iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

It felt constraining to cram that in under 300 characters! But Lodestar to Karamouska was a very honest approach to a setting booklet that isn't strictly bound to conventional structure of RPG material. I wanted to write a good book first that's just as good as game material.

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It's a traveler's guide to Karamouska. It serves as a booklet which can be simply read for leisure but it can be used as a campaign setting. Features local accounts, rumors, items, myths, games, personalities, stories, neighborhoods and factions. Digital is PWYW and physical is on Exalted Funeral!

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LODESTAR TO KARAMOUSKA — Matheus Graef

Indeed! This is Karamouska, a subterranean city from Omios Ures. It felt so right to draw it from darkness rather than to force darkness into light. www.matheusgraef.com/karamouska-pdf

matheusgraef.com

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Matheus Graef @omiosures.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

experimented with black toned paper yesterday. loved it.

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thanks man I needed to read this. 🙌 was stressed over some art shit.

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Matheus Graef @omiosures.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

...and that's why some fantasy really bores me nowadays. Why does everything need so much reasoning? Why can't the heart drive more of the execution? Some creators explain and rationalize so much of their "mysterious" world that they kill it in the process; and the lore becomes an autopsy.

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Matheus Graef @omiosures.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There's just so much going on. I attribute at least some of the allure to the nonsensical vs. photorealism. I can't help but imagine they weren't thinking of function or realism when placing the gems & filligrees, they were just trying to make the most mystic, dangerous tome; aka going by heart.

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Matheus Graef @omiosures.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

As a kid, these covers were absolutely alluring. The gritty, over-engineered metalworks riddled with sinuous runes and bejeweled notches seemed to be everywhere in the 2000s. This unique aesthetic imprinted itself on my mind ever since and, today, still contributes/informs some of my own designs.

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Joumana Medlej @majnouna.com · 26/09/2026

The full moon in a sea of mottled clouds tonight is basically why people become artists.

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The Art of Asty @theartofasty.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Can I offer you an egg in these trying times? theartofasty.bigcartel.com

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Matheus Graef @omiosures.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Agli-Gor: imp jester, friend to all, had but one talent in life: to get away with jokes that would (or should) get any other comedian killed.

digital painting of agli-gor: a very old imp with a thin, long white goatee, wearing a black jester outfit dotted with stars, the imp's whip-like tail is manning a sock puppet. the imp sits bored.

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Catomika- Open for work!! @categerbasi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Dragon in the market

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Matheus Graef @omiosures.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Straight up mouthing physical money with your mouth is actually deranged, repugnant behavior. Damn. What an individual.

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Sure... But I think many who interact with this stuff genuinely know, deep down, that they're polluting everyone's digital environment... and they just choose to do it anyway.

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This is regarding that worthless opinion piece that everyone is losing their minds over. Folks, it's 2026. You should know most news websites use manipulative headlines to bait people. You quote tweet with indignation or a "clever" burn? Enjoy your "I've been baited" medal.

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A reminder that you do not have to interact with every negative, idiotic take on the internet. In fact, you shouldn't. The less reactive you are, the better your life will be.

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Matheus Graef @omiosures.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Do those who interact with idiocy not realize they partake in idiocy themselves? If something vexes them, they must immediately react to it like some unrestrained child? Fuckin baited into "one upping" a news outlet by a) giving them exposition b) being higher on a podium... of idiots.

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Willing Subject

A dark room, lit by a single shaft of light from above. A man laying flat on a stone floor, next to him is a sorceress on her knees, dagger up in the air, an instant before she plummets the blade into his chest. The man stares at the viewer with a content expression. Next to the man's hand is a tipped over goblet.

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Matheus Graef @omiosures.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Alright bsky you can uncensor this now. Thanks

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Matheus Graef @omiosures.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Thank you for the kind words, Martin. :)

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Matheus Graef @omiosures.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

by now, you should know the drill. this and more in OMIOS URES, the Best Upcoming RPG of 2027 (trust me, I made it!).

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Matheus Graef @omiosures.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

gnomish settlements are reclusive; concealed by powerful illusory magics. there, the small denizens scheme and toil incessantly on ways to locate and return to their utopic homeland. any gnome may leave, but they must first undergo a ritual where all memories of home are erased from their minds.

digital painting of a gnome walking into a sunsetting grassy field with a dog companion twice his size. the gnome wears a starry hat, hands clutched behind his back. he looks behind his back with a slightly melancholic stare, but his pose indicates sureness of his movement. the dog looks straight forwards.

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The Art of Asty @theartofasty.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Rumors say it is soon to hatch, we don't know what will come out though this piece and a few other ceramics are available on theartofasty.bigcartel.com and once they're gone, they're gone for good ;)

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Matheus Graef @omiosures.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Wake up babe, synopsis for OTTO NUMBER 9: a new adventure for OMIOS URES just dropped. As always, I'm having a lot of fun with the layout/illustration juxtapositions. Coming soon!

