The Creatures of Codex Inversus

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Explore a dreamlike realm where flora and fauna have evolved to use spells. A breakdown of Luca Vanzella’s surreal worldbuilding project ‘Codex Inversus.’
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Have you ever heard of dragonflies that snipe their prey with bolts of energy? Or octopuses that serve as guard dogs? Or Necromancer Bees that live in reanimated carcass-hives? These are from the Codex Inversus - a modern worldbuilding project like Codex Serephinianus from the imagination of the brilliant artist and writer Luca Vanzella.
Brought to life through collages of classical art, the world of Codex Inversus is full of flora and fauna that have evolved to use magical energy, visitors from parallel dimensions, and fractures in space and time. At a glance, the surreal, scrambled visuals are difficult to make sense of. Yet like a medieval bestiary, the project does follow a unique system of internal logic.
So, for this entry into the archive, I’ll investigate the creatures, people, and locations of this scrambled world - and reveal the hidden order to the chaos of Codex Inversus…
0:00 Codex Inversus
1:17 Strange Creatures
3:46 A Shifting Realm
7:07 Ethereal Ocean
9:42 Nation of Beasts
13:22 Tale of Two Moons
15:06 Elsewhere Woods
18:44 Edge of Reality
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@uchihagon5289 Жыл бұрын

I love how the octopus didn't change at all indicating that the octopus itself is a surreal creature

@fionagibson7529 Жыл бұрын

If I described an octopus to someone who’d never heard of one, they’d never believe me.

@evanherrera5948 Жыл бұрын

@@fionagibson7529 describe one to me please

@BillyBob-jy1gv Жыл бұрын

@@evanherrera5948 since they seem incapable, I will. Some weird creature that fits through holes so small your pinky finger could get stuck! It has 8 boneless arms that think independently, looking for something interesting! It changes Colours and has multiple hearts! It has a goat’s eyes and a birds beak. It has a hole in its side that acts like a jet pushing it along! It swims and can walk, even crawl on land!

@fionagibson7529 Жыл бұрын

@@evanherrera5948 Eight-limbed, three-hearted boneless sea creatures that can fit through any opening bigger than their beaks(they have beaks for some reason.) Most of them can change color at will and some can also change the texture of their skin, making them able to hide virtually anywhere. They regularly punch fish that they’re hunting with. Many species of octopus create ink within their bodies and squirt it at predators to confuse them. Every species is venomous to some degree, but the blue-ringed species are the only ones known to have killed humans via their venom, which is a nerve toxin that kills by paralyzing the respiratory muscles and has no antivenin. To top it all off, octopuses are very smart. On multiple occasions they’ve demonstrated the ability to leave their aquarium tanks whenever they wanted even when humans tried to prevent them from leaving. So yeah, I’d definitely say they’re fairly eldritch.

@evanherrera5948 Жыл бұрын

@@BillyBob-jy1gv thanks but ur wrong

@Brosquini Жыл бұрын

I love how this world is completely nonsensical but also has a strange logic behind it that kind of ties everything together

@ykshay Жыл бұрын

Like real life

@Brosquini Жыл бұрын

@@ykshay haha yeah lol

@LordIsrafel Жыл бұрын

@@ykshay A lot of it is just a twist on something people used to actually believe. For example, the necromancer bees comes from a belief that bees and wasps spawned from corpses, and so a ritual was made known as 'bugonia', in which an animal (usually a cow) is killed and prepared in such a way that it would supposedly spawn said bees. If you ever thoroughly read the biblical story of Samson, you might recall that at one point Samson comes across the corpse of a lion and finds it to be the host of a hive of bees, from which he snacks upon the honey.

@ykshay Жыл бұрын

@@LordIsrafel That's cool, thx for taking ur time to inform me. One of the crones from witcher 3 has a beehive in her face, that could also be due to what you wrote. Have a blessed day bro

@PoppoYoppo Жыл бұрын

Yeah I love stuff like this I always get a little angry when fictional stories have some of this crazy stuff and just explain it away with "that's how it is"

@monkewithinternetaccess6107 Жыл бұрын

There’s something about this that just makes me satisfied. It’s just something about finding order and logic in chaos that tickles all the right parts of my brain.

