Twisted Tragedies

One day, as it goes, a youngling entered the cave on an elder. This cave, like others that the...

liefullyloki — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 13:54:39 -0700

One day, as it goes, a youngling entered the cave on an elder. This cave, like others that the...

I found a sketch of Azrael, one of my favorite OCs. Actually, it was a doodle in my notes for my...

knossus — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 22:26:51 -0800

I found a sketch of Azrael, one of my favorite OCs. Actually, it was a doodle in my notes for my...

A Very Rare Occurrence

knossus — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 12:57:16 -0700

This is my concept sketch for a new character of mine. Her name is Adela. I am working on a project...

Anomalies Universe Loki (NO AFFILIATION TO MARVEL.)

knossus — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 12:19:30 -0700

Since I am always on my Marvel Loki blog and have horribly abandoning my personal blogs, I think...

One day after speaking with Maya at lunch, I was on my way to my...

knossus — Thu, 03 May 2012 19:03:00 -0700

One day after speaking with Maya at lunch, I was on my way to my office when I saw him. The first thing I noticed was the fact that Xencronians and some of the older Reborns moved to the sides of the hall as he walked through in the center. He was dragging his feet as if he had burned a great deal of energy and was simply exhausted yet his destination was more important to him than rest. Then I realized much of his right side was bleeding profusely, his blood stained the majority of his navy blue outfit. When I noticed what outfit he was wearing, I too shuffled to the side of the hall, making sure to get out of his way. His arm was slumped to his side, blood dripping from his finger tips. He left a small trail of blood drops behind as he moved through the hall.

Anomalies Vocabulary (Some)

knossus — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:48:00 -0700

Astral Empathy: The ability to sense spirits or astral bodies in the astral plane when one is on the...

Panadagea

knossus — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:30:38 -0700

Planet's Name: Panadagea Name by the Indigenous: Panadagea; the indigenous are within communication...

Planets in Anomalies

knossus — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 02:51:00 -0700

Things are always subject to change! Agrea: Lust's world of residence, homeworld of succubi,...

This entry was started March 5th, and was tweaked on for several...

knossus — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 21:37:00 -0700

This entry was started March 5th, and was tweaked on for several days, then got so long that I debated what to do about it for a while, but now I’ve decided I’m only going to point part of what I wrote. The part I’m excluding is full details on the dream I had that spawned all of this, but everything will be the same as it was written around the time of March 5th, where everything was a new idea that I was debating on including to Anomalies or not, which I have since then decided it’s worth including into my series.

So this entry’s going to be a pretty long one, I apologize for anyone who doesn’t care to read into eternity. And I also apologize for the tiny text. If it bugs you, you could change the Zoom settings for your text. (I know for Firefox, you hit “CTRL” + “+” or “-” to change zoom.) I don’t have very many pictures to relate to it either as I like to keep my posts strictly about my own art and not bring in reference material or stuff I didn’t create, though there are some reference pictures that could’ve been added to this. The picture above is my attempt to draw a character I named “Ig.”

I might introduce the concept of a troll in Anomalies. I’m not quite sure. I had a dream about a troll and a fairy that was kind of strange but interesting (that I’ll talk about in further detail). I should draw the complex compound that was a central stage of the beginning half of the dream. It had at least five levels, but the levels were half-way high from the level below because the complex had a strong divide with a center isle of glass that allowed you to see the ceiling of the lower floor and the floor of upper floor from the opposite half of the compound. It included an elaborate aquarium-like wall with a complex maze of ramps and there was a couple zoo-style exhibits of reptiles and also had a large gallery area where beings could view art. I remember at the beginning of the dream there was a school field trip and the building gave off an air about it that it was a luxurious university. The basement levels of the compound looked like a training section that I’d imagine ROTC or soldiers in training would train. Though the entire compound was a complex maze designed to confuse any and all who are new and unfamiliar to it. The compound was built into a steep hillside. The top floor was just below ground level of the top of the hill and the basement level was inside the hillside but was level with the bottom of the hillside. The bottom of the hillside was also a dark and spooky forest.

This forest was where the characters of my dream emerged. Three fae (fairies) females were wandering aimlessly in the forest when they stumbled upon a rest stop collection of trolls and overheard some plans the trolls had for the fae city (the fae called their city a polis). Trolls and fae have been entangled in a large war for thousands of years, according to this dream. Their war started over the differences of each species, one was called intelligent but weak (fae) and the other was called brute idiotic strength (trolls) and both descriptions of each were insulting enough to start a war about. The fae looked similar to my fae drawings, long pointed ears similar to fish fins and markings around their chins, jaws, and some around the arms and legs (much more minuscule than the markings of a Zhigufae) and they tend to be blue or cyan skinned (although there was a noticeable few that had pale human flesh tones) with more teal or green-like markings. They normally have long hair and are very lanky and tall (a lot like the Zhigufae, which makes sense as the Zhigufae is more like a specific fairy whose homeworld is Caeda). Based from the dream, blond hair was not a typical trait for these fae, they all tended to have brown, red, or black hair. It was common for these fae to have colored sclera that was either yellow, whte, black, and sometimes cyan or red. Their iris color depended on their sclera color. These fae (and the trolls, for that matter) lived on Envy’s planet, which is a planet, for the most part, that is under-developed.

