Just A Normal Bird

The raven flies in the evening. It will have bad luck, for it can not have good.

If a raven eats the heart of an unburied king or chieftain that died in battle, the raven transforms into a valravn. This transformation gives the valravn great intelligence and superhuman strength, but it often turns them evil and manipulative as well. They are terrible creatures.

from Danske Sagn: Som De Har Lyd I Folkemunde. Image source.

Trust?

Or a deathwish?

Maybe a bit of both. But how far are you willing to go to help your best friend

Chase, my boy, my sweet pink bi disaster. Do you need some water because you seem a little... thirsty.

Meanwhile Zephyr is TOO ACE to realise what he is doing to the poor lad crushing so hard on him.

Bonus image of Zephyr without the jacket:

Throw back to one of my favourite artworks of Valravn from 2019

Valravns - Behavior

This is just my personal take on valravns. Many elements present here are not found in the source material and instead are inferences or were wholly invented by me. Feel free to use these ideas for your own valravn or valravn-inspired characters!

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By the nature of their existence, valravns are intelligent and dangerous creatures. A hunger for human hearts does not easily lend itself to a charitable personality. Their hunger dictates their every action.

They are experts at fighting in their many forms, striking precisely where and how they need to. Most of the time, however, valravns pick alternatives to outright violence. A clever predator does not need to hunt prey, all it needs to do is trap it.

A valravn always has some sort of deceptive plot in mind. They have a habit of using trickery in their words or only telling half-truths when making deals with mortals. Unlike the fae, this is not a case of magic compelling them to do so. They simply have a sick sense of humor, taking joy in the despair of the mortals they have tricked.

Valravns can either be nomadic or have a set territory. Typically, younger ones are nomadic while older ones settle, but this is by no means definite. Nomadic valravns fly from one bloodied battlefield to the next, something that is easy for their keen senses to find. Settled valravns typically take up some remote locale, like a forest or island, and reign it with iron claws and beak.

Valravns, much like mundane ravens, are mostly solitary. They may take on a mate, typically another valravn, but sometimes some other monster, or rarely even a human. Valravns are fiercely loyal to their mate, to the point of madness. Anything less than perfect for their other half is unacceptable and must be corrected. A valravn separated or, gods forbid, denied their mate would be a truly twisted and insane monster indeed.

Valravns may also be accompanied by their young. These chicks may be naturally born, humans they turned into their own, or even a mix of both. Their young typically accompany their parents until they reach maturity, at which point they leave their parents' side and strike it out on their own.

*SKÁLD plays in the distance*

Two pages I made for the Russian project “Mythbook III”, the final art-book in the series. Autor’s interpretation of the Scandinavian mythology. So many thanks to my friend Kahito for the help with the main illustration.

This a little story about pilots Harmund Becker (Archibald’s old squad-mate), Archibald Verneski and Artificial Intelligence “VALRAVN” (He belongs to Harmund). “VALRAVN” lost his mind and created his new body out of pieces of scrap-metal and human bodies. After this he wanted to change his pilots and to give them “a new live”, but these acts just killed them. P.S. It’s just a dark-AU, not a real part of my “Russian Roulette” story. All characters are alive.

OCs, story and art © Lurelin

You're gonna give me a heart attack!

Oh yeah, it's the BIG ONE. At the end of Art Fight 2021 I got the idea of making an attack of every valravn on the Art Fight website. 2022 arrived, I set out to do just that. It took the entire month, but in the end I pulled it off! This is one of the most complicated pieces I've ever drawn. Thank you to everyone that loved it, you made it all worth it ❤

You can find it on Art Fight here. Below are the tags of everyone included that's on Tumblr (if their Tumblr accounts were linked to their Art Fight accounts, anyway).

@silverspleen @braindeadmuppet @thelittleanimals-artblog @crow-fangs @ferretpeets @abilitayy

A wip for uhhhh