@cmbaz1140 Жыл бұрын

i know...

@aarav_sharma Жыл бұрын

monke

@Destroyer120296 Жыл бұрын

Same

@lemonyorkshirepudding Жыл бұрын

I agree with that. Another thing that made my feel good was that it doesn't work the way natural things do. The feeling that you might never really truly understand what is going on and that's okay. It's meant to be that way. Guess I just like how people put it into there work.

@manuelcouderc315 Жыл бұрын

For me also is kinda pleasant that not anything is explained, Incomplete narratives are fascinating because you fill the empty spots left with your own logic, which means that you cannot get disappointed from a bad explanation, because there is none to begin with

@guro4679 8 ай бұрын

I just can't believe people keep making movie reboots when there's so much potential for amazing stories.

@nunyanunya4147 Ай бұрын

HEY! GhostBusters 2016 isnt a reboot! its a colorful reimagining where the actors are let loose to adlib and have fun and if you don't like it you are a sexist!

@MrRacecourser Ай бұрын

@@nunyanunya4147😂

@inigo-montoya Ай бұрын

big franchises will always make money, taking risks can make you win or loose money

@igill716 Ай бұрын

That's because remaking the same old movies is the safe way to do things. Hollywood would rather remake Star Wars a hundred times because its guaranteed to generate a profit. Besides as much as I would like to see new and unique movies I highly doubt Hollywood has the creativity anymore to pull anything like this off.

@vernaute2803 Жыл бұрын

This is like an enhanced or ultimate end goal of the high fantasy genre. It has all the tropes and symbolism of high fantasy, but provides an explanation for them in a medieval context.

@newhek Жыл бұрын

For real, you need one hell of a mind to create a world like that.

@003mohamud Жыл бұрын

@@newhek it's as if Tolkein and Salvador Dali were reincarnated into the same person.

@NPCSpotter Жыл бұрын

Not only the medieval context but most importantly the use of renaissance style art. It really immerses you into the world/lore.

@purplehaze2358 Жыл бұрын

"Have you ever heard of dragonflies that snipe their prey with bolts of energy?" I can tell already I'm in for a wild and uh... psychedelic, ride. Can't wait.

@averycoolhat1709 Жыл бұрын

Dr bright what are you doing here?

@Techy404 Жыл бұрын

@@averycoolhat1709 another rule in the "things Dr. Bright is not allowed to do"

@superiorrule34 Жыл бұрын

No.

@JP-br4mx Жыл бұрын

Share your drug with me

@stevemcgroob4446 Жыл бұрын

Dr. Bright is not allowed to read from the Codex Inversus

@TheBuckBratager Жыл бұрын

As a forever DM, I've officially subscribed to the Codex Inversus subreddit and will be thrusting future players into a world that defies explanation.

@Jane_8319 Жыл бұрын

Oh I think I just found my new favorite subreddit

@scrathed Жыл бұрын

That's just what I thought watching this :D

@agustinvenegas5238 Жыл бұрын

Yeah, honestly now I want to play a necromancer with a swarm of necromancer bees as their familiar, it's just such a cool concept

@donovan5656 Жыл бұрын

Yup. Now I gotta figure out how to fit necromancer bees and magic missile dragon flies into my campaign.

@THEPELADOMASTER Жыл бұрын

@@agustinvenegas5238 necromancer multiclass with swarm ranger

@MrFossil367ab45gfyth Жыл бұрын

This project seems to be very unique. I like it's Medieval-Renaissance art style. Projects like these inspire me to work on my own world building projects and share them with others.

@didack1419 Жыл бұрын

I would like something like this but without the chimerism and the -mimicry- convergence personally, I know that is part of the aesthetics, but I think it's much more interesting if we get original animals that have evolved having magical powers.

