DeathbyPixelz Archive
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Here’s where I repost kaldorei secession AU lore, OC lore, and written works from my main @deathbypixelz.bsky.social to function as a more easily accessible archive.
#aulore | #writing | #askbox | OCs are tagged by name (see pinned)
#aulore | #writing | #askbox | OCs are tagged by name (see pinned)
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This account exists to make finding information on my OCs and kaldorei secession AU easier. I repost from my main almost exclusively. In the thread below are major links and housekeeping.
I don't think I ever told bsky about Scare Tactics, a 2022 one shot about Cathala herb gathering in Elwynn. It's a combination of early spring/late winter atmosphere and visceral combat once some overconfident bandits show up lol
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#pixelzart #nightelf #warcraftoc
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#pixelzart #nightelf #warcraftoc
January 2, 2026 at 1:28 PM
In honor of Brawler's Guild returning, a sketch page of Cathala during her pit fighter era, aka her "I never sleep well and I'm socially isolated despite my best efforts and yet the Guild is the only place I feel I even kind of belong. I'm fine. it's fine 😀" phase.
#pixelzart #nightelf #kaldorei
#pixelzart #nightelf #kaldorei
December 10, 2025 at 3:58 PM
HOW ELVES GOT THEIR TWO EXTRA FINGERS (🧵)
I need to lay down some basic biology first: IRL, all extant tetrapods (four-limbed animals) have 5 or fewer unique digits. They either retain the ancestral condition or lose/fuse digits. You cannot spontaneously create+
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I need to lay down some basic biology first: IRL, all extant tetrapods (four-limbed animals) have 5 or fewer unique digits. They either retain the ancestral condition or lose/fuse digits. You cannot spontaneously create+
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Tangentially related, remind me to put my tumblr post about how elves gained their extra fingers on here tomorrow.
November 30, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I wrote two chapters (4.5k total) about Cathala and Tarinne in the days following Teldrassil. As in, it begins the very next day, after Cathala escaped and reunited with Tarinne in Stormwind.
If you like hurt/comfort, this is the strong stuff ✊TwT
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#pixelzart #warcraft
If you like hurt/comfort, this is the strong stuff ✊TwT
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#pixelzart #warcraft
November 29, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Stealing from my mutual again
Ylrith, my crime syndicate leader lady, because I don’t talk about her much but she’s very much just hiding in the shadows of my mind, fully developed.
Ylrith, my crime syndicate leader lady, because I don’t talk about her much but she’s very much just hiding in the shadows of my mind, fully developed.
November 17, 2025 at 7:16 PM
She pretends not to be, but Cathala is lowkey self-conscious about her accent. If she needs to, she can behaviorally blend in with other kaldorei. But as soon as she opens her mouth people start asking questions, even if only in their heads. It bothers her and it bothers her that it bothers her.
November 15, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Okay lore time for that sand troll/goblin duo I created the other day.
First off, the sand troll: Rezza’fon.
First off, the sand troll: Rezza’fon.
November 12, 2025 at 1:28 AM
In my AU, the Zandalari Empire's largest export, by far, is chocolate. Cocoa trees are endemic to Zandalar and the cultivation and refinement of cocoa is a closely guarded, ancient art. More in the thread 👇
#pixelzart #zandalari #warcraft
#pixelzart #zandalari #warcraft
November 2, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Basically here's how "true deities" work in my AU. Elune is currently the best example. (🧵)
They are immaterial, more like a force of nature than a discrete being. They are *part* of the universe. But unlike a force of nature they have a will and consciousness -- to put it in mortal terms, anyway.
They are immaterial, more like a force of nature than a discrete being. They are *part* of the universe. But unlike a force of nature they have a will and consciousness -- to put it in mortal terms, anyway.
Discussing the nature of deities in Warcraft over Discord and I am suddenly so grateful that I stopped engaging with Shadowlands' story before it went completely haywire. I love ignoring stupid shit ❤️
October 22, 2025 at 9:30 PM
October 22, 2025 at 3:49 AM
This account exists to make finding information on my OCs and kaldorei secession AU easier. I repost from my main almost exclusively. In the thread below are major links and housekeeping.
October 22, 2025 at 3:29 AM
This account exists to make finding information on my OCs and kaldorei secession AU easier. I repost from my main almost exclusively. In the thread below are major links and housekeeping.
2023 art of Cathala, her older sister Alarien, and their father Talidis out fishing some hundred years (or so) before the Dark Portal. Just a humble fishing family in northern Darkshore :)
#pixelzart #warcraftart #nightelf
#pixelzart #warcraftart #nightelf
October 22, 2025 at 2:58 AM
I obviously drew that ⬆️ before I redesigned Maiev's armor ⬇️
October 22, 2025 at 2:58 AM
#aulore
(View quoted post for more detail because it has its own quote lol. This is an entire alphabet and writing system I made for Darnassian)
(View quoted post for more detail because it has its own quote lol. This is an entire alphabet and writing system I made for Darnassian)
Very small "patch": now the two different versions of "a" are just long and short. Also more examples of vertically-written Darnassian to show that off :) Lastly, simple punctuation: apostrophes make compounds, dashes between verbs and objects indicate subjunctive.
