#cetanu

[kurgy]

Cetanu the black death

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[yautja-lair]

Naghe-tih clan depiction of Cetanu.

Priestess thinks of Cetanu as a being with peculiar yautja features: his face is split in half, one side is showing a hunter mask and the other the bare skull beneath it.

This is a symbol of how Cetanu is both God of Death (skull side) and the one that judges hunters' souls after their passing (mask side).

Another peculiar traits of this representation is how Priestess will often depict him with a severed head, with a clean cut of the neck.

After all, cutting the head of their prey is seen as a traditional killing method. The quickest and most honorable one for the Naghe-tih clan and Cetanu is a representation of this type of death.

Overall, his physical appearance is the one of an elder yautja, with locks turned gray and behavior of an elite old hunter.

The Naghe-tih think of Cetanu as blind to where usually eyes are, yet he can see the hunter's souls thanks to the eye located in the middle of the head. Sometimes, he has tiny pupils show up from the cracks of his skull.

Due to the Naghe-tih being very attached to the Ra-taro, they consider it an honor for those beloved animal bones to be a part of Cetanu's attire; the most noticeable being a Ra-taro skull as shoulder pad.

The skulls of previous Cetanu's head priests/priestess are often shown with the god, as a reward of their dedication to him during their life.

The Naghe-tih clan collects the skull of the deceased priests and hangs them in a sacred room where a statue of the god towers over them. Se'eit head is exposed on these walls as well.

[rachaelmayo]

This is an idea for Cetanu, a Predator death-god. I drew this back in 2005.

There were a whole lot of different ideas about Predator/Yautja culture that came up around the time Steve/Stephani Perry wrote a novelization of AvP: Prey. They wrote in more culture in that one novel than we'd really seen in the entirety of the franchise up to that point. We'd had hints in the Predator movies about deeper motivations, and tidbits in the comics. But then the Perrys come along and flesh out the culture into something reminiscent of Star Trek's Klingons ...with mandibles. That was no bad thing!

I think it was Dave Bischoff who introduced the name "Cetanu" in a later novel. Many of the fans liked this, and lots of different interpretations came out. I went for something that had a bit of Southeast Asian flavor to it, if only in the sense of having many arms dedicated to tasks. (I had all kinds of ideas about culture and gods worked out in a ream of notes, but I'm not going to bore you to tears with fannish gibbering from 20 years ago.)

I made this with ink, acrylic, and gold paint pen.

[starlord-equinox]

Very, very sketchy Cetanu while i'm struggling with my internet and ideas

You know forsake, the force you sought out there's no escape... I am your god now.

[thefoldedbird]

How would a Yautja react if they meet a immortal human, asking them to help them find death as they don't want to live anymore due to living for so long and wanted peace

Sorry if it comes bit strong, but Yautja are a spiritual like race when it comes to something like life and death, and wanted to asked if they are in that situation

They would be realistically less inclined to help you and more inclined to study you. Especially if your immortality is acquired instead of natural.

(More under the cut for potentially triggering content. Be safe y’all.)

As for assisting you in suicide, they would be unlikely to help. There are few deaths they find honorable outside of battle. You could spin your story around to try and convince them that the only death you’d find suitable is by their hands, which would work. ‘Bane of Immortality’ would be quite the accolade.

However, if this immortal human is unable to die by their own hands/means, that implies a level of invulnerability. While the Yautja are far more technologically advanced, they aren’t like…magic. From what I’ve read there hasn’t been a case of their spiritualism offering any sort of tangible aid outside of morale.

Hell, if I remember correctly their patron of death, Cetanu, was just a dude that was so legendary in battle they deified him.

So, you may ask, and they will fight you if you can prove your immortality. But results may vary.

[scarlettaagni]

@jacklycan’s Predvember Day 15: Darkness

Holds you tight, and never lets you go.

Why did my tears please you more, my sweet?

[justbeforethedarkness]

Ink brush and pen “building blocks” of The Face of Death

[mighty-peacock]

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