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Please Note: Just to bring it out in the open, yes, there are a couple of things in this art that may feel like a lack of detail is involved, but it was intentional for the style and lighting I was trying to achieve. So before you start berating me about them, know that I already know. ... thank you. XD

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There was a time when the northern realms knew prosperity well; when the great noble houses of Raleigh and Esther intermingled their bloodlines and so captivated even the more judicious of nelri lords from far away Ailyrenai to admit that beauty was not lost on humankind.

However, there were those among Esther’s descendants who felt out of place among the snow-covered plains of Raleigh’s rule. One such soul was Ryaine, eldest daughter of Raleigh King Rugal the First, and Estheran bred Queen Lynette. Blessed with her mother’s hair and her father’s fair skin, Ryaine’s beauty was a testament to the bond the two houses shared, although when she was ripe in age to breed, Ryaine rebelled against her noble family and seduced an unnamed captain among merchant fleets; coaxing him into smuggling her far from the eyes of her family.

For the most part, she succeeded in this quest. Ryaine, an unmarried princess still, travelled the length of the Baeren Sea and found warmer lands that were said to have welcomed the wild youth openly into their arms and there she learnt many things exotic that quenched her inflamed desires. So astray, Ryaine revelled in her new world and forgot herself in it.

Yet even with years absent from her homelands, Ryaine was not forgotten among them and was besotted with a traveller who claimed to be a peer from the very halls she left behind. So did Ryaine return close to them as a lover to Aeganis, a forefather lord of House Sineden; whose banners flew proudly in Raleigh lands. To her dismay, however, Aeganis swept her off her feet with the intent to sire a child through her that would sit her father's throne after his plot to overthrow it came to fruition. Thus did Ryaine become a prisoner of her love; forced to watch as her family’s lands fell towards war.

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Wheee… and yet more lore for ye all to feast on. Fun times, anyway. This work was originally supposed to be of the zaira, Shaelyn, but the colours I would have worked with for her just didn’t exactly measure up in the end. So along came Ryaine; yet another historical character for my world… who I think I may flesh out, given time.

Anyhoo, if anyone’s interested, here’s the alternate coloured version for Shaelyn: [link]

I figure this doesn't need a mature rating either.

Artwork // Ryaine - © Kristopher P. Love

Description
Please Note: Just to bring it out in the open, yes, there are a couple of things in this art that may feel like a lack of detail is involved, but it was intentional for the style and lighting I was trying to achieve. So before you start berating me about them, know that I already know. ... thank you. XD

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There was a time when the northern realms knew prosperity well; when the great noble houses of Raleigh and Esther intermingled their bloodlines and so captivated even the more judicious of nelri lords from far away Ailyrenai to admit that beauty was not lost on humankind.

However, there were those among Esther’s descendants who felt out of place among the snow-covered plains of Raleigh’s rule. One such soul was Ryaine, eldest daughter of Raleigh King Rugal the First, and Estheran bred Queen Lynette. Blessed with her mother’s hair and her father’s fair skin, Ryaine’s beauty was a testament to the bond the two houses shared, although when she was ripe in age to breed, Ryaine rebelled against her noble family and seduced an unnamed captain among merchant fleets; coaxing him into smuggling her far from the eyes of her family.

For the most part, she succeeded in this quest. Ryaine, an unmarried princess still, travelled the length of the Baeren Sea and found warmer lands that were said to have welcomed the wild youth openly into their arms and there she learnt many things exotic that quenched her inflamed desires. So astray, Ryaine revelled in her new world and forgot herself in it.

Yet even with years absent from her homelands, Ryaine was not forgotten among them and was besotted with a traveller who claimed to be a peer from the very halls she left behind. So did Ryaine return close to them as a lover to Aeganis, a forefather lord of House Sineden; whose banners flew proudly in Raleigh lands. To her dismay, however, Aeganis swept her off her feet with the intent to sire a child through her that would sit her father's throne after his plot to overthrow it came to fruition. Thus did Ryaine become a prisoner of her love; forced to watch as her family’s lands fell towards war.

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Wheee… and yet more lore for ye all to feast on. Fun times, anyway. This work was originally supposed to be of the zaira, Shaelyn, but the colours I would have worked with for her just didn’t exactly measure up in the end. So along came Ryaine; yet another historical character for my world… who I think I may flesh out, given time.

Anyhoo, if anyone’s interested, here’s the alternate coloured version for Shaelyn: [link]

I figure this doesn't need a mature rating either.

Artwork // Ryaine - © Kristopher P. Love