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fun fact about me: i am constantly thinking about mcd xavier
he knew the divine but didn't become divine himself. he made the jury for irene and friends. his friends. he probably knew hyria. they probably grieved together when the divine warriors went away. like!!!!!!!!
he has no face! he is a suit of armor, and even that is a statue! we don't know what he looks like! he's so!!! i want to know more about him. i've made so much for this guy and i want to talk about it but then that would talk about a lot of spoiler stuff for my rewrite i'm constantly thinking about {whichever round of thinking this is}
i want to talk about him and hyria and the dw soso bad but i want the mystery. augh.
#aphblr#minecraft diaries#xavier minecraft diaries#aphmau xavier#xavier aphmau#i forget if its fandom first or not _| ̄|○ sad!
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UGH I FUCKING FINALLY FINISHED THIS
so yeah, have the divine warriors of the second war of the magi!!
more deets n closeups under the cut :3
aph!! i like to think that although the incarnations of the divine warriors r generally pretty similar, they do have some minor differences. for example, whereas the matron of the first war of the magi (irene) had one of the sets of wings on her head covering her eyes, the matron of the second war (mcd!aphmau) has both of them held back. this is bc whereas irene had lost her humanity (and therefore the ability to connect with mortals), aph hasn't - and, therefore, her eyes are open to the struggles of humanity. additionally, i took a lot of inspiration from honkai impact 3rd for these designs - in aph's case, i was inspired by elysia's herrscher of human: ego battlesuit and how it looks like a wedding dress (which a lot of folks have interpreted as an expression of her love for humanity, which is smth i want to convey w aph).
i think my favourite part of aaron's destroyer form is his seal (the thingy behind his head like a halo). i wanted to rlly play into the whole destroyer/devourer aspect of his abilities and domains, and i thought a black hole would fit perfectly! it also sort of (unintentionally) plays into how i see the dynamic between the matron and the destroyer and how they're both mirrors of each other; whereas the destroyer, well, destroys (and his black hole devours everything in sight), the matron creates and nurtures (seen in how aph's seal is almost like a white hole). i also wanted his armour to look a lot like the armour that shadow knights wear, albeit without all the spikes and spines and whatnot given that he isn't a shadow knight himself (shad's destroyer form from the first war probably looks a lot more similar to traditional shadow knight armour).
i'm lowkey suuper proud of how travis's keeper form turned out (even if i had to go back right at the end n fix it bc i forgot to add his tail 😭). i wanted this form to sort of be a mix between a high mage and a rogue: whereas the keeper embodies knowledge and magick, travis himself is a prankster who relies on cunning and trickery to gain the upper hand on his opponents. as a result, he's the only one who doesn't automatically manifest a weapon when he shifts into this form - instead, i feel like he chooses to rely more on magicks and witchcraft during combat.
katelyn's design was lowkey the hardest to pin down. originally, i wanted to go for something that was suuuper inspired by roman armour and had a copper and teal/turquoise colour scheme, but it wound up feeling too magical girl-ish and i scrapped it. i've retained the roman inspirations, but i headcanon that her flames are so hot they burn blue, so i settled on a blue-and-white colour scheme w some purple elements. i think my favourite part is her gauntlets! i feel like she uses them as an extension of herself/another pair of hands to punch with. the blue elements also lean into menphia's association with the moon - in ashes, ashes, tu'la is based on the roman empire and, as a result, is where werewolves originate from, and with werewolves having such close ties to the moon.... yeah. i'll probably do a post on tu'la later on at some point.
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garroth's design is probably the one that's changed the least, but i'll still need to update his ref sheet anyway. i don't know if i conveyed it very well but the sort-of wing-things on his back are slabs of earth that can be shaped into a shield - originally i had him holding a shield but i wanted him to look a bit more divine warrior-ish so i retooled his design.
the boy! i was tossing up between having vylad or dante fill the role of the wanderer, but i settled on dante as i feel like vylad fits better as a sort of weird guide sort of figure within the narrative. plus, i have a real soft spot for dante and wanted him to remain in the limelight a little bit - i love his dynamic with garroth and laurance and i wanted to explore that further. i sort of wanted to play into his whole red-and-blue colour scheme that we see in canon diaries, but bc kul'zak is a nature deity (specifically of the wilderness), i wanted to incorporate some greenery into his design. i hope i've done an okay-ish job here - overall i'm pretty happy tho, but i can't promise that there won't be any tweaks in the future.
