" heaven, flayed by the spears i carved out, bleeds for everyone to see "

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"In the original myth, Marsyas lost a musical contest and was flayed by Apollo, who later regretted it. In this version, Marsyas' skin has a further history..."

🥁 More folkore: https://t.co/R08gJFtp9K

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quick portrait of a new pc for the Planescape campaign i'm in! my old pc became an evil megalomaniac, resurrected a dead god, and was flayed by the Lady of Pain for their hubris. it happens

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...the more errr... concerning element of Bartholomew's story is the nature of his martyrdom. Following his conversion of an Armenian king to Christianity, he was martyred... by having his skin flayed from his body.

For a mutant whose gift involves his skin... this is really...

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Today we present a concept art of the god Xipe Totec, now with a more challenging pose, showing his own insignia and characteristics (based on the Borgia and Bourbon codex), where his flayed skin and his human skin apparel stand out, as well as his paper headband and his

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A 15th century painting of St Bartholomew wearing his own flayed skin as a robe after being skinned alive and honestly he is totally pulling off the look.⁣⁣⁣
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Matteo di Giovanni, 'St Bartholomew' (c. 1480-85), tempera and gold on wood.⁣ Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest.⁣

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CW: Body Horror

My players encountered the god of corruption in my homebrew D&D setting on Halloween.

The Flayed One:
Neutral evil god of Corruption.
The rust. The doll in the rain. The twisted reflection.

Attributed to the fear of the uncanny and creator of aberrations.

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[OC][Art] The Flayed Saint, prospective villain for the homebrew campaign I'm running via /r/DnD https://t.co/l9MsQsRjeD

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A Flayed Lord, Black-haloed and Ruby-toothed.

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Art throwback to the time during a D&D campaign years ago that I as DM turned my player's mount into a flayed zombie horse and gifted him this work of art of it.

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Today we commemorate Bartholomew the Apostle. This image, from a 1710 edition of the Book of Common Prayer, depicts Bartholomew holding a knife next to a bowl containing his own flayed skin, symbols of his martyrdom. [**H5145.A4 1710]

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My Blood Elf Death Knight on Blanchy!
My Worgen Rogue on Flayedwing (Still waiting on that one-headed version! @.@ )

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tw: blood

Terror

OC: Xiuying. A scene from his past. Like with many abusers, the violence escalated worse and worse and worse. Until the tattoo of his left arm gets flayed off but that's another artwork.

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Just to be clear, amongst Doom's actions was sacrificing the only woman ever loved him (Valeria, a childhood sweetheart) to some demons, "her flayed skin becoming Doom's new enchanted armor" (F6rom FF, Vol3, 67, 2003).

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He dances on the skull of the Earth. Where he spins crops grow.He holds a red mirror in one hand in which he sees truth of men’s hearts, a sacrificial knife in another,with which he flayed his own skin.A Mist Rattle in his left hands,whose gentle sound announce the coming of rain

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He is a manifestation of Tlaltauhqui Tezcatlipoca,The Red Tezcatlipoca Lord of the East.From his skin grows corn;during an ancient famine,he flayed himself and let his skin drop to earth where it grew into maize.He wears the skin of a flayed man,its hands hanging from his wrists.

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