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Bestiary artwork for Endless Realms, a D&D-like "pen and paper" fantasy RPG I'm working for.
While normally I get a mix of different kinds of creatures, this monster block consisted of entirely corrupted spirits. The world(s) of Endless Realms has a number of gods, but they are normally quite removed - spirits, on the other hand, thrive in the Corporeal Realms of mortal races, often creating symbiotic relationships with its people, places, and principles, inhabiting places such as villages, forests or rivers, or representing concepts such as harvest or war. However, sometimes these spirits grow hungry for power and become corrupted, twisted versions that feed off the world rather than nourish and balance it - for these various concepts, I've tried to capture the darker, nastier essence of what they represent. The art director required all the spirits to be humanoid, but requested that they all be "eerie and strange" - I took that quite liberally. There's a lot that can be done with the basic humanoid shape, and alternatively making them all "people with different horns and bits on them, or wearing different outfits" seemed terribly boring.
Although they're a bit of a forgotten concept nowadays it seems, there have been a number of spirits residing over villages, communities, home and hearth across a number of cultures - I really wanted to cover that base for players. Normally, I'd imagine these spirits for Endless Realms would be more warm, motherly figures, but when corrupted, become much, much more abusive, punishing rather than rewarding, harming rather than healing, taking rather than giving. Every emotionally abusive parental relationship ever inspired this one :b
Mother knows best...
Concept & Artwork © 2014-2017 Lunar Games Inc.
Endless Realms FAQ
While normally I get a mix of different kinds of creatures, this monster block consisted of entirely corrupted spirits. The world(s) of Endless Realms has a number of gods, but they are normally quite removed - spirits, on the other hand, thrive in the Corporeal Realms of mortal races, often creating symbiotic relationships with its people, places, and principles, inhabiting places such as villages, forests or rivers, or representing concepts such as harvest or war. However, sometimes these spirits grow hungry for power and become corrupted, twisted versions that feed off the world rather than nourish and balance it - for these various concepts, I've tried to capture the darker, nastier essence of what they represent. The art director required all the spirits to be humanoid, but requested that they all be "eerie and strange" - I took that quite liberally. There's a lot that can be done with the basic humanoid shape, and alternatively making them all "people with different horns and bits on them, or wearing different outfits" seemed terribly boring.
Although they're a bit of a forgotten concept nowadays it seems, there have been a number of spirits residing over villages, communities, home and hearth across a number of cultures - I really wanted to cover that base for players. Normally, I'd imagine these spirits for Endless Realms would be more warm, motherly figures, but when corrupted, become much, much more abusive, punishing rather than rewarding, harming rather than healing, taking rather than giving. Every emotionally abusive parental relationship ever inspired this one :b
Mother knows best...
Concept & Artwork © 2014-2017 Lunar Games Inc.
Endless Realms FAQ
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Ah yes... The 'Evil Matriarch'...