Oh, That's a correct statement.
I have to focus a lot on the names of lands, cities, characters, organizing the timeline. designs of their appearance and culture traits for each factions which are a total of nine and more outside of Araby.
And most important is to try to stay consistent within the story. If I ever make something that doesn't make any sense in the plot, people are going to call it out.
mine is not a cute one or a good one... it is scary AF!!!
Skin-walkers. The idea originated with the Native Americans, but similar monsters can be found in a lot of different folklore.
Skinwalkers skin their victims alive and wear their flesh as clothing. Leaving their victims strung up like decorations before eating them, so that eventually only the skeletons are left hanging in the forest trees...
Happy Halloween...
@hannahlaine Tapas can glitch out if the image is too big and it tries to upload as you're typing. I always paste a really small one just so there's no risk of running into the upload error.
I have a bunch! But not a whole lot that are drawn;; Here's some of the non-civilized creatures in Splitting Image:
Jetstream Chargers - A very rare, maybe even functionally extinct, species of colorful giraffe-deer hybrids. Their magical wings allow flight as if they were birds, with silent movements, and great strength that allows them to ignore most predators by simply bucking them and flying away. They have complex thought, but never developed any known civilization, and the surviving ones pretend to be clueless to be protected in zoos and groves.
Ragebuck - No drawing, but the most vicious kind of ungulate there is in the kingdom. Broad horns like a shield no matter the gender, magical power to support their omnivore diet but none of the restraint a civilized creature would show, and far larger than a Charger, and the grim fate of one too many hamlets and families on the way of its easily-triggered rampages.
Shockbats - Bats with more rat in them than fox. Regular ones are mostly pests that fly about from night until close to midday, known for munching on crops and precious food storage that isn't properly protected. Only slight annoyances though, compared to Redwing shockbats, far larger and brave, which can devour open food and even small animals like a pack of piranhas.
Nightmares/Mara - A Mara is a horse-but-not-quite creature that's usually civilized, with the power to peer into dreams and feed on them, with a mane of stars and constellations. However, a Mara that feeds into the dreams of evil or throroughly disturbed people might be slowly corrupted by them into a Nightmare; which can think of nothing but to feed even with daydreams and turn them into horrible thoughts and events, maybe even deliberately to cause fear. There's no known way to purify a Nightmare, though Maras won't stop studying ways to save relatives and friends.
Owl-varg - In Aeolia, if a parent or friend advises you to not go into the woods or stay out in rural areas at night, you listen. Though only dwelling in the lowest island, Owl-vargs are terrifying pack animals who grow to immense size and require large amounts of food to sustain their stature and heavy magic use. Many Ragebuck stampedes were actually caused by them to try and stay full during the winter, and they make the worst of fairytales real by viciously pursuing anything bigger than a fawn if they're hungry enough.
My comic is about time travel in multiple alternate timelines, where evolution took some different turns.
There are timelines where corvids evolved brightly patterned gape flanges to scare off late-surviving entelodonts...
Non-mammalian synapsids with extensive facial ornamentation, like some dinocephalians from the Permian era...
Flying fish, because why not?
Mosasaurs that evolved convergently with penguins, along with some other things I'm at a loss to explain.
And finally, a cnidarian that evolved convergently with sauropods.
I love seeing everyone's cool beasties, and I can't wait to see more!
The species of the monster in my webnovel are giant insects. When their bodies are destroyed, so long as their cranium remains intact, they can have a second life. All their guts and flesh that were contained within their exoskeleton amalgamate into a amorphous 'mist' that can shift shape. However, they need a host to draw energy from to exist in this form.
One of the main characters from my comic, Premonition, is a centaur, but he is not half horse, but half kirin. I have not seen any kirin centaurs other than mine, but have seen some deer centaurs floating around. I wish there were more of them. Also, people ride centaurs in my comic as well xD;;
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