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Published: 2023-10-24 15:04:09 +0000 UTC; Views: 616; Favourites: 12; Downloads: 0
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Here's the second picture of my set of 13 monsters, this time focusing on a frightening, yet tragic gorgon...
In the ancient days of Greece, Adara was once an actress beloved for her talent to assume any role that was provided. Beginning as merely a choir performer, she made offerings to Dionysus, and it wasn't long before the muses claimed her. Her ambition grew greater than ever before as she had agreed to perform a version of Perseus and Medusa. This version made to mock the gods as cruel and fickle, Perseus as an unthinking dog, and Medusa the tragic one spurned for nothing. In response to the great shame they experienced, the gods decided, at the climax of the play, to curse Adaria with the role she assumed permanently, a hideous gorgon whose gaze towards the audience transformed them l into stone. Their cheers silenced, Adaria reeled in horror and fled before soldiers could claim her life. Since that dark day, Adaria had been driven mad from her isolation and guilt, assuming her final, permanent role as the cold-hearted gorgon petrifying all unlucky to meet her path...
