#dark god

[purpleplague2]

“Before there was time, before there was anything, there was nothing. And before there was nothing, there were monsters.” -The Lich

[fascinated-fox]

oh my god I just realized Kieffer is made of (hand) plants because the dark god was controlling him to influence the US government....

HE WAS A GOVERNMENT PLANT

ITS A PUN

[cosmotropic]

A picture for an idea I had. Maybe it'll become something someday, maybe not. Who knows.

[psychodragon7]

New Mephiles sticker I did!

[moonstalkerwerewolf]

Anka (Atercuratrix), Keeper Form 2025

Anka in her Keeper and true form.

Artwork and character © @moonstalkerwerewolf. Please DO NOT repost or remove the source and comments!

[darktripz]

[nogetron]

OUTDATED

Cupray, the eclipse of dread. The upmost strongest and possible originator of the kunne-Kamuy, Cupray is malevolence incarnate. Cupray was known as the black sun, Its massive form gave off a fiery aura, with dark lighting blasting off from its overwhelming power. Its origins are shrouded in mystery, what can be gathered from sparse context clues was that its existence predates creation. While watching the creator Kotan-kar-Kamuy create the world, Cupray stewed in their venomous loathing. Cupray sought to destroy the world Kotan-Kar-Kamuy loved, and so plotted to burn it all down. So during the world’s first sunrise Cupray emerged from their vile pits and consumed the sun and its god Tokapcup-Kamuy, plunging the world into darkness, with all life losing its Ramat energy and beginning to rot away. Kotan-kar-Kamuy noticed this, and confronted the demon. Kotan-kar-kamuy created a flock of crows to choke the monster, being able to use that moment to free Tokapcup-Kamuy and banish Cupray to the depths of Tenei-pokna-moshiri. Despite their defeat, Cupray will still rise from the darkness to consume Tokapcup every sunrise, but is always banished by Kotan-kar-Kamuy. Though Cupray has tried many times to destroy the gods, he has failed everytime, even when using proxies like Uesoyoma or Moshiri-chik-Kotan-chik. Though when Cupray does succeed and totally consumes Tokapcup-kamuy, the world darkens and the Ainu gather together to help the sun, they use their Inau and splash water towards the sky, giving the energy the Kamuy needs to fight back.

Cupray in the original myth is never named, the transcriber; John Batchelor, instead called it the ‘devil’. John Batchelor frequently used Abrahamic terms to refer to some topics in Ainu culture, some have considered it an attempt by him to Christianize the Ainu, however in my opinion after reading his writings I personally think it was more of a mechanism he used to help himself understand and draw similarities to his own religion, even if it was misinterpreted. I had given the demon the name Cupray after the Ainu word for eclipse as a provisional name, translating to “sun death” or “the sun has died”, I do not treat this name as its original one, nor do I claim that it is correct, I merely use it as a way to refer to the figure. There are a multitude of other sun captured Yukara in the Ainu mythos, with some crediting the defeat of Cupray to Okikurumi. The modern day Japanese Yokai, Soranaki, owes its origins to Cupray, as early on its development it was conflated to the Ainu demon, and was further compared to in the game Okami, which depicted the two as essentially the same. The name Moshiri-chik-Kotan-chik or Alaen-Kamuy may have been the demon’s original name, as it has been used in other sun stolen myths to refer to the demon perpetrator, however this is baseless conjecture as I have not found any sources stating whether or not it could be the case, as it may as well have been considered a totally different demon. It could be that since Okikurumi was seen as the supreme creator god in some areas, he was given the role of the eclipse demon slayer as a cultural transcription of the story, however like the former this is merely conjecture. It is possible that the reason that the Ainu never told John Batchelor the name of the demon was to keep him safe from unwanted evil, as merely saying the name of an evil Kamuy of that magnitude could bring misfortune and misery to those who hear it.

[mr-rdark]

Another original character!

This time an eldritch dark god representing stagnation and liminality: Limibuls