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Seasonal Rituals for Worshippers of Incabulos, the God of Disease and Pestilence
One of my players was playing a priest/cleric of Incabulos and he was not sure what to do on his down time so I made up season Rituals for him!! Hope you can find them useful!
Farmer’s Tale: The priests of Incabulos must go out and make sure that some of the crops the farmers plant during this season never grow. They are expected to go out and vandalize the fields. Some do this by setting them on fire, poisoning the crops, or just uprooting all of the soil. When the plants begin to bud through the soil they must go and destroy a farmers field in their gods name.
Harvest’s Tale: Once every week, the farmers of the area must give 20 pounds of their food to the priest. If they don’t give it to the priest it then becomes the priests responsibility to go out and steal 20 lbs of food from their house.
Polar’s Tale: During this month disease and sickness should be spread. As the cold assaults everyone, they become more prone to getting sick. The priests are there to help spread disease in order to please their God. They must infect up to twelve people this month. If someone dies from the disease, then they need not try and get the twelve and only need the one.
Twilight’s Tale: When the sun sets and the three moon rises, this is when Incabulos rests. He ask that while he is resting, you give him prayers. Solitude for three days praying for incabulos, whispering the smallest of incantations. If done properly, you enter a trance where you experience his dreams. Most priests become fixated on one dream alone and when they exit the trance, they try and accomplish the arena they experienced in order to appease Incabulos when he awakes.
Bahamut’s Tale: When the sky’s begin to glow orange is when your God wants you to go out and recruit. Do this any way possible. Offer peasants housing before the firestorms start, make threats, steal children. Your God does not care how but he needs his influence spread. After all, most of his wishes are considered “evil” and illegal so he is in constant need of new worshippers.
Vishnash’s Tale: The season where fire rains down. Something your God prefers is for the sacrifice of a farmer. Doing this in his eyes puts you a head of the other priests. He does not make this a requirement for all priest s but in his unholy text it talks about setting a farmer aflame during this season in order to help the hunger spread. This is a very hard to pull off task though and Incabulos would rather not lose his followers to this one tiny crime.
this is so awkward because Pestilence seems to have come back out of retirement this year so now there is FIVE Horsemen and only FOUR Horses
The fifth horse has been LOOSE IN A HOSPITAL for the last 4 years.
Soon to fixed.
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THE FOUR HOURSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE
1. PESTILENCE
2. WAR/CONQUEST
3. FAMINE
4. DEATH+OMENS+
Dark Field Monotype [Full Bleed Print]
Ink on Paper, 16 x 22
2019
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Rise as the nightly scourge of a sanguine
people—Illusive as a ghostly stroke
across one’s cheek. Not a spring-heeled villain;
be that other sort of pestilence—smoke
smitten, unfettered, the Azalea Crypt
of quick caresses that makes flesh quiver.
I think of the moon bent; how cum once dripped
from your smile. A conked smile that grows fainter
in my mind as all memories grow faint
when you’re no longer haunted by a bent
figure pressed to the window. I know why
you’re gone. A scourge would need to be a saint
to slake my passions. For nightmares hellbent
on wet dreams I am where they go to die.
First drawing of 2020, the Year of the Rat… everything will be fine, right?
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Models of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (Mexico 1980 Linares Family) fly high at the British Museum- London England
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Pestilential AdventbyKeith Thompson.
Keith Thompson does a wonderful job of creating some of the most grotesque illustrations I have ever seen. Here, he depicts one of the Four Horsemen from the Bible, Pestilence. This piece inspires me quite a bit to be able to create something so unsettling and incorporating subtle nuances that many illustrations lack but are present here. He also uses a great color palette and character of line.
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Thinking about becoming evil so I can pull more bitches.
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It started with an Owl.
Then Bird Omens came to be a thing for me, and it swept me away for a month and a half. Nine mixed-media illustrations in total, made with Copic markers and specially pigmented metallic and pearlescent inks on 300gsm watercolour (rough, rendering on smooth side) paper to allow me to use a wet-on-wet technique for colour layering to mix, shade, highlight, or straight up perform witchcraft.
