#vishap

[draconesmundi]

Happy Dracones Monday! The Vishap

Found in the Armenian highlands, in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iran and Turkey. Here we see one perched on a vishapakar stone ('dragon stone') in Armenia - these stones are often in the shape of fish or have a carving of some sort of animal sacrifice on them (often a bull), and sometimes they have a mix of fish and bull carvings.

This is just my interpretation of a vishap for Dracones Mundi - I chose to go a little more flamboyant with the design rather than make something that looked like a bull or a fish - especially as it's uncertain whether the carvings on the vishapakar are supposed to represent the dragons physically, or if they are more symbolic of summoning good luck for livestock, fishing or fertility.

I post new dragons for my project every Monday on this blog: @draconesmundi

[affableramen]

[tenicola]

Another fresh new OC, in the form of a lovekid lol -- This is Khalid, my shark-like leviathan deity / merman character who I jointed created with Jinkz.

In simplest terms, Khalid is the future son of our characters Dakarai & Marielle. By virtue, he'd technically be a Genshin OC (vishap-oceanid hybrid -- think bathysmal vishaps). But we adapt all our OCs and OTP into AUs -- including DEITIES Project, where he's a leviathan like his mom.

He also has a not-so-secret childhood crush on Amari, IndraNakia's [future] daughter. Understandably, Indra is a protective father... but it works out and Khalid and Amari eventually form a cute couple -- and a cute ship name, "Khalamari." More details can be found on Bluesky!

Indra and Amari (and Marielle) >> LittleScorpio @ Bluesky

Bluesky / Artfol / Carrd / Ko-Fi

[saccharinerose]

God King and Vishap Prince

[gryphmakes]

So you know those vishaps on errinyes that don't aggro unless you attack them first?

[charliescreatures]

Another beastie from Librum Prodigiosum! A Vishap dragon, this evil flying serpent comes from Armenian mythology! It is said to cause storms and eclipses, but more ominously is it known to steal children in order to replace them with its own!

[chaoticclownage]

Pahsiv by far is my favorite melusine in terms of design. The likeness to the Vishaps (pictured above), the way her eyes look, the colors, the intricate markings, the fact that her hair actually matches the rest of her (a lot of melusines have this problem where their hair just looks super out of place almost like a wig because the color doesn't match the rest of them at all and the karen bob cut doesn't help). Even her dress, despite being simple, works really well and is actually quite pretty on her.

[rayno-vishap]

what is his problem. GET OUT OF MY AREA.

[insufficiently-advanced]

concept: deep-sea vishaps but they're frilled sharks

[briefbestiary]

Alongside storms, they either fly skyward from the earth or earthward from the sky.

[drachenwiki]

What a diverse collection

Dragons

[draconesmundi]

The coloring/markings on your vishap look a lot like this guy from a 16th century illuminated manuscript of the Persian text Wonders of Creation! Was that on purpose? Either way I was delighted to see it because that particular manuscript has some of my all-time favorite dragon illustrations.

VERY INTENTIONAL! This was 1 of the art inspirations I used for the dragon (yellow around the face and sky blue wings came from this, red-and-spotty was found in a few different images so I collected them for inspo - the dragons wattles and horns and tail were inspired by different artworks) - most of my dragon designs are heavily influenced by dragon art history; the aim of the project is a guide to Dragons of the World inspired by folklore so making dragons which actually look like dragons from folklore is my goal!

[affableramen]

[tenicola]

First of a few Genshin fan characters I worked on in 2024 -- although Dakarai existed the year before these concepts, and is a revamp of an even older character of mine.

I has redesigned Dakarai to be a Natlanese vision-wielder (or at least, Natlan resident with a Natlan-shaped vision case) before the region launched, and was banking on there being some substance to the whole “vishap-people” lore that was teased in that limited Enkanomiya event. But so much basic information about the nation was kept underwraps by HYV, so some of his backstory will be a challenge to match the canon lore. Oh well, that’s what fan-designs are for -- I can work out the details another day.

Featuring Genshin OCs Nolan and Marielle (the Oceanid), who both belong to LittleScorpio @ Bluesky

Dakarai -- https://colacanvas.com/dakarai/

Bluesky / Artfol / Carrd / Ko-Fi

[fic-prompts-feel-free-to-use]

I had a dream last night about chongyun having a yang overload and just taking a big ol BITE outta All for One. I don't remember the context at *all* but the visuals were really something.

Bros eyes were bugged tf out. He had fangs, pointed ears and horns... blood dripping down his chin. He had ice gauntlets that extended past his elbows a bit so if he bent his arm you'd get an icicle to your gut... ice claws... a tail that was thudding around like an angry cat... just very wild and in-human looking...

Anyways, idk how to turn this into a prompt but I had to record it *somewhere* cuz it looked cool af.

[starcurtain]

I don't post about it often, but my favorite brand of Wriolette is definitely:

Despite being however many centuries old, Neuvillette still has significant dysphoria about being in a human body and doesn't think himself even capable of physically doing things the way humans do, so when he starts experiencing attraction to Wriothesley for the first time he's just like

"Oh dear."

But maybe Traveler is right? Maybe Sigewinne is right? Maybe it's time to truly start living the life he's been born into? This is his body, racing heart and trembling, drippy palms and all, and maybe it wouldn't be the worst thing to just... give it a go?

His mind is made up. Neuvillette is going to express his interest to Wriothesley in a mature, respectable, and perfectly normal manner!

But, ah... how?

Meanwhile, Wriothesley is growing ever more confused at Neuvillette's odd behavior by the day, but like... it's an endeared sort of confusion. Dragons are just kinda weird like this; it's all perfectly logical. Neuvillette has Wriothesley's unwavering support even if he does keep swimming down to the Fortress of Meropide in his full suit and cravat at 5am in the mornings and scaring the shit out of the morning shift gardes.

Wait. Wait. Run it by Wriothesley again--Neuvillette wants to what--?! The consent can only be described as enthusiastic.

Still, the ultimate takeaway is that Neuvillette doesn't just learn how to love a human, but also learns how to love himself, the strange vishap in smooth human skin that he's become.