow over Mystara Arcade 1996

[galaxymagitech]

Every hug in Batman & The Outsiders

(Excluding the “holding an injured person in their arms” moments because those are too depressing.)

It may be only 6, but 6 hugs in 17 comics isn’t at all bad, considering this isn’t WFA!

I especially loved how adorable Cass and Duke were in this.

[catcherwrites]

The first batch of my Arc 3 concept designs are finally done! It felt fitting to begin with the three who started it all: Rayla, Callum, and Ezran

Check out the more in-depth story and design choices below

Rayla

Story Choices

In the wake of S7’s Finale, Azymondias wasn’t just a 2-year-old King of the Dragons, but the only surviving Archdragon. That means he’s a very important figure across Xadia and the Human Kingdoms – and needs to be protected. Shortly after the events of S7, Rayla reclaims her title as ‘The Last Dragonguard’ and resurrects the order to act as Zym’s attendants, advisors, and protectors. She’s spent the last few years travelling between the Storm Spire, the Silvergrove, and Evrkynd, helping where she can and leading her fellow guards (who may be revealed in a later post). Rayla’s relationship with Callum has grown stronger than ever. Even though they’re holding off on marriage until Aaravos is dealt with for good, Callum gives her the Xadian equivalent of a promise ring he handcrafted (Ethari helped). With them both feeling secure with each other, they are more comfortable with being separated…but that won’t stop them from being attached at the hip whenever they’re near each other.

Design Choices

Going into these Arc 3 designs, I had a much clearer image in my head of Rayla compared to the other characters in my lineup. Using reference images of Tiadrin and Lain made creating Rayla’s Dragonguard uniform feel very bittersweet. Unfortunately, from a creative standpoint, uniforms run the chance of limiting the personality in a character’s design. I tried offsetting this by making Rayla’s undershirt and embedded gemstones in her armour more Silvergrove-y than Dragonguard-y. I also kept Rayla’s iconic belt, Arc 2 colour scheme, and added some of Ethari’s swirls where possible. Beyond the uniform, I kept going back and forth about her hairstyle. Keep the Arc 2 bun? Return to Arc 1’s style? Braided? A simple ponytail? Eventually, I settled on a half-up braid that let my sleep-deprived brain think I was getting the best of both worlds.

Callum

Story Choices

Ezran was disappointed when Callum turned down being his High Mage again, fearing that he’d lose his brother’s support in the council room. In reality, stepping down as High Mage meant that Callum could step up as Crown Prince. In the years following S7, Callum splits his time between assisting Ezran and studying magic on expeditions across Xadia. One of those expeditions leads him to Aaravos’ book in Elarion, which helps him delve deeper into the other primal sources. He’s fully mastered Sky and Ocean magic and has grown incredibly proficient at Earth magic. To Callum’s dismay, even with the help of Lujanne, Ethari, and Aaravos’ book, he still isn’t clicking with the Moon arcanum. He also hasn’t fully unlocked the Sun arcanum, but he’s getting very close and is a strong fire mage when wielding the Staff of Ziard. By Arc 3, Callum has gained the title of Archmage – and people far and wide seek him out for magical assistance, leaving him overworked and exhausted.

Design Choices

I was very excited to come up with Callum’s Arc 3 design for one reason: the parallels. His Arc 2 outfit is meant to resemble Viren, as Callum had taken his place as the High Mage of Katolis. But because he is no longer ‘High Mage,’ and instead ‘Archmage’, Callum’s Arc 3 outfit is intended to reflect Aaravos. I tried to do this with his uncovered arms, the open coat, and the vaguely celestial elements on his tunic. The geometric pattern on Callum’s coat is meant to look like a feather (symbolising his first primal source) while in the style of his Arc 2 coat. Rayla gifted Callum a matching belt buckle to hers (though with a moon opal for emergencies), which he wears alongside his uneven towers buckle from Ezran. His hair is mostly the same, except slightly longer, because I don’t see overworked-mage Callum caring about his hairstyle.

