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There's a city built around an ancient skeleton of an eldritch nightmare, some sort of giant serpent with many heads. They say the skeleton used to have metal armor, but back when metal was harder to come by it was stripped to make spearheads and armor.
The skeleton doesn't do much, and it acts as a natural fortification, so most people don't really question it. Some of the residents of the city, especially from the older and more secretive noble families, worship the skeleton as a spirit of the land. The local priests don't like that they do that, but it's not heresy as long as it's not considered more important then their gods.
Ancient myths have a lot of strange explanations for the skeleton, from it being a dragon that was struck down by the sun god and moon goddess. To it being a servent of the underworld worshiped by the people who lived in this land before its current residents. To it being a patron of the current people of the land, who died protecting them from an army of demons.
There are some residents who live within the bones because there's nowhere else in the city they can go. Foreigners, petty criminals, sex workers, people who've been disowned by their families. Their apartments and houses are in-between an uneven forest of strange an unknowable bones.
And sometimes, for the people who only the bones protect, the outcasts within the skeleton, an old ghost whispers to them, and an image of a many headed serpent in their minds. It calls for them to keep their spirits high and their blades sharp, when the city guards come stalking through the skeleton it calls for them to defend their honer, and when it comes time, it will call for revolution, and the bones many grow their skin again.
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devourer of falling stars
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Water Serpents II by Gustav Klimt (1907)
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Detail of “The Man of Sorrows” by Hans Memling, edited by Robin Isely.
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Leucistic Ball Python study.
Based on a leucistic morph breed.
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Don't underestimate me
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Apple of My Eye Part 2: La manzana
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Serpents in paintings
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Happy Year of The Dragon. Made a crystalline serpent type creature to celebrate.
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Andromeda by Arthur Rackham
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Late 16th to early 17th century bronze serpent, from Southern Germany or Northern Italy.
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Serpents in paintings
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the star catcher and the sun eater
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~ Serpent ornament.
Date: A.D. 1450–1532
Place of origin: Peru
Culture: Inca (?)
Medium: Cotton, camelid hair
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Piero di Cosimo
Italian, 1462-1522
Portrait of Simonetta Vespucci, 1490 (detail)
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lamia // 2
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