#tribus art

The titular BURNING SKELETON PRINCESS is next in line to become the incendiary monarch of the peaceful Bone Wastelands when her kingdom is suddenly attacked and overrun by horrifying beings of flesh. To repel the invaders, she must gather esoteric artifacts of power and seek out allies in other kingdoms–such as the young Lady High Necromancer of the Reanimation Nation. Will BURNING SKELETON PRINCESS succeed on their quest? Tune in next week!

i was sitting in chemistry lecture but instead of learning the chem i made up an entire fuckin children’s tv show. don’t be me

“Massive alterations of pressure are considered acceptable lethal force in warfare so long as the death of the enemy agent is instantaneous. A magician may artificially elevate environmental conditions to a hyperbaric state and then rapidly depressurize to 1 atm. The recommended parameters for this disparity are between 7-9 atm.”

–andolucian demiurgic warfare handbook

MY CHICK BAD

(sorry for the blood if anyone’s put off! D: ive tagged what i could–let me know if there’s anything else i should tag)

happy valentines day!

this is really anime whoops

decided to try out some lined styles! this one was inspired by awesome tumblr illustration artists like ginsengandhoney andjaymamon . it was really educational. c:

i decided to redesign nid’s head; now it’s all fat and stubby hehe. check out his sick guns

so what did you lose this time

This doesn’t read as well enough as I had hoped…I’ve been so artblocked. ):

AU: An ex-Mossad agent operating under the pseudonym of ‘Halja’ sets up a base of operations out in French Polynesia. Together with a handful of ex-special-forces mercenaries, she begins running guns up and down the Pacific.

haha, man, whenever i do AUs I never go for like, high school or coffeeshop ones unfortunately, i’m just like NOPE HORRIFIC ARMS DEALER AU LET’S GO. also i wish there was more action films starring rugged ladies haha

Excerpt from a 1960 encrypted file:

“Níðhöggr Ingebretsen was a Scandinavian-born tier 7 magician that served as acting lieutenant to an Andolucian covert operations cell based in Basilica, Haurent. The cell was lead by the infamous operative mage Lafayette Hajjar, and he was known informally by all relevant members as her second in command, carrying out numerous assassinations under her direction. Certain agents have posited that their relationship was more than professional, a claim that both Hajjar and her handler have denied. He served in her unit for approximately seven years.

On January 15th, 1959, Ingebretsen and Lafayette Hajjar were engaged by the tier 12 magician [NAME OMITTED] during a routine package drop outside the Andolucian embassy in Haurent. Both were grievously wounded during the battle by [NAME OMITTED], whose unprecedented ability to [REDACTED] enabled them to violently incapacitate both agents. The fight mainly took place upon the frozen lake surrounding the embassy, and as a result, the water was heavily contaminated by demons drawn up by the magical energy of the participants.

Analysts surmise that Ingebretsen fell through the rapidly thinning ice at some point during the engagement. Hajjar, who survived the battle, testified that they had become separated due to poor visibility from weather conditions on the battlefield. When finally relocated, she reports that he was found facedown, half in the water. Although alive, demons had visibly eaten away at roughly three-quarters of his body–during her debriefing, Hajjar described the damage as catastrophic and beyond medical help; they had burrowed into his chest cavity, adhered to large patches of exposed epidermis, and reportedly were forcing their way out of his left eye socket when she found him. 

Nonetheless, Ingebretsen was said to have recognized her, and although badly damaged, managed to communicate a request for a mercy kill. Hajjar reports that she took out her sidearm with the intention of shooting him in the head, but suffered a crisis of conscience and instead moved in pursuit of the fleeing [NAME OMITTED], leaving him on the ice. Ingebretsen’s body was subsequently never found–authorities arriving on scene in the immediate aftermath recovered several of his fingers and a number of teeth, but little else. It’s been presumed that he was dragged into the water by the accumulation of demons.

The Andolucian intelligence bureau officially lists Níðhöggr Ingebretsen as deceased, but like most of its drowned operatives, it holds out the hope that he will resurface as an amalgam in one of their regular-interval summonings and return to active duty.

Lafayette Hajjar reports that his last words to her as she held him on the ice were a barely coherent, "It hurts.”

“

“Amagician (also referred to as a mageorking) is an individual able to consciously shape and alter the physical and chemical properties of their environment through currently unknown mechanisms. Notably, this manipulation of parameters is confined to a spherical area centered on their person.

This range is popularly referred to as a kill radius due to the exclusive use of the term in both demiurgic and analog warfare, and its relative circumference varies from magician to magician, increasing with age. The kill radius of a magician grows at a rate constant and often unique to the individual, and has been found to increase with a proportion consistent with the Fibonacci integer series in mathematics.

The first magicians were born during 1930, and are thus referred to as the first generation mages. There was no precedence, genetic or otherwise, for their sudden appearance, and the births occurred worldwide at a relative frequency of 1/10,000 across all demographics.

Biologically, magicians appear virtually identical to normal human beings, save for the presence of a tapetum lucidum, typically found in nocturnal vertebrates, behind each retina. As a result, their eyes are highly reflective, and often bear noticeably decreased or vivid pigmentation. Unusually, the presence of this structure does not appear to have a notable effect, detrimental or otherwise, on the vision of the individual. Scientists hypothesize that this is due to the light-refracting properties of the radius surrounding a magician, which as a result is faintly visible to the naked eye.

