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Twilight Dominion - Lemmy.World
lemmy.worldIn the ashen gloom of twilight, the once dormant colossus, Grimclaw the
Terrestrial Titan, awakened with the earth’s groan under his jagged scales. He
marched towards the city of Sorrow’s Reach, his heart a cauldron of ancient
fury, seeking to unleash cataclysmic revenge for the death of his brother,
felled by the hubris of mortal hands. As the shadow of his form blotted out the
waning light, the air itself seemed to weep, anticipating the sorrow he would
bring. But upon his tumultuous arrival, Grimclaw’s wrathful gaze met not the
untouched spires he yearned to topple but a horizon ablaze, with Skyrend the
Celestial Serpent already woven into the city’s fate. The serpent’s girth fanned
the flames of destruction, her feral cries resonating with a triumph Grimclaw
sought to claim. The city, bathed in an inferno of retribution, had become a
pyre of satisfaction stolen. Grimclaw’s sorrowful roar shattered the skies, a
sound of both victory and defeat, for in Skyrend’s chaos, he found the city’s
demise but not by his own claws. A hollow victory that echoed the emptiness
within, as Skyrend’s unleashed fury had usurped not just the city’s future, but
also Grimclaw’s purpose. The unsettling peace that followed was not one of
silence, but of two monsters’ cries entwined in a symphony of lost vengeance and
stolen destiny. ----- I started with this image:
[https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/20a1112a-6893-4bdd-b099-542c5cbe8b3f.png] And
thought it needed a bit more chaos and I ended up reinventing middle earth:
[https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/b196f071-7829-4974-a616-110df6f2782f.png] From
there I thought I needed something more vile and unimaginable and ended up with:
[https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/0caee73c-b973-4abe-889c-eb67d212b535.png] Then
I missed the sense of scale and wonder the first image had and further tweaks
ended up with the title image. I increased the resolution and used inpainting to
fix a few errors that were hard to overlook. Then I wrote a short story and had
Chat GPT fill out that story which I edited further and included above.
I discovered inpainting today! I used it on a few other pieces which I’ll post in the future but this one was the most fun where I used it a good but to touch up the art.
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