#wyrms

[bluegekk0]

a quick ref for wyrms in the fpk au. weird kaiju sized lizards

#now onto commissions #hollow knight #gekko.art #feral pk au #hk pale king #pale king #au designs #au worldbuilding #fpk #vyrm #wyrms

[antiqueanimals]

Anton Pieck (1895-1987)

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#fantasy #dragons #wyrms #Anton Pieck

[cloudyswritings]

More Wyrm Things

just some more wyrm(and PK) headcanons.

Wyrm:

They don’t really sleep in the same way that other bugs, beasts, and higher beings do? Like it’s something a bit like how dolphins sleep with half their brain, but on a much more diffuse scale. The result is that they don’t sleep but do have more and less active periods.(this is also why PK was immune to the Radiances influence and why he felt comfortable moving his palace into the dream realm)

They’re fully capable of closing their inner throat to avoid taking in excess water if they burrow through a aquifer underground.

Aditionally Wyrms aren’t really bugs so they don’t actually have spiracles like bugs do, I’d make the wager that they’ve got lungs or some other stranger form of respiration.

It actually seems like Wyrms are vertebrates? Like the wyrm corpse has what look like vertebrae. I think the track of evolution on hollownest world probably has a group of creatures with both a skeleton and an exoskeleton. These would be some kind of fusion of reptiles and crustaceans, this is the group Wyrms and their distant kin belong to.

Wyrm meat is very tough, luminous, and highly toxic to most beings. Of course roots can devour a wyrm corpse without issue.

in lower form(ie after dying) most Wyrms choose to be taller than the bugs that worship them and also still mostly rely on touch and scent over sight.

Wyrms like very dry and windy conditions, in fact stagnant air and high humidity will actually cause respiratory issues and begin rusting their outer coat of armor, making it much harder to move and shed.

PK:

He doesn’t like having bugs that don’t share his pale color scheme in his palace for any length of time.

in fact this might be a wyrm thing in general but aesthetics matter a ton to him, like it’s sorta an OCD thing? But he needs things to be on theme, at least where he lives. Colors that complement it(like red) are tolerated.

when he first met the white lady he was terrified of her. She was the only other pale being he’d met, and he expected their meeting to end with one of them consuming the other.

in general he tries to distance himself from the culture Wyrms have, he only indulges his instincts in private.

he’s a messy eater, so when he holds court and does politics he generally doesn’t eat. I think most denizens of Hallownest think that gods just don’t eat because of this.

He has fantastic spacial awareness and impeccable memory. Yes this does mean he remembers every single mask in the abyss intimately.

He nibbles on things when anxious sometimes.

He wears such a long cloak to conceal the parts of his body where his understanding of lower bugs and beings failed and he made mistakes. He’s got some really fucking weird joints, and seethrough bits( especially over his heart, it’s why he wears his part of the kingsoul there.

his head might be mostly hollow tbh, it’s a lot like the maw of his wyrm form, in a sense it’s even appropriate to say he doesn’t have a true face.

Parts of his brain are actually stored in his lower body and chest, not that it really matters because as a god he’d survive even without a body. Though he’d have a harder time with that than the radiance. He’s a god of the physical world and she’s one of the ephemeral world.

he likes the taste of mint, to the horror of the bugs around him(it’s a toxic insect repellent to them)

he has little ingots of metal he eats, like candy bars but very dense. It’s because he needs metal in his diet, something which hornet deeply regrets inheriting from him.

#hollow knight #Wyrms #hk pale king #hk headcanons #speculative biology #hk hornet #Hk higher beings #Gods #what do you think?

[bee-sidebranch]

devious wyrms

#creature art #fantasy #dragon #dragon art #wyrms #some of my sketches i finished digitally #trying new stuff

[thiswyrmdraws]

Autiswyrm pride!!

If you like my art and would like a piece for yourself, I’ll draw you a dragon if you donate any amount to Crips For E-Sims For Gaza! 🍉

#artists of tumblr #art #autism #autistic pride #autistic artist #wyrms #worm on a string #worm off the string #actually autistic #kidcore #kidcore art #scenecore #scenecore art #or so my scene partner told me to tag #artists on tumblr

[monstermonger]

Wyrms (tangled thoughts and feelings)

#old vent art #wyrms #dragons #dragon #art #fantasy #fantasy art #fantasy creatures

[wyrm-clangen]

Swishbeam is so big mad all the time, it feels like the only cats he likes are his moms, Rookrise and Hornetdapple. The boy is literally a nightmare to take anywhere.

