+THE CEREMONIAL ROOM+

Cold grips you here in the forbidden room. The secret passage behind the wall was open, and you found your way down into the dark vault. Along the main path you walked, passing rotting doors and snaking tunnels leading away into solid black. You stay on the path, but the corridor gets darker and colder. Every step you can see fewer sconces and soon, you are wandering blind, and cold.

That is, until something glitters in the darkness.

Something is glowing; soon you see the vague shape of a door. Getting closer to it you can see this door isn’t exactly inviting. While heat seems to be flowing from the crack between it and the floor, the door is a solid black, but you can’t make out the material. It is inscribed heavily with red symbols arranged in flowing script from top to bottom. It has an unsettling aura about it, and it vaguely smells of brimstone. The door’s handle appears to be made of bone, but between this strange door and that dark forever, you make your choice, and open the door.

Behind that strange door is a dark stone chamber. The room itself is made of nearly entirely black stone, with a small altar at the back of the room. It is dark, but a warmer darkness than the numb abyss you wandered in from. Light plays around the room emanating from a single lance window, set with translucent red glass, giving the moon’s light a sinister taint.

There is movement in the center of the room, and turning you see five tomes are suspended In the air. The books are bound by some spell to flutter, as they are, more of that strange script covering the pages giving the books a soft red glow.

At your approach, the words on the book leak from the pages, and into the air. The letters of the tomes slip out, and circle around you, ushering you into the center, and then the letters descend into your head.

Horns sprout from your head, and great wings grow from your shoulders. Vicious claws curl out from your nails, and your legs become demonic hooves. As the words settle down, the instruction ends. You take a step with your mighty hooves, and flap your great wings. The ritual is complete, and you have become the DEMON


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One of the enemies that used to kill me repeatedly in Castlevania: Circle of the Moon was the Earth Demon, in the first level. Since Shadowfox also shared a love this game, his demon was tailored after this creature. The room is named after the final level of that game where Dracula is faced.

This is why the previous devil image was not labeled as a demon – I already had one!

August Experimental Sketch: Shadowfox
Last Month’s reward for the $25/Month tier
Theme: +Cursed Mansion+
Photoshop
2016
~Age

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