@italianpc4119 Жыл бұрын

Same

@astick5249 Жыл бұрын

@@didack1419 But mimicry happens all the time in nature

@didack1419 Жыл бұрын

@@astick5249 Not to this extent at all. I think the premise of this project is that it's Earth but magic appeared, so it's justified. But you wouldn't expect stuff like cows or dogs to evolve in other planets. Non-avian dinosaurs evolved on Earth and were very successful and they are clearly different from dogs. It's not like mammals will evolve everywhere and then cows.

@astick5249 Жыл бұрын

@@didack1419 I already know that a copy of mammals or any earth animal wont ever happen a second time (unless a ridiculous unimaginable coincidences happened) , especially in the context of magic. Im talking about just the mimicry/illusion spells. Illusion spells wouldn't seem like that hard of a thing to do. Extremely convincing mimicry is a common thing in nature, but now with the addition of magic its made far more convenient. Also i think in the context of Codex its mostly just scrambled bits of earth animals smashed together, which then the evolution happened afterwards (probably why insects seem to use magic the most since they have quicker and more generations).

@cosminv8751 Жыл бұрын

The magic octopuses are too shy to cast spells in public 😭 so cute

@Mikailodon Жыл бұрын

Let’s all appreciate how this master artist put some medieval things in a world building project. I also love the idea of the sky being the opposite sea and the bees using a corpse as a hive and "reanimating" it for defense. Your content helps me inspire worldbuilding projects of my own!

@MrFossil367ab45gfyth Жыл бұрын

I agree, the internet "mainly this channel" has inspired me and helped motivate me to make and work on my world building ideas. I eventually want to share them with others too.

@youraveragephesh3173 Жыл бұрын

OMG SPINOFAARUS AND PALEOMEMES GUY?! SUP MIKAITHEKOMODODRAGON

@purplemosasaurus5987 Жыл бұрын

I like your videos, I didn't know that you'd be interested in Curious Archive videos.

@_ninthRing_ Жыл бұрын

There are real species of bees which use decayed meat from animal cadavers to ferment the "honey" which feeds their young. Add some _magick_ & you get the *_"Reanimator" Bees_* - which just cut out the middleman...

@blueythelizard4857 Жыл бұрын

yo yo yo its the paleomemes dude!

@markguyton2868 Жыл бұрын

I do like how the magic logic of this world is directly based on movement and patterns that create specific shapes that cause the magic to happen, even if the results can be kind of random by the looks of it.

@sebastiengendron6427 Жыл бұрын

I know right, it's similar to glyph magic (a show called The Owl House uses a system like this by combining different glyphs for a required spell)

@mrreyes5004 Жыл бұрын

The Future is Wild: **Develops Earthling animals with logical developed parts and cool evolutions.** Expedition/Alien Planet: **Inventive alien designs with original environment ideas and cool adaptations.** Codex Inversus: *_I M A G I N A T I O N._*

@seigeengine Жыл бұрын

It's definitely an interesting concept to consider the implications of magic created by pattern, which is a long-established trope, intersect with the natural world and evolution. It's one of those things that seems so obvious once you've heard of it, but you never thought of until you did. Of course a world with magic produced by structures like that would have life evolve to take advantage of it.

@kylienielsen6975 10 ай бұрын

@seigeengine it really was a genius idea. It's like the ultimate mix of high fantasy and specualtive biology

@spikeweed420 Жыл бұрын

I’d say my favorite creatures from this are the Transmuter Snails, the Hammergulls, and the Cloud Possums. Not only do they just look awesome, but having them as a pet would be really cool. Imagine having a little tank where you can keep a few transmuter snails, or having a hammergull or cloud possum in the place of a dog or cat. It’d be awesome.

@spikeweed420 Жыл бұрын

@@walbergverissimo2815 Indeed. I very useful and cool looking pet.

