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Fan art of a friend's Tales Of Arcadia oc Idaila if she turned evil after the events of ROTT

Skrael My Beloved

Here is another drawing of my favorite Master of Ice Skrael in a wendigo style look which I'm looking forward to improve

Skrafe

This is the newest one I have done with these two it might be a bit trashy but it's my trash and I love it :>

Old Ship art

So for pride month I'd through I'd slap here some old ship art of my Tales of arcadia Wizard Oc Rafe/Valick a bisexual lad and Skreal hope you like planing on make more

Alright I have a working concept, but I'm NOT in the mood for anatomy so no full body.

I'm working primarily from Aztec mythology for our lovely pyromaniac, specifically Huitzilopochtli --- God of sacrifice, war, and the sun. He would transform into hummingbirds or hawks, so I'm thinking that's how Bellroc is going to spy on the group / Influence the war of Killahead since Bellroc takes a less primary role bc Skræl is the main antagonist.

They have two sets of arms, and a mastery of nearly all basic weapon types. They have a tail too bc a lot of art of Huitzilopochtli has a tail and I thought it'd be neat to add 😋

Another concept I'm thinking about is having their cloak of hawk and hummingbird feathers turn into a pair of wings, but I'm not sure if they'll keep their second pair of arms if that design moves forward as a primary.

Did their staff based off the Quetzalcoatl, but that's definitely prone to change.

Bellroc is able to master nearly any fighting style and technique, along with having quick thinking skills. They have particularly good control of their muscles, which makes their balance immaculate.

I might add some Hindu and Native American elements to their design in the future but for tonight I like what I have. Which, is not a lot, but it's better than nothing at all 👍

Doing research for Bellroc’s redesign right now. A few concept designs as well, might have some art to upload later tonight or tomorrow for all 3 people in the Trollhunters fandom 🫶

Doing research for Bellroc’s redesign right now. A few concept designs as well, might have some art to upload later tonight or tomorrow for all 3 people in the Trollhunters fandom 🫶

Oh, canon Skrael, how I both hate and love you.

Beautiful art OP🫶

Skrael

Skræl's design is final, so I decided to finally start the work on Concepts for Nari, the eldest of the Arcane Order.

I'm still not completely happy with any of these, and none have made the cut to be finalized.

I want Nari to have way more Troll features. Maybe a Dryad or Spriggan can act as a very, very faint inspiration, but I'm mostly going to start referencing Medieval paintings of animals like lions or dragons from now on.

Still, I did art relating to Trollhunters, so it's getting posted.

Individual close-ups.

I was poking around in the Rise of the Titans tag to find a specific prediction for the film when I stumbled upon this.

Jim could have been a Changeling???

And they scrapped it?????

Oh, this is definitely going into my Au.

Everyone could have had it all. Claire's magic was meant to make him a new type of changeling that did not have/need a familiar...

Digitalized and colored version of my version of Skræl! I started him a while back and finally finished coloring this idiot.

I still haven’t watched the Dragon Prince, but I’ve been seeing a lot about this Aaravos character. Got spoiled and learned his backstory + Leola’s backstory and I gotta say, I’m going to use that “ocean of tears” plot point for Skræl after he’s released from his eternal crystal imprisonment.

Y'know how I said I was taking a break from Trollhunters?

I lied.

Anyways send asks about anything you want to know about my Au for the Arcane Order. I need to get back into their lore and answering questions seems fun.

Asks are almost always open to things about my various interests.

The more and more I rewatch Wizards I just keep noticing how much more screen time Skræl gets in the series rather than the movie where he's one of the two antagonists, the same goes for Bellroc and Nari. They all get more time to be a bit more expressive then they do in Rise of Titans.

Yes, we get to see Nari angry and being badass in the Earth vs Ice Titan fight, but we see the same thing (less of a focus) in the Killahead battle when she's kicking the Camelot Knights asses.

I will never be able to stop rambling about how much missed potential the Arcane Order had, they were so cool for what? 😭

Something random I've noticed during my rewatch of Wizards:

There's quite a few cutaways that feature little scenes with Skræl.

At the battle of Killahead when Morgana appears, the scene cuts to Skræl for a split second before returning to the fight.

When the Arcane Order attacks Camelot in the first episode, during the little "introduction" to Bellroc and Skræl, the camera focuses on Skræl before returning to the attack.

In the final episode, when the Arcane Order discards Arthur's helmet, the camera focuses on Skræl before cutting away again.

There's probably more but these are the three I remember clearly.

If only Wizards had the same run-time as 3below 😭 We could have had so much more content and character development with another season

Get suspended in a stasis crystal, loser

Alright alright!, here we go!

(Long, long text post after the cut)

First things first, lore time!!

All of this may change overtime as I make adjustments and figure out finer plot details, so don't take everything for being set in stone.

