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Published: 2018-06-10 00:50:49 +0000 UTC; Views: 1474; Favourites: 37; Downloads: 0
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The Fractal Sphinx is a massive organism hidden in caverns beneath the Pyramids of Giza. The central body is a massive immobile disk, projecting dozens of long branching limbs out into a network of tunnels. Each tentacle branch has a central node, each time with shorter and fewer limbs. If you could see the entire creature from above it would look something like a snowflake made of tan fleshy petals and armored tentacles.The petals on each node cover a mass of shapeshifting tissue, able to take many forms. Fractal Sphinxes use these to lure prey and communicate, changing shape and colour in a complex semaphore language. In rare occurrences it can use it to form a face in order to interact directly with humans.
This is actually a super old piece, one of the first I did digitally. It was inspired by "Under the Pyramids".
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OutbackRanger78 [2020-10-21 11:00:02 +0000 UTC]
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ValhaHazred In reply to OutbackRanger78 [2020-10-21 18:58:36 +0000 UTC]
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grazatt [2019-12-29 14:16:12 +0000 UTC]
That is a really awesome interpretation of what ever was under there in that story
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Xhodocto385 [2019-08-18 06:05:57 +0000 UTC]
how would you envision the origin of this Fractal Sphinx?, it looks like it came from subspace itself.
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ValhaHazred In reply to Xhodocto385 [2019-08-18 07:11:23 +0000 UTC]
I think it's a construct of Nyarlathotep. It guards the secret subterranean tomb of Nephren Ka.
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BassoeG [2018-06-10 03:12:14 +0000 UTC]
I remember being involved in designing this guy. Well, re-designing it. Credit for the mythological sphinx goes to the Persians, Egyptians and Greeks, credit for the sphinx sculpture goes to the Egyptians, credit for the original story goes to Lovecraft, credit for the idea of the monster being shaped like a living fractal goes to me on Sufficient Velocity back in 2015 and credit for this picture goes to ValhaHazred.
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ValhaHazred In reply to BassoeG [2018-06-10 03:37:36 +0000 UTC]
Yep! I even cribbed some of your phrasing in the description. Hope you don't mind!
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