#sky cotl priestess

[catofaurora]

This one goes out to @whitebookposts whom without I would never know of the Samekh Priestess Sky lore~

#cat of aurora #priestess #samekh #sky cotl priestess #sky cotl lore #sky children of the light #that sky game #sky cotl art #thatskygame #sky lore #skyblr #sky cotl #sorry it just a doodle

[danelloevee-sky]

Behold my first ever priestess contribution

Screenshots of the original

#sky cotl #that sky game #sky children of the light #sky cotl meme #that sky game meme #idk how to design product labels #who give a shit #danelloevee draws #valley priestess

[whitebookposts]

Their date went a lil crazy (The Mcdonald's employee forgot Teth asked for no pickles) Am I late for this meme? In my defense, I drew this 2 weeks ago, I just wasn't at home to post it on Tumblr

#sky: cotl #sky: children of the light #sky children of the light #sky cotl #thatskygame #that sky game #valley of triumph #hidden forest #valley elder #valley elders #samekh #forest elder #teth #priesteth #priestess x teth #priestess my beloved #priestess samekh #sky priestess

[pain-del-doge]

HOLY SHOT I FORGOT TO POST HERE SKXHDJDJDKDK

This was a bday gift for my dear friend @whitebookposts and this menace right here? Is Priestess in her younger years as the Huntress (according to their verse, which is so so so iconic tbh)

#dogart #fanart #sky children of the light #sky cotl #priestess samekh

[lelanida]

After the warm hills of the Hidden Forest, we climb higher and higher until the raindrops become snowflakes. When a cold wind blows in our face, we will see stunning views of the most developed region and the cultural capital of the ancient kingdom - the Valley of Triumph.

Life on the cold cliffs, where winter takes up most of the year, seems impossible, but the inhabitants of the mountains had their patron, who stood between warm-blooded people and winter blizzards. Ognivo.

One of the most important holidays held in honor of Ognivo was days of fortune. The inhabitants of the mountains believed that once a year, Ognivo dies out and is reborn in a new body. This day was considered the beginning of the new year and was celebrated with a big festival. In this way, people demonstrated their gratitude to Ognivo for their patronage by creating masks symbolizing the new appearance of the deity. All the appearances of the Ognivo included various animals, which were repeated, making up a cycle. This cycle was depicted as a golden ring and was similar to the zodiac known to us. According to it, they also made a kind of horoscope and believed that the year in which you were born affects your personality.

In the Valley of Triumph, writing appeared before everyone else, and therefore, the myths about Ognivo were re-read from generation to generation. It can be said that Ognivo were not just a god. They were the national hero of the Valley. They were a friend and relative of any inhabitant of the mountains, from young to old. But with no one did they have such a friendship as with Elder Priestess. When the future elder appeared in the Valley, of course, she found out about the Ognivo. Not every deity could boast of such love. Priestess, being a semi-divine entity, could see inhabitants of limbo and, accordingly, Ognivo themself. Ognivo was wary of the guest at first but soon realized that Praistes is a pure soul who loves the Valley with all her heart, just like them.

It can be considered that the union of Ognivo and Priestess is the opposite of the confrontation between Teth and Dryad. The Priestess ruled the people, leading them to the Megabird, and Ognivo ruled the valley itself. After all, why should they divide something if together they will bring much more benefit?

One day, everything changed.

The cult of Ognivo lasted much longer than the other gods of the pantheon. That's because when Daleph and Alef arrived in the Valley, the Priestess refused to get rid of Ognivo. "They are part of the Valley. They were here, even before me. We have no right to drive them away." Aleph was not happy with such an outcome. He did not want the cult of the Megabird to compete with any other. But he did not argue with Priestess. Time passed, and Ognivo outlived the pantheon, seeing how the Four of the Isle, Prismix, and Dryad fell one after another. Alas, even Ognivo were destined to go out forever at one moment.

It was a great joy for the whole Valley when the elder had children. But it was also a great shock for the Family because no one thought that such a thing was possible. The mischievous twins won the hearts of the inhabitants of the mountains, and everyone was waiting for the moment when they would rule the Valley on an equal footing with their mother. But unfortunately, this was not destined to happen. After the birth of the twins, the Priestess's core received too much damage and began to gradually lose strength. Priestess did not die in a bang. She've been fading away for a long time, year after year. Until her inner star has completely outlived its light.

Ognivo was inconsolable.

The orphaned twins were too young to rule the Valley on their own. And while they were mourning for their departed mother, the Family assumed responsibility for the mountain kingdom. They decided to get rid of the Ognivo first. It's not like the old deity had the strength left to fight. They were not defeated. They were imprisoned in their own altar. After that, at the state level, people were forbidden to celebrate the days of fortune. However, Alef soon realized that the days of fortune were not just a celebration in honor of the deity but an important event for the people themselves. It was a celebration of family unity, folk festivals, and gift exchange. It cannot be so easily erased from history. For this reason, the prince appointed a new holiday - days of feast. The meaning is exactly the same, but the date is different, and all mentions of Ognivo have been erased. And so the last god of the pantheon fell ingloriously.

