Queen Monarch, For An Interpretation Event

i love minecraft diaries

Heirloom and Honor:

In which we feel the weight of our history and bear the burdens of our responsibilities.

This took… way too long… here’s the background only version w all the little Easter eggs and such.

Some progress images! From layout to finish.

This is my most ambitious piece to date…maybe my last fanart for a while haha 😞😞

Some lore thoughts going into this illustration — feel free to ignore:

I was thinking this takes place in S2 in the Zianna Ro’Meave rescue arc, where Garroth returns to O’Khasis after many years to rescue his mother…He comes across their oldest (historically, the first in Ru’aun) cathedral and finds it in a wrecked and pillaged state.

The pious folk have pretty much abandoned the cathedral following Zane’s disappearance for 15 years and the Tu’la invasion was the nail on the coffin. The cathedral is completely barren of life except for the few intact stained glass windows that recount the history of the Divine Warriors.

Around this time it’s revealed that Garroth is the current holder of Esmund’s relic— is he anxious? Lost? Jumpstarting his quarter-life existential crisis?

I hope that everything here in this illustration captures my vision and conveys it to you. This is pretty much a love letter MCD HAHAHAHA

Aphmau Rewriter TRY NOT TO challenge: IMPOSSIBLE

Call your story or one of your chapters something like “Rebirth” “Reborn” or anything to do with reincarnation

Use canon ships only and don’t add any ship fulfillment this includes, Garrence, Garmau, Laurmau, etc.

Give characters more animal like traits, furry feet’s and arms, antlers, horns, large teeth.

trauma dumping and projecting onto the characters.

the big magic hell dump

if you can’t understand this, i will not blame you. it’s super convoluted—but here is a collection of 2022 magic notes mixed with current ones (i tweaked stuff a bit)

all realms have extremely high magic levels, but the end and nether have races with the most magical capability. this is because those realms were created for the shadow lord / shad and the ender dragons (the nether and the end realm respectively) + the biomes are "less drastic" than the overworld ones and caused a lack of sentient biodiversity. so, with only a few sentient races, the magic is distributed less and subsequently causes their magic concentration to be a lot more dense/higher than an overworld race , because in the overworld there is an *array* of races / sentient species, and causes the overall population to have lower magic concentration levels . the level itself varies from race and individual, however, but this is the general gist of it all.

+ this is why nether (including sks), end, and draconian races have blood that either is white or black and glowy. to those with low levels, it would burn to the touch as that is where all the magic is stored -- besides the core (an orb-ish thing that contains all your magic, and it's essentially in a personal pocket dimension inside your chest) , but that's another conversation

loosing lots of blood will do damage to what magic you can perform at that time -- think of it as mana pools -- and that's why lots of the nether and end races were inherently carnivorous or omnivores. it's like toh where belos needs a palismen's magic/bloodish thing to survive. while they don't kill people for their blood, they hunt down animals of their respective realms for that magical blood + their cores. removing a core is less gorey than it sounds—it’s like reaching into someone’s chest (your hand would go through the solid material of said body. typically takes some practice to perform) grabbing the spirit. there are no blood cults and all that shit, as you can even get some from certain plants + it's like vitamins or pills . it's very common for it to be mixed into food, healthcare items/consumables or gauzes, and/or drinks. probably brought up the idea of vampires in human folklore, but then again, there are soul-eaters lurking around (i’ll talk about them later.)

shadow knights are completely magic — their will and determination to continue living on boosting their core to remain after the perishing of the mortal/physical body. wounded knights will need to return to realms with higher concentrations of magic in order to survive. the mortal plane/earth will not have enough to sustain them, unless they are ingesting copious amounts of magic . since shadow knights can’t really digest food, the lava from the nether or a magical item like a golden apple are typically used to replenish.

the more magical one is, the thinner the barrier between the spirit and the mortal body is. so a magical race like a draconian would have to be especially careful during near-death occasions, as they would probably not pass on to the next life or would completely perish when their mortal body does. wounds take quicker to heal, but humans have the advantage of reincarnation or resurrection afterwards.

sks who perish completely disappear due to this — no way to get them back after their second chance. and i can’t imagine they would want to.

gods and divines are very similar to this, but typically whatever gave them their major source of power (aka a relic) just passed on into the next generation since they aren’t tethered to the previous wielder after death. typically these higher beings don’t have to worry about dying due to unnatural causes—you’re a goddamn divine, you probably wouldn’t have much trouble killing your opponents or leaving. but there are always scenarios one should be aware of.

