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The face he's making makes it way worse.
Man. I can't imagine raku, pippa and peggy be together in one place. They'll destroy everything for sure. Rip Duskwood
Oh yea I remember reading from somewhere that raccoons like washing their food before eating it
that's a face of a rascal
Kren is bastard energy but raku is just chaotic gremlin energy
Kren is a mouse thing
Raku has pvp potential
kren is a pine marten/wolverine i think
Do you guys think we will have a union story for raku and peggy? Zaph and luc were released at the same time and they got their union story a few update later.
probably
raku, peggy and pippa union
if it happens then i don't know where they gonna put rowan in
I dont think raku, petra and pippa will be a union
Raku and petra are looking for pippa still
Thats why they left the castle
But maybe itll be like the lore for forsaken family and they get reunited in the union/their story gets resolved
Sounds unlikely tho
Mm
Maybe it's a Rowan and Peggy union
Then a separate one for Raku and Pippa
That way they keep the same faction element
Still trying to figure out how Row and Peg would interact, since one is running away and one is actively searching
Maybe once both realize they don't want to marry each other, they'll become friends aaand
Fall in love anyway
Maybe
If i'm right, they have never met each other. Maybe love at first sight or eternal enemy
Hmmm, we'll just have to see
I can see them as rivals too considering their origins
Peggy is heiress to the throne of Esperia
Rowan is starting his own business to surpass his father
They'll be powerhouses
My speculation is they eventually marry each other since Angelo knows the in and out of peggy's adventure.
Now what about Raku and Pippa
You think they would be a ship?
Im content with them as very good friends but like, they have a nice dynamic going on
raku is all about pippa š ... dude doesn't care about anyone lol
I feel so bad for Torne. He is so obsolete. He is not a meta hero, so not many players build him. And his lore is just all about himself, no interaction with other heroes. Plus he has no meat, so no one in here talks about him. Lol
Torne torn to pieces lmao
that's bad
Sad Raccoon noise
Ohhhh lmao
So thats where that gif is from
When i saw it i thought it was just ice block and the vid was edited to be faster
Except for me. He's the best dead man
Trying to invest in him but the game keeps giving me Oden instead smh
I like his abilities too, it's just fun
S/O to the peeps repping lesser talked about heroes idk the right word for that-
Ohh that's why Raku soaks his food!!!! He is washing it!!!!!
Thats so clever and cute
Listen, Lilith and AFK arena is what it is, a predatory gacha feasting on mental illness and dopamine rushes on their players, its basically all that Gachas are about, we know it
But its pretty sad when character design from a gacha is more interesting than character design from a triple A game company
So, So, So sad, Lilith's doing great with their character design and predatory microtransactions to overcome artificial and arbitrary gameplay walls
š 
That about sums it up. It's a bad business model, we know it's a bad business model, but we play it anyway because the characters and setting are compelling enough that we're willing to forgive it to an extent.
Exactly!!!! Like, i'm willingly to pretend i do not see the 99999%%%% discount that goes on the hundred to a boost that makes me surpass a single wall as if money were so trivial
specifically made to predate on my mental unwellness
This is why I'm hoping there's some kind of spin-off material eventually.
Even the characters that are aped from other franchises stand out on their own. (i.e. Vurk is a direct clone of Twitch from League of Legends in basic design and function, but they gave him a really endearing dynamic by giving him a brother to bounce off of and flesh him out.)
F2p tho
When i made that mehira fanart i was told that she looked like morrigan aensland and apparently mehira does. So i guess mehira is also a copycat character to some extent
Look at the shape of her torso clothing. The heart near the navel and the pattern/color of the stockings
On the TV Tropes page, here's the "Expy" entries. I can't vouch for their accuracy, having not played their alleged source games.
⢠Belinda ā Jaina Proudmoore (World of Warcraft)
⢠Lucius ā Arthas Menethil (World of Warcraft)
⢠Niru ā Necrophos (Dota 2)
⢠Shemira ā Death Prophet (Dota 2)
⢠Thoran ā Leoric (Diablo)
⢠Vurk ā Twitch (League of Legends)
⢠Kren ā Rocket Raccoon (Marvel)
I would also suspect Drez was a clone of Forsburn (Rivals of Aether), but that's a relatively obscure game, so that would be a stretch.
there are like 12 characters and we just remake them
like every property just remakes them lmao
i don't get ppl being like "stolen" or "taken from" or "cloned" when none of the characters are original. like the archetypes have existed for centuries if not millennia
originality has been dead for a very, very long time when discussing these overarching things
well even when discussing more minor things but at that point u get into the nitty gritty and i dont wanna invalidate ppl who are rightfully upset about like art theft or smthn
but even in a minor scale, originality has long been dead lmao
like nobody in afk is a copycat of any other property except maybe the fucking bible or shakespere or whatever the hell else old-ass stories we base shit on nowadays
but then every property is a copycat
which isn't a helpful thing to say, but it's true if you're going to speak in terms of "originality"
so just don't compare them like that and appreciate them for just being what they are within their own worlds instead of "well this is taken from xyz game" as if xyz game didn't take from abc book which took from jkl play, etc. etc.
I mean, technically there's some obvious comparisons that can be made, no doubt about that
But it's kind of too obvious to really care about in some sense
like Solise and Ahri being 2 things that are similar but different
Like yeah, it's there but does it really matter?
my point is that it's the wrong comparison
it's not that solise is a copy of ahri, it's that they're both a copy of a bigger archetype/character trope
like the focus is on individual characters like any of them invented the wheel, as it were, when they really didn't, they're just that particular property's take on a preexisting character type
altho ur right in that it really doesn't matter lmao
it just peeves me to see people treat whatever bit of media they met first as the "source" of these things like that media didn't take from other shit, too. like everybody's a copy after like 7 ce
yep
Pretty interesting letter/info from depths of time two
Throwing shade at LBs
Lmao
I never said that being based on another character was a bad thing.
I mean, its inevitable. Whether we know it or not we get inspired by media we see and know
just looked up Arthas Menethil, that's a really huge stretch ngl 
Lucius is based off a paladin
well it still sorta has that baggage to it nonetheless
like people think if you took obvious inspiration from smth they might assume its plagiarism, which in itself is pretty bad
Same for belinda and jaine proudmoore--very different designs
I think this person added them for gameplay reasons, but I'm not entirely sure.
This is so far from belinda man
Like I said, never played WoW.

