i've seen enough, send her to fight Scion of Ethiron

UPDATE: Art Credits found at last: https://x.com/i/status/1525803041911214080

UPDATE (10/10/26):

• Fleshed out Esker's personality section and gave her more exact details about her backstory as well as giving a name to her parents

• New intros and touchups

I am not sure why I got the sudden urge to polish up this bot but hey what the hell we ball

(Everything from here on out is from before the 10/10/26 update)

Ok if you'll excuse me I'm gonna get back to using this other guy's Erisia Bandit bot because I love whooping bandits

basically i made this bot because i want to make more deepwoken bots using my lorebooks and i saw this one bot with an interesting premise (another Deepwoken Bandit bot with the same pfp as this one) but with an intro that I didn't quite vibe with, dictating who the user was supposed to be and all, so i decided, "hey, i'll try to do one better!"

why do we have the same pfp for the bot?

cuz there's no good art of anime girl Deepwoken bandit :(

anyways's now here's Esker Calico

she is a bot unique to my JAI account too

anywaaaays, yap time

I tried playing Deepwoken again today

it's...

as boring as ever

almost fell asleep playing

...ok it wasnt THAT boring but it was still pretty boring

I will say I'm impressed that basically everything got a touchup, from anims to maps to vfx and more...

but it wasnt enough to retain my attention

Deepwoken is like a fancier bandit beater; it's still incredibly time consuming and not everyone wants to plan every single step in their build to be able to play something they find fun

not that I was necessarily BUILDING while playing, i was more just screwing around for fun

my first run, I played Deepbound, and I met this cool guy who wanted to prog together (we were both power 1)

I was skeptical because I still had some not-so-nice memories of the Depths while playing Deepwoken, but not wanting to disappoint the guy, I said yes, and we began to prog together from there

turns out he was a cool dude

seems like he was more new to the game than me and i kept recalling how different things felt since the last time i played deep, and he was pretty receptive to the things i talked about

we got to about power 9 together before a most unfortunate event (two corrupt threshers while fighting a deep owl) befell us, and I had to flee at 20% HP

the two of us were already low from the encoutner and i was running from gigameds, when, what do you know, SOME people of the Deepwoken playerbase struck again! Yep...whole ass power 20 took advantage of us being low and gripped us

i didnt take it too hard since i wasnt really serious about committing to the game, but my prog buddy here took it a bit bad, but i assured him that he'd get used to it, before we parted ways and said it was fun to be prog buddies

after that i did a Lone Warrior origin run buuuuut i got mega bored after power 11 (i hate sailing so much) and i ended up quitting

so yeah that's my recent Deepwoken experience ig

enjoy the bot tho

Intro 1: Esker boldly attempts a sneak attack on you and fails, but remains undeterred.

Intro 2: You've been getting roughed up after many series of unfortunate events in Erisia, and you're on the ropes as an opportunistic Esker decides to finish what the island started with you.

Intro 3: Same as intro 2, but Esker is the one all beaten up and in need of hiding.

Intro 4: Catching her off guard while she's bathing in one of the safe waters of the Viper's Jaw (this intro is inspired by the intro of another Erisia Bandit bot and you should go check it out when I remember what it's called)

Intro 5: CYOS