Anzeige/Advert▪️What’s your favourite creepy creature 😈🖤? I love the story of Valravn but I also feel really drawn to Norse fairies that are luring men to their death 🧚💀🌱 . . . Picture taken by the talented @phirst.blood 🖤 Edit by @maimagi ✨ Awesome raven masks @francescosanseverinomask #gothic #witches #goth #pagangoth #valravn #huginandmunin #witchy #occult #pagan #manicmoth https://www.instagram.com/p/B1bkShkCqGL/?igshid=17ie1ubqwwa67
Drew some griff heads
Top: Hippogriff and Gryphon
Bottom: Valravn and Owlbear
- I gave all the caniform griffs turkey vulture noses for the sense of smell. Owlbears and valravns can track down prey or carcasses from miles away.
- Griffs have fins. The fin down their neck is used for cooling off or social signaling. In griffs that pack or pair hunt the fins are bright red. For griffs that live in colder climates the fins are often reduced and able to fold under the feathers.
- Owlbears are flightless. Their wings evolved into sharp defensive spurs.
- Owlbears are also primarily nocturnal. Gryphons are diurnal hunters. Both hippogriffs and valravn tend to be more active at dawn/dusk.
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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"The raven flies in the evening. It will have bad luck, for it can not have good." Dedicated to showcasing everything valravn. (Icon/Header by Zel204)
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