Arcanights - Semi-Open Species

Posted 6 years, 9 months ago (Edited 6 years, 1 month ago) by Ezri

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I've been working on these guys for a few months and I think I'm finally ready to get some feedback on them/start seeing if anyone's interested. I don't have any really nice, completed visual guides or anything like that, but I think there's enough information here if anyone wants to make their own. I'm always happy to answer questions and take feedback, too!

This is just me throwing a bunch of info and ideas out there, but if people are interested I'll be looking into making a world/masterlist and making more adoptables of them myself. I'd be thrilled if enough people liked it that we could make a community for rp and stuff but??? We'll see I guess!

ARCANIGHTS

Arcanights are magically created artificial beings who's souls are bound to tarot cards. They act as guides and guardians, bonding to one human and devoting their existence to helping their chosen partner in achieving their goals. 

Here's the species weebly for more information! 

A TYPICAL MINOR ARCANIGHT

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SOME VISUAL GUIDES

If you can't read my handwriting I'm really sorry 

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TYPES/RARITIES

TYPES|RARITIESCARDSTRAITSMYO
Minor Arcana | CommonNumbered cards (1-10) of all suitsAll basic traitsYES
Court Arcana | UncommonPage, Knight, Queen, King of all suits2 pairs of wings, larger horns, CoolerNO
Major Arcana | RareThe 21 cards in the Major Arcana3 pairs of wings, wildcard horns, CoolestNO


SEMI-OPEN?

All of the information and lore provided pertains to Minor Arcanights -- Arcanights who are born from cards of the minor arcana in the tarot. Anyone is free to make their own Minor Arcanight! 

You can make Minor Arcanights for yourself or a friend, but you cannot sell Arcanights as adoptables! 

I haven't decided what to do about the major arcana yet (the fool, the magician, etc.), but I feel that they'll be much rarer and distinct visually from any Minor Arcanights. I'm also unsure about making distinctions for court cards in the minor arcana (Pages, Knights, Queens, and Kings), so I'll ask that you refrain from making those until proper guidelines for them can be made. Court cards and the Major Arcana are the equivalent of uncommon and rare variations of the species, so they will be different visually. I'm just not sure how yet -- if anyone has any suggestions or ideas or anything like that, please tell me about them!


SO YEAH that's what I've got, thanks for reading all that if you read it all! Questions/feedback/complaints/whatever are welcome!


AVAILABLE ADOPTS
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Link to the sales thread!


Synchronicity

Ahh thank you ;v; my sister and I knew we wanted him paired with Lithia but since she wasn't technically human I chose "ward" xD (also I got it from Game of Thrones LOL).

Also oooh a Halloween Arcanight sounds really interesting! I look forward to seeing her <3!!

yudeph

bumpo

Ezri

AAAA thanks for the bump!


I wish I had more news/adopts, but I'm still working on some things that I'm not quite prepared to present yet. But! Custom slots are open again for November+December if anyone has been looking out for those! \ o /

Ezri

HELLO!! I've been gone for too long but I really wanted to return to Arcanights! SO there's a new adopt up in the sales thread and I've started a species world on toyhou.se! https://toyhou.se/~world/19082.arcanights
There's lots more I want to do, but I won't make any promises right now lmAO

As always I'm open to questions, suggestions, critique or anything!


aerilurus

Such a cool concept and inspiration from tarot!! Just a quick q, if I made a Minor Arcanight, do I have to submit the design to you for approval? I'd love to make one since I've been considering to make a tarot-inspired character and i love designs with horns and this species would look like a fun way to approach it. I also have a few more questions so I don't screw up a potential design:

  • Is there a specific color for the metal parts for the open MYO?
  • Do the nub feet and horns have to be visible at all times?
  • Is the overall theme of the clothes medieval-inspired? [I like to draw modern clothes, but I think medieval inspired clothing would be a great challenge.]
Sorry if this is a bombardment of questions, but I'm interested in this species! `w`
Ezri

aerilurus Thank you so much! No need to apologize ; u ; I don't require submission and approval right now for MYOs, but I just really like to see them so if you do make one I'd love it if you showed me anyway!

  • There's no specific restrictions on the metal colors for MYOs! Only the normal restrictions for all Arcanights, which is just that they're natural-looking colors for metal.
  • The horns and feet can be covered up by clothing or something like that, if that's what you mean! If they'd be completely obscured it might be good to have an alternate reference or something where they're visible? But there's no rule about them being visible all the time.
  • Their overall theme (for the 'official' ones I've made, anyway) is sort of fantasy-esque without a specific time period in mind. Since medieval art is pretty prominent in tarot it would make sense for Arcanights to have that sort of look!


coffeebean

Welcome back ezri! : D  Its nice to see some life coming back to this thread, and i can see you're already getting some interest which is wonderful aah
I saw the newest cutie pop up on deviantart and I love them!!  What an adorable copper bean ;u;

You probably saw already but i joined the world too!

Synchronicity

Hey everyone! I'm glad to see more activity in this species ♡!
And tbh, I've never made or joined a world on here before so I can't really help with the world, but nevertheless it sounds like a really fun idea ^^!

aerilurus

Just finished my Minor Arcanight design! I was hella eager to make one so of course I had to get it done ASAP.

Let me know if I made the horns/wings too big, I may have misjudged the size orz. Also found some overlapping meanings of 3 of Wands with other cards, so I just decided to stick with the ones that seemed the most common.

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Ezri

timeandtimor  I think the crowns are a great idea for the Court cards!! I'll have to see if I can make their horns into a crown while keeping their suit-associated shapes, but if I can't find a good solution there I think just having them wear crowns would be good too. ;u; Thanks so much for the suggestion! 

coffeebean Synchronicity Thanks so much you guys <3 I really missed it, aahhhh

aerilurus OOHH I love them! I don't think I've been consistent with wing/horn size at all, so no worries haha. They look great to me, I really love the colors!!

miv

They're p cool! I want to make a male swords one but still haven't decided on a certain one yet; narrowed it down to ace, three, six, eight-ten O:

Ezri

@tsushirolls Thank you!! Swords is my favorite suit so that's tough ;v; I think eight and three are quite cool but you couldn't go wrong with any of them!

aska-ray

/sees Tarot

OH BOY. I want to make one now!! How did I miss this before? This is such a cool idea!