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Baiye Xiao

monstra et insecta arcana

Monster designer · dark fantasy creature concept art

Archive ID OBX-0000-000 · source unknown

Salvaging unnamed beings from the seam between light and shadow.

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FRONTISPIECE · PLATE

Blood Plume

Penna cruoris

Specimen Archive · THE SPECIMENS

Featured Specimens

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Each specimen is a creature not yet awake.

#OB-001 Phantom Butterfly Papilio phantasma -10 m Fragment · MYTH The old saying claims that one who sees it receives half a life of fortune and half a life of haunting, because no one can tell whether they hunted it or were lured in by it.
#OB-003 Candle Moth Strix phalaena -40 m Fragment · MYTH Legend says it never throws itself at fire. It throws itself at an old face it sees inside the flame.
#OB-008 Frost Moth Actias gelida -60 m Fragment · MYTH They say that frost is the last warmth of the human world, brushed away from the dead by the moth.
#OB-007 Slumber Lotus Nymphaea somni -80 m Fragment · MYTH Old stories say those who sink into the lotus heart have not died. They have only become the dream she continues in their place.
#OB-005 Blood Plume Penna cruoris -120 m Fragment · MYTH Old records call it “the feather that keeps accounts for a god.” Every fallen plume pays against a blood debt not yet settled.
#OB-006 Hundred Eyes Centoculus vigil -200 m Fragment · MYTH It is said to preserve every gaze stolen from its host. Each drop from the chest-sigil is one portion reclaimed.
#OB-004 Moon-Eater Moth Chrysaeglia magnifica -300 m Fragment · MYTH An old manuscript says every night of moonlight it swallows is embroidered back onto its wings. Beauty is only the sum of stolen things.
#OB-002 Mantis Shade Chrysaeglia ferox -320 m Fragment · MYTH Among its kin, they say the distance between tenderness and monstrosity is one moonless night of hunger.
#OB-012 The Bound Beast Bestia vincta -430 m Fragment · MYTH Old files call it “the one nailed in place.” The seal was not made to imprison it, but to imprison those who hear it.

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The Pact

Commissions & Licensing

Original dark creatures can be licensed for games, tabletop, covers, and media; or commissioned as a new being for your project.

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Single Specimen

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One character or monster design with agreed revisions and high-resolution delivery.

2 revision rounds included

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Bestiary Pack

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A connected creature series with unified aesthetics and evolutionary logic.

Scoped by project size

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Project Commission

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World-level monster systems and deeper production participation.

Long-term collaboration

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Keeper Chamber · THE KEEPER

Dark fantasy creature designer · Baiye Xiao

Concept artist and creature designer. I work in the borderland between light and shadow, salvaging unnamed beings: monsters, non-human characters, and lives that do not belong to this world.

Designing a character is more than describing its shape. It is writing the first line of myth for a world that does not exist, from bone structure to the faint light inside the eye.

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THE ABYSS FLOOR

Let us talk about strange creatures.

Susurri ex abysso — Whispers from the abyss

✉ [email protected] RED · Xiaohongshu MHS · Mihuashi ART · ArtStation

Featured Specimens

Commissions & Licensing

Dark fantasy creature designer · Baiye Xiao

Let us talk about strange creatures.

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