this is a redhead laurance propaganda spreading blog and i Refuse to apologise for it. i'd like to think that laurance's original colour scheme is similar to his justiciar form - lots of beautiful reds and golds and oranges to match the flames of his father's forge - but after he comes back from the nether with a Severe fear of fire he switches to the greens and browns that he's known for in canon. eventually he slowly begins to reclaim his fire and returns to the golds and oranges that he's introduced with (haha colour symbolism go brrrrrr).
but yeah. the special interest is special interesting. let me know if u have any questions!
#aphblr#aphmau#minecraft diaries#aphverse#mcd#mcd rewrite#garroth ro'meave#garroth mcd#aphmau fanart#aphmau art#laurance zvahl#laurance mcd#katelyn the fire fist#katelyn the firefist#katelyn mcd#aphmau shalashaska#aphmau mcd#aaron lycan#aaron mcd#travis valkrum#travis mcd#dante mcd#divine warriors#irene the matron#shad the destroyer#enki the keeper#menphia the fury#esmund the protector#kul'zak the wanderer#xavier the admirer
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PART ONE of a MCD headshot page collection - DIVINE WARRIORS & CO., AND MAIN CAST. for rewrite reference and also enjoyment :3
#minecraft diaries#mcd#aphmau#irene the matron#kul'zac#shad#menphia the fury#except her name is NOT the fury in this rewrite also#demon warlock#enki mcd#hyria#xavier mcd#esmund the protector#laurance zvahl#garroth ro'meave#katelyn the firefist#mcd dante#aaron lycan#zane ro'meave
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ATTENTION FREAKS
Here are my Irene and Xavier designs <3
Aaaaaaand of course, headcanons and fun facts and stuff:
Irene:
Irene’s real name is Aphmau Shala’shaska. Irene is the name she uses in the public eye, to keep some sense of privacy.
She got her name from the Irena flower, a white and indigo flower that grows abundantly throughout the surrounding areas of Scaleswind. It’s best know for its medicinal properties, often used to heal cuts.
Kul’Zak was the one who suggested she come up with a knew name to use.
Aphmau’s grandmother, Sapphire, was cursed by a mage. The curse entails: Should your family ever bare twins, they shall be destined to bring upon death and destruction. They shall be destroy themselves, and neither good nor evil shall truly prevail in the end.
Sapphire’s daughter, Sylvanna, ending up having twins. They were named Aphmau and Raaph.
For fear of the curse, Aphmau was sent away to live with and be raised by a very powerful family friend, named Hyria. Hyria never told Aphmau about her real family, but she raised her as if she were her own, and she taught her everything she possessed could. Which was a lot given her hundreds of years of experience.
Aphmau was raised in the enchanted forest, trained to use her magicks from an early age. She was even taught about witchcraft by Hyria. When she was old enough, Hyria used enchanted ink to draw ruins on her so she could even learn how to actually use witchcraft.
Many people claim to be direct descendants of Irene, but the truth is, she never had any children.
Xavier:
Though he is remembered by history as Xavier the Admirer, his real name was Prince Xavier Laith of O’khasis.
Xavier was the nephew to the terrible king who ruled all of Ru’aun from O’khasis, Evren Laith.
He worked with the divine warriors both before and after they each became divine. He helped de-thrown his uncle, helped to end the wyvern-human war, and even helped seal Shad in the Nether.
He was offered the chance to become divine but declined. His reasoning; in order to obtain a relic, you must first sacrifice that which you love. Xavier only held love for one thing.. Irene.
Even after declining, he was still considered an honorary divine warrior, even if that much had been forgotten by history.
He loved Irene with his entire being, and she, him. But they never truly had the chance to allow that love to grow and flow. First, Xavier was taken prisoner by Shad, being transformed into some kind of beast. Xavier had to fight for control over his body and mind, and it was hard to be around Irene knowing she may not be safe with him. Then, as they were sealing Shad away, there was an explosion of magick, left in Shad’s wake. A shard of Shad’s soul pierced through Xavier’s body, and Irene could not save him. Xavier died and Irene could only watch, unable to heal the magickal wound.