Anyways, my story for the Arcane Order is WAY different than the canon version we were given.

Beginnings

Starting with the main cast, Skrael, Bellroc, and Nari are given a bit of a different dynamic than shown in the show. Instead of just being a vague group of primordial wizards, they were born from the earth itself. Evolution plays out as it does in the modern science books, with the different eras and ice ages. The earliest plant life began about 460 million years ago, that is when Nari first appeared. Nari created new forms of life over a very long stretch of time, including the earliest forms of dinosaurs, and watching those dinosaurs evolve on their own. When they are wiped out by an asteroid, however...

That is when the second Arcane Order member would appear, around the end of the Cretaceous period about 66 million years ago. The recovery period afterwards is when Bellroc comes into the picture for the Arcane Order. They appear while the smaller mammals and rodents are running around and scavenging, trying to survive. (This is where they get their skull headpiece---It's a runt giganotosaurus skull! ((might change to be a juvenile allosaurus skull as well, or a Utah raptor))). From here on Bellroc is just kind of... there. They live throughout history until we get to about... 2 billion years ago.

2 billion years ago is when the first Ice Age began! Which means, you guessed it, Skræl appears! Before this time, however, Bellroc and Nari had grown into a siblings-like bond, with Nari guiding and helping Bellroc around the powers they now wielded.

They hadn't really been meddling in creation very much up to the point that Skræl appears, but afterwards, they start steering the course of the Earth, which includes the beginning of the human race. This is a post for another day, so let's just skip to the part that focuses the most on Skræl!

Skræl's lore / his role in humanity

From here, the timeline can get a bit muddy, since the Inuit and Norse and Norwegien groups of humans I have inspired his looks and lore from appear at about the 13th century, meanwhile toa Wizards dates the Killahead War at the late 12th century. I ask you ignore this hiccup in my storyline, please and thank you!

Anyway, Skræl had taken a liking to the humans who were choosing to live in his harsh arctic environment, specifically the several different Eskimo peoples, which include but are not limited to the eight Inuit groups (credit to this site for the information): The Labradormiut (Labrador), Nunavimmiut (Ungava), Baffin Island, Iglulingmuit (Iglulik), Kivallirmiut (Caribou), Netsilingmiut (Netsilik), Inuinnait (Copper) and Inuvialuit or Western Arctic Inuit (who replaced the Mackenzie Inuit).

Starting with his name, Skræl took his name off of the term that the Old Norse and Icelandic people had for the Inuit tribes, skrælingi or plural skrælingjar. From before this point, Skræl had just been referred to as North Wind by the other members of the Arcane Order and by any mortal/magical creature who knew of him. He chose to be referred to as a male a long time ago as well, simply to ensure that there wasn't much confusion amongst the humans whom he was spending more and more time watching and messing with.

Skræl had been meddling with humans for a very long time, since the first Ice age, and all of the time afterwards that there were ever any humans in his Arctic environment. He had taught the humans many different skills, and was sometimes worshipped alongside other deities by the Old Norse.

He often met with at least one or two elders of an Inuit group every few generations simply to talk and see them off into the next life. (Energy and souls can be reincarnated in my version of Trollhunters, which will leave interesting story options open for future use).

Because of Skræl's open enjoyment of the human race, you can see how I'm setting up the Killahead battle and the way he will react to being asked to meddle with such an important and fragile battle for balance. But that's for later.

Skræl's design inspiration

There are several different observable things to talk about in his design, so lets start with his head dress: the walrus skull.

The reason I decided upon a walrus skull rather than one of a caribou or mammoth or any other great beast is because of the Inuit legend of Sedna, the sea goddess. In the legend, Sedna has her fingers cut off, which then become all of the sea creatures of the oceans, which include things like whales, seals, and walruses. Before this legend came around, though, Skræl had been wearing a scimitar cat skull instead. He switched to a walrus to be more connected to the Inuit.

The second part of his design is his "cloak", which is really just a standard Inuit fur coat that has been cut down the middle like a jacket, and thrown over his shoulders like a cloak. He doesn't wear it like the mortals would because he, as a god, doesn't need to worry about freezing to death. I also just wanted an excuse to show off his tattoos, which may or may not be added. (I still have to find some good and credible resources and references to the meanings behind chest and arm tattoos for the Inuit, so only his face has any right now in the final art I've done for him. the only reason he's kept the two lines across the face is because they **allegedly** mean that he has killed a rather large or memorable whale).

The third part is his pants, which are the common pants of a Norwegian / Viking trousers. They are tied at the waist with rope and wooden/bone beads, because Skræl is just extra like that. The shoes/'shin guards' are also typical boots for Viking age Norwegians *according to my sources*, but I cut them off at the ankle so that he can be bare foot in the snow like the little maniac he is.

