#vaskalamaldus

[tales-of-kaimere]

Spent about an hour yesterday enjoying the afternoon sun and doing some creature sketches from my short stories:

First is Vaskalamaldus the Raven King, a giant pterosaur and antagonist of my first Tales of Kaimere short story, Death Walks on Broken Wings: https://amzn.to/2Gt4agg

Next we have the baoqu, a mountain-adapted ceratopsid dinosaur that causes havoc in my fourth short story, Koban’s Menagerie: https://amzn.to/2Kl6lmU

Last, but certainly not least, is the bull uktan from my upcoming story, Songbird’s Lament. The uktan is a massive megaraptoran that fills the role of apex predator on the houze prairies.

[tales-of-kaimere]

The antagonist of my first short story, Death Walks on Broken Wings: amzn.to/2GUQHhY   By reasons unknown, a large male titan crow received an injury to his left wing which banned him from the skies. Trapped in territory south of his usual hunting ground, with a wall preventing him to return north, the old crow was forced to wander. Quickly he was drawn to livestock in the farmsteads and towns near the wall. After a few violent encounters with farmers, the beast associated people with pain. After a few more injuries, pain turned to rage, and he found the farmers and lumberjacks of the region to make for an easy meal. After this, it was a short step to surplus killing.   Soon he killed for pleasure.   Eventually his standard hunt turned into a massacre, eating one or two and killing a dozen. The great titan was given the name Vaskalamaldus, Qajarith for Death Walks on Broken Wings. Others called him the Raven King. Three towns have suffered great loss by his attacks, and as they are tied up with war, the senate cannot spare the resources to vanquish the beast. And so he is unchecked, killing as he pleases without fear of retribution.