@Catglittercrafts Жыл бұрын

Foolish plan. You’d be the first one dead in a world like this

@Lagohuera4958 Жыл бұрын

Wait untill you Heard about the Roc seagull

@sethleoric2598 Жыл бұрын

I wish more fantasy setting were like this, just weird and alien and almost fairy tale like but still having it's own sense of logic. Tolkien once said that Fantasy only needs to make sense in it's own world and i think this is one of those worlds.

@dangelobraker9866 Жыл бұрын

Can this get turned into a rpg?

@HeirofAzaran Жыл бұрын

@@dangelobraker9866 check out @The Dude, below

@markcruz359 Жыл бұрын

Im sure if Hollywood adapts this into a movie or show some of these animals need to be gay or black

@sethleoric2598 Жыл бұрын

@@markcruz359 lol, probably netflix would do that.

@markcruz359 Жыл бұрын

@@sethleoric2598 everyones doing it lately. Amazon, Netflix, Disney, HBO LOL

@DolusVulpes Жыл бұрын

One of the most interesting things about this project being framed as a medieval bestiary is that medieval bestiaries in the real world are notoriously unreliable, with artists and writers usually only having second-hand accounts and no photos to work with, resulting in drawings and paintings that depict rare animals as literally in relation to their descriptions as possible. When this same process is applied to a magical world where the laws of reality aren't always stable and most uninhabited places are much more dangerous to visit, it becomes both harder and easier to trust descriptions of things like the otherworld monsters with the mishmash of parts. On the one hand, the artistic depiction could just be a very literal interpretation of how the beasts were described to the in-universe artist, but on the other hand the instability and malleability of reality means that by simply giving a visual form for the thing that might guarantee it actually does look like that more reliably in the future.

@SAMISHUKRI Жыл бұрын

you are smart

@raziphaz2219 Жыл бұрын

this has to be intentional, because the descriptions of "and faces like that of a weeping child" being used as a source for a literal weeping child face just seems like those depictions of "leopard horses" that are just giraffes.

@hastingssaunders9661 Жыл бұрын

I love the idea of how animals might evolve to use magic. In theory, if magic is part of the natural laws of the world, it'd make sense for animals to make use of it.

@yonib8796 10 ай бұрын

frighteningly, it would PROBABLY defy the idea of sentience or sapience so if we're going there, it'll be a no return point by then

@hastingssaunders9661 10 ай бұрын

It might suggest sentience, or it could simply be another thing that evolution happened upon without "intentionally" doing it.

@yonib8796 10 ай бұрын

@@hastingssaunders9661 idk I got high on cortisol there, ye

@freespiritfanfan1201 Жыл бұрын

Not the HOLY COW- This was a treat! Good work and thank you for introducing me to this wonderful worldbuilder.

@19adhyayandas77 Жыл бұрын

HOLY COW

@ghostface490 Ай бұрын

Praise be the holy cattle and their infinite rings of light! Lol. 😂

@Stop_This_Madness Жыл бұрын

This is just genius, combining speculative evolution with stereotypical magic tropes and giving explanations on how they work and how the individual harnesses the power is just incredible.

@Guydude777 Жыл бұрын

I love all of the spell-slinging insects! That's just such a rad concept. Thanks for covering this CA.

@ericward8459 Жыл бұрын

That was my favorite but too! I'm SO using this in some way

@joshuamurrell5100 Жыл бұрын

I noticed they were all themed after magic schools in dnd (transmutation, abjuration, conjuration, necromancy, evocation and illusion)

@thelaughinghyenas8465 Жыл бұрын

I really like these. They are like speculative evolution with the suspension of disbelief since they officially are magic.

@Clash-Clown Жыл бұрын

The fact that someone sat and thought this out with detailed/ scientific and (sometimes) DaVinci -esque style illustrations. Our narrator just rolls along without calling the beautiful absurdity into question, just describes the landscapes and life forms with deliberate detail and calm “matter of factly” cadence, despite the obscene and absurd deviations of life, physics and magic being described. Cool.

