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[wuzhere75]

Sorry it’s been a fat minute since I have posted on here. Just kind of trying to keep up with my actual life and staying semi-offline. Also have not been as satisfied with my artwork as of late. It’s not terrible I just feel like I could have a bit more fun

[hirundine]

Banner for Steel Talons, Iron Wings, the summer event we ran for in ARPG (art roleplaying group) I admin for. It was a tournament arc with political intrigue on the side 💪

Created in collaboration between myself (thumbnail, part lineart, shading, background), RileyFae (clean sketch), SilveryStormWing (lineart), and Eclipsed-Sky (colours).

[gremalkinn]

Carrow REF AAAAAA

[lairai]

'Past lives couldn't ever come between us.'

╭┈➤ 𝐀𝐫𝐭 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐨 🔸 Do you ever just get an art piece idea and then work on this new project relentlessly for days on end? That's what happened with this one. After browsing through artwork made by a variety of artists who possess both way more bravery and way more skill than I do, I was tempted to try out a piece with a non-traditional colour palette. And, well, the best way to learn how to do it is to just try. So here we are.

╭┈➤ 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐨 🔸 My Mirabile Visu and @hirundine 's Claude have had one of my favourite unplanned character development arcs of all time. Not only do they both come from environments that shaped them into being horrible people, they both got out of said environments and managed to do a complete 180° in terms of personality, morals, and behaviour. And along the way, they also managed to fall in love, too.

[crowfiire]

A piece for @hirundine of his Realm of Serpents character, Princet Aila Padwell! Had a great time making this piece and got some much-needed help here and there. In hindsight I probably would've coloured the base lines so they weren't black against everything else, but it's too late to fix that now.

To anyone who knows: PLEASE do not eat the sand it is NOT Cheeto dust <><><>

Character © Hirundine/J-Haskell Art © Crowfiire

Do not reupload, redistribute, or use my art without direct permission.

[silverystormwing]

two costume entries speedruns! 100% most trustworthy vampire ever, and incredibly believeable shark

[buttsnorkeler69420]

some pen drawings I did of Ultimate Creatures Creator Soulless's character Devoro and Awesome Coolguy @hirundine's character Hallveig from Realm of Serpents!! i am not immune to awesome monster-people with trauma

[puddleorganism]

I’m an admin for an arpg on deviant art/discord called Realm of Serpents and this is some asset art for it! I’ve been doing a lot lately and having a ton of fun

This is a sea serpent, a non-playable creature from our bestiary.

Sea Serpent: Massive, snake-like creatures with immense ivory tusks and webbed fins. While normally only a danger to human ships, the larger sea-serpents (referred to as Great Serpents by Tidekeepers) may even threaten dragons. Tidekeepers hunt them for their tusks; despite this, their population only seems to grow, as each serpent can spawn hundreds of eggs at a time. (Description by J-Haskell on deviantart/hirundine on tumblr)

[Image ID: an illustration of a sea serpent coiled over itself a few times. It is snake-like, with no limbs and covered in small, slightly shiny scales. It has webbed fins running along its spine from the back of its head to just beyond the tip of its tail, which also line the underside of just the tail. Its mouth is half-open, showing off a row of sharp curved teeth at the back of its jaw, and several much larger forward-pointing teeth sticking out of the front of its mouth. The bottom middle two are more like tusks, being much larger than the rest. The sea serpent is mostly dark blue and green, with a white belly. Its white belly is bordered by bright red, which fans out in little stripes off of the main stripe. The serpents back is covered in dull gold marking that match its eye color. These markings are squiggles that twist around each other and form strange patterns that almost look like writing. End ID]

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 320

Lazarus Pits are toxic (read practically acidic) to most realms beings. The keyword being most. There are in fact two beings that are immune. 

The first is those with shadow cores, as their cores are quite literally designed to adapt and mirror the aspects of their surroundings alongside anything that may harm them. And those types of ghosts are already rare, most destabilizing when younger because they think they can adapt to something they can’t handle yet. 

The second thing? Halfas. The Pits heal those close to death but who cling to life, and Halfas? Constantly inbetween life and death, no matter what form they take. So something that would normally burn both the living and dead? Does practically nothing to them. In fact? It heals them. 

So a shadow-cored Halfa searching through the zone for a safe spot for his clone-kids to heal? Well, there’s never been a safer place. 

[wuzhere75]

Drawing of Saintfallens Morse

[hirundine]

Saw this meme circulating and had to try it for one of my ocs.

Kite Brittlepoint is a young noblewoman (nobledragon? lmao) from a society that encourages a "might makes right" mentality, and values physical strength above all else. Highly ambitious, she's taken up a career as a duellist, challenging others for often quite small slights, to build up a name and reputation for herself. She is not at all kind, but I do love her.

[gremalkinn]

Various headshots for people in the Realm of Serpents RP group! I’m very happy with how these turned out ^^

[lairai]

"I just like it."

