Where whims and dreams blend into reality...
Recently I just realised that I'd literally NEVER done coloured pictures of any mystery beings except the Insulator and the Eventuator. So I decided to fix that.
From top to bottom: Instigator, Nebuliser, Synergiser, Observers, Ostentator, Conductor, Postulator, and an attempt to make a default colour scheme for hexarts.
My grandma’s electric piano has a Conductor face. :p
Blender just does not know how to build a stellated icosahedron, does it? XD
This is going to be a Chaoswork Chimaera, one of my newer mystery beings.
A quick drawing on my tablet of a new form for the Observer, before I go take a much-needed shower.
I got the idea when I saw those realised ghostswords a few minutes ago. It made me think about the Observers for some reason and then I imagined the two different forms fusing together into a kind of “grand alpha” form. I now imagine that every group of Observers probably has one.
An attempt to design the "Alfagransza" and "Zfetagransza" forms ("granszata") for the Observer.
The idea is that though Observers, like other mystery beings, are biologically asexual and don't really even know what gender is, they do tend to form pairs in which one tends to be dominant and the other tends to be submissive, and occasionally they switch roles, also switching forms as they do so. Sometimes, when a pair has especially good unity they can literally fuse their bodies into one and become a powered-up Alfagransza or Zfetagransza (which, again, can alternate between the two forms at any time, except it doesn't really "take orders from anyone" to do so).
I haven't really worked out the significance of this yet but I'm leaning toward them being leader/protector figures. I'm also leaning toward every population of Observers having them though not sure whether that means one or one of each.
And the granszata! I don't think there's much more to say about them than I said in the blockquotes.
And... I guess this counts? It's from a dream I had, in which "Hughes" was my pet, but it wasn't the actual character, just a bird I'd named that. Oddly, though, I thought it was him, and thought it should be able to talk, but then I realised, nope, it wasn't, and was completely disappointed with it for not being a talking Corvus albus. (Talk about high expectations.)
So... finally, Nassak and Pantéras! After you've repeatedly seen me post random things about them, finally you have some idea what they look like.
I think the theme of this page turned into "people with darkish skin and weird noses" halfway through... first you have Nassak, obviously, but then I decided the queen should have slightly brownish skin and a weird nose too. And then, because she had darkish skin and a weird nose, Pantéras ended up with them too. Though the weird nose looks less ugly on Pantéras and that was half-intentional.
(I kind of don't like the name Ravenna but it was just what randomly popped into my head and I can't think of anything else. XD)
By the way, the "ad" in her name means "to". They have this system in Fulvopardia where they don't care what gender the monarch is, and if you are somehow audacious and Willful enough to worm your way up to the unmarried monarch and have them accept you, you can marry them and become "ad-Volitio". (I can only guess a bunch of people have failed and a handful have just been killed through the years and different reigns though, so it's kind of scary. :p) Then, both monarchs have about equal status though the second one nominally is less important and gets less say in things; of course, they can and usually do power through that "limitation" to the point it practically doesn't exist. This is the monarchy of Will after all.
I am guessing this has probably saved the monarchy since they don't have anywhere near as much in the way of inbreeding problems.
And... that's it. Wow. For some reason I didn't have a lot of scraps this past month and a half, I guess because a bunch of them got merged into other posts. Well, see you next time.
I had to make a diagram of the mystery beings' various sensors, because not even I could get them all straight. :P
As you'll notice, many of them can see in either infrared or ultraviolet, and the extra-special Instigator can see both. All of them also have a strange extra sense, which practically nobody in-universe knows the exact purpose or mechanics of (or at least, practically nobody outside the mysterious Borderlands; it's unknown how many people live inside them, if any). This sense is a little weaker in the Instigator than most, nearly absent in the Ostentator, a little better than most in the Conductor, and very strong in the Postulator, which seems to be able to use it in place of sight.
(I said Postulators don't usually echolocate before, but now that I think about it, I can actually see them using sound/radio waves in conjunction with this sense a lot, so that is probably no longer canon.)
There are a lot more mysterious beings coming up, I can tell you that. For now though, I just have two more.
Conductors are vaguely dragon-like floating beings which almost always carry a baton. Incredibly proud and domineering, they almost always have an idea of what everybody else should be doing, which they will often very emphatically try to "hint" at by moving their hands and batons. When they are being particularly expressive, the stripes and spots on their tails may randomly cycle backward at varying speeds. Insulators often hate them for their pushy, rather egoistic nature.
Instigators are restless, mischievous beings that like to stir everybody up. They are not necessarily bad, but they do get bored easily, and as such have a bit of a reputation for spreading lies, playing pranks, and otherwise being sneaky and causing trouble just because they have nothing better to do. Their tail ornament can act as a beacon and make a number of strange sounds, and their tongues, which are literally both sharp and silvery, are effective at hypnotising others to do their bidding. It's common to see them form small bands with others (Instigators or otherwise) to accomplish some kind of secret personal objective that's completely mysterious to everyone else.
(Cockatiels, of course, have nothing to do with Instigators. That's just something else I drew that happened to be on the page before that, and I didn't want to let the rest of the page go to waste.)