presenting y'all my OC designed for my graduating project on the subject of seductive monsters! her name is Lilly, nicknamed Damme of The Night, she's inspired by the mytological Lilith and also draws some inspirations from Carmilla (and while i was creating her i listened a lot to this pagan-gothic band called INKUBUS SUKKUBUS so there's that too - do hear it, their songs are so good if you're into that kind of vibe). she was a very fun character to create, and has been living inside my head for soooo looooong. i wanna yap about her and her lore a bit, allow me hahah
fellow OC artists will understand the sudden appearace of an OC in your mind when you're just living life and that was what happed with my Lilly. originally i wanted to do my graduation project with another OC (my Syra, a siren - i know, very original name lol) and these plans where discarded as soon as she appeared in my mind. i think i was listening to Vampyre Erotica (by INKUBUS SUKKUBUS) while reseaching for my essay, and then i was imagining this character take form in my mind. the glimpses of a beautiful she-devil, with vampire and sukkubus traits, that hunts evil religious man. and that was the beginning of it, i was about to birth her!
her lore is still being developed, and i really have this wish of making a comic about my Lilly (even tho i have no experience whatsoever with making comics, but that's something for future me to figure it out), but basically, veeeery basic lore: she was the youngest daughter of a silk merchant in this kingdom called Mishta, that thrived of the commerce and trading of silk and precious gems, it was a small but rich kindgom. she was also a priestess in training for the temple of her goddess, a deity based on the Moon. this kingdom had many religions coexisting in relatively peace, until one day missionaries of a foreign religion, the Sacred Order of The One, starts to infiltrate in the kingdom and condemn the old religions that existed in Mishta. Conflits emerges, and things go very very wrong. The old temples are burned and destroyed, those following the old religions are massacrated, their silk and gems stolen, and the kingdom that was once a beautiful and lively place is now in ruins.
Lilly's family little by little dies as famine becomes rampant in the kingdom, and she's the last one standing. When she sees her childhood sweetheart being arrested and publicly tortured to death for following one the "pagan" religions, she runs to a secluded temple of her goddess that had somehow escaped destruction and starts a ritual to beg for her goddess to grant her and her people justice and vengeance. unfortunaly, she was being followed by one of the Sacred Order's missionaries, and her ritual remain incomplete as she is dragged back to the city, her destined is the same of her sweetheart and many others. she dies enraged, and her screams making even the higher rankings of the Sacred Order get chills.
her goddess, though, had heard her prayers even if left unfinished, and she is given a second chance, being reborn as a demonic creature, a vampira sukkubae, to seek revenge for every single person that had their lives and their sacred temples destroyed. she would spend the following centuries hunting these missionaries, infiltrating in their own temples to destroy them inside-out, using the one of the things they condemned the most: lust.
there's a lot to be developed yet, and i'm excited to keep working on this baby of mine. when i was a child i loved to imagine myself as creatures that don't exist or create worlds in my mind. now being an adult and an artist, it my absolute joy to be able to create art and make up stories for my characters, little me would be very proud, i know it! (by the lore you can also say that i do have a little tiiiiiny bit of a religious trauma lol)
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