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"There are two wolves in each of us, a black wolf and a white wolf. The white wolf thrives on love and faith. The black wolf, on fear and hate." A story about two wolves fighting in each of us, the one you feed will prevail. This story is attributed to Cherokee Indians, it is a metaphor for our inner conflicts.
I decided to depict this conflict by painting of my two OCs together - druidess Daeloth represents a white wolf and dark elf necromancer Nelthir is a black wolf. They represent two aspects of my personality, the good part is trying to stop the evil one. Sometimes I feel as a nice and good person, butterflies and unicorns all around me and sometimes I am full of rage, pity and destruction, that I would transform into Deathwing and burn a half of the world if I could.
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I like how she seems to be pleading with him. "Dear friend, will you listen, now no need to fuss like this, look at me goadamnit and sheath that blade of your, will you..." All the while he is staring dramatically somewhere off. It is kind of hilarious, which doesn't diminish its amazing beauty and magnificence and wonderful play with cold heavenly and warm fiery light and wind. To my eyes he is brimming with might, ready to spring into action right now and she seems pretty agitated too. It is alive and magical.
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aw, thank you for your comment, your description really nailed it! This is exactly what I had in my mind while I was painting it 
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I cant even find the words to describe how amazing this is.
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Wow, incredible amazing. And I love the little tale, too.
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thanks 
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This is incredible! Both of your OC's look so good!
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Well given we live not THAT far apart, lucky me that you can't transform into Deathwing.
Great image though. Wonder if she will succeed in claming him down before yet another village is destroyed. Seems a popular theme though. I actually had to expresedly forbid one of my players to create new characters whose backgrounds required entire cities razed. I've only a limited supply of them in my world.
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haha I thought that you have some fire resist armor in your wardrobe or something
thank you! Well she has succeed so far 
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LOL, sounds familiar. I usually preempt that by mentioning something about the air (it being stale, having a smell, fresh, etc. Sometimes I even mention air circulation like: "their is an occasional waft of fresh air from further up, but you can't exactly pinpoint the source", usually they leave it at that. Every now and then they mount an investiagation. I've not yet managed to establish what prompts such investigation ... but well I'm only doing this for 30 years now, so I'm still pretty fresh at it. 
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wow 30 years? you have to an expert our group is over-motivated, we are able to investigate every place for hours, our GM isn't very happy about it as he wants continue in a story.
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Hehe, that's likely better then my group currently, who mostly excels on planning every detail of their next foray for hours and hours (usually on incomplete or wrong information or simply hypothesis), after which they quickly encounter something their plan didn't account for at which point everything degenerates into chaos (but at least it moves ahead now
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The lighting looks so good. I never heard that Cherokee tale before, Norse tradition also has the concept of inner wolves but they are more like guides, called the fylgur. Native American folklore actually has many similarities with European folklore, the Cherokee have an equivalent to dwarves and hidden folk.
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Thanks!
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Did you study religion studied as a university major? I thought of taking philosophy and religion before because I like folklore and mythology but I went with geography instead because I wanted a career where I get to work outdoors. Although I started out in astronomy but I switched after realizing I'm not ever going to be good at mathematics. Geography has allowed me to learn a very broad amount of information but I should have gone into something more specialized like forestry, geology, environmental science, archaeology, or civil engineering. The closest courses I had to religion was a medieval history course on cloisters and castles, and an introductory course to anthropology. Prehistory fascinates me so much, especially the mysteries of what occurred during the Ice Age as human expansion was going on. I've mainly been into Irish legends lately but I try to learn more about all cultures whenever I have the time for it. Jung's ideas are great but I've never read any of his books yet, which is something I really need to get around to one day. I've never taken philosophy either, so I've had it a few times where I'll think of an idea just to find out that the ancient Greeks already thought of it first, but much better. So the Greek philosophers will probably make me overthink everything even more.
What were some of your favorite courses or topics?
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Yes, Comparative Religion Studies for 5 years.
I've always loved greek, viking, slavic mythology, unfortunately during my study there wasn't many courses opened of this topic. My favourite curses were about ancient Egyptians, Slavic mythological creatures and Mayas.
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Central and South America have a lot of fascinating places I'd like to visit. I've not been very far away from my own city though. So many people travel the world and it leaves me wondering how they have so much money. I've read that some countries have free master's degree programs for international students but it looks confusing to plan out. European universities also look more demanding for requirements, but I wouldn't mind going to Norway to study. I'll most likely just look for work here after getting my bachelor's degree and then pick up a master's degree from my current university or some other in the country.
I want to learn more about Hinduism and Slavic mythology but I don't see much sources in English. I'm sure there are some books I could buy about it. Then for Egypt, there is more available it seems in English but there are gaps in the information, with plenty of debate over how Egyptians really were. I already have too much to read as it is and I'm a slow reader, so it will be years before I get around to it. I own The Poetic Edda and The Volsung Saga as books, both translated by Jackson Crawford, which I've been enjoying but I have no time to finish them. I've been getting more interested in what some people call the fairy faith, which seems to be a kind of folk magic or tradition, but it seems very much alive in northern Celtic Sea area.
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I hope that you'll find something interesting and enjoyable for master's degree to study
unfortunatelly I don't know many English sources, in my language there isn't plenty of books of this topic neither :/ However, poetic Edda and Volsung Saga are great to start with!
I love fairy faith too, we had a course about Slovak one and it was really interesting. I think that The Witcher is good example of slavic fairy faith merged with pop-culture. ^^
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I've seen videos of people from Ireland and Scotland talking about ghosts, faeries, and spirits, such as disturbing certain points on a landscape causes the faeries to curse people and other odd tales. Some people from Scotland have told me that they've seen weird things before. It interests me that so many stories come from that region and makes me wish I could spend some time there to walk around the landscape. Hard to believe people though.
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that sounds so interesting!
people from my field of study made a research about Slovak and Slavic folk tales and customs and it was interesting that in some remote parts of my and other countries people still believe in witches, whisps, faeries and so and they make various rituals to protect themselves or to bring fortune
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Are faeries depicted the same way as in the Celtic tradition and is the Slavic word for faery of a similar root word?
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in my (Slovak) language it is "víla"... they are depicted usually as beautiful young women dancing in forests (often in moonlight) tempting young men to dance with them - which may cause a death
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I was discussing a similar thing weeks ago online. There is a legend of a nude woman that bathes in the Appalachian mountains that tries to lure men, which results in her killing them. Then someone from Sweden or Germany, I can't remember, told me that there was a legend in Europe that's the same and the woman creature is called a Hulder, or Huldra. There is also a male version called the Huldrekall.
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