Because of his manor of death, Shad and Xavier’s souls became somewhat intertwined. When Xavier was reincarnated into one Laurance Zvahl, he was born with a fragment of Shad’s soul attached to his own. When Laurance became a Shadow Knight, much like Xavier did, he continued his trend of being nearly impossible to control. And though he too never gained his immortality, he became one of the strongest Shadow Knights to exist. Both in spirit and body.
Xavier has central heterochromia. The outer ring of his eyes are green and the inner, blue.
Whoo that was a lot.. Thanks for reading all that if you did <3
#they eat my brain#my brain worms are name irene and xavier#aphmau#minecraft diaries#aphmau fandom#mcd#minecraft diaries aphmau#aphmau mcyt#mcd aphmau#mcyt#aphblr#aphverse#character design#aphmau minecraft diaries#aphmau fanart#mcyt fanart#fanart#redesign#aphmau au#aphmau rewrite#aphmau redesign#mcd au#mcd rewrite#mcd redesign#minecraft diaries au#lady irene#irene the matron#xavier the admirer#aphmau shalashaska#laurance zvahl
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Guys you don't understand I Just Threw Out The Love Of My Dreams by Weezer is literally about the entire cast of MCD
It's about Irene only realizing how much she loves Xavier after she loses him
It's about Katelyn mourning the love she never confessed to Jeffory after his death
It's about Garroth in the Irene Dimension realizing that he was on the verge of losing Laurance
It's about Aphmau bitterly and violently missing Garroth when they're literally worlds apart
It's about Zoey grieving Aphmau and lamenting that she never confessed her love before she disappeared
It's about Nicole seeing Dante in Dmitri and regretting how it all went down but being too far gone to fix it
It's about Aphmau feeling like she didn't do enough to keep Aaron from throwing his life away
It's about Aphmau desperately missing Laurance when he leaves and berating herself for not doing more to save him
#im fucking insane about this song#it lives in my head rent free#and always causes the rot to consume#y'all dont understand the animatics I would make if I could draw or animate#minecraft diaries#aphblr#text post#i just threw out the love of my dreams#aphmau#garroth ro'meave#laurance zvahl#nicole von ronsenburg#irene the matron#xavier the admirer#katelyn the firefist#jeffory the golden heart#mcd zoey#mcd dante
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Okay SO, I think it was @al-ld who made the post about feeling like Xavier was retconned into being Esmund because the Jury of Nine is under O'khasis control if not directly under a Ro'Meave who are regarded as Esmund's bloodline, but I had the thought of what if they were both Ro'Meaves and then it turned into rewrite canon so I'm inflicting it on y'all too.
What if Esmund and Xavier were brothers, what if they were twins? They did everything together, they were close as could be. They became guards together and planned that if either of them ever ended up having to become Lord in the event their older sibling the heir died, they would do that together too. And then Irene came into the picture.
They both loved her. And Esmund was chosen as a Divine Warrior, and Xavier who had served at Irene's side as her personal guard, maybe even her head guard, was somehow left behind.
The distance gave Xavier clarity. He loved her, yes, but he could see the way she was around Shad and quickly came to realize that she would never feel towards him what he felt towards her, and even if she did she would long outlive him on account of her seeming immortality, but maybe he could still protect her the way he once had after death. He went home to O'khasis, instituted the first guard academy there and the Jury of Nine, which he led and which followed the Divine Warriors on their later adventures as they went on their quest to save the world. Maybe he and Esmund get back to how they once were. During the separation, he became known as the Admirer because he admired both Irene and his brother from afar.
In the meantime, Esmund followed in Irene's footsteps. He only looked back when he realized his brother was far behind, no longer following where Esmund led the way he always had before, and this spurs doubts about his position in the Divine Warriors. Did he do the right thing getting so close? Is it worth it when the one person who has been at his side his entire life, who he had always planned spending the rest of his life alongside, was gone? He followed Irene because he loved her, but it takes a lot longer for him to realize what Xavier had, and once he does the realization makes him feel like he had left his brother behind for nothing despite his work as the Protector, because she didn't love him either and even if she did he knew he couldn't make himself admit his feelings for her. So he sat and stewed in all these feelings, wondering whether he should leave for home, if they would be able to complete the mission they had set out to complete without him, and the guilt eats him up inside.
Then Xavier shows back up with the Jury in tow. Esmund realizes that his brother has had an entire life without him while he was away.
