Recent art: “Long Live the Dying Sun”; “Dark Priestess”
Fangar’s name is Sol, because I figured the phoenixes would totally bestow on him a sun related name before he decides to change it in his rebellion
Cheetahs exist lol i can‘t resist them (the one handing him the snowflake, who is the cheetah in the second image, is named Chalaxis.)
Short literature to go along with the images:
“Once, Sol had idolized the Phoenixes.
Fluminox had been like a father to him, more than only a teacher. He had grown up among the high court of the Sun Children as if he were one of them, and they had bestowed upon him the very name of the great Mother Sun, as if he would become the new ambassador of fire to the tribes below. His fellow groundborn threw themselves at his feet left and right, beseeching his almighty presence, lauding him with praises for the flames he wielded and the power he had.
Though perhaps, he thought, it had become much too hot in Chima lately.
The Phoenixes were bold. They were beautiful, and proud, and haughty. They carried their wings with an arrogant splendor and pretended not to notice they began to scorch the subjects they claimed to love so dearly. The father he had once admired had become a tyrant, and had forsaken the child and locked the fire away.
So he had sought out the ice bears and snow leopards who retreated from the desert heat and learned of the ways their lands stayed cold.
He had only wanted to tame the Phoenixes a bit at first.
But ice was dangerous. Ice didn’t nurture. Ice fell in pretty little drops that soon hardened and became freezing damnation that ate your fingers off. Ice stole the heat from your lungs and left you gasping, but every breath you drew again only fed more of the warmth to that impossible void which gnawed at your ribs until you shivered numb.
And it was intoxicating.
And it left him wanting more.
It was too perfect. Fluminox had left him to die at the bottom of the mountain; now it was time to return the favor.
Could you kill a Phoenix? He had once thought it was impossible. But now Chalaxis held before him the sweet siren call of winter’s approach and demanded a sacrifice from the Sun herself, from the very hands of a son she had abandoned. Yes, you could kill a Phoenix.
Sol smiled. He would gladly oblige.”