#konsteneta

Taken some time off to destress from being busy. I’ll get back to my deity rambles in a moment, butttttt

Philippine birds anyone? c:

So many birdsssss…

Returning to the Konsteneta thing,

There’s lore now for these floating islands in Konsteneta’s sky, which is where most of the birds live.

In my doomed yuri story, a lot of these families (bird species) fall into water due to uh Kasay’s island falling into bleh (and I now have a solid , concrete reason why that happens!! Yahh!!). Not all birds die as some become bound to other pieces of land like in the island archipelago south of where they fell and the coasts of the Great Continent.

I will say, I also have grown fond of Alapaap haha she’s lore relevant now!!

Amihan, Alapaap, and Lihangin, whose odd one out BAHAHAH they’re all now the most lore relevant in my world whether they like it or not

Araw has a striking resemblance to Apolaki

Post Alapaap Obsession (well, after the years he kept chasing her and clinging to her, he was still obsessed afterwards, but never really enacted on it??), he started to kind of mirror Apolaki to fill in this void of emptiness and lack of purpose.

And around this time, he slowly started to lose his identity

He got so good at mirroring Apolaki that if Apolaki were to disappear, Araw would be indistinguishable from Apolaki. When Mayari tried to talk to Araw once, thinking he was Apolaki, Araw covered his face and avoided her for the rest of that year.

i er wanted to color a sketch of them

this is uh modern era Konsteneta Apolaki and Mayari at the height of their power (Mayari with the full moon phase of the Greater Moon and Apolaki is the Solar Solstice)

For celestial body deities in Konsteneta, their hair reflects the elemental power they were created from, and it mimics the phases that the element goes through.

Tumblr trying to ragebait me

Anyways

Alapaap is based off of the Philippine Serpent Eagle and Araw looks like Apolaki because for lore reasons

Alapaap’s actual self stems from the bird on her head LOL

I so wanna do more deity designs

Hair is so fun to draw aufh

1 - Bathala (like his more earlier years)

2 - Aman Sinaya cause damn he’s my favorite

3 & 4 - Alapaap (Tagalog goddess of the sky from what I remembered)

5 - Magwayen (she’s ehh right now I need to simmer more of the Bisayan deities)

6 - Lidagat and Lihangin (again like with Magwayen, I need to simmer them more)

Alapaap ranks higher in terms of power against Amihan and Habagat as deities in my world (she’s known as The Sky/Heaven’s Mother), but like many other wind gods, I’d imagine they’re busy making their way around Konsteneta controlling their own winds so they don’t want anything to do with the Floating Islands. Amihan volunteered themself to do that haha

take this sad bird woman

her doom is about to come

some mayari doodles ive drawn over yesterday and the day prior or something bahahah

also some er oc stuff as well with Amihan just there LOL

worldbuilding is actually going well :p

AND WAIT I GOTTA START DRAWING MAYARI BEING HAPPY INSTEAD OF BEING AN ANGRY APATHETIC DEPRESSED WOMAN that's apolaki's job gosh

In my world, a lot of gods and goddesses are manifestations of elements, with their emotions and cognition being created through the heat of their world. And thus, their power relies heavily on the concentration of their elements.

As manifestations of the world's heat and elements, there are many cases in which the gods and goddesses do not align with a singular gender. Some change theirs throughout the many years they exist, some might stay as a genderless entity with a confidence that they wouldn't need one, and some choose to use a certain form to appeal to their mortals. They are indeed just a condensed, solid form of something.

Mayari was born of the light reflected from the moon, representing the fact that she is only a ray compared to the endless light her father brings. In my world, most recently can she be found flaunting her soft glow in a more feminine form. She's also a god often involved with the creation of many beings related to the sky.

And as you can see already, a lot of the gods and goddesses were created after mortals were made, which explains their desire to inspire their mortals. Since they are just elemental beings, they usually start off without a purpose, and so mortals to them are like a bright light that shoots through the darkness.