Trolls were much uglier in appearance to the fae. Both species have a strong divide on the concept of beauty. The fae’s concept of ideal would be tall, lanky, light-weight, and very intelligent (either gender). The trolls, on the other hand, valued stockiness and physical strength though for the most part they don’t place a whole lot of importance on physical appearances. Domestic skills are also something the trolls place importance on. Trolls also place a great deal of importance on craftiness and inventiveness. Smiths and welders are among the highest of the troll society as they see it as a sign of independence and independence grants more freedom. It’s different for the fae, the idea of using your hands of any type of physical labor represents poorness in their culture. While fae pride their soft skin, the trolls pride their rough almost impenetrable skin. Most long-range weapons do not puncture their flesh. Trolls in the dream had ears similar to the fae, though more thick and leathery in appearance. Their noses varied a great deal, from big to small, pointy to round. Trolls tend to have a lot of warts (some warts even have thick noticeable hairs growing from them). Their hair is thick, fuzzy and appeared coil-like. For the most part, they appear to have unruly hair. They also have excessive amounts of hair on the rest of their body, so much so that fae liken them to dogs, bears, and other furry beasts.

The trolls I saw in my dream were a lot different from my original concept for a troll, which looked like this:

(On a side note, their furriness reminds me a lot of my character, The Wolf, from Relridia, and also a little bit of Diego from Anomalies.)

Despite having thick skin, trolls prefer to wear layers of clothing. Their fabric is typically made of wool and other sheared furs of animals. They also wear animals skins of the animals they’ve hunted and killed and use leather for their boots and footwear. Wool-like fabrics do not appear to irritate trolls at all. They tend to wear dark earthy colors, although they’re fond of red and sometimes had off-white colors. Males tend to adorn themselves with accessories such as feathers, precious gems, and bones, along with some metal jewelry as well. They do not concern themselves when clothes rip or get worn out, they most commonly have stitches everywhere, some lighter clothing have noticeable burns or scratches. White is more typical among fae, who wear long robes and gowns of very finely made fabrics similar to silk or satin and lace (both genders). They also wear light purples, yellows, cyans, and grays. There’s not much distinction between male and female dress codes in both the fashions of trolls and fae. Although, fae females tend to adorn themselves in jewelry and decorate their hair whereas males will normally go as far as wearing large bracelets and sometimes earrings. Trolls don’t wear make up or wash their hair very often, although they do take baths and take care of their teeth (contrary to the rumors by fae that they never do). Fae practice good hygiene, wash their hair and wear make up nearly every day (sometimes more than once in a single day), especially when going out in public.

Both cultures practice arranged marriages but in different contexts. For trolls, arranged marriages were more just to procreate and continue family traditions. They don’t often attach emotion to very much and don’t get caught up in feelings of love so often times a troll’s family has to arrange the troll’s marriage. A troll becomes a “spinster” by the time they reach the age of “50” or “60,” (although in the dream, the sense was given that trolls live twice or three times longer than an average human, and the same goes for fae) depending on their physical health, but anytime before that there is normally no sense in rushing to marriage. Fae, on the other hand, have family arrange marriages as it’s normally improper for two fae to arrange their own marriage. They require the blessings of both families. Emotions a fae may feel do often sway the family’s direction in which fae to pair their offspring with (meaning, the offspring gets a fair say in their arranged marriage partner). The older a fae gets, the more disgrace they bring on themselves for not getting married. It’s considered honorable for fae to live several decades with a single spouse. Divorce is not a concept either trolls or fae have. Name changes are common with both species. Newly married fae choose a new last name for themselves together (not taking a last name of either of their families) unless both agree on sticking to one fae’s family name and trolls will determine which troll (female or male) changes their name based on whose family approached whose for an arranged marriage (or which troll approached the other to start a relationship). Both the trolls and fae do not appear practice any gender biases, though their different cultural practices are often shameful or ridiculous in the eyes of the opposite culture, which is one reason their war began.

