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This year I decided to do Smaugust, both to try and get more practice with drawing and to entertain myself. But while trying to figure out what prompt to use, I realized, I have 31 Embodiments.

For those who don’t know, Embodiments are a concept in my lore representing the primordial sources and personifications of cosmic forces. They’re sort of my lore’s equivalent to things like Chaos, Aether, Thanatos, Erebos, etc from Greek mythology. They aren’t just “the Gods of X,” they are X.

And every Embodiment, thanks to shenanigans that happen later on in my creation myth, has a Draconic Avatar.

This one here is Light, one of the oldest Embodiments in my lore. Light, along with its twin Dark, were the first to come from the Essence (the primordial magic soup). In terms of inspiration, I was inspired by the Gnostic Demiurge Yaldabaoth, described as a fiery serpent with a lion’s head (depicted in Homestuck as a serpent with a sun for a head, also seen in artwork of Yaldabaoth), and the Seraphim, a class of angels with six wings and described as fiery, also sometimes shown as snakes in modern retellings, thanks to Seraph also being a term for venomous snakes.

Description

This year I decided to do Smaugust, both to try and get more practice with drawing and to entertain myself. But while trying to figure out what prompt to use, I realized, I have 31 Embodiments.

For those who don’t know, Embodiments are a concept in my lore representing the primordial sources and personifications of cosmic forces. They’re sort of my lore’s equivalent to things like Chaos, Aether, Thanatos, Erebos, etc from Greek mythology. They aren’t just “the Gods of X,” they are X.

And every Embodiment, thanks to shenanigans that happen later on in my creation myth, has a Draconic Avatar.

This one here is Light, one of the oldest Embodiments in my lore. Light, along with its twin Dark, were the first to come from the Essence (the primordial magic soup). In terms of inspiration, I was inspired by the Gnostic Demiurge Yaldabaoth, described as a fiery serpent with a lion’s head (depicted in Homestuck as a serpent with a sun for a head, also seen in artwork of Yaldabaoth), and the Seraphim, a class of angels with six wings and described as fiery, also sometimes shown as snakes in modern retellings, thanks to Seraph also being a term for venomous snakes.