#pirates of Wefrivain

[lucrezianoin]

I'm reading three things at a time one after the other but they're so good, it's ridiculous, it's my little treat while I wait for the job reply after my interview

[bookshelfpassageway]

Silveo sent Farell and his captains outside to stand guard, then crouched near the floor and sniffed. He proceeded to work his way slowly around the room on hands and haunches. It was a very foxling thing to do—a very un-grishnard thing. He shot a glance at Gerard as though to say, “Not a word out of you.”

Gonna start trying to do some fan art for one of my favorite book series for each of its new weekly podcast releases. ...I probably should have picked a more dignified way to start this than the gay little animal digging in the dirt, but hey, gotta pick up somewhere, even if that somewhere is *checks notes* episode 7. Also, who am I kidding, this is tumblr, tumblr loves gay little animals digging in the dirt. Took about an hour and a half to draw. Check it out if you like: Funky secret maps, fancy little guys sniffing around, and griffins engaging in horrifying behavior. 

[alhilton]

My amazing fan Charlie Cote sent me Gerard and Silveo miniatures from Hero Forge 😃

[eggmoth]

Fanart of one of my favorite scenes in the book "Pirates of Wefrivain: The Scarlet Albatross" by Abigail Hilton.

You all should check out the books series it's underrated 👀

[ikrutt]

Tzu and Felbane from Pirates of Wefrivain by @alhilton. Just finished the The Cormorant and had to doodle the proud egg parents partners.

[corvithearti]

Hey look a bunch of sketches that I havn’t done anything with yet!

I have been pretty bad about uploading art here, and I’m determined to keep on top of it- and to do more!  I’d like 50 finished pieces this year, but I’m not sure IF I can do that.

Happy new year y’all!

[flashbic]

People who have read the whole Pirates of Wefrivain series and thus dare to look at the tag, please tell me SOMEONE has taken the “it’s fucken wimdy” meme and redrawn it with Silveo

[alhilton]

Oh, no worries at all; I knew what you meant. It's important to me that everyone who works on these books actually likes them and is having fun. If I was writing and publishing fast with tight deadlines, that would not be a reasonable thing to ask. But if you have time, you can actually build a team where everyone involved has read the books and enjoys them and is allowed to have some creative expression in their area of the project. I also have a day job that pays my bills and ensures that I don't have to lean on my art to feed me. I do need the books to cover their costs, and it's nice to get paid for my work, but I don't need them to make as much money as possible as fast as possible. I will have to check out Raksura! I loved Murder Bot, but it was my first exposure to Wells. It's also her most recent work, and I'm afraid her current skill-level spoiled me. I tried another of her series, but it felt like early, less polished story-telling and lost me. I will try Raksura and be patient. Come to think of it, you might think the same thing about Pirates, haha. That entire series was written after Book 1 of Hunters, but before any of the rest of the series. All of the A. H. Lee books were also written between Hunters Book 1 and the Hunters books that came later (which are my most recent work). I have never read CJ Cherryh. Where should one begin?

Xenofiction Fans: Read Hunters Unlucky

Xenofiction fandom is really stagnant--I think that as impressive as some of the like, warrior cats and wings of fire animations I've seen out there are really impressive I really wish there were other titles that came to the attention of so many talented and energetic people! There's so much creative xeno out there, from the older titles that inspired modern ones, to the modern ones geared more towards adults like Abigail Hilton's "Hunters Unlucky" universe.

i especially like the latter because of how fannish they are, in the BEST way possible. It's one of the coolest combinations of technical skill, lush creativity and the fannish self indulgence that make me really really happy. Its a xenofictional epic with fantasy species and dense with complicated feelings, relationships and emotional processes that are IN the text rather than extrapolated from.

I also have found these books in particular challenging because things aren't drawn in terms of heavy black and white, and the conflict of old generation vs younger ones and the million little well meaning steps that it takes to get to a miserable status quo is REALLY fascinating.

I will add that while the title novel and the follow up are friendly for all that these books are significantly more adult in terms of the themes and content discussed usually described in the genre, especially lately. They're also quite a bit more explicitly LGBT, but perhaps not in the way one might think reading that sentence.

