Character Discussion
Character Discussion
This might seem like a lame title for a post but I’m not sure what else to use. The new direction of Nyrva.org is now a character/art dBase and site about my original characters – namely my fictional character Nyrva Dragonwood for whom the site is named, and her fellow related characters, plus any crossovers, etc. I also will use Oslaania.net for that as well but Oslaania.net covers other hobbies too – this site is solely about my characters.
I wanted to talk somewhat on here about my characters in contrast to other fantasy.
I use terms like Wood Elves, Forest Elves etc. I call my characters “elves” – but my elves are not magical at all. They are elves but they are just beings – a humanoid race in my fiction, with no magical abilities. My use of terms such as “Wood Elf” and “Forest Elf” etc. has nothing to do with magic either – but more tribal, clan type stuff. Much similar to the kind of names used in the “Shire” of the Hobbits in the “Lord of the Rings” books, or perhaps like tribes and clans of old in real life countries like Ireland and Scotland.
Example – Nyrva Dragonwood is of the “Dragonwood” elf tribe – one of seven Wood Elf tribes of the country of Oslaania. If her tribe is wiped out, if all the “Dragonwood” die, say by genocide – one tribe is eliminated- if the other six also die, there are no more “Wood” elves- they become extinct. They are not a race in the same sense they are in other fantasy fiction – it is a name/tribal identity issue.
That is actually the case in the story I’m writing – many “Wood Elves” such as Nyrva have been killed by the Dark Elves of an opposing country called Archania in a largely religious and political war against the country of Oslaania – inquisition. Nyrva’s tribe, the “Dragonwood” are near extinction, as are other “Wood Elf” tribes. Two of the seven Wood Elf tribes are already believed to be fully extinct – fully destroyed by the Dark Elves of Archania who have heavily targeted the Wood Elves especially – and especially the females believing the females are the key to the race and that if you destroy the females, the race will die.
The “Wood Elves” of my story actually descend from the “Forest Elves” and as such are a “daughter” race – it’s members are considered “cousins” of the “Forest Elves”.
Nyrva Dragonwood, 2009 – Dragonwood elf tribe, female Wood Elf. the protagonist of my fiction.
For Nyrva’s “crime” of being a “Wood Elf” and the child of “heretics”, The Dark Elves of Archania would love to destroy her at any cost along with any other Wood Elves they encounter. The Archanians will not stop until every single Wood Elf is dead.
Because the Forest Elves are still so strong in number and allies of the Wood Elves in addition to kindred folks of the Wood Elves – they have taken the remnants of the Wood Elves among their own ranks. Of course this would eventually have to lead to war if the Archanians want to kill the Wood Elves who have come under protection.
Nyrva however starts out living among Felinians – a race of cat-eared people – her quest is to find any surviving members of her family and other Dragonwood elves that may still live.
This is a more “impromptu” pencil drawing I did of Nyrva. I may explore this avenue more with other characters – was going for a more “realistic” style drawing rrather than “Anime” – wanted to try and imagine what she might look like in a more realistic style.
There is the scene in the novel of Nyrva Dragonwood naked and defeated, laying at the base of the steps leading to the ruins of her long lost elf tribe, the Dragonwood Elves – sat this point she has been attacked by thieves but not harmed. However she has been drugged and stripped bare naked and robbed of everything she has; money, clothes, food, provisions, etc. Not wanting to risk anything above charges for theft, they do not rape or harm Nyrva’s body apart from merely drugging her with a weaponized, but non-lethal form of “Elfsbane”. The thugs simply use the substance to put Nyrva to sleep for awhile to prevent her from resisting them. She wakes up laying naked in the forest 5 days from home, forced to walk home in this condition. She would have to scrounge for food and water along the way and figure out ways to find suitable shelter a night.
(Elfsbane - is a sedative made from the sap of an Elfberry tree used for insomnia – or in a more “weaponized” form in this case can work like chloroform and in a way that will temporarily render an elf unconscious. can be ingested, inhaled or injected as with a syringe or a dart – it is not poisonous except in very highly prolonged concentrated dosages – high overuse, generally it is only a sedative – it is called Elfsbane because it only works on Elves. Humans and Felinians only seem to become temporarily intoxicated or “high” as in a marijuana high, on the substance. Thus they seek it for more “recreational” purposes. This is a problem for Elves when Humans or Felinians choose to “smoke” tobacco products laced with it. Elfsbane is not known to be poisonous when used in reasonable amounts by members of any race, including Elves suffering from a sleepless night — the most common purpose for the medicine used by Elves..)
“Anime-style” cel design of my character Raiya Dragonwood – the young female wood elf sister of Nyrva Dragonwood. The age equivalent of a 9-10 year old human girl. Raiya is still a young child growing up in a dangerous world. The Archanians would still brutally butcher her if they got half the chance, sparing neither age or sex.
Raiya is the baby sister of Nyrva. The two sisters were separated during a raid by Archania. Each believes the other was killed but still hopes and prays to God that if there is a chance – to bring them back together again. Raiya is protected and raised by Forest Elves, kept safe in their village – and I don’t bring the sisters together for quite some time in the book – actually I’m not going to reveal here if I bring them together at all. I have considered however a separate book for Raiya showing what happens to her – especially if I do decide to reunite the two sisters.