@13gondolla37 Жыл бұрын

Okay real talk tho, when you asked if we had ever heard of bees living in reanimated carcasses I was slammed back about ten years to a time when I played a unicorn corpse hive full of face sized hornets in a one off ttrpg. So yes. Yes I have.

@hyrumstearns5791 Жыл бұрын

What game was that?

@herbcrustedmeat Жыл бұрын

Well fun fact alot of the creatures in Codex Inversus also have DnD style stat pages so they can be used in games

@mstrfool Жыл бұрын

You are a very disturbing person. Glad to meet you.

@13gondolla37 Жыл бұрын

@@hyrumstearns5791 Just a home brew one shot thing. We were sitting in a friends living room bored and itching for RP so our usual dm was like "hey let's just run a modern little dooms day scenario". No real stats. Roll a d20 and whatever you get determines if and how well you succeed at something. Play what you want. They never expect what I want. I have a reputation now.

@13gondolla37 Жыл бұрын

@@mstrfool likewise I'm sure :3

@hubertrozalski7070 Жыл бұрын

So it's basically psychodelical Witcher mixed with Dark Souls, Chronicles of Narnia and a medieval manuscript? I already love it.

@frostreaper1607 Жыл бұрын

Oh hey, this is an artist who occasionally posts their work on reddit, really amazing stuff! Didn't realise there was such a complicated world behind this, so I'm glad you've covered this.

@NPCSpotter Жыл бұрын

This is the coolest thing I’ve found out about in a long while. It’s like something we all thought about when we were kids. What makes it even cooler is his use of the classical art style

@1nekrus Жыл бұрын

DM: "This is mine now" (Proceeds to run away with the book cackling maniacally)

@8balls122 Жыл бұрын

it's like a weird fever dream that a renaissance painter would have, kind of makes me want to make it into an rpg setting...

@HomeSlice97 Жыл бұрын

The necromancer bees are one of the wildest yet most oddly logical things I have ever heard of

@ryonhatcher4561 Жыл бұрын

I can imagine this Worldbuilding Project being turned into a Book Series or TV Show, because this is hands down the best Worldbuilding Project yet.

@kameronpratt70 Жыл бұрын

It’s actually nice and amazing that this channel, that has been only covering sci-fi media, is now covering a medieval, magical book.

@Mammalmage Жыл бұрын

You don't see too many speculative biology projects that take magic into account. I like it.

@hunterfiles7987 Жыл бұрын

I feel like this would be a good open world game. Especially if they make it like Elden ring. Imagine all the creatures moving and interacting in the game. Also like a sense of discovering all the strange beings and Powers in this world.

@chaosfire321 Жыл бұрын

Gosh, I just adore how surreal yet grounded the worldbuilding of this setting is!

@sacrificiallamb5452 Жыл бұрын

I love how every frame looks like some bizarre and surreal high-level sh*tpost but the lore and the world building is so interesting that I nod my head while watching as if these were all real things

@cerberaodollam Жыл бұрын

"...overrun with chimera cats instead" Australia, is that you?

@bjorncorvin4568 3 ай бұрын

Yes

@sivanlevi3867 Жыл бұрын

The Collapse seems very similar to the Conjunction of Spheres in The Witcher universe, where multiple universes collided and the result was the introduction of magic and the arrival of several kinds of monsters.

@TheAstrobiologistOW Жыл бұрын

That's exactly what I was thinking!

@Finrirthegray16 Жыл бұрын

Or The Eclipse from Berserk.

@Kazooples Жыл бұрын

This might be my favourite so far, the artwork is incredible, the lore is something even my dreams can’t compete with, I’m officially obsessed

@kingcon2k11 Жыл бұрын

Damn this is easily one of the best you've ever covered on the channel, such uniqe and creative world building

@abigailthompson838 Жыл бұрын

I somehow got D&D vibes immediately but I love that while they kept races like elves, dwarves, and halflings, this is far from the traditional fantasy setting.

