Category Archives: The Rifted Riders

Tseo’s Girls

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Tseo ad Ventum and his ladies over the years.

First was Minerva Tellius (partner: white Kekalni), his sister-in-arms in the IV/IX Dragonriders, with whom he had a daughter, Misitrel. However, she dumped him after he got them all kidnapped by a madman just for existing – though the fact that he was currently a mild chauvinist certainly aided her decision.

Next was Kalalin, Hitomi’s childhood friend, grown to become a dual katana-wielding mercenary. Sadly, while she was very fun and energetic, she was also not interested in a deep commitment to one person and cheated with a member of her mercenary troop. Before that, they had another daughter, Ammernia.

Finally was Linoa Lutien, half-sister of Xanda. By this point Tseo had most of the chauvinism beat out of him by his new Centurion, Lavinia, but Linoa had her own issues – namely, a childhood friend who betrayed her and caused her much grief and rage. At the moment, their relationship is holding steady, and Tseo holds out hope that he’s finally found The One. They have two children, twins, Nieril (girl) and Nieron (boy).

I was to say that these are the most proportionate people I’ve ever drawn, and while there are still issues, I’m really happy with that fact. I’m also kind of proud of Kalalin’s character design. And while I’m not sure what Linoa would wear usually, we’ll just say she got dressed up for this picture. :3

I should colour this, or at least grey-scale it. We’ll see what I feel like doing tomorrow.

Mwennon and Aiya

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Hrulash and Hitomi’s babies decided it was time for them to be all growed up, so here they are as teenagers. They used to look like this.

Aiya is 19; Mwennon is 15. She’s grown beautiful as her mother, but cold as her father – she has a warm heart, but she hides it away carefully. She is an expert spearwoman, but she prefers a more calm, urban life. Zamir annoys her as much as he can, to her mystification. Her theme song is Splendid Flowers (takes after her father in music, too!)

Mwennon was the wilder one, and ran away from home to become a mercenary at age 15. He got some tattoos, and began dual-wielding spatha and gladius. He eventually returned home, and it took him a few years to fit back in. His theme song is Reluctant Heroes which is TOO GOOD FOR HIM, but he’s a greedy little boy and wants it anyway.

Bring the Light

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Tseo’s been invading my brain recently, which I am perfectly fine with; Hrulash has had the spotlight for many months now, and Tseo’s been languishing for character development beside his grouchier cousin.
This picture is intended as a pair for Into the Dark although I didn’t originally intend to do that. I was just going to draw a picture of Tseo on fire with green flames, a sort of “this is what happens next” to the brief animation that I did involving Tseo’s eyes over the weekend. But instead, this came out, and I’m okay with that. : ) I stole his colours from his elf counterpart, naturally, and the teal of his outfit is a very different green than his eyes, which are a light yellowish green, but he doesn’t care. : P He also wields a white/gold spear to contrast with Hrulash’s black/red spear, and that’s the bottom end, not the top end, that you see up there. I haven’t designed the top end yet. : P
My boys are pretty. XD