Creatures, Places, and Objects

While writing, I’ll look up objects and mythological creatures to help myself get a visual of what I’m writing. Here are some of the visuals I used while writing Elementals!

The Prophecy of Shadows

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The clay sun that Blake makes for Nicole in ceramics.
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The painting that Nicole’s mom is working on when Nicole gets home from her first day of school.
The Hemlock Center (Rosewood Center in Maryland.)
A wooden castle playground — where Nicole and Blake first fight Orthrus.
Orthrus (although the Orthrus in the book doesn’t have a third eye on each head, and his tail is longer and spikier.)
harpy
The harpy that they fight in the cave.
The statue of Zeus at Olympia. This is an imagination of what it would look like, since it doesn't exist anymore. In Elementals, they visit a replica.
The statue of Zeus at Olympia. This is an imagination of what it would look like, since it doesn’t exist anymore. In Elementals, they visit a replica.
Sun pendant that Nicole receives at the end of the book. (But the one in the book has a solid back with an engraving.)
Sun pendant that Nicole receives at the end of the book. (But the one in the book has a solid back with an engraving.)

The Blood of the Hydra

Scylla and Charybdis
Scylla and Charybdis
Looking down Charybdis's throat.
Looking down Charybdis’s throat.
Lampetia
Lampetia
The Hydra
The Hydra

The Head of Medusa

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Antarctic Ice Palace

 

Chione
Chione in her dress of ice
Nyx
Nyx in her dress of the Universe

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