The Head of Vecna

A week or two ago, Wizards of the Coast released a new design for D&D's Archlich Vecna, back before he was betrayed by Kas and still had two eyes. He looks like this:

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Here is the final full bodied concept design for D&D’s Vecna. I was tasked with putting together a final look from designs by Ian McCaig, Steve Prescott, Wes Burt and myself. pic.twitter.com/P6U5Sqey2J

— Kieran Yanner (@kieranyanner) June 10, 2022

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Final portrait concept design for D&D’s Vecna. The awesome talents of Ian McCaig and Steve Prescott were also core to concept development of the project. pic.twitter.com/7P46xYglXO

— Kieran Yanner (@kieranyanner) June 9, 2022

As you can imagine given the sharp cheekbones and strong chin, the internet-at-large was very normal about it.

Vecna featuring The Book of Erotic Fantasy.

Continuing with that train of thought, when Nicole saw it, her comment was, "They yassified Vecna..."

And her comment led me to create this monstrosity:

I think I met this guy at the club one time.

Which then prompted this edit of Vecna from the classic Die Vecna Die! cover:

A friend said he looks like an Are You Afraid of the Dark? villain.

And of course, since people were confused about Vecna because of Stranger Things, that led to whatever this is:

This anime protagonist needs moisturizer.

A friend also mentioned Acererak. Acererak the demilich or the regular ol' lich sadly doesn't have enough skin for FaceApp to recognize his face, and the one human picture of Acererak I was thinking about is too low-resolution for the filter to make his face look right:

He looks like a Spongmonkey.

To end this very stupid post, I'll leave you with a friend's ultimate comment about the Vecna redesign:

Happy Pride, everyone!