Twisting Pathways entry for the Sweet Challenges event over in Realm of Serpents. I will never not find this dialogue option funny.

Cleo the Inaurate is my player character from Realm of Serpents. Artwork inspired by and dialogue based on Baldur's Gate 3.

[crowfiire]

"Oh my, feels just like I don't try Looks so good, I might die All I know is everybody loves me" - "Everybody Loves Me" by OneRepublic

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Something I did for an art challenge that I never actually finished unfortunately. This is my character Haleakala in Realm of Serpents, the song list was randomized but the fact that her "theme song" was the first up was too perfect not to draw her.

I recorded this but I'm not the best at editing or video creation overall so it kinda just exists on my computer but I don't plan on doing anything with it.

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Art and Character © Crowfiire Song © OneRepublic Do not reupload, redistribute, or use my art without direct permission.

[silverystormwing]

Some character art for an NPC! please click the image for best quality, it got a little compressed

If you'd like to see WIPs of this piece and others, plus exclusive sketches, please consider supporting me on Patreon or Ko-fi! :)

(Based on the original design by @hirundine )

[starry-bi-sky]

finally giving fem danyal her own au and fulfilling my 'danny is an animal whisperer' agenda at the same time: mother of monsters danyal 2.0

i say "2.0" because TECHNICALLY 'mother of monsters danyal' is an au I made back in June for Dark fem!Danyal (who I promptly named Layal). However, I haven't posted much for her yet, and I like the "mother of monsters" premise too much to leave it only to Layal. Plus Danyal in that au was going to become the mother of monsters anyway, just with significantly less world domination and mass extinction.

'Animal whisperer' Danny has been something I've been thinking about since my latest DP 'wolfpack au' post and it's! So fun to think about, and who no better to assign the idea to than Danyal Al Ghul? Who comes from a family infamously known for their love of animals and nature?

Fem Danyal is just purely self-indulgent. *gestures wildly at her* i just lomvb,,, her,,,, I've only really mentioned her in context of the 'Things in Threes' au/my first Danyal al Ghul au with the facial scar, but she's!!! I love her. She deserves her own au <33

So kill three birds with one stone! Make a post about it.

Anyways, Danny has a large lair. Similar to cult leader danyal, her lair is a giant mountain region resembling nanda parbat with a big temple/palace-like area built into the mountain. It's large, it's overflowing with natural flora, with its own mini-floating islands hovering over some areas, and it's also completely empty.

Danny takes one look at her lair upon first meeting, -- noting that it looked relatively smaller from the outside -- and promptly, with the elegance of an Al Ghul, goes "What the hell??" Because yes, while she does enjoy her own solitude and privacy, this is a bit ridiculous.

For heaven's sake, there's even a massive lake in there! What's she going to do with all this space? Can she make it any smaller? Why is it so big in the first place? This looks borderline like one of the mega-islands!

She finds out later that apparently, the amount of ectoplasm a ghost has can have an effect on the size of their lair. And since she has such a large core, her lair reflects that. Wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey stuff, it's bigger on the inside so it doesn't take up "too much space" on the outside. Don't worry about it too much.

Danyal isn't totally opposed to having such a large lair, she's just... a bit baffled by it. It feels like so much wasted space is all. All this flora and no fauna to enjoy it with. It's practically eerie.

She decorates her temple-palace area, transforming rooms to match her needs as she sees fit. In the center of the inner gardens is a massive tree that she likes to climb, with twisting, winding branches. Sam and Tucker have honorary rooms, even if they can't safely leave the specter speeder for long periods of time, even with proper safety equipment. So does Jazz. Ali (Dani) has one too, but he can actually use that one, and Danny brought him to her lair so he could decorate it himself.

She has a personal garden, but for the most part she lets the flora exist as it is. Too much space to cultivate it en masse anyways.

Skip to a few weeks later, on her next visit to Clockwork. She developed a habit of going to see him semi-regularly just because. She enjoys his wisdom, and he has a lot of stories to tell, and when he's not being the cryptic and esoteric timekeeper, he's a bit goofy.

(pushing my dadwork agenda here,,, i think Danny deserves to go 'hey, Lord Clockwork, do you want me to buy you something' while she's at walmart, only to receive a singular glowing sticky note that says 'cucumber gatorade'.)

(She insists on referring to him with his proper titles even for the most mundane of things because it's proper, but Clockwork sees a future where she eventually calls him "Cee" and by all things in existence is he determined to get there. Anyways,,,)

On her next visit to Clockwork, just as she is about to leave, Clockwork stops her and goes; "Ah, I have something for you. Hold out your hands."

Danny does as such, and Clockwork doesn't give out things often, so her curiosity has spiked to the highest levels. He turns away from her for a moment, using his staff to summon whatever it is he needs, and when he turns around.