Critiques are critiques, at the end of the day its inevitable one character will remind us of another
Characters after all are based on strong stereotypes
Heck... My #1 favorite character in the game is one of the more blatant copyings.
Like belinda as a typical 'kind female magic mage'
And I don't even like League.
Im pretty sure isabella is just a typical loli
Some dark magic loli based on animes
Anyway, lore!
I have yet to read petra and raku stories i was too lazy to read them when they got posted here
Have you guy heard about the new mini AE event? I wonder whether it will have some kind of lores for the boss and the back story. I hope there will be some to fill our interest.
Wukong being wukong either, like, in every game that have a monkey, it's Wukong, gales get inspired by each other and by local cultures, this isnt a New thing
League's great
And when i mentioned Lilith's character's design being better than that of triple A companies, i was lowkey throwing shade at league
which today revealed the newest champion, Gwen
And she is atrocious
Like, every single AFK arena character is EASILY better
maybe nto all of them but like, 80% of them
I agree
Ive seen some character designs from league
Some of them are ok and then theres some like

Some characters dont even pass the silhouette test
Well, its been 2 years league has been catering heavily to the same demographic of people who like generic, bland, sexy looking women, or edgy samurai men, and it has been like this since Aphelios, which was the last creative champion they made, ever since then its all been atrocious designs.
Makes me winder how betterdesigns would do if they castrated the EXECs that pass such terrible ideas
Cause the concept art is good, i imagine the execs who make the decision just look through dollar shaped eyes
And prefer to sell libido rather than actual creativeness
Rip monsters & void stuff..
is any lore mentioned between them
Not that i know off, solise must of been in the noble tavern i assume
Probably interaction in vow event. I also can't recall their meeting in any hero lore
there was dolly's line before solise release
something like "i met a 9 tailed girl" or something
Probably tavern dialogue
Can't imagine Dolly in a VoW
Hehehe
Next playable Lightbearer: Dolly
Ult: draws ten summon cards, but they're all common. Throws them at the opponents and fills the arena with Dreafs and Sezis
In other words, a better version of Grezhul.
eh
Im living for gwens leg reveal 

mom im scared come pick me up
Was Silas the one who experimented in Izold?
I havent read their lore but im pretty sure silas made izold or something
Izold was an ex-Lightbearer war hero
Or experimented idk all ik is that it was silas
His life went downhill and when he had nothing left to lose he went to the Graveborns
I'm very interested in zolrath's lore
There he met a scientist who experimented on him and gave him his power
And also Silas in his story said to experiment with chemicals that boosted the body to it's full potential
Read a bit but seemed boring
Weren't thoran and grezhul lightbearers?
Yes they were
Thoran was a loved ling and Ghezul his most loyal knight
Actually
Now that I think about it
I think all the Graveborn were once human
Baden was a Rayne, Vedan was a very wealthy nobleman, even kelthur was adopted by some nobleman.
Who's that
The replacement God for Annih
Annih was the demon realm?
Annih is who ezizh references in his ultimate right
Because Annih abandoned his role as the god of death
So a Shinigami
Annih is the one you see in the banner art in this server
Ooooh
The Father of the hypogeans
So the equivalent of Dura for Hypogean
ye
Yep
Khazard was supposedly the predecessor for seirius iirc.
Haven't read the stories of Celestial/Hypogean
Dura, God of life
Annih, God of death
You don't need to
Just look at the intro cinematic
Yeah he was in fact the Guardian of the ocean before hand.
What cinematic
The one you see when you start a new account
When I made mine I didn't see any
Or just go to the AFK Arena YouTube channel to see it
Ok
So like the maulers are evil right
Im pretty sure the lightbearer union was founded after Thorans death at some time
But there was no one right here
Maulers society looks pretty brutal from stories.
The kingdom of bantus was during the time humans werent united as the lightbearers
So long before time even had a name
Maulers are the way they are because they live in harsh environments and have to adapt to environments
Yeah before they were called the Ya iirc
No
It was a joke
"Long before time even had a name, the first spinjitsu master created Ninjago"
It's true though, before the 4 factions was the Ya
We have, what does that have to do with mauler lore?
And no, not necessarily. Summary is they were created by people but then put in a desert land, and are at war with lb. From recent balloons we know that lb are also taking resources from their land now
I'm probably leaving out a bunch of stuff
Wait they were originally Ya, but the Ya split into 2 groups, one became Wilders and other Maulers
dunno how i forgot that
I still remember a few months back when a lot of peeps in here didn't buy the idea that maulers and wilders were orginally the same race. Took me awhile to find evidence to back it up

