Darkness Crawls and Suffer

After a long time and a lot of work I’m proud to say that the first part of the first chapter is available to read at: 

https://archiveofourown.org/series/2179452 Only in Polish so far, I’m sorry. I’m thinking about a translation to English, but time is the biggest issue here and there’s a lot of text to translate and a lot of work to make it readable in different language.  But the whole project is growing and I’m happy. So now you can expect new chapters being added once in a while.  Enjoy and I hope all our polish readers will like it :). 

Sorry for being so inactive here for the past months, I was totally overwhelmed with personal stuff :( But finally, my life is coming back on track, so I’ll do my best to post here a bit more regularly. 

Have this cute, 12-years old (or so) Deqatir as an apology ^^. 

May this be a happy days for all of you :). 

in the meantime - I’m giving you one of the first design of Deqatir, made almost 2 years ago. Dude hasn’t change in a bit, haha. But I’m glad I can be consistent with my drawing and not changing the style of the character that much through the years :). 

Or to be exact - Yarden’zhah’varriv, but no one is calling him that anymore...

It’s a shame that I don’t have many arts of this one.  Also: short description is short ;p

He’s a twin brother of Deqatir. 

A warrior (let’s say that), quite skilled actually. Quite short-tempered. He was mentoring by his own father (who is one of the best fighters of all times) and after that, he went to the Temple to give himself to the Devinar protection (Devinar is the God of War and God of Blood in vhvx pantheon). 

This guy you’ll be seeing a lot here, because I love to draw him for some reason :D. 

He’s Khalia’s brother, but only by name. The family they live in is more like some sort of “brotherhood”, where everyone who has some good skill is welcome.  Deqatir is a “blood mage”, although while he’s using his blood to cast spells, he’s doing it in more shamanistic ways. Basically, he’s something between a shaman, a voodoo priest and an allseer. 

He’s devoted to Xiss [read “hiss”], his beloved Goddess of Magic. She’s letting him control his powers and even predict the future for some sort (if he could interpret her signs in a correct way ;)). 

very old designs ;). I’m surprised how chubby she was back then, a bit non-elvish look.  and the strand is on the other side, lol. 

you may notice, that my posts are quite chaotic, and probably not clear enough at some point. I’m sorry about that. 

I’m not used to writing a blog, or characters descriptions. It should be better in time, with more post, and when my confidence will grow enough to overcome this. 

So if something is unclear - feel free to leave me a note / question. I’ll try to answer with a new post or add some edit to the old one. 

I believe this will help you bond with the characters a bit, so I don’t want anything to be unclear :). 

I guess the best way to start is with the main character for the story. 

Khalia is a young vhramalvx woman (vhramalvx is a race that resembles dark elves), devoted to Kall, which is the God of Suffering, Kall’s domain are torture and pain, but also performing surgeries of any kind, so his followers are often surgeons or at least they have some knowledge how to “repair” the human body. 

I could say that Khalia is simply a doctor, but while she knows how to set the fracture of the bone, she has no idea how to treat the common cold, not to mention other diseases.  So cutting people, putting them back together or making the autopsy are the things that she knows of. Of course for a young vx (I’m using the shortcut from the race name) she have her whole life to learn new things. 

But will she be able to learn, when there’s always something going on, that keeps her away from her study? ;) 

I made this blog to share some illustrations and short stories I’m making for the big story which is "The Suffering of the Coming Darkness". 

I’m creating this “book” with my dear friend and it’s a story loosely based on an old RPG session. Right now, we have full draft and many pages of the first version. This version however got some proofread and suddenly we had to change a lot. So now, there’s second chapter to be done. And onward to the rest. 

I will publish the book whenever we’ll have a bit more text to it. The first version will be in polish, but I’ll try to translate it to English and publish this version as well. 

I have hopes for making a comic book from the story, with my own twists and plots that won’t be shown in the book. It’ll take a lot of time, but it’s nice to have a goal I guess ;). 

In the meantime, I’ll post some things related to the story here - characters with descriptions and ref sheets, some illustrations, maybe a bit of shitposting. And later, I’m hoping for some storyboard and sketches of the comic pages itself. 

So stay tuned and enjoy.