#arke

[jekyllandhamlet]

Surprise! Design for a random Greek myth character that I barely see mention of but found, that I could find exactly 1 pot depiction of, which. the lack of mentions make sense, as she's just been. In Tartarus, except for my beautiful mind where Hermes bails her out and they get her wings back from Achilles. By the way her wings were gifted to Peleus and Thetis who gave them to Achilles. Which makes sense that would be the retrospective concept, given his title of swift-footed, as Arke means swift. I wanted to give her another light and water theme, like her sister, but I didn't want to just do a faded rainbow- So I settled on the look light has reflected through water. smiles -Also note, I did reference drawings by Wolfythewitch for a few of the poses. If I should ? take this down because of that? please tell me.

[mr-tsuyo]

X QUEST IS BAAAACK

EPISODE 1 IS FINALLY OUT GO GIVE IT A WATCH

[phia-myth]

obsessed with the idea of achilles just having a pair of wings that nobody addresses or care to mention bc of the myth that thetis was gifted arke's wings that she passed onto achilles.

they don't work, but they look pretty rad. and he gets a +10 speed boost

[deusexmachina28]

my OC based off of and named Arke (the twin sister of iris, goddess of the second faded rainbow, and messenger of the titans before she had her wings ripped off and was cast into tartarus from what i know) based off of the artstyle in hades 2

[toadinthechest]

WARNING! LONG POST WITH LOTS OF DRAWINGS!

First thing first! Some context:

Last year I've been introduced to Epic the musical which reignited my childhood obsession with greek mythology. Since then a lot of my themed drawings have been piled up. I don't think I will draw anything related anytime soon due to some "in real life stuff". So I decided to post most of them here dividing in two.

And this is the first post, which mostly contains drawings with Iris!

Why Iris? Let's just say I have never heard of her before, but after reading the Illiad I LOVED the idea of two Olympic messengers who counterpart each other.

As you can see in this take on their designs I wanted to give Hermes rather dusty and faded color scheme, while Iris is the burst of colors! However *headcanon!* their character is completely opposite to their appearance. So while Hermes is very lively, energetic, outgoing and chaotic, Iris on the other hand is collected and composed, calm, kinda a withdraw person (brooding even over something *cough* Titanomachy *cough*).

Speaking of the Illiad, while reading I've noticed that Homer used an interesting adjective to describe a brunete person: violet haired. So here's random portrait of young Zeus:

But let's get back to Iris. Her origins are also very interesting. I wouldn't ever guessed that she's rather sea goddess than anything! You see, her parents are Thaumas (sea god who personified the wonders of the sea) and Elektra (cloud-nymph of the amber-trim), and grand parents accordingly: Pontos, Okeanos and Tethys.

Btw I already talked how different scanners affect your drawing. It took me several days to convert next two pieces into digital format... Because I literally needed the SUN to do that. Why? Because the first scanner "ate" the colors from drawings and i couldn't restore them. And the second one made them incorrigibly dark. So I waited days for sunny weather and make a photo with phone. I have no idea what am I going to do in winter. But I hope I will come up with something!

I'd like to tell more about these two drawings. On the first one I pictured several celestial gods: Hemera, Helios, Selene and Eos. Looking at them now I realize I actually want to change Selene's design (it's just waaay too simple) and maybe I'd like to make Eos a little bit chubby or curvy. By now you must have already realize that Helios's design is basically humanization of sun in sunglasses (I know it doesn't really fit his character in myths, I just thought it would be more funny and interesting). As for Hemera... I will explain hers and few other gods designs in second post.

The second picture is... Well... Iris and her twin sister Arke the traitor. Look now... I know that there is only one literary source where this character is mentioned, which dates back to the 1st-2nd century AD. So I'm not entirely sure that it can be considered part of ancient Greek mythology. Basically, I just like the idea of ​​such character and how her existing would affect other characters.

Anyway. Iris is also a sister to harpies! (I will show their designs in next post) So I was thinking what Iris would look like if she herself were one?

Congratulations! You made it till the end of the post! Here's some scribbles of Olympic messengers:

[aliciavance4228]

What is your favorite fun greek god fact?

There are many of them, but the very first one that I could think about right now is that Iris has an evil sister named Arke who betrayed the gods during the Titanomachy and basically became a messenger for the Titans. After the war ended Zeus cut off her wings and imprisoned her in Tartarus.

[sarafangirlart]

Thetis when Zeus gifted her her cousin’s mutilated limbs as a wedding gift:

[miravariable]

the Tav I'm using in my current playthrough of BG3!

[coldraindropsss]

Iris, Arke, Harpies, Hydaspes

[rotten-games]

How does Arke react to an MC who despises these acts of violence (yes, even being masochistic)?

Happy pride ya'll

For Arke it's really a matter of getting him to slow down and see the nuance. At the start of the game, he's not interested in hearing what he sees as excuses for atrocities.

That being said, as the story goes on, he'll be more open to conversation about it, even if he doesn't necessarily agree.

[catsconflictscopicsandchamomile]

yknow why DOES Greek Mythology have a fallen angel rainbow superhell goddess

why is that a thing

im not okay

[moltara]

would you entrust them with your credit card information?

their name is Arke! (they/she/he)

[mr-tsuyo]

X QUEST: UNPURE ROUTE

At the end of the day, did Arke truly wanted to do that for everybody, or for himself?

[incorrect-au-master]

Does Iris ever visit her sister Arke in... tartarus.,, because despite what happened I think she still loves her sister... despite what she did

Iris: its funny... we are both the rainbow sisters...

Iris: but each time o come to visit her, her colors look more and more... dull...

Iris: i- i'm sorry, this is a delicate matter...

[ipromiseimawriter]

well tell us about arke!!!

>:))) come on in, have a seat! coffee, tea, monster from the 7-11?

OKAY SO. This is a new-new character, fresh off the press, so I'm still working her out. (also like the entire party follows me here and shhhHHH gotta have a few secrets - it's part of a B-team plot in the same universe as Orion's campaign!).

BUT! Her name is Arke (short for Arkalis), she's a grey heron Aarakocra artificer, who lives in the world that's like - largely water, magic, all that - very much into the advancements of magical technology in her world, adding to inventions and doin' her part, and that's what kinda kicks her off in that direction. She's also a pain in the ass (affectionate - to me), kind of a cynic, would heckle gods if she got the chance, and wants to study everyone like Bugs. also she would love to kiss a girl but god who the hell knows how to do that. But in the meantime she will aid properly in the crafting and preparing of sky ships, work on her own shit (which i am still working on LOL), be on the ready/defenses for any conflict, and -

and well there's some stuff going on in her family history that is kind of keeping her driven? otherwise she might've just fucked off to the furthest corner of the world to tinker around.

also I was working on her playlist and it got kinda SAD real quick which was crazy. horrors? for your local neurotic bird girl? as a treat????

[figsha]

arke concept art