He made an institution that would outlive them all, he moved on, he's married with a kid on the way and Esmund was so far out of reach that this is the first he's hearing of it. They catch up, they talk about everything they should have years ago, and Xavier has to leave before the final battle when news reaches them that the heir of O'khasis, their older sister’s only child, is dead. Someone has to be the heir, someone has to put the Lord back together again, and Esmund is too important to the mission.
This is when he realizes that this entire time, Xavier was the one leaving him behind and now he will never catch up. But he can protect Irene, something Xavier dedicated a massive chunk of his life to, and so he became Irene's guard in his brother's stead and remained so until the so-called betrayal' of Shad, a man he had come to think of as a brother too, and afterwards he went home to O'khasis to be with Xavier again.
Further down the line, Esmund returns to Divine Warriors business but helps run the guard academy and Jury of Nine, and when their older sister dies the twins rule O'khasis as the only duo of Lords in known history. Esmund never married, his heart belonging solely to Irene, and so never had any children and when Xavier died his children became the heirs, beginning the modern Ro'Meave line. Esmund rules alone for a number of years, taking care of Xavier's family, the guard academy, the Jury, and holds O'khasis to the ideals of the woman he once loved, which turns O'khasis into the religious powerhouse it is today. When Esmund dies, his relic gets passed down to Xavier's children, eventually making it all the way down to Garroth and Zane, which makes anyone not in the know about Xavier believe that the Ro'Meaves are Esmund's direct descendants.
#spreading my Esmund & Xavier Are Twins agenda#xavier the admirer#xavier guard of light#mcd xavier#esmund the protector#mcd esmund#the divine warriors#minecraft diaries#mcd#aphblr#aphmau minecraft diaries#mcd rewrite#aphverse#dropofsunlightextras#aphmau mcd
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@laurancezvahlslefteyebrow @gonedreaminggg @xerith-42
a small topic for the council today: what do we think about the potential impacts of entering the irene dimension on laurance? or the impacts on any shadow knight who somehow entered it for that matter?
i’ve been banging this around my brain for a bit. do we think this may have intensified his calling? since he - in theory - reached the furthest possible point from shad?
also, would being in such a divine place have “awoken” xavier’s relic? empowered it? for that matter, when does he even absorb xavier’s relic—i can’t remember if we’ve ever discussed. let me know what you guys think! :))
#jury of redesign#aphblr#mcd#laurance mcd#shadow knights#minecraft diaries#laurance zvahl#irene#xavier the admirer
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It sorta feels like Xavier was retconned into being Esmund and they just never brought it up again.
Like why is the jury of nine under the control of O’Khasis if not made by a Ro’Meave!
And/Or Esmund’s petty little self killerd Xavier and no one knew so he could get close to Irene
#minecraft diaries#mcd#minecraft diaries rewrite#mcd rewrite#mcd xavier#esmund the protector#esmund mcd#they’re both simps
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Y'all listen to me with tragic love life Irene, mf apollo core.
(this only goes for ones she loved/liked back)
Zoey? Just didn't work out.
Esmund? Ehhhh yeahhhh......
Menphia? ...whoopies
Xavier? Very first SK
Shad? VERY BIG WHOOPIES
Zoey (again)? Loses her immortally
Garroth? Irene dimension
Laurance? Shadow Knight aesthetic
Aaron? Soul got torn apart
SHAD??? AGAIN WHAT IS THIS TOXIC YURI SHIT???????????
Girlie is not having a fun time
@the-martyrfication-of-the-matron because of the fact that we are mutuals now and I am annoying I'd think you'd (might) enjoy this :)
#shad genderfluid because i said so#someone save her#minecraft diaries#aphmau minecraft diaries#aphmau#aphmau mcd#irene the matron#irene mcd#irene aphmau#mcd aphmau#minecraft diaries zoey#zoey mcd#esmund the protector#esmund mcd#menphia the fury#xavier mcd#shad mcd#shad the destroyer#mcd garroth#garroth ro'meave#mcd laurance#laurance zvahl#aaron lycan#aaron mcd#aphblr
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When I woke up this morning I did not expect to be shipping Xavier the Admirer with Sir Vincent of New Meteli in 10 hours time…but this server is a wonderful, wonderful place
#they got me rewriting vincents backstory and uh yeah he knew the divine warriors#minecraft diaries#lmfao#xavier the admirer#vincent mcd#from the pages
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Thinking about the Jury
Thinking about Xavier
Thinking about O'Khasian culture
Will post about it later
#minecraft diaries#mcd#mcd rewrite#aphmau headcannons#jury of nine#xavier mcd#xavier the admirer#worldbuilding time
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Going back to the MCD rewrite for a bit
The Story of The Phoenix
Irene was married to the Hollow King, chosen from a crowd of noble women to be Queen of the ancient kingdom that once occupied north-west Ru'aun.