The subsequent discovery of ‘magic’ prompted vast and sweeping changes to virtually all aspects of international society—from cultural norms to geopolitical borders. Governments felt threatened by the existence of magicians, but also immediately realized their destructive potential.

As a result, existing warfare and combat stratagems had to be massively retailored. Thus, World War II was the last of the so-called ‘complete analog’ wars, fought solely with technology (aside from a few scattered incidents involving child soldiers and the opportunists eager to take advantage of young first generation magicians).

The nature of the kill radius singlehandedly elevates the magician into becoming what is statistically speaking, the deadliest and most effective groundside unit on the modern battlefield. Entire units, if bunched closely together into standard attack formations, can be massacred in seconds if they are caught within the ‘reaping circle’ of a mage.

The kill radius is unaffected by physical boundaries such as walls or doors, making it an ideal choice for espionage and undetectable assassinations. As a result, although records are inconclusive and there was no officially documented body count, historians believe that the 1965-1972 portion of the Cold War marks one of the bloodiest periods of human history, and boasts the largest amount of mage-related deaths.

Magicians are considered to hold an absolute advantage over the environment within their radius. This control is limited only by the skill and precision of the individual. Typical strategy in warfare consists of capturing opposing troops (magician or otherwise) within this area. The magician may then utilize any means at their disposal to neutralize the enemy—typically by igniting the oxygen within the air or otherwise briefly making the space around them inhospitable through chemical means. Skilled combat mages are notorious for their creativity and unpredictability in executions—it is common for them to publicly display the horrifically mangled bodies as deterrence during wartime.

After use, the radius of a magician has been shown to leave a complex fractal ‘fingerprint,’ on whatever surface the magician happened to be standing on.  The residual image changes rapidly depending on the type of force the mage has exerted on their environment (alteration of gravity, manipulation of vectors), but they are not extremely dissimilar between individuals.

As a result, it was theorized that magicians utilize a branching subconscious language, similar to a programming code, to act on their surroundings. The effects of research in the 1950’s led to the invention of schematics: simplified two-dimensional representations of radial fingerprints.

When drawn out on flat surfaces, magicians may utilize them as functional kill radii, and perform the action specified by the schematic even when not in close proximity of the area. Scientists hypothesize that this is because it acts as a sort of conduit or circuit for the magician’s energy in the absence of a real radius.

Schematics provide mages with invaluable shortcuts for tasks that require surgical precision, such as most medical situations. To heal a wound, a magician must instigate rapid cell division in the affected area, a process that can result in the formation of deadly tumors if not done with complete concentration. To avoid that possibility, a schematic of a successful procedure may be used instead.

Less sophisticated schematics are also often used in combat in lieu of conventional explosives, able to be drawn under a bridge or truck and detonated when the magician is safely far away.

Most countries have adopted the Mauss-Crowley system of classification, which ranks magicians within a series of twelve tiers. The tier of a magician is decided mainly by their level of precision, or ability to interact with matter on increasingly specific levels. A tier 11 magician, for example, would be able to operate on the atomic level, while the theoretical tier 12 could manipulate events on a subatomic scale.

The twelfth tier may also be designated to mages that demonstrate intimacy with previously unprecedented aspects of reality—the infamous Edward Montblanc, for instance, was awarded the rank in 1953 for being able to interface with the time-space continuum.

Due to their relative rarity and low population, most militaries assign only one or two mages per essential squadron of human soldiers. Units that are composed completely of magicians are referred to as chapters, and are typically pulled for black ops, espionage, or other high-risk operations.

Magicians in the military are typically paid extremely generous salaries, but roughly two-thirds of it is withheld by the government until they reach retirement age (35). The likelihood of a combat mage to survive past the age of 25 is about 33.5%.”

Lafayette Hajjar is 32.

you could be the king but watch the queen conquer

firealpaca continues to show me, in excruciating detail, how much i can’t draw anything. lafayette and nidhoggr again. hopefully next few posts will be some worldbuilding/graphics explaining their story.

sorry i haven’t been around too much! i’m at college with my macbook, and I just got firealpaca. it is hard, and i miss SAI, but i will learn! :>

here’s nid again! sketched him for practice. i kind of want to do some worldbuilding pictures + explanation about this story. would people be interested?

quick picture of what kinds of hairstyles lafayette has had over time! i need to improve on a lot of things

i kind of want to do some worldbuilding next

nid: tests are in. character is thematically appropriate to depict w/ flower crown

things i do at 1 am, sorry

relationship status: call a fucking exorcist, kid

Amalgamated constructs and other forms of demonic wetware emit a low, ambient ‘purr’ that is said to sound like a modulated rainstorm. Some find it relaxing.

A select 9% of the population appear to perceive the noise differently, often describing it as akin to 'multiple human screams simultaneously.’

her parents lock her in her room, so she takes to summoning demons for company

big dipper big dipper big dipp er

a quick pic of lafayette! to be honest ive been struggling a lot with my work being Gray as Heck so I’m trying to actively change that now, among other things.

im thinking of doing some tiny comics about this story soon

but the rain won’t fall for the both of us

and the sun won’t shine on the both of us

tried to practice simple design