I think most people didn't read the lore on fb. What I find even funnier is that the maulers and wilders were once human too.
Human experiment
Haha yeah..
they are so much cuter than normal humans though. Not that I have anything against humans...
yeah
I agree
even I'm into Graveborn
:blinklinglucius:
@trail kite but are you into Torne 

Maybe... Torne are unique GB design
I heard Torne and was summoned
Favorite heroes by design are Torne, Zolrath, and Skreg
Two monsters and a smol boi
Also the fb lore is starting to show ingame too, since characters in the depths of time vow mentioned that maulers were human before too
It's exciting
We need like, a GB appreciation day where the undead stop being in pain for 12 hours
GB day...
we already have the October
Graveborn month
stitched mouth my favorite
Torne, Nara, and Mezoth singing You Are a Pirate
The whole squad sing while everybody rest
In day you have Skriath, Lorsan, Gwyn and Izold
At night you have sea shanties with the dead sailors
HANDS
HANDSOME
He want to be HANDS
not hand
AHAHAJCKSKS
He removed his hands because his hand is stitched
Ferael: Take my hand if you like me
yeet his own hand
Lmao
hot gb archer go shirtless and swim trunks
CRY ABOUT HIS APPEARANCE
Things not to say to Ferael:
May I ask for your hand in marriage?
Can you lend me a hand?
You were caught red-handed!
I wish to be your right hand.
Yeet a whole arm
Eironn: can you meow?
Ferael: I can hiss or Bark
and hear your heart through your twinky body
"Look who's talking"
height difference and opposite crap
Respen: Lied, You can meow and hiss as the same time.
spray water at him
That reminds me
People complain a lot about the nekomimis of AFK
Nobody talks about the slim handsome men, whether as wilders or literal corpses
Based
I say this is based because Torne deserves to suffer for eternity
He bought that curse upon himself

