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My Little Cerdae - Breezy | Flight Rising

It was meant to be a chibi drawing but it ended up looking just like my mlp style so I pivoted to it especially since I haven't draw in that style for a while~

The Hidden Constellations. The Bestias Animus Astra.

These are the profound beasts of cosmic power that the Ancient Talosian Cerulean Clan once called their quarry. The Divine Star Beasts.

Residing in a thin, very precise layer of spirituality called Astral Space, these creatures are neither living nor dead. Their bodies are structured by a frame of arcane magic, woven with threads of divine spiritual energy, and constantly burn with something cosmic and otherworldly in origin. Something alien.

Star Hunting

To hunt a Star Beast is to acquire a concentrated piece of that cosmic energy, and upon wearing it the hunter shall be attuned to both their deepest selves, and the selves of others. The hunting skill of dragons who battle and best a Star Beast become legendary, their quarries magnificent, and the materials gathered from them potent in nutrition and quality. It was through this practice that the Cerulean Clan built their legacy amongst the other clans. You can see this in the clan's garb, most members sporting an heirloom passed down from their parents and grandparents.

You can see Notable members wearing their 'Star-Ivory Heirlooms' here, and below!

Significance

The practice, due to the slow decline in meditative practices(Necessary for entering Astral Space in the first place) has waned drastically in recent years, the last Cerulean to hunt a Bestia Animus Astra being the old Cerulean Chieftain Elder Orion.

The young Chieftain Arkadi wants desperately to return the Cerulean Clan to its former glory by reviving the practice, but unfortunate events in early childhood have left him spiritually disharmonized and internally unbalanced. He can't enter Astral Space...not on his own, at least...

His ambition will drive him. Whether its towards a path of healing and self-acceptance, or towards a path fraught with pain and despair, is entirely up to fate.

Thanks for the wonderful question!

Arkadi, my little one... It's been far too long...Your story will be told, it is written in the stars.

I've been finishing this long overdue second chapter of Tales of Talos, and sincerely hope you guys enjoy the first sprouts of my efforts once they're posted^^ It's been a while since these guys have felt alive, like spring awakening from a cold, dark winter. Feels nice. Feels good.

*Tw: Dissociation Discussion*

My deepest apologies for the painfully long hiatus. It turns out the medication I was taking quite literally rewired my brain, and although it made me alert, it also induced what can now be identified as a dissociative fugue. On one hand, I would never recommend that level of emotional nonexistence to any artist(or...really anyone who enjoys having emotions at all). On the other hand, now that it's fading, the experience has provided some great material to pull from.

It was unlike anything I've ever been through. An absence of the self, despite total presence of the mind. You end up doing math on what you should be feeling, based on the memories of who you once were and who you know yourself to have been. Never have I felt so utterly in the dark. And never have I been so thankful for even the most painful of emotions now that I have them back.

Cherish your creativity, folks. Cherish every grain of bliss and grief.

Anyways, enough grandstanding! You want drama, theater, dragons!! Not the scribblings of some artist's diary.

CanterLoop | Flight Rising

Was gonna go just for a draft horse/gaoler hybrid but then I realised that if added a bit of reindeer in instead I wouldn't have to suffer drawing the gaoler horns again~

Mooncake Festival | Commission

Well I finished this at the perfect time, been working on it since march for mistral jamboree but finished it on thundercrack instead lol.