Swordtember Prompt 12: Void - Lord Damocles

 

Swordtember Prompt 12: Void

Lord Damocles

Nothing but a tarnished memory.

A long-forgotten hero ripped from his glory and fame far too soon. A rebel turned tyrant.

Swordtember prompt 11: Mythological - Animalculous Vivusobjectus

 

Goddess Alexandria (she/her) of Antiqua transformed from the onset of Soul Putrification caused by the Inversion Event.

Short story below!

Swordtember Prompt 10: Royal - Ekaterini

 

Swordtember Prompt 10: Royal

Arch Ekaterini (She/Her), a sovereign of Erdestra and progenitor of Prince Luther. In this image, she is 150yrs old with a permanent core crumbling, some parts of her blade are covered with protective plates.

Crumbling comes in many different forms depending on a living object's core type. Crumbling is when an object's ichor structure fails to self-repair parts of their core and usually occurs later in life. It's possible, however, for younger living objects to undergo crumbling if they got a major injury or undergo failed revivals. It's a chronic uncurable condition that worsens over time, but there are ways to improve one's quality of life. Patching holes with materials, avoiding activities that may cause injury, and assistive tools for daily life are ways that help those with crumbling.

Bio below!

 

 

Swordtember prompt 4: Crystal

Feat. Gwuenevere (she/her) and General Tristan (they/them) (story under read more)

What strange alchemy is this??

A fine example of Gwuenevere’s crystal attack powers…

General Tristan, a broadsword who serves under the Janthizerain Arch Thermite, is tasked to take his soldiers to capture an Erdestrian mining town near its southern borders. Surrounded by earthen domes and ravines, the mines here are an important source of metals used to construct flying polearms and war-torches for Erdestra’s armies. If this town is destroyed and its resources looted by Sir Tristan, it will weaken Erdestra’s supply chain.

Without warning, Tristan invades the town, giving little time for its citizens to evacuate. Tristan allows their soldiers to ransack the town’s buildings, refineries, and mines. But from over the hills comes the Erdestrian General Doomgreater, Prince Luther, and their army to take it back. As the two armies clash, Tristan has their forces break down the supports in the mines in hopes of causing a cave-in. But as they hack through the mines’ columns, a lone Erdestrian soldier follows them inside.

Tristan heard rumors of a cloak that somehow defeated General Viez during a battle a month ago. It was said this cloak wielded a crystal blade made from her ichor, and its sharp edge cut through steel, no matter its thickness. Tristan thought it was ridiculous gossip about Viez’s sour defeat. What piece of ragged cloth would ever think of fighting?! Yet Gwuenevere stands before them, fighting their soliders with that crystalline blade.

No matter how much they swipe at her with their blades, Tristan and their soldiers quickly find Gwuenevere a formidable opponent. She is quick, focused, and incredibly stubborn for a fragile object. She trained her blade on Tristan, the tip of it scores the surface of their blade from the blade tip to the rainguard of their face. Now hindered by pain, Tristan makes a downward strike to end this tomfoolery.

All that Tristan knew next is the bright blinding light of something erupting out of their face of their rainguard. They hear Gwuenevere’s angered yell and a sudden rush of magic blows them away from the little cloak. Tristan slams into a wall and collapses onto the ground, their blade broken in two. Their upper half of their blade tarnishing and turning to crystal, Tristan looks up with their uninjured eye and sees the cloak charging them with her blade raised for a final strike.

Sometime later, Prince Luther takes a few soldiers to flush out the remaining Janthizerain soldiers from the mines. With General Tristan missing, their soldiers’ morale fallen into complete disorder, and many had fleed. In the mines, Luther found the caverns covered in familiar glowing crystals. In a large room of broken columns and ransacked storage chests, Luther finds Gwuenevere escorting a few young curios who hid in the mines from Tristan’s soldiers. Gwuenevere is all torn up from her fight, but her material enhancements strengthen her fabric body and keep her going.

As Luther and his men help Gwuenevere find the remaining curios in the mines, Luther asks Gwuenevere about General Tristan. Gwuenevere points to a large crystal column that snaked up and down a nearby stone wall. There embedded within it is General Tristan the broadsword, their metal core warped and twisted by glowing crystals while their kernel lies entrapped by its crystalline prison.

Swordtember prompt 1 - Gothic - Lord Reynold

 Completed #swordtember prompt 1: Gothic

Lord Reynold (he/him, 34yrs) of Erdestra's Northern Borders

An esteemed aristocrat and patron of the arts. Especially architectural pursuits for castles, material storage, and refineries.

Hatched from a family of silver knives, he loves funding the largest and most elaborate structures in Erdestra. His favorite architectural element: flying buttresses.

His original form was a silver knife. As a refitted sword, his blade is iron with his silver core embedded within it. His current refit model is a writhen-hilted sword. His grip is made of poplar wood, with a bronze pommel and crossguard. His gloves and crossguard straps are made of hardened plant leather. His cape is made of thin wool fabric, partially ichoridic to have it roll up in a tight ball behind his crossguard while fighting.

He's a kind and exuberant fellow, known to talk about the various projects he funds. Reynold enjoys making friends, a very helpful skill for building allies during troubled times.

Upon his cape are two figures he considers his closest friends, Prince Luther and Lady Gwuenevere. He aided them through thick and thin throughout the battles with the Janthizerains after Arch Ekaterini's death (Prince Luther's progenitor).

Using randomspirits swordtember prompts.

Art by Amari Harkness - @Penwrythe | Not for the purpose of generated AI Art or NFTs