Bachué and Snake Bachué design description (Patreon)

Well, this is the third and last character description. I also designed male characters and monsters, but those pics leave even less likes, don't they? Anyway, let's begin.

WARNING: Long post is long.

LORE:

Okay, Bachué's origin in my story is practically the same as the Chibcha legend of the creation of mankind:

Bachué and a little boy were born from a beam of light that hit The Iguaque Lake when Earth was still young. Both came out the lake and wandered Earth for months learning about its flora, fauna and different landscapes. Once they had enough information about how to survive in the planet, the boy suddenly grew up and became a strong handsome man who married Bachué. And, boy, oh boy, they didn't waste their time because months later, Bachué gave birth to what would become the first human beings (which were a lot of babies). 

Bachué and her husband loved their children and taught them everything they learned from the planet to survive and live in harmony with it. They also taught them good values and morals. With the past of time, their children grew up and started making their own families, this way populating the entire planet (and yes, I'm aware that human race was somewhat incestuous... I didn't write Colombian mythology, damn it!). Once they saw that human race could live by itself, Bachué and her husband came back to The Iguaque Lake and  transformed into giant snakes, becoming guardians of that place and checking all of her sons and daughters from there.

And here's where my original lore starts:

Human race lived in peace for thousand of years and the other gods, besides Bachué and her husband, kept them protected from demons and monsters. But of all the gods, it was Bachué who loved them the most. After all, she was her mother. So imagine how her heart shattered when Chía, now Huitaca: the Goddess of Chaos, corrupted humans and make half of them evil. Nevertheless, and after Chía's defeat, Bachué still loved all of her children the same, no matter if they were good or evil, and she dreams wih the day that they all become pure-hearted again.

POWER:

According to my research, women were super important in Chibcha culture. After all, they are the ones who can give life. It is said that in the story of mankind creation, Bachue was created as a full grown woman to symbolize that women come to this world more prepared for everything that men. That's why Bachue's husband was created as a little boy and only grew up as soon as was ready. In the Chibcha tribes, men were only in charge of hunting ,war, and heavy work while women planted the fields, cooked food, and educated the children. And don't think that this was sexist. Far from it, Women were in charge of these stuff 'cause they were the only smart enough to do so. But back to Bachué.

Bachué is known as the Creation Goddess. Nothing more, nothing less. However in my story, I wanted to give her more power. How much? A LOT! In my story, Bachué is not only The Goddess of Creation, she's also the strongest goddess among all the Chibcha pantheon.  Bachué powers are so impossibly and unimanigably strong that her mere presence could distort reality around her. The only reason why she couldn't stop Chía's rebelion was because she would have destroyed the entire planet in the process. Bachué is easily the strongest character of my story and no one is match for her. 

DESIGN AND PERSONALITY:

As you can see, Bachué is a half-naked voluptuous woman. I designed this way to make her look more faithful to the description of an ideal fertile chibcha woman, with big breasts and wide hips as a symbol of motherhood (she's half-naked because Chibcha gods are mostly portrayed this way). I gave her multicolor eyes and and an endless long hair to make her look more magical (but she can control the lenght of her hair, tho). I gave her a lot of snake jewelry and 2 snake-like strands of hair as a nod of her snake form (also, snakes are symbol of wisdom in Chibcha mythology). All of her snake jewelry and snake hair is sentient.

For her personality, I gave her the one of an overprotective mother. She loves her children so much that she would do anything to make them happy (When she met Ofelia, being the first human she saw in a long time, she tried to breastfeed her. Obviously, this freaked Ofelia out). Her husband is the voice of reason and stops her from act as an overloving mother. Due to her huge power, Bachué and her husband cannot leave the Iguake Lake. However, every 100 years, Bachué can return to the human world for an entire year. To do so, she has to leave her powers in the lake, which transforms her into a normal human being with no powers. In this state, she's vulnerable to be attacked and killed. However, if she dies as a human, her conscience will just return to the lake and will have to wait for another 100 years to return. 

Needless to say that she loves being among her children and she always eagerly waits every century for the moment she can return as a human.

SNAKE FORM:

In the myth, Bachué and her husband returned to The Iguake Lake and transformed into snakes to look out for humankind from there. In my story, the did the same, but it was because, once again, Bachué's powers were so strong that she couldn't control them, and the only place where she could handle them was inside the very same lake she was born. Her snake form is the only way her powers remain under control. This is because her snake form is ridiculously big. In the original myth, she transformed into a regular snake, but in my story, I took inspiration from The World Snake, from Norse Mythology. However, I wanted to make her snake form more "unique" and "special" that's why it looks like a living multicolor tribal snake. 

Aaaaaaaaand that's about it.

As I said, I also designed male characters and monsters, but I'm not sure if upload those pics later.

^^ Hope you like it.