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This is a character design for yet another background project of mine dealing with the demons in the Goetia , or Lesser Key of Solomon. I like the Goetic demons a lot so they're in a lot of my projects. nn; This is part of a story about the [HEAVILY revised] history of magic and mages, and it involves a lot of demons. This is my design for Astaroth in it.

Astaroth is female here because the demon Astaroth actually evolved from the goddess Astarte. A lot of demons under the Judeo-Christian set of beliefs are rewritten deities from other cultures, actually. Anyways, she's a character who's constantly in flux due to the strange circumstances of her growth, and actually switches gender upon occasion. [There's no real difference after the gender switch except for the change in build.]

Slayers fans may be interested to know that the Mazoku Lords were based on five demons from the Goetia. If you take a look at that page I linked, Bune, Astaroth, Eligos, Ipos, and Vepar each have sigils that match the Lords. They also have some similar descriptions in several cases. Astaroth is the demon that shares Fibrizo's sigil.

Drawn in ballpoint pen with no presketching, which would account for the sort of strange poise there, and a lot of the roughness.

Description
This is a character design for yet another background project of mine dealing with the demons in the Goetia , or Lesser Key of Solomon. I like the Goetic demons a lot so they're in a lot of my projects. nn; This is part of a story about the [HEAVILY revised] history of magic and mages, and it involves a lot of demons. This is my design for Astaroth in it.

Astaroth is female here because the demon Astaroth actually evolved from the goddess Astarte. A lot of demons under the Judeo-Christian set of beliefs are rewritten deities from other cultures, actually. Anyways, she's a character who's constantly in flux due to the strange circumstances of her growth, and actually switches gender upon occasion. [There's no real difference after the gender switch except for the change in build.]

Slayers fans may be interested to know that the Mazoku Lords were based on five demons from the Goetia. If you take a look at that page I linked, Bune, Astaroth, Eligos, Ipos, and Vepar each have sigils that match the Lords. They also have some similar descriptions in several cases. Astaroth is the demon that shares Fibrizo's sigil.

Drawn in ballpoint pen with no presketching, which would account for the sort of strange poise there, and a lot of the roughness.