He drops a fish into her hands. Granted, a fish in a small glass tank. But a fish nonetheless. A small one, roughly about the size of her finger, with a blue-black, eel-shaped body and four sets of glowing eyes. She can see thin, almost translucent, but spiny fins down its back and the start of bioluminescent markings. It's swimming around in circles in its small container.

"Lord Clockwork." Danyal says all too calmly.

"Yes, Danyal?"

"What is this?"

"That is an adolescent leviathan, Danyal." She’s transfixed onto the tank, but she doesn’t need to see Clockwork’s face to hear the smile he’s stifling.

The myriad of emotions that runs through her all at once threatens to overwhelm her, and she can’t tell if the feelings are negative or positive. So she carefully closes her eyes to breathe in through her nose.

“Clockwork.”

“Ah, I see you’ve dropped formalities.”

She ignores that.

“Why have you given me an adolescent leviathan?”

She's expecting the trickster to look amused when she opens her eyes. Instead, he just looks endeared. "I know you're fond of animals," he says, "and you always look amazed when you come across an animal of the realms. So I thought you might enjoy taking care of the young beast, it's mother is dead so it has no one to care for it."

Oh.

"But, if you don't like it," Clockwork's hands reach out for the tank, "I can simply take it back--"

Danyal shifts the tank out from his reach and hugs it possessively. "I never said that. How do I care for it?"

And so clockwork gives her a list, and when Danyal returns to her lair, she sets up a large tank in her room for the leviathan to swim in -- it's much too small for the lake right now, she thinks. She'll feel better if it's somewhere she can find it. She names him Suhā.

Suhā grows quickly, and by the end of the mortal month she transforms one of the rooms into a large pond for him to swim around in. He's a very loyal beast, recognizing her as it's mother of some kind. Danyal takes great care ensuring that her beastie gets quality care, and Suhā swims to the surface to see her when he senses her in the room.

It spirals from there. Somehow, Pandora catches wind that Clockwork gave her a leviathan, and so the next time Danyal visits the Greater Athens, she gives her a baby chimera. It's eyes are still sealed shut, Danyal can't bring herself to say no. She names the little beastie Firas.

Frostbite hears about it too, and not to be outdone, gives her an animal she's never even heard of. Infinite-realms born, apparently. A fox-like creature with two small horns like an impala, four eyes, and tall legs. The name isn't something she's quite sure how to write down, and she's positive that her friends won't be able to comprehend it. She names her Eira.

Getting the three of them used to each other was... interesting. Suhā tried to eat Firas when Danyal first introduced the two, and they've hated each other ever since. Firas and Eira are seemingly getting along. Her island already feels full enough with the three of them on it.

Of course, that's not the end of it. With her luck, she begins stumbling across other monsters. Realms-borne or otherwise. An injured hydra in the Grecian islands that, through lots of trial and error, Danyal is able to rehabilitate and heal. It routinely comes to visit her afterwards.

A griffin with a broken wing that she moves permanently to the island that likes to keep to itself, but tends to come down when she's near. It gets along best with Firas.

A panther-like monster from the Shades Woods that had six legs and three tails, with ends that reminded her of a venus flytrap. It stuck around the heavy foliage and she can only make out where it was when she saw its golden eyes reflect.

She befriends a young indrik with its leg injured, and much like the hydra it follows her back to her island, and stays there in the mountains. It comes out when she's alone, much like her other beasts.

She receives two more leviathan -- one from clockwork, and one she finds herself while exploring the deeper and darker recesses of the Ghost Zone. It was huddled against the carcass of its mother, and she managed to befriend and get close enough to it to bring it back to her island. Suhā is fully grown by then, with a head bigger than Danyal herself and he still likes to stick her head out of the water for nuzzles when she's near.

He's not very happy with his new siblings, but he's not trying to eat them when she's not looking. So she calls it a win in her book.

And it's not just large beasts either; smaller animals begin popping up when she's not looking. Bird-like creatures and small mammals, and she swears she saw a doe (or something resembling a doe) grazing in the forest while she was walking by.

She takes back with her a lone snake egg once, and it grows so big it wraps around her island and sleeps with its massive head on the mountain beside the temple, like some smaller breed of Jörmungandr.

And on and on it goes. Some of the beasts she comes across never step foot onto her island, some of them follow her back, while others she has to carry back. Not all of the ones that follow her stay, and Danny rehabilitates the injured and releases them when they're fully healed.

It's hectic, and busy, and frankly she loves it. Some of her rehabilitated beasts return to visit her, or to have their children somewhere on the island, or whatever it is they need to do.

She becomes a bit infamous for it. She goes to visit Dorathea once, and as she's walking through the streets she can hear some of the denizens whispering while she walks past.

"Is that her?"

"Her highness' friend? Yes--"

"--that's the one--"

"--Mother of monsters--"

Danny's not sure how to feel about that.

Although, she can't say she's opposed.

Danyal Al Ghul, Mother of monsters, raiser of beasts. It has a nice ring to it.