Fail

Water vs. Fire
Failed! Is there another chance to attack? Is lesson room for mistake, and mistake for improvement? How many chances does protagonists have?
Characters from my APKALLU Story, on a much advanced point of the mythos where the expected battle of elementals do happen.
Am I finished with this? No Way! It was done in part as college activity, so it had schedules and directories to follow. I finished it around a week, so I didn't explore all the character's power nor personality. But I guess that too much effort has ben spent for just a few battle scenes, so hope you enjoy it.

This is the 2nd Part of a comic book of mine made with mixed media, from ink outlines to basic color pencils and water color and finally digital treatment to amend a thing or two.
The Third page mixes narrative (from a Huarochiri narrator perspective) and the relation between Hualallo-Khepri and Pariacaca-Hydros are deepened:

"Pariacaca (Green): See? You still fool yourself!
Pariacaca (dark blue-Storm): You're in no position to offend
Pariacaca (blue): No jokes allowed, Lapolakh!
Paracaca (light blue ice): Thou shalt return to that of which thou has been"

Far from having a Huarochiri inspired design, but just imagining a perspective of narrative, I depicted the gods into raw elemental forms.
The Elemental Gods from Apkallu are universal: Pariacaca isn't just "a spectre", and the title of elemental isn' a title or position that can be earned. They are the elements and only being them can be possible to master them. But not all water is Pariacaca as all fire can't be Hualallo.
We don't know how they began, but like nature, evolution, and men we didn't came from a single point of origin, of conception. We came from the suppression of the alien into the breast of the common. Pariacaca and all others that are water have developed a fluid nature on which this process of becoming common has been facilitated. As such, Hydros as he's originally known, has a multiverse in his hands, and that is something the proud Hualallo-Khepri doesn't count...
Hualallo has attained years of experience among empires, military services, scientific discoveries, and mastered the progresses of science. That's only natural, since his element is often regarded as the difference between man and beast. But as well, he created far too many illusions.
He's been given many chances to do as he liked, to learn from his many falls as he wished, that his ego and personalty undergone a solipsism.
His last life has been of a Tibetan Monk. Once again, in the most meditative and contemplative of the scenarios, something between tradition, self-righteousness and the ambition for good and a simple life led him nowhere.
Destined (proclaiming himself as all would, satiating public opinion and desire of the feeble life everyone lead or are led in civilization - the illusion he begot) to cleanse the karma debts, his failed plan was a mix of technological domination and innovation with alignment of the productive classes. Setting the world on fire and deeming only those "strong of will" (those who would sacrifice them for society) to survive, he'd have diminished the population and destroyed wildlife. The only existing would be industrialists looking forward to a cosmopolis, with the endless production (of culture, goods, everything to be consumed) at their hands. The plan failed. As in his attack, foiled by Pariacaca's five forms.
Would he learn at last that the world doens't revolve around principles, no matter how hard he tries?
That "debts" are delusional concepts akin to karma, and not everyone re-incarnate like him and the elementals?
That the value of life can't be measured in posterity neither in the good actions, deemed virtuous, in justaposition to those who naturally try to escape a responsibility so alien to them (since it get farther from primal needs of survival)?

FULL STORY Here