Grahtennas is the daemon of negative expansion. He governs all inflammatory diseases including cancer, eczema, hemorrhoids, genital warts, and cirrhosis of the liver. Hemorrhoids being one of his favorites: as they often become a gateway for a variety of expansive discontents. Alcoholics often fall under the sway of Grahtennas, becoming the berserker foot soldiers of his army with their quick and arbitrary tempers. Grahtennas governs all disorders of the Liver.
Grahtennas is the governor of making matters worse. He governs all explosive forms of violence from domestic to riot and his presence causes lost tempers, violently fatal misunderstandings, car accidents, and miscarriages. Murphy’s law is merely one of the entrances to his realm. Grahtennas enjoys the slow death of an inflammatory disease equally with death from explosive violence. He particularly relishes religious dogma and intolerance and the power brought to him by such areas of the world as the Middle Eastern countries and the southern United States.
His symbol of office is a huge rusty spiked mace covered in fresh blood, his favorite offering, especially if taken by bludgeoning. Grahtennas is very serious about himself and his goals and laughter is forbidden in his kingdom. Those guilty of this crime are crushed into bloody smears at the foot of his throne. However there is a story of a shaman once banishing him with incessant laughter. He is often found on his throne, drunk from a chaliceful of fresh blood, his immense girth overflowing the edges of his seat.
His vast kingdom ranges from the Plains of Rage, The Rancid Caverns, The Seas of Distemper. His realm is riddled with perpetual volcanoes, explosive rivers of lava, and constant heat lightning storms. However it is characterized by a specific lack of any rain. He continuously patrols his regions in his mobile Castle, a burning Siege. He paints its walls red with the fresh blood of violent religious fanatics, suicide bombers, and murderers. Grahtennas is ambitious and militant, constantly seeking new ways to expand his region.
He has a violent disdain for pure water. If confronted with pure water he will seek immediately to corrupt it in some fashion. Thus he has become the patron daemon saint of industrial waste, Oil Companies, and muddied emotional scenarios.
Arch Nemesis' : Pan, Jupiter, Posedion, Any Laughing God, Natural water. The Ocean.
{Created in Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop}
Here we have some slithery dreadful thing from beyond. Special thanks as always to good ol' H.P.L. for showing us the way. My initial thought after finishing this was that it would make a great dark tattoo design, but I couldn't get this one done on myself. I can't be creeped out by my own skin. Nope, not gonna do it!
This piece was simultaneously disturbing and satisfying as I completed it because I realized I was looking at a part of myself. It is actually kind of a relief to see this darkness and recognize it as my own. The feeling here for me was very similar to what I felt upon the completion of The Fear.
UPDATE: Fresh scan from my new scanner as of 01.28.12. No glare in the fresh one and no needful Photoshop retouch. The actual color of the physical piece is somewhere between these two.
Sorry for disappearing for a few weeks there. I was finishing up my move and cleaning my old abode...aaaannnnd to top things off, because I didn't have nearly enough to do, I caught the flu this week. OH JOY! However, today my move is complete, my old abode is clean and fresh, and my flu is on the mend (although my ribs are very sore from coughing - ouchie). Here's a little devil I concocted in penance. Hope you like.
