Krita sketch from 2021, part of a worldbuilding thing I keep tinkering with on and off again. This specific image (which I procrastinated on for a while) was intended to imitate a specific style of painting from some early time period, but I couldn't remember what it was for the life of me.
-In Universe Excerpt-
The name Tinovano T'hailuuno (literally ''Mountain's Melody", or "Mountain Songbird") is the given name attributed to a certain author in Vita-Ra ancient history.
She was likely native to the north of Kunee Harak'di (Eocene-epoch India), or at least educated in the city nations there. Most of her writing concerns documentation of the far northern continent (Eurasia) and the peoples that dwelled there, particular the illiterate yet metallurgically skilled "Moon-faced" predecessors of the Lunak'-Rha tribes. Copies of texts attributed to this author are likely some of the most well-preserved artifacts of the Pre-Modern millennia.
Whether or not Tinovano T'hailuuno was a single individual or multiple is something of scholarly debate (both names and careers tended to be passed down through a family lineage in this time and place). If a sole individual, the author was likely of brown plumage and possibly striped, as most Vita-Ra around the Tethys Ocean exhibited that phenotype at the time.
