What The Hell

Have always wanted to draw Eris.

did xi ro test her strength just for the sake of it, or to also be able to protect her siblings and her court? was sathona cunning so she could one day guide the court past the lifetime of her siblings? aurash didn’t seek answers to become the “emperor of all outcomes” but to find out the truth in a world made up of dangerous unknowns. all those potential nuances are lost almost immediately. emotions bleed together and decay until they’re unrecognizable

the sword logic is a tautology. it forms and proves itself. is it any surprise that its followers are trapped in cyclical struggle and violence? you starve and feed your worm, or you win and feed your worm, or die and feed the ones after you, or succeed and ultimately feed your worm and your god who is also a worm, and so it goes, around and around. the only way out is to break the rules, but it’s hard to do that when the rules live inside you - we’re seeing just how far savathun is going for her freedom, making herself an enemy of everything in the system all the while

there are also so many terrible what-ifs that come along with this. what if the story on the fundament had gone differently: the king hadn’t found the dead worm to begin with, or they listened to the leviathan instead of killing it, or simply never dove. what if the traveler picked the krill courts instead?

while it’s great story fodder, there would have eventually been another pact, another form of the hive - the worm gods were still imprisoned after all, still pulling fragments of civilizations down to the fundament and still stranding larva on shorelines to whisper of doom to the susceptible. eventually the moons would line up and the god-wave would wipe out all life above, and they’d start searching for some desperate pawns once more. another cycle restarting….

the black garden.

Last art for the year, here’s something I’ve been working on in my sketchbook. I’ll confess I’ve never played Destiny but I loved reading through the grimoire.

Young Wolf: Can't I just be smiling?

Short comic based on the lore entry for Lord Gheleon

Bonus:

Sailors aboard a ship used to hum to warn the captain they were THIS close to a mutiny and didn’t like conditions AT ALL. Because humming was something others could keep doing when you stopped. Anyone comes close you stop, but the hum of the rest keeps on and they can’t prove who, exactly, is doing it.

Commander Cody: Actually, sir -

Jango, from across the training room:

Cody: Actually, sir, he’s right there.

Jango, glaring at him: I don’t know what you mean, I’m just another brother.

“I’m so glad you’re the one who found me.”