they just wanted treasure man 
they used to be pirate
Ngl Torne is probably better off in this state
If I had to suffer for eternity for a cool ass bone whip Id do it
Also he's actually pretty decent in pvp, if you can make him survive the 15 second mark
The man used to be my strongest gb. The only reason he isn't now is because Ive never received more copies anymore
Torne's design and animations are really nice. They are my third favourite overall in the game.
Like everytime he ultimates, I think of having ribs for dinner.
Oh yeah who were your top two?
also did you hear their japanese voice
Oden and Izold
i found male GB are interesting too
I haven't, I should check it out
Based on this convo, I have finally decided
Torne in a tuxedo
For the anniversary
If Izold can do it, why not him
Female GB,... only Theowyn is my favorite
She has seen too much
Ironically lore states she has a beautiful face even in death
She just has a dangerous case of PTSD
In the lore he saved them, those are water containers he uses to wash before eating
Damn you Raku
You sure issa fish?
pretty sure it is not a fish. Plus the tank is empty.
Fishhh
Was niru a LB before he died
Read his story
literally every Graveborn was something alive before they turned GB
hence the name
Grave born
Born from the Grave as a graveborn
Crazy
Every Graveborn so far has been a Lightbearer.
...Not counting my OC who was a Mauler.
@zenith gorge were they human before turning into gb? Yes. Were they LB before turning into gb? Probably no. I think they were Lenu people, just like thoran and grez were.
This is something I hadn't heard about. I just assumed "Lightbearer" covered all humans/dwarves/etc.
@crystal tapir i've been pushing this notion in here that all lb are human but not every human is a lightbearer
So what faction are the non-LB humans in?
Some group of people just don't associate themself to any faction. For example, the native people that the dwarves have been fighting in chapter 27+ are not Lb, i believe
The game counts them as LB.
Oh wait
Misread
So with that in mind, there are probably Ya who consider themselves factionless as well?
Come to think of it, that would probably be the fate of Mauler/Wilder hybrids...
...or for that matter, there are probably Human/Ya hybrids out there as well, since the Ya started as alchemically-modified humans.
@crystal tapir very interesting. Ive never thought of that scenario. It would be dope to see a hybrid mauler/wilder/lightbearer. Wonder if that can happen or it would be considered taboo
It would probably be taboo, but that doesn't mean it wouldn't happen anyway.
Forbidden romances and all that.
Most likely a wilder/lightbearer hybrid
Yeah, that seems like the most likely scenario.
Just goes to show that, even in Esperia, there are probably furries.
'probably'
I mean they have hybrids they definitely have furries
Yes
We do need that
Wilders might be difficult to have as gb since they're very close to one another, with a few exceptions
A mauler gb is definitely plausible though. A lot of death goes on there so it should be plausible that at least one of those corpses will be reanimated
Nah
I doubt wilders will be turned to gbs because i feel like they live longer and theyre less brutal and less prone to violence
Wilders know gbs are bad
And as a whole, they know each other like one big family
While maulers are very 'dog eat dog' and 'only the strong survive' kinda people
Most gbs turned into gbs because they want revenge or like, eternal life or sum
Wilders dont show a want for anything other than protecting the forest and their friends
And most Wilder only ever live in isolation, except for a handful of curious one, in Yggdrasil which is very faraway from where the kingdom of gb is.
Most gb didnt even know it was thier fate to be resurrected after death
Thats true. But with the exception of shemira and daimon, izold, ferael, silvina isabella, baden (who were resurrected after death on purpose) most gbs died with a sense of vengeance or hatred
Kelthur died wanting revenge, nara, etc etc
Thoran grehzul
Shemira was aware of being resurrected
And Silas planned it out ahead of time.
And i dont even know if isabella and vedan are even fully graveborns yet or ever
If a Wilder got turned, it would almost definitely be involuntary. Probably one of the ones chained up to be sold in Rustport.
I think ik the reason theyrr arent many mauler and wilder graveborns
The work of the arcane is more commonly practiced by Humans then any other faction so it would make sense why more humans would be graveborn
By arcane i mean necromancy etc
i agree with that
Maulers probably would see necromancy as an act of cowardice, cheating the honor of death, and tolerate them about as much as Lightbearers do. (A headcanon which is pivotal to my OC's backstory.)
(She didn't study necromancy herself, she made a pact in a spur-of-the-moment panic.)
Maulers meaning of death have two type
Death for honor and Coward death
Judging by most graveborns, being ressurected is either a gift or a burden
I mean unless it was your ambition for immortality who would want to be stuck as a walking corpse knowing youll see everything happen including outliving your loved ones
There is also a whole island where some of the gb resides waiting for the day when they can find a way to lift the curse
some can be free from the control
Which one? You mean Esperance?
@crystal tapir
Oh right.
Esperance isnt primary in habited by graveborns i think
island of banished
Right, right. Esperance is just the one place where they won't kill you for being a necromancer.
When Fawkes was being used in that necromancers ritual was he gonna be turned straight into a graveborn or?
I admittedly haven't read Fox's story.
Fawkes still have that paraside hand
@bleak hull due to his special physics he was meant to become a sacrifical item for that necromancer's ritual
What that necromancer wanted to do with fawkes was not very clear. The blood magic ritual seems to have different outcome based on the lores of other gb heroes. For example. Vedan killed people for their blood to perform his blood ritual to transform him into a graveborn.
sacrifical ritual
And in fereal lore (cn version is different than the eng verion), fereal was in a coma after battling with the mauler and the necromancer named gila hypnotized him and made him believe he was in love with her. The reason she did that is cuz she needed the heart of a truly lover for her blood ritual. In this case, gila used ferael as a sacrificial lamb for her blood ritual, but ferael still turned into a gb after the ritual.
So it's unclear whether the necromancer wanted to transform fawkes into gb or just wanted to use him as sacrifice
sacrifice
Isn't inconsistency great? We basically got 2 lores for one character š
Hm
Niru played the smart game
Don't have to outlive your loved ones if you make them immortal too
Torne willingly put himself into suffering because one of his heads was like "Oh, I have an eternity to come to terms with what I hate most."
But being stuck to two other guys forever seems like quite the task
They hate each other, F
F
I just had a headcanon
Lucretia and Torne can definitely vibe with each other:
- Being stuck to two very irritating heads for the rest of your life
- Always angry
- Have abilities of growing stronger throughout a battle and lfiesteal
- They look cool
Lore for the upcoming hunting field event.
Adrax as a playable hero? I'll dig that
adrax doesnt sound like someone i would like lore wise
I'm afraid of that
Adrax seems better off in the backlines of lore like Ansiel or Fortuna
Seems like a prick who invented jellyfishing
Adrax is this dude
Looks like the "indulge in the carnival" will unlock the second form
when is he coming ?
@spice mulch is that beast in the photo adrax? I thought they are just creatures created by adrax or are kept in the hunting field
Yeah, he is the final boss
the tale of Peggy
the pictures
Nice, new frame
Oh god something tells me based on the sheet and notes we have to fill in the music sheet
Best case scenario it's just a login streak thing where each day a note is filled and at the final day we get the frame
either way, a mauler/wilder sounds great
although, lilith prolly won't do it bc it's lilith
The Sirens are a type of half-animal graveborn, and may make an appearance
I think they should be wilder? Since Aiya guards over the green people
Sirens sound like a "Wilder/Graveborn"
Yeah, according to Chinese lore Aiya is the guardian of the Wilders. And her blessing prevents them from turning graveborn. So I'm assuming it should be wilders.
The sirens are supposedly a form of Graveborn that appear to be transformations of a long-extinct amphibious species. Many doubt their existence, calling them mere legends, as most amphibious species are blessed by Aiya, which should make them impossible to bind with necromancy.
From the FB lore
I think it means that all amphibious species should not be able to be GB.
But the Sirens are.
Well they definitely cant be gb
But could they be hypogeans
Distant Khazard noises
that ice demon
The one and only
Could you tell me which lore mentioned this? Can't believe i missed such important detail.
Dang
Yikes wrong link
@distant tiger lol. I read that comic and was like what the heck is it š
@distant tiger got it no worry.
Please forgive this confused toad
Btw, aiya is dura.
Comic where
Is she? From the Chinse lore she sounds like a different person, specifically in charge of wilders.
@distant tiger yes, i'm sure she is dura.
Oooof
because Cn lore have something that Eng lore didn't have
Aiya, aya or dura is the reason that the wilders exist. She created the dusk wood and formed a barrier around it, then she let a wilder known as "vaduso" its whereabout and tell him to lead the first batch of wilders to this place and they survive in the duskwood to this day.
Dura also gave the wilders 'jungle blood' just like she gave the mauler their "bloody will". Jungle blood gives the wilders the ability to connect with nature and thus most wilders have an affinity to nature magic like solise able to control flower, lorsan able to control wind
Hm
I just noticed. Yeah, all of them have control over a natural element
Well, maybe not Kaz but she sneaky
Something the wilders have is that they always know where to go in the forest and where exactly a problem lies. Look at Raku's lore
Can we say Dura is the savior of human race but she is also the source of the problem that caused chaos in esperia? Without her quaedam wouldnt have been able to reborn and create a whole gb kingdom, and thr god of death annih wouldnt have been that jealous and created a bunch of dangerous hypogean to wreak havoc in esperia
Yeah. Maybe everything need to be in balance. Too much of something, even if it's good, will probably cause harm
Oh yeah
You've seen that official art of Dura right?
First thing I thought was
That's a dangerous resemblance to Belinda
@civic geyser which one? Do you have a link?
Haven't seen yet
Mmm
Out of the artworks, that nemora fanart i kinda dont like
I understand what they tried to do with her legs, but it doesnt come off as well
She ain't fluffy anymore
I genuinely thought that being pitch black was apart of her design ig it was just effect
Very weird composition
Now that you point it out
The black shape on the background... For so long i thought that was something
But apparently its just the dark space between yellow clouds
Couldve been managed better with the negative space and the shapes
Theres a lot of empty space that isnt doing anything
Oh well
AFK artists are pumping out these babies like there's no tomorrow
I can give them some slacks for a few kinks like Nemora's legs, the midget Izold, or that
Dang, all that poe coins we're paying for furn and they cant fix the ceiling
Shit service
Id say it does depend on who's living above her
Needles 
Heroi
Basically he's saying take steroids.
He honestly sound like my dentist
Silas looks like a dentist
Seems like the type of guy who charges heavily for one surgery but he's actually very good at it
agreed
Yeah, he does seem very smart
Although I'm always a bit grossed out because he doesn't wear gloves or change his needles between jabs
I dont think esperia has yet invented rubber gloves so ill give him a pass for that
Ive thought about this before. No one in esperia has ever been seen wearing rubber gloves. Its always leather gloves
so maybe they havent yet come up with that
Haha, yeah, I mean I think people in Esperia in general wouldn't know a lot about infection control
it just...
my poor brain
I used to work in healthcare so...
Infection? Naw, just grab your local mage and have em magic it away
No infection here

