M.H.Schafer

I Started with the throwaround I drew earlier to get the proportions down... Put in the lines... And color. This took me a long freaking time. Maybe I should work at a smaller size. Anyway, Now I have this nice turnaround, as well as a color palette to the right there.

Brill Farrehde is a High Counselar of Arkounda. She is unpredictably cunning and a very dangerous person to cross. She will take the pleasure of being our antagonist. Thank you very much. Age: 30 Gear Color: Black Aspect: None. Steel is a Hollowborn.

Here's a quick size comparison between Flint, Tinder, Cassy and Steel. I guess this is a good time to talk a small bit about what these people are. All four characters above are part of the same species of people known collectively as the Malikyn. There are four races of Malikyn divided among the four compass regions of the Western Continents. The Northern Malikin (Tinder) are typically thicker in some way than the other races, indomitable and hardy as well. The Eastern Malikyn (Flint and Cassy) are the most widespread and have the greatest diversity in size and shape as the moderate climate allows for a greater variety. The defunct empire of the Western Malikyn (Steel) once housed many who were feathered and beaked before its collapse. Now most Western Malikyn are nomads, or have integrated with the East. There are also Southern Malikyn, who are scaled and lizardlike, among other things. An interesting side note: A Malikin's heritage will effect how purely we can see the...

Cassandra is a seven year old ball of energy, resourcefulness, and childish bravery. She likes drawing, jumping in mud puddles, and soft blankets. Her favorite color is green. She's also the youngest daughter to the sole proprietor of one of the oldest and most respected names in the aristocracy. And when her family is killed in a house fire and she's sent to live with her bat-shit crazy uncle and his hulking behemoth of a manservant, her life is about to become a very interesting one indeed. Age: 7 Gear Color: Purple Aspect: Creation and Manipulation of Fire

Alundiv "Tinder" Voxerlo is the massive, friendly, bow-legged behemoth side of the Flint and Tinder duo and is often the calm rational presence to Flint's persona of rage and venomous wit.  Once an impoverished starving child of the Northern Provinces, Tinder found Flint abandoned and dying in an Eastern Malikyn Encampment and vowed never to leave his side. The two have been together ever since, forging an unforgettable legacy in their wake. Tinder is smart and socially competent. He is also highly musically inclined, and is regarded by many to be a fantastic violinist and a skilled pianist, when the keys are big enough. He serves as a highly competent task master to the Loremongers Society. Age: 23 Gear Color: Blue Aspect: Regeneration

Oben "Flint" Grimwauld, along with Alundiv "Tinder" Voxerlo, is one of the founding members of The Loremongers Society, and is our protagonist. Flint is as undeniably intelligent as he is crass. He is often either quietly sinister or loud and deadly. Flint is not known for his good temper. A veteran of the Northern Toll Rebellions, his body is as sharp as his mind, though those two things speak little of his piecemeal sanity. Until he met Tinder, the horrific visions that had plagued him since childhood were indicative only of schizophrenia. In this way his relationship with Tinder is the only truly sacred thing to exist in Flint's life, as he is completely reliant on Tinder for mental stability. Age: 35 Gear Color: Red Aspect: None. Flint is Hollowborn, and is thereby cursed with all the abilities such power entails.

The Loremongers are a secret group of scholars and treasure hunters who's goal is that of the complete subjugation of the history of Geosyl, and all of it's secrets unfolded and laid bare. Be it via cunning intellect or brute force (or more often then not a heaping helping of both) The Loremongers seek to out and bind every myth, legend and artifact they can find from every deep, dark abyss of a hole they come across to the written page and, once compiled, spread that knowledge to any who need it. While the cause may seem noble, be assured that the Loremongers are equal parts infamous as they are famous, and are made up of some of the most ruthless types imaginable, many of them going to extremes to get what they want. The Loremongers may fight monstrosities of incalculable shapes and sizes in their quest for new knowledge, but becoming in return monstrous is often the only solution to many dark and horrific situations. He who fights monsters and all that... The Loremongers...

The Loremongers takes place on the colorful and mysterious world of Geosyl. It's history is long and mostly forgotten to time. It is vast, dark, and is host to many terribly dangerous places. Geosyl's secrets, if they are to be plundered, would require no small amount of courage and sacrifice. But that's a different post. The most important aspect of Geosyl is its location.  Geosyl lies at the very center of the universe.  It is the point on which the spinning top balances, so to speak.  All matter in the universe orbits in some way around Geosyl. Geosyl was the first planet pieced together at the beginning of creation, and is the blueprint for all other planets that followed.  The yet-to-be-written laws of the cosmos failed to fully define and realize all of its properties, and so has had to guess for all future planet creation.  Earth, as an example, is one of its closest attempts. Geosyl has a set of rings that orbits around it known colloquially as The Sou...