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Description Name: (Anubis) Sigismund Velant
Age: 27
Height: 6” 2’ (Horns included)
Weight: 231 lbs (Wings included)
Hair Color: Black
Eye Color: Green
Sexuality: Straight
Marital status: Taken: Elysia
Ethnicity: Half human, half demon
Religion: Technically none, but he believes in God.

Likes: His fiancée Elysia, his human father Frederick Velant, Food (he’s not picky, he loves food, just as long as it’s dead, and not undead), fighting monsters, and the guidance he received as a child.

Dislikes: His demon mother Elizabet, the restless undead, the knights in the north, vampires, and having to replace his armor.

Nicknames: Anubis (he is called this more than he is called by his real name.)

Appearance: Anubis has the appearance of a humanoid male, with black shortly cropped hair, and green eyes. He also has two horns protruding from his forehead, and two arm-like appendages from his shoulder blades serving as wings. His face has two sets of purple markings, left from when he was scarred by holy water at his attempted baptism. He always wears full body armor, minus the helmet. His armor is gilded plate mail, with a black high colored shirt underneath the armor. Underneath his leg armor he wears black boots, reinforced with steel soles. His gauntlets sit over more of the same black material, and the sleeve ends are drawn over the gauntlets. He wears a black belt with a purple sash (in the front and back). Underneath his armor, but on top of the purple cloth, Anubis has a small golden crucifix, it does burn him slightly if it makes contact with his skin.

Personality: Anubis despite his clearly demonic appearance is not evil. He is calm in most of his actions, and is a man of words, rather than actions. He does not overestimate himself in anyway, and he has a powerful conviction of right and wrong. His appearance bears the sins of many of his kind, and he seeks to atone for them.

History: Anubis was born in an act of shame. One cold October night, his mother a demon from the south named Elizabet invaded his father Frederick Velant’s room and in his sleep seduced him, and unbeknownst to her at the conceived a child that very night. His father woke up just as the ordeal ended, feeling nothing but shame and fear.

The demoness had horribly miscalculated, and despite her attempts to the contrary, she gave birth to her half demon son, less than nine months later. By some inexplicable action, the succubus did not kill her newborn, though she hated him and greatly desired to. Instead she returned to her victim’s home flung the screaming infant at his father and left.

Frederick knew that the she-devil was the one who assaulted him that same year and he felt obliged to take in his son. He explained his case to a local priest who offered to keep it a secret, and helped raise the boy. Even so the child grew, hiding his horns beneath a top hat, and folding his wings back like a cape. As he reached maturity, very few people actually figured his true nature out.

He eventually revealed himself to his friends, and left the security of his human home in search of his mother. Along the way, he met a reformed witch named Elysia and the two quickly became involved romantically. He proposed to her and she accepted and together they moved into the south. He eventually found his mother, and she was horrified to see he had survived. After a brief encounter she tried to kill him, and Anubis defended himself, accidentally killing her. Her dying words were as a curse to Anubis, mocking him for being an ungrateful matricide. Anubis buried her, and swore he would never allow another dark creature from the south to pester the world above.

He moved into a deserted palace, where he established a small kingdom. After gaining followers from the living as well as the undead Anubis cleaned up demonic interference in the north, sealing the most powerful creatures in areas of his domain, which he named Erebus, after the mythological underworld. Most of the truly evil characters he was able to control, until a man by the name of Dimitri Khons ascended to a local barony in the east of Erebus. It was shortly revealed he was vampire, and his presence had immediate effects, Anubis could seal him day after day, but he could never kill this creature alone, he needed help.

Relations: Father: Frederick Velant, Mother: Elizabet-deceased

Powers/Forms: Anubis has one form designed at this point, this demon form. He can summon jackals comprised of shadow to attack, and can trap people in their shadows.

Weapons: Anubis wields a long ball-and–chain mace, which has about five feet of chain and wickedly spiked ball at the end.
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One of my oldest characters I ever made, around the time of Pontus and Ageaus, he was an original protagonist in the Chronicles of Helios, and with a few major revamps, I’ve brought him to life.

As far as style and history, there's a big difference, but he has the same color scheme as the original, the last time I drew him prior to this was in 2005-2006. I know his wins are too small, but I think they're fine as far as their presentation in the image.

