The Candraphon

-- Demon Prince of Hell

The Candraphon is part of a horror-genre tabletop role playing game character who lives in Hell, so he's generally in a foul mood.

His immortal body is far from a blessing for him. He's about as charismatic, as pretty and as kind as a goose who slept through the year's southern migration for winter.

Like Red the Ever-living, he's a table-top RPG game (Dungeons & Dragons, in this case) character.

The Candraphon can now be summoned by simply adding the LoRA to your Flux checkpoint or diffusion model (with your own CLIP models and a VAE if you're into all of that).

Unlike Red the Ever-living, I never played him as a DM, so he doesn't yet have a TL;DR monstrous bio sheet (Red does though if you'd like to find out why liches become liches).

You can tell just by looking at the Candraphon that you wouldn't want him to show up at your house expecting a meatloaf... It'd be a little awkward.

He's psionic, so the blades and armor he sometimes uses are generally not required when dealing with mortals; the Candraphon will just erupt his foe with a thought, or enthrall them similarly to how Mind Flayers often attempt to do to entire solar systems.

(He's even got a few of the Mind Flayer's beautiful physical characteristics, notably the tentacles that cover most of his mouth)

He was assigned the role of Prince Demon because he disintegrated a large portion of Hell's inhabitants. So Mephistopheles, put him in charge of that same area of hell as he nearly destroyed to keep him occupied...

• After all, idle hands are the devil's plaything.

That's about all the story I have for him since the campaign setting was never completed (how a lot of tabletop campaigns end, sadly), so he never even got to participate in a fight with the group of heroes that wanted to destroy him.

But I figure that now he has a sort of physical form that's simple enough to create, I'll write some new stories for him.

LoRA TRAINING/TIPS FOR USE:

When using his LoRA to create the images of him on this page, I included the Dungeons & Dreamscapes LoRA to give him a more intense "dark fantasy" aesthetic, the other LoRA involved in his creation was the Mind Flayer LoRA, so a big thanks to #1 and #2 for that.

For his initial image I posted as examples, the prompt is a bit long...

So I'll summarize what you might be required to add to your prompt in order to summon the Candraphon.

It shouldn't require this, but here are my specs used in case you can't get 'em to "come out and play":

(NOTE: These settings below are for 1 character portrait style images.. it gets a "little hairy" for the 2 character prompts and settings. If you're interested in that aspect).

If creating multiple character in images using Flux's almost all "out-of-the box" setup in sd-webui-FoRge Keep reading past the "TL;DR" part after these portrait steps and I'll break down the process.

Steps: 20

Sampler: DPM++ 2M

Schedule type: Simple

CFG scale: 1 (Flux)

Distilled CFG Scale: 9

Model: flux1-dev-fp8

Lora hashes:

dungeons-and-dreamscapes-krea_v10-000021: bae29d3561

mindflayers-lora: 5077f56f5b66

And this should get 'em to appear, but just mentioning his name: Candraphon ... That should do it, but here's some of the other "tags":

• inspired by Legends and Dungeons & Dragons

• horror genre

• inspired by the Balrog from the Lord of the Rings

• influenced by The Silence from Doctor Who

If you don't mention his clothiers - he'll wear the light plate you see in the example images.

He can easily change skin tones from gray, black, dark red or silver. If you choose one, he'll always be that color.

If you don't specify his hair, it'll be long and white.

...and that's about it for the Candraphon! Be sure to let me know what you think if you do use him!

TL;DR

Well, tis model post is already long as hell! And the multi-character workflow will need some screensshots, so....

TODO: Write an article and post a link to it here!