I’m really glad to have a new picture to show you! The wrist is still giving me a lot of trouble, but by using tools like The Sims 4 to model the face and hair, and my lightpad to trace a screenshot, I managed to ease the stress on my mind and hand and actually made something I’m very happy with!
This is Llarynna Liadon, a moon elf who has recently discovered her calling as a cleric of Tymora, aka Lady Luck.
Llarynna, more often known simply as Rynna or Rinn, hails from the isle of Gwynneth in the Moonshae Isles. She was raised in the mountain kingdom of Synnoria with the other Llewyr elves, and although she loved her culture she felt little closeness to the elven gods and spent her days exploring the mountains and taking risks, perhaps looking for something that called her. She is not the strongest of elves, but she is hardy and nimble.
When she was aged 74 - still a child by her people's reckoning - a whirlwind romance, a plan to elope and shipwreck later, she found herself in Neverwinter, destitute, alone and pregnant. Fortunately, a priestess of Lathander found her and took her in, providing food and shelter in return for what help she could offer in the temple and town, which was still rebuilding after the troubles a few decades earlier. Her child was born in the temple and named Caron.
She loved Caron greatly and did her best by them, and grew fond of Lathander and her fellows, but still did not feel that this was the god who called her to serve. When Caron was 15 and entered into training as a paladin of Lathander, serving as a squire to an experienced paladin, Rinn took her new freedom to research other gods whose voice she might be hearing echoes of. She discovered the stories of Tyche, Tymora and Beshaba, and found herself drawn especially to Tyche. She spent much time praying and meditating, as well as going out into the town to find what her path might call her to.
Rinn was 100 and Caron was 25 when he completed his training, swore his Oath of the Ancients and chose his adult name - Carwyn. Rinn chose her own adult name at the ceremony - Llarynna - bade her grownup son farewell and headed to Silverymoon so that she might visit the temple to Tymora there, learn more of her and receive a blessing for her vocation. They gave their blessing and told her to go out into the world to find out what Tymora wanted her to do.
Llarynna is now travelling to Waterdeep to begin her journey of self-discovery.
Watercolour on cold-pressed watercolour paper.
