#erracor

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Exhausted, Asht simply looked on in disgust as the blue spectral form of Erracor loomed. It shifted silently. Weaving, wending its way through the still air. Its cold, yet familiar, enshrouding presence surrounded him from all angles. He felt the chilled vice of elongated fingers clasped possessively around his shoulder as he turned. Four spiraling horns jutted in a wide sweeping arc from the creature’s brow, encircling the two of them like cage.

The pulsating glow of that ever present orb, the sealed marker of Erracor’s entrapment, danced energetically above his forehead. His gnarled maw split eerily into a jagged grin of almost karmic amusement as he leaned in to Asht’s right ear, “Well,” his voice croaked, “Isn’t this an unprecedented achievement? Ten millennia of status quo, squandered in nearly a century and a half,” he mocked, “You spread your curse to the next generation, Ashtearul. And, evidently, to me…” The spark illuminating the old one’s stare burned with loathing.

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Thought up an interaction I wanted to recreate between Ashtearul and Erracor. Of course, when karma inevitably caught up to Asht, the old specter couldn’t pass up the opportunity to taunt him.

I used to draw these two so much more often. This needs remedying :0

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Over the summer I did some brainstorming on a race of ancients in my story, called the Orinacrians. They’ve always been a good lore well to dive into.

Up top is Erracor, first Oriancarus of the Time element. More specifically, what’s left of him after thousands of years of imprisonment as an disembodied, mind-addled specter confined for an eternity to the Allveinir. He’s. Not doing fine. First they seal you seal you away, sentencing you to millennia of tutoring the occasional upstart Oriancarus, then they give you a roommate without consulting you first. AND it’s the guy you hate the most out of AAALL OF THEM.

Let’s just say his daughter has a more sterling reputation in the history of Vyrundal than he does.

Below is a more generic Orinacrian. The race is named after the delta on which their capital temple city was located. What they were originally called has been lost to the ages, along with Erracor’s recollection. The ancients consumed the natural resource known as the Allveinir to attain immortality and the use of their magic (see the crest above this one’s head). Wars were fought in an era known as the Cataclysm over access to this resource, which ultimately led to their demise (due in no small part to actions taken by Erracor and the original Oriancari). They were lithe figures, covered in armor like scales, with heads crowned by horns and feathers. There were five subterranean cities, each ruled by one of five Orinacrian “Kings”, nestled atop cavern entrances where the Allveinir fissure breached the surface across the continent. With their fall and the inevitable demise of their people, all but Orinacria were long since sealed away.

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So many sketches :U

Mostly random dragons. Then a quick sketch of Erracor and Morin in for kicks.

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More sketches! An imbalanced Erracor having an episode and a beastie design I conjured up the other day. Don’t have a use for the latter but I like the big guy enough to post him.

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Here are those species examples! I could have used Ashtearul’s temple form for the Orinacrian example, but he’s technically five generations removed from the ancient line. Erracor (center) is decent enough, I just used the design of his spectral projection since that’s really the only visual image I have of him. The other two guys are Civelryun (left) and an Uthalian warrior (right) who I’ve yet to name. 

While at one point they would have rivaled one another industrially (enough to start a war), Civelryun’s race is far more technologically advanced than the Oriancari in their current state. For the Oriancari, the conclusion of the cataclysm permanently sealed their link to the Allriaken and the energy recycled within it. However, it also brought with it the collapse of their species. Without the shared use of the Allrian caverns, Orinacrian societies fell, until all that remained were the Oriancari and a number of deviants, those who (at the time) refused to give up the consumption of the Allrian and were ostracized. (of course this decline and mass death, due to deprivation from the Allrian as an energy source, were blamed on Erracor’s actions and were ultimately the reason for his demise). 

The Uthalian warrior is a character I intend to build upon. What I really need to work on, though, is a design for his Queen. Their societies work in a hive-mind mentality. While individuals may retain core personality traits, all share the same memories and motivations. Those remnants who have survived until modern day still recall the time of their ancestors. Their Queen would sit at the center of this structure as an elder, and steer their society down what she would consider the most beneficial course. I explained a bit more about their history in this post here which mainly covers a subspecies of their kind, but also discusses what backstory I have on them.

Then whooosh a change in groove. 

I also played with Kai’s hair in an attempt to find a look that works for her. I feel like she’ll spend the majority of her time with it up or braided back. But I wanted to mess with forms and the idea of it being curly. This was mainly me testing out what style of curl would work better on her. I think the first style fits her more. Something about those tight ringlets works~ 

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What happens when I deprive myself of photoshop for two and a half weeks

This is the image flipped, so the spiral on his forehead is backwards compared to the sketch there, but I like it at this angle so I might change the spiral and keep him on this side when I'm done, Idk.

USING A STONE FOR PALLET INSPIRATION because I'm still trying to get Erracor's ethereal look down and I just like how those colors meld there, it's a pretty thing to glance over at while I work too.