Dark Astra [Redraw and Stuff]

"KEVE ECTAU AHUKO KAOCIA CIHOU ECMA ECOME TAUCIVO" - Whispers of the Sword
(Void Speech)

I had to invent a whole language to place the correct runes on the sword. This is one of Astra's last weapon designs, so it should finally have something meaningful carved on it by now.

Void Speech is essentially a dead language in Sonrena, spoken by unspecified divine beings who are long gone and in whom, in the history of Astra, no one believes. It is complicated because it is very abstract, and the same word can be spelled differently, depending on the context and even the intentions of the speaker. This speech is difficult to translate clearly and distinctly, as it is a language of images, not words. It is constructed of amorphous meanings that can be interpreted in different ways, but only the gods themselves could understand exactly what is meant by their messages.

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This is a spontaneous redraw. I usually draw them when I don't feel like doing anything. As you can see from my portfolio, I quite often don't feel like doing anything...
This time, I tried not to get bogged down in details, but to work on the pose and the atmosphere of the art in order to convey something through it... Thanks to Naoki Saito's guidance.