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emathevampire · 7 months ago

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A Reconsecration in Blood and Twilight

Happy Pride to everyone, but especially to my beloved prince in horns Askalaphos and his blackguard, Solar, an NPC from our Ravenloft campaign.

Once a devout paladin of the Morning Lord, then of Mother Night after his death, corrupt rebirth, and subsequent fall from grace as he pursued power no matter the cost in the pursuit of vengeance against Strahd... the aasimar blackguard Solar now learns what it is to be true to his own heart as the newest disciple of Askalaphos, a fallen demigod son of Ares and former slave to the Abyss slowly regaining his own spark of divinity and sense of purpose as he seeks an escape from the mists of Ravenloft. None of this would have been possible, however, had their mutual annoyance friend Rixa not been dead-set on saving the both of them from themselves, despite their belief that this was a hopeless cause... or if they had not joined forces to save her in return when she was captured by her nemesis. A long and dangerous road still lies between them and victory over Strahd, the Dark Powers, and the corruption that stains their very souls, but walk it they shall... after all, nothing worth fighting for is ever easy.

#askalaphos areios #rixa's arts #it was really SUCH a journey like. irl years in the making. like almost ten years when u think abt it. and i am damn proud of this.#they still have a long way to go and two paladins to un-doom from the narrative but yknow #something something gay love can pierce the veil of death and save the day #i don't know how we're going to pull that off but i am definitely going to cry when we do #anyway i finally got around to making a censored edit of this painting so the weenie police don't get me. pls tumblr its covered i promise.#not that there was very much of one showing there in the first place since it was askalaphos' but still.#so anyway happy pride to my demigod and his blackguard #who he literally seduced into leaving his old homophobic god and joining his cult instead #they are absolutely terrible disasters your honour but they're trying to get better and that's what matters #some fun details abt this piece: the constellation in the background is Gemini. both his birth sign and representative of his twin brother #sadly his twin ialmenos is deceased however #and the statue in the background is based on my fave statue of Ares.#alright i'll hush now. i just really am proud of this little painting and all the story behind it. i hope you guys like it too.

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