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Summoner Saga - Beelzebub
The king of the flies is a mostly faithful recreation of the Dictionnaire Infernal woodcut, because it is an iconic look. I decided to modify it a bit to make it more fly-like, as the original is more of a hymenopteran rather than a dipteran.

Summoner Saga - Malebranche
I decided to use the ambiguity of their appearance to draw them as the grotesque demons of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Human and animal parts all melded together in a mockery of creation.

Summoner Saga - Geryon
Dante’s version, not the Greek one. He’s kind of just a glorified boat. I wanted to explore the “monster of fraud” angle by making the rides not what they seem. Geryons stalk roads and cliffs, offering rides to passersby. Anyone gullible to accept is taken deeper into Hell.

Summoner Saga - Baphomet
I combined the figure of Baphomet with all the Goetic demons (like Furfur and Stolas) for simplicity’s sake.

Summoner Saga - Pluton
This is an original demon, representing greed. Babies demand food, sometimes at the detriment of their parents. Of course, babies don’t know what’s going on around them, but they’ll still cry for food regardless. It throws fits unless it is propitiated with gold.

Summoner Saga - Eurynomos
The big man depicted below is technically not Eurynomos. I’ve chosen to use the image of Charun, from Etruscan mythology, as the basis for my drawing.

Summoner Saga - Cubus
This fiend received their own bestiary entry not too long ago, so I won’t harp on them too much.

Monster Manual - Boar, Giant
"This prehistoric forerunner of the wild boar is also very aggressive. If 3 or more are encountered there is only a 25% chance that there will be young (2-6 hit dice, 1-4/2-5/2-7/2-8/3-12 hit points damage/attack) numbering from 1-4 of the total herd."

Summoner Saga - Imp
Now we move on to the diabolical side of the coin… Imps are tiny demons and that’s pretty much it. All three of these designs are based on figures from Hieronymus Bosch’s works.

Summoner Saga - Chalkydri
These celestial creatures only show up in the Second Book of Enoch where they live around the sun. Chalkydri are described as having the heads of crocodiles, lion feet, twelve wings, and a rainbow color.

Summoner Saga - Uraeus
This is one of two echo fighters for the seraph. The reason the uraeus is connected to the seraph is the ambiguity around that type of angelic being and snakes. The fiery flying serpent referred to as a seraph especially resembles the Egyptian symbol.

Oh is that why I get the urge to raise my hands every day?

Summoner Saga - Seraphim
The seraphs are another odd-ball. Almost every instance of the word “seraph” in the Tanakh is used to describe a snake. Only in the Book of Isaiah does it refer to celestial beings. It’s important to note that seraph simply means “burning”.

Summoner Saga - Ophanim
You know it, you love it, it's the ophanim. The celestial beings which started the whole “biblically accurate angels” meme are an outlier in almost all respects. Their appearance in Ezekiel's vision was probably meant to be metaphorical but it is undoubtedly a striking image.

Summoner Saga - Cherubim
The design for the cherubim comes from the tetramorph, especially Eastern Orthodox depictions.

Summoner Saga - Dominion
The idea is that they govern natural laws and the movement of heavenly bodies, so they have an astrological design motif. The angel’s body is an astrolabe which points between planets, with the humanoid portion of the angel being the astrolabe’s hands.

Summoner Saga - Principality, Power, Virtue
Principalities guide nations and kings, and so they carry a crown and scepter. Powers can restrain demons and other evil forces, so they have a book like an exorcist. Virtues control the elements, especially storms, and so they have an atmospheric theme.

Which is why I’ve decided to combine the first two, the angel and archangel, together, since these have already been done before.

In addition to the game-making stuff, I’ve been working on art for each creature as “sprites” for our online tabletop. Some of these are going to look familiar as the isometric exercises were the first iteration of this project.

Summoner’s Saga is a ttrpg game I’ve been making over the past half a year or so, the newest iteration of this (www.deviantart.com/dwoll/art/Cr...). The game is a hack of Pokeymanz by chronicdelusionist, but starring beings from folklore, mythology, religion, and fantasy.

Monster Manual - Boar
"The boar will fight for 2-5 melee rounds after reaching 0 to -6 hit points but dies immediately at -7 or greater damage."

Monster Manual - Blink Dog
"These brown and yellowish creatures are as intelligent as normal humans and have a fairly complex language consisting of barks, yaps, whines, and growls. They are also able to use a limited form of teleportation (the blink)."

Monster Manual - Black Pudding
"Its tiny mouths and saliva do 3-24 hit points of damage per melee round to exposed flesh. If the monster needs to dissolve wood in order to obtain food, it can eat away about a two inch thickness of wood equal in area to its diameter in 1 melee round."

Monster Manual - Beholder
"The beholder (eye tyrant, sphere of many eyes) is most frequently found underground, although it infrequently will lair in desolate wildernesses. The globular body of this monster is supported by levitation, and it floats slowly about as it wills."

Monster Manual - Beetle, Giant Water
"The giant water beetle is found only in fresh water of not less than 30' deep. As they are voracious eaters, they prey upon virtually any form of animal but will eat almost anything. Slow and ponderous on land, they move very quickly in water."

because this species of beetle barely eat as adults. They only live a week or so to mate and then die. And the larvae eat rotting wood, not grains.

Monster Manual - Beetle, Giant Stag
Here I would include a quote from the text, but unfortunately the information presented in the Monster Manual about giant stag beetles (Lucanus elaphus) is incorrect. They're neither grain eaters nor attack creatures because they consider them food,

Monster Manual - Beetle, Giant Rhinoceros
"This uncommon monster inhabits tropical and subtropical jungles. They roam these regions searching for fruits and vegetation, crushing anything in their paths."

My current WIP: one big beetle boi. This is basically the last step before line-art and color, I don't do many sketches

Quote with your current WIP, continue the chain, lest the ouroboros die here!

Monster Manual - Beetle, Giant Fire
"Fire beetles have two glands above their eyes and one near the back of their abdomen which give off a red glow. For this reason they are highly prized by miners and adventurers,"