Anubis (Sigismund Velant) is © to me
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Comments: 23

ViolentHedonist [2014-05-12 07:30:12 +0000 UTC]

The best way I can describe this guy is in three words : Good Clean Fun. I like the clean simple design of the guy, no spikes or faces on the armor (which is ballin and old school medieval!) and you somehow made wings purple face markings and horns look perfectly natural just by using moderation. Now for my favorite part; his character and story.I found this while browsing for something else and at first glance figured he was another gary stu and would have just kept on scrolling, but the clean lines and simple plate armor made me take a closer look and I'm glad. Because he isn't a gary stu, he's what every person who makes one should try and make; a bad ass with limits, a half blood with only two parts, a king with an embattled country and a warrior with a rival. In short he's a good character and I'm really glad I happened across this, well done and thanks for the pleasant surprise!

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Ageaus In reply to ViolentHedonist [2014-05-13 01:35:55 +0000 UTC]

Thanks,
Velant has actually gone through much more development since this post, and his design is actually under revision again. He's one of my favorite characters ageaus.deviantart.com/art/Vela… that was a more recent rendition of him, but already outdated.

A lot has changed, but the tl;dr is he doesn't have a kingdom, he's just from a noble family that's fallen on hard times. He is trying to keep his homeland from falling apart. I've tried to get rid of his demon attributes, but i can't seem to shake them. He has a lot of influences from Iga-Era Castlevania, Innistrad (from mtg) and the gothic horror genre in general. 

Thanks for the in-depth comment, and for not assuming he was a gary-stu.

I love faces on armor.

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ViolentHedonist In reply to Ageaus [2014-05-13 03:03:18 +0000 UTC]

I love face armor as well, and I noticed the shoulder spikes after I commented. Glad to hear you're still tweaking this guy, always try and improve your work, yet another thing that makes this guy one of my favorite anti stu's to date! Also I was able to learn a bit about drawing armor by studying this guy, so thanks for helping me improve.

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BluRover [2009-01-19 22:17:10 +0000 UTC]

Out of all your character drawings, I think this one is my favorite.

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Ageaus In reply to BluRover [2009-01-19 22:52:21 +0000 UTC]

thanks

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monchiken [2009-01-14 13:41:13 +0000 UTC]

Very nice coloring !!

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dragonrace [2009-01-14 02:14:49 +0000 UTC]

very awesome!!!

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werewolf2993 [2009-01-10 05:22:07 +0000 UTC]

I love all the different colours used for this character and I love his wings!

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Ageaus In reply to werewolf2993 [2009-01-10 05:40:56 +0000 UTC]

thanks

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Bowserkills7 [2009-01-08 08:53:38 +0000 UTC]

Amazing. I can't describe it any other way.

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avatarjk137 [2009-01-08 03:18:25 +0000 UTC]

This guy's design is awesome. Plain and simple. The color scheme is great, the facial markings and horns are great, the armor and morningstar are incredibly badass. I really love how you defied my expectations by making him not evil or even a gritty antihero, but a fairly straight-up heroic character. I think the wings could use a bit of improvement; I like how they frame him here, but I think they'd be anatomically better if they had four 'fingers' on each wing instead of... three? From this angle, it looks like two but one splits near the bottom.

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Ageaus In reply to avatarjk137 [2009-01-08 03:52:39 +0000 UTC]

thanks, yeah, I kinda panicked when I saw that the fourth "fingers" weren't going to fit comfortably, after the third ones had to be squished-concerning the wings.

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avatarjk137 In reply to Ageaus [2009-01-08 04:27:21 +0000 UTC]

Like I said, they still look pretty good because of the way they frame him.

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Ramesses217 [2009-01-07 23:38:56 +0000 UTC]

Its really good. Don't think you should have put purple on the face though.

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Ageaus In reply to Ramesses217 [2009-01-08 00:16:18 +0000 UTC]

it looks better than the black, and kinda has a mask-like appearance to it.

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Ramesses217 In reply to Ageaus [2009-01-08 00:30:35 +0000 UTC]

Now that I look at it again, it doesn't look so out of place

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Epiaruna [2009-01-07 23:12:24 +0000 UTC]

Wow, he really does have a past on him. But you know, that's what makes a really neat character, too. I absolutely love what you've done with his wings, especially how they're his skin tone at first and eventually fade into a silvery grey. His armor is epiiiic.

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Ageaus In reply to Epiaruna [2009-01-08 00:16:27 +0000 UTC]

thanks

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Epiaruna In reply to Ageaus [2009-01-08 17:18:14 +0000 UTC]

Mmhmmmmmm!

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Kestus [2009-01-07 22:32:49 +0000 UTC]

Very interesting character with quite a sweet design. That ball and chain mace looks awesome, as well!

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Ageaus In reply to Kestus [2009-01-08 00:15:36 +0000 UTC]

thanks

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Kendoka602 [2009-01-07 22:04:24 +0000 UTC]

thats alot of notes there!

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Ageaus In reply to Kendoka602 [2009-01-07 22:05:03 +0000 UTC]

yep

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