#kashchei

Koshei

By Mike Vivisector 2017

Product Mock Up- Armour Spell Seals

This is an idea I’ve had rambling around in my head awhile, based on the Purity Seals of Warhammer 40K, but also with some real world basis, mostly ofuda in the East and prayer scrolls in Medieval Christianity.

The inspiration is ribbons of parchement, inscribed with prayers or spells and affixed to armor with wax seals. The execution of the product would be sigils made into iron-on patches, with canvas ribbons, with a spell or invocation written on them.

This particular mock up uses a new sigil based on the story of Kosciej, the Deathless, a sort of lich-wizard of Slavic myth who gained immortality through hiding his soul in a needle. The needle was then placed inside an egg, which was inside of a duck, which was in turn placed inside a hare, which finally was put into an iron chest and the whole thing buried beneath an oak tree. The idea being that you couldn’t kill or seriously injure him, without first finding his soul.

The sigil is made from his name, Kosciej, and the spell seal has the following invocation, in Polish (well, Google translated into Polish)-

“I have hidden my soul inside a needle, inside an egg, inside a duck, inside a hare, inside an iron chest, beneath a green oak tree. No harm may come to me lest it first find that needle”

Koschei the Immortal (character from Russian fairy tales)

https://youtu.be/g2f0EtkVllI