Trinity: A group of three closely related persons or things

A little something something I commissioned from (known previously as Viiku). Original submission here: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/17484830/

Three characters of mine, all who are linked to one another through different means, forms and/or relationships. Each image works on its own (and I will be uploading them soon as single submissions) as well like you see them here, next to one another.

Characters from left to right are Taegan (in yet another alternative form), Vergal Garghan's son, Slergh, in his snake like form he takes upon shifting shape, and Vergal himself.

Below is a bit of back-story and detail to what is happening in each of the pictures and/or what the form is capable of, if you wish to learn more about them, that is.

Taegan in one of his alternative forms:
Perhaps the form he results to using extremely rarely. Two known occurrences of this form appearing were days before his banishment from the old world where he used to be one of the dark deities as he battled his brother, Talorg, and during the Dragonkin war in the world he now resides in.
This form of Taegan can also change in size and alter its shape even more than what is seen here. Thusly Taegan can also appear as a six armed, tornadoesque being with symmetrically located eyes peeking from amidst the raging inferno of fire and lightning, or as crystallized orb with six eyes and arms circling the crystal like body located in the middle.
The form you see here is mostly preferred by his aspect of madness, during times when sheer strength along with mobility are demanded with little to none regard over consequences. As long the thing so dire which might cause Taegan to assume this form is destroyed or beaten, not much else matters.
The eyes in this form are able to focus and concentrate evil and unholy energies into beams of pure darkness, which Taegan is able to release at will from any of his six eyes. Depending on the size of this particular form, the beams can be either extremely potent and destructive or they can be used with surgical precision. The beams themselves can both construct, deconstruct, vaporize, freeze, burn and convert both organic and non-organic matter, but usually Taegan uses them to convert smaller enemies to his own side with his unholy energies, completely rewriting their will, minds and memories in a blink of an eye. This can be seen as the eyes of those who survive getting hit by a beam turning black, along with black liquid gushing forth from their nostrils and mouths, only to flow back in again. Despite this, those converted are in full control of their own bodies, acting out the desire to protect and serve their new god above all else. Those Taegan relinquishes back to the waking world retain their dark eyes and usually continue to worship and serve him, even though he does allow them to continue living their previous lives, which some of them do. Taegan is not, after all, a completely maniacal and unjust deity. The eyes can also flow and reform freely across his body, connecting at the ends of his arms which then give Taegan even more control over the direction of the beams, or they can disappear into his body and appear again on the other side.
This form is also capable of both terrestrial and aerial movement, due to the arms and claws being able to grab and latch onto things where rest of the body is both liquid and gaseous at the same time and can thus move freely through air.
Speaking of the arms, the foothill of a one particular mountain (or rather, the remains of one) in Taegan's old world still bear eight claw marks around where he lifted that particular mountain from the ground and tossed it at his brother, Talorg. All records of this have been lost however, due to the fact that the mountain crushed several villages and even more aspiring historians that witnessed the fight of the two brothers. Therefore, the eight almost symmetrically located "ravines", some of which now act as small lakes where as in some have plenty of trees growing in them, are now nothing but yet another odd, "natural" occurrence and formation in the skin of the world.

