#skammerserien

[louistonehill]

That scene from the fourth book in the Shamer Chronicles by Lene Kaaberboel, which has owned my whole heart for as long as I can remember

Lil' context for people who might not have read the Shamer Chronicles:

Dina (the girl) is of a family where all the women have the power to look people in the eye and make them feel shame/relive their most shameful moments. This usually makes them judges and revered wise women, but in a time where war and fascism starts to tear her world apart she and her family are hunted as witches or kidnapped and used against their will to break people.

As a result most people are too afraid to look her in the eye and it takes a special someone to overcome their own shame and look at them with familial care and love.

Enter Tano, who is a former Thrall/slave that Dina was forced to break because he kept preaching workers' rights to his lord - but who was so stubborn he and Dina ended up breaking each other. Quite literally. She spends the next couple of books unable to use her powers properly and spending time with people that reinforce the idea that she's a monster or a witch.

Until she meets Tano at the end of the story once more and they begin to stubbornly rebuild each other's self esteem and eventually caring deeply about each other, enabling Dina to do the impossible, casting shame upon an entire army and making grown men curl up and cry xD

If you read all this thank you! It's a really beautiful story of self-love, pride and appropriate shame, and I cannot recommend it enough !

[narnianfarmer]

Nicodemus Ravens by @ninjabun based on the movie Skammerens Datter (The Shamer’s Daughter)

“Jeg kunne have dræbt ham. I Arsenalgården. Hvis jeg nogensinde får chancen igen, viser jeg ikke Drakan nogen nåde.”

“I could have killed him. In Arsenalgården. If I ever get the chance again, I won’t show Drakan any mercy.” 

[louistonehill]

"When you arrived at camp two days ago... whatever it was, Dina, it was so powerful no one dared approach you. No one except Tano."

[louistonehill]

Collecting herbs for Melussina

[louistonehill]

Dina and Tano from the Shamer Chronicles

At it again with those childhood favourites, so here's another one!

For those who don't know the story follows a matriarchal family with the gift to look anyone in the eye and see their memories of guilt and shame. These women are usually used as judges, but as Dina comes into her powers, war breaks out across the continent and her family's right to determine truth is shattered.

Been wanting to draw these two since... since I started drawing, really. And this was a really fun character design exercise! Going to try and see if I can draw some of my favourite scenes !!

[louistonehill]

"When you arrived two days ago.. whatever it was, Dina, it was so powerful that no one dared approach you. No one but Tano."

[louistonehill]

"How did you get here?"

"Well... there weren't so many places for me to go..."

[louistonehill]

"Wait... exactly What happened after I left Valdracu's hall?" "I hurled all over his expensive, hand-made loafers."