YES YES YES

It's tradition for the gods to claim the powerful souls of their fallen comrades to become more powerful themselves. Ornstein and Smough were raised in a culture of "I eat you I get big you eat me you get big!"

I wish it were Radagon because he gave the Haligtree a ton of Carian stuff in cut content but now the only Carians in the Haligtree are Loretta and the Albinaurics 😔

A lot of theories online seem to revolve around Nera / Neara from the Ulster Cycle so trying to read his tale as an allegory for DS2 (a hero leading an undead around to three different homes only for that undead to kill the residents... In a dream prophecy). Super interesting!

this is fantastic. I feel similarly. my method is always changing due to boredom. I feel like photos can't exactly do what I need and so I always end up overpainting or redrawing it all after kitbashing a first draft together.

Try with an iPad screen protector if your tablet is small enough

Best we got is uncle Havel having a disagreement with his uppity nephew

Love this! Quella has a lot of overlap with Miquella which seems intentional based on Dev timelines. Another note about "Nera," (love the Nero/Nix idea) it's actually a butterfly genus. Same as his rival, Doloma/Doroma/Nahr Alma! Red and blue butterflies for the red and blue phantoms!