Ray Etherna

<div style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://pp.userapi.com/c636922/v636922726/1dcd0/uULvKeJgxHk.jpg" style="width: 229px;"> </div> In two words — I am a freelance artist, passionate about my work! I spend all of my current time and resources on commercial art and projects. What more could an artist, loving art in all forms, dream of? ...But let me tell you about the Excruciating Pain of a creator, who has long-living and beloved personal projects, but is bind hand and foot by work! About all the moments, when idea or image hits suddenly, you instantly grab a pencil and a sketchbook but - hold it!  You stop. Inhale, exhale. Make a short note in the sketchbook as a reminder for the future and put it aside to get back to work ) Needless to say, this specific "future" is so rare to come!.. This Patreon is a hope and a mean to redirect more and more of my time and inner resource on my own setting that keeps my true "essence", sense of aesthetics and symbolism.  With your help and support the world that has been living in my mind for more than 10 years will finally blossom and show itself to you! First in the form of illustrations, articles and comic strips.  Later — as artbooks and world guides, completed stories and, hopefully, even games and goodies.   Here you will find all the finished illustrations, concepts, wips, sketches and information on this headworld as soon as new content appears! So what Headworld are we talking about? <ul style="font-weight: bold;"><li>First and foremost, it is Raekterrna, a semi-futuristic, fantasy/ sci-fi world.</li></ul> Raekterrna in general is a dualistic world with two layers of reality co-existing and interacting with each other: Maol realm and material world.  An aether star, Numen, is shining over it and aether permeates the world's whole existence and all the living beings, residing on Raekterrna.  Aether is a world energy, while Maol realm is a "metaphysical" layer of the world which, in its turn, has its own layered structure. Maol realm and aether are commonly associated with spiritual aspects, parapsychology and supernatural phenomena — yet, in fact, Maol is a space that exists within the laws of physics. While much of this knowledge remains a theory (similar to our multiverse concept) in Laurem's scientific circles it's consistently classified as a sub-dimension. Still, the townsfolk often regard aether as "magic," but its influence is much broader: it is not only fuel and cause of supernatural (in our perception) phenomena, actions or beings, but is also associated with the notorious bio fields, energy of different areas of the material world, and etc. Thanks to aether, many phenomena, that would be considered fiction or scientifically not proven on Earth, are a part of common everyday life on Raekterrna. <div> Maol is a realm for the metaphysical beings, commonly referred to as maol dwellers or maobytes. One of the most notable of them are Animas, a class of symbiotic aether creatures. It's common for them to form connection with human partners and give them specific abilities in exchange for first hand experiences and information of the tangible world, as well as an opportunity to further explore the intricacies of anima-human relations and many other things. Animas are also using this information later to shape the image of Maol realm.</div>Similarly to people, each individual anima has own personality and experience, but at the same time they are like scientists, reformers and informers of Maol.  For people of Raekterrna, existence of Maol &amp; its inhabitats and laws of aether is a common knowledge that was long ago implicated into their culture, religion and overall mindset.  <ul><li>Aside from Raekterrna, there is also a young fantasy world Mekiyah, home of Lungaroux, mekiyan harpies, dragon people and the curse of Saroh...</li><li>...and, of course, my personal characters of the Vilous universe, sci-fi/fantasy world created by  <a href="https://www.patreon.com/mick39/posts" target="_blank">Mick39</a> &amp; <a href="https://www.patreon.com/Tenteraten" target="_blank">Kiki-UMA</a> — Gaeddar (featured by his short name in one of the official Vilous manga stories), Alba and others who live in my heart but which I never had an opportunity to get featured yet. </li></ul> <div> Now, how does this Patreon work? I won't be keeping any of the setting materials behind the tiers: each and every SFW piece &amp; fixed concept will be released in early access and become public eventually. Ninety percent of setting content, even in publically available form, will remain on Patreon without being showcased in any other accounts/galleries of mine. So if you strictly want to follow my worldbuilding process &amp; personal art, you'll be able to do so for free. </div> <div>What the tiers offer is: 1. NSFW art and monthly archives in general, which means you'll have everything accessible in one place, without needing to check several other accounts. 2. Direct involvement in personal project development. 3. Discount benefits. 4. Occasional free art rewards. That's about it folks! Welcome to my quest to creative freedom &lt;3</div>

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<li>Access to concepts in development and detailed text descriptions</li>
<li>Monthly art archive, including NSFW, as well as access to full art directory from 2017 to present time </li>
<li>WIPs</li>
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☉  Laurem Dweller

All of the above plus:<ul><li>Early access and discounts to adoptables, YCHes and other art events</li><li>High resolution png files per request</li><li>10% discount on any type of commissions</li></ul>

☤  Animite

All of the above, plus: <ul><li>15% discount on setting-based custom character commissions.</li><li>Seasonal WitchKraft art requests. </li></ul>

♠️  Senturion

Laurem Dweller &amp; Animite's features, plus:<ul><li>WILD CARD — each intigam can perform a monthly chance hit and get a tier specific reward of the closest tiers (Senturion, Vicarae)</li></ul>

Intigam

All of the above, except Senturion &amp; Intigam specific requests plus:<ul><li>Monthly art requests (shipping available)! Media and type varies and depends on what I feel like drawing more each specific month, but <a href="https://hipolink.me/rayetherna/products/witchkraft" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">WitchKraft</a> is the default "baseline" format!</li><li>Samples of any physical goods to come — be it stickers or a dakimakura print.</li></ul>

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