“On the fifth pace, the Tai Emperor Raven comes home to her Bridge, and she cuts a moon with her talons, she cuts it open and kills its brood.”

So the Steed is supposed to be an Ecumene member race, and I used a Seahorse to reference Bungies horse motif. I always imagine since the Ecumene are connected to the Darkness and the Steeds are their leaders, that the Steeds had a direct link to the Deep itself in some form.

The Bellow is very much based on Tubeworms. Since I wanted them to be the inhabitants of the Dakaua nest, I figured I’d go for a more unique take on a “nest”. Because of their design, I imagine as part of the Ecumene they may have had a link to the power of Darkness to connect minds together.

The Bishops are meant to be the Harmony, and i chose to base them on the Olm specifically to look like a wise old being. But also because it’s weird and I’ve never really seen a proper alien take on the Harmony. Also the staff is Ahamkara bone, if you couldn’t tell.

XXX. a golden amputation

'On the seventh pace, the Perfect Raven comes out of Oryx’s wound, and she spreads her wings across Taishibeth. Never again is a Taishibethi child born.'

On the second pace, the Tai unleash their battleplates and arsenal ships to fight our moons.

On the third pace, Oryx’s Warpriest meets them in battle, and he is victorious, he paints the void with fire, he salts the earth with ash.

“On the seventh pace, the Perfect Raven comes out of Oryx’s wound, and she spreads her wings across Taishibeth. Never again is a Taishibethi child born. She is perfect, she enacts the will of Oryx.”

Taken are hard to draw

On the fourth pace, Mengoor and Cra’adug, dyad knights, go to the Raven Bridge, and they stand on it and kill the Tai for ten years.