Calebeir, 18th Keeper of the Vairojona. 2015/2018, digital painting.
Picking Calebeir as her heir was thought of as Attonma’s one truly diplomatic act, though at the time it seemed to come out of left field. Calebeir was depicted as her polar opposite; while she was interested in expansion and manifest destiny, he was more interested in diplomacy and compromise. Considered by some to be soft and “untested,” he nevertheless managed to keep a hold of all the new territory his predecessor had gained and curbed numerous rebellions in their new colonies.
Attonma picked him early on in her dynasty to kind of hold down the fort back home while she went off conquering. Thus Calebeir was more politically active than she was and handled everything going on in Yaarevan’kir that needed a Keeper’s attention. When Attonma died it was easy for him to continue working as he always had been, though with a certain amount of mess in his lap that he spent the rest of his dynasty fixing. A homebody, he perhaps didn’t strengthen or oversee external policies as closely he should have.
Though there were a lot of diplomatic concessions, Calebeir returned to the Ardaii to the relatively peaceful society they had been in the past.
He’s a Suuqwodii, illusion based Water fae. I kinda wanted to make his wings look kinda like liquid metal, and although this wasn’t my first idea it’s interesting and I decided to go with it.
Now I’m out of my backlog of Keepers to color. I have to go draw/design more of them...