#Näcken

[obligatedart]

Raffie, my beloved 💚💚💚

We didn’t get his siren form for his birthday card, so I decided to turn him into Näcken, the swedish-freshwater-folklore-counterpart 💁‍♀️ An artistic deity that lures people into the deep waters with his beauty or song.

He often takes the shape of a beautiful young man, and is especially dangerous for young women whom he’d drown in the dark waters . You’ll also more often than not find him playing playing his violin, sitting on a lone rock in the middle of the stream.

He’s a cunning trickster by nature, and is neither good nor purely evil. Those who were courageous (or stupid) enough could become the pupils of Näcken, and those who were not drowned for daring would be taught to play the violin themselves with otherworldly skill.

Näcken would sometimes leave the water to enter human settlements. Around Midsummer you would have to be extra careful, as he was known to take the shape of a dashing young fiddler; People who heard his irresistible music would be put under a spell, and they were compelled to dance until they dropped dead from exhaustion.

I love Scandinavia folklore, and especially Näcken/Nøkken/Näkki/Nykur/Nixie, and was pleased to realize he was kinda Rafayel-coded :D

Anyways;

Happy birthday baby! 💜💖

[kykyhich]

Näck - are humanoid, and often shapeshifting water spirits in Swedish mythology and folklore. Male water spirits who played enchanted songs on the violin, luring women and children to drown in lakes or streams.

[natalieff]

Nøkken

[aftershockz]

Not arcana art but whatever

[fishyfishyfishtimes]

My take on the näkki, or nøkken, näcken, nixe, nixie, depends on what you call it when there's a spirit who lures people into the water to drown them! Näkki is often shown to be a humanlike creature, I wanted to do something similar but with a little twist of what a person might think is a human or a humanlike being as they glance behind themselves while running away. In a way, "just" an animal mistaken to be a malicious magical force, although still aggressive and a very good reason to stay away from unknown waters. I based it off of the first nightmare I remember having: I was sitting on the edge of a small stream and when I looked into the water my reflection was replaced with that of a wolf. I heard a disembodied whisper, "I will find you," and then I woke up.

If the näkki was a real animal, I think it would be similarly persecuted to other predator animals like wolves, perhaps even more strongly due to their extreme territoriality towards their home waters. The näkki is likely endangered in the modern day due to habitat loss and overhunting of the past and present.

[ch3rry-draws]

[radioactive-boba]

im kind of in love w him have a quick painting about it

[afangirlsmanicextraveganza]

Saw Näcken’s interpretation for Bramble and I had to pull out my license 😏…

[druvjelly]

As someone who’s Swedish, I wish Näcken was a bit more conventionally hot but like

This works too

He looks like a 40 year old who sells snus to a bunch of teens outside the ICA that’s too close to a school

[t-the-ring-master]

How Bramble: the mountain king characters react to the Nils king daughter helping Olle.

Request: circus guest anon

Request open.

Not me over here picking one of the trolls and naming him and giving him a backstory just for this.

I named him Mari after my dog Mars and a small streamer I watch. He used be human in this which is how I made them and the daughter know each other. The daughter is the requesters OC, and I wasn’t given a name so we’ll just refer to her as the kings daughter in this.

Loved this request and imma have fun with this one. I added the frog king because I can.

Olle:

He didn’t expect to receive help. Not so far into the forest and so far into the bloody water at that. But Olle knew he couldn’t be picky… he had to save her, with any help he could get.

Even if that help was the blood of the root cause of the horrors he’s been through. But most of all… he did expect to find help in a rock. How long had she been stuck in there?

Frog king:

He has no opinion really, he’s just a frog. But he was happy to help her and Olle get across the water.

Mari(the troll that first kidnaps Olle’s sister):

He wishes he could remember. He wishes he knew this body of his could remember her, the little girl he made an oath as a human to protect. The very reason he learned to pick up a blade. The reason he had become such a monster… but he doesn’t, he just knows he must feed the king. Mari may no longer be human, but he still has minimal control, he will stall himself. Maybe they’ll have a chance of escape if he just brings them to the castle rather than make them a meal. No matter how starving he is.

(Lowkey wanna write a mini story on this man now. Of course with requester’s permission because the princess is their OC.)

King Nils:

She was the last thing he saw when he turned into this… she will be the last thing he sees when he finally is free, even if it destroys everything around him.

Despite his hope, he didn’t expect to see his son and daughter together once again. Only this time it isn’t his beloved son, it isn’t the child he lost and that caused him to do this to himself, to his daughter. He doesn’t even care about Olle at that point… he just hopes she can forgive her father for the sins he has committed, and the hell he made her life.

Lemus:

If she’s a friend of Olle’s, then she is a friend of Lemus. He likes her, she’s nice.

He just wishes she didn’t stay when the castle fell and Olle didn’t get hurt.

Näcken:

No thoughts… just Violin -more like violence-, and murder. Why is he falling? Why can’t he feel anything anymore? And why can he hear familiar voices around him? Is this the price he pays for everything? Why does it… feel nice? For once he feels human again. Maybe that fall wasn’t such a bad thing.

Never mind, his spine hurts.

[hysteriak]

🪷🐸 NÄCKEN 🫧🍀

[xlownenbemy]

Nicklas!!!

Finally made a proper pose for him😁😁😁

[actaviya123]

Their reaction to kisses

[thatpinkweirdo]

The fact that in Bramble The Mountain King the concept art for Näcken gives him CLOTHING! But in the game the Skogsrå doesn't is sooo funny to me beacuse ive always thought of them as:

Skogsrå: PUT ON SOME CLOTHING!

Näcken: I would rather die.

[ch3rry-draws]

Trying again with Nacken

[sunshine-and-moonshine]

might fuck around and write for Näcken cause I wanna smooch his face