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Some more creature concept arts for Subventure, my upcoming RPG.
Like the precedent batch, theses ones are creature from the surface who mutated in the deep tunnels and forgotten sewers of Circande, the capital of supernatural.

Angora Doglodytes are a breed of Cynoptere, a race of giant bats, akin to wolf and dog of the surface. Angora Doglodytes are loved for their loving and joyful traits, their cudly fluffy fur and their big size, who makes them good “watchbats” for underground houses.

Klabauters, also nicknamed “Tinker-Beavers” by the Surfaceans, are not actually beavers in origins. They are derivated from rats and water-rats. But their similarities with beavers are many: their tail flattened to make them good swimmers, they grew in size, and they are famous for building dams, blocking and flooding entire tunnels… Wood is rare in the tunnels, so Klabauters build their dams and “villages“ with whatever they can find, and it mostly implies stealing from the tunnel’s inhabitant. They steal motors parts, metallic foundations, precious objects, anything… all in all, Klabauters cause as much damage by stealing than by meddling with underground rivers. They are the goblins of the tunnels, the tricksters, hated by most.

Odiloraptors, sometime called Nessies or Bad-Beackies, are a huge race of birds, mostly featherless, carnivorous, agressive and dangerous. They have regressed so much they are close to be identified as dinosaurs again, and originate the urban legend of T-rex in the sewers. Except that they are the descendant of swans… hard to believe that such a beautiful breed of birds could become this hideous hunters. You could distance them on land, though they have great jump and acceleration they can’t run for a long time. But be cautious in water. They are amazing swimmers, and their long neck reminds many people of plesiosaurs…

All of this.

Illustrations by Luca Mosqa

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I’ve become interested lately in designing creatures that require feeding on mental/psionic energy rather than material matter to live.

Elgazers are a small species of psionic predator. The “eye” is actually a complex feeding organ. It emits a beam of psionic energy at the target that acts on the mind like digestive juices, unraveling the target’s cognition. The elgazer follows the prey until it is incapacitated and then draws in the partially digested psionic material through the feeding organ. They may attack fully sapient beings in self defense, causing lapses in cognition which can lead to permanent damage of the psyche if left untreated. 

Illustration by Amy Watson

And reminiscent of Larry Elmore’s classic Gamma World one-eyed bat-fungus, the Obb:

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