T'ang Dynasty Lokapala - Tomb Guardians
The Emperor's Imperial Guard was long since dead as was he. However, his magic had carried him over the threshold as something ... else. Early in his Lichdom his form was decrepit and frail. He had needed time and safe haven to fortify. Thus he reanimated Hong and Tsung, two merciless and unyielding soldiers from his ranks. His automatons while in two bodies, were of one mind ... His own. Unceasingly they patrolled his lair and the surrounding territory. Over centuries the Emperor and his henchmen came to be unfathomably strange and powerful ... the stuff of legend.
~Stewart
Sculptures at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts
T'ang Dynasty Lokapala - Tomb Guardians
The Emperor's Imperial Guard was long since dead as was he. However, his magic had carried him over the threshold as something ... else. Early in his Lichdom his form was decrepit and frail. He had needed time and safe haven to fortify. Thus he reanimated Hong and Tsung, two merciless and unyielding soldiers from his ranks. His automatons while in two bodies, were of one mind ... His own. Unceasingly they patrolled his lair and the surrounding territory. Over centuries the Emperor and his henchmen came to be unfathomably strange and powerful ... the stuff of legend.
~Stewart
Sculptures at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts