Purging; purification; an apotropiac. In Christianity, it signifies penitence; humility; its purgative properties depict innocence regained, hence baptism.
Like darkness, the night signifies the pre-cosmogenic, pre-natal darkness preceding rebirth or initiation and illumination, but it is also chaos; death; madness; disintegration; reversion to the foetal state of the world.
Night is also, according to Hesiod, the ‘Mother of the Gods’, the enveloping, maternal aspect of the feminine power, usually symbolized by a female figure with a star-spangled veil, holding a child, one black (death) and one white (sleep), on either arm; or by the crescent moon, or poppies, or the owl, or black wings.
As all-devouring time, day and night can be depicted as a white and a black rat.
Going by night symbolism esotericism.
[Source: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Traditional Symbols by J.C. Cooper]
By Stephen K. Tollefson for the San Francisco Chronicle:
The headlamp changed everything. There was nothing but that circle of light that didn’t even cover the whole page, just a small chunk of words. To see the next group of words, I had to move my head slightly or move the book. I was no longer reading in a context, but reading each line as it came into view. It was like some old movie: the detective in the dark house rummaging through the suspect’s desk, his flashlight shining on old matchbooks, cigar butts, photos of the wife, until suddenly it settles on the Will, or the Contract or the Old Clipping.
Well folks, a few days ago I finally finished up this project! I’m very proud of the final result and it feels damn good to have a completed comic under my belt.
Tale of the Harbingers is a short lore comic about the world Stormfall, and its upcoming reboot, takes place in, but mostly this was an artistic exercise. If you like pretty illuminated manuscript style pages, ancient legends, and magic origin stories, check it out!
Here we are with the next couple pages of Tale of the Harbingers! Took longer than anticipated as I’m still trying to find my pace with this, but I’m working hard at it! Here we get to introduce the key characters and the Harbingers themselves! Who’s you’re favorite ;)
Aaaand I’m finally back in action! Here we are with the first couple pages of my veerry experimental comic, The Tale of the Harbingers!
Having trouble reading it? Tumblr butchers it, I know. Check it out over on Tapas!
This comic is mostly for the sake of lore and world-building, and is quite literally a book that exists in the universe of the upcoming rewrite of my main series, Stormfall! Expect it to be under 30 pages or so, and since each pages takes me forever and a half, I have no set schedule but hopefully updates will be pretty frequent.
Stylistically, I’m trying out a lot of new things here and some things may be more successful than others. I’m aiming for a mix between an illuminated manuscript, an illustrated children’s book, and a traditional comic book. But the comic part of it is seriously downplayed here, at least for now. But I’ll be messing around alot and hopefully learn a lot from it! I hope you guys enjoy it as much as I do (and god no, the rewrite of stormfall will not be in this style i will literally die)