when one dies, their core magic will either be consumed or go back into the environment they died in. like water, there’s a set amount of magic, but the amount in the air and “free” depends on the amount of people.

when one dies, their mortal body decays and either:

their core completely dissipates and returns to the world — higher levels of magic since the barrier of both bodies get more and more thin

persists for a while to reincarnate, become a sk, or something similar

while it seems like a big blow to those with higher magic, this trade off allows for them to perform much more complex levels of magic than the average person. it can be used in technology and other wild feats much quicker—since you have less of a barrier to get across. witches, albeit humans with a genetic history of a thinner barrier, or with non-human ancestry, are somewhere in between, allowing for a somewhat stable body and non-core magic use (harnessing the magic from the world outside of your body—ex. potions, runes). due to this, they’re seen as making pacts with a “demon” (essentially an enderian. fun fact, the demon warlock is one) and are typically shunned or burned. because we can’t have nice things, obviously.

up to change : however, material weapons do less damage to a magical body as they can kinda just. disintegrate once they touch the blood. same goes for magical weapons, as the core is more resistant to change and the person has a material body to fall back on.

sup! will start to use this now i realize i keep answering questions on the other blog

also, while i’m here, if there are any active mcd/aphmau/myst discord servers aphblr is in (or just in general) i’d love a link! or any accounts you’d suggest following for rewrites + resources

HI HELLO MY AU REVOLVES AROUND THIS

not sure about our canon characters changing yet since the newer species are in diff regions, but . i’ve got 7 other regions / continents to explore that are packed with new cultures and species

a few to note , which i’ll be expanding on later + showing more in a post i’m working on :

lago

dragons (wyla and eirou, thinking of combing them because the divide of western and eastern dragons seems.. kinda iffy?)

bird people

enderians and endermen

siren

wisps / spirits (think different from ghosts, more of protectors or guardians of an area)

wither skeletons + piglin

and a few others i can’t think of rn

i think people should start making aphverse characters non canon creatures like make someone part enderman or a rabbit hybrid or even a full on robot

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IM SO SORRY ITS MIDNIGHT IM GOING TO REGRET THIS BUT I CANT GET THIS OUT OF MY HEAD 😭😭

Pls help I’m going to wake someone up with my cackling

Anyone ever think about the pain Laurance went thru after Ungrth ‘died’. Like he knows Ungrth should revive I think after like 100 years…? If I’m remembering it right? I feel like we didn’t see much of how that actually affected him other than the visiting Ungrths grave, and the reaction when finding out Ungrths grave was robbed. I need to sit and rewatch the episodes at some point but I feel like I remember it being mentioned that they were pretty close.

I was also thinking on the whole Shadow Knights becoming immortal thing, and like how they achieve that.

I think it would be interesting to see a AU if Laurance like, actually considered becoming a full shadow knight. And like taking the steps to get to be one (like killing Aph). All to become immortal, JUST to see Ungrth again. Like, if their bond was so strong that he would actually consider taking the steps to actually see Ungurth again, the Wyvern who SAVED him from the Nether, would he do it?

There’s probably some facts I got wrong or stuff I could add to this idea, but there’s so many MCD episodes I have such a hard time trying to watch them all LMAO

Either way this was fun to think abt and honestly sounds like an interesting fanfic idea…hmm

also, if you like my work here, i recommend checking out my main blog ( @iyokko ) !! it has my intro and cool information about me

will be posting art later today <3 have a lot of images to catch up on

update ; oh my god i reblogged this on the wrong account . don’t mind me

To increase activity on this blog, I thought I'd post some WIPs. I make way more unfinished drawings than finished ones so there's a chance I'll never finish some of these.

Anyway, the first is a redesign of a sona I had in mid/late 2020, named Seppos (September Apos; Apos is short for Aposterous because I'm very good at naming things /s). She's supposed to be summer-themed.

Next is a concept for a creature to inhabit the world of a project I'm working on. These guys are omnivores who live in woodlands and grasslands. The design will probably change.

And finally, a commission for an irl friend (I don't take commissions currently, by the way; this one is from a while ago). Ft our cats, Remy (left) and Lev (right).

So yeah. I'm going on holiday until Wednesday so bye