u/Dewohere

Some additional context for those wearing context-hats, context-shirts and carrying context-signs:

The term "anthropocene" is used, in universe, to refer to to the time where humanity was the "dominant species".

For point 4: Humans have developed a reputation as "being incapable of considering non-humanoids to be people", the most prominent reason for that being the consumption of Kelpwyrm children by some human fishers over the early decades and centuries after the apocalypse.

Point 5: This is an often recited phrase by more or less anti-human groups.

I am a big fan of how this one ended up looking. Very happy with the design. Maybe I'll finally start using my sona for something with this.

Decided to use this character for some more posing practice today. It was a relatively quick drawing.

The one on the right is a spider-taur, but its hard to tell because they are out of frame.

This is a former human character from a story of mine. Still need to make a sheet for his partner you may have seen here before.

This takes place in my setting, The Changing, where reality broke in the year 2020, altering everything from the landscape to the people to the fundamental laws of reality.

"The Scions of Sol are a fourbeast culture/religious movement believed to have spawned out of anatolia west of the strait of Solomon's Solution. They believe that before the breaking of reality Father Sun and Mother Moon co-ruled over Earth in physical form, but Moon became greedy and tried to seize all power for herself, the ensuing battle causing the fracturing of reality that plagues us to this day.

In the end, Father Sun won and banished Moon off the Earth, but became so wounded himself that his incarnation too returned to the sky to heal.

in his absence, the Scions of Sol are tasked to prepare the Earth for his return and to root out any followers of the moon. Interestingly, an opposing cult centered around the moon with a very similar creation myth exists and the two of them regularly clash with each other to this day.

The Scions of Sol are, like many fourbeast societies, both a settled and a nomadic fourbeast culture, being split into essentialy two camps. One camp settles down in places and builds actual towns. If you are going to interact with the Scions, these are probably the safer bet. They tend to be the less fanatic members of their culture. Just don't bring up your own religious beliefs or lack thereoff to them. Potentially bad idea.

In opposition to the settled camp are the Solar Crusaders, small warbands roving the Changing, looking for moon worshippers to purge and trying to spread the faith. In practice, anyone not worshipping the sun is treated as a potential moon worshipper, though other sun-focused cults, even if having vastly different beliefs, are surprisingly accepted by them. As long as you worship the sun, most of them don't appear to care about the details at all.

Though, the Solar Crusaders do regularly get into fights with almost everyone else in the Changing, many of the more militarily strong cultures having adopted a 'shoot on sight' philosophy at this point. One more reason for this is that the Solar Crusaders feel themselves entitled to entering your settlements and roughly snopping around for moon worshippers, only to have the gall to shout at you when you try to kick them out. One recent event, where Solar Scions lynched a 17 year old human lead to a small-scale coalition war where around 700 Solar Scions and 200 Humans and associated allies died.

Overall, their societies tend towards pastoralism over hunting for meat. The Scions of Sol have a religious head, the Emperor of Western Anatolia, who is believed to directly hear the words of Father Sun."

Just some creatures from a worldbuilding project of mine. I am very fond of them.

Just two of my dragons enjoying each other's presence.

Rule 2: Worldbuilding context:

This takes place in The Changing, where reality broke in the year 2020, altering everything from the landscape to the people to the fundamental laws of reality. This post in particular is regarding one species of people known as kelpwyrms.

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Out, in the Changing, you will, inevitably, come across more or less dangerous phenomena and these things are just one of many.

They entice kelpwyrms, dimming and brightening in their languages, speaking of sweet things, enticing them to come closer till the poor things wrap themselves around them.

They can't let go. They can't bring themselves to do it, even if they want to. And so, they slowly starve, their bodies rotting, wilting and being fed on by all the creatures around them, entirely unaffected by that alluring glow.