#rain world void worm

[solssak]

I love void Worm When I first played RW They overwhelmed me

[ninten-draw]

[failed-inspection]

"Back home they thought I'd vanished without a trace, but I found space, I found space!"

('I Found Space' by Miracles of Modern Science)

Hii hii, this is my first time ever actually drawing Sliver of Straw, at least as an iterator, alongside my first time ever drawing a void work, had a blast with this! (Also gosh I just really like the krita lighting brush tools!)

Bonus no text version

[dragonpropaganda]

i think this is exactly the workplace dynamic of the void sea

[soul-sylver]

The Beginning & The End

[bat-under-a-bridge]

Infinite, never ending, collapsing in on itself

[trans-phone-eater]

something something void worm dragon

[scugdump]

soup

[bewilderbark]

day 14 - leviathan

are we brothers? do you remember me?

[lyss-butterscotch]

Elden Rain 1 • 2 • 3 • VOID

And so the saga ends with this massive thing with one last concept courtesy of @transgenderfivepebbles and @spontyfandoms because youre so right, both games have freaky void worms. Any other concept tho i have no idea if it can work or not because rw's cast is not as big as elden ring. Heck i don't even know who Sig can be because i'm stretching the cast super thin lmao

Also apologies for the super long post because my storyboard for this comic is super janky and that made some of the pages here like... 1500 x 4000 px. Which should be fine in PC krita but I'm doing this comic in my very old tablet because i told myself I wouldn't render this too much but uh... yeah. This also caused much lags but it was worth. Behold my storyboard!

Anyways i'm done 👍

[dustballdrawsartwork]

Saint Spoilers

It's under the cut! :)

This picture goes off my idea of Saint being the void sea incarnate, so they are they void sea, and the void sea is them. P wacky stuff tbh. P fun tho!

THIS TOOK SO LONNNNGGGG

I enjoyed every minute of it tho!!! :D

enjoy! :D

I don't mean to be an ass, I really don't, but please don't just like. I spent days on this.

Reblogs>Likes

[orangedoorhingeinstorage]

The comparision between Iterators and Void Worms can be inferred in so many ways:

Artificial godlike entitities and Natural godlike entities

Halos surrounding them

Constellation projections inside their superstructure and the fact Void Worms are compared to stars in one pearl dialogue

One is at the top of the world and the other is at the very bottom of it

One trying to solve the big problem while other might be the very cause of it

Both help you in your journey

"Stargazer" and "Big Open" sharing a leitmotif

But everything boils down to one thing...

Eyeliner :3

[ninten-draw]

Back at it again with a rainworld comic to song lyrics

[grunckle]

Void Worms as the Demiurge and Iterator Inverses (And also clearing up some things about the Qualia post)

So, I'm going to be going a bit more in depth on the Yaldaboath-Void Worm comparison I brought up in my previous post. Here's the post for anyone who didn't see it already:

I also just wanted to expand upon some things and maybe clear up some confusing parts that I didn't cover in the original post.

But first I'll give a quick explanation on what Yaldaboath (who I'll just be calling the Demiurge from now on) is before drawing the comparisons. The Demiurge is a being in Gnostic belief that created the material world. He is often identified as the god of the Old Testament, and is malicious and inferior to the True God called the Monad, who is above all else.

Of course this is very simplified and I'm leaving a lot out, but what you should take out of this is that he created the material world.

So back to void worms, they heavily resemble the Demiurge in a few ways. Visually, they both share a long, serpent-like body, and glowing "halos".

But beyond that, they indirectly share a few celestial motifs. The Demiurge gave birth to Archons who ruled over different, "celestial spheres." Celestial spheres are a concept in Rain World cosmology, as it's mentioned in the Deep Pink pearl.

"On regards of the (by spiritual splendor eternally graced) people of the Congregation of Never Dwindling Righteousness, we Wish to congratulate (o so thankfully) this Facility on its Loyal and Relished services, and to Offer our Hopes and Aspirations that the Fruitful and Mutually Satisfactory Cooperation may continue, for as long as the Stars stay fixed on their Celestial Spheres and/or the Cooperation continues to be Fruitful and Mutually Satisfactory."

But, even beyond that, they straight up appear visually in the depths through Guardian Halos.

And then Gnostic celestial spheres for comparison.

Void Worms are also described as "stars" within ancient dreams and our own.

Now, this is only a tangential relation to the Guardians who also reside in the Depths, but there is one more thing that I believe cement the Void Worm Demiurge theory that is much, much bigger in the context of Rain Worlds narrative.

Void Worms have a lot of iterator parallels, which lead me and others to believe that they act as a direct inverse to Iterators. Iterators usher beings to ascend past their mortal confines, and Void Worms trap beings in the material world like the Demiurge.

The first of which are just some design similarities between the two. They both have round heads with bug-like eyes, and they both have halos.

Next, the scenes in which we see iterators and the void sea are very reminiscent of each other. There are thousands of iterators above, and thousands of void worms below.

Void worms have 8 arms/tentacles, iterators cans have 8 legs.

But probably the most striking piece of evidence for this parallel is the music that plays atop the Wall and in the Void Sea. They share the same musical motif.

And, as a quick fun side note:

It's pretty common knowledge at this point that Void Worm skin is corn, but whats less common knowledge is that it's also made of fractal patterns and neurons.

Basically I think all this points to Void Worms being iterator inverses and working like the Demiurge, manifesting the material world and trapping beings within it.

Now, just to clear up some things about my previous post. I don't think the rot itself is made from the ancients' mutated brain matter, but rather the method in which both cabinet beasts and the rot are made are similar. They're both made by taking neural matter, (Five Pebbles's brain in the case of the rot and the Ancients' in the case of cabinet beasts) and mutating it into something else. Its more just a conceptual comparison than evidence the two are related.

Second is more about personal interpretation, but I don't really think that each Void Worm we see is manifesting it's own world. All together they act as the concept of the Demiurge, manifesting one universe. Perhaps they're not even conscious about it, and experience a divine realm similar to us while they swim around aimlessly in the Void Sea.

And finally, adding onto my last point, that's why I don't think the parallels give a lot of insight into how the cycles work, other than that by entrapping creatures in the physical world those creatures are also subjected to the cycle. I have my own cycle theory that I believe works a bit better that I might post later. But yeah I just wanted to clear that stuff up.

[shkika]

i wonder how it feel like for an iterator if, by some miracle, they made it into the void sea and met a void worm

a random false god meeting the closest thing to a true god

Due to the abnormal amounts of void fluid she was made to have, Unparalleled Innocence was lucky enough to do just that!

[kelocitta]

Day 29: Karma Ten Do you think yourself above it all?