I was battling insomnia last night, so I decided I'd sketch something up.

I don't care what anyone says, I don't care how much a disappointment icecrown was, "how easy the lich king was", how "awful healing was". Wrath was my favorite period of WoW because of the atmosphere. That, regardless of all the death and war around, life and hope would always creep into a little bit of everywhere.
Before I played a mage in wow, I was a druid, and before that a Paladin. I used to play thinking I would be utilized to stand up against threats as what was known as the tank, without even knowing a thing about the game lol. When it was obvious I didn't know what I was doing at first, I thought I'd heal until I could get the hang of things. I always wanted to support and protect others. At some point, when I had a druid leveled, I thought I'd play him as well. I loved the HoT mechanic, as well as the druid feel. Much more wild, free, bluh bluh.

But eventually I dropped all support when I picked up a mage for fun, and found that not only was I good at doing damage to a level that made my common pug look like a chump, but it was hella fun. I got drawn into the comfort and utility of a mage, able to do everything EZ street, teleport all over. Felt like I was meant to be one. Even though my nature still tugs my heartstrings to help others, to play a support and do something much more helpful than harmful (regardless of helping the harmful).

Yeah and Ysera? my favorite dragon aspect. Malygos was my hedonist crush YEAH but I mean. The dude didn't have a really comparable... could never feel like he really would give anyone a second though just mage stuff, kill stuff, be cool, get laid, magic. Well, after all the fuckin furry art of dragons with this weird fantasy of boning Alexstrasza or whoever, I thought it'd be essentially hipocritical to draw my dragon with Ysera, even though I don't have this crazy dellusion that awww dude, a dragon-god is going to totally bone me because I'm important- NOPE.

besides, I love the work she does more than anyone else. She seems to be the only one who actually works for the better of all in the fucking dream. Alexstrasza is like "herp derp dragon police". I KNOW Deathwing and Malygos have gone off their wagon, but it seriously feels like Alexstrasza is kinda screwing us or something. What's next? "Oh Norzdomu isn't speaking to us we must kill him!", and she just kinda drags all the other dragonflights along with her. Buh. I don't care if she's the "Dragon Queen" I don't really see where she's leading us. She apparently "loves all life" and blah blah blah, but there's also that frustration that through the eyes of the player (which is unfortunate since technically -everyone- experiences this) we help her out all the damn time and even save her life. And she'll never really recognize us as individuals just "thank you adventurer *end of care*"

idk Ysera would most likely have her mind lost in her duties too, but w/e okay? all I wanted to do was draw her

and here she is, convincing a wayward son of the earth that no matter how much destruction I could ever wage, life would find a way to bound back through the ashes.





sidenote i never realized how much Tae Looks like a dragon from WoW until drawing ysera here

o-ojust let it soak in

Ysera (C) Blizzard Entertainment