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Adaine and her very large arcane focus.
The Maternal Ghraggal
My response to this week’s BestiaryPosting challenge, from @maniculum
Pencil sketch, then lines in Sailor fude nib fountain pen, using Diamine Sepia ink.
Thought process under the cut…
"The Ghraggal is named for its swiftness [redacted]. It is a beast distinguished by its varied markings, its courage and its extraordinary speed. Hircania is their main home."
So, this is basically all the physical description we get about this creature. It's fast, so I figured I'd give it quite long limbs. We know it's a beast, but not a lot else. If in doubt, by default beast is something somewhat dog or wolf-like, so we have a vaguelly canine-looking creature with long legs and a variety of markings, ranging from almost like stripes on the legs, to finer spots on its underside and larger, more irregular shapes on its back and sides. Hopefully it all gels together as something coherent; I took a lot of influence from the patterns on girafffes, particularly the Rothschild's, Masai and Southern sub-species.
As an aside, Hyrcania seems to be part of modern day Turkmenistan and Iran, which doesn't actually help. However, Hyrcania roughly translates as 'wolf land', which would be a reall cool reason for me to lean 'slightly canine' except I found out about it after I'd done the drawing... ;)
"The female Ghraggal, when she finds her lair empty by the theft of a child, follows the tracks of the thief at once. When the thief sees that, even though he rides a swift horse, he is outrun by her speed, and that there is no means of escape at hand, he devises the following deception. When he sees the female Ghraggal drawing close, he throws down a glass sphere. The female Ghraggal is deceived by her own image in the glass and thinks it is her stolen child. She abandons the chase, eager to gather up her young. Delayed by the illusion, she tries once again with all her might to overtake the rider and, urged on by her anger, quickly threatens the fleeing man. Again he holds up her pursuit by throwing down a sphere. The memory of the trick does not banish the mother's devotion. She turns over the empty likeness and settles down as if she were about to suckle her child. And thus, trapped by the intensity of her sense of duty, she loses both her revenge and her child."
What. A. Jerk. Amirite?
Again, very fast creature, faster than a swift horse. Also, if we're being charitable, not the smartest creature either...
We also know that this is a creature that is valuable enough for someone to raise one from a baby, that hunters have developed increasingly expensive and elaborate methods to achieve this theft!
This did take me down a bit of a rabbit hole of 'crystal ball photography', which I tried to recreate as best possible. :)
What kind of memes did humanity make when the Traveler just popped in.
Like I'm pretty sure someone woke up to the giant orb just there and made a Shrek someBODY meme.
I'm pretty sure it's canon the Traveler came to earth in 2014, so like...2014 memes but Traveler.
I just feel like ORB would be a meme as well, like how Glow Cloud was a meme for Welcome to Nightvale any glowing cloud image had at least 5 "all hail the glow cloud" replies. I feel people would make really nice aesthetic edits of the Traveler only to have "O R B" replies.
Mudroom - Transitional Entry Example of a small transitional entryway design with gray walls, a medium wood front door, and a gray floor.
Anyone who HASNT listened to the full bareil rap is missing out on some of the BEST LYRICS
"hey there girl, look into my orb
think about all the love you could absorb"
Wanna know how to quit feeling dysphoric? Ponder your of8.
Orbs
Who wants beauty? Who needs it?
What do we gain? What do I gain?
What will I do with it? Do I bring it to parks? Do I push it's swing? Does beauty's weight even swing as a body? Does beauty like going to malls? Do I get beauty it's own clothes? Does beauty like food? Does it like Japanese food? Does ramen appease it? Does beauty have the money for it? Does beauty feed me? If so, what's it's value? Is it nutritional? Is it leisurely? Is it a snack? Is it a salad?
Is beauty sweet? Is beauty bitter? Is it best served hot or cold?
...
It's sour?
Then why would I eat it?
Is it edible?
Is it poisonous?
Is it dangerous?
Beauty shoots the people. It pierces their unbeautiful skin with it's bullets, their flesh being singed with beauty's radiating heat. The beauty bullet is lodged in people's abdomen and arms and necks and noses. I was shot in the heart.
Blood doesn't seep, oh no it doesn't.
Serums and lotion and sudsy waters flood out. I fall to the ground.
Beauty continues it's beautiful massacre. Men were shot in their arms, women were shot in their stomachs. Beautiful bullets flew in the sky, today.
Beauty beauty beauty. It's heat cauterized no wounds, the floor was coated in lotion. Was beauty taking over? Would it even?
Lotions lotions lotions.
Beauty beauty beauty.
All over the ground.
The beautiful lotions and suds formed like clay, and they ran together like rat kings, swirling like whirlpools. Everything it swirled past would be spun in: people's limbs poked out of the soft ball that spun faster, then shoes, then bikes, then paper, everything.
It spun and spun until I couldn't see. It spun too fast that no color appeared, the sun's light rays were too slow, beauty was ahead of it. It was an orb of light, a bright orb that shot up into the sky! It whirred and whirred as it propelled above us, jets were unmatched.
Beauty glistened in the sky! It had everyone! It was a star now, we knew beauty was a star! It shot through the day, like fire, we knew it was fire, no ice could be as beautiful as a beauty's flame. No...
Beauty! Beauty beauty! It's a star! It's a shooting star! Wish on it! Wish on it!
So the orb was retrieved at last, but bunny knight seems surprised to see it glowing.
If I hear or see ONE MORE THING about Christmas before Halloween or even Thanksgiving, I'm going to unleash The Orb.