I feel like you can watch my art level up going through each one - all of them used new techniques or mediums for me, and I pushed myself to try whatever I felt I could make work.
I cannot thank my own ineffable dear Kyu enough for helping me with bird choices, and all of you seeing people comment along with retweet/reblog with fun tags has been really wonderful.
This particular series might be done but I have plans for a lot more illustration work, Good Omens inspired and otherwise. I hope everyone can enjoy me sharing more work in the future. It’s nice doing full illustrations again after 5 years of hiatus.
Individual entries in the series:
Aziraphale|Beelzebub & Gabriel|Crowley|Anathema & Newt|Michael, Uriel, & Sandalphon|Hastur, Ligur, & Dagon|Adam & The Them|Death & The Horsepeople |Madame Tracy & Shadwell
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The Riders of the Apocalypse
Next entry in my Bird Omens series, we have the horsepeople (or is it horsebird-people now?) of the Apocalypse: Death, Pestilence, Famine, and War. It was an extremely deliberate choice to have them all be birds of prey to counter the fact Adam & The Them are all pigeons in my Bird Omens series. There’s even small reflections of such when you view the pieces together: the crown for Pestilence is more ostentatious, Famine’s scales are tipped the other way, and the sword is on fire — but most of all, a scythe compared to an olive branch is pretty damning.
I knew out the gate I’d want Death to be a Harpy Eagle, they’re a stunning bird and the way their neck feathers actually work made for a nice pseudo-cowl for his skeletal face. Pestilence is a White Hawk, chosen for the spectacular way their wing tips look like they’ve been dunked in ink, which goes well with them as they are very goopy and spew vile things. Famine is a Black-Chested Buzzard Hawk, and of all the birds in the series he has the most unique beak — in that it’s not really a beak, just an assembly of teeth vaguely shaped like a beak; I made his face featherbald for this reason to better suit the visual. Lastly, War is our smallest but feistiest in the form of a Black Faced Hawk, complete with flaming sword; the black faced hawk has a very short tail, and this was my main reason for choosing that as her bird as it meant she could do her fancy sword tricks and not set herself on fire.
This one was a challenge to do, in a very good way, in that I pushed myself to try new things- be it with the colouring, or the fact that five years ago I had no idea how to draw wings even slightly proper and sort of just fudged them together. Death’s wings in particular were a challenge as the patterns on harpy eagles are so bold.
I also managed to kill my 110 Special Black after 12 years of service. Now its freshly refilled and even got a new chisel nib. I also killed my W0 Warm Grey working on Death. Somewhat ironic, that.
Just one to go: Shadwell & Madame Tracy, and then the entire ensemble can be put together!
(Also please enjoy the bonus photo of my cat, Cleocatra, ‘helping’ again since I saw some of y'all’s tags about her.)
Others in the series:
Aziraphale|Beelzebub & Gabriel|Crowley|Anathema & Newt|Michael, Uriel, & Sandalphon|Hastur, Ligur, & Dagon |Adam & The Them
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Some “domestic” Pest and Polly
“Imagine this, Chalky. In perhaps a few hundred years these psalms will reach millions of ears. My blood boils with excitment with the thought.”
“That’s just your boils talking. And where would you even get the chance to bore people with those, old man? No one is looking forward to hearing songs about death and disease during these times.”
“You underestimate me quite a lot. Besides, I won’t be around for much long anyway, it will eventually go away as well. It won’t be any fun simply winning in one move. I want to see the empires fall little by little.”
“So you want to continue Conquest’s job? Don’t shoot too high up into the sky, Copia.”
“I’m not. I have it all planned out. Once I cut my hair, I’m sailing out to Sweden to join this church.”
Won’t you run out of victims if you’re laying dormant in a church?“
"No need for concern. I’m never out of victims, Chalky. Go to sleep. I need to fix this last verse…”
Hazard
