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Description Species: N'ir'a'nsha aka. Shadow Priests
Class: greater daemon.
Role: Dark clerics. On the mortal plane they take the roles of cardinals and up in the priesthoods of the dark gods.

N'ir'a'nsha are a race of daemons dedicated to serving the dark gods. On rare occassions they will also work with the more powerful of the Daemon Princes such as Ahriman (Izael) but they consider only true deities to be worthy of their devout servitude.

These unwholesome creatures can be found at the rotten heart of almost all of the cults following the dark gods and are sent up from the underworlds to oversee matters on the mortal plane as well as being a kind of 'badge of honour' to show the cult they're taken seriously by their deity. They generally oversee how the organisation is run and perform complex rituals, important sacrifices and torture for information gathering where necessary. They take a particular (and not a little perverse) delight in putting sharp inplements to soft mortal flesh.

Surprisingly they are almost dainty in their mannerims and bearing, ever delicate and meticulous in whatever tasks they undertake. They smell strongly of rot and so often adorn their long, horizontally growing horns with miniature insense bearing censors along with little bells the tinkling of which they find pleasing. If their horns grow too long they have trouble getting through doors.

Despite the above, shadow priests should be taken very seriously. They posses fearsome magical abilities, granted by the powers they serve and can easily summon lesser daemons from their home plane of existance (greater daemons generally require some kind of ritual to be brought up).

Shadow Priests are dreadful creatures to behold, thier emaciated bodies covered in what at first appear as twitching open sores. On close insepction these turn out to be eyes and mouths in all sorts of places where they shouldn't be on any wholesome creatures. Thankfully they generally choose to cover themselves in long dark ceremonial robes however even when covered these extra mouths constantly whisper the name and praises of whatever dark god a parituclar N'ir'a'nsha might serve in a chorus maddening to any observer. On the mortal plane they rarely stray from their shrines and temples unless some kind of pilgramage is called for (in which case they'll generally summon a kuralex to ride).

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Comments: 23

ImaBeGod [2012-01-13 17:18:06 +0000 UTC]

awesome!! nice and dark i like the description

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drakhenliche In reply to ImaBeGod [2012-01-22 13:37:30 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! I do like creating monsters...

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ImaBeGod In reply to drakhenliche [2012-01-27 17:25:01 +0000 UTC]

Yourwelome

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RenDragonClaw [2007-02-19 18:38:54 +0000 UTC]

Excellent work, I enjoyed reading his description as much as I enjoyed looking at him .

-RenDragonClaw

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drakhenliche In reply to RenDragonClaw [2007-02-20 12:32:38 +0000 UTC]

Thank you! I really enjoy 'fleshing out' my creations like that (I'm a bit of a world-builder) so I'm glad you liked the description

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moonlight-tears [2006-01-02 14:01:18 +0000 UTC]

ohhh... cool! ^_^

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drakhenliche In reply to moonlight-tears [2006-01-06 14:47:30 +0000 UTC]

Cheers!

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bubastis [2005-10-25 20:57:01 +0000 UTC]

The bells just make it look cute. CUTE I SAY. *stuffs it in her mouth*

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drakhenliche In reply to bubastis [2005-11-04 12:39:44 +0000 UTC]

I don't think they taste too good. The bells'll make them tinkly, not tastey!

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Archaia [2005-09-22 20:35:28 +0000 UTC]

This is pretty sweet character. I like the costume alot.

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DeepOne [2005-09-20 15:16:24 +0000 UTC]

This looks cool, I'm always into skull-headed stuff, I mean Skeletor, Judge Mortis (was that his name?) and, er, the rest...

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drakhenliche In reply to DeepOne [2005-12-20 15:22:42 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, I think it was Judge Mortis (or Mortiis? I forget how they spelled it). But Skeletor just couldn't be scary, though he probably wins any prizes for campest skull-faced dude ever.

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Aintes [2005-09-19 20:25:04 +0000 UTC]

I like the bit about 'trouble getting through doors'. ^_^

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Droakir [2005-09-19 01:09:22 +0000 UTC]

That's one superbly done image. Great job!

One question: What kind of colouring technique did you use?

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drakhenliche In reply to Droakir [2005-12-20 15:26:06 +0000 UTC]

Just Photoshop. I made the pencils into a new layer, set it to multiply then just added the colour in using a layer underneath.

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Droakir In reply to drakhenliche [2006-01-18 16:17:44 +0000 UTC]

Colouring under the pencil in that way? Well, it looks very good. Thanks for the pointer - I'll be sure to try it!

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drakhenliche In reply to Droakir [2006-01-19 13:20:00 +0000 UTC]

It's a nice technique to use, and all the hard work's already done by the pencils so I find it pretty quick compared to other methods.

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Droakir In reply to drakhenliche [2006-01-20 05:09:49 +0000 UTC]

That's good. I really enjoy quite a bit of your colouring styles-- they're some of the ones I'm really wishing to learn, but I'm not exactly sure how to get started. Are there any other basic methods you use in your colouring?

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drakhenliche In reply to Droakir [2006-01-20 12:12:49 +0000 UTC]

I colour in a pretty straightforward way, it just involves a bit of patience I start off making the lineart into a new layer (set on 'multiply'), make another layer under that and put in the flat colour under the lineart. Then in new layers on top of that I put in any lighting - start with a big, soft brush to get a general lighty feel then use a smaller harder brush to bring out stronger light areas - then do the same with shading and maybe add some complementary colours. Any glowy effects I do in a new layer above the lineart. Is that any help?

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Droakir In reply to drakhenliche [2006-01-20 15:43:46 +0000 UTC]

I believe so. Thanks!

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balvoniuke [2005-09-18 18:45:26 +0000 UTC]

ooooo...nice work...

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mafagafa [2005-09-18 16:55:03 +0000 UTC]

Wow.. i loved the pose and the colors!!!! Great pic!

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drakhenliche In reply to mafagafa [2005-09-18 18:28:59 +0000 UTC]

Thank you ^_^ The colouring worked out better than I thought it would!

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