#zaresh

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encouter with the oracle, oc. 2023

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Zaresh is very much confused

Finally got to draw my abomination in color.

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your painting of your character Zaresh is so striking and gorgeous! is there any way to learn more about that character or is he too new?

Hello, thank you so much for your message, it really means a lot to me that you want to learn more about him! He isn't actually new at all, I made him in 2020, but since I don't post much online I suppose the last one is actually the first time I've posted him to tumblr haha

Here's a little Zaresh sketch as well as some more bits and bops about him, rambling ahead:

At his core I think my artfight description of him is the most accurate: "A bitter oracle living in a damp cave. Eats gold bought to him by the desperate".

He canonically doesn't share a universe with any of my other characters, and his story is more of a backdrop that acts as a setting, only obsessed with having been cast out from gods domain, making it impossible for him to change while retaining his ego. To others he's folklore, a fable, to himself he remains the angel of fate and destiny.

Other creations that came after are, to him, not capable of true sentience and introspection. There's nothing on earth as alive as he is so the only thing left is a continual self-identification with the past.

The hamlets around his grotto acuumulate legends about Zaresh, some casting him as an evil warlock and others as an incarnation of punishment. Really he is neither, just an oracle - again being much more in line with the vision he still has of himself as the governor of fate. He revels in the position of power he has over those that seek him out however, taking all that is important to whomever enters his grotto. The consumption is both symbolic and connected to secular idolatry. While Zaresh isn't in need of sustinence, he does feel ravenous whenever he is not eating (or maybe that's just a trick of the mind).

Prophecys received are kept only between his visior and Zaresh. Being a recipient of a divine vision also means disappearing from mortal's destiny. An obscene and fatal experience, but one that doesn't entirely take place in his grotto.

Either way wielding that power creates an emotional dichotomy between self-validation and self-obsoletion. Zaresh will spend the next unspecified amount of time slowly consuming his little meals until he has to go back to feeling starvation set in and not being able to think of what he is but only what he used to be.

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EXPRESSION PRACTICE PT. 2

Elegant Sway being a toptier singson bat Zaresh being confused, per always And a toptier QT Sublime Wile