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Published: 2017-10-04 06:57:18 +0000 UTC; Views: 4380; Favourites: 210; Downloads: 17
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A dragon passes unusually low over a jungle, while the locals are watching, as it's something seen once in a lifetime, if at all. The dragon is known as Old Red, said to be the biggest individual, as well as the one most involved with mortal life, following its progress since it first assembled into multicellular forms.This picture was done almost exclusively in stream and took forever.
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says eldritch abomination more than dragon to me. still cool though :3
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That's because the dragons in this setting are eldritch abominations.
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Muito bom o cenΓ‘rio me lembra gatilho Chrono
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I love both the illustration and the story behind it
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I did way more for this particular setting, if you are interested. Albeit, only three of the images I did deal with dragons.
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So it's a concept/story you're working on? Cool!
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dragon? well... XD way to break all the conventions though! it's actually cool!
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Not all, as those dragons still have a snake-like shape.
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I don't know about that, aside from being long, the other features make it look more like an overgrown floating worm rather than a snake
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You could also say a snake looks like a worm, but yes. Lomani dragons look for the most part like polychaete worms, mostly because those worms look pretty crazy themselves with all those pseudopodia, antennae, gills and jaws.
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I definitely get where you're coming from, some of those critters could be legit nightmare fuel if they grew larger
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Bobbit worms might be the prime example.
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I love the perspective on this, the sense of scale is executed really well.
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Good that you see it as that, as I felt the scale is wonky.
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The only thing I don't like about it is that the tentacles curls make them look like they're all weird lengths, not really apparent though.
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Myes, there's some foreshortening involved.
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Tentacles are the hardest long waggling objects to draw.
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That's um... a unique design for a dragon. It is actually really interesting, how did you even come up with the idea?Β
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I don't remember how I arrived at making the dragons of this setting into what they are now, but I'm pretty sure the rather unconventional designs of the dragons in Breath of Fire 4 were the starting point of making less conventional dragon designs.
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Interesting. I'm really a sucker for all of these unconventional designs.Β Β
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In that case, I would recommend the mentioned game. It's old, but the dragon designs there were rather eye-opening about how crazy one can make a creature and still call it a dragon. Here's an example, and it's not the weirdest: i.neoseeker.com/ca/breathoffirβ¦
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Are those green spots along Old Red's tentacles eyes? And I'm guessing the little winged shapes are fairies of some sort?
Given how long this guy has to have been around to predate multicellular life, I'm guessing dragon-mortal interaction probably works more along the lines of a dragon interacting with a whole species or ecosystem than anything else. To something that long-lived, it looks to me like the lifespan of even a family line or nation is going to be barely a blip. Unless they experience time in a fundamentally different way than we do, I don't know.
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Yes. yes and yes. The fairies in particular are sylphs, which are often seen following along dragons.
Dragons are as old as mortal life itself. Loma works on the basis of panspermia, with gods seeding spores on planets they deem habitable and the dragons are fragments of their bodies left behind on the worlds they visit. Accordingly, dragons are rather following evolution of species and ecosystems rather than individuals.
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That makes sense. How does it work from the other end? I mean, how do mortal cultures see dragons?
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It varies. Sylphs obviously have the closest contact to actual dragons, with eldritch races being able to telepathically communicate with dragons if they are nearby. Others usually see dragons as actual gods or as devils, as messengers of the gods, spirit guides, manifestations of elements and so on or even doubt their existence.
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Indeed the artist really put in the effort and it shows
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