"For Want of Wings, I Cast Away My Skin"

The fires of war have spread through the Kishar system, burning for longer than anyone alive can remember.

Colossal fleshcrafted machines of war, pygmalions, are the hands by which the system is torn to pieces. With no apparent weaknesses besides the pilot inside of them, pygmalions provide incredible power at horrific cost.

From the tumult, a third front emerged. The dynasties of Kishar united, rising from the ashes of an apocalyptic catastrophe into an Empyrean Court and laying claim to the heritage of humanity. This marked the beginning of the Eternal Century.

With the Divine Solis Imperium and the Kreuzhafen Union of Autonomous Colonies showing no signs of breaking, the war could continue forever, a rapturous feast of blood on a scale incomprehensible to any single person.

Those with interests in ending the war grow tired. The time for drastic action draws near, dangling like a sword over the heads of those who would be kings. It is only a matter of time before the stalemate will be broken.

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“One day, when this whole mess comes to rest at the foot of the hill, all of my best efforts will be rewarded.”

OMEN/CONSTANCE III: Words in Echoes

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The term "holy gargouille" used in reference to cataphracts was largely a later Vedronian trend, but it remains in use to describe a particular style of Kalmeniçan armour (notably lighter than its earlier incarnation) that shows no sign of falling out of fashion in any region cold enough to warrant its use.

Curiously, the name "holy gargouille armour" seems to predate the gargouille-faced masks.

One likely explanation is that the masks emerged in an attempt to reconcile the name, now devoid of its original meaning several generations after the collapse of Greater Vedronia, with the appearance of the armour

Lending some credence to this theory, in the parlance of Inner Vedronia, no distinction was made between the word received as "gargouille" and the word for any other statue. The name might better have been translated as "shrine knight," which would bring it into parity with a common name for unlanded nobility in other former holdings of Vedronia

thank you! my main thing was actually painting, so it's been a process figuring out how exactly to translate that comfortably to digital

as for their body plan, that's more or less spot-on!

I've kinda flip-flopped on describing them as bats, monkeys, and moths, but I tend to imagine them being sinewy with lots of skin in the same way as cats. they have that stereotypical white fluff you'd expect of moths, usually massed up behind the neck like a mane, and they also kind of have spider monkey paws

they're also very "compressible" animals, for lack of a better word, so they can fit through small gaps and rotate their limbs (and head) almost entirely around

I almost included a silhouette body in that sketch, but I couldn't settle on a pose and stalled on it too long

A captive starveling vile will wither and perish in just under four hours without food. In the event they are provided with food, they will wither within two sunrises, seemingly from the stress of being unable to return to their nest with the carrion they've consumed.

Then, it can be understood the vile are unsuited for study in all but their natural habitat, a complex nest often composed of several thousand individuals and their preserved prey.

Because of the immense danger inherent to their observation, even the Praxics and the Scholars (who have both often expressed great interest in mitigating the spread of the vile or otherwise understanding their behaviour) consider the study of starveling vile to be entirely impractical by all currently available methods.

Attempts have been made to create captive nests of vile for study, but all that were not fruitless endeavours ended in disaster, as the size of a vile nest is seemingly proportional to the prey population it intends to consume.

A SEPTEMBER OF PALE MIRRORS: TEASER ONE

He took me by the hand and knitted his fingers through mine. I moved to embrace Pale Death as though a lover long apart. Stillness claimed the world, and though I wished it might be homecoming at last, I felt the atmospheric wind billowing through my hair.

Broken of arm but not of sword, my fire could not yet fall cold. This was a privilege denied to the breathing dead.

A September of Pale Mirrors: Flash Sale

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A SEPTEMBER OF PALE MIRRORS: BATCH ONE

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