Category: Art

Incredulous Aryon

So I’ve been trying to keep to keep to a schedule of finishing a comic at least once every two weeks, but alas things have been pretty busy this week and I’ve overbooked myself. So you get a planning-stage sketch of an incredulous Master Aryon instead of a finished comic.

This is basically the face that Master Aryon permanently wears when dealing with Steen’s antics. His range of emotions is:

  • Incredulous
  • Flustered
  • Sarcastic

And usually some combination of all three.

This sketch is a plan for a punchline panel for a comic I have in mind. But then I realized that I have at least 3 comics planned that have this as a punchline, so maybe the “Steen drives Aryon crazy as a punchline” isn’t as consistently funny as I thought.

I’ve even found myself recently trying to do things in-game because I know it will get Steen in trouble with her mentor. One day I decided I would design a recall-on-touch spell, and then run around sending a bunch of randos into Aryon’s tower. I had the whole scenario planned out in my head. Master Aryon would walk in to see a bunch of people chatting and mingling in his tower, and then he’d immediately know that Steen was to blame, and then bust her because she was in direct violation of his no-parties rule.

“STEEN! I THOUGHT I SAID NO PARTIES!”

“This isn’t a party! It’s an experiment!”

“Whatever it is, I want them OUT!”

Imagine how heartbroken I was when I discovered that the game does not allow you to make a Recall on Touch spell. I get it, that would make fights way too easy, you could just teleport them away. But I feel like the game should have made an exception for me, because I just wanted to use it to throw a party in Aryon’s tower and get busted. I would never use it in actual combat situations! Just for mischief!

I’ve started planning an alternate scheme for throwing a party, though. It is much more tedious, but it will all be worth it when I end up throwing a rager at Aryon’s place. I cast Command Humanoid on touch, and then Levitation on touch, and then lure the guests one by one up into the tower. Unfortunately, this means that probably all the guests will have to be from Vos because it is close by, and that is less hilarious than having a ton of total randos at the party. Alas!

Sleepy Time

The very first time I had ever played Morrowind, I didn’t realize that I had the Tribunal DLC installed. The very first night that I slept on the very first time I had ever played Morrowind was in Caius’ bed (with his permission). I was tired and beat up due to my walk from Sedya Neen to Balmora. And then, of course, a Dark Brotherhood assassin attacked me immediately. This was confusing enough, but even more confounding was Caius’ refusal to assist me in any way.

So I got rid of all the DLC and played Vanilla Morrowind for my first playthrough, and didn’t install Tribunal or Bloodmoon until after I’d defeated Dagoth Ur. The proper way to do it, if you ask me! It doesn’t make any sense that you’d be targeted in this way when you’re some nobody fresh off the boat.

The Worst Generation

Steen thought that Fast Eddie was the worst protege, completely forgetting that she was far from a perfect apprentice for Master Aryon.

Ahh, the hallowed lineage of Telvanni master-to-apprentice, reaching back through the millennia! Each generation of Masters absolutely certain that their generation of apprentices is the worst. Each forgetting that they were no perfect apprentice in their time.

I took a break from my comic schedule while I was in Iceland, but now that I’m back, the comics are back too!

PS: Divayth Fyr is sooooo old, that he was actually born a Chimer, and turned into a Dunmer after the events of the betrayal of Nerevar at Red Mountain leading to Azura’s Curse which made the Chimer people turn into what are now called the Dunmer. So for accuracy’s sake I figured I had better draw young-Divayth as a Chimer, and not as a Dunmer. Even if it is more confusing this way.

Divayth’s master is not actually a character in any game, so I just had to imagine what I thought an ancient Chimer Telvanni Master would look like. He is purely my invention. Of course, we know that the Chimer looked basically identical to the Altmer, since they had just recently emigrated from the Altmer homeland. At that time, the difference between the Chimer and the Altmer was purely cultural.