Nyrva Dragonwood gazing heavenward towards God.
My story is not a religious story in and of itself but there are some questions of faith among the characters. Some of my writing has been an elaborate roleplay using real life questions placed into the lives of my characters. Questions of right and wrong, good and evil, faith in God, etc. I figure people ask these questions for real so I decided to have some of this in my story as well.
There are at least two books planned featuring Nyrva – one is a collection of short story adventures of her’s during her hidden years in exile featuring this situation. The second is a singular story adventure where she actively tries to find her people.
Nyrva Dragonwood – Skyward Gaze 2010
A redo of a drawing from 2005 of Nyrva Dragonwood looking to heaven praying to God in her mind. The name of the Messiah, Iysus – in the Elfin tongue. He came to Eethos nearly 1700 Yaar ago to redeem those who would believe on Him – He was the Son of God. On Earth He would be known as “Jesus”.
Nyrva lives in the world of Eethos – a world that in many ways parallels Earth, with its own Moses, “Christ” (Iysus). it’s own Nero, Caligula, Constantine, Galileo, and Napoleon type figures, and the list goes on. They may not go under those names, but the same kinds of people have come and gone and done the same kind of things as on Earth. And now Nyrva finds herself in the midst of her own “Reformation Era” of which her own people, the Wood Elves of Oslaania, have come to fully embrace, and against the wishes of the Church City State of Vatacanus ruled by the self-prclaimed “Holy Pontiff” and the Country of Archania, read the forbidden “Sacred Texts” (the book that reveals the truth about God and shakes the power of the aforementioned “Church State”) and must choose to believe in Iysus, and face death as a “heretic” by the Dark Elves of Archania who constantly invade her country of Oslaania to force their own religious and political views on their land, or else submit to them and sell out her soul, and betray her own blood and people.
Nyrva chooses not to betray her beliefs.
Either way the Dark Elves would not care. They would still want to spill Nyrva’s blood – and the blood of all of her people for reading the “Sacred Texts”, embracing “Iysus” and rejecting the power of Vatacanus. The Wood Elves believe Iysus will one day return to restore Glory and Life to the fallen who believe in Him, avenge their blood, and destroy evil forever.
Another up close shot on Nyrva Dragonwood’s cute face….
And we close for now. More drawings and character descriptions as well as character profile pages are on the way.
Nyrva.org is now the new character and art dBase for Nyrva Dragonwood and other related characters of mine. Art characters and art © by me. All rights strictly reserved.
Until next time…
God bless!
Jade Dragon
A New Beginning
A New Beginning on Nyrva.org
Redirecting the Artistic Focus
Getting back to the roots here on Nyrva.org This site is about my original character Nyrva Dragonwood, and related characters art and fiction related to her and her fellow characters.
I’m not going to pull any punches here. Put bluntly, I’ve wasted too much time and talent on drawing hentai/echhi art of my characters over the years instead of what I’ve really wanted to do with my art and characters and focusing on the fictional elements surrounding them. As a result I’ve only attracted people interested in downloading “free porno” pics and not people who are interested in art and fictional ideas, etc. So that changes now. Nyrva.org has been wiped of all previous content to allow two things:
1. I want all previous content to disappear from Google and other search engines and allow for a complete makeover of this site’s image and focus. Since I am the site owner, I can see all the stats that relate to this website including IP addresses, where people access from (city, state, country, etc.) – that stuff is really cool to see because people come from all over and it’s really great. But I’m tired of “pornographic” searches (the kind that make you want to tell whoever is accessing to “get a girl/boyfriend!”) from google being what leads people here. So I want that to change. I want it to be more about art, fiction, fantasy, etc.
2. The focus of this site can focus more on my characters, art, and the story they are involved in, rather than showing off the “skin” of fictional characters who don’t exist to begin with.
“In the Forest Thick” – the character and art dBase- has been blocked from all access for the time being until all google search results for the site sufficiently disappear. The site itself will change a bit. It will be the only portal for Oslaania.net and Nyrva.org to feature any true “adult” content (full nudity, erotic content, etc.). But it will be forever closed off to search engines and only be accessible from internal links here on the site. The rest of Oslaania.net and Nyrva.org will be PG-13 sites.
However, here on Nyrva.org, I DO reserve the right to show occasional full anatomically correct character nudity. (Which will be more rare from now on). Parents may wish to consider whether or not they want to allow their children access to this site, along with people offended by such content. However the majority of art on this site will from now on be “PG-13″ in nature.
I do want people to take interest in this site. But I want it to be more of an art and fantasy focus, not a porn focus.
The new Nyrva Dragonwood banner graphic of her wearing a bikini.