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Characters and Locations:

Siel Varo - main female fae (and she’s pretty nit-picky about how one pronounces her name, it’s pronounced “See-ol” by her family or “See-ill” by everyone else; Varo is pronounced like “Var-oh”)

Ig Ump- main male troll (His name is just pronounced like Egg, but with an i sound, like “Ih-gguh”)

Nara Vis - (f) Ig’s cousin

Dejil Gard - (m) Siel’s cousin (His name is often pronounced “Dee-zel” or like how you say the word “Diesel” though sometimes pronounced as “Dee-Jill”)

Nexiz Gard - (m) Dejil’s father

Billa Gard - (f) Dejil’s mother

Isen Varo - (f) Siel’s mother (Her name’s pronounced like “Ee-sen”)

Jrid Varo - (m) Siel’s father

Lijen Zeil - (f) Siel’s sister (Her name is sometimes pronounced like “Lee-zen,” or “Lie-gen”; Zeil is pronounced like “Zee-ill”)

Chita Vik - (f) Siel’s sister (Her name’s pronounced like “She-tah”)

Ungle Ump - (m) Ig’s father

Mith Ump - (f) Ig’s mother

Shik Ump- (f) Ig’s sister (Her name’s pronounced like “Sheek”)

Id Vis - (m) Nara’s father

Tiga Vis - (f) Nara’s mother (Her name’s pronounced like “Tee-jah”)

Drej Vis - (m) Nara’s brother (His name is pronounced like the word “Dread”)

De Liznos - fae council that serves as a political legislative and judiciary of sorts. They comprised of seven elderly fae.

Various members of Siel’s family (grandparents, uncles and aunts both paternal and maternal, numerous cousins, a couple niece/nephews, and some small children also related to Siel somehow.)

Members of Ig’s family (mostly grandparents, other siblings, and cousins.)

Various trolls involved in a massive mob/ambush attempt.

Yaume - word for a kingdom (Pronounced like “Yaoh-oo-mey”)

Eiria Yaume - the fae kingdom (Eiria is pronounced like “Eh-ear-ee-ah”)

Irecoros Yaume - the troll kingdom (Irecoros is pronounced like “Ih-rek-or-ohs”)

Nan Muzh Ledina - No man’s land, the space between the fae polis (which is close to the edge of what fae claim to be part of their Eiria Yaume) and the Irecoros Yaume that neither culture has successfully took claim of due to the fact of constant warfare. The area spans about 30 miles from the ends of both kingdoms. The land is normally uninhabited by fae and trolls and is considered dangerous to be caught trekking in. It is a common ground where many battles between the fae and trolls occur and the only way to get from one Eiria to Irecoros is via Nan Muzh Ledina.

Hyperion Forest - Situated in most of Nan Muzh Ledina and parts of the Eiria and Irecoros Yaumes. Named for it’s age and native beliefs that the forest is full of preternatural spirits that watch and guard it.

Old Hyperion Tree - Claimed to be the oldest tree in the Hyperion Forest, allegedly being over 4,000 years old. It is also referred to as “The tree at the edge” or “The old sage tree” (sage as in wise, not as in the plant). The tree is approximately 400 feet high and approximately 150 feet wide. It’s oddly still alive, despite having been hollowed out for a gigantic interior living space. The tree is located on the far edge of the Hyperion forest, in the middle of a fairly decent sized clearing of tall grass that is surrounded by trees of the Hyperion Forest. Beyond the edge of the Hyperion Forest is the dwarf Yaume, which is led to from the clearing by a very steep decline and several miles beyond of grassy clearing. If one is at the top of the tree, they can see four Yaumes (the dwarf, fae, troll, and giant Yaumes).

Noct and Noss [no pictures yet]

knossus — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 21:26:22 -0700

Tonight I shall write [some of] the story of Noct and Noss. Noct and Noss are twins of the goddess,...

Derpiness

knossus — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 00:39:45 -0700

I’m nowhere where I wanted to be with my animation project, but I’m liking the stuff...

Unclassified Information (UI) [no pictures]

knossus — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 14:46:54 -0700

I had a dream a couple nights ago that I didn’t write down when I should have but now...

This is Little Red the hood rat haulin’ ass because the...

knossus — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 03:16:08 -0700

This is Little Red the hood rat haulin’ ass because the Crips are after her (on the premise that she has drugs in her backpack).

Lol. I come up with weird shit.

This is also for my animation project. I’m really especially happy with how this one came out. :D Making animations takes a really long time, but it’s so cool to see the end result.

Woo, even though it’s cheap, I’m proud of this...

knossus — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 19:09:45 -0700

Woo, even though it’s cheap, I’m proud of this little animation! XD This is for my animation that I’m working on for a class. :B I used a tutorial to figure out how to make it in Photoshop. ( http://creativetechs.com/tipsblog/build-animated-gifs-in-photoshop/ )

The goddess of lust started out as a creepy chick from a dream....

knossus — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 23:20:00 -0700

The goddess of lust started out as a creepy chick from a dream. She acted superior to all others and from the very beginning, she had that creepy black thing later labeled a symbiote grafted to her backbone. It’s legs are all underneath her skin and have bonded to her bones. The symbiote provides a bit of spinal protection as it would be the first thing to take a hit rather than her back. Since it is physically grafted to her, over time it has become a part of her, the blood of the symbiote and her own blood have mixed and have changed them both into one dual entity.

