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ABBADON : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG9tG7uDV_k
get yourself a healthy dose of sinister chanting in an empty void
“To shed the body and go beyond soul - and to become pure undying will.”
The Alcove is a seemingly infinite negative space from which the New Gods they rule over the universe. It is a “place” beyond time with an unclear relation to physical reality from which The Swords are generated and sent out to carry out their duties. The Swords are in turn maintained and instructed by their superiors, The Hands, who primarily reside in the Alcove.
It is unclear, even to the Swords, if the Alcove is an actual faraway place in reality, a pocket dimension, an extradimensional space in its own universe… or something else entirely. Mortals residing in physical reality itself are virtually unaware of the Alcove’s existence.
After the New Gods had killed the First God and had usurped the universe from its creator, they “carved out” the Alcove as their new domain using a particularly enormous Bone of the First God, a grand source of power to bend time and space to their will. The void itself appears mostly featureless, but their will and presence permeates all. Not even a Sword can escape the straining pressure when being in the Alcove, feeling the New Gods always writhe beyond the pale horizon - omniscient, omnipresent.
If the New Gods actually desire to give orders to their servants directly, the Black Eclipse looms in the “sky”, broadcasting a wordless will to their robotic servants.
A small piece introducing the Alcove, The Sword’s superior called The Hand, and the Black Eclipse for “Sanctum”.
It was a surprising back and forth to make this because this piece is more about purely introducing the concept of a mostly featureless secluded dimension with an omnipresent godly force inside of it, instead of making a very detailed scene drawing as usual. Drawing absolute sinister emptiness with purpose can be very weird.
More maximalist drawings for Sanctum again from here on out again.
get yourself a healthy dose of sinister chanting in an empty void
“To shed the body and go beyond soul - and to become pure undying will.”
The Alcove is a seemingly infinite negative space from which the New Gods they rule over the universe. It is a “place” beyond time with an unclear relation to physical reality from which The Swords are generated and sent out to carry out their duties. The Swords are in turn maintained and instructed by their superiors, The Hands, who primarily reside in the Alcove.
It is unclear, even to the Swords, if the Alcove is an actual faraway place in reality, a pocket dimension, an extradimensional space in its own universe… or something else entirely. Mortals residing in physical reality itself are virtually unaware of the Alcove’s existence.
After the New Gods had killed the First God and had usurped the universe from its creator, they “carved out” the Alcove as their new domain using a particularly enormous Bone of the First God, a grand source of power to bend time and space to their will. The void itself appears mostly featureless, but their will and presence permeates all. Not even a Sword can escape the straining pressure when being in the Alcove, feeling the New Gods always writhe beyond the pale horizon - omniscient, omnipresent.
If the New Gods actually desire to give orders to their servants directly, the Black Eclipse looms in the “sky”, broadcasting a wordless will to their robotic servants.
A small piece introducing the Alcove, The Sword’s superior called The Hand, and the Black Eclipse for “Sanctum”.
It was a surprising back and forth to make this because this piece is more about purely introducing the concept of a mostly featureless secluded dimension with an omnipresent godly force inside of it, instead of making a very detailed scene drawing as usual. Drawing absolute sinister emptiness with purpose can be very weird.
More maximalist drawings for Sanctum again from here on out again.
Category Artwork (Digital) / Scenery
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Size 1750 x 1353px
File Size 1.38 MB
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Thank you so much! I actually did put some effort into trying to aim for tonally consistent worldbuilding for this setting, so I'd not just wanna chuck nice visuals "out of context" at people. Even if writing isn't a grand strength of mine, I am always happy people enjoy the little snippets adding to the art that might drive the imagination just a little further.
Thank you! Just wanted to up the eerie aura to it all with a space that was just hauntingly void. The eclipse actually is a different take on what I originally had planned to put there as the New Gods' presence, but I think it stresses the formlessness of them quite well.
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