Tag: fantasy

Golden Fae

The Fae have lived on Earth since before humans learned to make tools…

… oldest, and most enigmatic, are the ‘Golden Fae’. The ‘Golden Ones’ are the elite Fae… they it was who were charged by the even more enigmatic ‘Elder Ones’ to survey and secure the Earth for the arrival of all the other Fae…

… these creatures are the cause of all human myth about ‘angels’… even the legend of Icarus is based on a tragedy that really happened, but to an elite Fae, not a human…

… Golden Fae are ethereally beautiful…

… far too beautiful for mortals to behold, which is why humans evolved a mechanism in their minds that usually prevents them from seeing these astonishing beings. When they do see them, the story is always the same… one of madness caused by impossible desire and sheer lack of any kind of affinity between the races. Even when Golden Fae genuinely try to relate to humans, it’s impossible, for they, themselves, cannot help the strength of their affect on them, and things almost always end badly for the human… the few times they don’t end badly, the result is a human who is no longer totally ‘human’…

… humans have lusted after gold since before they even knew how to remove it from the earth… not because of anything intrinsic in the metal, but because of their encounters with these mind-blastingly gorgeous, golden beings.

Swamp Things

Our recent foray into Pre-Raphaelite-flavoured confection has entirely flavoured our ongoing play…

… we call this style ‘Neo-Raphaelitism’…

… it’s another dimension…

… no-one knows how they got here…

… or what they are even waiting for…

… but it feels right.

Pre-Raph Water Babies

So… we put a lot of work into these gorgeous creatures…

… we wanted fabulous Pre-Raphaelite dreamy romanticism, water, beautiful Victorian gowns…

… and, of course, ethereally gorgeous Pre-Raph babies…

… if you’ve followed our Mj creativity rules, you’ll know we try very hard not to use cliched prompts, because the results are always cliched imagery…

… so we spent hours approaching these sleeping beauties by stealth, creating watery worlds (we love doing water in Mj) with reeds and lilies, without mentioning ‘Pre-Raphaelite’ in our prompts…

… until the last few hours, when we put ‘ophelia’ and ‘pre-Raphaelite’ into the prompts of the almost perfect images we had created, and these are the results…

… a wonderful collection of of Victorian maidens, contentedly sleeping in lily-filled swamps. We also have, as a spin-off from this exercise, a huge amount of less conventional ‘Ophelia-like’ imagery to develop.

Another Realm

While Woodland Fae are hibernating, they are actually existing in another realm…

… this is the realm where they are one with everything that is the substance of their environment…

… they are part of the forest light, part of the woodland pool…

… they are home.

Transformations

We have been working the transformative concept of Faerie hibernation…

… the idea of little woodland Fae physically melding with their environment as they sleep away the Winter…

… while they exist in this state, the Fae themselves are in an alternate reality… they are living in their dreams…

… the forest they serve has reclaimed the magical stuff that their beautiful little bodies are made of…

… not only do they never age, in this state, they regenerate… when they awake in the Spring, they are actually brand new… ageless souls reborn into a perfect, rebuilt body.