Discover Top Posts Tagged with #qadistu

Qadištu Naamah performing Capitulate to Pleasure

#shin megami tensei #shin megami tensei v #smt v vengeance #smtv #lilith #naamah #eisheth #agat #qadistu

All are fated to perish at the world's end...

#agrat #agrat bat mahlat #qadistu #shin megami tensei #shin megami tensei v vengeance #smt v vengeance #smtvv #it's that time of year again #please go easy on me i have limited options due to a lack of tools this year #also i haven't really consumed any new content so my idea pool is also limited orz #well i did play 13 sentinels recently but it's not really... spooky vibes #anyway this year will probably be rb heavy #sorry and thank you in advance 🙏#happy halloween (month)#my art

Hey Hori! Hope you're having a great day!

How do you think the Four Horsemen from Darksiders would react to and interact with the Qadistu? How tense would things be? Would Fury, depending on the point in time, be tempted to join the Qadistu? Would Strife attempt to flirt with any of them? Would Death be ready to flip out once they try anything? Would War keep an eye on everyone, having to oddly be the sane one in the whole situation?

The basic image of the Qadistu with the horsemen was too good. I had to sketch it out.

(Ask box is open again btw)

#I didn’t forget about this ask nope nadda it wasn’t sitting in my inbox for over a month nope #first attempts at the qadistu #might clean these up at a later date #anyhoot #darksiders #four horsemen of the apocalypse #smt v vengeance #shin megami tensei #smtv #qadistu #sketches #headcanons #digital art #fanart #my art #ask stuff #thanks for the ask!#asks open

Thinking Beyond Replacement

The new Lilith reveal when Vengeance was announced led to another stupid & frankly outdated thought: "why design a new look for a classic SMT demon that's still popular when the new is functionally identical to the old?"

This thought nevertheless got me curious, so i made the Qadistu quartet edits seen above. I've become pro-Doi Lilith for the following reasons:

Kaneko is super dead now that he left Atlus. It's time to move on for real. I'm especially talking to myself.

the palettes of Eisheth Zenunim, Agrat bat Mahlat, and Naamah aren't dissimilar to the Amemiya or Kaneko Liliths, so they would still look fairly cohesive even with the latter. But Lilith is still the leader of the Qadistu and her bubblegum pink hair makes her pop out among them.

However, I think it's undeniable that Doi designed the Qadistu as a unit, combining, as he says, "beauty and ugliness." All 4 have grotesque features and I particularly like Lilith's bony joint aberrations:

There's just a level of cohesion usually only a single artist can lend to such a related/thematic assemblage; I'm also pretty positive on Naamah; even if her purpose in the Qadistu might just be to breast boobily, she's a demon I've wanted in SMT for a long time and i think her design delivers.

I'm not as hot on Agrat bat Mahlat, she reminds me of Ranni for some reason; I just think the "dark witch" motif is a little derivative but at least she adds variety to the group. The most notable thing about her to me is that her red eyes make it look like she's been doing some heavy dabbing in the sweet leaf. Eisheth Zenunim I'm pretty neutral about.

Last point on accepting change, as sad as that sounds to say (but it totally is what's necessary):the 4 Qadistu are the wives of Samael, and so the new Lilith is still wrapped by a snake--a red snake, the same color Samael has always been in Kaneko's designs. While it seems a given Samael will be involved in the story eventually, it would also mean he will have a new design, and probably not a snake, or at least something more involved. I also imagine Lilith's snake having a role in cutscenes--further necessitating the need for an all-new design/model.

Also, i totally expect there to be some classic SMT comparative etymological conflation bullshit with Samael this time around, because "Samael" is one of the alternate names of Yaldabaoth. And oh yeah, Sophia is the mother of the demiurge and in vanilla she called herself a sacred prostitute:

So expect her involvement, too. I'm honestly pretty excited for Vengeance! It's coming out at a great time for me, I think it'll be doable for me one-handed,Doi's new designs I would put on a Kaneko quality scale of somewhere between SMT2 and Devil Summoner, and vanilla SMT5 was so low impact, the only place it can go now is up!