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I try to draw "Agas" on my birthday in honour of this username that I've been using since high school LOL. I think I missed last year because I forgot, but yeah LMAO.

I don't really draw fanarts of him anymore, so every time I draw him he just randomly looks kinda different 😂😂😂

Also shout out to my art from like 10+ years ago LOL:

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I was thinking "I should clarify my designs/mental image of the AV druids some more because of Lore (TM)", but LMAO I can't help thinking of the daeva all the time...

I've had this mental gag for the longest time that "Rashnu looks kind of creepy, and Nanghaithya looks more like the druid than him". Wanted to draw visuals to compare (also Nanghaithya's full face without the covering on his mouth).

Rashnu isn't actually fierce, he just... has permanent frown lines from years of overthinking. Nanghaithya has a few braids that can turn into vines and thorns (because of his Earth element thing).

I probably should make a more detailed character drawing/profile someday... I originally wanted to try to fanfic it, but it's been like 5 years and the words still aren't working.

This version of Nanghaithya is different than this one because the one pictured in this post is for a specific AU/canon divergent lore. Mostly canon compliant, but there's a few flights of fancy taken. That other one is more fully canon compliant.

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Nanghaithya

Element: Earth

Original species: Quarem

Special ability: Mind control

The quarem uses song to snare their prey and eat them. Nanghaithya is of the ascended class of the kind who has evolved the skill so that he can control others with normal spoken words. For that reason he had to wear a sealing cloth on his mouth, to prevent him from using his powers.

Quarem are, typically, immune to the mind control abilities of their fellow kind, and more perceptive of other methods of hypnotism.

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I can't believe I forgot to post this here. Or, if I did, I tagged it incorrectly because I can't find it. Was going to make a full set of "encyclopaedia profiles" for 'em, but I got sidetracked while doing Zarich and never finished.

Because of Elini's summon animations, I always headcanon the daeva as being associated to a specific element. How it works has been evolving in my head over time, but currently they are "elemental guardians" who are each assigned to one element. They individually have other spell abilities based on whatever demon species they are.

Also, walking cactus, one of Nanghaithya's minions:

They're about as ridiculous and dumb as those yellow Minions.

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I draw Agas every year on my birbday

After thinking about this, this version of Agas is the “AU-verse”. The blond one can stay, and that’s gonna be the more-AV-canon-compliant version. Still with a lot of lolz and giggles involved, but eh.

I need to get better at drawing animal/beast/non-human creatures so I can draw his “true face”. Since I suck at it I usually just draw his “mostly-human face”... His real face is supposed to be more scary/demon-y, I just can’t draw the way I imagined it to look in my head.

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Back when RPG Maker VX/Ace was all the rage I tried making Agas in the style of the RPG Maker VX RTP facesets/busts.

Dunno why I did this. It must’ve been 12 years ago, so I don’t remember why anymore.

Agas being really handsome (and otherwise mostly-looks-human) guy when he removes his armour is a crack idea that still makes me laugh when I think about it. My thought process was like the team members being like “Hey do you think the armoured one looks like a monster under the helmet or more like a person?” “Well the nose and mouth looks humanish? But maybe he has like three eyes though.”

Then they had Elini summon him and have him remove his helmet and everyone’s shocked at his face. 

Good ol’ forum days.