Finally I am getting into the illustrations,, the full coloured pieces,,
So Nephil is a ✨gorgeous man✨ but ohoho the amount of things going on in this piece. First off, Nephil himself! For some context, in the campaign he found Maeyr again with the party in a literal black market area, why is he there? Uhhh he does some work for the guilded shadows on the side, nothing to worry about. But while she’s staying in a place in the same city, they get to hang out a bit more than usual, they go out for a cake date on Maeyr’s birthday (and during this time she’s in a training arc, forced to be on a specific food diet that means no cakes, and she hates it, Nephil teaches her about the HR department,,,besides the point). The party ended up being kidnapped by wraiths and taken down to hell, which, for them, was a few days at most. For everyone else, it was a y e a r. Due to these magical seed things they got, the people in the place they were staying (which is called the silver flame order, by the way) knew that they weren’t necessarily dead, just no longer in this mortal plane. So Nephil dedicated himself to officially joining and rising through the ranks of the silver flame order, becoming a literal lord, all to try and find Maeyr (and the rest of the party). So his hairs got a lot longer, tied up in a ponytail now, he’s got one of Maeyr’s hair ties around his wrist,,, in the background we can see a certain plushie, and that in fact, is Maeyr’s plushie! Left behind in her room, hidden under the covers, where she expected to be able to come back to later on. Since she couldn’t, he keeps hold of it, taking care of it until she gets back. His room smells almost salty, like the sea, seashells and trinkets dotted around. When Maeyr eventually returns, he isn’t there, out on a mission, so she leaves him a note telling him she needs to talk to him, and also that she’s taking her plushie with her. She hopes he doesn’t mind.
It took me a while to figure out how I wanted to draw Nephil, and I’m still figuring him out, same as Maeyr, but I really love this piece.