Unseelie
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Softsweet is the flautist of the Unseelie Orchestra. A woman by day, and an owl by night, she can only play her enchanted instrument at dusk when her body is between her two shapes. It is then that she is most enarmoured of song and light.
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Rook-in-the-Garret holds the position of First Violin in Her Majesty’s Royal Orchestra of the Unseelie Court.
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...or Good Faerie, Bad Faerie. Can you figure out which is which? ;)
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Wiki Entry In Irish legend, a banshee wails around a house if someone in the house is about to die. There are particular families who are believed to have banshees attached to them, and whose cries herald the death of a member of that family. Traditionally, when a citizen of an Irish village died, a woman would sing a lament (in Irish: caoineadh, [ˈkiːnʲə] or [ˈkiːnʲuː], “caoin” meaning “to weep, to wail”) at their funeral. These women singers are sometimes referred to as “keeners” and the best keeners would be in much demand. Legend has it that, for five great Gaelic families: the O’Gradys, the O’Neills, the O’Briens, the O’Connors, and the Kavanaghs, the lament would be sung by a fairy woman; having foresight, she would sing the lament when a family member died, even if the person had died far away and news of their death had not yet come, so that the wailing of the banshee was the first warning the household had of the death. In later versions the banshee might appear before the death and warn the family by wailing. When several banshees appeared at once, it indicated the death of someone great or holy.[2] The tales sometimes recounted that the woman, though called a fairy, was a ghost, often of a specific murdered woman, or a woman who died in childbirth.[3] Banshees are frequently described as dressed in white or grey, and often having long, fair hair which they brush with a silver comb, a detail scholar Patricia Lysaght attributes to confusion with local mermaid myths. This comb detail is also related to the centuries-old traditional romantic Irish story that, if you ever see a comb lying on the ground in Ireland, you must never pick it up, or the banshees (or mermaids – stories vary), having placed it there to lure unsuspecting humans, will spirit such gullible humans away. Other stories portray banshees as dressed in green, red or black with a grey cloak. They are common in Irish and Scottish folk stories such as those recorded by Herminie T. Kavanagh. They enjoy the same mythical status in Ireland as fairies and leprechauns. Banshees continue to appear in modern fiction that deals with mythology, folklore or the supernatural.
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Capture in Second Life, some light effects added in Photo Shop.
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DAZ/Paint.Net In much folklore, the Unseelie Queen is also usually the Queen of the Winter Court. However, I’ve always thought of her as volcanic and mercurial as opposed to icy. I will give that she can be cold and calculating (I’ve read a few stories where she murdered the Seelie King and father of her unborn son, then bound said son in enchantments to keep him from being an effective ruler so she could take over the Seelie or Summer Court.) In any event, this is is my take on her. The only thing I’m not entirely happy with is her bodice…I’ll keep working on that, I guess. =D
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One little monster from my 12 monster series titled “We Monsters”.
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One little monster from my 12 image series titled “We Monsters”.
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One little monster from my 12 monster series titled “We Monsters”.
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One little monster from my 12 monster series titled “We Monsters”.
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One little monster from my 12 monster series titled “We Monsters”. Best to view large… :)
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One little monster from my 12 monster series titled “We Monsters”.
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I’m not big on fan art (have too many ideas of my own demanding to get out), but I had to do a piece from Laurell K. Hamilton’s Kiss of Shadows, as Doyle is such a delicious character. / hand inked, digital color
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