Kill Six Billion Demons

Backup Plan

Class six offense. So this guy is totally another imposter, right? I doubt Solomon would allow his clerks to be even slightly incompetent. He almost looks like Zaid, but I think the skin tone is wrong.

Resurgence

By the way, there's been a Ring of Power-themed fan contest over on the official Discord for a while now. Each entrant submitted their OC and each round you have to make a comic with your and your opponent's character (usually) fighting each other. The one with the best comic advances to the next round. They're currently on round 3, with 16 remaining contestants (round one had 64).

First Mantle

Is it okay if I link some of the highlights from the Discord tournament in this thread?

Go for it!

Sticking to round 1 for now. Will post round 2 later. Limiting myself to my personal favourites, but there's just so much stuff that it's still getting kinda long.

Haruspex Albedora◊ is your usual skeleton-focused necromancer, and I wouldn't bother mentioning her if not for the fact that the way ther artist draws her skeleton powers is fucking amazing. When submitting a character you also have to draw an intro comic for them, and here's◊ Albedora's◊. In the first round, she fought against Fisher of Men, who is some kind of crabman.

2Dog is one of the lulzier contestants. He's a cartoon anthropomorphic dog who fights to advertise Yum Juice. Intro◊ comic◊ is◊ here◊. Posting his round 1 fight because it's just too funny not to.

When Discord Reigns In The Hearts Of Men, So Shall All Who Hunger Be Satisfied (WENDIS for short)◊ is a member of the Kind Folk who has her own burger joint. In addition to cooking she can conjure food and other things with magic. She's not actually fighting, she just sells burgers on the sidelines and hopes to woo Gog-Agog.

Gitcha◊ (whose intro comic I can't find) is some kind of demonic hand puppet creature. He's also not a fighter in the tournament (I think), but rather a health inspector.

As you can probably guess, WENDIS and Gitcha seem to have been intentionally matched against each other in the first round. The result is easily the best (and most horrifying) fight in all of Round 1. While WENDIS' entry won, Gitcha's◊ entry◊ is◊ also◊ excellent.◊ (In case you're confused about what happened at the end of WENDIS' comic, she tried to conjure a burger but accidentally turned Gitcha's head into a burger instead. Gitcha then self-cannibalized his own head, revealing the hand underneath the hand puppet.)

Corrupted Effigy of Carnivorous Gods (also known as Effie) was originally normal leech who drank the blood of a bunch of Demiurges during the Universal War. Now she's a giant shapeshifting leech monster usually masquerading as a little girl, and she wants Solomon David to give her an unlimited supply of blood to sate her endless hunger. This is how her first fight went down.

Lazaretti◊ is an◊ illusionist◊ Devil,◊ and Hanz◊ is a◊ capoeira◊ fighter.◊ Their round is probably the best when it comes to pure art and choroegraphy. Lazaretti won, but I think I like Hanz's entry better.

Tao Zaah is some kind of huge, mobile, sentient tree that lives in a giant statue. He's so massive that he doesn't even fit inside the arena, but fights with his detachable right hand instead.◊ I couldn't make this shit up if I tried. His artist did a fantastic job drawing the tree-statue-hand's movements, but his opponent somehow did it even better, and thus won the round.

Bobbel Kopf◊ is probably the creepiest character◊ in the tournament◊, unfortunately he got beaten by Kasha in round one.

Probably the cutest contestant of them all, Roux is a member of the Church of Gallus, and fights for her evil world-ending chicken god. This is how she defeated Lei Klara the Blood Witch. Her opponent lost the round, but did manage to make Roux even cuter than her actual artist did.

The Jolly King is my favourite character in the entire tournament. A former tyrant deposed by Solomon, his new "subjects" are a bunch of flesh-eating monsters he keeps in a cage. The cage is tied to a rod and he basically uses it as a massive hammer that also eats people. Oh, and he wears a smiling golden mask the entire time. Somehow got matched against Tim, the possibly least threatening contestant in the entire tournament, for round one.

Not much to say about Tim except that he's a survivor from a world absorbed by Gog-Agog basically entering the tournament to die, that he has a fairy named Lisa, and that this intro comic is hilarious. The Jolly king won the round, but Tim's entry is pretty cool as well.

Also have to post Ra'akshi vs P for the amazing art.

The final comic that I have to mention: A random cat that just walked into the arena by accident versus an armored knight that's secretly three former gladiators transformed into snakes who now inhabit the same suit of armor. Somehow hands down one of the best entries in the entire tournament.

