Hi guys,
I’m building Helios Mortis, a grimdark universe trapped in one dying solar system. A corrupted red sun slowly consumes itself while the Leviathan, an ancient entity, coils around the entire system like a patient serpent. Humanity is slowly bleeding out under constant “Tidal War” between solar flares and waves of eldritch silence.
This is a current WIP of a Null Covenant Throne, I’m calling the unit the "Harbinger of Final Silence".
Lore on the Null Covenant & the Harbinger
The Null Covenant are the elegant nihilists of the outer system where the sun has little influence and the Leviathan Drift has more influence. While other factions desperately cling to survival, the Null see extinction as the only true purity. They don't worship the Leviathan which is a misconception among the other factions, but rather what the Wyrm brings. The Silence and the end of suffering.
The Harbinger of Final Silence is not a brute frontline assault unit. It is a tall, spindly ritual construct built for psychic warfare and support. Its four long, bladed legs allow it to glide across frozen methane seas and ruined cathedral-decks with eerie grace. The central body houses a pilot who has willingly undergone the deepest neural merge, partially dissolving their mind into the machine so they can channel the Eldritch Drift more purely. They can never leave the unit once merged, there is no technology to allow it. And once inside, they can 'live' until the unit is destroyed.
In battle the Harbinger drifts through the chaos projecting waves of psychic entropy, dampening enemy communications, inducing crippling despair, and creating pockets of absolute silence where machines simply stop functioning. When it strikes, it does so with focused void-lances or reality-fraying pulses that unravel both flesh and metal. It is a support terror unit: fragile if isolated, devastating when anchoring a Null advance.
The glowing orbs and void-light accents are their signature aesthetic (I'll probably think of an actual use at some point, but for now i think they just look cool lol) cold, porcelain-like elegance mixed with the abyss. To the Null, each Harbinger is a holy instrument, a living prayer to the coming silence.
Still very much a work in progress on refinement and details. I’m really happy with how the quadruped silhouette is coming along, it feels uniquely unsettling compared to the other factions’ Frames.
Would love any feedback on the design or the lore concept.
Fully modelled and rigged in blender with a Kuwahara filter to mimic a painterly effect. This is the style im going for.
My goal is to make a youtube channel about my world. Spending the rest of the year to build the models and environments.
More WIPs and deeper lore coming if people are interested, the full setting has six very different factions all fighting (and failing) under the same dying sun.
Thanks for reading!