@GemCandy Жыл бұрын

I LOVE CODEXES! It's a peek into the world of someone's mind and imagination, SO COOL!!

@disgruntledbob2812 Жыл бұрын

I love me some codex inversus, glad to see ya coverin’ it! Possibly the best episode yet with all that creative skill on display

@sebastiengendron6427 Жыл бұрын

Question, is the codex inversus a book or is it limited to only subreddit or Instagram?

@disgruntledbob2812 Жыл бұрын

@@sebastiengendron6427 It was just a subreddit at the time of this video, but in response to it the creator announced they’d be making a book

@sebastiengendron6427 Жыл бұрын

@@disgruntledbob2812 when will the book be available?. Will it be in pdf format, will it be free?

@disgruntledbob2812 Жыл бұрын

@@sebastiengendron6427 The author doesn’t know yet, said it might take some months. As for the rest, idk sorry.

@sebastiengendron6427 Жыл бұрын

@@disgruntledbob2812 can you link the author responses (I have a hard time finding them the long lists of options/art)

@matteste Жыл бұрын

One idea I can think of for a future episode could be the life and environment of Made in Abyss. Just the level of detail that series goes into for its wildlife and unique setting is nothing short of impressive.

@sebastiengendron6427 Жыл бұрын

Good idea, I always wanted a Made in Abyss in lore survival booklet filled with maps, sketches of creatures, white whistles, food recipes made in the Abyss etc nothing like exposition dumping on how the world works but more like a diary of a tourist who meets his/her eventual end going too deep. By the way, excited for Made in Abyss season 2 (ganja arc) coming in July?. I prefer codex inversis better than codex seraphineas, both artworks for both books are beautiful but codex inversis have better world building in it's continuity. Codex seraphineas felt like "reading" a diary of a person trying making sense of a bizzare dream like realm before secumbing to it.

@matteste Жыл бұрын

@@sebastiengendron6427 It was due to the upcoming seas that I had to idea of making that suggestion.

@dupstepgaming5495 Жыл бұрын

I'm glad someone made this suggestion, it would be pretty good timing if Curious Archives made one on made in abyss in the coming months as well.

@erihseh4017 Жыл бұрын

Sometimes its really astonishing how beautifully and cohesive those imaginary wonderlands are crafted while being that absurdly bizarre at the same time.. It’s all just curiouser and curiouser!

@joaorafaeloliveira1781 Жыл бұрын

This reminds me of "Codex Seraphinianus", a book by an Italian artist written in an imaginary idiom and portraits strange creatures.

@efu2046 Жыл бұрын

11:32 while i know about the Bee dance, i thought you were going to say "Bees does reanimate corpses in real life." And that will haunt me forever

@GenderFluidDragonKing 11 ай бұрын

What I like so much about this project is that animals evolved to use the magic system which very rarely seen in fantasy which I wish more series would do, because I think it makes the world more interesting and it just makes sense like why wouldn't organisms evolve to take advantage of it

@nartsadiku8249 Жыл бұрын

I love the medieval like art style its so cool keep showing this awesome stuff I would probably never know exist ❤️❤️❤️

@itsgonnabeanaurfromme Жыл бұрын

It looks medieval because they're made from using mostly renaissance paintings.

@nartsadiku8249 Жыл бұрын

@@itsgonnabeanaurfromme ok…

@mestrepanda Жыл бұрын

That's amazing. As a big fan of Tabletop RPGs I can't stop thinking how an adaptation of this book to a game would be

@floydstephman Жыл бұрын

These creatures and locations could be added to Numenera without much alteration

@Jaysin412 Жыл бұрын

The first human magic users learned by observing animals.... just like the elemental benders in the "Avatar: the last airbender" show

@FlamingGuitar123 Жыл бұрын

This is so wildly creative, I almost had my foot turn into a hand

@GhostoftheSnow271 Жыл бұрын

I always wish that you’d show all the content for things like this, but I understand that showing us everything makes it pointless for people so truly want to know more to support the original creator(s).

