Unnatural horrors that can be encountered in From Software's 1998 Shadow Tower Sony Playstation 1 roleplaying video game. The creature's single giant eye emits spheres of searing light that are potent enough to melt steel and the Death Serpent's unearthly scream is so terrifying that it may instantly paralyze its prey with fear, leaving the victim completely defenseless. While these monstrosities slither about relatively slowly, they're quite large (almost ten feet tall), and their long necks give them a considerable reach, so, it'll take some artful dodging to avoid becoming a Death Serpent's next meal.

Death Serpents, three of them to be precise, can only be encountered in one area of the Shadow Tower video game: the Great Hall of Necron, which is located in the Beast World region. Necron is the "boss" of said domain and presumably keeps these squirming abominations around as watchdogs. Needless to say, an adventurer would be wise to destroy the Death Serpents as quickly as possible, because Necron knows some potent magic and is trouble enough without having to worry about his pets too. On a more positive note, slain Death Serpents may drop the Arm Guard of Composure item (armor for the hands that decreases fire damage and increases your magic speed when equipped).

It's hard to tell, from the angle of the Creature Book screenshot, exactly what the posterior of the Death Serpent looks like (I don't have the game, and it's been a long time since I saw the monster in action in a YouTube Shadow Tower boss montage video). While I initially made the model with just a thick tail in the back, that anatomy looked kind of awkward to me, so I added another pair of "flippers" to balance things out--the creature already resembles a Plesiosaurus anyway.


Materials:
Newsprint, white glue, tissue paper, acrylic paint, fibers from a bath towel, colored pencil, and ink.

Dimensions:
5.7 cm (2.2") wide x 5.5 cm (2.2") high

Time:
Start-to-finish, it took several hours to complete this project on September 21st, 2014.