This chapter is wholly devoted to the resources and artwork i drew about many of the characters in the story. This first extras is devoted to the group of delvers we'll be following for some time since I relly like writing about them and i did draw all of them... multiple times each ncluding a draft and a few actual attempts... so... here you go.

Okay so first image is of Hans:

Lycans are basically 50% Dutch, 40% German and 10% Belgium, they are based on the idea of well... werewolves, specifically based on dutch/german shepherds mixed with Thylacines being marsupials instead of being mammals (no Kanids aren't marsupials, only this specific case which explain the black stripes).

Yes, the Goedendag is a real historical weapon which would be a good weapon for an adventurer in my mind since it's basically a miture of a club and a spear. Hans is not his full name and I didn't specifically based him off on anything. That is all since if i speak more than it will spoil some stuff.

Next up is Mark:

Yes okay... let's get the bad sheep out of the flock next... yeah... i cannot draw regular humans for the life of me... Humans in Ardalesh are basically regular humans like in out world. Mark is from Ravic City which means he's Swiss! So he's essentially part Garrickian, part fantasy french and part fantasy italy (neither are here yet in the story).

Let's get this over with... yes my art is... terrible... this is Royalroad so let's not talk more about art and such except for artwork and such... Also, Mark's artwork is the oldest of the 8 i will show here. Next up is Akol:

Ah Akol, let's go over the forest spirits... Akol's species is based around... not much actually, i did based the design somewhat out of Hohlicks from Thea 2 but... i can't really remember much more. Hahlens are Marsupials based on the tail, the quality of the image is... questionable since I'm not a photographer but you can clearly see his unique 'wand' in play and also him casting an Amber Spear as well.

BTW, I just realized i forgot to draw his tail as i was writing this so... that's why the tail is a bit... worse.... Anyways, next up we see Ren:

Yeah... there are lighting problems with this picture.... Ren's species is based off of traditional Ratfolk like in other fantasy titles, they aren't attached to any kind of nation whether from the real world or from Ardalesh since they are a very new species. Varmenions cannot speak the th word having to use d or z due to their buck teeth which actually doesn't show unlike regular rodents but are still quite long.

Alchemy in Ardalesh is 2 parts magic, 1 part herbology and one part chemistry so it's somewhat realistic but also not... Next up we have... Anh:

So here's Anh... Telarions are not actually attached to any type of nation like any of the races or speceis in the far east. It's more like there are a large variety of nations that may or may not have been formed by a singular species but nowadays any species in the east can be found in any of those nations,

Anh came from a nation loosely based on modern day Vietnam which itself is in a Federation loosely based on the ASEAN. Telarions are not based on any such nations or whatnot and neither are any of the other species of the area, they just split into different nation states with different languages, cultures and whatnot but still sharing a lot of similarities to others of their own kind in terms of special culture and traditions.

Next up we have Larec:

So... Larec... this artwork is a bit old compared to the others though not as old as Mark's artwork. Deidrin are based on electric eels as you can see... mixed with nordic influences wielding a very overlooked weapon in history which in history is only by the Swedish which is a Nordic country so it fits. The main language of the Deidrin is basically Icelandic.

I should probbly get this over with now... a lot sooner but i use real world language in my story because... it's hard to create a bunch of new languages though i will try to avoid Gobblygook from now on. Next up we have the two birds... let's get this over with... starting with Amelia:

So yeah, i suck when it comes to drawing bird people... in my eyes i sucj at drawing bird people even more than drawing humans. Amelia is Polish, completely since the Garrick Empire is a mixture of mostly German but also Belgium, Dutch aka the Netherlands, A bit of french, a bit of England and Poland.

Wrona is actually the polish word for Crow but in Ardalesh, I change it a bit to refer to the Ravicas which are basically Ravens and Crows mixed a bit together. Amelia is a bit based on an English Longbowman because i was annoyed by the way fantasy depicted archers though she is not a true english longbowman... that type of character comes a bit later. Finally, we have Tammy:

So Tammy... first off Latvienna... it's Lithuannia by the way... well the language is lithuanian but i gave myself a good bit of.. artistic liberties when it came to fleshing out the culture... which we would probably never see... yeah i have a bit of a world building problem. Extra fun fact, Avikarries have very high limb strength on al four limbs.

I won't go into detail about what bird species she's based out of... mostly because i forgotten but i do know it's a hybrid of 2 species. Her design is not particularly based on anything, i just wanted a character to use a warhammer as in an actual historical warhammer and not one of the fantasy one handed mauls or whatnot.

Also, i wanted a character with actual medical knowledge and do not want the regular fix all healing magic of regular fantasy worlds.

So... That's it, the designs are shit and the base od the designs are shit and i probably will butcher so many cultures but... i'm actually planning on other characters as well... specifically 30 more... yeah... anyways that's all for now...