Recently, those new crystals from the Vault have become popular among skykids for recording messages. But I hope that despite this, we will not forget to periodically leave candles on Ognivo's altar. After all, they actually read them.

#sky children of the light #thatskygame #sky cotl #that sky game #sky oc #pantheon of kingdom au #goodbye im dead now #i hope you appreciate the fact that i explained Chinese new year in sky #using sky lore #priestess

[river-shards]

A priestess Samekh mama design for all of ye!

(Please click for better quality)

#samekh #sky cotl fanart #sky cotl #sky children of the light #sky: cotl #priestess samekh #sky priestess #valley of triumph #sky fanart #my art #digital art #thatskygame #sky elders #sky cotl elders #artists on tumblr #rbs appreciated

[aura-morgenstern]

Personal thoughts and feelings on the girlboss teth (or any of the elders really)

They all cool and interesting. Hopefully, we get snippets of lore about them in future seasons, but that’s wishful thinking 💫

Have some headcanons and au tidbits about them!

Have this too.

#sky children of the light #that sky game #sky: cotl #sky au #sky elders #isle elder daleth #priarie elder ayin #forest elder teth #valley elders samekh #wasteland elder tsadi #vault elder lamed #prince alef #king resh #valley priestess rem #aura’s lore rambling

[plutoniumart]

My take on the Priestess in Valley

#me and my friend researched hebrew letters for a name #landed on Tav cause truth #thought it fit #tav sky cotl #valley priestess #sky cotl #marker art #sky cotl au #sky au #sky alive timeline au #my art

[all-hail-king-resh]

The twins are your wh- sorry, no offense but you don't look the type of guy to be able to hit. Who is the lucky lady anyway?

"Some offense taken. I'm just thinking out loud here-- You're not from around here, are you? Most citizens love sticking their noses in my business. And I allow them to do that, of course. They need something to do in their free time, after all. I'm just surprised you don't know about any of this."

"All right, I'll tell you. The Priestess of the Valley. She was my wife. She's not anymore, though. Something about me being too immature to hold any of the power that I do. You'd also build a big old statue of yourself right outside of your national library if you were able to, right? I'm joking. Mostly joking. The statue is real. It was more complicated than that, but I do not feel like going further into it with a stranger."

[You are then shown an old picture. Aw, they seem happy here.]

#important post #skyblr #sky resh #sky king #sky: children of the light #sky cotl #thatskygame #sky priestess

[elders-of-horizon]

Dream (part 1) (part 2) REBLOGS ARE APPRECIATED!!!

#PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE REBLOG I WORKED ON THIS SO LONG AND HARD #plot comic #elders of horizon #part 1 #sky: cotl #sky: children of the light #sky cotl #sky children of the light #thatskygame #that sky game #s: cotl #s cotl #valley of triumph #valley elders #valley elder #samekh #mekh #samekh twins #valley twins #priestess #priestess samekh

[fiomeras]

GIRLBOSSES OF SKY

#thatskygame #sky children of the light #sky cotl #art #samekh #lamed #teth #priestess

[distanced-twins]

Makin my way down town

#image post #sky cotl #sky children of the light #journey #crossover #priestess mekh

[danelloevee-sky]

HELL YEAHHH

The baby twins look so cute 😭😭 little guyssss

#sky cotl #secret drawing box #valley elders #valley priestess

[whitebookposts]

Um question

during one of my “endlessly scrolling through tumblr looking at people’s opinions on Sky lore” nights I noticed one of your posts about a Valley Priestess? Several other people had drawn/talked about Valley Priestess and I am incredibly confused as to who she is

*RUNS FULL SPEED AT YOU *GRABS YOU OH MY DEAR FRIEND YOU HAVE **NO** IDEA WHAT YOU HAVE JUST AWAKENED. PRIESTESS IS MY FAVORITE CHARACTER EVER AND MY HYPERFIXATED ASS WILL TALK ABOUT HER JUST GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY.

SIT DOWN FELLA THIS IS GOING TO BE A LONG ONE.

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Let's go back in time, circa 2017-2018, when Sky was still in development, and was yet to hit the shelves. During that time, TGC presented their pre-release concepts of what was back then known as Sky: Light Awaits, at CAFA GAME ART 2018 exhibition, held at Cetral Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China from september 8 to October 7. In that exhibition, TGC presented the crowd with a bunch of concept art, story directions and ideas, and some world-building of their upcoming game. If you are interested in seeing the exhibits TGC put up, you can check those links:

1. Layout 2. World overview 3. Storyline 4. World Map 5. Character Designs 6. Level designs 7. Interaction and customization 8. Journey comparison 9. Bits and pieces

However, for the specifc question you asked, we need to focus on number 3. Storyline. More specifically, this bit right here:

You see this? Right here? "Descendants summon and challenge and ancient (priestess)" YUP, THERE SHE IS, RIGHT HERE!! That is one of the first, and frankly, the last times she gets officially mentioned. Why? Because she was replaced by the Valley twins. That is also why the twins share one name: Samekh, because they used to be one elder, to whom this name belonged. How do we know this? Because in the concept art where the twins start to appear, they are both labeled Samekh... Just like in this very little and crunchy concept art:

You see her? In the corner?

