#shrykes

[creatureprofessor]

i want to make a longer post about the similarities between the arakkoa in WoW and the shrykes in The Edge Chronicles books with pictures, but i gotta say that while TEC technically predates the introduction of arakkoa in The Burning Crusade expansion, the early arakkoa are more skeksis-ish, but their architecture is similar (more on that later). the Warlords of Draenor expac era "high" arakkoa though...now Those were definitely inspired by the shrykes

[seercayder]

Look, i’ve never seen or read anything about The Dark Crystal (damn it looks good though) but those Skekis creatures remind me sooo strongly of the Shrykes in the Edge Chronicles:

(Oh yeah, this is a kids series btw, and it is incredibly dark)

But anyway, i’m glad that we, as a collective society, are finally embracing bird creature people.

The illustrator for the books is Chris Riddell I believe, and he was the dude who made me fall in love with book illustrations and want to do it when i’m older.