They can get damaged tho
Necromancers can still make use of gb healer's ability
I have my headcanons about healing magic and Graveborn.
Namely, that they'd need it more than anyone else due to having lost the ability to heal on their own.
Broken leg? They may not feel it, but the leg's still broken, as in no longer works. They'd need to turn to either magic or superscience to fix that, or the leg will stay broken for eternity.
Or transfer their soul/spirit to another vessel but i don't know they have the ability to do that, or perhaps only the higher rank can
@crystal tapir have you created any gb oc?
Her name's Fuma, and she was a Durri in life who panicked and made a pact with a necromancer after a disaster due to an overwhelming fear of dying.
@crystal tapir oh i've seen this one before. He looks kinda like drez without the mask
As a note, she isn't related to the playable durri; she's just the same species as Skreg/Vurk/Drez/Kren.
As for the healing magic discussion, it probably has limits. Like, in order to heal something, it probably has to still be there to heal. If Fuma could ask someone to magic her left eye back (something she's extremely insecure about), she gladly would, but it would be futile.
reminds me of my GB oc. I slapped this together and realized the name was already taken but yk. It's old art so. Ye (She be silas' damn failed test subject)
Neat
Imma repost my own gb
Edgy orphan assassin dude
Graveborne are very interesting
No wonder there are a lot of ocs
Also deep in lore af
Not like more than one person can't have the same name. You could easily have her go by a nickname/codename while keeping that as her real name if you want to avoid the confusion, though.
I also like the design.
Yours too.
true, true
thank you 
I also like this
I should really do more with my characters... (I keep telling myself that but I never do. : / )
lmao, big mood
Neat
Yall have good stuff
Actually I did try to make a story of sorts with one of my ocs
Didn't really continue it
Though it was promising
How long did it take you guy to draw those arts? Look like a lot of work
idk i mean i stayed up until 1 making that one-
lol
I like next-generation ocs
same, they're quite creative
GB next generation kinda.... uhhh
weird
and LB next generation with some dark magic
It took mine like, several hours
Future Maulers are probably much tamer
Im guessing they're either making peace with the LBs or going under Anoki and Skriath's unified tribe
With a few exceptions
if anything mauler tribes are probably under Skriath's dominion but I could see the land of the exiles is probably gonna fester into it's own faction obsessed with the "old ways" except instead of tribes it's possibly pure anarchy or some kind of gang war
or Skriath goes full IMPERIALISM and decides the only way to keep his tribal unity strong is conquest and annexing other lands
Lmao
Lore-wise currently he seems to be mostly diplomatic but I can see him toughening up into a more proactive leader
Its unknown if he has control over the arachin who seem like they would gladly eat another cheif if it came to it
There definitely are some tribes that are independent
i guess he just mainly made the maulers become a whole society instead of different ones trying to take eachother down
so as long as the said society are one union, whatever happens inside/outside (slavery/killing for instance) is not his business
I keep seeing this art when i search afk arena fan art and i have absolutely no idea who it is and its puzzled me every time i see it
maybe fan character
Dura?
Fan art that have style similar to portrait art
Woah, for fanart that's really good
Lilith already released 2 lb heroes in a row so I doubt that's a leak
it reminds me of flora
But they haven't released 2 new wilders yet 
Regardless of who it is, that style match is 
Same i first thought it was flora when she first came into the world but im still not sure
The dress and long blonde hair made me think Young Belinda
But that's just me being assuming
Also
We need gb
More dead people please
Ik but its puzzled me so much on who it is
vee is at it again
@timber tide WITNESS UPON THE PERFECTION THAT SHALL SILENCE THOU IN AWE
Too bad my izold is only e+... I only get skins for asc heroes or ones I like on an exceptional level
I didnt even get shemira skin, but I got daimons
bruh i got neither
I'm getting tasi skin next time i get money for google play
mcskin
If you like it, get it. I got daimon skin last year even when he was only E back then. Recently got him ascended tho
Meh, main reason I get them for asc heroes is cuz I know I'll be using them alot, so I can see the skin alot
I do get the free skins though
Safiya skin is great
buy all skins so even if you lose, you look pretty while losing
^
@slender drum

