I won't lie. I'm bored right now. Intensely bored. So I created a character. I'm not playing GS or anything but character design was always one of my favorite aspects of the game, so I did it, with at least three or four outfits for her. While engaging in this pointlessness, I looked at my own alteration records for inspiration.
It's hard for me to pick out favorites because I had uh.. many many alteration services while I was in GS so I picked one from certain categories. These are my all-time favorite GS alterations (of my own or designed by a merchant for me).
a brilliant-cut black diamond ferroniere w/show
Dark as a moonless sky, still the many facets of the brilliant-cut diamond glitter with a starry radiance against a seven-rayed eahnor setting. A delicate, thread-thin chain suspends the black jewel in such a way that it would rest on its wearer's forehead like a third eye.
a halo of long sharp lor hairsticks
a cast-silver illthorn leaf choker
The pieces of the choker have been individually cast in the shape of small, seven-pointed illthorn leaves, and positioned to partially overlap each other. A tiny hook-and-chain clasp is hidden between two of the leaves to fasten the choker in the appearance of a neverending loop, with a polished obsidian bead anchoring the dangling chain.
a brilliant red eahnor choker shaped like a pair of strangling hands
a silver-gilded illthorn leaf charm
The beautiful seven-pointed star shape of the illthorn leaf has been preserved forever in a fine coating of luminous pale silver, thin enough to show every vein in stark relief. The charm hangs from a loop on the stem, threaded through with a black silk cord.
a full set of sharp eahnor finger-talons
The talons are designed to fit snugly over each and every finger, cunningly segmented and jointed to preserve ease of movement. Cast in dark sanguine eahnor, elaborate etched swirls coruscate sinuously across the surface of the metal. The sharp, faintly curved tip of each talon is blackened tellingly.
a sunstone and two-tone eahnor anklet
Fashioned into a heavy cuff style anklet, dozens of eahnor strands are woven in a dizzying pattern around a single large sunstone cabochon. Half of the eahnor is preserved in its natural vivid scarlet, interwoven with eahnor so dark it retains only highlights of its usual red. The blackened metal casts darkening shadows through the sunstone, turning the sparkling red jewel the color of blood by night.
a feathery ebon basilisk skin stole
This long, luxurious stole is constructed of the skinned wings and back of a basilisk, and lined with butter-soft black suede. The rooster-like plumage has been carefully preserved and cared for, so that the ebon feathers gleam with beetle-green iridescence.
a full-length open ebon suede longcoat
Framing rather than concealing, the longcoat has no way to fasten it closed, designed to hang open as it falls in a straight line from shoulders to near floor-length hem. An odd combination of black feathers and fur unique to the griffin species lines the interior of the longcoat, providing a warm, downy complement to the exterior of soft suede.
a deep sanguine faille gown with a rigidly boned heart-shaped bodice flaring into full trailing skirts
a wide-necked smoky blue chainsil gown trailing streamers of black silk
a glistening green satin cotehardie with subtle ophidian scaling along the trailing skirts
a gold silk single-strapped gown
The dress is crafted of a single piece of dark gold silk with deep reddish undertones towards the hem, cut in a narrow sheath style designed to hang close to the upper body before going straight down from the hips. A solitary silk ribbon trimmed with carmine beads fastens on the dress to the front left, goes over the right shoulder, and fastens again in the back left side.
a reptilian faenor-beaded corset
The corset is cut with a faintly curving, strapless neckline that flows easily into a classic v-shape, ending over the hips with a sharp point in the front and back. Hundreds of miniscule, dark-veined green faenor beads cover the viridian silk surface, glistening like the pebbled skin of some exotic reptile. Tiny, close-set hooks fasten the corset down the back and present an almost seamless garment.
an illuminated starscape fan
The fan's frame is formed of slender, sharp-pointed black glaes slats, each with a star-shaped cut out near its tip. Alternating white and midnight blue zorchar stars fill each hole, glowing pale and cold through the translucent glaes. Thin paper webs between the slats, featuring a painted night sky scene. Illuminated in white zorchar, the full Lornon moon and tiny stars shine vividly against a blue-sheened ebon sky.
an unusually tall fireleaf runestaff
The runestaff is strikingly tall in height, reaching as high as the tallest giantman, with the deep natural furrows of the wood smoothed away, leaving only the slightest of ripples to show the origins of the wood. Lacking any adornment, the fireleaf has been treated with a dark stain, imparting to it a rich, reddish-black hue.
an extra long silver vultite dagger
The dagger is straight, thin, and unusually long, with a pale blue tint to the silver-dyed vultite blade. A dark suede-wrapped grip yields to a simple hilt. Written in serpentine script along the unsharpened edge of the blade are these words, "STABBITY DEATH!"
a sleek eahnor aishan head pauldron
Several tones and shades of eahnor have been used to form the pauldron, and thick spidersilk straps are meant to secure it to the shoulder. The aishan's head shape, from narrow muzzle to flared ruff, has been distorted beyond even its normal demonic countenance; the wolfish face has far too many sharp teeth and a sinuous jointed tongue serves to curl around the wearer's arm. The demon's eyes are particularly well done, rendered in a range of metals designed to distort a viewer's mirrored image.
an eahnor and black glaes breastplate
Translucent black glaes has been finely crafted into four segments to preserve a wide range of movement while providing the kind of protection only fine plate can. The chest and upper back pieces overlap snugly with the plates covering the abdomen and lower back and are polished to a smooth finish. Flames of scarlet eahnor are reflected beneath the surface of the glaes, shifting in a spectral dance as the metal inlay beneath the glaes catches the light.
Hmm.. that seems like a lot so I'm going to stop there. It's hard to pick only that many, even. Looking at that, it's hard to tell that my favorite color is actually blue.
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Originally Posted by The-Pwny-Express
