#setting: old world

[yael-art-den]

On Demons

If you ask any denizens of the New World about how many moons there are, the answer is so easy you will get a few puzzled looks; clearly there is only one. But ask on the opposite part of the world, the Old World, and the answer may not be so simple.

Around two hundred and fifty years ago, what is now known as The Rise of the Second Moon occurred. Suddenly a new, bigger, redd-er moon rose from the horizon, and with it, unholy abominations started appearing. For the first time in ages, mortal races and dragonkind had to fight together to repel the outwordly creatures, but it wasn't an easy fight.

The creatures, named only "demons" for lack of a better word or understanding, didn't truly have a physical form, manifesting as plagues, thoughts, curses; extra-dimensional unable to be perceived unless already affected by them. Unable to affect them directly in any way, people from the Old World developed the first Seals: a way to constrain them in a physical space, usually using as a catalyst the purest form of one of the Divine Elements that build the world (Fire being the most common).

It took almost a decade, but Mortalkind was able to fend off the demonic invasion, putting in place the biggest Seal that has ever been made: Stopping the Second Moon's rotation permanently under the horizon, so it couldn't open its gate again. Without a way to send the demons already sealed back to where they came from, but understanding the huge power they possessed if released, the location of these seals it's an extremely well-kept secret and one that a lot of people hope it's been lost in time. Those seals can be everything, from buried cathedrals with a pool of Divine water buried in it's chapel, to small necklaces with a spark of pure fire inside them.

But unfortunately, that magic is old and outdated, and extra-dimensional beings are not easily restrained. And hundreds of years later, when people re-discovered those artifacts and tried to use their power, a new type of seal was made. Demons sealed within human bodies.

There are only a few corrupted mortals like that. Those are known as the Blue Death (Val, pictured first), The Wrathful One (Second Pic) and the White Wolf / King of Nightmares (not drawn yet)

[yardsards]

laios when his party needed more members:

[ex0rin]

Anyway...

[arty-tardigrade]

Everyone's favourite little arsonist.

[allelitewrestlings]

JON MOXLEY as... AEW World Heavyweight Champion (2020) GCW World Championship (2022) IWGP World Heavyweight Champion (2024)

[icewindandboringhorror]

I made a few new wax seal stamps out of clay (like the ones I did for my worldbuilding stuff forever ago), this time just of random symbols that I thought might look good done in the style of painting over the raised part of the wax or etc. :0c Some of them aren't carved deep enough to really show up that well, but overall they worked okay for being clay lol

[rinbylin]

我还道方兄与李兄乃是至交，没想到和阿飞兄也是如此默契。

DI FEISHENG and FANG DUOBING | 莲花楼 Mysterious Lotus Casebook

[coffin-crawler]

I need find someone to lolita/ouji twin with me asap this is adorable

[iwantofall]

been watching new vegas

[astranauticus]

soliloquy

(edit once again i drew something with my ipad screen brightness too high and now that i've posted it nothing is visible. sad!)

[thedreamingpiscesfangirl42]

Headcanon that Zestial is very, very, VERY attached to both cloak and top hat. Whereas on the rare occasions he will remove his cloak while at the Carmine residence, his hat is firmly attached to his head at all times. It would be a full on fight trying to get the thing off his head, and another to keep it away from him 😂 Not even Carmilla has seen his unhatted head.

[lab-gr0wn-lambs]

Been reading through Howl's Moving Castle for the first time and Howl himself is just an entirely different dude. Miyazaki said "oh fuck this guy" and made an OC

[lilacthebooklover]

me, looking at the most toxic, awful, horrendously unhealthy fictional relationship in the world: why can't i have what they have? :(

[crrows]

An incredible set from Good Luck made of denim with raschel lace.

[virgothozul]