Lourdess Draws

20 y.o. Digital Illustrator
đź“Ť Syd, Australia

About

Hi, I'm Lourdes!I am an aspiring digital illustrator from Sydney, Australia who loves creating characters and stories of fantastical worlds. If you wanna learn more about my work please have a browse.

Projects

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PHOBOPHOBIA

The Phobophobia Tarot Deck consists of 22 original Major Arcana tarot cards inspired by phobias. This deck is geared towards a gender neutral audience as I wish to achieve creating a deck that all people would want to use. A deck that makes anyone feel comfortable to show off there tarot card skills to. Each design is drawn by myself in my unique style which is influenced by Tim Burton and many other gothic artists. The fears, which were carefully chosen, correlate to each card and its meaning. They are printed to a custom card size at 80x120mm on 350 gsm linen paper.

The Blood Witch

You can find out more about the lore of this world by clicking the diferent buttons bellow.

Witchlings

Origins
Darklings wouldn’t have existed if it wasn’t for the three witches. A long time ago they carried out the bidding of a dark force in the aether and released a terrible plague among the land. This plague only initially affected those with magic. It settled in their DNA, most people were immune, some were not. Those who weren’t noticed that their magic wasn’t the same. They started losing their magic, but the more they tried to use it, it felt different, off. They were siphoning from somewhere else. Originally from others and magic around them, slowly killing the sources. When people discovered this they started to kill anyone who showed those symptoms. This generation was wiped clean of dark magic.
The next generations saw that their children at different ages showed symptoms. This time it was different. Their magic wasn’t siphoned from a source of this world but another, the same of that the witches got theirs from. They would be killed when it was discovered they had black magic. The witches outraged would then steal the young children and bring them to the forest where they would teach them about their magic, slowly cultivating them for the scheme their dark master had in mind. The children wouldn’t know this. They learnt to control the darkness and form it into their own skills.Early Detection
When they are young, some children begin to manifest magic. It may come in many different ways. It becomes apparent that a child has dark magic when there is a dramatic shift in behaviour. The child either becomes incredibly restless or skittish. They tend to have night terrors and waking nightmares. Slowly physical manifestations of magic form in bad omens. If a child shows none of these symptoms after the eight year mark they do not have dark magic residing within them. It is impossible for a person to attain dark magic naturally after eight years of age.
Society's View
What happens to these kids can vary depending on the environment they were raised in. Majority of the population despise and fear dark magic. For the most part rightfully so. However when a child begins to manifest dark magic the parents either hide the child to protect them, or they use the magic to their benefit. Some will kill the child so that they were never discovered to have had a child born with dark magic. Those who hide the child risk being caught out by the public. And if they were the child is hunted down for execution, huge penalties including death would be issued against people who try to hide the child from the law.
The Witches
The witches have the ability to sense dark magic, a gift given to them by the aether. However this gift is primarily limited to a 15m radius. In order to further search out in the hopes of finding promising candidates, they use the soul stone. This stone has many different abilities, one in particular is sensing magic from afar. If spells are conducted correctly they are able to foresee the child’s location and fate.
The witches are told by the stone which children they have to take back to the academy. They abduct these children from their homes or even rescue them from being slaughtered. Either witches are alerted to the child before they go nexus or after they are discovered when news starts to spread.Society is aware of the existence of witches however they believe these creatures to be of the same nature as the children with dark magic. They are not aware that children of this nature are being abducted as majority of them are usually reported or already hunted down.Rarity
Magic in itself is everywhere, however humans using magic is uncommon. It is not entirely looked down upon however they are not treated as normal people so much until they reach nine years of age. This is because they are no longer considered to be affected by dark magic. Now dark magic is extremely rare and considered a disease. 1 in 200 people are considered to have developed dark magic, however a lot of them do not survive either from being purged or the magic consuming them. The ones they cannot account for is the small majority that disappear. These ones are never recorded so they is no real documents of these children ever existing.

History

In the beginning, there were 10 gods. These gods came from the heavenly plains to protect the overworld from the aether. The lands were being plagued by night creatures and aether beasts. The overworld had humans and magical beasts, but no magic users. Magic was introduced by the gods. To make the lives of humans easier and protect them from the aether they created magical creatures; fae, nymphs, goblins etc.Three of these gods had an idea to give humans some of their magic to protect them from some of the creatures that were lurking in the dark. Aether beasts who have for centuries found ways to leave the dark realm even despite the efforts of the gods. The other seven disagreed with this idea because humans are meant to be humans, they aren’t supposed to have magic and that there has to be a balance in nature. A war broke out between them and the seven sent the other gods away. The three gods were sent to the aether, instead of what they thought was a prison world.
There was one that saw the banishment, a woman who knew where they had been sent. She gathered all the people she knew who believed in the ideology of the three. Humans (the witches) who believed fully in the ideas of the three gods and praised them, received magic in return. The magic was corrupted unknown to them. It was not given to them by the gods but really the aether.
The magic slowly corrupted their minds, soon they had no idea that their thoughts were not their own. As a plot to finally bring the aether to the overworld, the aether demon gives the witches a plan. They perform a spell that leads to humans obtaining dark magic. First attempt failed, and that generation was wiped clean. A baby was born in the next generation that was different from the others. There was a big commotion around the child and its untamed powers, so they stole the child and raised it. It was the first Witchling ever recorded. A human that was one with the aether.

Contact

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