of course not
I'm scared.
don't forget this
Bet that's Theowyns
I love using a ghost woman's hair to make my characters more powerful
Theowyn left the chat
Dead women don't need hair @mossy parcel
Way to make her crying into all out funeral wailing
Dark forest > dusk wood > dream wood > dark forest
Im calling it the 'twilight jungle' from now on
Lorsan apparently knows rowan and angelo
Gwyn skin and skriath skin just makes the lore looks ridiculous. Gwyn and skriath being in a musical band? Lmao
I dont think it canon that theyre in a band these skins are just to celebrate non lore wise
@bleak hull yeah, i agree
Izold being a musical prodigy is just a joke to all of us lol
I smell
Ship
Lorsan x Angelo
Another great entry about a "random" woman's hair, definitely someone we dont know /s
Cool, even when dead, Theo still has feelings other than eternal cri
Put off the VoW until the last minute. Did anyone else do it a fifth time out of guilt?
This is the only way I could do the Sans route bad route without throwing up.
Flashbacks to the safiya with human feet edit
oh god
Fear
@slim ore please do. Gonna be fun lol
It'll be good dw

I'll make real effort to make it look good lmao
But also I dont wanna just do Hawaiian safiya cuz honestly those pacific islanders deserve better
Don't get your hopes up too fast, it might take a bit
I still owe someone a dark flora skin
š
chronic fatigue is dookie
Can I get a ping for that
Two of them
Rowan and peggy look cute together. And they both have no nose š»
Do we know their offficial age btw? Is peggy still underage
Rowan is 14. Remember, the notion of "teenagers" is a very, very modern one.
As in, 1920's modern.
So Rowan would be considered of-age in a medieval setting like Esperia.
Isnt peggy like 13
Putting their sprites together makes me realize how huge peggys eyes are and its weird
@languid panther right. Now that you said it, i just realize peggy has huge eyes
She's super cute
Tempted to build her more
Odd example where the sprite looks better
There was 0 reason to point that out, nor does it get rid of modern day morality 

And yeah abdhs Peggy and Rowan are cute
Reminds me of the conversation I had here once where we talked about the possibility of mehira just not having a nose
I think a lot of it is that arranged marriage for kids wasn't uncommon
Ye
@trim shell that still happens in my home country in the rural area though not as usual as before, and i bet it still happens in cn too
Yeah it's still a thing that happens today 
There is also this tradition in my home country where boys would go to a kind of festival happens once per year and "catch" girl to make her their bride. Sound ridiculous and upsetting
treat women like autonomous people challenge
I just don't like the notion of "the people of every fictional setting have to have exactly the same moral and cultural standards as modern-day Americans".

