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Bringer of Night

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EDIT: A more comprehensive look into what this picture means, since my fanworks have taken a backseat. Thought some people might be interested.

My interpretation of Leptys, the Knaaren God from Rayman 3, as he would appear in a knaaren-centric story that I began in highschool and is still floating abstractly around my brainspace but has very little probability of making it on paper at this point.

A wicked and deceptive but ultimately tragic fallen god, cast down from his seat of power as a mighty god of war and the hunt as punishment for his uprising in the earliest days of a savage, primordial world of clashing dreams and nightmares. Now Leptys is an entity existing on an outer plane, a steward of dark and wild places, and a keeper of the dead. Having at last amassed enough power to extend a piece of himself into the waking world, he now uses the physical body of Reflux to do his grim work. Using Reflux, he incites a rebellion in his children, the Knaaren, and ignites the world in war, promising to bring them out of the desert and into fertile, good lands to return them to a place of power. But his pretenses are false, and the knaaren are little more than canon fodder for his true goal: revenge against the god of dreams who cast him down.
But not all Knaaren are on his side.

Rayman, Leptys, Reflux (c) Ubisoft
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JustALizardHead's avatar
Such an interesting take on the Leptys. It’s unfortunate it didn’t get to do a whole lot ingame aside from Reflux using its power, but I guess that allows for amazing ideas such as this to be born!