@Ridhify Жыл бұрын

A universe where evolution process through magic instead of mutation to adapt... Never thought about that in my wildest dream. It's so interesting to watch.

@Cecona Жыл бұрын

I love that the octopi are too shy to do spells in public, it’s utterly adorable

@graphicdefault603 Жыл бұрын

This is probably my favorite video that you’ve done. The sheer absurdity of everything is so interesting and I love the paintings. Makes it feel so real.

@superlegomaster55 Жыл бұрын

I love Codex Inverus so much! And the author is really nice.

@rafaelxavier8070 Ай бұрын

I love the idea of how the world would be different if magic axisted. It's very logical animals and plant would adapt to use it. Simply fantastic material. Great artwork. Congratulations to the artists.

@jeff5981 4 ай бұрын

This right here, is one of my most favorite videos on KZfaq.

@LuigiCotocea 3 ай бұрын

Only if someone made a damn game about all in this video...

@herbcrustedmeat Жыл бұрын

Great video, love seeing Codex Inversus get recognition outside of D&D/Worldbuilding subreddits

@thetophatnerd2664 Жыл бұрын

You can make an entire campaign out of this

@dr.unventor 3 ай бұрын

This is one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen! I love magic and logic mixing together. I also really like how the animals learned and evolved to cast spells rather than just being inherently magical like in most stories

@zuzananespalova2316 Жыл бұрын

Really cool that you did a video on codex inversus

@purplesam2609 Жыл бұрын

The necromancer bees are my favorite. It's so disturbing yet so fascinating

@dr.walrusxii2389 Жыл бұрын

What a fantastic project! I love the attention to detail, and the way that the creator takes so much real-world information and twists it in so many unique and interesting ways.

@farshnuke Жыл бұрын

There's something utterly delightful about the narrator explaining necromancer bees or spellcasting butterflies only to take a moment to explain briefly how somerthing of what they do is akin to real world phenomena.

@tettettettettet Жыл бұрын

Oh hey I finally knew about one of these! Love the series, do you think you could someday cover the keys of Solomon? I’ve been reading them lately and I think they could be a cool video

@acemarvel1564 Жыл бұрын

Dear lord imagine a movie about this

@howlinghellgar2214 Жыл бұрын

This makes no sense, and yet somehow it makes perfect sense at the same time. Man this is cool, I don’t think I’ve seen any other project able to do that!

@steirs506 Жыл бұрын

the fact that octopuses are too shy to cast spells in public cracks me up

@ciaotiziocaius4899 Жыл бұрын

I love how this channel keeps bringing up stuff I've been following on Reddit for months

@matthewnel714 Жыл бұрын

Ive followed the subreddit for a while now. The other day I hoped you would make just this video. Thank you.

@starvingartstudent Жыл бұрын

I love this type of artistic imagery intertwined with speculative biology. It would be cool to see you describe Codex extinct animalia from the book The Resurrectionist. It's one of my favorites

@SuperGalfrieg12 Жыл бұрын

Probably my favorite video you’ve ever done. Great job! Keep up the awesome work!

@abrickaday884 10 ай бұрын

I love this world this channel may be about things that don't actually exist but its hella fun to watch

@anonymousmaelstrom9530 Жыл бұрын

I get way too excited when I see another video from you get uploaded 😂

@Nathan-xd9vq Жыл бұрын

There's something about Codex Inversus that reminds me of the Southern Reach Trilogy, by Jeff VanderMeer. There is a logic behind it, a form of naturalism rooted in a form of science, yet something that we can't quite tangle with, as it violates much of what our rational brains have come to expect of the world. It visually and conceptually messes with your head, yet it still gives your rational mind a tenuous branch to hold on to. The book Annihilation and its sequels managed to pull off that same unique paradigm.

