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Creature Concept artist // Website: www.yenshuliao.com // Email: [email protected] // US Citizen // 🏳️‍🌈 Pronoun: they/them

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Axewolf may or may not see Rosharans as conveniently pre-de-shelled food... 🥩

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How To Train Your Shrimpy Dog 🦐 , now in theaters, only in Kolinar 😛

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🍼 Baby.🍼

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The Dire Axewolf is in dire need of dinner, dessert, and a dash of Sauvignon. 🍾 This big girl is living big in the wilds.

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🐺 An equivalent of Earthen wolf on Roshar is perhaps the most logical evolutionary branch. Lobster wolf vs shrimpy dog? 🦞

To make it look more dangerous than an axehound, the axewolf has a lot more pointy bits, and that horn is for tripping fleeing dinner instead of risking a broken jaw by trying to bite carapaced prey mid gallop.

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If dogs are watered down wolves, then what did domestic axehounds trickle from? 🤔

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Straight up inspired by the Afghan Hound at dog shows. I bet the first thing a Rosharan did when they see an abnormally hairy axehound, is to ribbon those silky strands up for lolz.

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A prime example of people's incessant drive to reshape nature to its will, either through selective breeding process, or, quicker, through big, sharp shears.

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Littlelization to the max axehound, all the better to fit in laps all around Roshar with!

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The Rat Wurm. The Terror Terrier. The Whiny Weinerhund. The many nicknames to this obviously dachshund inspired axehound. Or, as @tousleheadedpoet puts it, daxehound. *Disclaimer, no, Rosharans don't know what weiner or terrior are 🌭

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There are pet axehounds, and then there are abandoned and homeless stray axehounds due to a variety of reasons: irresponsibility, accidents, or BORN TO BE WIiiIIIIIIiiIIILD! 🎶

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Live ✨glamorously✨ hon! 🦐

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Sometimes people can be cruel to other animals, like cutting their body parts, putting them into blood sports, or judging them unfavorably on appearance and hear-say alone.

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Little miniature pet axehound for easy carrying and lap curling for the bright lords and ladies of the Alethi courts.

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A shrimpy dachshund, because I'm sure Rosharans have rats, and rats are always getting into unwanted places.

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"Scratch" 😄🐶

Axehound is from Brandon Sanderson's novel series Stormlight Archive.

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Some of the more presentable axehound idea sketches after the initial thumbnails 🦐.

Also trying out this app but it gives a lot of artifacts on solid color areas even on Low setting with High render time... 😪

Axehounds are from the novel series Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson.