I wanted to deviate as much as possible from Rob Skiba's design of the Watcher of war. Even though his design is very iconic and well, wicked cool, I feel like this design reflects how Skiba's Seed Series has a limited budget. At the moment, I am only concerned to writing the story on paper and not on the big screen. As mywork will obviously has more freedom without budget constraints.
As much as I appreciate Rob's brilliant design, for obvious reasons, my design needs to be much different and needs to have more creative licensing.
So what i wanted to do first of all, was to make Azael be a hybrid of a satyr and a dragon, but slightly different to Rob's. Instead of him having a upper portion of a goat and a lower body of a four-legged dragon, i have him as a windigo-like goat head with a mixed reptilian torso with shaggy and feral goat hair. I gave him a long serpent-like dragon body with two gigantic wings that act as a second pair of hands and goat hind legs. So technically, think of it as Smaug from the Hobbit movies, which inspired me for this design.
In addition, i added two barbed tails at the end of Azael's body, both acting as giant wrecking balls. They are armoured with layer upon layer of a thick exoskeleton, that would cause significant damage to whatever these barbs come into contact with. They can destroy entire skyscrapers! I added a little Masonic and Satanic symbolism to the twin barbs, one being black and the other white. This represents duality, as above so below. The belief the illuminati can outweigh their bad deeds with their good deeds. This black and white symbolism is also used in Masonic rituals as the black and white checkered floor. Finally, i made his tail look gothic and exaggerated to reflect the Heavy Metal Rock design, because it is Azael who these rock artist ultimaley worship.
Next, i wanted Azael to look undead, since he was left rotting in Dudael for 70 genertarions. I have him a hunch back with a protruding spin ripping through his skin. I made his head scalp look similar to the skull of a stag, common in Satanism, with a goatee. I gave him hollow red eyes and his face zombie-like which pacers of decomposed goat flesh hanging to his heinous face. Just for fun, i gave him a snapping chameleon tongue, that can bring his prey straight into his teeth filled mouth in less than a second.
Finally the horns. To stay true to ancient Hebrew texts, i added a piece of a red scapegoat ribbon on of of the goat horns. In ancient times, the Jews would send a goat into the wilderness to Azael with a red ribbon on one of their horns to atone for their sins. In fact, the name Azael in Hebrew means scapegoat. So this was a must. Now, this is something i could remove. I gave Azel an extra set of pair of horns which were meet to be reminiscent of Cernuous, the Druidic horned god of the wild, another name for Satan.
I added one final touch, i which i feel i could replace the stag horns. I wanted Azel to represent the disgusting transgender Baphomet. I incorporated that strange torch like candle on azel head to act as a flame thrower, sending out a beam or plasma energy that can burn and eradicate through concrete and obstacles.
Well, we will not be seeing Azael again until much later in Era of 303. Because, since Rob decided to show his Azael in episode 3 of his series, i feel like building it up until his big appearance later on in my series. So don't expect to see the Watcher of war in action any time soon! I have an alternative surprise waiting for when the US special forces go into Iraq for "weapons of mass destruction."
