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I keep forgetting how annoying pine forests are to draw…

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I’ve been seeing a few Silent Salt modern au drawings floating around but everyone seems to make Nox into a motorbike which I don’t think makes a good stand in for a living animal SSC clearly loves deeply

Instead I think it makes way more sense for Nox to be a dressage horse and SSC an elite dressage rider since it feels wrong to make Nox an inanimate object and dressage as a discipline is essentially derived from old war horse training

Also Elderfaere is a classics professor because it just kinda feels right+ Salt Cellar in the corner

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Rebranding again because I’m indecisive and got inspired by bedazzling my sheep skull to look like a Mari Lwyd

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I had originally just made Choctaw and Ireland close friends but then I had an even BETTER idea

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Saw this image and instantly thought of Ancient Greece

Also I don’t really have any relationship related reasoning for specifically putting in Sparta and Corinth I just already had a design for Sparta and I needed an animal related polis of some description and Corinth was the first to come to mind

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It’s gonna be a long ride home…

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More winter war shenanigans but I kinda forgot the “winter” part while drawing this

Also I’m bad at drawing injuries so I feel I should clarify that’s supposed to be a severe burn, that’s why Finland’s leg isn’t bleeding

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Now that we have the names of Ragatha’s horses confirmed I felt I had to draw them

I see them as Tennessee walkers, not particularly sure why the breed just feels right (obviously she wouldn’t sore them or put them in stacks she’d let them amble normally because she has a basic sense of empathy)

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Choctaw Nation and her bestie Ireland

They trauma-bonded over the trail of tears and potato famine and Choctaw was pretty much the only person who actually helped Ireland despite having nothing herself

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I read an account of a phenomenon that occurred in Scarborough in 1165 which was described as an “accursed horse” which gouged “footprints” into the countryside and was accompanied by destructive hail and lighting, which sounds an awful lot like a multi-vortex tornado so naturally I had to it

I love learning about how people interpreted weird things like tornadoes before we figured out what was actually going on

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My friend managed to barter a sheep skull off of their friend for me so I made him into a mari lwyd, or I guess since it's a sheep not a horse a mamog lwyd

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I really need to start drawing Antarctica more often her colours are so nice

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New headcannon, since there are no cougars in the Uk but there are tones of “alien big cat” urban legends about black panthers, Sharptooth is a black leopard or jaguar

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Macedonia loves his horsie

(Obvious based on Alexander the Great and Bucephalus)

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Excuse the cringe for a second, I wasn’t really planning on posting this one but I’ve been really busy and ran out of my backlog of drawings so my shitty traditional practice will have to do

(I promise it looks better in person I just have a really shitty camera)

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I really SHOULD learn to draw more than two or three people in a single scene, especially for battles but I’m way too lazy to

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Top ten photos taken moments before Ottoman Empire joined the central powers