#planetnik

[gritrook]

Dealing with supernatural powers is pretty tiring 😴📚

From left to right, @crystalgears's Father Thomas, @amelias-art's Rift and my Tanek for Artfight 2025.

I'm not sure if either of these cryptid-hunting clergy would let one hang out with them in their living room, but they seem pretty chill! Tanek won't cause them trouble.

--- Commission an artwork in the same style || Newsletter

[lepidopteraandlace]

Experimenting with a more gestural inking style and getting in touch with my Slavic heritage lol. I want to draw a whole army of different planetniks, all with different body types.

[lugvelesasrz]

New episode!!! In this one we will talk about persons who protected their community using supernatural abilities - Vetrovnici.

Subtitles in English language are available for those who do not understand Serbian language.

Enjoy, Slava!

[joemerl]

Writer's Month 2022, Day 31: "Rainbow"

Original fiction/Fantasy based on Slavic mythology Status/Word count: Could be complete on its own, but I want to add more later. 311 words. Summary/Author's notes: Based on the legend of the planetik/chmurnik/a bunch of other names for Slavic weather spirits.

"I bet I can run all the way to the rainbow and back," Dalibor said, pointing off into the distance.

His big sister, Oliga, made a face. "A rainbow isn't something you can reach, stupid. It disappears if you run toward it."

"I bet I can touch it."

"Can not."

"Can so!"

"Then try it," she said dismissively.

"Alright!" he said, and ran off.

Dalibor ran, and sure enough, the rainbow only seemed to become sharper as he got closer. He crested a small hill, slowing to a trot and looking up at it in wonder. It rose so high overhead that he couldn't even it from up close, the sunlight burning his eyes; its end hovered over the ground about twenty feet away. Up close, its colors were brighter than he could have imagined, and it glittered as if made of thousands and thousands of stars. It was hazy at the edges.

He got closer, and still it didn't disappear. He grinned to himself. And then, without even really thinking, he reached out to touch it, wondering it if would be solid or if it was just beautifully colored mist. Maybe he could even grab a handful of rainbow to shove in Oliga's face!

It was solid. And at his touch, the colored threads lashed out and wrapped around his wrist.

"Hey!"

He pulled back, grimacing in pain—the threads of rainbow tightened, and its sparkling bits burned and bit into his skin. It snaked its way up his arm and pulled—Dalibor screamed as his feet were wretched from the earth, and suddenly he had the strangest feeling, like a great weight was melting off him—he became impossibly light, rising into the air with no more effort than a gust of wind.

He screamed again, and was yanked up into the sky, his human body dissolving behind him.

[myth-lord]

Name: Akashita + Planetnik

Alternate Names: Demon Storm

Mythology: Akashita = Japanese Yokai and Planetnik comes from Slavic Mythology or Folklore

Size: Akashita is a large cloud elemental, the Planetnik is a Huge living storm.

Environment: Sky, can appear anywhere, even in Abyss

In Mythika: Planetnik are one of the biggest creatures in Mythika, these living storms cause much damage to towns, fields and farmlands as they move over. They are also known as demon storms and many scholars think these big storm elementals have escaped from the abyss and are actually the souls or combined wrath of some demons. They are sometimes known as Tempests. Planetnik have the qualities lightning, water and air elementals, they can release most weather (spare for sunshine and cold weather) types on their enemies and are one of the later enemies you face in the game.

Whenever a Planetnik grows to big, it sometimes sheds off some living cloud elementals called Akashita, these living clouds are said to be the juvenile forms of Planetnik and they are just as cruel and stormy as their parent creatures, a big Planetnik can summon many Akashita in battle to aid it. Some Akashita let the Air Gnomes Nuberu ride them, turning them into a fierce and powerful team.

Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akashita + https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C5%82anetnik

[evelineaerato]

Planetnik by EvelineaErato

[slavonica-antiqua]

Płanetnik or Chmurnik – demonic or half-demonic figure from Slavic folklore that embodies weather phenomena.  It was believed Płanetniks guided the clouds and sent down storms and hails. To become a Płanetnik, one had to die a sudden death or commit suicide – usually a drowned or hunged person was believed to become the demon. People imagined them to take from of elderly men in wide hats or some small creatures. Some chosen men, who could control weather, were believed to be Płanetniks too. Just before the storm they were drawn by a rainbow into the sky and there they fought a battle with air dragons that symbolized hail and storm clouds. The other version says Płanetniks went out into the fields and cast out the storms with magic spells. Depending on the circumstances, Płanetniks could be accommodating or hostile towards people.  To gain their favor one had to throw some flour into the wind or fire. Some Płanetniks came down from the sky to warn people about upcoming storm or drought.