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I have a few Unmaïre Setting drawings from the last week. I'm at a point where I'd very much like to draw something else, but no ideas have come to me for visual ideas in 2-III-C-Delta-Gimmel (still need to write out and visually design the last arc of this cycle of issues), and the one fanart idea that's been building would take a great deal of effort and research.

The second drawing is more Genre scenes of life in the Hypermarinian Capital (a traditional Yunaiti coffee house, a drag ball at the above embassy, and the construction site for the new wing of the National Scriptorium), but Genre drawings, both in the senses of Genre Fiction and Genre Painting, bring a kind of attention that my page very much does not want, and so I am apprehensive as to posting it.

This is a sheet for the embassy of the Kingdom of Chlod in the Hypermarinian Capital, built during the early days of the reign of Archibald I as modern diplomacy in the region was just developing, in direct response to many of the intrigues of the Tzassic Wars (roughly g.c. 1464-1476, beginning right as Archibald assumed an age of majority). The structure is built as a display of Chlod's refinement (a whitewashed exterior in an ornate French Renaissance style with many large glass windows and a geometrically precise ornamental garden), Chlod's martial might (built on the floor plan of a fortified castle, with a ramparted wall, a fortified gateway, and a deep moat, presently infested with algae), Chlod's internal stability (possessing many features that would make the structure indefensible with modern weapons technology, such as the tall, thin towers and windows large enough for a besieger to walk through with ease), and the might of the Chlodian State Religion (a Chlodier pantheon in Flamboyant Gothic style which is frequented by Chlodian tourists to Hypermarinos). The irony of all of these aspects, of course, is that the Kingdom of Chlod has spent the last 28 years continuously losing wars and being clowned on by their neighbors (Brummellian slavers, Maurician coal miners, Hanaportan merchant bankers, Yunaiti viceroydoms, &c. &c.), whilst stumbling into becoming a global power through their long voyages and establishment of mercantile factories down the Arfanic Coast in a newfangled business called Colonialism.

The liveried servants are a fair Elizabethanization of the Onion Servants in the 80's Shounen Ai anime Patalliro and the Gardes du Corps Halberdiers remind me of the playing card soldiers in Alice in Wonderland. Chlod was always a bit of a parody of Early Modern Europe, in particular of pre-Civil War Britain and the Portuguese Golden Age, so the period's odd mix of Farce and Horror should be brought out entire in my portrayals of it. Doctor Thomas Wainwright was developed out of many of the Renaissance's stereotypes about "Melancholia", how they stigmatized and pathologized bookishness and asociality at the time, and Brigadier General Agnes 7th Countess Sheaf is intended as a fantasy counterpart to the Chevaliere d'Eion.

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I have a few Unmaïre Setting drawings from the last week. I'm at a point where I'd very much like to draw something else, but no ideas have come to me for visual ideas in 2-III-C-Delta-Gimmel (still need to write out and visually design the last arc of this cycle of issues), and the one fanart idea that's been building would take a great deal of effort and research.

The second drawing is more Genre scenes of life in the Hypermarinian Capital (a traditional Yunaiti coffee house, a drag ball at the above embassy, and the construction site for the new wing of the National Scriptorium), but Genre drawings, both in the senses of Genre Fiction and Genre Painting, bring a kind of attention that my page very much does not want, and so I am apprehensive as to posting it.

This is a sheet for the embassy of the Kingdom of Chlod in the Hypermarinian Capital, built during the early days of the reign of Archibald I as modern diplomacy in the region was just developing, in direct response to many of the intrigues of the Tzassic Wars (roughly g.c. 1464-1476, beginning right as Archibald assumed an age of majority). The structure is built as a display of Chlod's refinement (a whitewashed exterior in an ornate French Renaissance style with many large glass windows and a geometrically precise ornamental garden), Chlod's martial might (built on the floor plan of a fortified castle, with a ramparted wall, a fortified gateway, and a deep moat, presently infested with algae), Chlod's internal stability (possessing many features that would make the structure indefensible with modern weapons technology, such as the tall, thin towers and windows large enough for a besieger to walk through with ease), and the might of the Chlodian State Religion (a Chlodier pantheon in Flamboyant Gothic style which is frequented by Chlodian tourists to Hypermarinos). The irony of all of these aspects, of course, is that the Kingdom of Chlod has spent the last 28 years continuously losing wars and being clowned on by their neighbors (Brummellian slavers, Maurician coal miners, Hanaportan merchant bankers, Yunaiti viceroydoms, &c. &c.), whilst stumbling into becoming a global power through their long voyages and establishment of mercantile factories down the Arfanic Coast in a newfangled business called Colonialism.

The liveried servants are a fair Elizabethanization of the Onion Servants in the 80's Shounen Ai anime Patalliro and the Gardes du Corps Halberdiers remind me of the playing card soldiers in Alice in Wonderland. Chlod was always a bit of a parody of Early Modern Europe, in particular of pre-Civil War Britain and the Portuguese Golden Age, so the period's odd mix of Farce and Horror should be brought out entire in my portrayals of it. Doctor Thomas Wainwright was developed out of many of the Renaissance's stereotypes about "Melancholia", how they stigmatized and pathologized bookishness and asociality at the time, and Brigadier General Agnes 7th Countess Sheaf is intended as a fantasy counterpart to the Chevaliere d'Eion.