It’s not something I talk much about but that’s not to say it’s because I’m trying to hide this fact or anything. There’s a lot about different characters that has never really been brought to light.

She had no name in the beginning, she was only referred to as “The Demon Lady” and had no real personality except for her clear superiority complex. She treated others as if their time was meaningless and the time she did give them would be worth a thousand tons of gold.

Hazard once tried to persuade this mysterious entity into joining forces with her to take over Earth and destroy the humans but Demon Lady was not at all amused with Hazard or even the slightest bit feeling inclined to partake in this plan.

And for a long time, this mysterious character disappeared. It wasn’t until around the time of Summer 2009 where I took an interest in her again.

She sparked the beginning of code names (ML) for ladies in Anomalies, being called “Mysterious Lady #1.”

In the summer of 2009, I began to develop the concept of Hell Dimensions for Anomalies. I decided to structure the hell dimensions based off of what I knew about Dante’s Inferno. It all started with Bambi. Him being a pre-Anomalies character, his biography stated he was a minotaur from hell. I found out one of Dante’s rings of hell had a minotaur in it and decided to use Dante’s Inferno as the start of what would later become entire planets referred to as the Sin Worlds.

The Demon Lady was lucky enough to be adopted as one of the Demon Lords of one such dimension. Being an apparent sultry creature, the Demon Lady was designated the Demon Lord of the Lust Dimension.

One method of torture I wrote for the Lust Dimension back in 2009 is: forcing people to climb up a steep spiraling tower. The people are in chains that are attached to the side of the mountain/tower in a structure similar to ball-bearing so they can’t try to jump off the side of the tower or escape it. There are spikes or planks around the spiraling mountain/tower designed for people to climb up on but they’re widely spaced. This is done on purpose to force people to step on those directly beneath them. Most people are forced to hunch over on their backs as they walk because the space between planks isn’t very tall. The climb is long, gross and stinky from all the people’s sweat and body heat. The ball hooked inside the mountain forces one to go in one direction up the mountain. One also has their arms in cuffs. Depending on the height of the tower and speed of the people climbing it, it could take half a day, a full day or a couple of days to reach the top. There are demons at the very top of the tower who uncuff the people as they come up to the top then throw them down the side of the tower into a pit that is just below ground level where the people are then taken by demons in the below-ground-level space and are forced back into the tower system because the start of the line for the tower system is underneath the ground. People are usually forced to do this five or six times before they’re forced into another torture method and can be forced to return this form of torture as the demons please.

Being a Demon Lord, this creature needed to have a bestial appearance as well. I decided to make her a jackel-headed beast.

The three pairs of eyes were inspired by a previously drawn Demon Lord whose appearance I had dreamed about. Her snout was more of a self-assigned challenge to draw a snout of unusual non-typical shape than what I normally drew.

Thus, the Demon Lady from July 2008 slowly became important to Anomalies.

Later on (possibly also in 2009, although it’s not for certain), all Demon Lords became the Sin Gods. I had decided, “Why should I create Sin Gods from scratch, when the Demon Lords of each Hell Dimension basically serves those roles already?” The hell dimensions also became worlds as I had decided to eliminate the dimension concept from Anomalies. At this current point in time, there is only one large dimension known as Limbo, and pocket dimensions scattered throughout Anomalies, however no over-lapping parallel dimension over the entire universe other than Limbo.

The Lust goddess became one of the first Sin Gods to become corrupt by that which they punish. In her demise, she attempted to drag down others. She attempted to seduce Lucifer of Purgatory, however was unsuccessful, for Mr. Morningstar had no interest in dabbling with her.

She was successful in seducing the Gluttony god, who for the most part is a homosexual god. Gluttony had murdered his own lover (Greed) thousands of years before Lust ever entered his life. Their copulation brought forth the existence of three terrifying children/gods.

Dalyo, the oldest, god of Submission, Demna, the middle sibling, goddess of Seduction, and Durga, the youngest, goddess of Rape. (Durga is not connected to the Hindu goddess of the same name.) These triplets were born in representation of Lust and Gluttony’s relationship, to some extent.

The Lust goddess came to be known as the mother (whether biological or not) to many monsters in Anomalies, such as the symbiote (which, for the most part, is extinct), rat-tailed humanoids, succubi, six-eyed rats, and unspeakable demons that reside on her planet, Agrea.

One of the biggest events involving Lust in Anomalies is her thwarted attempt to seduce the Hate god. It led to a vicious war in which her succubi army invaded Caeda, killed many, and even kidnapped Knossus (better known as Bambi).

