AngelAsphodel

I aim to please 😊

Yup, that describes it pretty well!

I present to you, Menhrolith. (I'm typing this on my phone because webnovel doesn't let me view the advance chapters of my own novel on the laptop, so I won't make this too long). For full transparency to those who hate AI, it was used for the creation of this image, though I would like to emphasize that the method was notably diferent from what you might usually expect. Both personal friend and artist, Libetom, created this. First creating the entire scene rendered as a 3D blender model and then applied AI generation to it after to create the patterns and textures you now see. For more info about the process or even seeing the render back when it was exclusively blender, you can find that info in the discord. In general though, a pot of work was put into this and I hope you enjoy. It's the first art I commissioned for this novel but it won’t be the last. You can expect character portraits eventually as well!

Nope, the healers haven't fixed any more than previously. Both eyes were heavily damaged with one recovering notably more than the other. I'll need to go back and make sure the side was consistent though. I thought it was, but I'll give it another look, just in case

Yup, that was 100% inspiration for the leshy king design.

Hmmmm, I don't know why... I edit links so they shouldn't expire either... I don't know but I'll post a new link here in case it behaves different in a comment. https://discord.com/invite/sQ4jpShWQe

Awwww, thankyou. I reallllly liked writing this scene and am even considering commissioning artwork for it at some point.

For visual representation I've always kinda imagined this somewhere between Link's first transformation scene in twilight princess and Vicar Amelia from bloodborn tbh

Post trauma cuddles are very important for all parties involved!!! And I'm very happy you're enjoying the novel and are having fun brainstorming and theory crafting for Dahlia's bloodline, it's definitely one of my favourite ongoing and continuously developing mysteries so it makes me super happy you find it engaging too!

When they talk about curse removal, they would be specifying trying to find a ritual to circumvent how the ritual is intended to behave. As for the exact behaviour of the curse, it's still largely unknown how it works or why it is the way it is, so I'll keep my lips sealed for now as well~