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灵禽真君 - Avian Lord-Ancestor

Added 2024-09-12 23:21:28 +0000 UTC

"What if the ancestral patron deity of the bird yaoguai is so old, he's an actual dinosaur."

Here is the winner of the art poll! It was actually a tie between this and Samus, and I decided to go with first come first serve, as this guy was on the lead first. Which is fine, 'cause I'm happy I got to draw this guy out.
Little known fact, but I'm actually a huge fan of the many new modern reconstructions of dinosaurs in paleoart, such as this one for the various raptors. There's just something so tangible and "real" about them, like it makes me feel oddly that same sort of melancholy as when you are a kid looking at dinosaurs and realizing you can never meet them irl.
To the point, its actually a little hard for me to go back and look at some of the dinosaur stuff where they don't have feathers or otherwise utilize modern reconstructions hahaha. Oh well, its not like those Jurassic World movies look to be any good anyway lol

Traditionally (at least in Journey to the West's take on it), I don't think yaoguai are supposed to live super-long, so I dunno how the Avian Lord-Ancestor got to live for so long. Either he really is an actual xian, or Immortal, or knows something we don't...
(his outfit is roughly based on elements of Zhou dynasty clothing too, also)

EDIT: It is now colored! I'm just gonna edit it here rather than make a new post so close to the prior post.

Also bonus lineup. What a pantheon;