#eubora

[inlakehuron]

I wrote 7 pages about their trauma and problems. i missed them

[schiachperchten]

Eubora Nunziata, master necromancer, and his young apprentice Ottone Ordelaffi bid farewell to the subject of another successful resurrection. Only the necromancers of topmost repute are permitted to work with the Aquila family and those of its branch families. Here, Nunziata has resurrected Justina Gallo, cousin to the duke. Her bedchamber reflects the recovery practices penned by the Lafossan school of necromancy. Subjects of resurrection are encouraged to shelter away from direct sunlight and to sup only on meals of thin, milky broth. For a short time, Justina's eyes will take on a similarly milky film, and so the curtains 'round her bed will be drawn so as to not cause her pain. Such practices ensure that that resurrected's soul settles comfortably back into its vessel. She will no doubt enjoy a long and leisurely recovery as a member of the ducal clan, but for families who must scrape together coin for a necromancer's services, accommodations following resurrection may not be so fine.

many other states are ruled by necromancers due to their sway over life and death, but the aquilas have lafossas necromancers on a tight leash. have you ever wondered what power they yield to subjugate such a powerful class? well. me too the goal of this was basically to demonstrate that MOST necromancers produce results like this. when you focus on wanpyr stories it can be easy to forget that most necromancers are like, good at their job. heres something else to think about, though: necromancers require death for their services to be necessary. plenty of death is unavoidable, but lafossas biggest export is its necromancers, and so their healthcare system is basically nonexistent. there is not a huge vested interest in food safety, sewage management, treatment and containment of diseases, etc. if you cant afford to cough up for a necromancer when your kid croaks of food poisoning, oh well! youre on your own. i imagine swaths of the city smell really bad and are really really REALLY gross when i draw lafossa scenes, i like to put wear and tear on the surfaces. scuffs and scratches in wood, cracks in tile, mended tears in fabric. but this one depicts lafossa pre-stampede, and this is also a ducal bedchamber. so everything is in much finer condition. it was hard not to draw my usual little details, lol

[inlakehuron]

New little freaks just dropped. Maybe they are a polycule. Get back to me later.

[inlakehuron]

I’m incapable of drawing anything original I can ONLY redraw my previous work

I made her based on a specific deer species (Chital) AND I’m fleshing out her whole situation I love character creation I love it I love it

[inlakehuron]

Started as a Mucha study….. turned into……… Yeah……… yeah…………

I think there are some paintings of her in Eubora that looks like this………. Someone painted her like this and I think I know who did it……

[inlakehuron]

current wip collection :D

[inlakehuron]

I looooooove finally starting to understand shape language

[schiachperchten]

pupil

referenced from "abelard and his pupil heloise" by edmund blair leighton. the big difference being that these two are not illicit lovers. eubora isnt the stepdad, hes the dad that stepped down

i havent drawn eubora in a miiiiinute, which is crazy because HE is crazy. the concept of him is crazy. the fact that he was able to survive the stampede and peel out of there before having any concept of where the stampede would stop (if it stopped at all) and making it back to lafossa by the skin of his teeth, with no attendants and no possessions. becoming a local legend and important living witness to the tragedy because of this. realizing that orchidee never made it home, and having to break it to her mother what happened. edelweiss, who begged on hands and knees for eubora to take on her late husbands daughter as a pupil, even though he knew she wasnt good enough and didnt want to stain his perfect record of perfect students. he settles back into a life of renewed austerity, somehow even more sullen than he was to begin with. and when a dying edelweiss begs him to retrieve her daughter, he does it. even though entering the deerwood is so much harder than escaping it. even though he knew he would probably only be searching for bones. even though he knew he could tell this delirious woman that he would do it and just. not do it. because he had a perfect record of perfect students, and orchidee was his only failure. maybe he wasnt doing it for edelweiss, or the memory of his student ottone, but for closure, and to get that perfect record back. if he found her, he would make her a proper pupil again

none of this does anything to dissuade the rumor that eubora was actually orchidees father. he isnt. but the rumor persists

orchidee is not a good pupil the first or the second time around. what a disappointment! she will have to make herself useful some other way. wonder what that could be