Ezran

Story Choices

S7 was a massive tipping point for Ezran: losing his brother, his true heart, and almost losing himself to the cycle of violence. While he stopped before he could go too far, Ezran was unequivocally changed by what happened. After Aaravos’ defeat, Ezran has been overseeing Evrkynd’s construction, ensuring it’s a safe home for humans and Sunfire elves who lost their home. However, it is also open to anyone, regardless of their origin. While he and Queens Janai and Amaya decided the people would rule the city of Evrkynd, Ezran continues to rule wider Katolis alongside his council. He does spend most of his time in Evrkynd for his royal duties, but Ezran is learning to take breaks – occasionally joining Callum, Rayla, and Zym on small getaways. As is tradition for anyone in the royal family, Ezran began combat training in his mid-teens with Soren as his teacher. He’s grown quite good and can hold his own in a battle (long enough for his Crownguard come to his aid, at least).

Design Choices

Ezran’s design in TDP has always been one of the simplest ones, probably symbolising his humble personality despite his status. I tried to maintain that effect in his Arc 3 outfit but with one major alteration. Going into this design, I wanted Ezran’s struggle in S7 to have had a visible impact on him by including armour in his design. His outer tunic is now gambeson, and his shoulder pads are scuffed-up leather. If he decides to wear it, the gold studs on Ezran’s shoulders are where his cloak will latch on. As should be expected from an age jump this severe, the biggest change to Ezran was his build. He’s finally overtaken his brother in height, much to the dismay of both Callum and Rayla, and is expected to be as tall as Harrow when he’s finished growing.

[croxot]

Is this still funny?

[thedeadthree]

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[elgarabelas]

After such a long break from drawing anything i present u yet another wip :)

[nucleon-artistry]

Made from a crystalline lattice made from quartz crystals, both charged with Aer vis, and of neutral charge, all imbued with an effective conducting agent. The Wand Focus: Shock has seen increased usage as thaumaturgy is increasingly blended with or come into contact with electrical components. Though initially made for combat, this focus is also used to convert vis power (albeit rather inefficiently) into electrical energy. The shock focus remained niche for a long time, but recent encounters with electronic equipped foes has caused rethinking of its employment in battle and further exploration into its utility. Its conductive effects can wreck havoc on electronic components or against foes wearing heavier metal armor. Specially trained Mage-lances, or Phonetix musketeer-sappers will employ this focus against armored targets, vehicles, or emplacements to devastating effect. -The Wand Focus: Frost can be enhanced down two primary paths, focusing the rather meek short burst of electricity it would normally produce, that in itself is not very powerful (but very painful) into more dangerous bursts or sustained damage.

-Chain: The first step down this path imbues bolts with extra perditio, losing the lightning's accuracy, but resulting in a more chaotic sparking effect between different nearby targets. This can easily cause groups, cavalry, or those inside vehicles to turn to painful disorganized messes that are much easier for allies to deal with, though there have been numerous reports of improperly calibrated foci or improper spacing to chain back into their own lines or even striking themselves.

-Lightning Bolt: Further developments into the shock focus have lead to a balancing agent being added to the crystal matrices to allow for ordo to flow through the focus as well to great effect. Not only does it stabilize the electrical flow of the bolt structure, but also increases its range significantly to even compare to Wand Focus: Frost in its capabilities. Though, this has also significantly decreased its rate of fire, increased vis cost, and has had the side effect of being near deafening for users and those nearby. -Channel: On the other end of the spectrum, a different line of thinking led to the development of the 'Channel' infusion, which generates an extreme electrical field around the user, to where nearly anything passing into the field threatens to be struck with continuous fire from the foci. Its usage is fairly uncommon due to risk of friendly fire and making it's user an obvious target, though for skirmishes or lone mages it serves as an effective means of dissuading melee combatants or being surrounded. -Lightning Ball: What prevented the viability of the Channel enhancement as that it required a largely stationary user, and close proximity to it's opponents. This led to the development of Lightning Ball, where a healthy dose of Ordo vis to stabilize the process allows for this orb orb of electrical potential to be released and sent down range (albeit slowly) to strike at anything it comes in contact with until expending its vis reserves or having its center colliding (which would unleash any remaining energy directly into the object it collides with). This enhancement has seen limited testing on the battlefield, and while it pales in comparison to Lightning Bolt's pinpoint usability, is generally liked as a crowd control measure and is light on wand wear and tear compared to other foci enhancements. Other enhancements include -Potency, which increases the electrical potential of its focus and therefore deadliness at increasing vis costs per level of potency applied. -Efficiency, which increases the flow-rate and channeling abilities of the foci allowing it to attack with less vis consumption, and slightly lower cooldowns per level of potency applied. -Enlarge, which will either further destabilize a chain lightning enhancement's bolt (allowing for it to flow more freely and strike more targets), or increase the radius of the electrical field of the Channel enhancement.

