[HoMM V] Dark elves (Pony)

FFS... that was a pain in the ass to tag, even more tedious than my Shao Kahn Lora. I hope(!) I will not have to do such a character packed Lora ever again. I also went a "little" overboard with previews while testing different styles, loras, etc - spent several weeks on it. Could probably spend that time with more actual use, like on RL stuff or making other loras. But, at least I know this Lora responds very well to different styles. Hell, with that Guyver OVA style Lora and those img2vid I could make a whole retro anime about HoMM V!!! Seriously, much love to SweetRammaJamma for making that syle Lora! It is the best and it is THE BEAST! xD

Still, this Dark Elf Lora isn't perfect:

• It kinda struggles with full body shots, when you use full character tags, especially mention their footwear - it places them a little bit too far in the image, hence why the hands and faces often turn out a little messy - use ADetailer, if you want to avoid that. But I would not recomment using any ADetailer hand models - it sometimes replaces hands with faces or boobs of other similar characters O.o

• It kinda struggles with male content - when I first tried to make scouts or assasins, it gave me chicks in their outfits. Not gonna lie, results were surprisingly pleasant, but if you want your scouts to be male, I suggest you to put "man, male elf" tags in your prompts.

• Sometimes, it can generate weird stuff in the background, like additional characters or something else, not often that happens, but it can occur sometimes.

All in all, given these flaws, I'm not completely satisfied with this Lora. I will probably remake it, but later... much later - I spent too much time on it already and there are litteral tons of other Loras I want to make.

The main tag is "hommdelf_ponyv1". You can add it with other character tags to reinforce the results, but it can be hit or miss with certain styles. Try and experiment. Other basic tags are "elf, long pointy ears".

This is the dataset I used. If anyone can suggest doing something better with it, I'm all ears. After all, I'm still learning this sort of thing.

Characters

Mistresses

hommmistr, red facepaint, corset, very long hair, elf, long pointy ears, yellow eyes, glowing eyes, cleavage, fishnet pantyhose, fishnets, miniskirt, platform boots, high heels, fur collar, tiara, blue hair, midriff,

Honestly, I didn't know what to tag mistresses with - panties, shorts, short shorts? Because it doesn't look like any of those and I didn't know how base model would react to these. So, I just tagged "miniskirt".

Matriachs

hommmatr, very long hair, elf, long pointy ears, platform boots, high heels, choker, greaves, cleavage, knee boots, short skirt, open front skirt, tiara, metal bikini top, shoulder armor, spiked bracers, pelvic armor, thigh armor, detached sleeves, midriff, showgirl skirt

I didn't want "miniskirt" tag from mistresses to interfere with matriachs, so I tagged the latter "short skirt".

Witches

hommwitch, very long hair, black hair, elf, long pointy ears, platform boots, high heels, pelvic curtain, pelvic armor, spiked bracers, bare shoulders, knee boots, thigh armor, open front skirt, tiara, detached sleeves, showgirl skirt

Furies

hommfury, long pointy ears, elf, very long hair, red hair, orange eyes, colored sclera, pelvic armor, pelvic curtain, gloves, bracelets, bare shoulders, underboob, turtleneck bikini top, thigh armor, high heels, thigh boots, platform boots, circlet, midriff,

Maids

hommmaid, long pointy ears, elf, very long hair, black hair, pelvic armor, white eyes, no pupils, pelvic curtain, gloves, bracelets, bare shoulders, underboob, bikini armor, thigh armor, high heels, thigh boots, circlet, platform boots, midriff, 

With maids you can put either "bikini armor" or "turtleneck bikini top", as some artworks in the dataset were clearly a mix of maid and fury. Had to tag them accordingly.

Sisters

hommsister, long pointy ears, elf, very long hair, orange hair, orange eyes, colored sclera, gloves, bracelets, crown, bikini armor, bare shoulders, turtleneck bikini top, thighhighs straps, greaves, knee armor, high heels, platform boots, midriff, pelvic armor, pelvic curtain, thigh armor,

Scouts

hommscout, cloak, hood, boots, thigh boots, mask, crossbow, mouth mask, grey hair, hooded cloak, knife, elf, long pointy ears

Stalkers

hommstalker, cloak, hood, face mask, elf, armor, greaves, wrist blades,

Don't know about stalkers. I've found only one image of them, threw it in the dataset for good measure. Now, I honestly don't think it was such a good idea. You can try it still, but I can't promise any good results.