bro it's like
the setting doesn't change modern morals lmao
it's a conscious choice from modern creators to do or not do something and being like "morals were different' doesn't change that it reflects on their actions of today
That's fair for most things but Do Not Remove The Rule That Stops Kids From Getting Hurt Or Encouraging Itā¢ļø
like "it was a different time" is great and all for something like pride and prejduce
but it doesn't really work when the piece of media was made in the fine year of our lord 2021
I thought I got away from Twitter, but apparently not.
idk what u expected u posted on a public forum
Someone literally asked.
"What if the 14 yr old is legal"
"Not a good idea"
"I thought I got away from twitter"
Fiction is fiction. End of fucking story.
It does not affect reality. It does not normalize altering our behavior.
Not gonna take this from someone who hasn't changed their name since the flower event 
Also I don't think it's unfair for someone to get apprehensive whenever people start talking about the concept of minors being legal, even in a fictitious context
Tsugi ni omae wa, "Mods, ban this pedophile" to iu
nobody said that
Since like, sure, it's bc of the time period. Arranged marriages weren't uncommon for nobles n shit
But like
nobody accused you of anything my guy
Just say she's underage? And move on?
Idk. Imo we should talk about what would happen if all the Hypos did a barbecue together
I have seen way too many people getting actually hurt over this issue. Of people forgetting what goddamn fiction is!
Y e s
Mezoth as chef
Lucretia would probably help
Mezoth grilling in a "kiss the cook" apron
She would, yeah
Uh khaz would be like, sitting as far away from the grill as possible
Bc m e l t
Abdje
Or being tasked with the cooler.
He could be sitting in a icebucket
Omg
And also set a few trees on fire

Khazard would need to try to put it out
Mehira would probably be laughing somewhere
Zolrath would take a beef patty or something and rewind it until it was raw
ABDHS
He seems like the type of being to eat raw meat
Mortas would be sipping wine from the cooler
P e n s i v e l y
(Insert that one pensive clown emote)

Lore wise, except for mezoth, do other hyopogeans need to consume food to survive?
Not that I know of
What a life to be hypogean! No need to eat or drink and jusy wreak havoc where they go
Agreed. He's a fun kind of over-the-top evil.
I like thats hes just a jackass for the hell of it
Like he doesnt really have any backstory hes just an ass
I feel like all the other hypos cant stand him
Also Im new here and uh. Anyone have any good Baden lore/headcanons š
@trim shell has Belinda replied to you? Is she dead?
Weāll have the anniversary book
What does headcanon mean?
It means it doesn't exactly follow lore canon, it's just what an individual thinks is canon to them
For example, Thaden and Brutus x Khasos
It's not canon in the game that either pairing are romantically involved, but someone could make it their headcanon so, as long as it doesn't break continuity
Like, it's my headcanon that the twisted realm bosses could exist or could have existed in the physical world at some point, but it's not fully confirmed aside from Kane, who you can fight in a PoT
Lucretia's mom instincts pop in and force everyone to clean up and be tidy but enforce it as chaotic as possible
Ezizh seems like the type to bail on everyone and return only when the food is cooked
Is Gwyn her friend ? š
Yes
These days her friend also spends time playing music with a living jazz machine, a pimp, and a Treasure Island character
Well that's slightly upsetting. What's contact with Belinda even for if she gets annoyed by lore questions?
Asking if she'll ever be usable in endgame again?

Rat boys want a rat bone hairpin
<(...why are you wearing one of your own bones? Aren't you a rat?)
(H-hey! There's a difference!... Besides, this gorgeous mullet won't style itself.)> 
Dang, sounds great. Where do I sign up
why is zaph one of the gate bosses in hunting fields?
he was the one who requested our help in the first place
"evil satanic ritual/something happening here - clear the evil, etc"
maybe help us, instead of hindering us?



Also these gate bosses will change for each season.
finally finished the sketches of my oc binna
the first is while she's with the celestials, the second is after she leaves
currently working on lineart but wew
...oh wow, that's what his face looks like?
I guess he just plain likes that mask and isn't trying to hide something like I thought.
Gonna have to save this pic as a drawing reference.
...as tempting as it would be to boop the snoot, he'd probably bite my finger off if I tried it.
That's not official tho
It's an edit I'm working on
I think I should lower his snout, it looks a bit off
I never knew that Niru meet the father of the son who would be the father of the twins. I read that when I was high so I could be wrong.
Okay, this is amazing.
the twins?
you mean Angelo and Rowan's father
angelo and rowan arent twins tho
yeah
Reginald
The hell does it mean š
Someone getting kinky with knives maybe 
It's the other definition of fetish
The last definition, im assuming
"object believed to have magical powers"
What an odd way to say it though
Sad
@distant idol yes. I think
huh
I don't really look all that deep into it, I do that to myself already.
What do you think the sub-bosses in the Hunting Fields saying they're "from another dimension" are talking about?
I'm looking way too deep into this, but darn it headcanons are fun.
the story of the human nature
they just fled from another dimension because they couldn't handle the humiliation of skreg wrecking their rear ends but little did they know skreg was also here /s
(context: i like skreg)
Would be funny if that was the case because...
I'm getting a stupid thought that these are the heroes' Shadows, since Rowan developed one in that Voyage of Wonders.
Which in turn makes me wonder what the insecurities they'd be born from are.
Hunting fields itself is another different dimension. And these mini bosses were from esperia
Wym shadows? Which voyage are u talking about

