Valerie Raith

@wraithstrike.bsky.social

Nerdy Transwoman. Into RPGS, Tokusatsu and Magical Girls. See my carrd! https://wraithstrike.carrd.co

Thinking about Mass Effect again. We know that there's Elcor Shakespeare and Salarian Gilbert and Sullivan productions. This made me think: Which species in Mass Effect would put on Rocky Horror Picture Show? I'm leaning towards Drell, but Volus is incredibly funny.

All #MagiKnights fight against threats to our plane from beings called Spectral Outsiders. One of my upcoming books, "Knight at the Gallery" involves a creature whose existence terrifies Outsiders, called "Chronophagus, the Eon Eater." Just so you know what you can expect from me.

Here's the finished piece! I love how you did this! This book will be about a Magical Martial Arts Academy built overlooking Lake Superior. This school "Orbital Strike" teaches magical combat to protect Earth against invasion from the antimaterial plane.

Cover art for a TTRPG blook titled Orbital Strike: A Magi-Knights Awakening Campaign by Valerie Raith. The image shows a blonde girl in a blue uniform with gold piping and a  glowing upraised fist symbol on her chest intercepting a punch from a blue skinned boy in a red vest. The girl is using her free hand to charge up energy for a counterattack.
The two of them are doing battle on the foredeck of a Great Lakes Freighter Ship in the middle of an energetic storm. The ship is being pushed back towards the rocks.
𝐀𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐨𝐫𝐧 𝐑𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐬𝐲 | 𝐈𝐥𝐥𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫@reedsyhere.bsky.social · 3w ago

⚔️ Work in Progress ⚔️ Here's a sneak peek at the line art for an exciting commission I'm currently working on! Thanks to @wraithstrike.bsky.social for trusting me with this project! 🙌 #WIP #WorkInProgress #LineArt #FantasyArt #BookCover #Illustration #CharacterArt #DigitalArt #ArtistOnBluesky

Is there a word for a feeling of "If I start writing, I'll be writing for hours on end, but my body is exhausted when I get home from work and I never get started?" It's not Writer's Block, because I have ideas, I know where they're going to lead. I just don't have the energy.

The idea behind this book is that the #Magiknights meet a survivor of illegal cybernetic modification and magical infusion. He's the one on the right. This image is supposed to represent their final battle taking place solely by the light of the scientist's anglerfish lamp.

Valerie Raith@wraithstrike.bsky.social · 7d ago

I commissioned this interior art for my next #Magiknights book "Renaissance Refugee" from the ever magnificent @bunovia.bsky.social. Once again, you've nailed it, girl!

An image showing two figures about to engage in a fight. On the left is a female figure in a tattered lab coat and ripped pants. This woman has the head of an angler fish, the eyes and legs of a black widow spider, the tail of a scorpion, and the arm blades of a praying mantis.

Opposite her, standing in the traditional Right to Left rule pose from Tokusatsu shows is a man in a sleek black ant themed armor with extending  ant legs coming out of the shoulder, blades extending from his fore arm and ankles, and a long tattered red scarf fluttering in the breeze behind him. The battle is lit by the anglerfish bulb.

My mind wandered back to a Disney Channel Original Movie today. Specifically, one line in "Brink." After the title character reveals the sponsored team gear from the dog grooming place he works at, he says "It cost me about eight weeks of advance paychecks."

In the past I have run tabletop games and had friends come in to voice NPCs and they would wind up as players in the next campaign. In my most recent Magi-Knights session, I added another notch to my belt: Making an audience member want to become a Magi-Knights Magic Keeper. Fuck yeah. I rock.

Last night in Daggerheart: Our Slyborne Half-elf Rogue discovered that her biological father was a noble who funded the creation of many of the dangerous artifacts she and her party have contained. He had abandoned her in the slums, until she made a name for herself destroying his evil designs.