Assasins

hommassasin, elf, long pointy ears, mask, mouth mask, armor, chainmail, greaves, boots, gloves, bracers, capelet, thigh boots,

Raptor riders

hommrider, long pointy ears, elf, armor, knight, dinosaur, riding a dinosaur, mounted knight, spear, polearm, shield, riding, rider, cape

Honestly, I wouldn't use these. There were so few images in the dataset and I am not surprised that they turned out this way. You can try to use them, but do not expect much. Hey, at least, it can generate rather good armored dinos! Yay!

Kythra

Kythra, black hair, red beltbra, curved yellow fake horns, horned red headwear, underboob, long pointy ears, very long hair, green eyes, pale skin, red straps

Our fav BDSM gal and minotaur mistress. There were no full body images of her, so I purposefully did not include any lower clothing in her keywords. You can give her whatever or... you can make her go commando, so to speak.

Ylaya

Ylaya, facial tattoo, shoulder tattoo, white hair, very long hair, long pointy ears, elf, leotard, chocker, purple eyes

Almost forgot about this one, so I added her images into the dataset already in the process of tagging. Another witch, duh! But her outfit is very different - she's basically the only one wearing a leotard. Or, at least, my eyes saw her that way and fanarts only reinforced that vision. Didn't have any fullbody images of her, but she's probably a strong follower of the dark elf fashion - so, high heels, platform boots, etc.

Yrwanna

Yrwanna, red hair, very long hair, long pointy ears, elf, dress, red dress, red shoulder armor, cleavage, gold tiara with a single ruby gem, gold chocker

Again, there were no full body images of her. She's a fury, but clearly wears something high class(judging by her red dress), so you can give her some lower clothing from witches line. I did not include such tags in her keywords so that people could choose this stuff themselves without much trouble of deleting tags they don't want in their prompot.

Eruina

Eruina, white hair, purple eyes, very long hair, long pointy ears, elf, shoulder tattoo, detached sleeves, spiked bracers, dress, plunging neckline, crown, tiara, necklace, bikini armor, facial tattoo, tattoo,

Another witch, but her outfit differs a little. Made it so that her keywords would match it, although they are not 100% copy of witch line. Probably wears high heels, like the rest of them.

Shadiya

Shadiya, very long hair, long pointy ears, red eyes, elf, necklace, spiked bracers, black hair, facial tattoo, shoulder tattoo, tattoo, detached sleeves, dress, plunging neckline, bikini armor, bikini top, gold tiara,

She's clearly a witch, so I decided to add appropriate tags in her keywords so it may help with generating images. One can say that, aside from tattoos, every witch is Shadiya xD

Weapon tags

crossbow, knife,

dagger, dual wielding,

shortsword, dual wileding

whip, holding whip,

energy whip, whip, holding whip,

Honestly, these do not work well. They never do, right? Those crossbows never worked right for me, but hey, maybe you'll get lucky? I mostly tagged them in training so that the model knew they are there and not just a part of characters, which it must recreate by default. Surprisingly, those whips adapted really well to "leashed viewer POV" Loras!

I've also made a distinction with tagging scouts and maids when it came to their weapons - scout's have a "knife", while maids I tagged "dagger". Because maids have very beautiful, curved daggers or even shortswords, but scouts have short, simple, and practical knives. Honestly, don't know if it made any difference in training.

Other useful tags

face tattoo, shoulder tattoo, pelvic tattoo, leg tattoo, arm tattoo

Special bit of information for those who often get to generating tired and resort to lazy prompting... like I do sometimes. Remember what I told you earlier about full body shots - most of the time they do not turn out so well, but that's not the point. Be mindful of what you want to get and what tags you put - if you put footwear tags or something concerning lower body without mentioning something like "sitting on a chair" it will most likely turn out as a full body shot, rather than a portrait. Don't just copy & past full character tags - think of what you want to put into the prompt.