Here is the full-wrap cover for the Standard Edition of my artbook:
Fans of The Witcher or Magic: The Gathering surely know the artwork made by Anna Podedworna. But just in case: tell your friends! :D
AKREON is my first collected artbook featuring work from GWENT, Magic: The Gathering, Dungeons & Dragons, Evil West, personal pieces, sketches, and more from the last 10+ years of my career.
This project means a lot to me, and I’m incredibly happy I can finally share it with you all 💛
Created in collaboration with Spiridon Giannakis
Reworking my Resident Evil OC
And i had to throw a wip out here because i ... i like it :,>
The Character isn't the human body, it's the parasite actually.
More thoughts under the cut:
It's a highly experimental NE-γ Type - developed for psychic abilities (like the Nemesis Parasites were used to give the Tyrants more cognitive ability, so i just expanded that concept) but it went a bit too far and got conscious and so not useful as a Bio-Organic Weapon (because it's not controlable with a free will), even though the psychic abilities did develop beyond expectations. (that is what the organ below the brain is for and it needs to be unobtrused on the host to function prober)
So there is only one of them for now and it uses a clone host body, that never was conscious itself (otherwise the parasite would have to absorb it and that was unnessesary trouble for the experiment)
I think i will keep the Name "Silas" for it, but it's so far removed from the first draft, it's a totally new character :,D But I like the idea of it choosing it's own name. (but the first draft character-design will stay as his first host body, this one here is the second one)
It will use it/its pronouns and is socially distant and weird, but interested in humans just out of curiousity (not hostile per se)
It doesn't have a regular natural drive to reproduce, but it has a strong survival instinct (also a reason why it was not suited as a B.O.W.)
Some more thoughts: this parasite uses it's own type of virus infection to mutate and control the body. But it can't "un-mutate" a host (and heal only to a limited capacity), so if it does that, it probably needs a new host to "appear like a human" again.
I also was thinking that it might struggle with ALL the Progenitor Virus strains (T, G and so on) and can't infect any already infected body. Then Elpis would actually be helpful to it, because it cleans out the body (purify it) and then it can take over. So it is itself not affected by the Elpis Anti-Virus. (thinking of it like a leech. It needs clean and healthy water to survive)
Also, in a humanoid host body it takes the space the stomach would usually take up & it also uses the host body brain to keep it functional. But you could should off it's head and it would still be running (and then probably mutate, because it has to make up for the lost capacity)
balblabla i have tons more thoughts, but i will leave it at that for now. I just wanted to share this as i have it so far, because i love my little brain-worm <3
(Also yes, i'm aware it feels a bit like a DnD mind-flayer, but that's really accidental)
Nahro commissioned a piece for Sollia with both of their sonas - sort of - in a way to symbolise a Sol Ring - MTG card x3 and usable as a gaming mat :D
Requested Commission by Sollia for Nahro (fox to the right) and his now fiancé/husband (the tanuki on the left ^^)
Background is inspired by one of the photos I got from Nahro 😄 He really proposed at the Inari shrine x3
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