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Summoner Saga - Behemoth
From the smallest creature I've drawn for the monster manual to one of the largest of summoner saga's! The behemoth has traits from various megafauna, including rhinos, hippos, bulls, and sauropods.
December 23, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Monster Manual - Brain Mole
"Small mole-like animals which inhabit most places above and below ground, brain moles are attracted by psionic activity of any sort - including magic spells which duplicate psionic effects."
December 22, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Monster Manual - Boar, Warthog
These tropical beasts are aggressive only if their territory is threatened or if cornered or threatened. They make two slashing attacks with their large tusks. Male and female fight equally.
December 15, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Summoner Saga - Ancient Serpent
These require some explaining. In the evolution Christianity, there was some ambiguity around the concept of Hell. One of its predecessors was the Abyss, or in Hebrew, Tehom. This was an unfathomable void which existed before the creation of the world. 1/
December 11, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Summoner Saga - Fallen Angel
These are angels which fell from heaven, crashing and burning before falling into the icy lakes of hell where their charred remains are never allowed to thaw and heal. Their hatred is strong enough to seep through the eternal ice to curse others.
December 10, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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.
December 9, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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.
December 9, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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.
December 8, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Summoner Saga - Baphomet
I combined the figure of Baphomet with all the Goetic demons (like Furfur and Stolas) for simplicity’s sake.
December 6, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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.
December 5, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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.
December 4, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Summoner Saga - Cubus
This fiend received their own bestiary entry not too long ago, so I won’t harp on them too much.
December 3, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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."
December 1, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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.
December 1, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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.
November 28, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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.
November 27, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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”.
November 26, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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.
November 26, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Summoner Saga - Cherubim
The design for the cherubim comes from the tetramorph, especially Eastern Orthodox depictions.
November 25, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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.
November 24, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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.
November 23, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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.
November 23, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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."
November 19, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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)."
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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."
October 28, 2025 at 1:15 AM