Page spread with a black and white illustration of a cablecart travelling up a wayline to an enormous tower with a bulbous rooftop in an enormous cavern. Text reads:

A NIGHT TO REMEMBER...

Welcome to Bugram Agar. The brightest star in the underground sky. One night here costs about as much as the average worker earns in a year, and this will soon be a night to remember.

A microcosm within a microcosm, Bugram Agar is the Karamouski crown jewel for game and opulence. The Hotel hosts the Opal Casino, thermal pools heated by fiends in captivity, a grand auditorium entertaining exclusive concerts and plays, a pleasure dungeon and, perhaps most importantly,

Utmost privacy.

The building perches alone on a reserved cliffside, away from all the buzz, low-lives and unexpected smells of the big city. A gilded cablecart, privately operated, fetches the richest of the rich to and from the nearest district of Portnova, way above the underground clouds, up into luxury nirvana. Please take your sick philter, enjoy the complimentary aphrodisiac and avoid looking down at the 300 meter tall fall.

Tonight, a great tragedy is set to take place. For the first time in centuries, a mythical, near-indestructible defense automaton named Otto Number 9 will be seen by the public eye, and more: it will be the centerpiece of Bugram Agar’s bi-annual, highly-anticipated Grand Auction.

But no one could predict the Machine would awaken from its thousand-year slumber.

It is now up to the Party to put a stop to Otto’s carnage, or simply make it out alive, all the while three tonnes of rogue metal rampage the carpeted halls of Bugram Agar.

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Matheus Graef @omiosures.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Might as well show you Omios Ures. A lot of care and thought was put into art + layout here. Let me know!

Page spread from Omios Ures showing a dark blue page, white letters and drawings of gnomes.

Page spread of Omios Ures featuring a witch hexxing a fuming cauldron.

Page from Omios Ures showing a chameleon hunter strapped full of items.

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Matheus Graef @omiosures.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

this post gave me ptsd lol. I have been in a couple projects like this where the game was --excellent-- but the team fucked things up by engaging in that vicious cycle

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Matheus Graef @omiosures.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I'm an official D&D/MTG illustrator working on a game that's p much a love letter to everything I like about RPGs. and more: it's pay-what-you-like. get OMIOS URES for free if you want, I don't care. spread the word, play the game once with your group and I guarantee they will want a campaign. :)

page of OMIOS URES. digital painting over graphite sketch of a chameleon hunter with a hand cannon. his prehensile tail is holding a torch behind him, and various items are strapped to his body. a bandolier with potions, a large bag with a bear trap sticking out, a fairy in a cage hanging from a rod. waterskin, pocket watch, sleeping bag, retro aviator-like goggles on his forehead. he walks hunched, as if sneaking about, and his delicate gait - exactly like a chameleon's - is a visual play, resembling the tippy toe walk of a cartoonish hunter

text says:

ITEMS ITEMS ITEMS

The following pages cover a number of ordinary (and extraordinary) miscellania favored by adventurers.

When employing an item’s Skill Check for a NPC, replace the skill with the NPC’s Body, Mind or Magic. An NPC trying to break out of manacles uses Body instead of Physique.

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Matheus Graef @omiosures.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

tis but a masterful use of the force here.... I see nothing wrong

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Matheus Graef @omiosures.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

i remember that pic from an ancient yt video where a guy sang a chupacabra song in a very silly voice.

m.youtube.com

El Chupacabra

YouTube video by PhantomWip3

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Matheus Graef @omiosures.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

want to learn more? play OMIOS URES

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Matheus Graef @omiosures.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Traditionally, Carverine engrave their tusks with biographical glyphs and runes, so that their bones may tell stories of who they were in life. In more cosmopolitan settings, however, tusk engraving often serves less ritualistic, more decorative purpose, akin to some human tattoos.

sketch of a muscular carverine (orc-like humanoid) man sitting on a throne, while an older carverine, man, engraves one of his tusks. a pet boar watches the scene, the muscular carverine is petting it.

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Matheus Graef @omiosures.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I love to hear it! Thank you so much!!!

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Matheus Graef @omiosures.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I am so, so tired of lotr becoming this generic geek-coded bad taste imagery.

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the ultimate social deterrent

sketch of a green bhek'gaa (lizard with human traits) sitting, reading a book, giving you the nastiest side eye. elbow resting over a table with a bowl of fresh maggots. wears a sinuous hat with an incense stick poking out of it. hat is bronze with a strip of blue silk

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Thank you so much Cate!! I loooooove drawing lizards. I feel like you have to really dial in your creativity in order to convey emotion and character with them.

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damn I should have written "cold blooded side eye" on OP. now I feel judged by the lizard for not having done it.

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