@_ninthRing_ Жыл бұрын

This is impressive in how it resembles the medieval & renaissance views of reality, where Heaven & Hell were as real as any other location. The illustrations are so evocative of the artworks of painters (Leonardo da Vinci, Rene Magritte, Salvador Dalí & especially both Max Ernst & Hieronymus Bosch, etc.) from many periods & styles (though definitely Surrealism) across Europe. A truly remarkable achievement.

@itsgonnabeanaurfromme Жыл бұрын

Uhmm it's evocative of their artwork because they're digital manipulations and collages of artwork from that period. They're not paintings made from scratch.

@edroseptic9442 Ай бұрын

How is so unknown? Everything about it from the art, to the script, to the lore is so unbelievably creative.

@Schlumpsha Жыл бұрын

That's one world setting I wouldn't mind getting isekai'd in.

@pulsarbeam3857 Жыл бұрын

I love that you can just hear him smile when he says the holy cows

@alienz8641 Жыл бұрын

I love this utterly unique mix of speculative biology and surreal fantasy. I hope whoever made this keeps making more artwork!

@curiodyssey3867 Жыл бұрын

Oh hell yeah, back to the content of your early days! This is why I subbed

@snowjohnson8095 Жыл бұрын

A holy notification to finish the day Amen

@jennieivins Жыл бұрын

I would LOVE to see a book series or video game set in this universe.

@idklolhaha9717 Жыл бұрын

Super awesome, one of my favourite worlds I’ve been introduced to on this channel. Love your content, thanks for showing us these awesome creators!

@dreadnawthepa4190 Жыл бұрын

Thank you friend for taking the time to share this with us online. Truly thank you

@cerberaodollam Жыл бұрын

Imagine being a ghost and only realizing it when you try to eat a berry lol

@burger8493 Жыл бұрын

This channel is so interesting love it.

@aarav_sharma Жыл бұрын

Man this was A Trip, Literally

@roketonkun 3 ай бұрын

This is the best I've ever seen, such a great universe, there's so many great stories you can make and such an infinite lore.

@tristandukes5548 Жыл бұрын

Love to see that you're exploring more fantastical stuff. You should totally check out the Cosmere, the collection of planets where Brandon Sandersons fantasy novels take place, providing plenty of unique ecosystems with both natural and supernatural evolutionary factors

@TheGreatAuk Жыл бұрын

both strange yet peculiar

@projectflowersong7402 Ай бұрын

I was absolutely floored by this This artist is phenomenal, LOOK at that art, those drawings!! The logic behind the magic and how animals use it and the different societies, I’m just so FERAL over it I’ve been very inspired by this, you bet I’m gonna spend the rest of today thinking about how to improve my art to this level

@Maarcosx Жыл бұрын

this has easily become my favorite youtube channel. another awesome one. 👏🏽

@yuxanne. Жыл бұрын

This is really cool, and gives me a ton of inspiration, since I kinda made up a similar magic system for my AU, and needed more ideas for fauna design

@thedoruk6324 Жыл бұрын

Which is more *terrifying* and deserves athmospheric kinetic bombardement Flying variants of arachnids Or walking running snails

@thedoruk6324 Жыл бұрын

@Sungindra Setiawan make it trillionare

@proxy8918 Жыл бұрын

Luca is an exceptional painter. I've been waiting a long time for a contemporary renaissance artist, and this is just marvelous.

@AthenAyres Жыл бұрын

Okay, I have to say this channel is incredible for having a deeper understanding of the arts. And I truly appreciate the visuals, which serve as inspiration and knowledge, throughout all the videos and topics covered.

@vampsprite69 Жыл бұрын

something i really like about the necromancer bees is that it calls on the real life practice that some bee populations have, which is where they follow scavengers to carcasses, wait for them to be cleaned out and use the leftover skeleton frame to build their hives inside of!!!!! :)

@curiodyssey3867 Жыл бұрын

This guy is a straight up god-tier artist

@Talisrune Ай бұрын

The surrealism hits so hard with this project. Everything's so familiar, yet just a little to the left enough that you have to take a double-take, headscratch, and go "wtf?".