Ae rearing up and pushing the darkness away, thus causing the world as we know it to become.

I've tweaked Ae's design a little. I tried to make its head more detailed and realisitic, less cartoony, but still keep some of the chunkyness. I think it looks much more like it's supposed to now, much more like a horse/wolf/lion/dragon

Of course, part of that is also just that my art's improving :3 Maybe some time in the near future I'll actually get the comic this guy's from started.