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Der Nachtkrapp

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The night is here, the Krapp is near~ Stay at home tonight~ But do I not stay at home he pulls me in his world~

Der Nachtkrapp or Nachtkrabb is a horror figure in children’s stories. It’s common in the southern German folkslore. He’s portrayed as a raven like creature and is said to take away the children roaming the streets at night and devouring them.

Another version is he visits the naughty children at night to take them away and devour them.

Blessing of the Raven

Raven, carry my woes, my sorrows, black bird. The raven was primarily seen as an ill omen, a messenger of death and grief. It was strongly associated with witchcraft and shape shifting and was often called "the witch bird".

However, in one of the songs of the ancient Finns the raven was also an empathetic helper; a bird you could trust your sorrows with and it would ease your pain by carrying the woes beyond dark waters so that they would no longer bother anyone.

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OLD GODS - Artworks inspired by Finnish mythology and Folklore

Okay Demon AU, I guess I had to draw you.

Capella is a baphomet, of course. Corbin is some kind of Valravn/Nachtkrapp mix (I interpreted “holes in its wings which cause illness and disease if looked at” as eyes >3>)

This is definitely an AU, they don’t turn into demons or anything. Their default designs are meant to be in a mundane world, basically parallel to ours.

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Sketchember 27 - Valravn

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His name is the Crow King and he he does various wacky things like raid nearby civilizations of their shiny things, broken trinkets, and occasionally kidnapping people :)

Valravns - Appearance

This is just my personal take on valravns. Many elements present here are not found in the source material and instead are inferences or were wholly invented by me. Feel free to use these ideas for your own valravn or valravn-inspired characters!

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The valravn is a liminal being, and each one is unique in appearance. Some appear as gigantic, eight-foot-tall raven raptors, while others are griffon-like hybrids of ravens and wolves. To complicate this matter, valravns are shapeshifters and have numerous forms for different occasions. They may blend into the environment and travel unseen as a mundane raven, then later take on a monstrous form to attack prey. The only consistency between all valravns' true forms is that they all have corvid traits in some way. They may have wolf traits as well, but this is not always the case.

Some valravns are capable of taking on a human form. They tend to give themselves armor when they do so, giving the impression that they are turning into a knight. This guise is not perfect, as there will always be something slightly unsettling and not quite right about them. While a valravn disguised as a raven can remain unassuming indefinitely, a valravn disguised as a human will inevitably be found out.