This is the audio I made for my next animation project, a work...

knossus — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 19:12:00 -0800

This is the audio I made for my next animation project, a work in progress. I’m really happy with how the audio turned out. :B I could not have done it without all the people who volunteered to voice act for it. :) I had a lot of fun gathering all sorts of sounds and music for the BG noise and music. I made the audio for the door slamming open.

Jennifer - Narrator

Ana - Red’s Mom

Christine - Red

Charlie - Gangster #1

Corey - Gangster #2, Gangster #4, Auto Owner

Cristobal - Gangster #3, Grandpa

Arielle (Me) - Police Officer

Here’s a sketch of Emmett and Ronny before Anomalies was...

knossus — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 23:30:24 -0800

Here’s a sketch of Emmett and Ronny before Anomalies was even a thought (circa 2008). They were born through a strange dream I had back around August 15th, 2008. I’ll share the dream as I wrote it then with you now. I’ll also add some pictures of Emmett and Ronny drawn throughout the years. As I re-read what I wrote in 2008, I really got a geeky sense of it all, I’m totally geeking out at the fact that “spirit plasmas” have been around since August 2008, or that Emmett’s blue fire whip has been around that long as well. So much about Emmett and Ronny has been refined, but not too much taken out of their original context, which gives me a feeling of pride that these concepts have been floating around for so long.

The dream as described August 17th, 2008 (explained that the description was written two days after I had the dream.)

I remember seeing this really tall guy. He had black hair that was slicked back and he wore a hero outfit, his colors were black and blue[…] This guy with the black and blue outfit had a stripe down but it formed an arrow at his chest and then made a collar around his neck. The stripe was blue and the rest of his costume was black.

Anyway, he was standing out in the middle of a battle field, there was a war going on all around. Soldiers kept coming up to attack him, arrest him, kill him but he was an expert fighter and could beat any of them. There was gunfire but not by any of the guys trying to get to him. He has a sword sheathed and he pulled it out and started slicing through the guys. He was seriously too fast for them to keep up, in two seconds he’d make three or four slices through the guys, they stand there for a second then fall apart[…]

So yeah, he was going around hitting guys in the face with an elbow and slicing through them. Then he places a hand on the blade of the sword and drags his hand down the blade and where his hand passes it’s changed. He makes it change into a whip that’s on fire[…] Sometimes the flames were blue. He attacked people with the whip, sometimes whipping them and dragging them over to him. He was pretty vicious, clapping his hands on their heads and snapping their neck. All the while, he still has this air about him that says “I’m a good guy.”

I also recall him doing that move with the hands again, placing a hand around the whip and changing it back into a blade. Only it was so long he broke it in half and turned the rest of the whip into another blade and then had two swords. Later on he slammed the tips of the swords together and they combined into a slightly bigger sword. Whenever he changes the shape of his weapon, there’s a blue-ish light around his hands and where the weapon’s being changed. After handling the last of the soldiers, (he probably killed 15 in a matter of minutes) he started walking through the rubble.

Since this was a war zone, a lot of buildings were blown up and taken down, there was dirt and debris and remnants of buildings, cars stuff all over the place. People who looked like they hadn’t taken a shower in a long time were in the streets, huddled near walls that remained after a bombing. He tells some of them to leave because it’s not safe here. They tell him this is their only home, they don’t know where else to go. He tells them they need to find a new home because this place is still not safe. Then he keeps walking.

He starts to think about humanity. If it’s worth it for people to be alive and stuff. He wonders if there will ever be a time when wars don’t happen anymore, if the earth allows people to live long enough for that to happen. He wonders if there will come a time when people will be wiped off the face of the earth and the earth could start over. “Maybe she just needs another meteor” he thinks.

Then he starts to get tired, he used up a lot of energy. In his mind he sounds like he’s talking to someone. And he is talking to someone. He’s talking to the host of this body he borrowed.

The host is a girl, probably a teen or early 20’s. He takes on his appearance even though the body is a girl’s body through a clear gel-like goo, that’s called “plasma” in the dream. He’s a spirit. The girl whose body he borrows is cooperative with him, she lets him borrow her like she’s a rental or something. (It sounds funny, I know.) But he tells her he used up a lot of her energy and tells her sorry. She tells him it’s okay.

“You’re going to have to sleep, Ronny” he telling her mentally.
She tells him back, “Okay, put me somewhere safe from harm then.”

He’s like, “Easier thought than done…” So he looks for a place, some building, a house maybe, that wasn’t destroyed yet. “I could find a basement… Maybe.”

She’s like “A basement’s probably safe…” but gets an image of the roof caving in.

“But there might be people hiding in the basement,” he thinks.

“Then a basement wouldn’t be safe,” she thinks back.