For more irrelevant facts, drop a 🐈

#wyrms #clangen #swishbeam

[jbbartram-illu]

I am totally in love with these Wyrmapillars (aka tiny dragons inspired by various Sphinx Moth caterpillars & their false head-tails) - I made five in all, please stay tuned for a video that shows off all of them fully underglazed...

#pottery #ceramics #ceramicsculpture #ceramicart #wyrms #caterpillar #sphinx moth #sphinx moth caterpillar #handbuilding #handbuiltceramics #artblog

[feykrorovaan]

Babe, would you still love me if I was a wyrm?

#feykrorovaan #elder scrolls #tes #skyrim #elder scrolls online #eso #dragon age inquisition #dragon age #tesblr #fantasy #fantasycore #dragon #dragons #wyrm #wyrms #wyverns #babe...babe I need to know #Just answer the question babe #it's important babe

[wyrm-with-a-why]

Transformers as wyrms guys

Megatron and Shockwave

Megatron is blind

Shockwaves teeth close over his eye when he blinks :3

#transformers #megatron #shockwave #maccadam #wyrmformers #wyrms art tag #wyrms #traditional drawing #doodles

[ragsy]

Getting back into drawing with a few fresh WYRMS

#ragsycon exclusive #wyrms #I'm drawing this on my extremely old samsung tablet so i won't be able to finish these at a higher resolution until I'm home #but I'm having fun

[bluegekk0]

Not sure how many people saw the WIP AU page, but on FPK's page I mention that he was born in a place called the Wastelands, and I have an idea of how that looked. Keep in mind, that name might still change, I'm just waiting for some inspiration so I can come up with a better one.

I mentioned in the AU that the area around Hallownest isn't an actual wasteland, it's just incredibly difficult to survive in. I imagine it's more like a rocky mountainside with little to no vegetation rather than an ashy desert. Alongside that, the whole "losing memory after leaving Hallownest" concept isn't a thing in the AU, but I still wanted to preserve the vibe and visuals of that area somewhat, so I thought it would be fun to reuse it for FPK's birthplace.

My main inspiration is the Katpana Desert, a desert which contains large sand dunes, and occasional snow covering the dunes. Since Wyrms in the AU are basically giant skinks with powerful jaws adapted for crushing rocks, they would use the large sand dunes as a means to hide and ambush their prey, digging through the sand and rock underneath and hiding in underground tunnels.

As the Wyrms died out, their carcasses, partially covered in sand, would give this area a notably eerie atmosphere (akin to the Elephant Graveyard from The Lion King, and the wastes we see in Hollow Knight). This would also earn the place its name, one I'm still thinking about. Perhaps something like The Bone Wastes? Well, something in that direction at least. Whatever the place was called in Wyrm language, it has long been forgotten, and not even FPK remembers its name (whether due to memory loss or because he never actually learned it, his mother was too focused on survival to give him history lessons, so there's a good chance he just doesn't know its name).

The temperatures of the area drop quite low in winter, which would mean that FPK is somewhat adapted for cold - though he still prefers warm places and his upper body isn't as protected from low temperatures as his stomach and tail (which store a lot more fat than his chest and shoulders), so a warm shirt would still be very good for him. But it means that Hallownest's winters and the general cold climate don't cause him much trouble.

I might expand on this idea more in the future, but I thought it would be fun to mention.

Here are some pictures of the place, I'd love to do some AU art based on this:

#gekko.txt #feral pk au #au worldbuilding #fpk #vyrm #wyrms

[antiqueanimals]

Anton Pieck (1895-1987)

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#fantasy #dragons #wyrms #snakes #Anton Pieck

[cloudyswritings]

what’s up with the wastes??

The wastes are genuinely one of the most mysterious aspects of hollow knight, and one that I feel Ike not a lot of people think about. We know that bugs, unless protected(Quirrel) or higher beings (Hornet and Grimm) lose their memories in the wastes. We know that the winds in the waste are strong enough to prevent Little Ghost from moving forward past a certain point. We also know that the Pale King came from beyond hallowenest as a wyrm and that most of the Wyrms are dead(Bardoon p much says this). Additionally we also see in game that the corpse of the wyrm blasts a shit ton of wind from its open mouth when we approach it to loot the kings brand.

