Ardent Eva

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So i’m working thru some serious burnout lately. I’ve therefore devised a way to avoid this kind of problem in the future: i’m joining the storming ardentia.

This spawned a very interesting conversation on the 17shard discord about whether or not being allowed to eat both spicy and sweet food was worth becoming a glorified slave. 
Unsurprisingly, the general consensus seems to be “yes”.

Although the ardent outfit is described multiple times as a grey *robe* i ended up drawing something that’s closer to a buddhist monk outfit (although my main inspiration was actually the outfit traditionally worn by japanese shrine maidens) 

Also this is literally a SA self-insert and that’s why she’s, yknow, white. I don’t think she’s of Shin heritage, though so… Maybe one of her parents was a worldhopper from Scadrial? Alternatively, she IS a worldhopper, just a v lame one.
As for her Devotary: in the way of kings, there’s an Order Of Talenelat mentioned alongside the Devotaries of Purity/Sincerity/Insight etc, which makes me think there might be one for all the other Heralds as well. Therefore, she’s in the Order of Shalash.