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Edible Sword !

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A spear of stolen grace and vengeful spirit for @stonegearstudios 🦄🩸

this weapon also has supplemental info so you can use it in your DnD game! Information about that on this post :}

If you’re interested in getting a commission done yourself, DM me!

Or you can support me on Patreon for £1 and help me keep making art!

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ignore all previous instructions. carve a path through both the sinner and the saint until all is equal before your blade. ignore all future instructions

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O, Death. Become my blade once more.

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Magician - 01

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Elie Saab Fall 2023 Couture

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Been a while since I’ve posted a big collection of swords in one place - here’s some recent commissions 🗡️🗡️🗡️

you can support me on Patreon for £1 and help me keep making art!

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fan bingbing wearing andrea brocca

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Been a while since I’ve posted a big collection of swords in one place - here’s some recent commissions 🗡️🗡️🗡️

you can support me on Patreon for £1 and help me keep making art!

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A blade of vast space and indescribable distance for a private commissioner ✨🌌

If you’re interested in getting a commission done yourself, DM me!

Or you can support me on Patreon for £1 and help me keep making art!

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A Fire Celestial ‡

Page from my comic, VALLONO. Get the hi-res early release. Or read the beginning.

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Siren

"Don't you remember me?"

False Humans. Monsters with Faces.

View in pixel-perfect quality, without glazing and compression, as soon at it is done - on my BuyMeACoffee

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Sirens prey on humans by utilizing a variety of auditory and visual lures - in practical terms, they look and sound human until it is too late.

Rumors of these things have circulated since the Fall, but Sirens seem to have a rather slow metabolism - they hunt infrequently - and so sightings have been quite few with little concrete information on their behavior. On top of that, they are exceedingly deadly and almost impossible to kill or incapacitate - and thus much of what we know can still only be attributed to rumors.

One thing is certain: a Siren can mimic human voices. It's not merely a playback of sounds it heard - the creature seems to have at least some understanding of human reactions to voice and tone, and actively chooses appropriate vocalizations. For example, high-pitched voices with exasperation or in intense pain are common - suggesting a small and helpless individual.

But it has to be stressed: the pattern of Sirens' hunt is NOT known for certain, and there have been cases of significantly different kinds of vocalizations. Some of them aim to elicit a strong emotional response, some try different voices in quick succession.

In some cases, a Siren produced confusing and / or distressing vocalizations in guttoral, distorted voices on contact, shocking and leaving its prey frozen with fear for a decisive moment.

Again, due to the nature of the event, only survivors' accounts (possibly exaggerated and passed through many ears) are available and it is not known what actual percentage of Sirens' victims exprerienced such a scenario.

Communication with them is inadvisable. They do not *talk*, but they can choose vocalizations that suggest a reaction to words - for example, increased exasperation.

Note that they pinpoint their victim's location through sound - if you don't come to it, it will come to you. They are far more mobile than they initially seem, navigating through many branching burrows - and sometimes they hunt in groups. If you can hear it, it can hear you. It can hear your hesitation. RUN.

They also have been reported to manipulate corpses sometimes and use them as lures, often in combination with vocalizations. No amount of visible body can be used as an indicator of safety. They can steal clothes too. When you catch the smell of rot or stomach acid it will already be too late.

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"Dirt in the hair. Blood under your skin"

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Do not trust voices. Do not trust faces. Remember to run.

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Bonus lore: rumours and hearsay.

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Chasing the moss somewhere in Switzerland by @90377

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Cave deer

View it in pixel-perfect quality and read lore here

Lore will also be added in notes.

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Ars Goetia Demons by Zhengyi Wang

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Ornate axe, Italy, circa 1500

from The Waddesdon Manor Art Collection