The marriage wasn't overly affectionate or healthy, but it was amicable. They were friends, co-workers, running the Kingdom together. Irene gave the King one child, a son she later entrusted to her head guard, Xavier, to raise when the Hollow King started losing his mind to the Void corruption.
Xavier travelled south across Ru'aun into werewolf territory to keep the boy safe from the war between his mother and father. He was six when they left, eight when Xavier began teaching him to fight, protect himself, hunt and forage, then eighteen when it was finally safe enough to return to the north.
Stories of the Divine Warriors began circulating after a few years, tales of people with god-like Magicks, fighting off the destruction the Void and Hollow King were causing. Wild stories of undead soldiers being fended away by a woman who shone brighter than the sun itself.
Xavier found it hard to believe, until the boy was fifteen. The monsters, undead beasts shrouded in darkness, limbs stained red and glistening, slick with viscera of the recently dead. Xavier fought them back for days with the other soldiers of the magi village they had called home for the last nine years.
The boy got involved in the fighting, against his guardian's wishes, getting cornered for his resemblance to Irene. Having raven hair and golden eyes just like his mother. The Primal Knights cornered him, holding Xavier down, forcing him to watch as they closed in, raising their weapons, ready to kill the boy he had raised as a sone for almost a decade.
A flash of silver cut the arm off the nearest Knight. A golden burst of light- a lion made of glowing golden wisps lunged for another. Tendrils of purple shadow tore away the three holding Xavier down, and a burst of vivid red fire crashed into another.
The Divine Warriors descended on the Knights like locusts, picking off and making very short work against the invading dark forces. Irene herself arrived like a comet, tearing through the Knights, enveloped in light, bright and beautiful as the blazing sun.
Xavier almost didn't recognise her. But he could never forget those eyes.
He was amazed by the power his friends had acquired, seeking answers from Irene as she dealt with the last of the Knights. The wings on her back, spear in her hand, and light that shone from the runes across her arms and face, he needed to know what it was.
Even regular Magick was something feared in many of the small villages, and this- this was something else entirely.
Irene brushed him off, though. Assured him that she would be fine, leaving him behind to continue caring for the boy. Promised that she'd explain another time.
Before leaving, she gave Xavier a small blessing, along with Menphia, giving him Magick to control fire, to protect the village should the Knights return.
It took three years and seventeen more attacks before Xavier heard from his Queen again. He used the fire gifted to him to protect the village and his boy, the Prince, from the corruption. Earning himself the nickname The Phoenix as he fought battle after battle, bringing down the Hollow King's forces.
Until one day, in the middle of a raid, the Knights' eyes dimmed, and they fell, inanimate corpses once again. Two days after, a letter arrived for The Phoenix from the capital of the ancient kingdom. The Hollow King was dead, the Void had receded, and the Divine Warriors had won.
Xavier returned to O'khasis with his boy. Irene was the Lord of the city, denouncing the title of monarch and creating the system of individual Lordship that is still in place by the time of Avira(Aphmau, changing her name).
He returned to his position as head guard of O'khasis, soon creating the Jury of Nine when the amount of fans, assassins, suitors and general popularity became too much for Irene and the Divine Warriors to handle. Kul'zak gave up his position on the O'khasian council and disappeared from the map because of it.
When Noctis snapped, taken by the corruption, Xavier the Phoenix fought alongside his Lady, sending the boy, his boy, away with the protection of the Jury to the east of the region, as far away from the fighting as he could possibly get.
The Prince travelled for months, fighting off Shadow Knights, defending villages and rallying the people to fight. Helping more rural towns to organise, mediating disputes and electing officials to keep the towns organised and peaceful.