“All right, no basements…” he thinks. He walks maybe 5 more blocks then thinks, “I don’t believe I can walk much further.”

“All right,” Ronny thinks back. She knows once she’s rested, she’ll need to eat something. He finds a house that’s abandoned and finds the kitchen and looks into the fridge, “There’s a lot of food here.”

“But what if it’s someone else’s food supply. I want to check the house before I just go and eat that.”

“Okay…” he checks around and can’t find anyone. Then deciding his feet can’t carry him much further he decides to put Ronny in a closet. That’s where she sleeps then later on she gets up to get something to eat. She’s glad her muscles aren’t super sore, but she remembers that Emmett, this spirit guy, had helped her train herself to avoid having super sore muscles.

Someone asked me what this image meant. It comes with a lot of...

knossus — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 14:47:00 -0800

Someone asked me what this image meant. It comes with a lot of history, in terms of events in Anomalies, and then there is also the creation history behind it as well. I’ll discuss why I drew it first as that is a shorter explanation.

It starts with 2010. My life was all fucked up. I disappeared off the face of DA, because of some drama, so long that every time someone saw me in Livestream, they would ask me when I would return to DA. Eventually, I did return to DA and began to post again, though much less than I used to. 2010 was horrible for me. This affected my creative productivity, most unfortunately. I experienced the longest art block so far in my life, from May 2010 to January 2011.

In January 2011, I began to use nebezial’s blender brush and that reformed how I approached digital art ever since. It was easier for me to break from my art block by drawing digitally because as I saw it I had nothing to lose from drawing digitally. My skills with digital drawing were horrible compared to traditional drawing, which had been my dominant form of art creation since I was old enough to hold a pencil. I had everything to lose from drawing traditionally because my skills regressed so horribly, it looked like two years worth of art improvement didn’t happen at all.

How does this history tie into this drawing? It’s very simple. January 2011, I began drawing again. As expected, the stuff I drew were all Anomalies-related material as I greatly enjoy drawing Anomalies concepts.

I drew this in my second January sketchdump:

It is a depiction of Bambi interrogating a demonic three-tailed rat from Agrea, Lust’s homeworld.

Fast forward to the very last day of 2011, December 31, 2011. I wanted to draw sketches for the very last day of the year and so I went back in my DA gallery to get ideas and when I came across this image from my second ever sketchdump on my new DA account, I wanted to challenge myself with a drawing in my new and improved digital skills, and that is when I drew the image of Bambi at the very top of this post.

That is the physical history of the image that is also my current banner for this blog. :)

Now I shall give you the history of events in Anomalies that led to both of these drawings’ creations.

Some gods, not all, tend to have some supernatural entities somewhat like spiritual familiars, but not quite. Some gods take a liking to specific animals more so than others and therefore tend to use them as an extra pair of eyes in various parts of the universe. The concept of using animals throughout the universe stems from a concept in my Psycho Realm Trilogy, that some animals are more apt to wander into multiple dimensions than others (mostly nocturnal or crepuscular animals). These beings in Anomalies are referred to as spiengeists.

Azrael tends to use black birds as his spiengeists, more commonly the crow, which is a bit unusual given that spiengeists tend to exhibit nocturnal and crepuscular behaviors. The most common spiengeists used by many gods in Anomalies are cats, rats, foxes, opossums, fireflies, moths, beetles, rabbits, ferrets, mice, bobcats, bats, owls, hawks, and sugar gliders.

Spiengeists have limited shape-shifting abilities. The three-tailed rat that Bambi finds appears to be a regular rat on Earth. However once Bambi enters the Spirit Plane, the rat’s true appearance (and part of Bambi’s) is revealed for what it really is: having three spiky tails, abnormally long boney sharp-clawed fingers, a crooked snout, and three pairs of eyes.

The reason for the spiengeist tracking Bambi is what’s attached to a long history of events in Anomalies.

Many years ago, the goddess of Lust went on a vast campaign to seduce fellow gods of equal or greater strength than herself in an attempt to reproduce horrible creations. Her mission had become successful toward some gods but unsuccessful toward others. The god of Hate rejected her advances so far as to even insult her on a personal level so she raged war against him.

Caeda suffered a massive blow being infested with succubi and vampires from Agrea. While overwhelming Hate’s world with her monstrous creatures, Lust also sent out succubi to hunt down Hate’s personal favorite descendant which turned out to be Knossus (better known as Bambi). Her intentions with Bambi was to corrupt him into the sin of lust to provoke Hate to fall into a depression toward his would-be-then-damned favorite descendant.

Bambi was kidnapped and brought to Agrea where he was tortured and his only option given to leave Agrea would be to sleep with multiple succubi or Lust herself. Bambi found all the succubi and Lust herself to be revolting and no where close to his interests and so Lust, feeling again insulted, permitted her succubi to brutally torture Bambi in contraptions and methods similar to Medieval torture practices.

