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So I've been messing around with Heroforge a lot, lately, and I was wondering if any of y'all enjoy it too!
I'm not very good at art, but boy howdy can I work this well! Lemme know if anyone would like to see the Gaia concepts I've made in Heroforge!

I've been trying to get back into the swing of creation, so here's some concept art for The Umbra!
They're a Fae-born species whos ancestors were the detached shadows of True Fae. They have culturally developed a ritual which allows them a second form that isn't a three dimensional shadow, and when not in these forms can take a myriad of shapes- from commonplace animals like cats, dogs, and foxes- all the way to fully fleshed identities that share species, culture, and habitation with the other species of the area.

Hope you like them! I had a couple concepts I was unhappy with before I went with the faceless shadow person design, but any input is appreciated!

A little nameless draconid village I've been doodling on before bed!
I'm not the best at art, but one day I hope to make my conceptual pieces good enough for actual artists to work on it.

"Gaia is our Supreme Goddess, and she is the very ground walked upon, that which the ocean rests, and she who holds the flame. Although Our Mother Gaia is eternal, and we must care for her so she may care for us, even she was born of someone.

Long before Zephyr and their brother Animas, and even before her brother, Flucas- Gaia was born to The Matriarch. A dark and otherworldly thing, it bore Gaia from a thought and she crawled from the void to rest in the cold darkness, where even now she lay. Unfortunately for Mother Gaia, The Matriarch was anything but nurturing.

In the cold void of The Matriarch's home, Gaia wept for she was alone. She wept and wailed until her tears filled the secret places of the world. The Matriarch could not understand the emotion Gaia felt in her loneliness, but brought the same life it gave Gaia to the tears she'd shed: calling him Flucas.

For a time, Flucas and Gaia played amongst themselves, and peace was had in their darkened home. Until the novel of light came to visit.

Astride his steed Lumio and wielding the coveted iron of the cosmos in the form of Fabri, Animas arrived along with his sibling, Zephyr. The two were at first painful to look upon, drawing the ire of The Matriarch and its children, but Animas arrived to their home in peace. He'd grown lonely in the vast universe, and grew tired of the same tasks of bringing light to the removed places; similar to Gaia's role as the lone confidant to The Matriarch and Flucas.

Animas and Gaia soon were wed, and she yet blushes with green from the ceremony. Flucas and Zephyr even were entangled, and we still see the result in the clouds. Eventually, Gaia and Animas had children together- two daughters called Stella and June- and the rage of The Matriarch was felt throughout the cosmos. Gaia herself trembled at the sight, but Animas was capable, he was bold, and he'd had visions of this moment.

Animas was swift to mount his steed and ride to battle against his bride's mother. He knew that her death would result in his greatest creation: one that would impress upon Gaia his need for change without the sacrifice of divinity. He'd had visions of The Prime Element, and nothing would stand in the way of progress.

The Matriarch fought him well, nearly snuffing out Lumio and leaving Gaia in darkness once more, but the nebulous Matriarch was no match for the dense and powerful Fabri. With each strike of Animas' hammer, he revealed the truth hidden by the Matriarch: that this realm was a realm of light! of good! The evidence is above your heads in the night sky, when Lumio goes to stable and the stars yet show the true-world: behind The Matriarch's walls."

The story of The Prime Element and the arrival of Mortals will be told another day. The creation myth is something I like to tell in the character of an old storyteller lol.