My Valravn Oc!!

It’s a Valravn…but not the one you recognise…

Hooooowww did people 1) hear the folksong Valravnen about a knight who's been transformed into a bird (likely an eagle, not a raven) and can only break the curse by killing a baby, 2) see that one (1) now-extinct noble family referred to their heraldic beast, a wolf/bird, as a 'valravn', and 3) read one single 1800s countryboy's explanation that valravnen is like an evil valkyrie, and SOMEHOW extrapolate from those three wildly unrelated sources that "The Valravn" (because it's never a folkloric concept with different interpretations, it's always a single specific creature) is a were-wolf/raven who haunts battlefields to drink the blood of slain warriors????

Please stop depicting 'the' valravn when you don't even know what it is, I'm begging on my fucking knees, I hate the way recent Danish folklore-inspired popculture has latched onto this figure and keeps depicting it in wilder and wilder ways😭😭

If you want a folkloric evil bird creature in your story please just use a fucking dragon or gammen. Use a damn cockatrice or vættehane, idgaf. Please just stop muddying the already-confusing lore of valravnen. The figure has been abused enough already and you are making my hobby as a folklorist very difficult😥

Guidance🕯 

A mixed media piece with colored inks, poster color and colored pencils!

Take flight on bladed wings and gloriously cleave through the world’s deception

Valravn design i did for fun!

Starry-eyed.

Fun fact, with this attack complete, I have drawn every valravn/valravn-related character uploaded to Art Fight! (As of 2023 at least.)

Kvasir is the OC of Lemoneymango.

Valravn

Oh hah, Undertale is popular again. Well, er, if you like my art I’ve just started posting a short comic of mine to Tapastic. Click the big raven above.

Also I’m doing a kickstarter for my Graphic Novel. Check that out maybe ;-)

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1171352004/garden-a-graphic-novel

Oh no you forgot to feed the crows!