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Project Pantheon - Typhon

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Part 2 of the "Grand Monsters" series! Representing tried and true Greek Mythology and the Permian Extinction event, Typhon! Or as he's sometimes known in the setting of Divinitus, Zeus' personal kaiju of war!

If Behemoth was a doozy to detail, then Typhon was truly a temporary trip to Insanity, to say nothing of the design process! You see, Typhon's description in the mythology is super hard to pin down, I mean his features included: a hundred snakes on his shoulders, dragon hands, wings, vipers for legs and wings! At first I was wondering a hundred ways to try and suit him to the sci-fantasy nature of the settings, and I tried to remain true as possible... but I was roadblocked in every way. Then it hit me... All his descriptions revolved on how he was a fiery, furious beast, and I knew the perfect Mass Extinction theme for him, The Permian Extinction, where Siberia literally exploded into a mass of volcanism. And so, Typhon became a magma monster that takes features from several Permian lifeforms, with a distorted Gorgonopsid as his "main" head. The magma aspect also has the advantage of giving him shapeshifting, meaning he can fit all the descriptions from greek mythology, while still be able to have a default form that's much, much easier to draw consistently. Shading was an absolute beast, as because he's a lava monster, it needed to be more intense, but also an air of messiness to it, to make the molten rocks feel like their constantly in motion.

In-universe, Typhon is basically's Zeus ultimate form of gunboat diplomacy... and ICBM. During the final days for the fight for our home Galaxy (called the Omni-War), Zeus unleashed Typhon as a last resort weapon against the rest of the Pantheons, up until his eventual exile by The Archangel Michael, who used Behemoth as a counter. Unlike Behemoth and Michael however, Zeus' and Typhon's relationship is not one of begrudging respect. Zeus forces Typhon to fight for him, via a series of devices (invented by Hephaestus for the war) that directly attacks Typhon's ability to maintain a single form, like a combination between a shock collar and nanomachines. As a reward for giving him victories against alien pantheons however, Zeus allows to do give Typhon free reign to cause destruction wherever he feels like it, sometimes Zeus even has a "reserve" Dyson Sphere just to let Typhon do whatever he wants. But after a while, Zeus forces him back to his cell in Tartarus, keeping him in storage until he needs him once again to fight an enemy. Typhon despises Zeus, as he always does, but knows that if he were to fend for himself, it'll be him against all the other Pantheons and their monsters, such is his infamy. And so Typhon stews in his prison, waiting for another chance to duke it out with his fellow Grand Monsters.

The next in the series will be Fenrir, representing Norse Mythology and the Ice Age.
Previous: Behemoth
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