How does this all come together you may ask? Well I think the answer lies with what happens when Wyrms die. I propose that when a Wyrm dies—either to metamorphose or simply due to wounds— it releases a “Wind” from its corpse. These winds would carry the lingering hungry and animalistic drive of the wyrm, striping Soul and other forms of energy from the surrounding areas and allowing the next form of the wyrm to be free from those urges. These winds would go on to strip the topsoil and moisture from the regions they’re in, essentially propagating the wastes with each wyrm that dies. It’s sort of a dune situation, wherein by dying the Wyrms create more wasteland—which seems to be their natural habitat— and more opportunities for feeding on lost and weekend caravans of bugs trying to navigate the wastes. If we take Bardoon at his word the Pale king is one of, if not the last wyrm around, which would explain the size and difficulty of traversing the wastes. Additionally I think this idea correlates to the distinctly whispery tone that the pale king has on all of his little messages, he’s got a whispery voice because the vast majority of it is busy running amok in the wastes. Any kingdoms beyond the sprawl of the wastes, underground, or protected by a strong enough higher being would probably be safe from the wyrm-winds until circumstances changed. Plus I just think the idea of hearing the whispers of long dead gods on the winds is a dope idea.

#hk pale king #wyrms #hollow knight #speculative biology #its all an excuse for me to justify cool wyrm biology 😭😭 #what do you think?

[fluff-writing]

Thinkin' about Dragons, Wyrms, and Wyverns as they are in Cantankerous.

Dragons are mythical beings; the only two we know of are Tathemet, the literal Sum of All Evil, and Trag'Oul, the Sum of Humanity's Souls (among other things).

They are epic things, and so different from one another that to call them the same thing seems false, at the very least. There's no better word for them though.

Because dragons as a concept are very cool though, I thought Diablo deserved More Dragons. But like. Less mythical-aetherael, more terrifying-beast-that-you-could-slap-a-saddle-on-if-you're-batshit-enough. So, Wyrms.

Sanctuary, and everything in it, was made by angels and demons. Inarius himself had a big part in sculpting the planet, but everything else was made by his host and Lilith's followers. (No one talks about her followers enough smh.)

For the purposes of Cantankerous, Inarius did not make much else. He worked on the oceans, he created Arreat, he had a hand in the forests that became the planet's lungs. But when it came to life on Sanctuary, he left that to everyone else.

Except for Wyrms.

They started small, like little scaley winged snakes, but quickly grew larger and larger.

Large enough to ride even, by certain dour nephalem.

Why he made wyrms is very fanficy (maybe I'll get to it one day), but suffice to say he wanted these things to be powerful, and he wanted them to be his in a way not much else on Sanctuary was. He wanted big living WMDs bound to him by 'blood', such than an angel has it.

All it took was a little light-blood, a bit of willpower, and the worldstone, and Sanctuary had its own dragons. Wyverns were not intentionally made by Inarius, but rather a result of the tuning of the worldstone. Turned out in addition to dampening the nephalem it dampened the planet on the whole, and this included the offspring of his Wyrms.

So Inarius made Wyrms. Initially he made three, one of his own, one for Linarian, one for Lilith. Maybe he made more after that, or maybe he left the lizards to their own devices.

All this to say that this thing

And this thing

Might could be considered half-siblings bcuz of this thing.

Inarius made them both by way of donating his own essence (not like that, step away from the gutter). If that makes him Rathma's father, stands to reason he's the father of anything else made that way. The wyrms just have the worldstone for a mom, where Rat has a Lilith.

#Thinkin #Cantankerous Lore #cantankerous #Pretty sure I've posted like half of the artwork here before #but I'm not positive which half #dragons #wyrms #Inarius #Rathma #I've fudged around with giving Inarius other bratlings and/or giving Rat siblings #I'm a firm believer of Inarius and Lilith only ever having One mutual offspring tho #so only half-siblings #Not me chewing on HotD and spitting it out onto Diablo. #art #rambles

[krystaldragonart]

wyrms in a box

#might make these into a ych #wyrms #dragons #would you still love me if i was a worm #meme #bookwyrm #fanart #my art #dragonair #spyro