Slergh Garghan, youngest of the Garghan family, heir to the throne of Geragha:
Like all shape-shifters from the isle of Geragha, Slergh too has a secondary form he can take besides his humanoid form. Unlike most shape-shifters who tend to have either a completely animalistic form or something from between, Slergh's form was influenced by the raw magic which flows through his father, Vergal. This extra dosage of magic influenced his birth in such a way that a second pair of arms became to be upon his shape-shifting form, that which was supposed to be either a full cobra or viper like form. The influence of magic present in his father, some of which he also inherited, influenced his secondary form in other ways as well and thus granted him aspects of at least the two aforementioned species of snake, though the colouring of his scales and the lack of poisonous fangs hints towards the fact of a third snakelike form getting tossed into the mix. Seeing as how the secondary form is innate and present on a completely different plane of reality before the shape-shifters of Geragha finally learn how they can tap into that form and utilize it on will, the secondary pair of arms was not discovered before Slergh had turned thirteen years.
After his thirteenth birthday, Slergh, like his brother Baracca, begun to train on different styles of combat. Slergh was quickly to realize that swords were the weapons that felt easiest to use, and not only that but they were also weapons he could utilize effectively in his secondary form. Despite honing his skills and becoming one of the most esteemed swordsman on the island nation, even surpassing the skill of his father, Slergh also honed his skills of combat with other weapons and tools as well, such as sickles, scythes, hammers, maces, spears and whips, along with learning how to use two bows at once. These skills which his brother envied greatly made him one of the deadliest warriors upon Geragha.
Geragha saw what is known amidst the shape-shifting populace as the Silver Age under the rule of Slergh (Golden Age was under the rule of his father, Vergal) after his father mysteriously disappeared one day. To Slergh and his mother, Lorenei (Half High-Elf daughter of the late Haraderth the Insane who Vergal defeated in combat few years prior to Baracca's birth, who was otherwise pre-occupied on the main continent when Vergal left), Vergal told only that he had made a pact with a deity few years earlier which had secured the peace and prosperity of their island nation. A pact which he now needed to act upon on his own behalf. This Silver Age lasted for five entire years, after which Vergal returned and assumed power once more.
Slergh was never the same after his father returned, for immediately after a portal had abruptly opened in the throne room, through which Vergal fell, his father immediately took control of not only the minds of the guards present in the throne room but the mind of Slergh as well, twisting and reshaping it into something that would better suit the new vision Vergal had received from Taegan in another world. Due to travel between the worlds and how time acted differently in these two worlds, Vergal's secondary form, that of a great crow, had taken a massive physical impact and was literally falling apart. Somehow a part of this deterioration got transferred over to Slergh's secondary form as well, which is why he now tends to use pauldrons over his four shoulders where the decay manifested itself before coming to a halt as quickly as it had begun. Otherwise Slergh's hide is surprisingly resilient, which is why he tends to move without an armour in his secondary form during battles. His altered mind might explain some of his behaviour as well, seeing as how before his departure, Vergal was extremely hesitant to place either of his sons in danger, but after his return sees Slergh as a perfect tool for furthering his own agenda.

Here we see Slergh in what will later become a scene in chapter 3 or 4 of Lightning and Fire, the first book in a series of three fantasy books that I am currently writing, looming over an unfortunate victim who is about to get his head chopped off.

Vergal Garghan, current ruler of the Island nation of Geragha. Known as well with such titles as the Dragon's Son, The Darklord, The Red Lord, The Purple Lord, The Purple Horror, The Herald of the Dark Gods, the Pact maker, and many others:
The man who needs far less introduction than Taegan's alternative form or Slergh's snake-like form. Short story is that he was born to a pair of shape-shifter slaves upon a remote farm somewhere in northern Geragha, back when High-Elf Haraderth was slightly less insane than what he were later. Soon after his birth, a band of escaped slaves happened upon the farm and tried to free his parents as well, but the farm happened to belong to an elf noble who showed great promise in the court of Haraderth and who had more guards than usual. His parents gave him to one of the riders and plead for them to take him away, to give him a better future, before they were brutally beaten and accidentally killed for attempting escape. Vergal managed to live as the band of escaped slaves suffered only minor casualties. Fast forward a few years and he became a prominent figure amidst the new resistance movement. Few years later, upon leading a scouting party, he discovered the place upon which the great cataclysmic event took place hundreds of years ago which created the shape-shifters and eradicated all High-Elves with the exception of infant Haraderth. One of the few and rare veins of pure magic which the High-Elves had tried to harness for their own usage but who had failed so. Vergal lost his footing upon closer inspection and fell into the pool, but instead of suffering immense mutations and/or being ripped to shreds (no one really knows what should happen when one falls into a vein of magic, just that chances of survival are next to none), he emerged with having gained control of his shape-shifting abilities, white hair, and control of magical abilities which would later manifest as control of lightning, weather related magic, and other means of controlling and bending magic to his will. Something that remains within him to this very day.
After the encounter with the vein which sealed itself after serving its purpose while also giving Vergal glimpses of the immediate and far away future (a future which would then be altered and made partly incomplete after his visit to another world), he became the symbol of the resistance and the spearhead of it as well which eventually lead to him fighting with and killing Haraderth, becoming the new ruler of the island, and the start of the first Golden Age. He married the daughter of Haraderth, Lorenei, who his father had had horrifying plans in storage for, and sired two sons: Baracca and Slergh. The former who he seeks to transfer the decay of his shape-shifting form onto, the latter who he has managed to corrupt to serve his own plans.
Here we see him during the aftermath of one of the skirmishes upon the conquest he and the dwarf king, Dorian Arhig, will set upon in Lightning and Fire, hunting down a straggler of the opposing force with the help of his shadow servants, Dragan and Boghos (circling somewhere high above him).

Splendid art by  001cm, known previously as  viiku. Go drown him/her in love and commissions, yes?
Taegan in all shapes and forms, Slergh, and Vergal, all belong to yours truly,  baracca