Dreamscape, the one right after Joker was added.
Shadow Rowan was a reflection of Rowan's greed and jealousy, and Pippa and Tasi had to defeat him.
Forbidden juice
drink
How did they come up with the names for these items. Wonder if its a straight translation from cn or just gibberish
You can't make a potion look shiny and tell me NOT to drink it
Thats illegal
But.. there was no shadow rowan. That was just.. in his dream?
Its like, all humans have wants and desires, and rowan's desires was getting too much and out of hand in his mind/dream self, so tasi and pippa had to help with that
Because that could be a source of weakness and hypogeans could take advantage of that and possess rowan
But i guess that was kinda the intention, since it was released in the same time as persona
The best they could do since there was no persona themed event
TIL Satrana is a mom. 
@coral plume what?
uh, no she isn't
not sure where u got that from
Depths of Time
@coral plume they only use the heroes as portrait for the faction
Who is to say the devs didnt intend for it so?
The dialogue didn't state it was Satrana, aka it was something like "Mauler Women"
Or "Mauler Mother"
I forgot but it's not stated as "Satrana" is speaking
well she IS a Mauler woman
It could also imply that the player doesnt know who these people are
@coral plume brutus in depths of time 3 is a normal civilian whereas lorewise, he is a paragon chief
There's no names to them
it's just "Mauler Youth" and "Mauler Woman"
also dialogue suggests for the Mauler Woman is she doesn't have human-like fingers whereas the art clearly shows human-like fingers
The ungiven names also apply to every other talk-able character within the depths of time
It's mainly there just for placeholder purposes

In Mauler years. 
Oh my god
no? she's a child??? what the fuck is wrong with you????????
Shes not a dog??? Why would we not be referring to human years??
What the heck..
Why are you looking for a loop hole yr call a 15 yr old character a milf??
that's not Satrana
that's just some Mauler woman
is Canada part of Esperia?
No but if you look at the west you can see northern ireland
hey so! vow is using satrana and warek as stand ins for mauler folk
same as rosaline and hendrik, and whoever else shows up
Rowan, Drez, Brutus, ect
Only character that would've actually been themselves was Zol right
yeah
mirael as a pretty girl in vow 

in any case, it's important to pay attention to names
because lilith -- and other games -- will reuse assets which means they aren't necessarily the character in lore
^
Like I said, they wouldn't just design a new character, make official art for them, and only use them for a balloon. It's much more simple to just reuse
wait hold on
sir could you explain how you got to this conclusion
Hello
Canada fake, esperia fake
Canada may not be part of esperia but taiwan is š
With the term "racist" in espiria its most likely racism towards maulers and wilders in general
Pretty much.
Graveborn too, don't forget that
i tolerate the maulers, but- wrong server
@slim ore @gritty trail @mossy parcel @lament meadow
i didn't like Mauler for reasons but... yeah, LB sometimes has war with Mauler
AHAGDGSHHDHAHS

also... Esperia is medieval fantasy setting
Graveborns arent a race
Its fantasy timeline is surely past a medieval stage, the medieval period for them would of been during Zaph and lucretia's time during the first wave of war
Or around that
Yeah it's moreso a "state of life"
Graveborn is an alternative state of dead
I still want a wilder/mauler turned into graveborn
There probably are just not in game ones
zombie graveborn female anthro werewolf with a top hat
yes, with a top hat
Eh, I'd argue that the time of Zaph/Lucretia/Ancelot was more their "Roman Empire period".
Thats why i said around, i wont confirm anything that i cant back up with something else
That's not even "around", that's over a thousand years off.
even if so i was just giving a rough guess besides them having a completely different beginning to civilization would make thier timeline almost no at all to be referenced its just as it is
So, there's a piece of artwork in the anniversary gallery that shows the graveborn fighting on the side of Annih
Is that canon, or was the artist taking liberties there?
All the lore I've read seemed to say they mostly kept neutral, aside from being persecuted by Lightbearers
I assume artist liberties
Graveborn have never really been depicted to side with Hypogeans, lore-wise
Yeah I think they just made the art to look cool.
I like GBs because they're just. Sad and kinda left out of whatever else is going on.
According to the lore, the dead should have been Annih's responsibility. But he ran off and kinda dumped them? So they started coming back to life because of this guy called Quaedam.
Well
They're bad, but not like, bad bad
Team Rocket level maybe, since it depends on who's being resurrected
Look at Daimon
You can't call that rolling ball of sunshine evil
But Torne
That's another story
Correct, since Annih waged war against Dura, and ever since then, there has been no trace of Annih being killed, sealed off, escaping or anything so essentially the entire second half of all life (aka death) went complete haywire and Quaedamn took this opportunity to essentially take control and make the dead become his own army
They're mainly neutral, but most against the living itself.
I kinda like that instead of the undead being firmly evil.
they're not evil, they have their own standards
Most of them are just doing their own thing. Very girlboss of them.
good gb, like the Forsaken Family and... Baden
Im mad that the english translation makes Baden still under the lichs control when the original chinese lore says hes free. I only knew of the english one before lurking in this chat.
Baden is a free GB, and good too, it's just his body is GB
but his mind is a normal person
Normal might be questionable after having his mind lived in rent free by an evil wizard lol
So whats Grezhuls deal after killing Edwin cause he buries the king and like. Then what.
Someone resurrected Edwin
Oh okay I guess I havent read that yet. Also in Isabellas story it talks about her and her GB sister almost starving after being driven out by the village and I didnt even consider GB have to eat.
Grezhul just wants Thoran to reign surpreme
He's super loyal to him
Okay I went back and read Thorans story idk how I missed that. How does anyone get anything done in Esperia when people just randomly rise from the dead lol
did isabella even die
@languid panther there is a lot of inconsistency between cn and eng lore.
From what is said in lore, no not really
The story is kinda confusing, like shes watching her family die and then awakens as a GB but it doesnt say shes dead.