Speaking of little, I made him so much larger than he is in the cannon. Skræl stands at about 5'6" when standing up straight, and he's bigger physically, but still extremely lean. He has more of the native features of an Inuit (referenced from old photos off Google).

In a previous ask I sent to @ssiggss, I said that he has braids beneath the hood and skull, but now I'm not sure if I want him to be bald or not. Probably not, just to go the easy route, since I can barely draw loose hair as it is.

He has those little itsy bitsy horns on his head still, too. No lore reason, I just liked them in his canon design.

Skræl (and Bellroc's role) in the battle of Killahead, and a tease at the rest of the story!

Nari is the one who calls the Arcane Order together to discuss the issue of the balance within her domain, and urges them for help. Bellroc and Skræl are don't really agree with the idea of meddling in such a big event, considering they didn't help any of the other previous civilizations during things like the Ice Ages, Aztec empires, or natural disasters like Pompei.

They decline her request, and leave the Wild Wood.

Immediately, Nari is pissed off and tells them to help, but they still decline. Nari gives Morgana her power to be the Mother of Monsters, and meddles in the battle herself.

And then Skræ; and Bellroc disappear...

...until the time of Merlin's death.

Someone ask me about my version of Skrael PLEASE 🙏 I WANT TO RAMBLE ABOUT THIS LOSER

Someone ask me about my version of Skrael PLEASE 🙏 I WANT TO RAMBLE ABOUT THIS LOSER

Wizards X JJK

bruh~ finished Tales of Arcadia: Wizards yesterday and please lets talk about this cuties~ I saw them and my first thought was, SHE is the big sister that Jimbo needs!

THIS SHOW WAS ALSO PART OF MY CHILDHOOD OMGGGGGG

toa kiddos from a bit ago ^__^

was practicing painting on 1 layer for funsies and it turned into a bunch of them

Versiones del Krexie

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Krexie versions

Idea descartada/ discarded idea

When I was finally able to finish the design for Mordred!Douxie (also Mordred's), I started thinking about what his story would be like.

Earlier version:

Mordred and Douxie were not friends. They only knew who they were to each other.

Mordred was the villain for no reason.

Mordred would come out of his seal as a ghost.

Mordred!Douxie was just the evil version of Hisirdoux

Mordred's story was still unfinished. But in the last concept I mentioned I made this drawing.

I also thought that Mordred would take an interest in Krel and try to make him his king.

I really liked the concept but then I thought it was too cliché and decided to change it.

Apart for that is Seamus or another character.

In the end, things ended like this:

Mordred is Douxie's former best friend and seeks revenge on him because, according to Mordred, he betrayed him and thinks that the best way to do it is by taking away what he loves most through death and Krel will be his first victim. All to see Douxie suffer.

Mordred´s backstory/ El pasado de Mordred.

Aquí voy a relatar la historia de Mordred Pendragón (mi oc) y de como llegó a ser un villano / here im going to tell the story of Mordred Pendragon (my oc) and how he became a villain.

Cuando Mordred era jóven, era un niño muy feliz junto a su familia, desde pequeño soñaba con convertirse en caballero por lo que solía entrenar con su padre (Rey Arturo), pero eso no era lo único que le interesaba. Mordred también amaba la magia al igual que su madre (Guinevere), Mordred amaba cuando su tía (Morgana) hacía magia, a pesar de las advertencias de su padre, Mordred seguía interesado en la magía 

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When Mordred was young, he was a very happy child with his family, since he was little he dreamed of becoming a knight so he used to train with his father (King Arthur), but that was not the only thing that interested him. Mordred also loved magic just like his mother (Guinevere), Mordred loved when his aunt (Morgana) did magic, despite his father's warnings, Mordred was still interested in magic.

Mordred tenía la vida perfecta, pero todo eso cambio con la muerte de Gwen / Mordred had the perfect life, but all that changed with Gwen's death.

Después de eso, su vida empezó a complicarse, como ya se sabe, Arturo prohibió la magia, gracias a eso, el y Morgana discutían bastante, esto afectaba bastante Mordred y lo hacía sentir muy mal tanto que lloraba en su cuarto por las noches. La situación empeoró cuando la magia de Mordred empezó a manifestarse, cuando Arturo se enteró quedó decepcionado de su hijo, esto lo llevo a rechazarlo. El amor que Mordred le tenía a su padre desapareció cuando Arturo le dijo “Tu no eres mi hijo” y desde entonces Mordred pasaba mucho mas tiempo con Morgana porque sentía que ella era la única que lo quería 

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 After that, his life began to get complicated, as is known, Arthur prohibited magic, thanks to that, he and Morgana argued a lot, this affected Mordred a lot and made him feel very bad so much that he cried in his room at night. The situation worsened when Mordred's magic began to manifest, when Arthur found out he was disappointed in his son, this led him to reject him. The love that Mordred had for his father disappeared when Arthur told him "You are not my son" and since then Mordred spent much more time with Morgana because he felt that she was the only one who loved him.

