Vrock_Summoner
2018-05-02, 01:09 PM
If you’re a player in my Digimon - Digital Adventure game, please don’t read, major spoilers ahead.
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So there are a tripartite of divine/cosmic entities in my world:
The “Force of Order,” King Drasil, a former human powered by the positive emotional “cores” of every Digimon in the world, who in ancient times turned his consciousness and power into the world tree Yggdrasil to keep the Digital World (main setting) and Dark Ocean (world of viruses and darkness) sealed apart from one another, leaving only his comatose body on the throne of the kingdom he established;
The “Force of Destruction,” Digital Biohazard, the culminated manifestation of all of the power in the negative emotional “cores” of every Digimon, corrupted many Digimon to create the first Viruses, currently split into seven pieces (the Seven Great Demon Lords) and sealed within the Dark Ocean;
And the “Force of Harmony,” Homeostasis, the extremely reclusive original deity of the digital world who manipulates things behind the scenes to maintain balance, only directly interfering in very dire circumstances.
Now, I’m not really here to discuss the “who” of these gods; I’ll make a post in World-Building for that. I just said all that to provide context on their roles in order to inspire suitable visual manifestations. Instead, I’m here to handle the kind of thing people in the art threads here have shown me they’re good at: aesthetics.
See, while I’m happy with these entities conceptually, I’m not so much happy with what I imagine them looking like. At this point, my ideas are quite unoriginal and decidedly unimpressive, and I want to think of ways to change that.
Like, Yggdrasil is a towering glowing tree with hypnotic/blurry swaying branches, Drasil himself is literally just a guy, the Digital Biohazard is a horizon-defying floating symbol surrounded by reality glitching, and Homeostasis is the closest thing to really divine-looking I’ve come up with, as a sentient golden aura spread across the expansive sky that wills magic and objects into reality just by speaking of them in its native tongue.
I don’t want to make them too ethereal or conceptual because this is the sort of setting where the players and NPCs are able (and likely) to eventually fight the gods. But I still feel like I should be able to do better than this, on all accounts.
So I come to you guys. Any genius ideas?
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So there are a tripartite of divine/cosmic entities in my world:
The “Force of Order,” King Drasil, a former human powered by the positive emotional “cores” of every Digimon in the world, who in ancient times turned his consciousness and power into the world tree Yggdrasil to keep the Digital World (main setting) and Dark Ocean (world of viruses and darkness) sealed apart from one another, leaving only his comatose body on the throne of the kingdom he established;
The “Force of Destruction,” Digital Biohazard, the culminated manifestation of all of the power in the negative emotional “cores” of every Digimon, corrupted many Digimon to create the first Viruses, currently split into seven pieces (the Seven Great Demon Lords) and sealed within the Dark Ocean;
And the “Force of Harmony,” Homeostasis, the extremely reclusive original deity of the digital world who manipulates things behind the scenes to maintain balance, only directly interfering in very dire circumstances.
Now, I’m not really here to discuss the “who” of these gods; I’ll make a post in World-Building for that. I just said all that to provide context on their roles in order to inspire suitable visual manifestations. Instead, I’m here to handle the kind of thing people in the art threads here have shown me they’re good at: aesthetics.
See, while I’m happy with these entities conceptually, I’m not so much happy with what I imagine them looking like. At this point, my ideas are quite unoriginal and decidedly unimpressive, and I want to think of ways to change that.
Like, Yggdrasil is a towering glowing tree with hypnotic/blurry swaying branches, Drasil himself is literally just a guy, the Digital Biohazard is a horizon-defying floating symbol surrounded by reality glitching, and Homeostasis is the closest thing to really divine-looking I’ve come up with, as a sentient golden aura spread across the expansive sky that wills magic and objects into reality just by speaking of them in its native tongue.
I don’t want to make them too ethereal or conceptual because this is the sort of setting where the players and NPCs are able (and likely) to eventually fight the gods. But I still feel like I should be able to do better than this, on all accounts.
So I come to you guys. Any genius ideas?