Am I a bit late for this one? (Yes, i’m a bit late for this one)!

Day 14, Castle!

To be fair, i have quite a few keeps to choose from, in the lore of my different stories so far (in order to illustrate today’s prompt). So, have a Keep of the Guardian clouds domain (up on its Blood Fall) from my “Chronicles Inked with Blood” Webcomic Series.

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”…

Day 23, Celestial.

I hadn’t much time today, and i got a bit carried away by all the managing of my Society6 shop too, so I was afraid I’d rush today’s prompt. But in fact, I got pretty close to the idea i had basically. So, I’m quite satisfied of the result in the end : i think it turned out really neat!

It’s supposed to represent a Stone Angel (from the lore of my “Chronicles Inked With Blood” webcomic series). As he’s technically an elder, he still lacks a pair of wings (that I simply forgot to draw) : normally, he got two pair of those broken stone wings! But his skin and armor are still made of nearly indestructible minerals, so he’s quite impervious to any kind of damage. Few have managed to kill even only one of these celestial beings (one who actually did being Oriflamme, the Maiden of the Void).

How?! It’s still a mystery : but she got the armor of the one she managed to defeat, as well as her third eye in the process (right after the sight of the face of the angel left without his helmet blinded her)…