OLD art: Originally uploaded in 2015. Just some head and neck studies of the Armored Grandwyrm Perserva, one of the deities for a fantasy world I really need to develop more. Perserva is one of three sister deities called the Matrons of Light that all represent Mind, Body, and Soul created from the untamed magics of the world. She represents Mind, and spends most of her time in the mostly uninhabitable land to the south known eloquently as "The Land of Ice and Steel", where she keeps her massive vault of books, scrolls, and the written word. And there is where she learns, she collects all the thoughts of sentient kind everywhere, and studies. She spends a good portion of her days in a trance while she sends projections of herself to gather information and more reading material. Perserva has many titles, including "Perserva the White", "The Grandwyrm Perserva", "The Armored One", "The Dragon of Knowledge", "The Frozen Mistress of Ice and Steel", and "The Mind's Eye". Statues of her tend to be in libraries, colleges, and other places of study. Despite the snarly face, she is mostly a benevolent if a bit aloof god that hardly meddles in the affairs of mortals, as it would upset her delicate research.