About

What Votive is

A votive is an offering: something a worshipper makes and leaves for a god. Every image here is one of those. Each goddess has her own story, and none of them share a world or a plot, so you can start anywhere.

Accounts, not likenesses

No image on Votive is a true depiction. Each one is drawn from the accounts of the people who first saw her, or from what artists recorded afterward. That is why the Visions of one goddess never quite match, and why some of them appear in more than one form. The accounts do not agree, and nobody who could settle it came back.

Offerings

Every goddess accepts one kind of offering at her shrine, and nothing else. There are eight: Ash, Frost, Ink, Silver, Seed, Bone, Salt and Iron. Bring the wrong one and she will not notice you. Bring the right one and she will. Use them to filter the gallery.

• Ashfire, rebirth, ruin, rage
• Frostcold, stillness, preservation
• Inkknowledge, words, memory, lies
• Silvermoon, stars, night, dreams, the cosmos
• Seedgrowth, flesh, hunger, desire
• Bonedeath, endings, absence, the void
• Saltsea, tears, depths, sorrow
• Ironmachines, weapons, war

What you will find here

Dark fantasy, with themes of death, obsession and body horror. Nothing explicit and nothing gory. Characters with stronger body horror carry a tag and stay blurred until you choose to see them. The Blur button at the top turns that off for the whole site.

Using the images

Every image is free to download and use as a wallpaper or for personal projects. If you share one, a mention of Votive is appreciated.