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ValhaHazred — Star Spawn Sketches
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Published: 2019-06-15 19:01:26 +0000 UTC; Views: 5711; Favourites: 175; Downloads: 0
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I think I've found the Star Spawn design I'll be using going forward.The Star Spawn are extradimensional lifeforms that manifest ectoplasmic bodies to interact with 3d space. The progression along the bottom is not age (despite me terming a stage as larvae) it's how far they've pressed into our reality. The Cthulhu is the most "present" Star spawn of a given colony and it is generally tasked with maintaining and defending the colony as it rests.
Edit: I should probably clarify, the Cthulhu is just his head. It would be mounted on the full star spawn body, I just didn't feel like drawing it again on a scratch page.
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It actually is called green in one line!
"Everyone listened, and everyone was listening still when It lumbered slobberingly into sight and gropingly squeezed Its gelatinous green immensity through the black doorway into the tainted outside air of that poison city of madness."
I completely agree Cthulhu isn't super described most people just assume Lovecraft's drawing of the sculpture is accurate to the real-deal.
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It's both a little cute and utterly terrifying at the same time lol! Looks good though.
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one question about eldritch things, since you once said that Cthugha is like natural "Matrioshka Brain", can there be even weirder eldritch galactic entities like natural "Black Hole Brains", "Galaxy Brains" or even "Boltzmann Brains"?, althrough for the last one i feel like a Boltzmann Brain eldritch entity is very hard to envision.
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My Hastur is a Black Hole Brain! (Partial credit to BassoeG for giving me the idea. I'd previously thought that the black holes powered Hastur before but they showed me that BHBs were a thing and I think that fits better)
Galaxy Brains? I hadn't thought of it before but I think it would be possible.
Boltzmann Brains? Actually quite common! There is a subtype of ghost with false memories that occasionally manifest in subspace. I don't know if that counts as "in a void" though, since they have the Akashic Record to draw from. Some of the other singular Great Old Ones are effectively this as well. They manifested from various forms of matter and energy without any form of conscious source. Actually I guess Azathoth himself did that, manifesting himself from a primordial sea of probability.
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Akashic Records.... what are these in Strange Aeons?, looks like they might be some astral information storage from the etheric plane, but there is already Yog-Sothoth...
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Consider it a part of Yog-Sothoth's anatomy. It's basically a way to access Yog's recorded information without directly interacting with its consciousness.
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...So if the body is made of "extoplasm", then any damage to it is actually inconsequential to the Cthulhu itself as long as the head is undamaged?
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Oops, typo. That's supposed to be ectoplasm!
Otherwise, yes. Attacking a Star Spawn's head is the only way to disperse it for any amount of time. Even then unless you can attack them in subspace at the same time they'll be able to pull it together eventually or just extrude a new body at R'lyeh.
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Everyone's loving the chonk!
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My main takeaway is to squee at how pudgy he is in the main image.
Is that weird?
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Nope! You do you my friend.
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Thank you.
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OMG, HE'S SO CHUBBY I WANT TO SQUEEEZE HIM!
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Nice! I really like the colorscheme you chose, as well as the multiple tails and the glowing headspot!
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