On Caeda, Bambi’s family managed to force all the horrible creations that invaded into remission and soon Sophothale (a cousin to Bambi), Raja (Bambi’s mother), and Raja’s mother (Bambi’s grandmother) realized Bambi was missing. Sophothale tortured one succubus to confess the truth of what happened to Bambi and wrangled up Dardaptodamos (another cousin to Bambi) to aide her in retrieving Bambi from Agrea.

Dardaptodamos and Sophothale manage to save Bambi from Agrea and bring him home. Lust returned to Caeda for one more fight with Hate and eventually accepted defeat and left Bambi alone, or so everyone thought. Many years after the entire Lust war events, Bambi received a “present.”

A fae was sent to Bambi to constantly flirt with him and was given the orders to seduce him. Again efforts were futile, Bambi did not enjoy the fae’s advances and instead found her to be obnoxious and intrusive. Still, as a gift to him, he had to keep her in his palace because it is considered rude to dispose of a gift in Caeda. Eventually, the fae gave up trying to coax Bambi and even confessed the nature of her intentions. His family was upset to hear of this and requested that the fae leave Caeda.

Bambi, however, was more polite to the fae, having discovered she was not intrusive on purpose. He discovered she was blackmailed to do Lust’s biding. Lust had presented the fae the provision of the fae’s beloved family members in exchange for her success in seducing Bambi. Her failure would result in their deaths. The fae had known she had failed yet the goddess did not yet learn of this. Instead, Bambi and the fae cautiously entered Agrea and retrieved the fae’s family from Lust’s grasp and Bambi offered the fae and her family a home on Caeda.

Lust heard of the retrieval of the fae’s family and was infuriated beyond imagine that she once again failed to corrupt Bambi and that captives were smuggled out from under her nose. Lust was not ready to throw in the towel.

When Bambi was not on Caeda, Lust would have her spiengeists stalk Bambi elsewhere in the universe to study his weaknesses so that she may use them against him to get Bambi to succumb to sin.

So when Bambi was on Earth in the kitchen of Elleira, he spotted a suspicious rat while Elleira had stepped out of the kitchen. Bambi astral projected himself into the Spirit Plane and discovered the rat he saw was a spiengeist and immediately captured the creature before it could get away. His aura radiated red as he spoke furiously at the spiengeist demanding to know who sent it and proceeded to crush the rat’s ribcage. When the rat uttered Lust’s name, Bambi devoured the rat whole.

I’ve been working diligently on my Terms to Know for...

knossus — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 01:19:39 -0800

I’ve been working diligently on my Terms to Know for Anomalies. Some terms are made up (e.g. deiroid, omadatheon, metalikinesis) and some are real terms that have been clarified for how they’re used in Anomalies (e.g. planes, realms, symbiotes, limbo). I’m really happy with how much this list has grown. As I work on it, I see where I should make a new definition to clarify a nother concept or invent a new word for something that needs a word to describe it in Anomalies. (e.g. I added planes and realms to clarify Anomalies concepts of the two, and I recently created omadatheon to describe groups of gods, as there are many omadatheons in Anomalies.)

Dementia is not one of the best fathers in the universe. He acts...

knossus — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 14:09:00 -0800

Dementia is not one of the best fathers in the universe. He acts so much like a child that probably child-rearing was not the best idea for him. However, Dementia is father to many beings such as: Deformity (pictured here), Discord (a.k.a. Eris), Depolarity, Disease, Illness, Fear, Bipolarity, Depression, Mania, Delirium, Rationality, Irrationality, Imagination, Unnatural, Domestication, Memory, Inspiration, Balance, Sanity, Mentality, Anxiety, Interest, Pain, Pleasure and Disorder. And from Dementia’s thousands of children come even more gods, such as Morpheus, the god of Dreams and Nightmares, or the nine Muses of Greek mythology (as Dementia and Health are Mnemosyne’s parents.)

In his own way, Dementia retains a certain innocence that children lose when they grow older and become wiser. Dementia is known by many names and plays many roles, his key roles are being the god of Anomalies (that which is abnormal, not meant to be interpreted as the patron god of the entire series…), Delight, and Insanity. (Aside from being god of Dementia.) “Demi,” as he is often referred to, is officially the God of Nine (meaning he is a member of the nine-most powerful gods and goddesses of the entire universe [in Anomalies], aside from Life and Death), and for that reason, his name is also Nine.

Sataniel, the god of Evil, is Dementia’s sister/brother, being God of Six. Therefore there is a bit of sibling quarrel, mostly one-sided as Dementia does not often “understand” hatred, jealousy, or anger. (Not that he is completely incapable of feeling those emotions.) It takes a lot to make Demi mad, and usually Sataniel fails to get under his skin. Sataniel is purely disgusted by Dementia’s unique perspective on life, and this provokes Sataniel so much that s/he is always trying to bother Demi, make him miserable.

