#moon egg

The Sun Egg ☀️ & The Moon Egg 🌙

A pair of mini paintings. Both have sold already.

I’m not sure I’m done with this concept though. It started off as a trans joke that I didn’t want to make too obvious, to be honest. But I think it has a lot of potential, and I’d love to explore it again sometime and push it further. I was on a crunch for time with these, so I couldn’t implement certain ideas.

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I think everyone is fairly certain now that the moon was created when a Mars-sized planet (scientists in this video dubbed it "Thea") hit Earth really, really hard, in an impact that almost pulverized Earth and completely destroyed Thea. The debris from the impact, which was a mix of Earth-bits and Thea-bits, made a disc around the planet and eventually coalesced into the moon.

So if that's how the moon happened... how is it an egg????

like I said, I liked that episode, so I have a wacky theory that could explain it: what if the cool space dragon thing happened upon the moon one day and somehow swapped out our actual moon for its egg? does this make sense? probably not! but it's a fun idea.

Well that was a good episode and wait a minute… the moon looks like a hatched egg. That… seems very very bad. Dang it Doctor!

Moon Hatching

New concept piece!

I think that's entirely possible! Reminds me a little of Lucien's "cocoon" and fascination with his rebirth as a god. "'I needed witnesses. To hear my birth cry.' And as he raises his hands, you hear the entire city scream at once. Like a collective child being born." I imagine the birth of a terrifying god that's connected to people all around the world, twisting their fates--that might look a little similar to Lucien's "ascension."

Ruidus appears meant to seal something away from the rest of Exandria, something alien and otherworldly. It's possible releasing it could recreate a deity.

“During the founding, a time when the gods still walked the face of Exandria, the world’s divine creators discovered an unidentifiable power seeping through the fabric of reality. Legends assert that the alien influence was a threat to all life on Exandria, and the gods banded together to banish it. This cancerous incursion of dark power is said to have crystallized into Ruidus..."

If there is a god in Ruidus, I think that connection would take a toll on a lot of Ruidus born. Maybe not to the extent of the Cognouza hivemind--but at least in dreams, some people born under a red moon seem to be connected. And if we've learned anything from Aeor Arc, it's that sharing your mind with others--and something as ancient and alien as a god--can be catastrophic.