#project: the way to bahr ezadir

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The Way to Bahr Ezadir

"What man can survive without water? Who in this world can live without love?"

(An original illustration project of mine, with my OCs)

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The Way to Bahr Ezadir

"It's a great river, you know, that only glimpses the sun once before it cascades into the sea. A long time ago, the prince named the river for his knight, and the river passed its name to the city. Now no one will forget Ezadir, who fell protecting his love."

(An original illustration project of mine, with my OCs)

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getaway

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New ocs, fun to draw

a thief, a physician, a bodyguard, a mystery

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Road to the oasis

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They're lovely!

The best guardians protect with their whole heart.

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id love to know more about William!!! he seems like such a little shit and I adore him already

Of course!

William "Billhook" Farrier first slunk onto my drawing canvas when i was cooking up my Bahr Ezadir project and needed a straw man to explore set pieces with, but I enjoyed thinking about him a lot so he became Evaric's brother (and I eventually put some of my other medieval fantasy boys in the basket too so now they're a family).

He's a thief! A traveller, a pirate, an explorer, a ne'er do well, but there's a heart of (tarnished, scratched, dented) gold in there somewhere that gets the better of him when it comes to protecting friends and family.

He's well-travelled thanks to his life of adventure and crime and steals as many hearts as he does coins without so much as a glance over his shoulder.

He'll give everyone the benefit of the doubt except his big brother Cohle, and neither of them will admit they're both as awful as each other in their own special ways, but Bill has one high horse to sit on in that he always tries to mend the bridges he almost burns.

Bits and bobs:

He's the only one of the brothers that could go toe to toe with Evaric as adults and have a shot at beating him in a fight, but they've never seriously tried to find out.

His nickname is from the traditional forester/agricultural tool that in Britain (and possibly other european regions, idk!) had designs specific to a local area. The one closest to me is a Shropshire/Shifnal billhook! He still carries one with him in lieu of a dagger or handaxe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billhook

Bill can't cast magic at all, not even a spell scroll, and boy has he tried. It'll never happen.

Neither Alice nor her first husband and their sons have freckles. William and Deor do. Alice has never acknowledged this. You shouldn't either 🫵

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In the water gardens 🪷

(my OCs)

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The best guardians protect with their whole heart.