#thecreaturecodex

[chimeride]

Suggested by @thecreaturecodex.

[annotaremonstrorum]

Some recent monster doodles on sticky notes from my office:

Top left: A sketch of @slimyswampghost 's Man with the Upside Down Face.

Top right: Side view of a creeping terror, from @thecreaturecodex. I was trying to figure out something or other about its anatomy.

Bottom left: The Butterball Cenobite from Hellraiser.

Bottom right: A "melting candle"-like undead/ooze.

I've long used sticky notes and index cards to make quick notes and sketches of monsters. My use of sticky notes has increased since I discovered Danish artist John Kenn Mortensen. I really want to properly stat some of his monsters some day.

[chimeride]

Agbako, the 221st Known One.

Agbako is the evil spirit of misfortune. He has sixteen eyes encircling his head, legs like palm leaves, chainmail around his midriff full of vermin like snakes, and thick matted hair. With his iron helmet, bronze coat, clubs, and swords he is the great bane of hunters who venture too deep into the bush.*

Suggested by @thecreaturecodex​.

Interpretation based on 1 source. Precisions are welcome :)

[chimeride]

Dogai, the 226th Known One.

Suggested by @thecreaturecodex.

[chimeride]

Mpaca, the 220th Known One.

“Mpaca is humanoid, with long hair and a snout. It has fingernails that can grow to incredible lengths, which is stabs people with in order to make them do its bidding. It jumps on people's backs”

Suggested by @thecreaturecodex. More to read here.

[chimeride]

Avarice Wyrm, the 215th Known One.

Suggested by @thecreaturecodex, based on the adventures of Guerrin Meschino.

”I saw worms that resembled very large scorpions that had three mouths for biting and one, which was much larger, for eating.” “They are those who are avaricious and miserly toward their parents, God, and the poor. In fact, avarice is only a form of self-harm because you love neither God nor your family. These individuals were so avaricious that they despaired and ended up here.” - Travels to the Otherworld and Other Fantastic Realms: Medieval Journeys into the Beyond, Claude Lecouteux, Corinne Lecouteux

[chimeride]

Phytoi, the 217th Known One.

Suggested by @thecreaturecodex

“We finally entered a large forest of trees called anaphanta, which produced a most peculiar fruit: enormous apples as large as gourds. The inhabitants, the Phytoi, a people some twenty-four ells in height, had horns that were around one and one-half ell and had long feet. But their forearms were saws. When they caught sight of us, they rushed to meet us. Horrified at their appearance, I ordered that one be captured. When we attacked them while shouting and blowing the trumpets, they fled.” - Travels to the Otherworld and Other Fantastic Realms: Medieval Journeys into the Beyond, Claude Lecouteux, Corinne Lecouteux

[chimeride]

Electric penguin from Monty Python’s Flying Circus, the 188th Known One.


“An electric penguin! Twenty feet high! With long green tentacles that reach out and sting people!“ - suggested by @thecreaturecodex