In Demoness Tales, the Sentinels are amongst the most powerful of the assorted defensive artefacts employed by both Hell and Heaven. Essentially focal nodes of the warding barriers that surround both the Infernal and Celestial Spheres, they have vast reserves of power and a wide variety of functions in both battle and other less easily definable activities.
It is therefore a bit rubbish that I haven't got round to making proper versions of them until now; versions that actually look a bit like the ones I've been drawing in the Demoness Tales comic strips for 25 years.
Firstly, the Infernal Sentinel...
Naturally, since Hell has far more aesthetic sense than Heaven and Demons actually know what the word "style" means, they make their artefacts look blatantly and awesomely "Hellish" so that just to behold them has their enemies dribbling with fear. If one of these Infernal Sentinels comes floating overhead, you KNOW there are going to be mass incinerations and such.
Though a Renegade who thinks more or less all the other Demons are Spleens of one sort or another, Lucirath still returns to Hell from time to time just to disobey every Infernal tenet there is and to tell them all how rubbish they are. Whilst there, she's not above manipulating the Sentinel devices in amusing ways to cause chaos for the mortal realms since she thinks most mortals are Spleens too. And all Celestials are Spleens, obviously. She thinks pretty much everything, everywhere, is a Spleen and thus needs trampling underhoof... Except dogs. She likes dogs - her own "dog" is semi-visible in the background.
The Infernal Sentinel has a glowing lava core, drawn directly from the firepits of Tartarus, and a surfeit of bright red Demonic runes all over every available part of the outer cage just so that everyone knows it's really dangerous and Infernal.
Unlike the Celestial Sentinel...
Boringly unmarked, like the majority of things created by the largely mindless drones of Heaven in their machine-like pursuit of their so-called True Path, the Celestial Sentinels have much the same function and duties as their Infernal counterparts, though their cores are drawn from The Crucible (the Soul Forge of Empyrean where the souls of mortals harvested by Angels are devoured by the High Gods in a decidedly unpleasant way).
I should point out that Zeriel (my Goddess) - Lucirath's spirit sister (how do a Demoness and a Goddess come to be "sisters"? - It's complicated) - does not tend to frequent Heaven, being an exiled Renegade as she is pure, noble and good and thus disgusted by Heaven's harvesting of mortals and their mindless Eternal War against Hell which causes so much devastation for all those in between, and which they keep losing anyway. Heaven's assassins are forever trying to kill her, forcing her into alliance with her deranged and psychotic sister from Hell.
But I thought she might as well stand beside the Celestial Sentinel anyway so that you can all add to your wonder at her prodigious bosom the fact that she also wears stiletto heels. Well, she's got to try to look as tall as she can when her "sister" is ten feet tall, or more with the horns.
Despite the fact that they often exasperate each other to no end, Lucirath and Zeriel can be a remarkably efficient power when they pool their resources and once, despite it being technically impossible outside the Infernal or Celestial Spheres, even managed to create a Replica Sentinel...
Built of wood, bits of string, pine cones, old pewter plates and whatever else was to hand, the Replica Sentinel they constructed to halt one of Heaven's most depraved attempts to devour an entire world, remains in their possession and, though it can be a little cantankerous at times, it is a source of great power - all the more remarkable for the fact that the two sisters, so different in their temperaments and natures, managed to stop winding each other up long enough to actually finish making it in the first place.
These Placeables may be of use to some of you for weird arcane devices of whatever sort you want them to be. The Infernal one has "Hell" written all over it, but the other two are more generic. They have built-in emitters, as you see them.
I'm considering also making Creature versions of the models since the Sentinels are supposed to hover about and do stuff from time to time. Not sure about that yet, though it's easy enough to do.
