A few years after I left Bethesda, I became the art director for a new game company called Year Seventeen. Our game, Fireborne, never saw the light of day... but this creature here - which was meant to serve as the relentless and terrifying nemesis to the Fireborne - has finally made it here, onto Artstation.

The idea for both this monstrosity and The Greedling was of an organism that roosts in the human skeleton, like a meat fungus which then grows up around the bones and expands upon them... After removing the head, of course. That black orb is its eye, but I wanted the viewer to also wonder if that was a helmet. Also, I rearranged the rib formation to make the chest feel like a sort of mouth... without being too literal about it.

Anyhow, I hope you enjoy it!