He settled on the east coast in the company of the jurors and his followers. Establishing a settlement on the coast while his mother and Dad were fighting their former friend on the opposite side of the region.
The word came on his thirtieth birthday. He held his own son in his arms, his wife at his side as he read the letter from Esmund- The Empty was dead, O'khasis was safe. The Matron, Lady Irene, had fallen in the combat, and Xavier was gravely wounded.
The Prince brought his family to his Dad's side one final time, the Jury of Nine returning to their rightful place in O'khasis. Xavier passed away with his boy and his guards at his side, and the Prince returned to his home on the east coast.
He named his village Phoenix Cove (later Phoenix Drop), in honour of the man who raised him, who was willing time and time again to give up his life for a boy that wasn't his, but who he loved as a son regardless.
#mcd au#mcd rewrite#minecraft diaries#xavier the admirer#The Hollow King of Ru'aun#irene the matron#the divine warriors#lore#MCD Daybreak
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divine warriors loredump!
so yeah, the divine warriors! admittedly, i'm fascinated by them - i rlly rlly wish that we'd gotten to see more of them + their powers/domains/abilities in mcd, especially considering that they're a driving force behind the plot. so, i've gone ahead and done some redesigns for the sigils (above) and expanded on the domains and abilities of the divine warriors within the context of ashes, ashes.
more under the cut!
irene retains her matron title. for her domains, i rlly wanted to lean into her being a deity of life and family; as such, her official domains are life, light, healing, childbirth and parenthood, fertility, marriage, tradition, beauty, and romantic/familial/platonic love. menphia also has domains over aspects of love (namely over sexual/carnal/manic love), but i wanted them to sort of have an aphrodite ourania (irene) and aphrodite pandemos (menphia) sort of vibe. in terms of the abilites that her relic gives its wielders, its a lot of what's seen in canon mcd: lots of healing and light abilities, but also some dimensional manipulation and time manipulation stuff thrown in there for the shits and giggles.
for shad, i rlly wanted to play into him being both a mirror and a foil for irene. where irene creates, he destroys; where irene brings life, he brings death. his official domains are that of death, darkness, chaos, the afterlife, change, rot and decay, the Nether, bloodshed, and madness. although he's also a war deity like menphia (and, to an extent, esmund and xavier), he's mostly associated with the worst bits of battle - the blood, the rot, the awful awful deaths, that sort of thing. his relic grants its wielders a lot of destruction-associated powers like disintegration and rot/plague/death stuff, but also some shadow and blood manipulation as well.
like a lot of other folks, i felt like enki was the best fit for a knowledge deity. he looks after scholars, librarians, witches, and inventors; officially, his domains are those of knowledge, air, magick, prophecy, the weather, winter, reason, and lightning. from here, you'll start to see pretty much all the warriors having some sort of like. elemental association? is the best way i can put it. i've sort of based it off of the minor arcana of the tarot; the suit of swords, which is associated with air, is the suit of knowledge and the mental realm, which i thought was fitting for enki. enki is also one of the four seasonal divine warriors (the others being esmund, menphia, and kul'zak); he gets winter, mostly because of his centre of worship being in gal'ruk. wielders of his relic get air and weather manipulation powers, as well as powers related to memory and access to witchcraft (if they aren't witches already). they also gain clairvoyance.
esmund! again with the tarot symbolism; esmund is associated with the element of earth and the physical world, hence the mountain in his sigil. his domains are those of protection, earth, wealth, autumn, boundaries, earthquakes, guardhood, and the harvest. the domain over the harvest might seem a little left field but it makes sense i promise! i sort of saw esmund's association with the harvest not only being because of him being an earth deity, but also because i feel like being able to provide is a form of protection, and given the setting of mcd, i feel like being able to provide a good harvest is a part of that. this is also why he is associated with autumn. regarding the abilities that his relic provides, there's a lot of earth manipulation and barrier/force field creation stuff in there; his relic wielders are also freakishly stronger and more durable than those who wield other relics, sort of playing into esmund himself being a tank.
i changed menphia's title to 'the conqueror' because i thought it'd be a bit more fitting for her, especially considering how i'm working tu'la in ashes, ashes (more on that later). i also changed her colour scheme to more of a blue/copper theme despite her being a fire goddess - i thought it was neat, considering that blue flames are those that burn the hottest. her domains are those of warfare (the glorious bits), fire, soldiers, political power, summer, passion and courage, festivals and celebrations, and sexual/carnal/manic love. i'm still not suuuper sure on the abilities that her relic gives its wielders, but there's definitely some pyrokinesis and emotion/heat manipulation, along with some combat-specific foresight in there. i'm open to suggestions!
