Aug 13, 2016

Evening adventurers,

It’s not very good one, I’m feeling sick with cold sweats and fuzzy head (probably something to do with the painkillers) Slept a lot and had disturbing dreams and plenty of sleep paralysis. Brrh..!

Here’s a wip of the Arachnos portrait. (I was very tempted to just throw here wiki image of a spider but I’m not that horrible for my arachnofobic pals.) In a previous update I told you that Helene would follow but then decided to do this in the order of appearance. 

Arachnos is an interesting character. The lore on djinn is pretty vague. But I really do want to go with the djinni rather than the westernized genie (don’t worry he’s going to look a lot less from Alladin when I’m done). He doesn’t live in a bottle, and doesn’t do wishes he doesn’t want to fulfill. He hails from his own realm which has their own systems of power and all, which really does make Arachnos an interesting character on its own. Add his personality and motivations to that, we have  a wonderful mess. If some of you know about the djinn class system from marid to jann, Arachnos is in the ifirit-shaitan fork. For Christians, the shaitan are different from the Bible super villain so no jumps from there. Keep reading the good book (both yours, and yours truly *wonk*) Ahaha, not really funny, I’m sorry, had a difficult youth- BOY I’m too chatty.

At first the design was nude. Nothing to censor there anyways as this form ends on the hips, but nevertheless I felt like it was objectification of the only so far appeared mostly masculine character - not cool (Apart from Apollo who hasn’t shown himself and Pegasus, who is a horse with wings and magical hooves... Pegasus is cool, just stay away from Loki.)  

Originally the name Arachnos is from a myth about a mortal who fell in love with the wrong goddess and got turned into a spider. If anyone has knowledge of that myth, please share, I haven’t found the site since 2012.

Sleep tight, good night, and thank you!

-H.A.