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Endless Realms bestiary - Deathcap
Bestiary artwork for Endless Realms, a D&D-like "pen and paper" fantasy RPG I'm working for.
I know Death Caps are things that already exist. However, the ones that already exist DON'T literally use their caps to eat you with. So Deathcap. "Yes, yes, come closer!" it thinks in your direction, in whatever passes for thought amongst fungus, "Come! Sample the generous bounty at my base! Do they not smell delicious? Are their shoots not tender and sweet? Yes, yeesssss, come feast upon me, SO THAT I MAY FEAST UPON YOU." *gobbles up*
My mind goes weird places sometimes working on these things.
But yeah, I imagined that the little enoki-mushroom-looking ones at the bottom are actually perfectly edible, and smell sweetly (and maybe even have a bit of bioluminescence, to attract attention), drawing prey into reach. I gave them long stalks, in case the dev wanted to use them to grapple/entangle victims with, but generally speaking, once they're in range, the big cap can just close shut over it like an umbrella, trapping prey inside.
Concept & Artwork © 2014-2017 Lunar Games Inc.
Endless Realms FAQ: http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/5774483/
I know Death Caps are things that already exist. However, the ones that already exist DON'T literally use their caps to eat you with. So Deathcap. "Yes, yes, come closer!" it thinks in your direction, in whatever passes for thought amongst fungus, "Come! Sample the generous bounty at my base! Do they not smell delicious? Are their shoots not tender and sweet? Yes, yeesssss, come feast upon me, SO THAT I MAY FEAST UPON YOU." *gobbles up*
My mind goes weird places sometimes working on these things.
But yeah, I imagined that the little enoki-mushroom-looking ones at the bottom are actually perfectly edible, and smell sweetly (and maybe even have a bit of bioluminescence, to attract attention), drawing prey into reach. I gave them long stalks, in case the dev wanted to use them to grapple/entangle victims with, but generally speaking, once they're in range, the big cap can just close shut over it like an umbrella, trapping prey inside.
Concept & Artwork © 2014-2017 Lunar Games Inc.
Endless Realms FAQ: http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/5774483/
Category Artwork (Digital) / Fantasy
Species Exotic (Other)
Size 800 x 800px
File Size 673 kB
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*chuckles* The art director originally asked for something more like http://away3d.com/?ACT=26&fid=4.....amp;board_id=1 - but I wanted to try turning mushroom gills into rows of teeth. Something about it seemed a natural step :b
Heh, this one doesn't use psychedelic powers that I know of, beyond tempting people with its delicious wares :V
Heh, this one doesn't use psychedelic powers that I know of, beyond tempting people with its delicious wares :V
*shudders* Faceless fungal based creatures always creep me out like nothing else. (Only possible exception being fungal zombies.) Give me a banshee with her eyes ripped out and a gaping chest mouth with wriggling insect leg-like teeth, just keep those spore spraying externally digesting suckers away from me.
I really love your choice of turning the gills into teeth. I think it's a much more terrifying than anthropomorphizing it with a normal mouth. It also makes the danger a little more subtle.
I really love your choice of turning the gills into teeth. I think it's a much more terrifying than anthropomorphizing it with a normal mouth. It also makes the danger a little more subtle.
Muahaha, good ol' fungal zombies. How does it make you feel knowing they're actually real (if only in the insect world)? :V I always like to give that example to people who think nature is all happy and nice and only humans do horrific things :b
lol, eyeless chest-mouth banshee sounds awesome :V
Thanks! I think having a random humanoid mouth in the middle of the stalk could be creepy/uncanny-valley-esque, but yeah, I thought the gills were a neater idea, and subtler. They're THERE, but it's possible you might not notice them IRL.
lol, eyeless chest-mouth banshee sounds awesome :V
Thanks! I think having a random humanoid mouth in the middle of the stalk could be creepy/uncanny-valley-esque, but yeah, I thought the gills were a neater idea, and subtler. They're THERE, but it's possible you might not notice them IRL.
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