#somnovum

[zmeess]

commission for @mareastrorum, who asked me to come up with what Elatis could look like in her fanfic The Fool and the Soldier! i was absolutely thrilled to figure out the themes and color scheme for a painting of a character that would be undeniably attractive and sultry, but deeply unsettling at the same time. thank you for commissioning me! 🐝

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[digitalwizard01]

I'd love to see the version of Molly that existed as a Percy backup character. Like it's such an interesting what if. how would he have been played differently? Especially existing in an entirely different era of Exandria. How would the group dynamics change, traveling with VM instead of M9? Would he have still had connections to the Somnovum and the Cognouza Ward of Aeor or had Matt not worked out that lore yet?

[demisexualbolairelathalia]

I just know they're gonna explain the connection of the Somnovum to the campaign and I'm gonna bite something

like...if they confirm that Somnovum (som being dream, novum being nine) are connected to Ruidus and that's why the nine eyes were red

I'm GONNA BITE??!?!!?!!??!

[misscryptidart]

Look, I know he probably has more legendary resistances, but I'm very mad this hasn't been tried yet

[sabathicy]

To Alpha and Alpha…

[crtistdotpng]

baaahh?

[omegafanart]

A Gift of Eyes.

I coloured my quick doodle from the last episode of Essek's new "gift".

Do not alter or repost my art anywhere. Reblogs are love.

[lostsometime]

one of the most interesting things matt’s done with Cognouza by introducing individual members of the somnovum is to change our understanding of what this city even is 

when all they had to go on was a nightmarish vision from a creature that was being hunted by it, it seemed pretty clear that this thing is evil

jester has been adamant, this whole time, that this thing is filled with hatred

and we get there and it turns out, hey some of the minds in here are filled with hatred, but some of them are just scared or confused or sad

and of course it’s still a nightmarish abomination that needs to be stopped, but it’s not trying to consume the world because it’s evil and it hates everything.  it’s just that it’s now a living entity the size of a city and it’s hungry.  and it should not exist, but now that it does, it’s not really evil of it to want to keep existing.

and there are, you know, thousands of minds in there that aren’t even doing or wanting anything, they’re just screaming in endless horrific psychic torment.

so like, we see enough of this to realize that, though it still definitely needs to be killed, it’s more of a “this is a rabid animal that needs to be put down now before it does any more damage” than a sense that “this thing is evil and needs to be punished”

so, of course, as soon as we realize that, lucien comes in with a bunch of psychic bombs to gloat about his secret plan for ultimate cosmic power and we go OH.  OH  THAT’S RIGHT.  *THAT’S* WHAT EVIL LOOKS LIKE!