This is a bit of a crap review tbh and I'd like to do something a bit more thought out but I have a lot of feelings and really want people to experience something new, challenging and ultimately really inspiring. I've been turning these stories over in my head like rotisserie chickens.

[lucrezianoin]

omg I modified one of the Gerard and Silveo heroforge figures.... I want to print it...

The original is not mine!!

I just modified the one found on Abigail Hilton's tumblr and changed some colors/poses/clothes!

[bookshelfpassageway]

The other day I was thinking about a Pirates of Wefrivain AU of one of my D&D characters, who I also happen to be playing in Baldur's Gate 3 right now.

...Which then led me to make a sudden and powerful realization about: White-haired silver-tongued fancy queer boys with a remarkable talent for murder, an indescribable amount of trauma, a penchant for seduction as a tool and a coping mechanism due to their attachment issues, and are at the start of their story being held under the thumb of a more powerful evil making them do horrible things (but you can fix them 👀). Also, the whole telepathic linking thing.

I think they would probably have a blast talking to each other, do each others' makeup, discover at least 5 new debaucheries within the hour, and then try to kill each other because that's way too much *waves vaguely* THIS happening in too small a space. Astarion is also going to quickly learn about the concept of "aposematism".

Also, maybe I wanted to draw the vampire in an absurd hat and zebra pants.

[alhilton]

Hi! I just want to start off by saying I adore your books! I don't think I was physically able to put the Cowry Catchers series down until I finished it. My current escape from reality is Hunters Unlucky :)

I'm curious about your perspective on fanworks, like fanfiction. I've encountered authors who prefer that people don’t write fanfiction of their characters without their direct consent (or at all) and I was wondering if you share a similar attitude.

Again, thank you for the wonderful worlds and characters you create! I hope you have a great day!

Thank you so much for your kind words :) Thank you for buying my books. I always think that fan works are a huge compliment, and I try to share fan art whenever I find it. Fan fiction is a little trickier. There are a lot of legal reasons not to interact with it. I sort of need to pretend like I can't see it. But I think it's a tremendous compliment and as long as you credit the source material and don't try to sell it, I am not going to be upset or send you takedown orders or anything. I'm happy for fans to share fan fiction and tag it and all that stuff. But I'm probably not going to comment on it directly in the same way that I comment on fan art. I suppose if I had enough people wanting to write fan fiction in my worlds, I could whip up a license or something, and then I would feel a little more comfortable interacting with it.

[liminal-librarian]

Has a little of this. The protagonist of one of the books is the 'author' of 'The Truth about Wyverns' an academic and political screed (banned within the empire ruled by Wyverns) and oft-quoted at chapter headings in several of the other books.

“Way too reliable narrator” where the narrator provides documentation and proof for how they know every detail in the narrative and an estimate of how confident they are in it.

[ikrutt]

The Pirates of Wefrivain

The gryphon Felbane and Tzu the bloodbat survey the area from the windswept cliffs. Another piece for Abigail Hilton (@alhilton), an illustration for a short story set late in the excellent Pirates of Wefrivain series.

This series is... something else. It’s an epic fantasy saga, but far from genre typical. It’s queer, it has xenofiction, pirate ships and airships, and is packed with interesting worlbuilding, nuanced characters and unexpected story arcs. It’s dark, heartwarming, funny, and enthralling.

It’s very dear to me. If Hunter’s Unlucky is my favourite novel, Pirates of Wefrivain is my favourite book series.

The author is working on a re-launch of the entire saga, previously known as The Guild of the Cowry Catchers. E-book and paper versions of all five books can be bought from the Zon here, or directly from the author here. If you prefer audio, I believe they’ll be available soon.

[corvithearti]

I was looking at some tags the other day and I would like to thank @karvolf for the BRILLIANT idea. Unmemed pic below.

[lucrezianoin]

I am having a lot of fun!!

[alhilton]

There is a little bit of Sairis and Roland fan art, but not much. It is kind of mysterious. K&N is my best-selling series, but Hunters Unlucky and Pirates of Wefrivain get far more fan art. Obviously I can be bribed with fan art, because I keep writing Hunters books. 😆

Thoroughly surprised there's like, 0 The Knight and the Necromancer fanart on this site.