My first idea was to go for a simple Dark Souls fanart (and one of the best way to "git gud")! But i ended up doing something more personal (for some reasons). Not really happy with the result either. I wanted something dynamic, i did something way to exagerated to my taste (i still feel the beastman here is falling in this one and it bothers me on so many levels)... Will i redo it? "Hell no"!

[Edit] Did i fix the problem with basic manipulation tricks? (I really do hope so)...

Anyway, Day 4 : Dodge. The artwork features our good Dream Wanderer facing one of Incubo's Besticarius (from my "Chronicles Inked with Blood" webcomic)...

Day 27, Beast.

Honestly, i’m arriving to a point where the challenge becomes a bit “boring” (to say the truth). But we’re really close to the end : so, got to hang on!

For “Beast” prompt : a Besticarius from my “Chronicles Inked with Blood”! Besticarii are the mindless henchmen of their sleeping master (Incubo) : they would roam the land of that waking dream in search of any lost humans (or hunting ones). But some of them have a different purpose. Like this one : “the passer on the Rubicon river” (leading to a single Tower which importance is significant to the plot of my webcomic) : he also plays a more important part than it seems at first when he’ll appear in the tales of the Dream Wanderer (in a chapter yet to come)…

He shares a peculiar look (half man, half owl), and is very greedy! He wouldn’t necessarily attack humans tho : he’s kinda too weak for that (not harmless, just less suited for combat than his peers). Instead, he could even lead you gently to the other bank of the Rubicon (if you have anything of value, of course). If not, his distorted scream is loud enough to alert any guard on each banks from miles away!

It’s still possible to swim your way through somewhere else, but you’d have to leave behind any armor (if you don’t want to sink straight to the bottom of the river) : because there’s no other safe pass on foot anywhere near! That’s why Besticarii pay him so well in food to take them safely to one side from another.

But he’s no fool (and you are if you’d think he’s good hearted) : what he’ll make sure to keep for himself is even if he let you cross the river, you’d quickly get in trouble with any guards from the tower (down the same road). So what you’d pay him for safe passage is just bonus!

But the besticarii from that Dungeon are less seen around these parts lately. Some of them would occasionally brag that they’re having special guests “to dinner”…

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