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Wocanzeka meets Unktehila by Vorelord
AUP: I did NOT draw or color this image. I paid the artist (credited below) to draw it for me, asking for express permission to cross-post here. QED.
This is an image of the Dragon of Rage, otherwise known by the name of Wocanzeka. (This is the Lakota word for Rage, just as Unktehila is for - reptile monster.)
I gave VERY specific background information and stories to VL for use in inspiration and direction for creating this image, and she read my mind! This is the result. And to scale you have Unk meeting his new, old-time friend, Wocanzeka. She's gotten a bit bigger and more powerful since last he's visited, so he nearly got baked, swiped into the maw and swallowed, in that order.
But fortunately, at the last moment, he escaped his fate by her final recognition. If you look carefully, you can see it just beginning to cross her countenance.
Wocanzeka ©
Sky-Bear
Unktehila ©
bear-paws
Art ©
vorelord original @ http://www.furaffinity.net/view/7391292/
This is an image of the Dragon of Rage, otherwise known by the name of Wocanzeka. (This is the Lakota word for Rage, just as Unktehila is for - reptile monster.)
I gave VERY specific background information and stories to VL for use in inspiration and direction for creating this image, and she read my mind! This is the result. And to scale you have Unk meeting his new, old-time friend, Wocanzeka. She's gotten a bit bigger and more powerful since last he's visited, so he nearly got baked, swiped into the maw and swallowed, in that order.
But fortunately, at the last moment, he escaped his fate by her final recognition. If you look carefully, you can see it just beginning to cross her countenance.
Wocanzeka ©
Sky-BearUnktehila ©
bear-pawsArt ©
vorelord original @ http://www.furaffinity.net/view/7391292/
Category Artwork (Digital) / Vore
Species Western Dragon
Size 1280 x 1126px
File Size 1.63 MB
Thanks. I definitely wanted to work with VL to create something epic, like one of the Hildebrandt type images that went with Tolkien's books. This is damned close, imho. It has elegance and beauty in the character, shows a dragon's avarice, the threatening appearance of their body and facial features, and their terrifying size! Plus the color palate is just perfect! Just a lot to love about this image, one of her classics which I get to "own" in a sense... still her copyright.
Coincidentally, I actually have a commission being posted tomorrow or so in which the artist drew me with digitigrade too and I have plantigrade lol. But this commission has 7 characters in it and I didn't notice it until the main part of the drawing was already done so I couldn't mention it at that point.
Great art, and always nice to see dragons in a North American setting (since the belief in them is quite universal, as my upcoming book illustrates.
Keeping with the 'American Dragon' backstory though, it would have been great if the dragon's hoard better reflected the treasures of Native Americans, instead of the coins of the Old World. Things like Aztec and Mayan gold artifacts, turqoise, jadeite, etc, even exquisitely made and painted ceramics. Of course, maybe he 'migrated' to America after Europeans invented firearms, and brought his treasure with him. Dragon sightings drop markedly around the same time hand held firearms came into wide use, though there is no evidence any human has ever killed one.
Keeping with the 'American Dragon' backstory though, it would have been great if the dragon's hoard better reflected the treasures of Native Americans, instead of the coins of the Old World. Things like Aztec and Mayan gold artifacts, turqoise, jadeite, etc, even exquisitely made and painted ceramics. Of course, maybe he 'migrated' to America after Europeans invented firearms, and brought his treasure with him. Dragon sightings drop markedly around the same time hand held firearms came into wide use, though there is no evidence any human has ever killed one.
Unk isn't even from Earth, so this could be a meeting in Norrath, which has some earth analogue civilizations, but surprisingly, no actual Native American, including Aztec, Inca, or Mayan, influence save for maybe some pyramids and temples - but the insides are not culturally correct. These coins for example are gigantic. It's very likely her hoard is partly some hill giant treasure (especially seeing that certain jewelry fits her), and coinage, along with certain elfin or human-made shields or ornate serving platters made from gold, and other ornamentation perhaps pried off temple walls.
I'd place her better in Norrath, and probably Antonica, than I would North America. At least there, a great many dragons are known to still thrive.
I'd place her better in Norrath, and probably Antonica, than I would North America. At least there, a great many dragons are known to still thrive.
I am unsure if I agree she's Antonican, as she could be from Velious, for even the Ring of Scale included fire dragons and was as you know based there, and indeed held great wealth as well as power. She's not secreted away in a typical Velious volcanic mountain, but who's to say how deep this lair is? And with elements and spirits of fire, not to mention Djinn, how easily a volcanic environment can be had...?
Velious would be my guess.
Velious would be my guess.
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