[longelk]

Amber and James Cobb, i lobe them so so so so so so much. brain rot so real

two of them

[raccoon-crown]

DREAM LAND AU: The three Mage Siblings [FULL CHART]

Yeah, here ya have the full chart to compare this little guys and also there is the Jambastion logo for this AU where Starline goes by Hypnoss.

Each one origin Post are here:

FROST (Kitsunami story and details)

SURGE story

ZERO (Infinite story)

And also some Head Canons of the siblings:

Around the time Hypnoss was "recruiting" them, Jambastion was hidden in some place of Pop Star (Kirby's) Planet.

In this story, Hypnoss didn't pay attention to JambaHearts cause he thought that it used to be just a local legend, instead he focused on stardust uses and the creation of beings merged with elemental crystals, ya can read his twisted plans here.

Frost (Kitsunami) was the first one to become a elemental one, but it's the one with the most affected memories since Hypnoss used him to practice his hypnotizing habilities, what made him more dependent of Surge and Hypnoss.

Frost in the beginning wasn't blue at all, he used to have grey furr.

Surge kept her name but has a lot of loopholes in her memory, not that she cares cause she hates to remember the past.

Surge has a lightning mark in her chest that got covered in melon furr thanks to the "accident" she had before becoming an elemental.

Zero does remember seeing Dark Meta Shadow destroying his hometown, but barely also recalls another silhouette going around. (Meta Sonic)

Zero got the scratch from hunting a bunny beast the night of the accident, not by getting into the flames in town, that's why becoming and elemental didn't change a thing.

Nor of them wear shoes due their elementary powers, having hands and feet mostly uncovered helps them channel their powers better.

They are almost as powerful as a star guardian, however, since they were reborn of the ashes of the stars (stardust) they powers rely upon the fake star shards inside them (that's what their Elemental Crystals actually are) so they are more stamina limited that even a corrupted guardian like Meta Sonic and obviously less durable than Kirby Amy.

Thanks to said crystals growing inside, their eyes glow in the dark.

I know it's obvious, but Zero controls fire, Surge thunder and Frost Ice.

They have the same weapons as their homologous in Kirby's OG games

It also means that Frost got an Francisca Axe, Zero a Flamberge sword and Surge a Partizan spear.

In their relationship, since they're only related due the Stardust crystalization, they're not really siblings (neither the OG sisters were related by blood) but they got their own bonds thanks to their own support and a little mental manipulation from Hypnoss, but hey they used to have nothing and being almost dead, so that's the only semi good thing Hypnoss may have done (Maybe?)

Also, the stardust experiments are making Hypnoss mad little by little due their corrupted power on fully living beings.

It will get worse once he involves with the JambaHearts

[oldschoolfrp]

Darkover: The Ages of Chaos, a game of psychic conflict -- "On a beautiful alien world, a race of telepathic humans control elemental energies which can destroy their planet" (Eon, 1979; with Michael Whelan box art)

[revvethasmythh]

🔥 for dragon age!

honestly i think the mage-templar war is uniquely stupid and simply cannot take it seriously. if we were going to have a discussion about oppression, centering the elves would genuinely have been a better way to do it than putting SO much emphasis on mages because *taliesin jaffe voice* it's a broken metaphor! everyone can agree that the circles go too far and the way the templars operate is wrong, but when you establish a group of people that can and DO become possessed with comparative ease that then slaughter large groups of innocents and/or just are people with the capability to enact far greater violence than your average person with only the power of their mind, you are not creating a great environment to explore the topic of oppression in any meaningful way. the system requires heavy reformation, but circles are not inherently bad ideas and the skills used by the templar order are probably very good things to be maintained in the event of a possession, which is genuine threat

[quotelr]

When listening to the lightning storms in your area on a standard AM radio, you will hear a sound like bacon frying and this is the electromagnetic energy that the storm is generating. Plants react to this energy and may show vigorous growth during lightning seasons.

Steven Magee, Electrical Forensics

[trashwithvariety]

some recent shots because I thought they were cool