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Octo-ber Day 13: Submerged

Sváfa (from The Shield-Maiden Saga) almost drowned one time and met something in the depths of the sea.

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The Shield-Maiden Saga

This is a story of Sváfa “Shield-Breaker” Hagbardsdottír. She is a daughter of a Sea-King and a Kven woman. When she is 14, her father joins on a campaign to establish a colony on the shores of the East Route. All the men take their families along with intention to not come back. It’s the first time Sváfa is leaving her home islands. As a child she dreamed to be a shield-maiden, but as she grew up she learned that women only take adventures in sagas. But now is her change to have her own adventure. However it turns out that adventures are not so joyous and glorious as in the tales she has heard. When their fleet is caught up in a storm, their ship sinks. Most of the people aboard die and when the survivors think the worst is behind, a mercenary army kills them and steals everything they have left. Only Sváfa and Vígi, Sváfa’s father’s right hand man survive it. Sváfa takes his father’s sword, dresses up as a boy and is determined to avenge her family.

When their fleet is caught up in a storm, their ship sinks. Most of the people aboard die and when the survivors think the worst is behind, a mercenary army kills them and steals everything they have left. Only Sváfa and Vígi, Sváfa’s father’s right hand man survive it. Sváfa takes his father’s sword, dresses up as a boy and is determined to avenge her family.

I mentioned before that I’m probably turning the Shield-Maiden Saga into a graphic novel. When I first started the thing that would eventually evolve over the (at least 6) years into The Shield-Maiden Saga, it actually was a comic rather than a book. I ditched the idea then, because I didn’t have the skills to finish that project. Now I’ve been thinking for a while now to start the visual novel again and when I found the old ones (which were pretty bad), they inspired me to do better. So I did the first three pages. And here they are. It might take me a while to get to really drawing this, because I’m still focusing on Bear Castle and I have to do a lot of character design and such.

I’m tagging the Shield-Maiden crew, but I changed the nature of the whole project so it’s totally okay if you don’t want to be tagged anymore :) That’s why I’m doing it so if you want to be tagged in the future too, comment or send me pm or something! And of course if someone else want to be tagged too, I’m happy to do that.

@erinisawriter @pigeonbooks @plaguecraft @madmooninc @midnightstreetwanderings @maxseidel @bluemartlet @teacupwriter @violet-clouds-and-skies @natalierosewrites

(Also tagging @siarven because this is art related, but I’ll only tag you too in the future if you want to, because I know you didn’t sign up for a whole visual novel :D)

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Inktober #8: Frail

Some more The Shield-Maiden stuff! This time it’s Helgi, who was cursed to be wolf and by the time was turned back to human, forgot his past as human and his name.

Inktober tag list: @siarven @kainablue-loves-art @ettawritesnstudies @ventilaccion​

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Inktober Day 3: Bait

I decided to go with Sváfa from The Shield-Maiden Saga. I’m still not too sure what exact style I want go with for the comic, so I might make more experiments with TSMS during inktober. I might do some coloring too :D

Inktober tag list: @siarven @kainablue-loves-art

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Inktober #21: Treasure

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Ilmatar, when she is not a dragon, and her precious pearl. It contains her heart or soul or how ever you want to put it. It was made by the goddess of sea by the request of Ilmatar’s mother, so she could keep her heart for herself forever and never let her go. Her mother’s plan backfired though, when she turned into a dragon to protect her pearl and keep it locked away only to herself.

Inktober tag list: @siarven @kainablue-loves-art @ettawritesnstudies @ventilaccion @re-writing-h @dove-actually

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Inktober #20: Tread

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I may have stretched a little the meaning of the prompt. But I just wanted to draw Sváfa showing this guy what happens when someone hits her big sister.

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Inktober #12: Dragon

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This is a dragon from The Shield-Maiden Saga. What depictions of dragons is left from Viking Age depicts them very snakelike. I also drew some feathers too since this dragon was a wind elf, Ilmatar, before her desire to protect a particular huge pearl turned her into a dragon. Her story is inspired by myth of dragon Fafnir, who was originally a dwarf, but turned into a dragon to protect his treasure. Still not sure though if this will be her final design.

Inktober tag list: @siarven @kainablue-loves-art @ettawritesnstudies @ventilaccion

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Inktober #4: Freeze

Again The Shield-Maiden Saga related, this time it’s Láilá, the Sami noaidi (witch).

Inktober tag list: @siarven @kainablue-loves-art

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