So trillions upon trillions of years ago, Sataniel decided to do something truly evil. As Delight, it seemed Demi could never be brought down. He was always happy. He had his beautiful wife, Health, and his all-but-normal children, and his whole family was generally functional. Sataniel’s first attempt to disrupt the peace among Demi’s family was first through one of his unborn children.

Inside Health was a soon-to-arrive Eris. Sataniel tainted Eris’s soul which physically deformed her as well. She wasn’t deformed in the sense you may think she was. She was born to become beautiful like her mother. Her deformity became that she bared no resemblance to either of her parents. Dementia has a more Native American Indian appearance while Health has a more light-skinned European look. Eris was born to appear African with blond-white hair. The only bit of her that remained true to her parents appearance was her eyes. Sataniel had hopes that Eris’s vastly different appearance would disrupt the balance between Dementia and Health. S/he envisioned quarrelsome nights, finger-pointing, accusations, everything worse imaginable.

To Sataniel’s devastation, Dementia only found Eris’s appearance and odd nature to be pleasantly refreshing. He never once suspected his wife of cheating on him. He was happy to have unique Eris in his life, and claimed she was a blessing to his family. Eris grew to maturity and eventually took one of Sataniel’s creations, Loki (god of Mischief), to be her husband. While tainting Eris’s soul so much that Eris would have a natural tendency to fall into the hands of evil had always been Sataniel’s intent, s/he was furious this didn’t cause any “splash” in Dementia’s entire family.

Sataniel fumed for years trying to plot a better way to get under Dementia’s skin. S/he was sure there was some way. One night, Sataniel lurked inside Dementia’s garden. She watched as Dementia danced with his wife and his children in a gathering resembling a party. Watching him so happy only infuriated Sataniel.

Then an idea struck Sataniel’s head. S/he was sure this would work this time. Many days later, Sataniel took the form of a serpent and intrigued Health while Dementia was away with some of his children. Health had never seen a serpent so the strange creature intrigued her enough that she began to follow it. She kept a cautious distance but at the same time didn’t want to lose sight of the creature. Sataniel led Health away a very long time until they arrived to a tree that stood out from the rest. Sataniel began to slither up it’s trunk.

“You’ve walked so long and far, you must be hungry.” Sataniel said to Health.

“I am a little bit.” Health agreed, slightly amused that the creature could talk.

“Why not take one of the fruits from this tree and eat it?” Sataniel said to her.

“Are the edible?” Health asked.

“Of course they are. I heard they are some of the best fruits made by the gods,” Sataniel wrapped their tail around one of the fruits’ stems and released it from the branch.

Health caught it mid-air. She looked down at it; it resembled a golden apple.She took a bite from the apple and then looked up at Sataniel, “You’re right, this is one of the best fruits I have ever tasted!” She thanked the serpent for showing her this tree and intended to tell Dementia about it later. She began to walk away back in the direction she had come when she fell down, dead.

Sataniel laughed at the dead goddess and slithered up into the tree, out of sight.

When Dementia came back with the few children he had left earlier with, he noticed his wife wasn’t where she said she’d be when he returned. He started to call for her and when she didn’t respond he began to feel uneasy. It wasn’t like her to not respond to him.

He searched all the usual places he would find her in his garden and as she was not found in each place, he began to feel more and more anxious. Their children began to look for her as well. Almost an hour went by before Dementia heard one of his daughters scream for him to come and he followed the direction of her voice. Other children followed as well. They gathered around Health’s dead body and Dementia fell to his knees beside her and shook her, telling her to wake up. He noticed right away she felt cold. He told one of his sons to hand over his coat because Health was cold and when his son handed him the coat, he wrapped it over her shoulders. He begged Health to wake up several times until one of Dementia’s daughters said with tearful eyes, “I think she is dead.”

The daughter who had found her, Eris, told Dementia she found a fruit nearby where Health was. When she showed it to Dementia he began to sob. Dementia recognized the fruit was from the tree of death, a tree created by Nature, when one god claimed that nothing she made could kill gods. She planted the tree in Dementia’s garden years ago, knowing gods typically avoid stepping foot into Dementia’s strange realm, and instructing Dementia to keep his family from the tree.

Several days went by before Dementia let anyone near Health. Once he accepted the fact that she was truly gone, his children began to prepare her funeral. All of Dementia’s family, the God of Ten, and their children, attended Health’s funeral and had nothing but kindness to speak of her. Sataniel realized they had done something more horrible than they intended and left the funeral sooner than everyone else.

Nature instructed Dementia to destroy the tree, fearing the same fate may happen to another unfortunate god or goddess. Eris kept the poison fruit that killed her mother for eternity.