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"The cave walls tremble with every step, a loud thumping felt from deep within the cave yet nothing seems to move. Tears and screams of anger, fury and rage fill the air but also a pain, almost suffering.A large chamber houses a large and fierce-some looking creature. Those who could bear the halls and survived long enough to get out tell stories about orbs. Small ember likes that come and go from the beast. They're however from fires within, their touch releasing the feelings of its origin.
This creature, not being the first to indicate a weird magic flowing too which makes some equines suspect a relation to the Keeper of the Wail, perhaps one of rage. They questioned whether this is an indication of more elements than just the legends of harmony. Wondering why it's a living thing to hold such energy.
Not all believe all words, wanting to see and experience things for them self. However the Keeper of the Rage is unfortunately not as easy to approach. Although it has not shown to move either because it's stuck or similar to the Wail, guarding something.
So far none dared to approach it within arms reach and thus none have managed to investigate closer."
Another Keeper discovered! What does this mean, what does the future hold?
Is there more than just the Elements of Harmony.
Decided to expand on my previous upload, 'Keeper of the Wail' fav.me/d79m71i
The idea behind them is there being a larger a spectrum of elements. Not just honesty, kindness, and such. There was already magic involving Love by Cadance and Chrysalis and who knows what Zecora and the Everfree are doing! So I took emotions/feelings and create some weird creatures to guard them, keep them, much like the tree of Harmony.
Sometimes it does end up with weird designs hehe. Kinda wanted to do some weird creatures again, I love being able to do just about anything with creatures, something that doesn't (exactly) look like anything existing. Did make some similarities in some regards, like the skin and it having a mouth, eyes, tongue, arms etc.
Anyhow, hope y'all enjoy this little weird creature (even though I said I needed more equine legends)
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Decided to play around with the premium content. I've put up my .psd workfile resized to the size of the image you see here which includes all layers I had at the end of this creation.
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Comments: 38
Lordoffantasy [2014-08-31 17:11:33 +0000 UTC]
considering a large part of mlp is abstract concepts and metahpors having actual essence, i really like this concept.
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Lordoffantasy [2014-03-24 01:40:06 +0000 UTC]
get technical the elements ARE from a living being. they are like fruit, of the Tree of Harmony, which is alive if crysalline.
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DevineArtistics [2014-03-20 23:54:31 +0000 UTC]
Has this fic bee written or are you making it as your go?
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AssasinMonkey In reply to DevineArtistics [2014-03-21 01:05:18 +0000 UTC]
I'm building this up on the go yes Creating it in the sense of a universe history/back story
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DevineArtistics In reply to AssasinMonkey [2014-03-22 11:13:15 +0000 UTC]
ok cool love the art for it btw :3
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MilitaryPoniesDA [2014-03-19 18:49:42 +0000 UTC]
This thing would be a great boss for a videogame...If they will ever make an action oriented MLP game (that I would play the shit out of), Can anyone relate?
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Lost-Our-Dreams [2014-03-17 21:59:02 +0000 UTC]
what are these things? o-o
I'm gonna have nightmares xD That is friggin scary. How do you come up with these creatures? ;o;
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AssasinMonkey In reply to Lost-Our-Dreams [2014-03-19 01:41:22 +0000 UTC]
XD I just kinda draw something at times, switch things around, add some thing, remove things. Basically a lot of playing around and looking at it, trying to think of what's possible or what might be interesting and just roll with it. Even if something might seem bad at first I'll probably just give it a try which can yield some interesting results
and of course having fun while doing all of that!
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Lost-Our-Dreams In reply to AssasinMonkey [2014-03-19 01:49:56 +0000 UTC]
But like, what made you draw strange new mlp creatures, like what are the keepers? it seems like everytime I see art from you in pony groups it involves crazy new creatures xD They're awesome though
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AssasinMonkey In reply to Lost-Our-Dreams [2014-03-19 05:45:41 +0000 UTC]
Ah like that, that's something I'll be trying to flesh out over time more and more.
At the moment the Keepers are kinda like what the Tree of Harmony is but then for other elements. That's the basic idea behind them and I just chose to make them beasts instead of trees
I was also thinking about the Changelings and Cadance, how they powered their magic through love, something that didn't seem part of the Elements of Harmony. So I took that as a hint towards there being possibly more elements and went on from there.
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Lost-Our-Dreams In reply to AssasinMonkey [2014-03-21 03:28:42 +0000 UTC]
oh cool
much creative
wow
lol
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AeliosZero [2014-03-15 05:30:50 +0000 UTC]
i love the stories you put behind all of these artworks!
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strengthofabutterfly [2014-03-14 02:31:20 +0000 UTC]
Frightening. Truly frightening, AM. 0_0
but well made, as always! X)
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CarolineSunset [2014-03-13 23:01:15 +0000 UTC]
how lovely... a spider, lizard, snake thingy, gah....
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AssasinMonkey In reply to CarolineSunset [2014-03-14 00:20:26 +0000 UTC]
Can't say I do, not really familiar with it either
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CarolineSunset In reply to AssasinMonkey [2014-03-14 03:07:21 +0000 UTC]
ok it just looks like one of the creatures from it but check it out it's a fun series (of written stories that is)
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TwilightIsMagic [2014-03-13 19:37:47 +0000 UTC]
Spider lizard, spider lizard, spider lizard does whatever a spider lizard can do when it's immobile!
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Shotgun-Butterfly [2014-03-13 11:46:08 +0000 UTC]
This is one of the most original monstrous creatures I've seen. Interested to see where you go with this series.
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Mokey1980s [2014-03-13 10:48:45 +0000 UTC]
This is going to sound a tad weird, but I love how you did the cave perspective. Gives it a grand feeling of the size and magnitude of it in relation to the creature, while maintaining the atmosphere of a "huge creature lurking below the earth". The lighting helps with that effect as well.
Overall I like
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AssasinMonkey In reply to Mokey1980s [2014-03-14 00:18:47 +0000 UTC]
Glad to hear that. I was quite focused on that scale since I didn't have to many size references in the piece I was relying on the atmosphere and cave itself.
Thanks
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AssasinMonkey In reply to Auroriia [2014-03-14 00:14:31 +0000 UTC]
No, these are just made up from scratch
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Dgs-Krieger [2014-03-13 06:47:24 +0000 UTC]
There is a large amount of 'nope' in this massive chameleon. Cool desing, though.
Is it loke rooted on the ground?
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AssasinMonkey In reply to Dgs-Krieger [2014-03-14 00:17:38 +0000 UTC]
eyup, it's kinda stuck there... or at least that's what they all think! Though I guess it's kinda badly stuck indeed, probably why it's raging XD
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Adidea [2014-03-13 05:50:45 +0000 UTC]
ooh, I really like the scaley texture on that... thing (little behind).
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