Started a few sticky note thumbs to get rolling... I'm gonna take the artifact way over the top and make it more important than the character. Right now I'm leaning towards snake and bird designs(snakes for sure) which gives it kind of a Quetzalcoatl vibe...but I don't think it'll have too much of the square Mayan designs. The guy should be much more muscular and the artifact more elegant(I was gonna do a chick in a giant creature but it feels a little played out)
Story goes that Malice(the artifact) stands nearly fifty feet tall. It's likeness carved into a tomb wall that waits for our hero to sacrifice himself. He steps into her belly and it's finger like horns fuse with the hero's limbs. It comes alive and the stone falls away revealing fleshy arms, leathery fabrics and feathers. It strikes down enemies with a "holy" power that manifests itself as black wispy clouds with bright slivers of bright blue/purple glows.
I'm gonna try not to spend longer than a couple weeks to nail down the design so if you've got any brilliant ideas share em up:)
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Nice initial sketches!