#pixelzart #nightelf #kaldorei
#pixelzart #nightelf #kaldorei
October 22, 2025 at 2:57 AM
#aulore
(View quoted post for more detail because it has its own quote lol. This is an entire alphabet and writing system I made for Darnassian)
(View quoted post for more detail because it has its own quote lol. This is an entire alphabet and writing system I made for Darnassian)
WOE, OC BACKSTORIES BE UPON YE.
Cathala's and Tarinne's life stories up until the end of the Fourth War, summarized for your reading pleasure :) I tend to adopt what I'll call a "semi-prose" writing style for these kinds of things so I get a little artsy here and there.
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#aulore
Cathala's and Tarinne's life stories up until the end of the Fourth War, summarized for your reading pleasure :) I tend to adopt what I'll call a "semi-prose" writing style for these kinds of things so I get a little artsy here and there.
3.7k
#aulore
Tarinne and Cathala combo backstory | Ellipsus
I’m normal about them
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October 22, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Okay so
Thywen isn’t Tarinne’s biological father. She’s never even met her other biological parent.
((Big long thread because there's more to it than you might think ⬇️))
Thywen isn’t Tarinne’s biological father. She’s never even met her other biological parent.
((Big long thread because there's more to it than you might think ⬇️))
FUCK I HAVE TO LEAVE FOR WORK remind me to go on an infodump about Tarinne's dad on break because a little while ago I made her whole family situation a lot more interesting with just a small change...
October 22, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Did I mention I came up with an entire kaldorei festival based around a hippogryph race on the summer solstice?? (🧵)
🪶☀️ Elor'belo, the Long Sun Festival ☀️🪶
#pixelzart #warcraftart #nightelf
🪶☀️ Elor'belo, the Long Sun Festival ☀️🪶
#pixelzart #warcraftart #nightelf
October 22, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Rough draft of the personification of death in kaldorei culture, for my AU. (2023)
Lore and such in the replies ⬇️
#pixelzart #warcraftart #nightelf
Lore and such in the replies ⬇️
#pixelzart #warcraftart #nightelf
![Rough sketches of a figure with night elven ears, long dark hair, and most importantly a mask resembling the oni masks of our world. It has heavy, staring eyes and long tusks curving downward from smiling lips, as well as asymmetrical antlers curving from the forehead. There's also a sketch of it with an actual night elf. It stands over twice as high as them, putting it at a bit over 14 feet/4 meters tall.
The notes in the image read:
-Not necessarily feared or seen to be evil — death is a part of nature’s cycle — but it is very respected.
-Depictions vary from region to region, but they all have the black pupils, tusks, and waning crescent antlers.
-Seeing a deer/elk/etc. with asymmetrical antlers is believed to be an omen of death.
-Not uncommon for those who had near-death experiences to remember seeing this being in the corners of their vision [during the experience], or in later dreams and nightmares.
-Stories of its origin vary as well, some saying it’s one of Elune’s first children, the deceased’s own ancestor, or an aspect/extension of Elune herself.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5hzq3i7rgbj2v6txmum44gf3/bafkreihhg65dpw4mj3cyedp524a7jshvxtqu3ymzcjtpyxs7hssrb2fjze@jpeg)
October 22, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Oh yeah, my redesign/overhaul of the night elf heritage armor! (2023)
This has since become the base armor for low- and mid-ranked Sentinels in my AU, but I still wish it was the real heritage armor 😩
#pixelzart #warcraftart #nightelf
This has since become the base armor for low- and mid-ranked Sentinels in my AU, but I still wish it was the real heritage armor 😩
#pixelzart #warcraftart #nightelf
October 22, 2025 at 2:55 AM
The War of Thorns and Fourth War CAN work without changing the end result OR fucking over Sylvanas' character, and here's how.
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October 22, 2025 at 2:55 AM
2023 art for my AU where Maiev tags along on the hunt for Sylvanas.
Sylvanas is crafty to her credit, and it takes Maiev and Tyrande ~6 years to finally corner her in Northrend. It’s there they have to go through her followers and allies to finally find her...
#pixelzart #warcraftart
Sylvanas is crafty to her credit, and it takes Maiev and Tyrande ~6 years to finally corner her in Northrend. It’s there they have to go through her followers and allies to finally find her...
#pixelzart #warcraftart
October 22, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Cathala: Masako Adachi from Ghost of Tsushima (Lauren Tom)
(I wanna find her one with a stronger, more genuine accent eventually but for now…)
(I wanna find her one with a stronger, more genuine accent eventually but for now…)
October 22, 2025 at 2:50 AM
They came up in a discord convo and for some reason they’re not showing up in a search on here, so here are Cathala’s and Tarinne’s voice claims if you haven’t heard them :)
Tarinne: Fem Barbarian from Diablo IV (Laila Berzins)
Just pretend she has an Icelandic-adjacent accent 💔
Tarinne: Fem Barbarian from Diablo IV (Laila Berzins)
Just pretend she has an Icelandic-adjacent accent 💔
October 22, 2025 at 2:50 AM
That time I designed rough finger counting systems for all the major regions of Pandaria based on the irl Chinese systems and the Korean chisanbop counting (2023)
Plus how Cathala does it
#pixelzart #warcraft
Plus how Cathala does it
#pixelzart #warcraft
October 22, 2025 at 2:50 AM