nothing much really changes regarding kul'zak. he's a nature deity and watches over journeymen and particularly sailors, given that he's a water/ocean deity; he's often worshipped by pirates. officially, his domains are travellers, water, animals, the wilderness, the cardinal directions and navigation, hunting, and spring. i really wanted to lean into him being a man of the wilderness and not really having a home in urban environments. as such, his relic grants its wielders a lot of wilderness-based abilities, like shapeshifting, water and plant manipulation, and camouflage, with a bit of teleportation in there for all your wandering needs.
xavier is probably the divine warrior that i've changed the most. first off, he becomes a divine warrior in ashes, ashes where he isn't in canon mcd. i also really wanted to lean into him being the founder of the jury of nine, hence his title - the justiciar. he's associated with the domains of guardhood (along with esmund), loyalty, metal and metalworkers, justice, balance and order, peace, brotherhood, devotion, and artisans. where esmund looks after the more physical side of being a guard (being your lord's shield and spear, aka the protection side of things), xavier looks after the more emotional side of being a guard - the devotion to your lord and the comradery that you share with your fellows. his relic's abilities capitalise on that, with its wielders being able to both amplify and nullify the magick of the people they're fighting alongside/against. there's also a bit of metal manipulation and a lot of supportive magick in there too.
and, as a fun little tidbit - a lineup of the divine warriors! (the layout is inspired by @star-boi0720 - the way you lay out your drawings like this is mint as 🤩)
i'm still not suuuper happy w kul'zak or irene's designs but i'll get there in the end i guess :)
#aphblr#aphmau#aphverse#minecraft diaries#mcd#aphmau art#aphmau fanart#mcd rewrite#divine warriors#esmund mcd#irene mcd#shad mcd#kul'zak mcd#menphia mcd#enki mcd#xavier mcd#kul'zak the wanderer#irene the matron#shad the destroyer#enki the keeper#menphia the fury#esmund the protector#xavier the admirer#yes xavier's redesign is redhead laurance propaganda#ashes ashes mcd
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Me I think about them all the time
they are so. so condemned by the universe. they transcend the universe. irene was literally a god and he was only a man. can you ever truly be "just a man". being human is holy being human is divine he loved her so much he created the jury for her he loved her as much as a human could. do you think she loved him back. or do you think in the pull pull pull of being divine she couldnt be selfish (or selfishly chose not to be) and couldnt love him back
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The Divine Warriors and their sins
Irene: Pride .. Holds herself in a high position, self appointed leader.
Shad: Envy .. Jealous of Irene and the praise she receives, jealous of the life she’s lived, self pity king.
Esmund: Sloth .. Doesn’t often use his full abilities, preferring not to get involved.
Menphia: Wrath .. Quick to anger, slow to calm.
Enki: Greed .. Keeper of more than just knowledge.
Kul’zak: Gluttony .. A taste for wine, mead, ale, you name it.
Xavier: Lust .. Irene is his entire being, everything he lives and yearns for. He exists to love her.
#included xavier bc he’s like an honorary divine#aphmau#minecraft diaries#aphmau fandom#mcd#minecraft diaries aphmau#aphmau mcyt#mcd aphmau#mcyt#aphblr#aphverse#divine warriors#irene the matron#shad the destroyer#esmund the protector#menphia the fury#enki the keeper#kul’zak the wanderer#xavier the admirer
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Hi Aphblr I'm going insane anyways you ever think about how Azura could be Xavier's reincarnation or relic holder?
I make Xavier the childhood friend to almost lover to end them all, and that's literally what Azura is. She also lives in Brightport which pretends to worship him. She's a guard from his academy, even if she wasn't a Jury member.
And she's in love with an incarnation of one of the Divine. And has been since they were children.
#im still attatched to Laur as Xavier's reincarnation#so maybe I'll give her the relic that Xavier doesnt have#idk Im just bouncing this around#I'd love to hear others thoughts#aphblr#minecraft diaries#mcd azura#xavier the admirer#divine warriors
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