Bestiary artwork for Endless Realms, a D&D-like "pen and paper" fantasy RPG I'm working for.

While normally I get a mix of different kinds of creatures, this monster block consisted of entirely corrupted spirits. The world(s) of Endless Realms has a number of gods, but they are normally quite removed - spirits, on the other hand, thrive in the Corporeal Realms of mortal races, often creating symbiotic relationships with its people, places, and principles, inhabiting places such as villages, forests or rivers, or representing concepts such as harvest or war. However, sometimes these spirits grow hungry for power and become corrupted, twisted versions that feed off the world rather than nourish and balance it - for these various concepts, I've tried to capture the darker, nastier essence of what they represent. The art director required all the spirits to be humanoid, but requested that they all be "eerie and strange" - I took that quite liberally. There's a lot that can be done with the basic humanoid shape, and alternatively making them all "people with different horns and bits on them, or wearing different outfits" seemed terribly boring.

Inspired by the idea of a Corrupt Harvest Spirit, I came up with a corrupt spirit of spring, normally a spirit of rejuvenation and rebirth, but warped into a fearsome, twisted creature, mother of abomination and mutation. My husband and I call her the cancer fairy :V If you find the eye-spikes creepy, maybe this will make you feel better?

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