There she is! As we can see, this singular figure is also labeled Samekh. And since we know that Samekh is the name of the valley elders and the singular Valley elder for the Priestess, we can conclude this is a concept art of her :) if you want to know more about elders' names, you can always check out Grandpa's (@grapeless-seeds) very neat doc right here!

Now, you may be asking: "If she is just a scraped elder that was already replaced by other elders, how did she resurface again?" That is a very good question! And it has a VERY long and VERY interesting history behind it.

Despite her being in the concept art, not many acknowledged her existence, moreover being anyway related to the current Valley elders. Even though many asked themselves the question "Why were there two Valley elders, and why are they so much younger than the rest of them?", a big part of the fandom agreed on the headcanon that the twins were simply two parts of one being who got split. And so, Priestess laid dormant in the discarded concept art. But things were about to change.

Let's jump into the future, circa 2020-2021, when the fandom's love for lore and elders was at it's height. Theories were flowing left and right, and as you know, Sky lore enjoyers often dig through countless concept art for crumbs of lore we usually don't get in the game. And one of said concepts through which a certain group of people dug through was the concept of Priestess. Unconciouslly, her image rooted itself in the minds of elder lore enthusiasts.

In 2020, Grandpa, who was a pretty influential Sky artist and theorist on Skyblr and the western Sky fandom, posted this headcanon on her twitter:

This, as far as I'm aware, was one of the first instances of the idea that not only the twins aren't just two halves of one being, but that they are actually children of an elder long gone: the Priestess.

Soon enough after it, a sketch by @artificial-radiance Was posted on Skyblr, featuring this idea yet again.

While the headcanon was still really obscure, it did manage to trickle down into the hearts of some very passionate (and lowkey insane) people, like me. I mean, How could it not! It was a perfect setup for drama, mystery, and the "dead mom" trope! It could finally give a much spicier explanation for the twins being younger than the rest of the elders than the "split theory" we knew beforehand. And a few more fan arts and headcanons started showing up, here are some examples:

(two old sketches by me, inspired by artificial radiance)

(a short comic by @dogedepan also inspired by artificial radiance)

As you can see, back then the design for her was really close to the single concept art piece we had - a hooded silhouette with not a lot of unique features.

The awareness of Priestess and the idea of her being the mother of the current Valley elders rooted itself stronger. But you know what really made it bloom?

Eldertwt.

Eldertwt was a joke roleplay a bunch of sky fans started on Twitter dot com, where each created a profile after an elder or a Sky spirit, interacting and making a bunch of shenanigans. The whole thing was filled with deez nuts and gay jokes, and it really didn't seem to be going anywhere serious...

Until, Grandpa, yet again, dropped a priestess bomb. In a, surprisingly, heartwrenching Eldertwt storyline (no I'm serious, you HAD to be there when it went down), Grandpa introduced Priestess again, finally forever basing Priestess as an existing character and the mother of the twins. With Grandpa drawing her in her style, a change in the way she was drawn was done

(credit to @grapeless-seeds)

And many who proceeded to draw her for Eldertwt based on Grandpa's design really hammered it down. Here are some examples

(credit to @dogedepan)

(credit to @fiomeras)

(credit to @krillcandles)

(credit to @thatskymoz)

As you can see, Priestess went from a hooded silhouette in a crunchy concept art into a full-fledged character with hair, face, and personality. With Priestess stopped being an obscured piece of concept art, she found her way into the hearts of many.

Before long, the simple little headcanon grew into a full-fledged fanon, with fanart, theories, ships, and fanfics being produced with priestess as a character in them. And honestly? This perhaps was one of the most favorite things I got to experience in Sky fandom. How a bunch of strangers came together and out of pure love and interest took a piece of concept art and a little text that never made it past development, and turned it into a full, recognizable character. And yes, this fanon might not be the most popular, and most people still go by the "split elder" theory for twins. But Priestess is THERE. She is no longer a forgotten and discarded piece of art. She is a character who holds importance to many, including me.

And you might say "Well, isn't it silly, to turn a character that doesn't even exist in the final game into a full-fledged fanon?" And you would be right, it is silly. But it's fun. And in a game like Sky, where most of what we know is through concept art, is it really a stretch to give importance to a piece of it?

Besides... Once you learn about Priestess...

You start to notice that perhaps, she isn't gone from the game entirely 😉

Anyway, I hope I answered your question! SOryy for making this SO long, it's just I love this character so so so so much, AND the history behind her is fascinating!!!

#sky: cotl #sky: children of the light #sky cotl #sky children of the light #thatskygame #that sky game #sky: the more you know #sky lore #thatskygame lore #priestess my beloved #sky priestess #valley elders #valley of triumph #valley twins #samekh #priestess samekh

[pain-del-doge]

Day 5: Plushie

Mekh and a small portion of their plushie collection :3

#dogart #fanart #sky children of the light #sky cotl #samekh #priestess samekh #ayin #skytober 2023

[effira]

this is the stupidest video i’ve ever made

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