Edited by Druplesnubb on Oct 21st 2019 at 8:47:40 PM

Honorable mentions for some of the cooler characters I haven't mentioned yet:

A sentient bird that's also the high priest of Ys-Voya◊

A taikonaut whose space suit is also some kind of demon computer I think?◊

A pterodactyl sorceress with a cool hat who specializes in illusions.◊

A poison dart frog who's also a Knight Belligerent.◊

A guy who follows an ancient tradition where you segment yourself into multiple parts, send them out across the different universes and then recollect all your parts in order to get closer to YISUN.◊

A guy who reincarnates every time he dies inside of the gourd he carries, but has to painfully squeeze himself out of it every time. Round 2 takes place during the Battle Royale, and almost every artist used the opportunity to include a cameo of this guy getting killed yet again.◊

A stick figure who turns everyone and everything around her into stick figures as well.◊

A Gold Devil that beats people to death with massive stone tablets tied to her hands.◊

A cow man who speaks with birds and follows "the way of the bird". Sadly never got into a match with the bird priest above.◊

A girl with a cursed painting that has to follow her wishes and killed her entire family when she wanted them gone. Now she wants to wish her family back, but the painting ghost (that looks like some kind kung-fu mummy and kicks people to death) sees herself as the true contestant and wants to free herself by wishing for her master's death.◊

A blue lizardwoman who's also a pop star.◊

A cowboy with the head of a crab, but it's actually a regular crab piloting a robot that looks like the body of a cowboy.◊

Edited by Druplesnubb on Oct 21st 2019 at 8:51:01 PM

Beacon. Even when Allison does something smart, it's stupid. Are we supposed to know what this thing on her chest is?

It's the card Cio gave her.

Summoning Loving the extremely gay halo, or gaylo if you will.

Pride month is long over, time for gay wrath.

Posting highlights from round 2 of the discord tournament. Round 2 takes place during the battle royale and the rule is that each comic must have a group shot of the other contestants. There's only half the number of remaining contestants (though the average quality of the comics is way higher) so hopefully this won't be as long as the last one. In hindsight I probably shouldn't have posted those intro comics, they cluttered things up too much. They're very short but most aren't collected in a single imgur page so there's like three different links with only one page each and then the actual round 1 fight was ten pages but only one link.

Ris Zakti is some kind of horse-guy possessed by some kind of demon. In round 2 he fights what's basically a weeaboo angel named 69 xXKeen Blade Penetrates the DarknessXx (the same guy who fought Tao'Zaah in Round 1). I decided to link the fight due to some extremely brutal panels and an "interesting" angel appearing at the end.

Next we have Ra'akshi versus 2dog. I think this could very well be the strongest match in round 2 overall. Ra'akshi won, and it's easy to see why, but 2dog's entry is hilarious in its own right.

I also think Li Feitian versus WENDIS is worth linking if only for the ending twist.

Tux the cat returns for round 2, in a match with Udre that needs to be seen to be believed.

Jolly King versus Roux is also in the running for my favourite matchup this round. The Jolly king's entry won, but I think I might actually like Roux's entry more. Which is saying something because the author of The Jolly King might be my favourite artist in the entire tournament, for reasons that will become very obvious once I post round 3. The Jolly King's comic also features an epilogue where he makes a pact with Effie at the end.

Haruspex Albedora returns for some more amazingly drawn bones in her fight with Kestrel and her talking sword Yin.

It's mech pilot versus mech pilot as Tanri faces Yeehaw (the robo-cowboy crab) in a truly absurd match. The guy who saves Yeehaw at the end is the guy who Tanri beat in round 1.

Posting Aybeatee the bird-talker versus Venus Lamadonna solely for having ''by far'' the best random nameless one-off character in the entire tournament on page two.

Effie returns once again, giving us even more fucked up body horror. Her opponent in this match was Shining Petal who was a huntress from a culture that uses magic to take on the traits of the animals they kill, hence why she looks like a reptile. She entered the tournament to win the love of some asshole prince. Mirroring The Jolly King's entry, Effie's comic also ends with an epilogue where the two meet each other, and she even wrote a follow-up to it where they decide to team up. I don't know if the artists are friends with each other or if it's just a coincidence. Round 3 is a 2v2 round and it's no surprise that these two were placed on the same team by Abaddon.

And finally some more sweet art from Lazaretti. First an epilogue to her round 1 fight with Hanz that I missed the last time. Then her round 2 match against The Rat King's Daughter, which is probably one of the best at capturing the chaos of the battle royale, and also gives us some more sweet Albedora bones. And finally an epilogue for the second fight, where she gets a new ally.

Thief-queen

Thief-Queen. The girls admitting their faults and opening up to each other while kicking ass, magnifique.

Usurper!

Edited by Moopsball on Nov 6th 2019 at 8:47:12 AM

Relationship chat!

Possession.

Oh Hell yeah!

Edited by Moth13 on Nov 13th 2019 at 9:10:58 AM

Glad to see that Allison will be able to get out of this situation by having her girlfriend ride her face.

Lesbians and consensual Body Horror? Hell yeah.

ALLICIO

Double Team

Center-left Gog-Agog has got an interesting expression.

Aesma's Heel

"Destruction of the arena is an annual event at the Ring of Power"

Old Guard