Nyrva is of the dying race of Wood Elves in the country of Oslaania in her world. Her tribe, the Dragon Wood elves, is one of seven of the Wood Elf tribes and clans of Oslaania – once one of the largest, now it is nearly extinct. The Dark Elves of Archania, in who formerly held control of Oslaania, destroyed the Wood Elves for leading a religious Reformation- the Reformation of Eagis (their world’s parallel of the Great Reformation of Martin Luther in our world)
The slaying of Nyrva by the Dark Elves would be considered a great victory as they believe destroying the females of a race will be the fastest way to destroy the race. Aware of this Nyrva’s struggle to survive is a daily one. And yet she seeks to find what’s left of her family and her people, if any of them still live.
CHARACTER PROFILE PAGES COMING SOON TO NYRVA.ORG
Mychelle Blackwood – Mychelle Madness Art Pose 2012 – Bikini Version
Mychelle is a female “Felinian” – a race of human-like beings but sporting cat-like ears and tails. In my story Felinians are the miners, craftsmen, etc. and are assigned the general roles commonly given to Dwarves in most popular fantasy. (Since I generally don’t like Dwarves I replaced them with Felinians in my story). I have assigned the name “Dwarves” in my story to be a derogatory word used to describe the half-breed children of humans and elves. The fictional universe my characters come from has a book that is a parallel of the Holy Bible in our world referred to as the Sacred Text that forbids Humans, Elves, and Felinians to inter-marry and/or mate. This is not a problem with Felinians since their DNA is not compatible with the other two races anyways. However while friendship among the 3 races is acceptable, it is considered a high taboo in most cultures to have inter-racial couples between the 3 races or for sexual relations. So a child born of human-elf breeding is called a “Dwarf” and often treated as a social outcast and reject.
Nyrva Dragonwood – Poster Girl Shot 2009
This has become the almost iconic poster-girl shot of my female wood elf character Nyrva Dragonwood – and is the official poster girl shot of Nyrva.org’s parent/sister site Oslaania.Net.
This drawing was never finished. (Still in the works) It was/is to have Nyrva Dragonwood drinking coffee and talking with some friends. The other friends are still being decided on (who will be with her) and then the conceptual work and drawings have to be done in addition to the desired background.
The black Unicorn, Shadowmere – A recurring Unicorn character making several apperances in the fictional story featuring Nyrva Dragonwood.
My elf character Raiya Dragonwood in a forest scene – the young wood elf sister of Nyrva Dragonwood. The age equivalent of a 9-10 year old human girl Nyrva last saw her as a real little girl. Raiya still remembers Nyrva as well but thinks her big sister is dead. Will the two sisters both live long enough to find each other again?
Nyrva was given a strange “tip” she doesn’t grasp until later in te story – “If you want to find the Wood Elves, you must search within the forest”.
The “forest” is not what Nyrva thinks it is or a literal “forest”.
Raechelle Greentree Mistress of the Dungeon 2011 Revised for 2012 – the 2011 version had her robe open near the crotch area to “suggest” she wasn’t wearing underpants but without fully showing her genitalia. This 2012 version has been updated with a closed robe.
Raechelle (name is “Rachel” just with a more “stylized” spelling) is another supporting character in my story who makes some appearances though her role and fate have not yet been entirely decided. She’s one of the “good guys” for sure.
Raechelle Greentree “Up Close and Personal” 2008 – an up close, personal shot of Raechelle’s face.
A slight “redux” shot of Nyrva Dragonwood reading the “Sacred Texts” of her people. (Their world’s version of “the Bible”) As she reads about God and the things the Archanian Dark Elves forbade her people to read during their powerful reign, and the Revelation of their Messiah – Nyrva notices the gathering of an unusual audience. Nyrva is very fond of Unicorns. For her to have an audience of Unicorns – and one of them being Shadowmere, one of the oldest and wisest of them all, whom very few beings ever make contact, only encourages Nyrva to hold on to what her enemies once forbade as “heresy”. I added Shadowmere to this scene to make Nyrva’s glance make more sense.
She is attended by Almaya (left), a mare, and Shadowmere (right) Stallion King of the Unicorns..
This was an original crossover I did of my character Nyrva Dragonwood on the site Gaia Online. When i joined 3 years ago I thought Gaia was some kind of RPG with anime-themed sprites so I made an account named after my character Nyrva and got props to make my avatar look like her. This is from their game “zomg” (I don’t care for the title because of the game’s casual, vain use of God’s name) ,
General Mayhem from Gaia vs Nyrva Dragonwood – Nyrva now wearing a cheesy outfit added. she was originally butt naked. General Mayhem Defeats Nyrva for selecting “Hard” level then claims her for his trophy. 
This however would be an example of an outside-story crossover and not part of the normal fictional universe Nyrva Dragonwood belongs to. (with the exception of the panel on the left, and the gaia sprite of her on the lower right corner, all the characters and art are drawn by me.)
Nyrva Dragonwood was conceived by me in 1997 and 100% totally, legally belongs to me.
OK, moving on…
Raechelle Greentree at a bus stop in a crappy town not worthy of mention.
We got Raechelle waiting for the bus… which means “we’re out of here” until next post….
That’s all I have for now… Until next post…
God bless,
Jade Dragon
Jade Dragon Gallery