Los años pasaron y Mordred se volvió un chico muy negativo y rebelde con problemas de ira. En sus entrenamientos solía ser muy agresivo con los otros caballeros, tanto que Arturo tenía que intervenir. Las peleas entre el y su padre eran muy frecuentes, Mordred se volvió mucho mas apegado a Morgana y ella era la única persona con la que podía desahogarse. Ella le enseño a como usar su magia y hacer hechizos para que su espada sea más dañina al atacar.

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Years passed and Mordred became a very negative and rebellious boy with anger issues. In his training he used to be very aggressive with the other knights, so much so that Arthur had to intervene. The fights between him and his father were very frequent, Mordred became much more attached to Morgana and she was the only person with whom he could vent. She taught him how to use his magic and cast spells to make his sword more damaging when attacking.

Al verlo tan solo y triste, Morgana pensó que era buena idea que el hiciera amigos, así que ella le dijo que se juntara con Douxie y hablaran, Mordred solo acepto para no molestar a su tía. Douxie, al tener a Mordred adelante de el, se sentía realmente aterrado por que sabía que el era mas que capaz de matarlo si metía la pata. sorpresivamente para los dos, comenzaron una gran amistad y Mordred y Douxie se volvieron muy cercanos.

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Seeing him so lonely and sad, Morgana thought it was a good idea for him to make friends, so she told him to meet Douxie and talk, Mordred only accepted so as not to disturb her aunt. Douxie, having Mordred in front of him, felt really terrified because he knew that he was more than capable of killing him if he messed up. surprisingly for the two, they began a great friendship and Mordred and Douxie became very close.

pero todo cambió cuando Mordred y Morgana decidieron pelear contra Arturo y tomar Camelot. Mordred le propuso a Douxie unírsele, Douxie acepto pero lo hizo porque eso era parte de un plan de Merlín para detener a Mordred y sellarlo en su espada. Cuando Mordred descubre esto se siente muy furioso y traicionado, Mordred quería matarlo, Douxie trató hacerlo entrar en razón pero ya era tarde, Merlín logró sellarlo cuando estuvo a punto de matar a Douxie. Su espada fue escondida en un lugar secreto. Douxie obviamente se sintió muy triste, a pesar de saber que lo que hizo era por un bien mayor, se sintía culpable porque haber traicionado a su mejor amigo.

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but everything changed when Mordred and Morgana decided to fight Arthur and take Camelot. Mordred asked Douxie to join him, Douxie agreed but did so because it was part of Merlin's plan to stop Mordred and seal him in his sword. When Mordred discovers this he feels very angry and betrayed, Mordred wanted to kill him, Douxie tried to make him see reason but it was too late, Merlin managed to seal him when he was about to kill Douxie. His sword was hidden in a secret place. Douxie obviously felt very sad, despite knowing that what he did was for the greater good, he felt guilty because he had betrayed his best friend.

900 años después, Mordred regresa para cobrar venganza contra Douxie para hacer esto, Mordred posee a Douxie para estar mas cerca de sus amigos y así matarlos para hacer que el sufra......parece que Krel será el primero en su lista.

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900 years later, Mordred returns to take revenge against Douxie for doing this, Mordred possesses Douxie to be closer to his friends and thus kill them to make him suffer......it seems that Krel will be the first on his list.

Fin./ The end.

its finally here.

WARNING: IT CONTAINS BLOOD

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finalmente esta aqui

ADVERTENCIA: CONTIENE SANGRE.

TRANLATION:

Mordred: Get away Tarron, this is not your fight.

Krel: Yes,yes it is

postcrip: douxie is not dead, he's just badly hurt and weak 

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posdata: douxie no esta muerto, solo esta mal herido y débil 

Tarron - Casperan twins

she is the one that most resembles Douxie in terms of personality / ella es la que se parece mas a Douxie en cuestión de personalidad.

he is the one that most resembles Krel in terms of personality / es el que se parece mas a Krel en cuestión de personalidad.

bonus: the twins with aunt nari when they were children / los gemelos con la tía Nari cuando eran niños.

my new AU

I created an AU where Mordred is not a villain and has been friends with Douxie since the middle eges. So i started to imagine how Krel would react when met him when Krel already saw the worst version of Mordred in his reality.

postcript: i have planned to upload more things from this AU.

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He creado un AU donde Mordred no es un villano y ha sido amigo de Douxie desde la edad media. Entonces me puse a imaginar como Krel reaccionaría al conocerlo cuando Krel ya había visto la peor version de Mordred en su realidad.

posdata: Tengo pensado subir mas cosas de este AU

Mordred: Tell me, Tarron!. Why do you hate me so much if we barely know each other!?

Krel: You would not understand....

“But you will lose him forever...”