Smaugust Day 7: Matriarch [ 2023 ]

This is Askah, an extremely important Legendary to my own Pokemon world. It is Psychic/Dragon, and is part of the set of nine Legendaries known as Aeons. She and her counterpart, Zekamet, are the two strongest forces in this specific world I've created. Essentially, Legendaries like Arceus don't exist in this world, and Askah/Zekamet take their place as the ultimate gods.

Askah is meant to be a mother figure - representing the sun, light, and creation. This Pokemon's design may change in the future, as I'm not 100% sure if this is where I want it to go, and I don't think I did her as much justice as I did Lorelein. But I took inspiration specifically from Mew and wanted something simplistic, cute, and mysterious.

She lives in Solaris, a realm of eternal light located within the sun, and essentially one half of the afterlife. In spite of her benign appearance, her motives and morales are completely alien to normal Pokemon and other sapient lifeforms. The two primary Aeons act more akin to forces of nature, and do not truly have physical forms, being made of the fundamental elements primordial light and darkness respectively.

Askah created three of her own Aeon servants - Gevurah, Tiamartel, and Lorelein - to help restore the universe after a great calamity that led to the permanent extinction of humanity.

[Smaugust is an art challenge in August where one must draw one dragon a day.]