Making good on my threat to do more Phoenix-born art, we get my rendition of dear Archduchess Roseluck, Amara, as well as her amps Thorn and Phlume's Kiss.

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Heya! I'm not dead! I needed a break from my disseration, so I decided to come up with a bit about the Smooze from Splintered Sky.

Splintered Sky isn't dead. I swear. I'm going to get back to it once I have the time to focus on something other than getting this PhD done.

Anyhow, here's Nitor's version of the unstoppable purple blob monster.

The Smooze

Origin:

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And now we reach the fourth of our five living Phoenix-born, and General Sentry's second: Commander Spitfire.

Hopefully doing some art for phoenix-born will help me get back into the grove. Till next time.

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The tribes: despite their evolution into the three races, the descendants of the harmonious-ones retain their ancestral species's distinct tribes. As with the harmonious ones, the three sub-tribes of each race are inter-fertile with one another, yet always breed true to one of the tribes. Depending on the parent's ancestry, any child born will be terran, harpy or eldritch, while tribal identity can skip generations if enough mixing occurs. In general, in a mixed tribal pairing, any children

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Working on the next chapter between grinding out my thesis. Decided to take a break and give a sort of visual guide to the sources that gave rise to the idea for the phoenix-born. It naturally started with Sunset, and evolved from there. Since a picture is worth a thousand words:

Canon sources of inspiration:

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Here she is. Queen Celestia's hand and voice. Leader of the phoenix-born. May I present to you, Lady Raven Inkwell and Dylis.

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What it says on the tin; I finished scanning and touching up a basic map of Impreacordia, the continent where Phoenix-born Rising takes place. While lacking in pretty much all details outside the borders of Solaria and Selenia, I do plan to add to it as time goes on to help flesh out the world.

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Hey everyone,

So, I have ca. 6 chapters outlined, but that's not enough for me to feel ready to start writing the actual text, since I want to have the arc mapped out. But, I want to share some stuff, so here are a few more amps that I've come up with for our elder phoenix-born.

Dusk Requiem
Linked user: Raven Inkwell
Object: medium shaft length bec de corbin

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Between working on the next chapter and my thesis, I needed a bit of a brain break, so I decided to put pecil to paper and come up with Splintered Sky's version of D'compose.

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Authors note: just want to give a little more world building for Splintered Sky. Since I've mentioned amps a few times, here's a bit of in-depth info on their general properties.

In the wake of the Splintering, the sun-gazers continued to innovate on their artificing and enchanting skills. In addition to new runes, improved smithing and forging dances, as well as enchanting processes came the invention of the process to create amplifiers, or amps.

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