#cleanrot knight esk

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Sister Celestian Eskarne and the thing that was once her beloved Canoness

Once again I drew a big thing with zero plan, so this ended up impossible to crop without losing something I liked, so enjoy some close ups too

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I’m thinking about Esk origin story in which she crawls out of the swamp and rips her helmet off to chow down on the first bug in sight

And then polluting the local water source while brooding in the shower

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Cleanrot Knight Esk

Sometimes when art is giving me a really hard time, it helps to step back and try something totally different

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The girls are banned from sparring until both of them learn some restraint

Mine and @nuclearloop's secondary Elden Ring characters. Don't worry, their gods won't let them die

Aftermath under the cut

Sorry @miserycorde you're surrounded by idiots

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I coulda drawn it better but I’ve decided Esk’s armor is just containing all the rot and insectoid metamorphosis slurry she’s become in there. I’m thinking about it for normal reasons

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Never underestimate the power of blorbo to make you spend a ridiculous amount of time converting an action figure into your oc

Cleanrot knight Esk, to celebrate the Elden Ring DLC launch (okay and because the official cleanrot knight figure was too expensive)

Some process pics on my side Twitter here!

Fun fact: her spear is made from a paintbrush I ruined with glue

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Elden Ring scribbles. Cleanrot Knight Esk coming to share her fungal infection, and Lark doing some Albinauric activities

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More Esk scribbles

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Who was Esk before she became a Cleanrot Knight? What's her relationship like with others that live in rot? You've implied she gets along with the Malenia clones, or at least just Millicent...

She was one of Malenia's Cleanrot Knights, so presumably her life before that was the pretty standard knight backstory. Daughter of nobility, trained from a young age for combat, and eventually made enough of an impression to be selected by a demigod.

Esk "died" in the battle of Aeonia and was asleep in the swamp for most of that time, but she had long ago accepted and embraced Malenia's rot. She did not get to know any of the servants of Rot that sprang up since then, so she has little affiliation with them.

The Kindred of Rot follow her around, the other Cleanrot Knights are mostly too far gone to really speak to, but Millicent is a whole person, and an echo of Malenia. Esk pledged her service pretty much on sight.