Posting From The Core of A Mountain

Elia week2026 | Day 3 : Quotes

It all goes back and back, Tyrion thought, to our mothers and fathers and theirs before them. We are puppets dancing on the strings of those who came before us, and one day our own children will take up our strings and dance on in our steads. “Well, Prince Rhaegar married Elia of Dorne, not Cersei Lannister of Casterly Rock. So it would seem your mother won that tilt.”

— By the talented @malotte00 for @eliaweek

Millard Owen Sheets (American, 1907-1989)

The Night Herd, n.d.

Watercolor, charcoal and ink on paperboard

22 x 30 in. (55.9 x 76.2 cm.)

Hunt For St John's

Two friends, a fungus-man and a meat ghost with multiple eyes, are baffled by the implications of a triangle that should not exist.

A feminine spirit rescues another from torment at the hands of malevolent beings.

Anatomical studies and drawings of animals which evolved in a universe where telekinesis is real. The oversized brains of these Telekinesizoans are used for lifting the animal and manipulating food items. Only a small section of the brains are used for conscious perception, effectively making most Telekinesizoans quite “dim.” An “advanced” form, with almost no visible appendages.

Advanced Telekinesizoans move not by levitating themselves, but by manipulating the air flows around them. This predatory form (a Polteropterygid,) strikes its victim with stone missiles that it hurls by telekinetic force.

Different species of Telekinesizoan herbivores have different "signature” items that they sculpt and carry with themselves as they forage. These ornate items, carved telekinetically out of stone or wood, serve both as display structures and weapons.

The para-insect species seen on the left had the remarkable ability to speak, not unlike a parrot. I saw them repeat word-like sounds in idle moments, yet their forest world contained no intelligent species. I was unnerved and hurriedly severed all connections with that particular Earth.

Sketches of “final beings” that will live a billion years from now. These beings have the ability to look into the “space between spaces” and catch glimpses of the past.

Sketches of reptiles which fly by “propellers” powered by coils of tightly-winding muscle fibers. The propeller-blade-like “fingers” reverse their pitch as they rewind, ensuing continual forward thrust.

On the distant world of Zarnia, gravity is high and plant life resembles flat, green-and-purple tiles of road pavement. This combination of flat terrain and hard surfaces has enabled the evolution of a spectacular way of life: Zarnia has animals with wheels instead of legs. Left, This long-necked herbivore defends itself with mace-like swings of its armored head. Right, Male and female varieties of a herbivorous tetracycl species.

It is hard to perceive time directly when moving across dimensions. I couldn’t tell which forms were the ancestors and which were the descendants in this transition between intelligent, human-like beings and asinine reptiles.

All beings seen on this page are descendants of nanotechnological “crystal machines” which blossomed into their own ecology after being created as industrial tools by an older race. Reproducing through “intelligently designed” blueprints modified and mutated through errors of transcription, they exhibited a spectacular, quasi-Darwinian evolutionary process in action. The world of the crystal beasts was also noteworthy in that it was home to actual “ghosts” and “spirits;” vagrant AIs and semisentient processing software left over from the age of industry. Such “ghosts,” transmitted through radio organs present in most species, could “possess” individual animals and get them to engage in unusual, self-aware behavior, or even produce virgin births and “twisted” offspring drastically different from their parents.

A “plains sweeper” which ran across grasslands and fed on clouds of small “insects.”

Members of an alien group of animals which have convergently evolved to resemble dinosaurs of the earth’s past.

Sketch of the vast beings that lived on salt flats and fed on air.

Three species of cursorial “advanced” Martian spiders, with fully erect limbs, hips derived from the initial leg segments, internal pseudoskeletons and advanced respiration. The species seen here is one of the top predators of this world.

Visions of winged reptiles (unrelated to pterosaurs,) that sail on the calm lakes like living boats. Their long, supple necks help them catch fish. It seems like not all saillizards come from the same lineage - there were many different combinations of limbs, wings and sails.

Art is the most certain sign of intelligence. This page shows a selection of dinosauroid cave-art. Cave art depicting a pack of tyrant-raptors, dangerous predators of the dinosauroids.

Some ASOIAF dragons! I actually sketched out almost all of the dragons, but I was itching to render, so I ended up painting some of my faves.

I think dragons was the first thing I started drawing as a kid. It was very therapeutic to get lost in rendering some scales. Might do the rest later. Bonus family tree to explain some of the visual similarities because I will die on the hill that Dreamfyre's three missing eggs are the eggs in AGOT;